thland and her great masses by the common sympathy of nativity
and the mutuality of hopes. The South has always been his home, but he
has traveled so extensively and mingled so freely that he has acquired
most ample breadth of vision as regards men and things.

For many years now Mr. Scott has served the school with rare fidelity
and zeal, and has been to the Principal not only a loyal assistant in
every phase of his manifold and frequently trying duties, but has proved
a valuable personal friend and counselor in matters of the most
delicate nature, exhibiting in emergencies a quality of judgment and
diplomatic calmness seldom found in men of even riper maturity and more
extended experience.

As I stated in one of my books published several years ago, as far as
one individual can fill the place of another, Mr. Scott has acted in the
Principal's stead, seeing with the Principal's eyes and hearing with the
Principal's ears, counting no sacrifice too great to be made for
Tuskegee's well-being. He is in perfect accord with the fundamental
principles and practical policies through the persistent adherence to
which Tuskegee Institute has won its conspicuous place in the
educational world.

The volume here presented has been edited by Mr. Scott with the utmost
care, he preferring to have the contributors understate rather than
overstate the results that have come from the labors of Tuskegee and its
people. It has been the Principal's pleasure and privilege to examine
and critically review the manuscript after its completion, and the
volume is so praiseworthy that it is given his cordial approval. The
task of editing he had expected to perform has been so well done that it
has only been necessary to review the manuscript after its preparation
for the publishers, and to forego the strict editorial revisioning
planned. The book is an accurate portrait of the Tuskegee of to-day, and
reasonably forecasts the hopes for the institution of to-morrow. It
tells with forceful directness and graphic precision the formative work
that is being done for this generation, and supplies a fulcrum upon
which there may justly rest a prophecy of greater things for the
generations that are to follow.

A Tuskegee book, whatever its primary motive, is invariably expected to
deal broadly with the entire problem of the Negro and his relationships
of every kind. It must be more than a mere flesh-and-blood narrative,
descriptive of the material progre