Neither have we the buildings nor the money for current expenses to
enable us to admit to the school more than one-half the young men and
women who apply to us for admission.
In our industrial teaching we keep three things in mind: first,
that the student shall be so educated that he shall be enabled to meet
conditions as they exist _now_, in the part of the South where he
lives -- in a word, to be able to do the thing which the world wants
done; second, that every student who graduates from the school shall
have enough skill, coupled with intelligence and moral character, to
enable him to make a living for himself and others; third, to send
every graduate out feeling and knowing that labour is dignified and
beautiful -- to make each one love labour instead of trying to escape
it. In addition to the agricultural training which we give to young
men, and the training given to our girls in all the usual domestic
employments, we now train a number of girls in agriculture each year.
These girls are taught gardening, fruit-growing, dairying, bee-
culture, and poultry-raising.
While the institution is in no sense denominational, we have a
department known as the Phelps Hall Bible Training School, in which a
number of students are prepared for the ministry and other forms of
Christian work, especially work in the country districts.
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