instruction has aroused very general
discussion, and has given to the world of varied industry an army of
workers, numbering not less than 6,000, there is a natural curiosity on
the part of the public to learn all that is possible of such an
institution, and of the personality and methods of those administering
its affairs. They wish to ascertain the actual truth concerning its
resources and equipment; they want figures detailing the degree of
pecuniary productiveness and moral efficiency attained by those who have
received the prescribed training; and they are eager to hear the whole
story from the lips of both the instructors and the instructed as to how
the recorded results have been accomplished.

In several volumes already published, bearing upon Tuskegee Institute
and what it stands for, an endeavor has been made to present a truthful
account of the Principal's early strivings and life-work; an honest
attempt has been made to analyze and impress the basic principles upon
which Tuskegee Institute was founded. It has been the aim to write a
history of individual yearnings for the light of knowledge that would
stir the inner consciousness of the humblest of the race and arouse him
to the vast possibilities that lie in the wake of solid character,
intelligent industry, and material acquisition. He has tried, with all
earnestness, to hold up the future of the American Negro in its most
attractive aspect, and to emphasize the virile philosophy that there is
a positive dignity in working with the hands, when that labor is
fortified by a developed brain and a consecrated heart.

Though much has been said of the spirit and purpose of this center of
social and economic uplift in the famed Black Belt of the South, there
is still a wide-spread demand for a more specific recital of what is
being done here, by whom, under what conditions, and the concrete
evidences of the benefits that are growing out of the thrift, industry,
right thinking, and right living taught by our faculty.

In response to this insistent call, Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Executive
Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, presents to the public a further
contribution, Tuskegee and Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements,
with authentic accompanying autobiographies of a number of typical
students of the school.

To this work Mr. Scott brings a peculiar fitness, unequaled by any other
person who might have been chosen to perform it. He is closely knit to
the Sou