1 When this is not done, I have them meet me in the chapel for a heart-to-heart talk about the conduct of the school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 2 Some time afterward, one Sunday evening during the chapel exercises, a messenger came in and handed the general a telegram.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 3 At another time I remember that I made it known in chapel, one night, that a very poor student was suffering from cold, because he needed a coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 4 The next day a letter came from two ladies who were then travelling in Italy, saying that they had decided to give us the money for such a chapel as we needed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 5 After he had gone to his room, and had gotten the wet threads of his clothes dry, Dr. Donald ventured the remark that a large chapel at Tuskegee would not be out of place.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 6 We were successful in getting money enough so that on Thanksgiving Day of that year we held our first service in the chapel of Porter Hall, although the building was not completed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 7 One morning, when the night previous had been unusually cold, I asked those of the students in the chapel who thought that they had been frostbitten during the night to raise their hands.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 8 I did, however, consent to deliver an address in the American chapel the following Sunday morning, and at this meeting General Harrison, General Porter, and other distinguished Americans were present.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 9 Another thing at Tuskegee out of which I get a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction is in the meeting with our students, and teachers, and their families, in the chapel for devotional exercises every evening at half-past eight, the last thing before retiring for the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 10 One night in the chapel, after the usual chapel exercises were over, General Armstrong referred to the fact that he had received a letter from some gentlemen in Alabama asking him to recommend some one to take charge of what was to be a normal school for the coloured people in the little town of Tuskegee in that state.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 11 This lesson, I am pleased to be able to say, has been so thoroughly learned and so faithfully handed down from year to year by one set of students to another that often at the present time, when the students march out of the chapel in the evening and their dress is inspected, as it is every night, not one button is found to be missing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI.