CLINTON INSTITUTE.
Clinton Institute is located south of Rock Hill, S. C., in a section of the State densely populated with colored people.
I was very much impressed with the work done at Clinton Institute. The school is under the auspices of the A. M. E. Zion connection, but has some help from outside. Prof. R. J. Crokett, who is president of the school, is a graduate of Livingstone College, and is a most excellent and worthy young man. The school has a graded department, in which are taught the ordinary and higher English branches. It has a normal department, in which are taught some of the sciences, and in which is the practice school for young teachers—who work in the more rural districts. It has an industrial department, in which it is designed to introduce all the industrial arts that are of practical benefit to the colored people in the South.
CHAPTER IX
PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOLS MANAGED BY WHITE PEOPLE.
It is a great pleasure to me to note, in these sketches, the splendid work done by the Presbyterian Church for the education of the colored people.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.
Rev. I. N. Randall, D. D., President.
Among the instrumentalities through which the friends of the Negro may convey to him the blessings of education, Lincoln University especially deserves the confidence of the Christian public. She was the first to enter this field. Lincoln University was chartered by the State of Pennsylvania to give a liberal Scientific, Classical and Theological education to colored youth of the male sex in 1854, six years before the war which resulted in emancipation. The school is located in Chester county, half a mile from Lincoln University Station. A liberal Christian education was the policy adopted by Lincoln University for the elevation of our colored population before the body of them became freedmen.