Besides this he usually works at his
trade during the three summer months. 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. No
student, no matter how much money he may be able to command, is
permitted to go through school without doing manual labour. In fact,
the industrial work is now as popular as the academic branches. Some
of the most successful men and women who have graduated from the
institution obtained their start in the night-school.
While a great deal of stress is laid upon the industrial side of
the work at Tuskegee, we do not neglect or overlook in any degree the
religious and spiritual side. The school is strictly undenominational
[sic], but it is thoroughly Christian, and the spiritual training or
the students is not neglected. Our preaching service, prayer-
meetings, Sunday-school, Christian Endeavour Society, Young Men's
Christian Association, and various missionary organizations, testify
to this.
In 1885, Miss Olivia Davidson, to whom I have already referred as
being largely responsible for the success of the school during its
early history, and I were married. During our married life she
continued to divide her time and strength between our home and the
work for the school.
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