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Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech.
Soon after the opening of our boarding department, quite a number of students who evidently were worthy, but who were so poor that they did not have any money to pay even the small charges at the school, began applying for admission.

This class was composed of both men and women.
It was a great trial to refuse admission to these applicants, and in 1884 we established a night-school to accommodate a few of them.
The night-school was organized on a plan similar to the one which I had helped to establish at Hampton.

At first it was composed of about a dozen students.

They were admitted to the night-school only when they had no money with which to pay any part of their board in the regular day-school.