454 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Not a siiij?l(' one of our {jraduatos has ever boon convicted by any 

 coni-t of (Time. Not a sinjih' one of our ^fadnatcs lias cvoi* been charged 

 >vith tlie crime of attempt in^ an insult u|»on a wcjman. 



At least half of these students are working in part or wholly at their 

 trades or industries, which they learned at Tuskej^ee. AVhether they are 

 workin<j: at the immediate trades which they learned or not, all have 

 the spirit of industry and lluift that nuikes them valuable citizens. 

 The Tuske<::ee Institute does not confine its work to the industrial train- 

 iuj;. Alon<j; with industrial training goes thorough mental and religious 

 training. We keep in constant operation, at which the students re- 

 ceive training, twenty-eight industries. All of these are industries at 

 which our students can find immediate employment, as soon as they 

 leave the institution; in fact we can begin to supply the demand for our 

 graduates, and a large portion of these demands come from Southern 

 white men and women. We can now erect a building of any kind with- 

 out going off the grounds to employ a single outside workman. 



WOMAN AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD. 



HARKIETTE I. ROBSON, REPRESENTING THE WOMEN'S COURSE. 



Ours is an age of questioning. Because of questioning, ours is also 

 an age of reform. Society's ideals have risen, are still rising, and the 

 world is moving into a new and hopeful century. 



We expect great things for the future of our land and our people. 

 We believe in the potency of our end-of-the-century enthusiasms for 

 humanity — the earnest, hopeful seeking, not merely to know the truth, 

 but to use it for humanity's sake. W'e believe, also, in the reciprocal 

 willingness of humanity to be improved; that is, we believe in the uni- 

 versal desire of the individual to make the most of himself and his 

 opportunities. Lastly, we believe in ourselves. We feel that those 

 proverbial traits of American character which have given a material- 

 istic trend to our national activities, can also give us wisdom in solving 

 some of our present-day problems, as well as those which the era of 

 *'good will toward men" will bring with it. 



Everything is a problem today. Among others is the much-discussed, 

 long-suffering "Woman Question." One would suppose it had grown 

 thread-bare long ago; and so it has — only the warp remains because 

 the whole was woven on truth. 



Granted that a woman is a free spirit, who is an end in and for her- 

 self; granted that hers is a soul as deep, as aspiring, as divinely different 

 from every other human being's as is a man's; granted her capacity for 

 reasoning, as some one has said, ^^beyond the limits of the proverbial 

 woman's reason;" granted that as a free, intelligent, social being, she 

 desires to do, and must do, her share of the world's work — who can 

 deny her the broadest, freest possible expression of her own best self? 

 The matter of her ''right" to participate in the world of affairs is today 



