 | Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1902 - 662 pages
...36. t Ibid., pp. 55-56. I 548 Ttie Education of tit? Coloured Rtice. resolved at once to go to the school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it. I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | Readers - 1907 - 404 pages
...and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once togo to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it ; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | William Palmer Smith - Elocution - 1913 - 394 pages
...did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 214 pages
...did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once to go to that school, although...was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - Characters and characteristics - 1916 - 534 pages
...did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once to go to that school, although...was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford, Arthur Newcomb - Characters and characteristics - 1917 - 504 pages
...did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once to go to that school, although...was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it ; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Congregational churches - 1918 - 282 pages
...words struck fire in the boy's brain. " I resolved at once," he says, "to go to that school, though I had no idea where it was or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it. I remember only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that thought was to... | |
 | African Americans - 1922 - 640 pages
...commanding position ? Many factors might be mentioned ; I state and explicate but a few of them. (1) He had that rare quality which we call moral earnestness....school, although I had no idea where it was, or how I was going to reach it." I knew him for many years. I often met him at Tuskegee, in our office in... | |
 | Booker T Washington, Louis R. Harlan, Raymond Smock - Biography & Autobiography - 1972 - 566 pages
...did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking. I resolved at once to go to that school, although...was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to... | |
 | James Neyland - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 196 pages
...students could work to pay for their board. "I resolved at once to go to that school," he later recalled, "although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambi-tion, and that was to go to... | |
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As they went on describing the school, it seemed to me that it must be the greatest place on earth, and not even Heaven presented more attractions for me at that time than did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these... 
