Monroe, who for a number of years has supervised the military drill at the school. The cup was dents will continue to graduate in company. won by Company B, Roy L. Cor- ON Wednesday afternoon the dery, Captain, who was borne in triumph around the grounds on the shoulders of his men. The Fort officers who judged the contest declared that the whole drill was most commendable. Another very attractive loving-cup, offered by Rev. and Mrs. George T. Scott to the class winning most of the "events in the Inter-class Meet, was won by the Senior Class. The annual spring concert was given on Monday evening and was marked success. TH a HE Senior agricultural and domestic science classes gave a joint Commencement program on Tuesday evening in the Gymnasium. The special feature of the occasion was a series of scenes depicting home life on a modern farm. While the father and son were busy with problems concerning fertilizers and poultry and other farm matters, the daughters, under the direction of their mother, were churning, baking, cleaning, making dresses, trimming hats,and doing other household tasks, the whole family, after the work was done, going off for a day's picnic in the hay wagon, which with the powerful farm horses almost filled the stage. Surely the combination of home and farm is an ideal one and we trust that the agricultural and domestic-science stu Seniors held their Class Day exercises on the Mansion House porch, as usual, Dr. Frissell, at the close of the program, making a short address and presenting diplomas and certificates to hundred and seventeen candidates. one Visitors THE Alice Hegan Rice HE school was honored on May 18 by a visit from over one hundred members of the Newport News Chamber of Commerce, accompanied by several officers of the steamship Princess Irene, which has been in dry dock there. The gentlemen inspected the various departments of the school, watched the battalion march to dinner, and later assembled in Cleveland Hall to hear the school sing plantation melodies. Mayor Jones of Hampton, Superintendent Jenkins and Dr. Wellford of Newport News made brief addresses, to which response was made by Major Moton. A luncheon, prepared by the domestic science department, was served to the party on the terrace of the Mansion House, after which an informal Conference was held in the Museum on how the Hampton School can be of greater service to the community. The gentlemen expressed surprise at the extent of Hampton's work and appreciation of its methods, and the visit resulted in a much better understanding on their part of its aims and its usefulness. ANOTHER visit of special in terest was that made on June 4 by about thirty members of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, which had been in conference in Washington for six weeks. The party, composed chiefly of foreign representatives, prominent among whom were Herr Robbolski, assistant commissioner of patents in Germany, Mr. Matsu, Japanese commissioner of patents and Mr. Frey-Godet, secretary of the International Bureau of Patents at Berne, Switzerland, was brought to Hampton by Hon. E. B. Moore, United States commissioner of patents. After inspecting the school, the party assembled in Cleveland Hall to hear the students sing. An interesting explanation of patent rights and the purpose of the Conference was given by Herr Doctor Ostereitch of Berlin. could but give of their best to him. The collection consists of over one hundred and fifty different articles, a great variety of interesting weapons, shields, spears, bows and arrows, artistically carved wooden jars and cups, many cowrie-shell ornaments and masks, and curious articles used in tribal ceremonies. The many varieties of fibre cloth, beautiful in design and texture, with mats and baskets of artistic form and pattern, give one a new idea of the ancestors of the American Negro and are of especial interest to their descendants. The Museum hopes in a few years to have a very complete collection of articles representing the native industries of the different Indian and African tribes which are so rapidly passing away. GRADUATES AND EX-STUDENTS A graduate of '91, Eliza Black man Clark, who was later graduated from the Dixie Training School for Nurses, was for four years in charge of the hospital department at Goldsboro', N. C. During that time she helped to care for her mother and younger sister, bought a lot, and built on it a house of five rooms costing one thousand dollars. Coming to Norfolk to "rest" she was appointed nurse at the Colored Tu bercular Clinic, where she is striving" to lift high the professional banner of the Dixie graduate nurse." OR the last year and a half FOR Paul V. Smith, '09, has been teaching manual training in the colored public schools of Roanoke. His department has furnished yardsticks, flower boxes, platforms, and bookcases for the schools, including thirty bookcases for the white schools. He writes that he tries to instill in his pupils the importance of making themselves efficient in whatever occupation or profession they intend to follow. N ex-student of '04, S. G. AN Johnson, writes as follows: "Three years ago I began to think seriously of the best way to be of service to my people. I was then in the North and am glad to say that when the time came to make a final choice I was able to decide in favor of my home and my own people, in spite of the hardships which I knew awaited me. Upon my arrival I secured a job tonging oysters. In a year's time I built up a little business of my own, bought a boat and tongs, and planted a few oysters. Saturdays, Sundays, and what other time I could spare from work, I spent in trying to establish myself in the good will of our fathers and mothers, and in trying to discover what one thing they needed most. "The schools in my community community are totally inadequate, and my aim is to get the people to own and control their own school property in every locality. With this in mind we have purchased one site during the past year and erected a building at a cost of $1700. It is well lighted and well ventilated, with four rooms and two halls and a seating capacity of two hundred. We are now raising money to furnish the schoolhouse. My hope is to ex tend this movement throughout our two counties. "Aside from my general school work I am engaged in Sundayschool and club work. In Sunday school I have a class of twentytwo little boys and girls. The more I work with them the more I realize that the solution of our problem lies within ourselves. Saturday afternoons are allotted to club work. I have organized an athletic club of fellows who formerly spent their leisure time in drinking and gambling, I find that by meeting with them and starting one or two games of ball or a wrestling or boxing tournament, I am able to break up these habits." Martha L. Evans and Peter J. Carter, ex-students, were graduated from the "Academy" of Howard University on May 29. G. Beauregard Thomas, Ph. G. ex-student, was graduated on May 9 from the Department of Pharmacy of Flint Medical College, New Orleans. Charles H. Laws and Charles W. Scott, also ex-students, were graduated on May 11 from the College of Medicine and Surgery, Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. Percy J. Simms, '10, was graduated on June 6 from the Brooks Classical School, the preparatory department of Carnegie University, Chicago. Horner Thomas, 1901, was graduated on June 21 from Oberlin College. Notes and Exchanges N the account, in McClure's IN Magazine for May, of Maria Montessori, the Italian woman who has made such revolutionary changes in the modern system of education, one of her basic rules that of abstinence from correction is explained as follows: "Why correct the child? If he does not succeed in associating the name with the object, the only way of making him succeed is to repeat at once the action of the sensorial stimulus, and the word to be associated with it; that is, to repeat the lesson. In Maria Montessori's view, all education worth having is auto-education. One of the difficulties experienced in the training of teachers is that of preventing them from rushing to the aid of a child who appears to be embarrassed and puzzled in one of his little employments. Their tendency is to say, 'Poor little mite!' and help him out; thereby depriving the child at once of the joy and the education of overcoming an obstacle." THE Council of the Royal Geo graphical Society of England has awarded to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the Labrador missionary, the Murchison Bequest for the current year in recognition of his work. Dr. Grenfell has made material contributions to the accuracy of charts of the Labrador region, and valuable contributions to knowledge of the people and the resources of Labrador. Times Book Review MANY years ago, while the New York cathedral was still a hope and an aspiration, it was suggested to Bishop Potter that it would be most fitting if the linen on the altar of the cathedral might be ornamented with lace of distinctively American handiwork, the product of our American mission schools. He welcomed the idea eagerly, as did Bishop Whipple, and in the gift of altar linen made by Miss Amy Townsend to the cathedral and used at its opening service, the idea was realized. The gift comprises twenty-five pieces, many of which are, from their nature, untrimmed, but the principal objects, superfrontal, altar cover, credence covers, and chalice veil, are all trimmed with lace made at the Oneida Mission School under the direction of an Indian woman, and are offered as a slight token in recognition of the work carried on for so many years by Miss Sybil Carter among the aborigines of our country. The motif of the lace work is the same as that shown in the carving of the altar, the vine with grapes. The super frontal shows the I. H. S. balanced by the Greek letters, Alpha and Omega. The lace in the credence covers shows the emblem of St. John the Apostle, the eagle with wings extended, a form used among the American Indians to symbolize a supernatural power that controls the elements. The Churchman |