Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . ONFERENCE An Annual Conference of Negro Social and Edu-cational Workers is held every summer at the close ofthe Summer School. This Conference brings to-gether representatives of all the movements for gen-eral betterment in the South. The 1914 Conferencewill discuss the movement for better schools, betterhomes, better health, and suggest lines of work andmethods of organizing more effectively the forces thatare at work. The inspirational meetings will have re-ports on Recent Progress of
Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . ONFERENCE An Annual Conference of Negro Social and Edu-cational Workers is held every summer at the close ofthe Summer School. This Conference brings to-gether representatives of all the movements for gen-eral betterment in the South. The 1914 Conferencewill discuss the movement for better schools, betterhomes, better health, and suggest lines of work andmethods of organizing more effectively the forces thatare at work. The inspirational meetings will have re-ports on Recent Progress of the Negroes of theSouth. To this Conference all the members of theSummer School are invited. COURSES OF STUDY An important change in class arrangement goesinto effect in October 1914. The class work hithertodone in the Junior year has been in reality of anelementary grade. It will hereafter be frankly re-cognized as such and will constitute a Junior (or Pre-paratory) Department. All the regular courses of-fered will begin with what has been the JuniorMiddle year and will continue through four years, to. INDUSTRIAL SUPERVISORS PREPARING FOR RURAL WORK be known as the First, Second, Third, and SeniorYears, respectively. No certificate will be given apartfrom the diploma, and a diploma will be grantedonly after the satisfactory completion of one of thefour-year courses. BOYS DIVISIONCOURSES OPEN TO NEW STUDENTS While, as previously stated, new students may beadmitted to any course and at any point in any coursefor which their previous training has prepared them,the majority of new students, coming as they do fromthe public schools, will find it necessary to spend atleast one year in the Junior or Preparatory Depart-ment—either in the Night School or in the DaySchool—where special attention will be given to read-ing, spelling, penmanship, composition, arithmetic,and geography. A certain standard of excellence in 37 38 HAMPTON INSTITUTE these elementary subjects must be attaine
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