HAMPTON INSTITUTE CONCERT.

A quartette of students from the Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, gave a concert in the Living Room of the Union last night. They sang very effectively a number of negro plantation melodies and characteristic religious songs, which were enthusiastically received by the audience.

Rev. H. B. Turner, the chaplain, spoke briefly of the work done by the Institute in helping to alleviate the condition of the southern negro. The problem is the four fold one of the church, the schoolhouse, the home and the industrial life. Six millions out of the eight millions of negroes in the South live in the one-room cabin, and Hampton, through its trade school and academic department, is trying to transform the one-room cabin into the intelligent, self-supporting Christian home. Mr. T. B. Williams, a graduate of the Hampton Institute, and also a graduate of Harvard, in the class of 1897, spoke of the great educational problem in the South. The study of the industrial sciences, and especially of agriculture must go hand in hand with the traditional studies in the education of the negro.

The annual running expenses of the Hampton Institute are about $85,000 and are met largely by voluntary contributions. Any men who wish to contribute to a fund may send their subscriptions to Roger Ernst at the Union.