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1 Words cannot describe our surprise, or the encouragement that the gift brought to us.
2 Besides the gift of these buildings, they have made other generous donations to the school.
3 , gifts from our friends, but we have no suitable place for them, and we have no suitable reading-room.
4 Some people may say that it was Tuskegee's good luck that brought to us this gift of fifty thousand dollars.
5 This speaking of small gifts reminds me to say that very few Tuskegee graduates fail to send us an annual contribution.
6 It was often pathetic to note the gifts of the older coloured people, most of whom had spent their best days in slavery.
7 Between these two gifts there were others of generous proportions which came every year from both Mr. and Mrs. Huntington.
8 A canvass was also made among the people of both races for direct gifts of money, and most of those applied to gave small sums.
9 The first gift from any Northern person was received from a New York lady whom Miss Davidson met on the boat that was bringing her North.
10 It is upon these small gifts, which carry with them the interest of hundreds of donors, that any philanthropic work must depend largely for its support.
11 Since the work at Tuskegee started, it has been my privilege to receive many gifts for the benefit of the institution, but never any, I think, that touched me so deeply as this one.
12 When Mr. Huntington gave me the first two dollars, I did not blame him for not giving me more, but made up my mind that I was going to convince him by tangible results that we were worthy of larger gifts.
13 I have spoken of several large gifts to the school; but by far the greater proportion of the money that has built up the institution has come in the form of small donations from persons of moderate means.
14 If the people who gave the money to provide that building could appreciate the influence the sight of it had upon me, as well as upon thousands of other youths, they would feel all the more encouraged to make such gifts.
15 At the end of my second year at Hampton, by the help of some money sent me by my mother and brother John, supplemented by a small gift from one of the teachers at Hampton, I was enabled to return to my home in Malden, West Virginia, to spend my vacation.
16 While we take pride in what we exhibit as a result of our independent efforts, we do not for a moment forget that our part in this exhibition would fall far short of your expectations but for the constant help that has come to our education life, not only from the Southern states, but especially from Northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement.