power being used.

A MODEL DINING-ROOM 208

From the department where table-service is taught.

THE CULTURE OF BEES 220

Students at work in the apiary.

IN THE DAIRY 254

Students using separators.

STUDENTS AT WORK IN THE HARNESS SHOP 270

AT THE HOSPITAL 294

A corner in the boys' ward.

IN THE TIN SHOP 300

STUDENTS CANNING FRUIT 308

STARTING A NEW BUILDING 314

Student masons laying the foundation in brick.

GIRLS GARDENING 344

TUSKEGEE AND ITS PEOPLE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Institutions, like individuals, are properly judged by their ideals,
their methods, and their achievements in the production of men and women
who are to do the world's work.

One school is better than another in proportion as its system touches
the more pressing needs of the people it aims to serve, and provides the
more speedily and satisfactorily the elements that bring to them
honorable and enduring success in the struggle of life. Education of
some kind is the first essential of the young man, or young woman, who
would lay the foundation of a career. The choice of the school to which
one will go and the calling he will adopt must be influenced in a very
large measure by his environments, trend of ambition, natural capacity,
possible opportunities in the proposed calling, and the means at his
command.

In the past twenty-four years thousands of the youth of this and other
lands have elected to come to the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute to secure what they deem the training that would offer them
the widest range of usefulness in the activities open to the masses of
the Negro people. Their hopes, fears, strength, weaknesses, struggles,
and triumphs can not fail to be of absorbing interest to the great body
of American people, more particularly to the student of educational
theories and their attendant results.

When an institution has, like Tuskegee Institute, reached that stage in
its development that its system of