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HAMPTON COLLEGE.
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NORMAL DEPARTMENT,
GRIGGS' FOUNDATION.
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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION believing that the best help to be offered to any people, is that which most leads them to help themselves, and that a paramount want of the Southern States is the opportunity to educate the native youth for teachers, has taken measures to open the

NORMAL DEPARTMENT 
of
HAMPTON COLLEGE, 
JANUARY 1st, 1868,
 
with special reference to the TRAINING OF TEACHERS. It will also be a school adapted to young men looking forward to the MINISTRY or seeking a Business Education. 

SITUATION.

The buildings are newly fitted, and stand upon a beautiful site on the shore of Hampton Roads, near Fort Monroe, Virginia. 

ADVANTAGES,

Arrangements are made to open a HOME with BOARD AND FURNISHED ROOMS for pupils who shall come from abroad and give themselves wholly to the work of acquiring an education. 

There are undoubtedly many youths of both sexes in the South, especially among the colored people, who would gladly avail themselves of the advantage of such an institution, but cannot afford the expense. This obstacle it is attempted to remove as far as possible, by reducing the cost of living to the lowest figure, and by giving to the student time and opportunity for labor at good wages.