I
was expected to pay a part of this in cash and to work out the
remainder. To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had
just fifty cents when I reached the institution. Aside from a
very few dollars that my brother John was able to send me once in
a while, I had no money with which to pay my board. I was
determined from the first to make my work as janitor so valuable
that my services would be indispensable. This I succeeded in
doing to such an extent that I was soon informed that I would be
allowed the full cost of my board in return for my work. The cost
of tuition was seventy dollars a year. This, of course, was
wholly beyond my ability to provide. If I had been compelled to
pay the seventy dollars for tuition, in addition to providing for
my board, I would have been compelled to leave the Hampton
school. General Armstrong, however, very kindly got Mr. S.
Griffitts Morgan, of New Bedford, Mass., to defray the cost of my
tuition during the whole time that I was at Hampton. After I
finished the course at Hampton and had entered upon my lifework
at Tuskegee, I had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Morgan several
times.
After having been for a while at Hampton, I found myself in
difficulty because I did not have books and clothing. Usually,
however, I got around the trouble about books by borrowing from
those who were more fortunate than myself.
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