The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-07-17

has been as follows;
Academic Preparatory Class, S. Agri
culture, 8; Automobile Repairing, 20
Business, I; Drafting, i; Painting, }
Restaurant, 1; Shoe shop, IL Power
House, 2 Tailoring, s; Upholstering, i
Whittier Training School (Teaehing)
IL; Unassigned, 2; total, So.
Five advanced students, three mer
and two women, were sent to Hampton
this year by the General Education
Board for special Instruction in agri-
culture, home economies, and teaching
particularly to enable them to become
critic teachers in other institutions.
Three of these students are from
louisiana, one from Arkansas, one from
Tennessee. Special scholarships are
provided for them by the General Edu-
cation Board.
The entering class numbered 32l at
the beginning of the year 2O7 boys and
ia girls-by far the largest ever ad-
mitted to the Institute. Though the
usual "weeding- prOeess-apPlied
this year with unprecedented severity
has reduced this number consider
ably, IL is generally agreed that the
new students are a group of excellent
quality, several being high-sehOOl
graduates; SO per cent of the boys
and 2s per cent of the girls-a higher
proportion then usual-attained a class
above the preparatory rank.
A corresponding rise in scholarship Is
found in the distribution of the whole
body of the students between elemen-
tary preparatory and secondary
classes; 50 per cent are this year do
ing secondary work against so per cent
last year, So per cent in 1918, and
80 per cent in 1928. The so-ealled
''Work Class" the members of which,
nearly an new students, do various
kinds of necessary labor for the school
during the day and attend classes in
the evening, again shows a shrinkage,
numbering Ia this year against 1914
in 1888 and 239 in 1917-1s.
Land-Grant School Service.
1t may not be generally realized how
generously Hampton has fulfilled its
responsibility as the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College for Negroes.
1t has acquired and cultivated, largely
by student labor, two farms including
nearly 1000 acres. 1t has kept and
raised large numbers of cattle, horses,
mules, swine and poultry. The present
inventory value Of its buildings, stock
and equipment for teaching agriculture
is over 100000 mot including land).
In the mechanic arts, it is equally well
equipped, the inventory value Of its
buildings, machinery, etc, used for |
this purpose being over $275,OOO. The
Institute has maintained full courses
covering from three to six years in
agriculture and the trades most in de-
mand among Negroes, and has required
some study Of agriculture from all its
Students.
Furthermore, Hampton has done
much outside the school for the agri-
cultural interests of Virginia. Farm
demonstration work, now so widely de-
velOped under the Smith-Lever Act,
was introduced into Virginia through
the collaboration of DR.. Hollis B. FRS
sell and DR.. Seaman A. Knapp of the
United States Department of Agrieul-
,urc. Organized canning Of home
grown food was begun in Virginia
among the eolOred people, and was at
irst financed by the Institute. The
employment of supervising in iustrial
eaehers was thought out largely at ,
Hampton. and the praetieability of the
Ian was demonstrated in Henrieo
county with the approval and support
f the Institute. In the past seven
-ears Hampton has contributed over
2l0O0 toward the salaries of these
upervising teachers in the counties Of
Tirginia.
During the past ten years the In
titute has spent in Virginia over S31,-
90 for agricultural fairs, farmers =
and similar activities.
Gov. Westmoreland Davis, however, :
! his budget submitted to the General J,
ssembly of Virginia in January of :
lis year, recommended that the in :
,me Of the LAnd-Grant and Morrill, =
elson Funds now given to Hampton :,
lould be diverted to the Virginia Nor
al and Industrial Institute at Peters
arg; and that the Commonwealth g -
to this school should be, =,
II the year ending February %, 1921, -
a ,s35, but for the year ending Feb
AIRY 2s, 1922, (when the Federal !;
oney would become available) $45,-
%. The bin transferring the funds :.
as passed in the last days Of the legis- :
tive session and win go into effect NJ
and after December /, 1920.
MORGAN PARK fu
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