m., work bell; 1.30
p.m., class work begins; 3.30 p.m., class work ends; 5.30 p.m.,
bell to "knock off" work; 6 p.m., supper; 7.10 p.m., evening
prayers; 7.30 p.m., evening study hours; 8.45 p.m., evening study
hour closes; 9.20 p.m., warning retiring bell; 9.30 p.m.,
retiring bell.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the
school is to be judged by its graduates. Counting those who have
finished the full course, together with those who have taken
enough training to enable them to do reasonably good work, we can
safely say that at least six thousand men and women from Tuskegee
are now at work in different parts of the South; men and women
who, by their own example or by direct efforts, are showing the
masses of our race now to improve their material, educational,
and moral and religious life. What is equally important, they are
exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is
causing better relations to exist between the races, and is
causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value
of educating the men and women of my race. Aside from this, there
is the influence that is constantly being exerted through the
mothers' meeting and the plantation work conducted by Mrs.
Washington.
Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear
in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in
education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
Pages:
301
302
303
304
305
306
307
308
309
310
311
312
313
314
315
316
317
318
319
320
321
322
323
324
325