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...story of Hampton Institute is a very difficult one to tell in a short time and we must hurry on in order to give the briefest idea of the Institute...
...Hampton Institute is situated on a point of land in the Chesyeake Bay. It was there that the cargoes of slaves were landed and the place where the Indian was first baptized. General Armstrong who was in command of some negro troops at his place during the war, afterwards thought what a grand work could be done with the colored race at that place. A few years later the Institute was founded and Mr. Armstrong was at its head...
...Turner delivered a very entertaining lecture last evening at Boylston Hall on the Hampton Institute. The lecture was illustrated throughout by the stereopticon and the views shown gave one a splendid idea of the work that the Institute is doing...
...work of the Hampton student does not end with his graduation. The school does not give a dollar to a student hat he earn himself. He earns money to support himself. His +++ however is given him. Many of the young men who came to Hampton poor and ignorant now have comfortable homes, which they have built themselves and own entirely...
Many Indians are also brought to Hampton from the West, they go and graduate the same as the negro...