nd women who helped him were from Hampton, more than
fifty such having been there.

While there is a large number of Hampton graduates in the Industrial
Departments of Tuskegee, the teaching force, especially in the Academic
Department, represents a dozen or more of the best colleges and
universities in this country. The same may be said of Hampton.

Up to about eight or ten years ago we at Hampton spoke of Tuskegee as a
small Hampton, but "small" no longer describes Tuskegee, and I doubt
seriously if _large Hampton_ would be altogether proper.

While Tuskegee was founded on the Hampton plan, and has consistently
followed that plan as far as possible, and while these two great
"Industrial Universities" are very much alike in spirit and purpose,
they are, on the other hand, very dissimilar in external appearance as
well as in internal conduct. Each sends out into the benighted districts
of the South, and Hampton also into the Indian country of the West,
hundreds of men and women who are living influences of civilization and
Christianity in their deepest and most far-reaching sense, adding much
to the solution of the perplexing questions with which the nation has to
deal.

The conditions surrounding the two schools have necessitated certain
differences in their evolution. The personnel of the two institutions is
different. Hampton has always been governed and controlled by white
people, and its teachers have come from the best families of the North.
Tuskegee was founded by a Negro, and its teachers and officers have come
from the best types of the American Negro and from the best schools
opened to them. Hampton deals with a different class of student
material, including the Indian, who is almost as different in traits and
characteristics from the Negro as he is in feature and origin. These
are, in a sense, external differences which must of necessity affect the
character and internal machinery of the two institutions.

This is no reflection upon either school, for each is unique and
complete in its way, and any marked ethnic change in the management of
either would be unfortunate. Hampton is a magnificent illustration of
Anglo-Saxon ideas in modern education. Tuskegee, on the other hand, is
the best demonstration of Negro achievement along distinctly altruistic
lines. In its successful work for the elevation and civilization of the
children of the freedmen, it is also the most convincing evidence of the
Negroes' abil