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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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THE BUILDINGS OV THE HAMPTON NOKMAL INSTITUTE. wake up to tlie realization of a very curious fact.This fact is that by all odds the finest, soundest,and most effective educational methods in use intlie United States are to be found in certainschools for negroes and Indians, and in othei-sfor young criminals in reformatory prisons. IfI paid $10,000 a year for it I could not possiblygive .my own small boy anywhere in or aboutNew York City the advantages of as good a school as the raggedest little negio child ofPhoebus. Va., freely enjoys, whose education isunder the care of the Hampton Institute and iscarried on under the institutes normal depart-ment in the John G. Whittier School. This re-mark might seem a digi-ession. but it leadsstraight to the heart of the matters which I willdiscuss briefly in the paragraphs that follow.Where it would be easy to multii)ly words I
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A COKNEK OF THE TAIl.Olt SHOP. 420 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI/IEIV OF REVIEWS. have thouglit it better to mul-tiply pictures. The life ofthe Hampton Institute isabove all things a life oflearning hij doing, and thepictures show the methodsand processes better than anequal amount of space givento descriptive text. It isnow about a third of a cen-tui-y since Gen. S. C. Arm-strong founded the HamptonInstitute. Its primary pur-pose was to give the rightkind of instruction to young-colored men and woinen wliohad emerged /rom slaveryand who needed to oe taughtand trained in good conduct,the rudiments of book knowl-edge, and the plain tasksthat go witii farming, the or-dinary handicrafts, and theduties of home and family.It was also plainly seen fromthe beginning tliat a greatmany of these young peopleso tauglit must go forth tobecome the teachers of thechildren of their own race. Some ten years later cir-cumstances brought a hand-ful of young Indians toHampton, and experiencesoon showed that

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