Students at drill. The institution is one of the most widely known
schools in the United States, and the pioneer school in industrial
education. It has 210 teachers, 762 pupils, and income of almost
$300,000 annually, and property valued at approximately $4,250,000.
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GEORGE W. HUBBARD HOSPITAL, OF MEHARRY MEDICAL SCHOOL, NASHVILLE,
TENN.
One of the best hospitals in Nashville. It is well equipped and has an
able staff of physicians. The property value is approximately
$75,000.
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The schools of this group which have received most liberal support are
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, and Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee,
Alabama. The large support and remarkable growth of these two schools is
due largely to the growing popularity of individual education and also
to the personalities of General Armstrong, who founded Hampton, and Dr.
Booker T. Washington, who founded Tuskegee. The independent institutions
of college grade that have attained a national reputation are Fisk
University, Nashville. Tennessee, and Atlanta University, Atlanta,
Georgia. The one independent professional institution of nation-wide
reputation is Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee. A number of
smaller schools, mostly of the industrial type, have attained noteworthy
success. Among these might be mentioned the Daytona School for Girls,
Daytona, Florida; Calhoun Colored School, Calhoun, Alabama; Penn School,
St. Helena, Island, South Carolina; Snow Hill Institute, Snow Hill,
Alabama; Utica Institute, Utica Mississippi, and Okolona Industrial
Institute, Okolona, Mississippi. There are numerous other institutions
that are doing most successful work. The existence of such institutions
becomes doubly significant when the personality of their founders and
the opposition they met with are considered. The influence of General
Armstrong and his attitude toward education are being more and more felt
in the whole educational system of the country. The story of Dr.
Washington, who found at Tuskegee a log cabin and left there an
industrial town is well described in his illuminating book, “Up from
Slavery.” The names of Bumstead and Ware at Atlanta University, and of
Gravath at Fisk, are well known. One of the leading lawyers of New York
City is the son of the late President Gravath of Fisk. The growth of
such institutions as Utica Institute, Snow Hill, Okolona Institute and
Daytona School proves the capacity of young colored men and women to
acquire training in school and also to acquire the more important
qualities of leadership and determination to overcome difficulties. It
is said that when William H. Holtzclaw reached Utica, Mississippi, the
banks of the town refused to accept his money for deposit, because he
was colored. In the thirteen years he has lived there he has succeeded
in winning the friendship of the people, the credit of all the banks,
and he has built an institution which has an income of nearly $20,000 a
year, and property valued at over $160,000. The stories of Miss Bethune,
at Daytona, Wallace A. Battle, at Okolona, and W. J. Edwards, at Snow
Hill, are no less interesting and inspiring.
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