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n cd d mon y t purcha a d irabl ite wa not on hand, and
01 nIB ntzoni, f th }'ifty- 'ixth R CTim nt, . 1., who
notified alvin and \.Iida lark to ek oth l' quart rs, ugge ted
that each privat oldi l' and officer in hi r giment give one
day' pay IowaI'd III purcha . Thi was don and about $400
e ur d. With the mon y th tw nty a '1' of land where the
II g buildin T now tand w 1 obtain d.
High l' lucational advantatT than the chool th n afforded
oon becam nary, 0 Ulat in 1 69 the normal cour e was
added. Thr y ar lat 1', 1 72 it was organized a a ollege.
The aim of the work don at outhland ollege and ormal
In titut ha b en to make its tudent u eful and law-abiding
citizen of the commonwealth, able ing to their race, and a
benefit to the tate. Her ucce in thi line has b en of great
rvice to that part of the country, and its influence has extended
to adjacent tate.
The thorough, practical trammg given her students has
qualified them to succeed, e pecially in teaching, in which a
large number (over four hundred) of them have been engaged,
many of them making that prof ion their life work. Some of
the original children, taken a orphan, have taught con ecutively
for thirty to thirty-five year.
The majority are perhap riCTbtly employed along agricultural
line, pultinCT the training I' ceived at the college into making
b Iter home and farm in th outhland. ome have chosen
the practi e of medi in or that of law while other are in the
eivil 'ervic p n ion aCT· nts mail cl rk te., filling their
re p ctiv pIne with hon r and profit. Perhap ther i no
employm nt mol' ('ovet damon th m than th mini try of th
gosp I; and a. the moral and I' liCTiou training at the college
has alway b(' n made promin nl. thi I' ult might naturally be
expe t('d, and c rlainly nothin.,{ i mol' d irnbl forthi race
than int lIigcnt and enlight ned leachinlT and training.
The ' 'hool i und('r the manag m nt of lh· Mi ionary Board
appointed by th Indiana earl' M .ting of Fri nd .
lthouCTh under den minational ontrol, outhlalld i not a
ectarian chool. The students ar of dift'crent chuTch denomi-nation,
and all rcceive th . arne advantage, re ardl of sect
or chur h :onnection.
How vel', th coll g as urn . that no amount of intellectual
training without morality, Yirtue, and I' ligion can fit young
p ople for u 'efulne in the world, and therefor doe what it
can to enCOurag pra tical hri tianity.
Institute for Colored Youth, Cheyney, Pa.
Founded in 1837, reorganized in 1902
Managed by a Board of Trustees of the Society of Friends
Hugh M. Bro:wn, Principal
HUMPHREY'S HALL, INSTITUTE FOR COLORED YOUTHS
The present aim of the reorganized work at Cheyney. Pa., is to give a course of instruction,
both academic and industrial, that will prepare young men and women who can
stand before the colored child not so much as repositories of learning, but as directors of
such activity in the child as will make intelligeoce in each life an effective agent of social,
ioduslrial, and spiritual well-being. What teachers' colleges in New York City are doing to
prepare young white men and women for the new educational ideals of the times, the
teachers' training school at Cheyney, Pa., aims to do for Negro young men and women.
Christiansburg Industrial Institute.
Cambria. Va.
E.dgar A. Long. Principal
CHRI TI r BURG INDUSTRIAL I STITUTE was
organized by Capt. Charles S. Schaeffer as a primary
chool for Negroes shortly after the close of the Civil
War. It wa r organized as the Chri tiansburg Industrial
Institute in 1896. At that time the property consi ted of one
building and half an acre of ground, valued at about $5,000.
Now there are 10 buildings and 185 acres of land, all valued
at $50,000. The annual expenses are $10,000, secured by
annual sub cription. There were 110 male and 153 female
tudent in 1908, ranging in age from six to twenty-five years.
The 5 male and 6 female teachers are all Negroes.
The aim i twofold: first, to maintain an agricultural and
industrial school in that ection of the South where it is possible
