1 I was completely out of money when I graduated.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 2 My wife was also a graduate of the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 3 We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 4 This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 5 Some of the most successful men and women who have graduated from the institution obtained their start in the night-school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 6 Our graduates go to work in every section of the South, and whatever knowledge might be obtained in the library would serve to assist in the elevation of the whole Negro race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 7 Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 8 At the time of the visits of these Hampton friends the number of teachers at Tuskegee had increased considerably, and the most of the new teachers were graduates of the Hampton Institute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 9 The only difficulty now is that the demand for our graduates from both white and black people in the South is so great that we cannot supply more than one-half the persons for whom applications come to us.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 10 In this we have been successful to a degree that makes me feel safe in saying that the season now has a new meaning, not only through all that immediate region, but, in a measure, wherever our graduates have gone.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 11 Through Mrs. Hemenway's kindness and generosity, Miss Davidson, after graduating at Hampton, received an opportunity to complete a two years' course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 12 I spoke of an instance where one of our graduates had produced two hundred and sixty-six bushels of sweet potatoes from an acre of ground, in a community where the average production had been only forty-nine bushels to the acre.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 13 Soon after her graduation from the Framingham institution, Miss Davidson came to Tuskegee, bringing into the school many valuable and fresh ideas as to the best methods of teaching, as well as a rare moral character and a life of unselfishness that I think has seldom been equalled.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 14 At the present time one of the most satisfactory features of the Christmas and Thanksgiving season at Tuskegee is the unselfish and beautiful way in which our graduates and students spend their time in administering to the comfort and happiness of others, especially the unfortunate.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 15 I have usually proceeded on the principle that persons who possess sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away, and that the mere making known of the facts regarding Tuskegee, and especially the facts regarding the work of the graduates, has been more effective than outright begging.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII.