In this time forty buildings, counting small and large, have been built, and all except four are almost wholly the product of student labour.

As an additional result, hundreds of men are now scattered throughout the South who received their knowledge of mechanics while being taught how to erect these buildings.

Skill and knowledge are now handed down from one set of students to another in this way, until at the present time a building of any description or size can be constructed wholly by our instructors and students, from the drawing of the plans to the putting in of the electric fixtures, without going off the grounds for a single workman.
Not a few times, when a new student has been led into the temptation of marring the looks of some building by leadpencil marks or by the cuts of a jack-knife, I have heard an old student remind him: "Don't do that.
That is our building.

I helped put it up." In the early days of the school I think my most trying experience was in the matter of brickmaking.

As soon as we got the farm work reasonably well started, we directed our next efforts toward the industry of making bricks.