I
was expected to pay a part of this in cash and to work out the
remainder. To meet this cash payment, as I have stated, I had just
fifty cents when I reached the institution. Aside from a very few
dollars that my brother John was able to send me once in a while, I
had no money with which to pay my board. I was determined from the
first to make my work as janitor so valuable that my services would be
indispensable. This I succeeded in doing to such an extent that I was
soon informed that I would be allowed the full cost of my board in
return for my work. The cost of tuition was seventy dollars a year.
This, of course, was wholly beyond my ability to provide. If I had
been compelled to pay the seventy dollars for tuition, in addition to
providing for my board, I would have been compelled to leave the
Hampton school. General Armstrong, however, very kindly got Mr. S.
Griffitts Morgan, of New Bedford, Mass., to defray the cost of my
tuition during the whole time that I was at Hampton. After I finished
the course at Hampton and had entered upon my lifework at Tuskegee, I
had the pleasure of visiting Mr. Morgan several times.
After having been for a while at Hampton, I found myself in
difficulty because I did not have book and clothing. Usually,
however, I got around the trouble about books by borrowing from those
who were more fortunate than myself.
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