1 The experiment that has been made to give the colored students classical training has not been satisfactory.
2 Fifty years ago the ability of Negro students in any appreciable numbers to master a modern college course would have been difficult to prove.
3 To-day it is proved by the fact that four hundred Negroes, many of whom have been reported as brilliant students, have received the bachelor's degree from Harvard, Yale, Oberlin, and seventy other leading colleges.
4 Perhaps they are; for this is Wells Institute, and these black students have few dealings with the white city below.
5 It would be difficult to describe the hold that he had upon the students at Hampton, or the faith they had in him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 6 In fact, he was worshipped by his students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 7 As soon as it became known that General Armstrong would be pleased if some of the older students would live in the tents during the winter, nearly every student in school volunteered to go.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 8 It was enough for us to know that we were pleasing General Armstrong, and that we were making it possible for an additional number of students to secure an education.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 9 These barrels proved a blessing to hundreds of poor but deserving students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 10 There were seven other boys in the same room with me; most of them, however, students who had been there for some time.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 11 I was among the youngest of the students who were in Hampton at the time.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 12 They seemed happy only when they were helping the students in some manner.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter III. 13 Most of the students went home to spend their vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 14 In those days very few students were permitted to remain at the school during vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV. 15 It made me feel very sad and homesick to see the other students preparing to leave and starting for home.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IV.