A college that has its students devote one-half their time to actual, useful work is so in line with common sense that we are amazed that the idea had to be put in execution by an ex-slave as a life-saver for his disenfranchised race. Our great discoveries are always accidents: we work for one thing and get another. I expect that the day will come, and ere long, when the great universities of the world will have to put the Tuskegee Idea into execution in order to save themselves from being distanced by the Colored Race.—Elbert Hubbard in "A Little Journey to Tuskegee."
Perhaps there is a deserving young man or woman in your community who needs A CHANCE.
If so, perhaps Tuskegee Institute offers the very opportunity which he wants.
Tuskegee is not only a school. It is an institution; an influence.
It helps the worthy student to help himself.
Location unsurpassed for Healthfulness.
Forty trades and industries for young men and women.
Excellent Library and Normal course.
Smith-Hughes Vocational Courses for advanced students.
Tuskegee Institute is no place for sluggards. From rising bell to taps, there is a full program—drill, class-room, shop, farm, etc. Perhaps your boy needs just the sort of training which Tuskegee offers. Write for catalogue and information.
ROBERT R. MOTON, Principal
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA
James E. Gregg, Principal
George P. Phenix, Vice Principal
William H. Scoville, Secretary
Frank K. Rogers, Treasurer
Object—Founded in 1868 by Gen. Samuel C. Armstrong to train selected youth who should go out to teach and train their people. The Institute was designed to instruct Negro youth in morality, industry, and thrift, as well as in earnest and practical Christianity.
Hampton Today—An industrial village with 900 boarding students; 1,100 acres; 140 buildings; instruction farm of 835 acres; and 200 teachers and workers. Hampton stands for "a sound body, a trained capacity, and an unselfish outlook on life." Hampton is on the State of Virginia list of approved four-year secondary schools.
Revised Courses—(1) Normal School: Two-year course, based on four-year secondary course; (2) Agricultural School: Collegegiate course of 3 years (36 months), based on four-year secondary course; (3) Trade School: Four-year course in 11 trades and short course in 3 trades; (4) Business School: Four-year course, based on two-year secondary course; Home-Economics School: Two-year course, based on four-year secondary course; (6) Academic School: Four-year secondary course; also preparatory course.
Mention The Journal of Negro History—it identifies you
