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...November 30, at 8 o'clock p. m,, in the Shepard Memorial Chapel. General Armstrong and Professor Peabody have planned this meeting for a long time, and it is to be regretted that the time of the year is so unfavorable to a large attendance. Several pupils of the Hampton School, both Indians and Negroes, will tell about their own careers. More information can be gained about Hampton and its method of work in a short time than in any other...
...lecturers in the Yale Theological School for next year will be: Dr. Broadus, Lyman Beecher lecturer on "The Preacher;" Dr. John Hall, on "Universality of the Gospel;" General Armstrong, of Hampton, on "The Negro Race." It is expected that the incoming class will be very large...
Among the students at Hampton, Va., are one hundred and twenty Indians...
...question which presents itself to the mind of every thinking man who is at all interested in the political problems before the country to-day. A few young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during the last few years...
...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...