not, in the opinion of the district board, impair the usefulness and efficiency of such school. And the board of district school trustees in districts where day schools are conducted for eight or more months each year may, in its discretion, and by and with the consent of the State Board of Education, and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by said State Board of Education, establish and conduct night schools to which may be admitted pupils regardless of their age; but no such schools shall be established or conducted except in cases where, in the opinion of the said State Board of Education, the usefulness and efficiency of the day schools would not be impaired thereby. Inasmuch as the question has been raised as to the authority of certain district school boards to conduct night schools, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from its passage. 126. Admission of other persons; night or evening schools or classes. In order to extend educational privileges to persons (including those between the ages of twenty and twenty-five years) unable to avail themselves of the full benefits of the public schools (a) Any district board may, in its discretion, and upon such terms and conditions as the division superintendent may approve, admit such persons into any of the schools of the district, provided their admission will not, in the opinion of the board and the superintendent, impair the usefulness and efficiency of the schools. No such person shall be retained in any school to the detriment of the school or any of its pupils, or to the exclusion from the school of any child between the ages of seven and twenty years. (b) Any district board may establish and conduct night or evening schools or classes as provided by section 102 of School Law, upon such terms and conditions as the division superintendent may approve. 4. Letter from J. N. Hillman, Secretary State Board of Education, Richmond, October 27, 1919: "I regret to advise that there is no organized attempt at Americanization in Virginia. As a matter of fact our percentage of foreign-born population is small, and there is perhaps less need for this type of work than in other sections of the country." 5. The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, William Anthony Aery, Publication Secretary; James E. Gregg, Principal; F. K. Rogers, Treasurer; G. P. Phenix, Vice-Principal; W. H. Scoville, Secretary. Trustees. William Howard Taft, President, New Haven, Conn. Robert R. Moton, Tuskegee, Alabama. Homer L. Ferguson, Newport News, Virginia. State Curators Appointed by the Governor for The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, January 1, 1917, for a term of four years. J. C. Carter, Houston. J. M. Clark, Danville. J. T. Lewis, Richmond. W. S. Copeland, Newport News. W. T. Johnson, Richmond. A. T. Stroud, Norfolk. Hampton Institute Today: Its Gifts to Three Races BY WM. ANTHONY AERY Today Hampton Institute is not a government, state, or denominational school. It is a private corporation controlled by a board of seventeen trustees who represent different sections of the United States and several religious denominations, no one of which has a majority. Hampton Institute an Industrial Village Hampton Institute is an educational demonstration station where three races work out daily, with a minimum of friction, the problems of every-day life. Indeed, it is an industrial village with dormitories, dining-halls, a community auditorium, a general store, light, power, heating, and refrigeration plants, a trade school, farms, home-economics classrooms, steam and hand laundry, and other valuable equipment for training community leaders. Hampton Institute overlooks the historic and beautiful Hampton Roads, where the battle between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac," revolutionizing naval warfare, was fought during the American Civil War. Armstrong and Frissell: Founder and Builder Samuel Chapman Armstrong was born on January 30, 1839, in the Hawaiian Islands, the son of missionary parents. He came to the United States and entered Williams College at Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he came in close contact with Mark Hopkins, one of America's greates educators and exponents of "the sublime philosophy of Christianity." At Williams College, as elsewhere, Armstrong did with his might what his hands found to do. Through contact with Negro soldiers during the American Civil War, Armstrong learned to know and believe in Negroes. He finally laid down the sword and took up the Bible and the spelling-book at Hampton Institute in 1868. General Armstrong died on May 11, 1893. He was given a simple soldier's burial in the Hampton Institute Cemetery by the side of the last student who had died. Armstrong said "It pays to follow one's best light to put God and country first; ourselves afterwards." Hollis Burke Frissell (born 1851, died 1917), beloved principal of Hampton Institute for nearly twenty-five years 1893-1917), statesman-educator, and America's foremost authority on race relations, bound thousands of thoughful, consecrated men and women to himself with the never-failing cords of love and service. Doctor Gregg: Hampton's Fearless Principal George Foster Peabody of New York, Hampton's senior trustce and a well-known retired American banker, introduced Dr. Gregg with these words to the great Hampton family of friends, alumni, workers and students: What Hampton Is An undenominational industrial school founded in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong for Negro youth. Indians admitted in 1878. Object To train teachers and industrial leaders. Equipment Land, about 1,100 acres; buildings, 140. Courses Academic, normal, trade, agriculture, business, home economics. Enrollment Including Normal, Practice, and Summer Schools, 1855. Results Outgrowths: Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama; Calhoun Colored School, Lowndes County, Alabama; Mt. Meigs People's Village School, Mt. Meigs, Alabama; and many smaller schools for Negroes. Needs $135,000 annually above regular income. $4,000,000 Endowment Fund. Scholarships. Annual Scholarship, $100. Endowed Scholarship, $2,500. "Dr. Gregg brings to his task the moral courage which made General Armstrong daring and the spiritual serenity which made Doctor Frissell wise. The friends of the School look with renewed confidence and hope to the beginning of Hampton's second half-century of national service under the leadership of a man so well equipped as Dr. Gregg." |