The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-07-08
HAMPTON INSTITUTE
REPORTS PROGRESS.
Principal J. E. Gregg Announces
Normal and Agricultural
Collegiate Courses.
PUBLIC SUPPORTS HAMPTON.
Records Show That Edueatiop
Helps Negroes and Indians
Become Race Leaders.
BY Wm, AnotMay Aery.

ia his iSSSht tSpOIl 10 the board OF
/ trustees, of which Chief Justice raft
is the president, stated that tho num-
Der of students in the boarding de-
partment, enrolled to February /. was
S73 1858 boys and 800 girls). The dis
tribution Of these students follows:
Academy, including preparatory class
ASP; Agricultural School, 28: Business
School, SO; Home Economics school
As; Normal School, "a: and Trade
School, 1872.
The Veterans Bureau has sent TO
Hampton during the year 81 disabled
soldiers for Rehabilitation" train
| ing
On January &c. 1922, the Hampton
board Of trustees voted to authorize
a four year collegiate normal course.
to prepare Negro men and women to
qualify as high-school principals and
supervisors. The Virginia Depart
ment of Education has given its APP
proval, and for the proper completion
of his work the degree of Bachelor
of Arts in Education will be given.
To meet the demand for trained
] agricultural leaders for Negro formers
teaches of agriculture, and farmers.
Hampton Institute now offers a stan
dard four-year collegiate course(of
thirty six months) which leads to
the degree of Bachelor of Science in
Agricultural Education.
| This development of collegiate in.
struction, in addition to normal, agri
cultural, and Industrial training was
lorseen by Gen. Samuel Chapman
| A,.Y,,e ,fv.nr xtyhn n
Institute in 1868. "The best argument
in justification of these new advanced
courses" says DR.. Gregg, is simply
that the Institute in one more adj
aping ITS training to the needs Of the
communities which it is bound to
serve; and since the Negro schools
of the South are better than they
used to be, they demand and deserve
more thoroughly trained teachers"
The Academy is the fitting school
for the Normal school the Agricul-
tural School, the Economics
School and the Business School. II
Is recognized as a standard High
school by the Virginia Department
of Education
The Academy program of studies,
however, lays emphasis on manual
training and home making arts. It
definitely maintains says Doctor
Gregg. "the variegated yet unified dis
cipline of head, heart and hand which
General Armstrong preached and
practiced."
The Normal School in addition to
four-year college course, offers "a
course of two years for the training
of high-School teachers; a standard
normal course of two years for the
training of teachers of elementry
schools; and an elementary normal
course of one year" Human better
ment is the objective of all Hampton
courses.
Doctor Gregg reported that the d.
rector of the Home Economies School
had been granted leave of absence
ito make Special study of home
economics teaching in the Negro
schools under the Federal Board for
Vocational Education"
A course in institutional manage
ment for schools matrons will be
given during the coming Autumn or
winter. Instruction in tailoring has
been introduced into the advanced |
home-economics course.
Doctor Gregg in his report re-
commended the building of a cottage
for practice in housekeeping. The |
money for this cottage has already |
given by Mrs. A Henry Strong of
Rochester, N, Y.
The trades taught at Hampton In
stitute include automobile mechanics,
blachsmithlng; bricklaying and pias-
tering; sabnitmaking; carpentry;
machine work; painting; printing;
steamfitting and plumbing; tailoring;
wheelwrighting and blacksmithing.
The Hampton Institute Trade |
School last year filled 1853 orders
which were shipped to 16 States; 378 |
of these were for material furnished
to schools for industrial work.
A new advanced builders cource
will be offered to graduates of the |
carpentry and bricklaying courses.
The 1921 summer school for col |
ored teachers, held at Hampton, en-
rolled 637 men and women from IL |
States. Virginia furnished 1877 and
North Carolina, 166.
The Whittier Training School, which !
is the practice-school for Hampton
Institute, has enrolled 492 pupils
The ministers conference enroll
ment was 256 from is States and 10 |
denominations; 1873 came came from |
rural parishes.
The Y. NJ. C. A. at Hampton has a !
membership of 359; the Y. w. C. A.
220.
Last year Hampton was asked to
recommend 1858 graduates for DO
sitions. In the 1877 county training
schools of the South, Hampton Is
now furnishing II principals, teach
ers of vocational agriculture 8home
economics teachers, and 81 other
teachers. give of these eleven prin-
cipals," says Doctor GREGG, also teach
agriculture OF schools OF all sorts
there are rs principals who ae Hamp-
ton graduates or former students"
Hampton enrolled last year 2002
students, Summer School, 637; and
Whittier Boarding Department Train
ing School, AZ. The enrolment
included % Indians( II boys and 1913
girls) from s States.
Everyone must agree" says Dr..
Gregg, that the Institute ought to
keep an open door and welcome for
every Indian boy or girl who may
wish and is qualified to share in the
of it training. The Indian
graduate and former students now on
the lists of the Record Office are S43 !
in number, of whom SCI are men 800
women.
Mrs. John s. Kennedy has veign
Hampton new dormitory for girls !
costing about 100000, in memory of
Ter husband. George Peabody has
given from the palmer fund an at .
.lactiye Trustees House. The Ham