1 In fact, the industrial work is now as popular as the academic branches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 2 There are in constant operation at the school, in connection with thorough academic and religious training, thirty industrial departments.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 3 After the student has left the night-school he enters the day-school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week, and works at his trade two days.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 4 It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 5 As a rule, after a student has succeeded in going through the night-school test, he finds a way to finish the regular course in industrial and academic training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 6 Those delivered before the coloured people had for their main object the impressing upon them the importance of industrial and technical education in addition to academic and religious training.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 7 When the difficulty of learning the English language was subtracted, I found that in the matter of learning trades and in mastering academic studies there was little difference between the coloured and Indian students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 8 I found that during my absence from Hampton the institute each year had been getting closer to the real needs and conditions of our people; that the industrial teaching, as well as that of the academic department, had greatly improved.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 9 Any one who is willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard, or in the laundry, through one or two years, in order that he or she may have the privilege of studying academic branches for two hours in the evening, has enough bottom to warrant being further educated.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII.