The results of its more permanent work were not generally good.

The institution was based upon the assumption that the Negro race must be protected from the white race.

In its organization and administration it was an impossible combination of the practical and the theoretical, of opportunism and humanitarianism, of common sense and idealism.

It failed to exert a permanently wholesome influence because its lesser agents were not held to strict accountability by their superiors.

Under these agents the alienation of the two races began, and the ill feelings then aroused were destined to persist into a long and troubled future..