The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute HAMPTON, VIRGINIA H. B. FRISSELL, Principal H. B. TURNER, Chaplain F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer What it is Object An undenominational industrial school founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong for Negro youth. Indians admitted in 1878. To train teachers and industrial leaders Equipment Land, 1200 acres; buildings, 135 Courses Academic, trade, agriculture, business, home economics Enrollment Negroes, 1285; Indians, 82; total, 1367 Results Needs Graduates, 1554; ex-students, over 6000 Outgrowths: Tuskegee, Calhoun, Mt. Meigs, and many smaller schools for Negroes $110,000 annually above regular income. $4,000,000 Endowment Fund Any contribution, however small, will be gratefully received and may be sent to H. B. FRISSELL, Principal, or to F. K. ROGERS, Treasurer, Hampton, Virginia. FORM OF BEQUEST I give and devise to the trustees of The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, the sum of payable dollars, Published monthly by The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Contents for January, 1911 The New York Armstrong Association Movement for a Washington Y. M. C. A. . THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN was founded by Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1872, and is a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of undeveloped races. Entered as second class matter in the post office at Hampton, Virginia. The Southern Workman VOL. XL JANUARY 1911 NO. 1 Educational Some years ago Dr. Alderman, of the University of Forces in Virginia Virginia, said that in the State of Virginia the centre of gravity had moved from the courthouse to the schoolhouse. The truth of this statement was verified by the recent educational meetings in Richmond, which have been without doubt the most important gatherings in the Old Dominion the present year. Not only were there meetings of the state superintendents, school trustees, supervisors, heads of high schools, and instructors in every grade of school work, but also of representatives of all kinds of work for the uplift of the people. There were men and women there who are working for progress in agriculture, and who are especially interested in the corn clubs, the canning clubs, good roads, reformatories, and the general improvement of rural life. The Co-operative Education Association, which for years has endeavored to promote every sort of movement for the uplift of the state, had its executive sessions and public gatherings at the same time. The law makers felt that it was essential they should be present, and they were to be found in Richmond from the beginning to the end of these educational conferences. Previous to the meetings of the county superintendents in Richmond, between seventy and eighty of them came to Hampton Institute with Honorable J. D. Eggleston, Jr., State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Many of this number are young men who have been recently appointed to their positions. It was a most earnest and hopeful body. Some of them said that they had had very little understanding of the meaning of the Hampton School, or of the practical work that it is accomplishing. At the open meetings held on the school grounds during their visit, Superintendent Eggleston not only expressed the hearty sympathy with the school which he has always shown, but he called upon the county superintendents to co-operate with Hampton in the endeavor to introduce more practical education into the public schools of the country districts of the state. humor the conflict with the law of one poor, old, well-meaning but misguided Indian. This Indian kills a game warden who has repeatedly A recent number of the Atlantic Monthly contained interfered with the Indian's hunting and fishing out of season. The a short story entitled, "The Law and the Indian," in warden had interfered reluctantly, in the conscientious discharge of his which the author, Elliott Fowler, relates with grim duty, and only after many kindly warnings to the Indian. The Indian persists, not defiantly, but in the exercise of his inalienable right to procure necessary food. He knows that he is within his rights because in the treaty made with his tribe years before by the United States Government the right to hunt and fish was reserved to the Indians for copy of the treaty which, he maintains, was never abrogat happened to them, but that does not alte made previous to the admission of the had then been admitted on an ea and the act contained no rese treaties. It had been hel abrogated by implic them privileges made by the that no sorr |