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LINCOLN INSTITUTION WILL TAKE NO MORE PUPILSOfficers Issue a Statement Thanking Congress for Its Past Support The Lincoln Institution as an Indian school will soon be no more. It is located at 324 South Eleventh street. Springing from the Civil War as a soldiers' orphans' school, the Lincoln Institution reared and educated and placed in self-supporting positions 865 white children. In 1883 it became an Indian school, taking a contract from the government to educate 200 Indians at $167 each per annum. It has sent out 1006 of them. A resolution to close next June was passed recently by the Board of Council, and destroys the hopes of sixty applicants for admission from the various Indian reservations. Mary McHenry Cox, directress; Alice Gibson Broch, secretary of the girls' department, and Ella W. Frazer, secretary of the male department, yesterday joined in a statement in which they say that the school is in a flourishing condition with 103 boys and 108 girls on the rolls. They will not ask Congress for further help, and say: "We are much indebted to members of Congress, both Representatives and Senators, for their unwavering support of our yearly appropriation, especially for the last year, when we had to face unjust and uncalled for opposition from some of our own citizens who have undertaken to reform, as they think, everything and everybody but themselves. But the time has arrived when the management feels unwilling to continue so arduous a task. The satisfaction the returned pupils are giving is shown by the earnest letters daily received from the various reservations begging us to admit more of their children." The Board of Council elected as president the Rt. Rev. Ozi W. Whitaker, D.D.; vice president, G. Theo. Roberts; secretary, Samuel Bell, and treasurer, H. Laussat Geyelin.
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