New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-07

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Aug. 6.-Dr
Hollis Burke Frissell, for many years
principal of the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute at Hampton Va
died suddenly last night at his summer
home at Whitfield, n. II.
Hollis Burke Frissell was born IN
Armenia, n. Y. on July IA. 1851, the son
Of A. C. and L. B. Frlssell. He spent
three years at Phillips Academy. Ando'
yer, Mass. going from there to Yale
where he was graduated with the, class
Of 1874. After graduation he taught Tor
two years in a young women's seminary
at Rhinebeck, n. Y, which place he LETT
to enter Union Theological Seminary
He was graduated from the latter instl-
tuition in 1879, and became assistant
pastor of a church in New York City
where he remained until 1880, at which
time he became chaplain OF Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Va. 1t was in 1893
that he became principal, and IN this
important Office he devoted all OF his
time and energy to the upbuildlng OF
the school and the problem OF the edu-
cation and betterment of the negro race.
Developed Hampton Institute
ANY account of DR.. FrisselPs life is
necessarily also an. account OF the
growth and development of Hampton
Institute, for which he ceaselessly
worked to raise funds and for the or
ganization and welfare Of which he con-
stantly strove. Under his guidance il
became not only the leader and pioneer
in the industrial education of the Amer
lean negro. and its centre of uplift, but
also a forum where Southern and
Northern white men and negroes meet
on common ground TO discuss problems
of education, agriculture and sanitation
in the South. II has sent out over 1000
negro teachers, farmers, tradesmen and
home builders to Southern states, and
it has been instrumental in decreasing
the illiteracy of a race from almost 100
per cent to the present figure of 27.5
per cent in less than fifty years.
For many years il has been carrying
on a campaign for the improvement of
farm methods, and for the return, so
far as possible, of the negro to the
land, especially in the South. In doing
this the work has always been of a
practical nature, and it has been DR..
FrisselPs aim not to make the negroes
like white men, but to help them rise
to the best that is in them.
Interested in Other Work
DR.. Frissell was also interested in
educational work outside of Hampton,
having become a member of the Cen
eral Education Board and of the South
EI,,,ot;nn DA.rI u,L;nk bog balno
to increase the appropriations for edu-
cation in the Southern States and to
create a general interest in public
schools throughout the South. He was
also a member of the Negro Rural
School Fund Board, otherwise known
as the Jeanes Fund Board. composed of
Northern and Southern white and col
ored men who work together for the
improvement of the negro schools in
the country districts. He was a mem
Der of the Rockefeller Sanitary Com
mission for the eradication Of hook
worm disease, and an active member of
the Cooperative Education Association
Of Virginia.
In 1893 DR.. Frissell received the de-
gree of D. D. from Howard University,
in 1900 the degree Of S. T. D. from
Harvard, in 1901 the degree of LII. D..
from Yale, and in 1909 that of Ii. d.
from Richmond College. He was a
member Of the Century. City and Yale
clubs of New York. Of the Society of
Scroll and Key of Yale. and and of the
Cosmos Club of Washington.
He is survived by his wife and one
son, Sydney Dodd Frissell, who until
he recently Joined the army had been
connected with Hampton Institute, and
who has done much toward the practi-
cal education Of the negro along the
line of scientific farming.