HAMPTON INST. LECTURE

The Reverend H. B. Frissell, S.T.D. '00, principal, and Captain Allen Washington, drill-master, of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia, will talk on the work of the school and will describe how it is helping in the solution of the race problems of the South, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Only members of the Union will be admitted.

Dr. Frissell will illustrate his address by stereopticon views which will give a concrete idea of the wonderful results that are being accomplished by the Institute, and Captain Washington will tell of his own struggles in getting an education. During the evening a quartet composed of colored students from the school will sing some of the old-time folk-songs of the blacks.

Dr. Frissell, a graduate of Yale in 1874 and of the Union Theological Seminary of New York in 1879, has now been actively connected with the Hampton Institute for 28 years. He was chaplain from 1880 to 1893, when he became principal at the death of General S. C. Armstrong h.'89, the founder of the school and for 25 years its principal. He has continued to carry out General Armstrong's ideas of education and has greatly enlarged and extended the work and influence of the school.

The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for Indians and Negroes was opened in April 1868 in the old barracks of one of the military hospitals of the Civil War, with an enrollment of 15 students and two teachers. Today there are more than 60 modern buildings, 1361 students representing 35 states and territories and five foreign countries, while the corps of teachers and officers has been increased to 160.

This school preaches the gospel of education through self-help and lays stress on the importance of manual work in the development of intellectual and moral worth.