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...sister of the Zulu king, and his father the chief of one of the principal tribes of that race. His father gave up his position as chieftain to become a missionary, sending his son to the Slater School in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and later to the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. Mr. Cele there spent seven years, and has just been graduated. During his course, he was President of the Y. M. C. A., captain of the first Company, and end on the football team...
Running high jump--Won by Johnstone (H); second, tie between Hampton (Y) and Crocker (Y). Height, 6 ft. (New dual record...
Running broad jump -- Won by Johnstone (H); second, Hampton (Y); third, Post (H). Distance...
...Broad jump. Harvard: F. S. Allen, R. G. Carter, J. O. Johnstone, G. Lee, D. Miller, K. B. G. Parson, W. Rollins; Yale: C. C. Dilley, A. H. Hampton, C. A. Willetts...
Booker T. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born in Virginia just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides both in wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor in the same institution. In 1881 he was called upon to organize and become the head of a negro normal school at Tuskegee, Alabama, for which the State legislature had made an annual appropriation. Opened in July...