The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-01
ANNOUNCEMENT. OF
COLLINS INSTITUTE
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL CON-
DUCTEO BY UNITED STATES
FOR CHlCKASAW INDIANS.


lahoma Central railway-which is th.
name of the postohice occupying tn,
old Stonewall townsite county sea
Of POntotoc county during the old tri
bal days. Collins Institute is nameC
in honor Of the Hon Judson Collins
an orator, statesman, diplomat, juriSt
and Christian gentleman Of the Chick
asaws. The name itself should en-
dear the institute to every Chickasaw
as ,Iudson Collins was an Indian citi
zen of great intellectual worth and
unquestioned honor His life is an eX
ample of everyone.
Formerly the school has been con.
Quoted under what is known as the
Old Choctaw contract system. by
which the superintendent received a
stipulated price for boarding each pu-
pill, purchased his own quality and
quantity of food, and called upon the
government for faculty and other
employees, by whom they were paid.
/ The school was maintained exclusive
/ ly for girls. Under these conditions it
was hard to keep the net proceeds
/ from being the dominant feature
/ Now il is altogether different The
old order of things is entirely abolish
ed The school will be exclusively
I for boys OF the Chickasaw tribe. 1t
will be the only school for the Chick
asaw boys; whereas, heretofore, there
/ have been twO-RoCk Academy and
government will furnish an abundance
of the best of food cooked by up-tO-
| light uniforms with army caps: and
other clothing to orphans, only when
absolutely necessary; library; and
a competent faculty and physician
I All this will be furnished without cost
to the pupils.
The main object now with the de-
partment is to conduct the institute
along lines best calculated to prepare
the boys for practical work in the or
dinary pursuits of life. Hence it viii
contain Il manual training department,
in which the dominant feature will
be- to train the boys in carpentry,
general timber work, and scientific
farming. II has been demonstrated
that the sO-called business course,
which is devoted largely to bookkeep-
ing and kindred branches. and is
hastily given by some schools to In
dian boys, serves only to dissatisfy
them with their allotment. causes
them to sell them, and hasten to some
town and there sink the proceeds in
some business enterprise. In view
of this, it will now be the object oe
the department to train them in me-
chanics and agriculture, enabling them
to live happily, prosperously, and
contentedly, on their own allotments,
in houses of their own building and
painting, amidst orchards of their own
setting and raise their own horses,
pigs, chickens turkeys, fishes and
Jersey cows. This will cause them to
love the allotment that they now wish
to sell. and will enable them to make
a living on it.
The means whereby We hope to at /
tain these ends, will all be furnished |.
by the United States government |.
There is a 1G0-acre reservation with |
the buildings \ large part of this .
is in civilizations. The choicest part .
of this land will be parceled out to
the large boys in assignments of
few square rods each, and the gov
ernment will furnish the boys with
tools, stock. seeds. and competent in
structors, who will help them farm
these lots by the latest and most ap-
proved methods of scientific farming
Everything about the institute will
be didactic-that is, teach some les
son by some forcible method. Hy- {
giene viii be taught by scrupulous
personal cleanliness: neatness will
be taught by being neat ourselves;
by being truthful our
selves; industry. by being industrious
righteousness, by doing /
light ourselves soberness, by being .
sober ourselves; economy by being !
saving ourselves. obedience. by being {
,bediont ourselves. In short, devotion !
o the work will be required of every i
member of the faculty. and every pu- 5
,il |
Those who are entitled to admit. |
.nce to Collins Institute are enrolled
'hickasaw boys, from five to about {
eighteen years of age, and the ca !
,acity of the school will be about rs (
he first year. Orphans, and those |