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Oxford, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
. The summary for 1903 showed 386 scholars and 17 officers and instructors. The buildings, grounds, and industries are of the best. This Missouri institute has afforded an example of what the faith and work of one good woman can accomplish. 12. The Howard Normal School, of Baltimore, just starting in 1869, has been replaced by the Baltimore City Colored High School. In the latter to-day are 21 instructors and 350 pupils. 13. When I first knew the institution for colored youth at Oxford, Pa., it was called Ashby Institute. As it was just in the line of work which was desired for the speedy preparation of teachers, I gave, as commissioner, all possible aid, and the trustees soon changed its name to Lincoln University. I attended the Commencement of this university in 1867, as I recall the visit. The students on that occasion gave evidence of remarkable advancement. Their oratory appeared phenomenal. From time to time I contributed to its endowment. It maintains a good r
Hawaii (Hawaii, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
ssured of General S. C. Armstrong's ability and fitness, in March, 1866, I placed him, as we have seen, a subassistant in charge of fourteen counties of eastern Virginia, with his headquarters at Hampton. In 1868 he left the general work for the freedmen and took the presidency of the institute at Hampton, which, in fact, with the American Missionary Association behind him, he founded and steadily developed till his death. Armstrong, from his experience and observation among the natives of Hawaii, insisted on more attention to labor as the basis of his institute; more attention than he thought was given in our other schools. My own reference of 1870 gave this institution 75 students and 6 teachers. It was extended after a time to embrace a portion of the Indian youth. In General Armstrong's last statements he said: Steadily increasing, its full growth just reached is 650 boarding students from 24 States and territories, averaging eighteen years of age, 136 of them Indians; 80
Meridian Hill (United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
nrollment was 596 students, coming from seven States. There were 31 in the body of officers and instructors. 24. Wayland Seminary, before mentioned, was already in existence; it was the first that I visited in Washington in May, 1865. It stood as my model and object lesson, where I could show doubting visitors from North and South the possibility of educating negroes. Its first buildings, altogether too small, cramped the work till the trustees moved to the head of Chapin Street, Meridian Hill. The patrons are of the Baptist Home Mission Board, and the thorough good results the seminary has already accomplished cannot be overestimated. Its enrollment (1897) gives 159 students and 15 officers, and other instructors. 25. Wilberforce University, under the patronage of the African Methodist people, began in the fifties. Bishop D. A. Payne of the A. M. E. Church was president from 1863 to 1876. Like Lincoln University, I found it the right sort of helper to furnish teachers
Berea, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
ty of students of both colors. From the start I determined to help Berea, particularly because of its Southern origin and because of its stuition of the manhood of the negro. In 1866 and 1867 we called it Berea literary Institute. It was still elementary and then composed of blent recitations in mathematics and the classics, and predicted for Berea a grand future. A year later the construction of Chase Hall, whi Another communication of my superintendent in Kentucky concerning Berea says: Upon the earnest solicitation of President Fairchild and Mr. Fee I determined to finish the work at Berea by giving them an additional $2,000. And the final reference to the college in 1870 shows mye to complete the large and commodious Ladies' Hall. This placed Berea with its extensive grounds on a substantial basis. The students there numbered 170 with eight teachers. Having steadily grown, Berea in 1896 had 460 students and 23 instructors. In 1903, 972 students and 5
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
eparated and now educate youth each in its own line. Claflin University had an enrollment in 1904 of 481 pupils. 7. Central Tennessee College, located at Nashville, Tenn., and founded by the Methodist Freedmen's Aid Society, had in 1870 92 scholars and 5 teachers. It had risen in 1896 to a total of 165 scholars, all in profeeginning in the thought and plan of E. P. Smith and E. M. Cravath, who were both at the time secretaries of the American Missionary Association. They met at Nashville, Tenn., October 3, 1865, and had a conference on the subject of making Nashville an educational center for the then newly emancipated and their descendants. This cNashville an educational center for the then newly emancipated and their descendants. This conference soon took into its councils General C. B. Fisk, commissioner, and Prof. John Ogden, an able educator who had been an officer of the army during the war. A half square of land was purchased, and by General Fisk's solicitation a number of temporary hospital structures which were on the land were by the Government assigned t
Warrenton (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
in the work and enterprise of Rev. Dr. H. M. Tupper (who was an enlisted Christian soldier during the last three years of the Civil War). He was the first President. It is a large thriving university. In 1869 it had 70 students and four teachers. In 1904 the governmentt (Department of Education) recorded 499 students and 35 instructors. Its departments of medicine and pharmacy place its medical work abreast of Howard University. 21. The Normal School under the Friends' control at Warrenton, N. C., had two teachers and 50 pupils in 1869. The Shiloh Institute appears to have replaced it, having four teachers and 95 pupils in 1896. 22. The Normal and Manual Labor School just beginning in 1869 at Tougaloo, Miss., soon became the Tougaloo University, under the patronage of the American Missionary Association. I remember to have given this school an impulse at the start by a special appropriation. It is finely located, a few miles north of the capital of the State. The universi
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
4 teachers and 184 students. 14. The Maryville Normal at Maryville, Tenn., had in 1869 60 pupils and 3 instructors. It appears to have changed its name to Freedmen's Normal Institute, and in 1897 it had 14 teachers and 243 students, mostly in the normal course of study. 15. The Normal School at Elizabeth City, N. C., had two instructors in 1869 and 46 students; in 1904 it was called State Colored Normal School with 6 instructors and 404 students. 16. The Straight University at New Orleans, La., commenced operations in 1869 and gradually developed into a large and well-favored institution. Its students in attendance numbered at the Commencement of 1903 765. Officers and instructors in all the five departments 27. It has kept up its work steadily from year to year. Once a great fire came and swept away the buildings, but by the work of the students and the help of the benevolent they were soon more than replaced. Its industrial department in the building trades is the b
Maryville, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
for the speedy preparation of teachers, I gave, as commissioner, all possible aid, and the trustees soon changed its name to Lincoln University. I attended the Commencement of this university in 1867, as I recall the visit. The students on that occasion gave evidence of remarkable advancement. Their oratory appeared phenomenal. From time to time I contributed to its endowment. It maintains a good record, and had in 1904 14 teachers and 184 students. 14. The Maryville Normal at Maryville, Tenn., had in 1869 60 pupils and 3 instructors. It appears to have changed its name to Freedmen's Normal Institute, and in 1897 it had 14 teachers and 243 students, mostly in the normal course of study. 15. The Normal School at Elizabeth City, N. C., had two instructors in 1869 and 46 students; in 1904 it was called State Colored Normal School with 6 instructors and 404 students. 16. The Straight University at New Orleans, La., commenced operations in 1869 and gradually developed into
Oberlin (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
5. Wilberforce University, under the patronage of the African Methodist people, began in the fifties. Bishop D. A. Payne of the A. M. E. Church was president from 1863 to 1876. Like Lincoln University, I found it the right sort of helper to furnish teachers as the freedmen's educational institutions developed, and so I rendered it, as I did Oberlin College and for the same reason, what encouragement and pecuniary aid was in my power. Wilberforce being near Xenia, O., Oberlin College at Oberlin, O., and Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, neither of the three in the former slave States, subsequently caused me some legal difficulties on account of the Government donations. They did before emancipation and are still doing noble work for the negro population. The enrollment of Wilberforce for 1906 is 400 students with 30 on the board of instruction, Its industrial division, including that of hospital and trained nurses, is extensive. 26. There was one thriving school of the gramm
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2.25
ity has done a noble work. 9. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Having been assured of General S. C. Armstrong's ability and fitness, in March, 1866, I placed him, as we have seen, a subassistant in charge of fourteen counties of eastern Virginia, with his headquarters at Hampton. In 1868 he left the general work for the freedmen and took the presidency of the institute at Hampton, which, in fact, with the American Missionary Association behind him, he founded and steadily developeds trustees; the amount to be held in trust for three normal collegiate institutions or universities, embracing the education of refugees and freedmen; the institutions to be incorporated: one located in the District of Columbia, one in the State of Virginia, and the third in the State of North Carolina. The order also authorized the investment of the money, so transferred, in land with a view of relieving the immediate necessities of a class of poor colored people in the District of Columbia,
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