| Huston-Tillotson
University Historically Black College
1920 TILLOTSON COLLEGE AUSTIN TEXAS TILLOTSON College Austin Texas began its institutional life in a large five story stone building known as Allen Hall, which housed besides the boys and girls dormitory the recitation rooms, the kitchen, and the dining room. It was not long before expanding needs were met rapidly in the erection of a girl's dormitory containing dining room and kitchen to be followed by the boys work shop a two and a half story cement block building and next an office and recitation building two and a half stories high. Such briefly is the story of the outward growth of the work here but it does not take into account the untiring efforts, the broad vision, the self-sacrificing spirit, or the hopes that went into the building up of what stands as the most potent influence for the advancement of the colored people to be found in this par.t of the state. Without trying to follow the hundreds who have themselves become educators as they have gone forth from this college ve have right before .us in Austin some samples of our work. For example, the principal of the city colored high school is a Tillotson graduate, the teacher of domestic science, the teacher of manual training, and many of the grade teachers are from Tillotson. And in the schools of San Antonio likewise and Houston are graduate educators and teachers former students of Tillotson. In Austin, there is a state institution for deaf, dumb, and blind colored children. Four o*. its principal teachers are graduates of this college. This for illustration of what may be found in different sections of the state.But large as the work is that has. been done here in the past, a larger work is the promise of the years to come. No one questions the quality of the work done at Tillotson. and it is even conceded to be higher than that done at most of the other schools, but as it has not state recognition the graduates cannot receive state certificates. However, the state Board of Education plans to incorporate at least five more such schools in the state, and as Tillotson has 'the required courses of study, the required equipment, and can easily qualify in the amount and quality of the work done we are going after that state incorporation and expect it. Our enrollment of boarding students this year is at least fifty per cent higher than it was at this time last year, due in large measure to improved living conditions in the girls' dormitory. Tillotson was planned with large things in view. The location of its twenty acre campus outside of the state university, the finest of any school in the city, its working plant of four substantial buildings, its equipment in school rooms and shop rooms all await the larger fulfillment of the hope of its founder and the expectations of its friends.
by American Missionary Association, Congregational Home Missionary Society - 1920
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