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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers hope that you wiD be able to remain here until the end of the year with credit to yourself and profit to the school. The main trouble is that you do not push ahead; you wait too much for somebody to. direct ant! lead you. You ought to see, it seems to me, the difference between your work and that of Mr. Taylor,2 who has had about the same course of training as yourself. Mr. Taylor is constantly leading in his work, working in season and out of season. Instead of having some one to lead him he is constantly making suggestions as to what should be done. As a sample of your work: Yesterday morning the Council planned some special work that we wished you to do in connection with Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Taylor has also previously asked you to report to him in the afternoon in order to' get out some special work. Yesterday I found that you had gone off the place without notifying Mr. l. H. Washington or myself, notwithstanding you had promised to go into the blacksmith shop every afternoon and give instruction. You also promised to go into the Blacksmith shop every Saturday and take some of the boys. As it is, Friday and Saturday of this week are thrown away so far as giving instruction to industrial students is concerned. You may think that I speak to you very plainly; but it is a good deal better to speak to you this way now than wait until the end of the term and say to you that we do not wish your services longer. I hope very much that we can keep you in the employ of the school, and shall do so if you prove worthy, but certainly if you do not, you cannot expect to be re-employed next term. You have ability, and you should certainly put into practice the line of work that you came here to do. By this time in the term you should have made a great deal of advancement in practical work in the shop and in mechanical drawing. Dr. Curry and Dr Gilman3 of Johns Hopkins University, will be here about the latter part of this month to make an inspection of our industrial system, and I do hope that between now and that time you will put your department in shape to be inspected, but in order for you to do yourself justice it is going to require hard and constant work on your part, and you will have to apply yourself in a way that you have never done before. Booker T. Washington TLpS Con. ~3 BTW Papers DLC. William Eugene Hutt was instructor of mechanical drawing and ironworking 39o