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done good work teaching schoo\. A large number of the pupils
have become Chri tian during the years they have been in the
school. In addition to the daily school work. a chool prayer
service is held weekly. A Chri tian Endeayor society ha been
organized, and meet regularly.
A circulating library of 2,500 volumes i open each Saturday.
Visits are madc in the homes of the pupils and among sick.
Social entertainmcnts are provided for the community.
Two principal' and fiye teachers are carrying on this work.
DurinfY all the years of this school's progress, its support has
• come from God's people as churches and individuals. Through
divine blessing and the practice of economy, the school has
closed each ycar without debt; still it needs money to grow
and do greater good.
Eckstein Norton Institute.
Cane Spring. Ky.
c. H. Parrish, A.M., D.D., President
FOUNDED in 1890. The valuation of the property is $37,000.
The annual expen es are $5,000, money for which is obtained
from tuition and by solicitation. There were 47 male and 58 •
female students in 1908, ages averaging from ten to eighteen
years. Thel'e are 3 male and 4 female Negro teachers, This
4'",r: SPERCINK(JSTEIN' NORTON GINIBSBTISTUHTAEll & "• •
auWfT eOJ\Y STON FOUNTAIN ..
ECKSTEIN NORTON INSTITUTE, CANE SPRING, KY.
chool ha~ given instruction to more than 1.600 students. Two
hundred and seventy-one have graduated from its departments,
the majority of whom arc doing creditable work among the
people.
It grounds comprist· se\'Cnt;'-five acres of land. eventy of
them fine agricultural land. and a large orchard. It i. within
thirty miles of a Negro population of 90.000. It location is
29 miles outh of Louisvillp. The main building is a sub-
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stantial brick structure with twenty-five rooms, spaCiOUS halls
and porches. There are six frame buildings with thirty rooms
for dormitory purposes, an assembly hall, printing-office,
laundry, and blacksmith shop.
The college is incorporated under the laws of Kentucky. Its
affairs are conducted b,v a board of trustees, - not less than
nine, - the present board consisting of some of the best white
and colored citizens of the commonwealth.
All the pupils are required to work. They are taught to do,
as well as to know. It is designed to give Christian education,
and college advantages are given to those who show a special
fitness for the higher training. Classes in cooking, elementary
sewing, shoemaking, f~rming, carpentry, and blacksmithing.
Children as young as nine years are received, among them
those who have not proper home surroundings and seem likely
to become deliquent, ignorant, or dependent, some whose parents
are in service and cannot conveniently have their children
with them, some who have dropped out of their grade in the
public schools, or who have become discouraged. Also, any
young men or young women are received who have passed the
age limit to attend the public shoals, and persons who are so far
behind in their studies that they are embarrassed to attend school
at home where they are well known. Also, persons of riper age
are welcome who desire Bible training and wholesome religious
surroundings and who want to be fitted for better service.
The object of the school is " the instruction of youth in the
various common school, academic, and collegiate branches, the
best methods of teaching the same, and the best mode of practical
industry in its application to agriculture and the mechanic arts
and domestic science." Students are forbiddden the use of
tobacco and intoxicating drinks and profane language, Theater
going and dancing are disallowed. Students are required to
attend all devotional exercises.
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The West Virginia Colored Institute,
Institute, W. Va.
J. McHenry Jones, President
THE West Virginia Colored Institute was founded in 1891
by an act of the legislature. The annual expenses of $35,000
are secured from the United States fYovernment and the legist:>
lature and the state.
There wpre 21 teachers and 235 students in 1908.
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