EDUCATION OF THE INDIANS

Reports of the Institution in This City Show Encouraging Results

The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the contributors to the Educational Home was held yesterday at 324 South Eleventh street. Rev. Thomas A. Tidball presided and James W. Hazlehurst was elected secretary. The report of Thomas A. Balmer, lay reader, showed that the pupils had been regular in their attendance at church and Sunday school and at family prayers morning and evening, and the behavior of the boys had been made the subject of favorable comment.

The report of the Board of Managers describes the reduction made in the number of the student body, due to the decision not to apply for a government appropriation this year and to combine the boys' and girls' departments in one building, hitherto known as the Lincoln Institution, the title of the school to be hereafter the Lincoln Institution and the Educational Home. Of the 524 Indian boys who were pupils of the school up to the change indicated 61 were transferred last summer to Carlisle, 28 returned to their homes and seven remain in the school The histories of the 456 returned to reservations show that the majority of them are doing well in the various mechanical trades acquired during their stay at the school.

The report of the treasurer of the Board of Council, H. Laussat Geyelin, shows a balance to the credit of the Educational Home for the year 1900 of $978.11, while Mrs. Annie Fitler Howell, treasurer of Lincoln Institution and Educational Home, shows a cash balance of $100.64 from August 20, 1900, to January 1, 1901.

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Courtesy of the Philadelphia Times, 1901.02.08 Education of the Indians Philadelphia Times p7.pdf