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NORFOLK MISSION COLLEGE, NORFOLK, VA.
Twenty-two teachers, 653 students. in 1908. Annual expenses, $11,500.
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Norfolk Mission College.
Norfolk. Va.
W. Mcl\irahan. A.M., D.D.• President
I N December. ]882. Hey, )latthcw larke was ent to Viro-
inia b,' the United Pr byterian Board of Mi sion to the t>. •
Freedm n, to explore needy field in intere t of a mis ion
among the Jegroc. He reported Ulat Norfolk Va., with a
hool population of 4,000 olored youth but with an accommodation
for onl.,' ] ,000 in public cho I', was a mo t promi ing
field. In Januar'.,·, 1883, ifr. and Mr. larke were appointed
to thi field. and opened a chool with cleven boy and girls.
Thc second day the number had doubled, th increase was still
o-reater on tht, third da,', and at the end of two week there •
wer 0 many pupils in attendanc that :Mr. larke was obliged
to end to th . Board for more teacher'.
chool wa. held in two of the churche' and in Odd Fellow'
Hall. and at thc end of the chool ,,'car 467 pupil had been enrolled.
In Jul:'] 3, the Board of )lis ion purcha ed fiye lots
of land in a central 10 ation. and later a ,ub tantial thrce- tory
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. chool building wa. erected. The enrollm nt of the school for
]884 was 9 6 in the da:' ehool and 64 in the nio-ht chqol, mak-ing
a total of 1,050 pupils who received instruction in the school
during the year. Additions have been made to the buildings and
the equipment of the school, and at no time since 1884 ha the
enrollment been less than six hundred pupils.
The object of the school is to prepare colored young men and
women for teachers of their own people, and to give a solid
preparation for those who have the ministry or other professions
in view. The Bible is a text-book, and its study is a distinctive
feature of the school work. The department includes the model
school, the graded school, and the high school, in addition to a
ewing department, a cooking department, and several industries.
There are more than three hundred graduates of Jorfolk
l\fi ion College, not one of whom has ever been aITested for an
infraction of ocial or civil law. While the larger number of the
graduate engage in teaching, orne are in law, some are phy icians,
others are musicians, preachers, journalist, etc. The
teachers of the school are not ati fied simply to go to their
chool Monday morning, and teach until Friday evening, but
they ar teaching every day from the beginning to the end of the
rm - in the school room during the five day of the week, in
the homes of their pupils, and in other home, during the evenings
and aturday, and in the church and Sabbath-school on
