I shall be more than repaid if these chapters will serve the purpose of helping forward the cause of education, even though their aid be remote and indirect.

CONTENTS

I. Moral Values of Hand Work[3]
II. Training for Conditions[15]
III. A Battle Against Prejudice[31]
IV. Making Education Pay Its Way[43]
V. Building Up a System[55]
VI. Welding Theory and Practice[67]
VII. Head and Hands Together[82]
VIII. Lessons in Home-Making[98]
IX. Outdoor Work for Women[107]
X. Helping the Mothers[119]
XI. The Tillers of the Ground[135]
XII. Pleasure and Profit of Work in the Soil [151]
XIII. On the Experimental Farm[163]
XIV. The Eagerness for Learning[173]
XV. The Value of Small Things[181]
XVI. Religious Influences at Tuskegee[192]
XVII. Some Tangible Results[200]
XVIII. Spreading the Tuskegee Spirit[219]
XIX. Negro Education Not a Failure[231]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Mr. Washington in his office at Tuskegee[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
First building erected on School grounds[12]
Breaking up new ground with an eight-ox team[16]
Cutting sugar-cane on the School's farm[26]
Grinding sugar-cane at the School's sugar-mill[32]
The repair shop[42]
In the Agricultural Laboratory[46]
Road-building by Tuskegee students[50]
Building a new dormitory[56]
Digging foundation for a new building on the Institute grounds[58]
Selecting fruit for canning[60]
At work in the School's brick-yard[62]
Shoe-shop—making and repairing[66]
Mattress-making[68]
Basket-making[70]
In the School's sawmill[72]
In the machine-shop[74]
Students at work in the School's foundry[76]
Class in mechanical drawing[78]
The blacksmith shop[80]
Class in outdoor geometry[82]
Students framing the roof of a large building[84]
Class in language[86]
Class in outdoor nature study[88]
Wood-turning machinery[90]
Class in outdoor arithmetic[92]
Chemical Laboratory[94]
Class in physiology[96]
Dorothy Hall, in which most of the industries for girls are taught[98]
Learning dressmaking[100]
Barrel furniture[102]
Class in cooking[104]
An out-of-door class in laundry work[106]
Outdoor work for girls[108]
Home-made furniture[130]
Class in nature study[152]
"When at Tuskegee, I find a way, by rising early
in the morning, to spend half an hour in my
garden or with the live stock"		[154]
Hogs as object-lessons[156]
"The Children's House": Class in nature study[158]
"Teach the child something about real country life"[160]
Cultivating a patch of cassava on the agricultural experiment plot[164]
Carnegie Library. Built by Institute students[174]
The tailor shop[176]
In the model dining-room[186]
The paint shop[190]
Institute Chapel. Most imposing building on
School grounds built by students		[194]
Taking an agricultural class into the field[204]
A furniture and repair shop at Snow Hill[222]
A Sewing-class at Snow Hill[224]
Typesetting—printing-office[234]
Bird's-eye view of grounds and buildings of
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute,
Tuskegee, Alabama		[244]