MR. WASHINGTON ON TUSKEGEE

Booker T. Washington h.'96, president of the Tuskegee Institute, will lecture in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on his work at the Institute.

Mr. Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education for the negro race.

Mr. Washington is the author of several books, among them being "The Future of the American Negro," "Character Building," and "Working With the Hands." The University conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1896 and Dartmouth that of LL.D. in 1901.

Mr. Washington will also address the students of Radcliffe College this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Theatre of Agassiz House. The meeting is open to the public.