the
institution and assigned for their benefit, the aim being to do nothing
for students which they can do for themselves, and thus help to develop
in them a spirit of manly and womanly self-reliance.

The majority of the large donations, aside from those for endowment,
have been for buildings and the purchase of additional farm-lands made
necessary by the enlargement of the school's agricultural work.

What may be regarded as the greatest need of the institution is an
adequate endowment which will put it upon a permanent basis and make its
future certain.

A gratifying beginning in the building up of an endowment has already
been made. It is a fact, still well remembered by the public, that Mr.
Andrew Carnegie has given to the endowment fund the princely sum of
$600,000. Before that time $400,000 had been collected from other
sources for the same purpose, the largest single contribution toward
this amount being $50,000 from the late Collis P. Huntington.

As already stated, the income from the present endowment is $40,000, out
of which several annuities are paid. This is only a little more than
one-fourth of the amount that must be had each year to pay the expenses
of the school. It will require an endowment of at least $3,000,000 to
yield an income adequate to the present needs of the institution alone.

III

THE ACADEMIC AIMS

BY ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE

The Negro needs industrial training in eminent degree, because the
capacity for continuous labor is a requisite of civilized living;
because, indeed, the very first step in social advance must be economic;
because the industrial monopoly with which slavery encompassed black men
has fallen shattered before the trumpet-blast of white labor and eager
competition; and, finally, because no instrument of moral education is
more effective upon the mass of mankind than cheerful and intelligent
work. These ideas powerfully voiced, together with an unusually
magnanimous attitude toward the white South, have set the man who toiled
doggedly up from slavery, upon a hill apart. These things are
distinctive of this man; they suggest his temper, his spirit, his point
of view; but they do not exhaust his interests. Similarly, the
distinctive feature of Tuskegee--adequate provision for industrial
training--sets it upon a hill apart, but by a whimsical perversity
this major feature is in some quarters assumed to be the whole school. A
moment's reflection shows such a v