Any
one who is willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard, or
in the laundry, through one or two years, in order that he or she
may have the privilege of studying academic branches for two
hours in the evening, has enough bottom to warrant being further
educated.
After the student has left the night-school he enters the
day-school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week,
and works at his trade two days. Besides this he usually works at
his trade during the three summer months. As a rule, after a
student has succeeded in going through the night-school test, he
finds a way to finish the regular course in industrial and
academic training. No student, no matter how much money he may be
able to command, is permitted to go through school without doing
manual labour. In fact, the industrial work is now as popular as
the academic branches. Some of the most successful men and women
who have graduated from the institution obtained their start in
the night-school.
While a great deal of stress is laid upon the industrial side of
the work at Tuskegee, we do not neglect or overlook in any degree
the religious and spiritual side. The school is strictly
undenominational, but it is thoroughly Christian, and the
spiritual training or the students is not neglected.
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