s life was similar to
mine, as we both had a very hard time in trying to get an education. I
became interested in him there and when he finished I took him to work
with me at Snow Hill. It was at Snow Hill that he met and married Miss
Mary Ella Patterson, one of our teachers. They remained with us at Snow
Hill four years. Both Mr. and Mrs. Holtzclaw have always seemed more
like my relatives than like friends. Some of Mr. Holtzclaw's best
teachers today are graduates of Snow Hill Institute. I have always been
deeply interested in the welfare of Utica for it is in reality an
outgrowth of Snow Hill.

Other Principals whom I meet occasionally, are President Battle of
Okolona, Mississippi, where a number of our graduates have worked. I
have found Mr. Battle interested in the general cause of Negro
Education, and too, we found in our case that the cause is the same. I
have had occasion to ask Mr. Battle just how our graduates measure up
with his other teachers, and he tells me that Snow Hill graduates are
among his best helpers. By this I know that in deeds, not words, we are
making good.

Another most interesting character whom I always meet on my tours North
is Mr. Frank P. Chisholm, Financial Secretary of Tuskegee Institute. I
have been knowing Mr. Chisholm for a great many years. We have attended
the Summer School at Harvard several summers together and it has been
both a pleasure and benefit to me to be associated with him in this way.
Although working directly for Tuskegee, he has always been willing to
speak a word for Snow Hill wherever the opportunity presented itself. I
have obtained many suggestions from Mr. Chisholm which have been very
beneficial to me in my work here. I consider Mr. Chisholm a
representative type of the new Negro of to-day. He is a brilliant
scholar, a clear thinker, and is doing a very effective work for
Tuskegee.

Others with whom I come in contact on such trips are Principal Hunt of
Fort Valley, Ga.; Principal Minafee of Denmark, S. C.; Principal Long of
Christianburg, Va. These young men and many others are doing a greater
work than they know, and all possess in a smaller or larger degree the
spirit of dear old Tuskegee. They are all preaching the gospel of
Service.

CHAPTER 12.

GRADUATES AND EX-STUDENTS.

Prof. Bagley in his "Classroom Management," page 225, has the following
to say in "Testing Results":

"The ultimate test of efficiency of efforts is the result of effort