p. 9 | A GOOD WORK by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

A GOOD WORK.

By Editor

We are in receipt of the eighteenth annual report of the principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., for the year ending May 31, 1899. As is well known, the head and chief worker in this great enterprise is Prof. Booker T. Washington, himself a colored man, who is doing more for his race from an earthly point of view than any other man. He aims not to educate alone, but to teach to do. The Tuskegee Institute has connected with it twenty-six industries: agriculture, blacksmithing, brickmasonry, carpentry, carriage trimming, cooking, dairying, drawing of various kinds, plain sewing, plastering, plumbing, printing, sawmilling, founding, housekeeping, harness-making, horticulture, laundering, machinery, mattress-making, millinery, nurse training, painting, shoemaking, stock-raising, tailoring, tinning, and wheelwrighting. It began in 1881 in a little shanty, with 1 teacher and 30 students; it averaged last year 1,164 students, and 88 officers and teachers. It is a good work, and we bid Professor Washington Godspeed.