ity to work together with mutual regard and mutual
helpfulness. When Tuskegee was started there was a serious question as
to whether Negroes could in any large measure combine for business or
educational purposes. The only cooperative institutions that had been
successful among them were the Church and, perhaps, the secret
societies.

In material development, in the rapid and steadily improving accession
of student material, in enlarging powers for greater usefulness, in
influence upon the educational methods of the country and the civilized
world, and in the sympathy and respect it has gained for the Negro
through the writings and speeches of its Founder and Principal, the
Tuskegee Institute has without doubt passed beyond the expectations of
those who were most sanguine about its future.

The Tuskegee torch, from the Hampton fire started so many years ago by
General Armstrong, has spread and is spreading light to thousands of
homes and communities throughout the South, and is the greatest pride
and glory of Hampton Institute, and a constant source of inspiration and
encouragement to the devoted men and women who have always made
Hampton's work possible.

At the conclusion of an address in a Northern city in the interest of
Hampton, in which I had quoted Dr. Curry's saying that, "if Hampton had
done nothing more than to give us Booker Washington, its history would
be immortality," a New England lady of apparently good circumstances and
well informed, in the kindness of her heart, took me to task for
distorting my facts in saying that Tuskegee had grown out of Hampton.
She was sure that it was just the other way--that Hampton was an
offshoot of Tuskegee. She certainly could not have paid a higher tribute
to Hampton, and likewise to Tuskegee.

For the past few years Mr. Washington's deserved popularity and
prominence have brought Tuskegee conspicuously and constantly before the
public. This has in no sense been a disadvantage to Hampton, but has
been a distinct gain in enabling Hampton to point to the foremost man of
the Negro race, and to the largest and most interesting and in many ways
the best-managed institution of the race, as the best and most
conspicuous product of the peculiar kind of education for which Hampton
stands.

While Tuskegee is, perhaps, in many respects, better known than Hampton,
its antecedent, Hampton, is without doubt much better known and more
highly thought of because of the existence of