PENNSYLVANIA REPORT OF THE BOARD OF PUBIC CHARITIES AND COMMITTEE ON LUNACY, 1891

EDUCATIONAL HOME

Visited December 22, 1891 by Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Bidddle

We regret to have again to criticize this institution unfavorably. At the time of our visit it was exceedingly unclean. The classes visited were seemingly without being under proper control. Large Indian men sat with small white boys, the faces of the latter, covered with blacking. The cellar was damp and very dirty. The closets in the yard were simply indescribably disgusting. We protest against allowing seven white boys to be educated with one hundred Indians. One legislative committee unanimously condemned this when the proportion of whites is so small that the Indian influences entirely overshadows that of the whites. Indian men should be, as they are now at Carlisle, educated by men who have thorough training in discipline and order. A visit to both schools at once decides the question.

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