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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



trial education for the negro. As might be expected, then, we find 

 at Tuskegee practical hand training. The advantage is twofold. 

 The students not only learn to work, but in doing so many are en- 



AN INSTITUTE CABBAGE FIELD. 



abled to work out all or a part of the expenses which otherwise in 

 many cases would have prevented them from remaining at the 

 school. 



Of the thirty-e,ight buildings at Tuskegee, all but the first three, 

 and these are among the smallest ones, have been built by the stu- 

 dents. Several of the largest of these buildings are of brick, and 

 the educational process begins in the institute's own brickyard, 

 where a class of muscular young men are making bricks under the 

 direction of a capable instructor, and in making them learn the 

 trade which they expect to follow in after life. This yard not only 

 makes all the bricks the institute uses, but many thousand more to 

 be sold each year for use in the surrounding country. 



I heard Mr. "Washington tell to an audience of fifteen hundred 

 negroes, in Charleston, South Carolina, a characteristic story of 

 the beginning of this brickyard. " After I had been teaching a 

 while at Tuskegee," he said, " I began to feel that I was partly 

 throwing away my time teaching the students only books, without 

 getting hold of them in their home life and without teaching them 

 how to care for their bodies and how to work. I looked about for 



