ing some enmity. But, upon the whole, his theory is the very
backbone of Indian education, and in fact we are following it to-day.

It is the impression of the most advanced members of the race that he
has rendered to them and to the country a particular service, and that
the wonderful progress demonstrated by the Indian in recent years is due
in large measure to his work, and to its results as seen at Hampton and
Carlisle. These schools are visited by hundreds of people every year,
and have furnished a convincing object-lesson to the many who opposed
Indian education on theory alone. The other thirty-four non-reservation
schools were secured with comparative ease after he had proved his case.

The Indian department at Hampton Institute, which opened in 1878 with
General Pratt's seventeen prisoners of war, flourished for more than
thirty years, and provided for the education of more than one hundred
Indian pupils each year in "the hand, the heart, and the head." General
Armstrong, one of America's heroes of peace, was an enthusiastic
champion of the red man's cause, and as an object-lesson to the public,
as well as in training native teachers and leaders, his great school has
contributed much to the new era. It was decided by Congress a year or
two ago to withdraw the Government appropriation of $20,000 annually
from the Hampton school, but notwithstanding this, more than thirty
Indian pupils remain to work their way through, with some assistance
from free scholarships.

Hampton claims to have been the first school to begin keeping systematic
records of its returned Indian students, and by means of these records
the school is able to show satisfactory and encouraging results of its
work for Indians.

In reply to the oft-asked question: "Do educated Indians go back to the
blanket?" it should be said, first, that return to Indian dress in
isolated communities where this is still the common dress of the people
is not necessarily retrogression. It may be only a wise conformity to
custom. Investigation has shown, however, that very few _graduates_ of
any school ever do reassume Indian dress or ways. Of those who have
attended school but two or three years in all, a larger proportion may
do so. A northwestern school reports that out of a total of 234
graduates only three are known to be failures. The most recent Carlisle
report shows that of 565 living graduates, all but 69 are known to be
profitably employed in a wide var