Mr. Morris K. Jessup, the treasurer of the Slater Fund, I refer to
because I know of no man of wealth and large and complication business
responsibilities who gives not only money but his time and thought to
the subject of the proper method of elevating the Negro to the extent
that is true of Mr. Jessup. It is very largely through this effort
and influence that during the last few years the subject of industrial
education has assumed the importance that it has, and been placed on
its present footing.
CHAPTER XIII
TWO THOUSAND MILES FOR A FIVE-MINUTE SPEECH
SOON after the opening of our boarding department, quite a number of
students who evidently were worthy, but who were so poor that they did
not have any money to pay even the small charges at the school, began
applying for admission. This class was composed of both men and
women. It was a great trial to refuse admission to these applicants,
and in 1884 we established a night-school to accommodate a few of
them.
The night-school was organized on a plan similar to the one which
I had helped to establish at Hampton. At first it was composed of
about a dozen students. They were admitted to the night-school only
when they had no money with which to pay any part of their board in
the regular day-school.
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