The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-05-25
Forty-nine Years Of Hamp-
ton Institute.
(Journal and Guide.l

Journal and Guide.)
Norfolk. Va, May 81, 1917.-The
forty-ninth annual report of the prin-
cipal of the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute, Dr. H. B. Fris- !
sell, principal, has Just reached The
Journal and Guide.
The announcement is made by the
principal that next year, 1918, the
school will reach its flftieth year of
existence, and that the event will be
properly commemorated. 1t will also
mark the twenty-tifth year as princi-
pal and thirty-eight consecutive years
of service Of DR.. Frihsell, General
Armstrong having served twenty-five
years as founder and principal of the
school. The two records make an I'M
exampled one of fifty years of SER
vice and usefulness for Afro-Ameri-
can uplift which can never he ade-
quately estimated Or appreciated
Then, too, If there had been no
Hampton and General Armstrong
there may have been no Tuskegee and
Rocker T. Washington, and without
them during the past fifty years, the
Afro-American people would be poor
! indeed in the good and necessary
work which they have accomplished,
and for which we are all grateful.
For the information and inspira-
tion of the readers Of The Journal
and Guide let us make brief sum-
mary of the work of the Hampton
Institute.
The principal says that it is the
policy of the Institute not to give its
diploma to any boy or girl who has
failed to gain sufficient knowledge
and ability to practice some vocation.
The enrolment of the year was 1874.
When the four instead of the three
year course has been finally estab-
liShed the school will need a student
body of 1000 students. The insistent
demand for more and better teachers,
as set forth by Mr.. Arthur D. Wright
State Agent for Rural Schools in
Virginia, is used as argument to in.
crease the efficiency Of the Institutes
work in this important matter. OF
,, the 1886 applicants for teachers GER
tificates last year, Mr.. Wright says
only S54 we're accepted, the failure OF
the 65 per cent. being due to faculty
preparation.
The Robert c. Ogden Auditorium.
the foundation of which was laid at
the last anniversary, will be the cen
tral building, the gathering point OF
many people from all sections of the
country, and the theatre of many
gatherings of various kinds connect
ed with the Institute work, some 90
GOO Pilgrims now visiting Hampton
annually. The building will accom-
: modate some 2,400 persons and cost
some 100000. There are also sew
eral other large buildings in course
, of construction.
Great emphasis is laid by Princi.
pal Frissell upon the agricultural
work and needs of the Institute. II
is purposed to buy and add 29O acres
of land to Hemenway Farm, which
they adjoin, and which are needed
for extension of the work.
The total number Of students in
the trade school is 262. The average
cost per student receiving training
in the Trade School is $7S.S1; the
students earnings amounting to $24,
S94.7S for the year. The requirement
Of higher academic standing to en-
ter the Trade School has resulted in
a smaller number falling out during
their course.
There are S4S girls in the Insti
tute, and, says the report, 1.-THE girls
industries are each year becoming
more distinctively educative and
more closely connected with the
academic and other departments OF
the institution Again, Hampton
is fortunate in the fact that the stu
. dents have so many chances to learn
: to do by doing"
: The plan of bringing a number Of
the leading colored ministers of Vir
l ginia to preach to the students was
: carried out successfully last summer
/. and the Associate Chaplain in turr
' preached in a number of the coloret
= churches of the State. The Summer
I Conference of colored ministers
brought together a company of strong
3 men,"
The various extension work depart
ments of the Institute have beer
very successful during the past year
The physical condition of the stu
. dents is excellent, and boast is justly
-, made that "HamDton's football
eleven has won the championship fol-
the Negro schools in the North AT
antic section and done much to pro
mote clean athletics. The school:
l victories at football and basketball
1 have created new enthusiasm fo1
their alma mater among it's own grad
:" yates, and respect from other institu
tons which perhaps no other sue
=, cesses could bring The clean living
and regular habits Of Hampton stu
: dents are largely responsible for thei1
triumphs." And, for a surety, the,
will, by the same token, lead to sue
cess in other occupations of life tina,
athletics, which is largely REGARDED
as pastime, but is, as a matter o
|. fact, a very necessary business ant
d part of a rounded education.
The Summer School had 45S, man,
teachers having been refused admis
, sion because of lack of room.
o We are all glad that General Arm
strong founded Hampton Institute
!. and lived long enough to see hi
great faith justified in the success o
o his work; and We are all glad tina
= DR.. Frissell was chosen, twenty-fiv
, years ago. quite. to continue the goo
work established by General Arm
strong, and to carry it forward to it
y fiftieth anniversary, "full of year
and with its honors thick upon it..
YOU ARE INVITED TO TIL
Il SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS
NASHVILLE. TENN. JUNE 1878