The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.3, page 20, Dec. 1889, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers is concerned. The Industrial Room is not up to the Standard of other schools right here in Ala. Expansion is not, necessarily, growth. The industries Mr. Adams understands are important and, I think, he will teach them well. Your brother coincides with my views. Yours Sincerely but hastily Warren Logan ALS Con. BTW Papers DLC. ~ Lewis Adams. From Davic! Davidson Sanderson Eutaw Ala. Dec ~ ~/89 Dear Sir. A col'd man, claiming the name of H. L. Goins, came to my office this morning, & exhibited a Diploma of Graduation from your Institution, bearing your name, & that of others of the faculty. As ~ had an examination of teachers yesterday, some of the question papers were lying on my table, & I concluded I would make a slight test of his scholarship. I handed him the 3rd grade papers on Grammar, & requested him to parse the sentence, ''John killed a rabbit.'' John, he said, was a noun of the 2nd person then fist person- & finally the 3rd. It was in the objective case. I then told him to parse rabbit. After a good dead of hesitation, he said it was in the objective case. I reminded him that he had said John was in the objective case. He concluded then that John must be in the Nom. case. I asked what it was nom. to? He replied, to the word killed. What part of speech is killed? I asked. An acljective, he replied. When I told him he was wrong, he said, It is an adverb, then! Arid so on, to the end of the chapter. I then made a brief examination on Hygiene which was not much more satisfactory than on Grammar. Arithmetic d~itt~o. I need not say that I was more than surprised. Your Institution has some reputation, I understand: but how it could issue a Diploma to a student so utterly incompetent to teach the elementary studies of the lard grade in the public schools in the State, seems very strange. It places the Co. Supts in a dilemma. The law requires them to give a permanent license to those holding Diplomas & yet, as this case 20