I have often been asked how we keep so large a body of people
together, and at the same time keep them out of mischief. There are
two answers: that the men and women who come to us for an education
are in earnest; and that everybody is kept busy. The following
outline of our daily work will testify to this: --
5 a.m., rising bell; 5.50 a.m., warning breakfast bell; 6
a.m., breakfast bell; 6.20 a.m., breakfast over; 6.20 to 6.50
a.m., rooms are cleaned; 6.50, work bell; 7.30, morning study
hours; 8.20, morning school bell; 8.25, inspection of young men's
toilet in ranks; 8.40, devotional exercises in chapel; 8.55, "five
minutes with the daily news;" 9 a.m., class work begins; 12, class
work closes; 12.15 p.m., dinner; 1 p.m., work bell; 1.30 p.m.,
class work begins; 3.30 p.m., class work ends; 5.30 p.m., bell to
"knock off" work; 6 p.m., supper; 7.10 p.m., evening prayers; 7.30
p.m., evening study hours; 8.45 p.m., evening study hour closes;
9.20 p.m., warning retiring bell; 9.30 p.m., retiring bell.
We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the
school is to be judged by its graduates. Counting those who have
finished the full course, together with those who have taken enough
training to enable them to do reasonably good work, we can safely say
that at least six thousand men and women from Tuskegee are now at work
in different parts of the South; men and women who, by their own
example or by direct efforts, are showing the masses of our race now
to improve their material, educational, and moral and religious life.
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