The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Another question is most satisfactorily settled, whether it is
possible to educate the Negro and the Indian together. On graduation
day, in sight of the audience, was a stand on which rested a fragment
from the building recently burned. It was a mass of red and black
bricks cemented together, and prettily draped with vines. If this
was designed to be emblematic, it was truthfully so. The red and
the black races do harmonize most happily at Hampton, and cultivate
together the graces of character. They are a mutual help to each
other, especially the Negro, as farther advanced in civilization,
to the Indian. Their dispositions supplement each other. The Negro
is enthusiastic, demonstrative and dependent, the Indian reserved,
bashful and self-contained. Each finds in the other, qualities that
he needs and that attract him. As a consequence, there is great
friendliness between the two races. When the colored boys were asked
if any of their number were willing to room with the Indians, that
the latter might learn to speak English more readily, there was no
lack of volunteers. And no one can doubt the kindly feeling pervading
the school, who has seen, as we have, Indian and Negro boys walking
together, or chatting on the green with arms lovingly about each
others’ necks.
Other questions, such as the wisdom of educating the Indians away
from their tribes, or of the coeducation of the sexes, we have no
time to discuss. It is sufficient to say that the experience of
Hampton is thus far entirely satisfactory in these regards.
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FISK UNIVERSITY.
Examinations—Ode to Jubilee Bell—Dr. Willcox’ Address—Prosperous Year.
The Nashville _Daily American_, whose proprietor is the Honorable
Secretary of the U. S. Senate, gives a full report of all the
commencement exercises of this school, from the Sabbath morning
sermon by Prof. Bennett, the baccalaureate by Pres. Cravath in the
afternoon, and the missionary sermon by Dr. Twichell, of Cleveland,
Ohio, in the evening, to the doxology with which the Alumni dinner
closed on Thursday afternoon, making in all at least five full
columns.
Monday was given to examinations. The _American_ says: “These
examinations were held in different recitation-rooms of Jubilee Hall
and were attended by interested visitors.
“We stopped a while in the room where the Senior Class was being
examined in Geology by Prof. Chase. One student was giving the names
of sixty or seventy specimens of minerals, ores, rocks and fossils.
Another was determining the nature of certain minerals by means of
the blow-pipe, while another gave the classification of the mineral
kingdom as he had written it on the board. Prof. Morgan was hearing
a class in Cicero as we entered the library, and one of the students
was reading in a sonorous tone the impeachment of Cataline by Cicero.
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