with the "three
R's." Likewise, the individual of liberal academic or college
preparation possesses a stronger equipment for constructive work who has
trained his hands to supplement his brain.

After all, the final test of the value of any system of education is
found in the record of its actual achievements. In Tuskegee and Its
People heads of the several departments have not only given a succinct
account of the history, resources, and current labors of the school, but
deal most happily with the governing ideals behind the institution, and
vindicate its claim to the approval of the world's thinkers and moving
forces. Besides treating rather elaborately the structural efficiency
of the work of the teachers, the editor has not neglected to emphasize
the spiritual and ethical virtues that spread over a wider range of
influence here and among our people throughout the Southland than those
familiar with the purely academic phases have adequately understood.

Tuskegee's germ principle is to be found in its unboasted ideals, in the
things that of necessity can not be listed in catalogue or report,
rather than in its buildings, shops, farms, and what not. The school
dwells upon the saving power of land, and learning, and skill, and a
bank-account--not as finalities in themselves, but as tangible witnesses
to the Negro's capacity to compete with others.

Perhaps the newest and most refreshing feature of the book is its vivid
pen-portraits of the young men and women who have gone out of Tuskegee
carrying into diversified lives the principles and precepts imbibed from
their parent school. The pictures are drawn by the originals themselves,
and they illustrate by honorable achievement the wholesome and
evangelizing influence of Tuskegee's preachments, and the far-reaching
effect of placing before them as teachers the highest example of what
the Negro of morals and manners may become. They tell their story at
first-hand, modestly and sincerely, and the foundations of inspiring
lives, laid in the Christian virtues and conscientious service of their
fellow men, foster a firm belief that the school is doing a work that
will live.

These types of Tuskegee's graduates, picked out at random from hundreds
of equal scholarship and ability, represent distinctive channels of
activity, including the president of a leading college, principals and
teachers of thriving schools, a lawyer, a tinner, a school treasurer,
farmers, cotton-grower