Out from Cabin
and Teepee
fiampton
normal and Agricultural Institute
( Founded by General S- C. Armstrong. 1868)
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA
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REV. H. B. FRISSELL, D. D.
Principal
HAMPTON INSTITUTE PRESS
1900
Hampton Institute
T TAMPTON INSTITUTE is beautifully
A A located on an arm of the Chesapeake
Bay near Fort Monroe, and overlooks the
historic waters of Hampton Roads.
There are gathered here from the Negro
cabins of the South some five hundred young
men and women, and from the Indian tepees
of the West, one hundred and thirty-five boys
and girls.
The fifty-five buildings accommodate al¬
so about eighty officers and teachers. They
include besides domitories and school build¬
ings, a library, church, hospital, gymnasium,
a saw and planing mill, various shops, a well
equipped trade school and a large building
for domestic science and agriculture.
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The Aim of Hampton
THE AIM of the Hampton School is to
train these young men and women in
such ways as will prepare them to be of the
most service to their own people.
The religious influence is purely un¬
denominational, but actively and practically
Christian. Service is held every Sunday
in the beautiful Memorial Church, and prayers
every evening after supper in the chapel. A
Sunday school for Bible study, and various
organizations for mutual helpfulness and
missionary work are a part of the system.
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MEMORIAL CHURCH
THE "WHITTIER"
Departments
; I ' HE Institute has Academic, Normal,
**■ Business, Trade, Agriculture, and Do¬
mestic Science courses, with both day and night
classes.
The Whittierday school gives instruction
to some 400 colored children from the neigh¬
borhood, in kindergarten work, manual train¬
ing, cooking, sewing, and gardening, besides
the usual primary studies. This school at the
same time affords opportunities for practical
work to the Normal students.
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Trades
THE Trade Department includes courses
in carpentry, cabinet-making, bricklaying,
plastering, painting, wheelwright, blacksmith-
ing, machine work, steam engineering, tailor¬
ing, shoe and harness making-, tinsmithing,
and printing. Wood-turning is given with
some trades, and mechanical drawing with all
that require it,
A trade course usually occupies three
years:—the first in the trade school; the sec¬
ond in one of the productive industries, to get
an idea of the commercial value of the work;
and the third in the trade school, where the
course is completed.
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CARPENTERS AT WORK ON A STAIRWAY
A ONE-ROOM CABIN
Domestic Science
I aOMESTIC SCIENCE training includes
sewing, dressmaking, millinery, launder¬
ing, cooking, and housekeeping. By instruc¬
tion in these branches, young women are pre¬
pared to teach their people the art of home-
making, carrying back with them to the desti¬
tute cabins and tepees the practical knowledge
by means of which even the poorest may have
clean and attractive homes and healthful sur¬
roundings.
A special course prepares advanced pu¬
pils for the position of matron, lady principal,
or domestic science instructor.
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Agriculture
THE Agricultural Department is fully
equipped for classroom, laboratory, farm-
engineering, dairying, and greenhouse work,
and has several grain, vegetable, and stock
farms and orchards, on which the students have
instruction and practice.
A model four-acre farm is carried on by
the students, to show how a family may be
supported on its products.
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A FIELD LESSON IN AGRICULTURE
AN OLD-TIME BARN
A MODEL BARN
LAYING A FOUNDATION
Productive Industries
THE sixteen productive industries include
a large saw and planing mill, two farms
of about seven hundred and fifty acres, and an
industrial department which provides for all
the sewing, cooking, and general work of the
institution. It is here that the students have
a chance to practice the trades they have
learned, and to earn a part, at least, of the
cost of their board and clothing.
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Graduates
TTAMPTON has sent out over a thousand
^ graduates, of whom sixty per cent are
engaged in teaching. At least five thousand
under-graduates have gone out to prove the
value of the industrial training that they have
received. Of the colored students who have
finished their trades since 1885, about seventy
per cent are either teaching trades or working
at them. Many of these young people, of
both races, have opened shops; many are suc¬
cessful farmers; still others are engaged in
various business enterprises* while a limited
number have taken advanced courses and fit¬
ted themselves for professional careers. Hun¬
dreds are living useful and upright lives in
obscure country places where such examples
are most needed.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, CLASS OF 75
A STEER-CART
Needs
T—'O aid the students in their efforts at self-
help an academic scholarship of seventy
dollars and an industrial scholarship of thirty
dollars, which provide for tuition only, are
given each worthy student. These are solicit¬
ed from, friends, and the pupil thus benefitted
writes a letter of acknowledgment to the per¬
son or society that has aided him.
A permanent academic scholarship is $1,500
industrial " " 600
An annual academic " " 70
" industrial " " 30
Gifts of money or material are always
welcome.
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T TAMPTON and its thousand students are
^ ^ more or less dependent upon their
friends. The yearly expenses are large in
spite of every effort. Industrial education is
always expensive and the school has to ask aid
constantly.
Legacies toward the completion of an en¬
dowment fund are solicited. Large gifts may
be applied in many ways—to permanent
scholarships, equipment of buildings and de¬
partments, or to general expenses.
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Mammy's Growin1 Ole
JAMES D. CORROTHERS
IN de little cabin yonder
Mammy's growin' ole;
But she lubs to set an' ponder,
When de sunset gol'
Flushes up de hill an' medder,
How de deah, good Laud hab led her
Th'u' de sunshine an' de shadder,
'Tell she's gray an' ole
You kin see her th'u' de winder,
Near de firelight's glow
Dah you '11 fine her, summah 'n winter,
Rain er shine er snow,
Dressed in her ole-fashioned manner,
In her apron an' bandanner,
Croonin' softly, sometimes, an' er
Rockin' to an' fro.
Yes, she's gittin' ole, an' fallin'
Failin' evah day.
You kin see de way she's ailin'
She h'aint long to stay;
An' some day, while tears a'h streamin,'
Mam'y'l fall asleep a-dreamin'
Ob de light she's seed a-gleamin'
Up de King's highway.
On the Big Horn
[From the poem of John Greenleaf Whittier referring^to
Chief Rain-in-the-Face, one of the foremost leaders in the
Custer massacre, who applied for admission to Hampton
in 1886.]
O Hampton, down by the sea !
What voice is beseeching thee
For the scholar's lowliest place?
Can this be the voice of him
Who fought on the Big Horn's rim ?
Can this be Rain-in-the-Face ?
His war-paint is washed away,
His hands have forgotten to slay;
He seeks for himself and his race
The arts of peace and the lore
That give to the skilled hand more
Than the spoil of war and chase.
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O chief of the Christ-like school!
Can the zeal of thy heart grow cool ?
When the victor scarred with fight
Like a child for thy guidance craves,
And the faces of hunters and braves
Are turning to thee for light ?
The Uteand the wandering Crow
Shall know as the white men know,
And fare as the white men fare;
The pale and the red shall be brothei s,
One's rights shall be as another's,
Home, School, and House of Prayer !
O mountains that climb to snow,
O river winding below,
Through meadows by war once trod,
O wild, waste lands that await
The harvest exceeding great,
Break forth into praise of God!
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
PRESIDENT,
Robert C. Ogden, Firm of John Wanamaker, NewYork.
VICE PRESIDENT,
Col. Thomas Tabb, Hampton, Va.
SECRETARY,
Rev. H. B. Frissell, D. D., Hampton, Va.
George Foster Peabody, 27 and 29 Pine St., New York
Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., 12 Garden St, Cam¬
bridge, Mass.
Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst D. D., 133 East 35th Street,
New York City.
Rt. Rev. W. N. McVickar, D. D. ,23 Charles Field Street,
Providence, R. I.
Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., 13 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge, Mass,
Collis, P. Huntington, Mills Building, 23 Broad Street,
New York.
Rev. D. H. Greer, D. D., 342 Madison, Ave., NewYork.
Charles E. Bigelow, 91 Chambers St., New York.
Arthur Curtiss James, 11 Cliff St., New York.
Wm. Jay Schieffelin, Ph, D., 170 William St., New York.
Hon. L. L. Lewis, Richmond, Va.
Alexander Purves, Hampton, Va.
Rev. James W. Cooper, D. D., New Britain, Conn.
W. W. Frazier, 250 S. 18th St., Philadelphia,
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