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REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



to stiulcnt.s attondiiijj;' the institute proper uii ucjideiiiie eoursc covering- 

 three years, fourteen trade courses, and sevei-al post-«ira(hiate courses. 

 The academic students attend school during the day, while the trade 

 students attend niulit school for their academic training, 



The following schedule of subjects and time periods in each week 

 will give a somewhat definite idea of the course and the relative 

 amount of time given to agriculture: 



The academic term is thirty weeks ; a recitation period is forty 

 minutes. 



From this it will be seen that each pupil, trade as well as academic, 

 is required to take some instruction in agriculture. This instruction 

 in agriculture reaches down into the Whittier School, each child there 

 receiving instruction in the subject two periods of thirty minutes each 

 per week. 



In addition to this required agriculture, the institute oflers a three- 

 year post-graduate course, also special elective courses of one year 

 in several branches of the subject. 



Hampton requires all of her pupils to study agriculture, not because 

 she expects or desires that they all l)ecome farmers, but because (1) 

 she knows that the great majority of the negro race in this country 

 are located on the soil; (2) she believes that rural life in the South is 

 the most desirable for the masses of the race; (3) she realizes that the 

 present rural life of the negro is not what it should be; (4) she knows 

 that the majority of her pupils come from the rural districts and it is 

 her desire that they return to their people prepared to teach and help 

 them to live better, economically, as well as socially and morally; (5) 

 she knows that the majority of her pupils do go back to their people 

 and that a great majority of them, whether they go as farmers, teach- 

 ers, mechanics, or professional men and women obtain part of their 

 subsistence directly from the soil; (6) she believes that the public- 

 vschool teacher can be a most powerful factor in the future uplift of 

 the agriculture of the country, by teaching the children the elementary 

 principles which underlie successful farming. 



The headquarters of Hampton's agricultural department are located 



