“We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the Negro and the Indian races in their almost helpless condition as we found them after the [Civil] War. The necessity for helping this condition led [General Armstrong, founder of the institution], to undertake this system of education, that the manual dexterity, united withthe teaching of life as it was to be ... not alone for Negroesand Indians, but for the whitepeople throughout this land.”
