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Broad-jump -- Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, 22 ft., 6 in.; Rector, Dartmouth, 22 ft., 5 in.; Johnstone, Harvard, 21 ft., 1 1-4 in., Hampton, Yale, 21 ft., 2 in. High jump--Darey, Princeton, 5 ft., 11 1-2 in.; Morrison, Cornell, 5 ft., 10 in.; Oler, Yale, 6 ft., 3 in.; Johnstone, Harvard...
Running broad jump.--Won by J. O. Johnstone '16; second, tie between A. H. Hampton (Y.) and R. E. Matthews (Y.). Distance...
Captain Cele is a graduate of Hampton Institute where he took courses in black-smithing, carpentry, agriculture and other useful arts, is well fitted to carry on the work of the Armstrong Institute, to enlighten the superstitious Zulus, and to teach, them to apply thought in the use of their hands...
Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of the Tuskegee Institute, spoke to an audience of about 300 in the Trophy Room of the Union last evening. The first part of his talk was an account of his life and the hardships which he encountered in making his way to Hampton Institute, where he secured his education. Following this he told of his resolve to take up work in the black belt of Alabama, and his development of the Tuskegee Institute; and closed with a few evidences of the progress of his race, and an enumeration of the opportunities for useful...
...widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro...