of the spring season.

Thus the days and weeks pass, mingled with the sorrows and joys of
school-life, its encouragements and disappointments. The months and
seasons come and go, and, before one is scarcely aware of the fact, the
Commencement Week is here and the hundreds of young people whose lives
have come in touch with one another pass on to their homes. Some go out
as helpful workers, giving useful service to others; many will return
to complete the course begun, but all, we hope, will give out the light
that will not fail. Some are workers with ten talents, some with five,
some with one; but all, we trust, will be using them for the upbuilding
of the kingdom here on earth.

V

HAMPTON INSTITUTE'S RELATION TO TUSKEGEE

BY ROBERT R. MOTON

In his eloquent address in May, 1903, at the memorial services of
General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Founder, and for twenty-five years
Principal, of Hampton Institute, Dr. Booker T. Washington said: "A few
nights ago, while I was driving through the woods in Alabama, I
discerned in the distance a large, bright fire. Driving to it, I soon
found out that by the glow of this fire several busy hands were building
a nice frame cottage, to replace a log cabin that had been the abode of
the family for a quarter of a century. That fire was lighted by General
Armstrong years ago. What does it matter that it was twenty-five years
passing through Hampton to Tuskegee and through the Tuskegee Conference
to that lonely spot in those lonely woods! It was doing its work very
effectually all the same, and will continue to do it through the years
to come."

The relations existing between Tuskegee Institute and Hampton Institute
are much like those existing between a son and the father who has
watched the growth and development of his child through the formative
transition periods of his youth, and looks with pride upon him as he
stands forth in the full bloom of manhood, enumerating successes already
achieved, with large promise of greater and more far-reaching
achievements for the immediate future. The child never reaches the point
where he does not seek the approval and blessing of the parent, or where
he refuses to accept advice and assistance if needed.

In the early days of Tuskegee Mr. Washington turned naturally and
properly to Hampton for anything that was needed, as he so beautifully
and repeatedly testifies in his autobiography, Up from Slavery. For a
long time the men a