The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1916-10-21
HAMPTON OPENS
TERM BRISKLY
Large Enrolment Of Students
at Noted School.
CADETS MAKE FINE lHOWING
Forty ninth Year Of Institution Found.
cd by General Samuel Chapman Arm
strong to Be Greatest In It's History.
Major Allen Washington Outlines
Program For Military Training.
By w. ANTHONY AERY.

By w. ANTHONY AERY.
Major Allen Washington. cOmmandant
of cadets at the Hampton (Va.) insti-
tute and well known successor to DR.
Robert r. Motion, now principal Of the
Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. is enthusi
astic over the way Hampton has begun
its 1916-17 school year, which Is its
forty-ninth year Of activity for the
training Of boys and girls to become
leaders in community building. Major
Washington says:
I'VE had to turn away more stu
dents than ever before. A great many
boys and girls who made application
had to be refused on account of the
lack of accommodation at Hampton
Next year we shall have our new dor
mitOry-James hall-fully completed.
About one-third Of 1t is almost finished
now, and the other two-thirds will be
ready in 1917.
81 think there Is an improvement in
the student material this year over last
year-yes. n marked improvement. The
young men are better developed phys
ically and mentally. More students
than ever before passed the Hampton
examinations They also passed bet
ter state examinations. We have less
than half dozen-less than four-who
failed absolutely. There Is hopeful
ness In the idea that the schools OH
the outside are giving students. better
preparation than ever before.
"Our military organization was un-
der way the first day the school opened
1t worked right along with the acad-
emic organization. The boys fell into
companies and marched to dinner the
very first day. The battalion had been
carefully organized the day before
school opened, and everything was In
readiness for a prompt beginning. All
our plans had been made before the
students arrived. Consequently the
boys fell right into their places when
they came to Hampton.
1--WE hope to improve the drilling
from year to year. We take up ou
drill with the individual. We advanc
from the individual to the squad uEl'
from the squad to the company ana
from the company to the battalion
We hope this year to give more time t.
Individual men. and so the whole bat
talon will be better instructed tha.
ever before.
I'VE also hope to have special setting
up exercises, such as have been use
ut Plattsburg. N. Y. In the training
camp, for our men at Hampton during
the year. When the weather Is good
the military work will be carried on
out of doors. When the weather Is bad
we shall have lectures on some special
military topic or something pertaining
to general health and upift.
I'VE are very fortunate to have with
us from week to week Captain Adelno
Gibson Of the Coast Artillery school
at Fort Monroe, who has for the last
two years given us excellent service.
This year we have plans for much
greater things than before. Captain
Gibson will probably bring with him
some other Fort Monroe officers. who
will help In military operations. The
feeling on the part Of Captain Gibson
and the rest of the officers at Fort
Monroe is very friendly toward the
cadet corps at Hampton institute
The total enrolment Is well over
1900. The boarding department is
larger than ever before-924 boys and
girls, exclusive Of the teachers and 9th.
er school workers. The entering class
numbers over 300 and has representa-
tives from many states. The Whit.
tier school. which is HamptOn's COM
munity day school and training school.
under the principalship Of Miss Sarah
J. Walter. has also opened with fair
sized enrolment.
Among the new cOlored teachers and
workers are: Mrs. Ursula :. COlding
Mrs. Florence +. Herbert, Miss Grace
Stewart, Clarence A. Atkins. william
II. Kettle. Ess +. Roam and Lorenzo C.
White.