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1  No student is permitted to retain who does not keep and use a tooth-brush.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
2  Another thing that has been insisted upon at the school is the use of the tooth-brush.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
3  I gave special attention to teaching them the proper use of the tooth-brush and the bath.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
4  "The gospel of the tooth-brush," as General Armstrong used to call it, is part of our creed at Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
5  Several times, in recent years, students have come to us who brought with them almost no other article except a tooth-brush.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
6  It has been interesting to note the effect that the use of the tooth-brush has had in bringing about a higher degree of civilization among the students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
7  They had heard from the lips of other students about our insisting upon the use of this, and so, to make a good impression, they brought at least a tooth-brush with them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.
8  In all my teaching I have watched carefully the influence of the tooth-brush, and I am convinced that there are few single agencies of civilization that are more far-reaching.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
9  The matter of having meals at regular hours, of eating on a tablecloth, using a napkin, the use of the bath-tub and of the tooth-brush, as well as the use of sheets upon the bed, were all new to me.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
10  With few exceptions, I have noticed that, if we can get a student to the point where, when the first or second tooth-brush disappears, he of his own motion buys another, I have not been disappointed in the future of that individual.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.