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...McKenzie. The service opened with the singing of Dyke's "Tune Alford" by the choir. Rev. F. G. Peabody then offered prayer, after which Mr. C. F. Webber of Boston sang "Be thou faithful unto death," a solo from Mendelssohn's "St. Paul." Dr. McKenzie delivered the address. He spoke about the wise sayings of Jesus when a youth and how Jesus at a later period carried on his trade of carpenter in addition to his religious work...
Chas. Doxon of the Onondagee tribe, a student of the school, spoke next. The want of progress of the Indians, the speaker thought, was due to the separation and insolation of the Indian tribes. What is needed is that the whites should settle in their midst; show them that there is no hard and defined boundary between the whites and the Indians. He said in conclusion that if a bond of sympathy is once established the progress of the Indians is assured. The Hampton Quartette rendered some very sweet negro melodies. They sang as an encore the favorite...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
...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...
General Armstrong following spoke of the types of negroes of the South, and the respective needs of each class...