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Title: Eighteen years in Uganda & East Africa
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Tucker, Alfred Robert, 1849-1914
Subjects: Church of England Missions -- Africa, East Africa, East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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theprincipal of self-support, the annual fees amounting to about £7.The school buildings already completed consist of three blocks—a fine schoolroom 50 feet by 30 feet, with class-rooms on eachside, and three dormitories on the cubicle system. To completethe scheme, we have to build a technical school, a gymnasium, achapel, and a sanatorium, besides another dormitory. Our aim,as in the Mengo High School, which is intended as a feeder to Kinws School, is not only to bridge over the gap betweenprimary and University education, but, by the discipline ofwork and games in a boarding-school, so to build up characteras to enable the Baganda to take their proper place in theadministrative, commercial, and industrial life of their owncountry. It will be noticed, doubtless, that whilst describing the educa-tional advantages and facilities provided for boys, nothing hasbeen said al>out any provision for the girls. Thoy had not, how-ever, been forgotten. It would bo worse than a mistake to
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POSSIBILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES 321 neglect them. As a well-known writer has said, Men willalways be what women make them. If, therefore, you wouldhave men great and virtuous, impress upon the minds of womenwhat greatness and virtue are. Since 1895, when the first party of lady workers arrived inthe country, womanly influence had been brought to bear uponthe children, and especially the young girls of Uganda. Manyhad learnt those lessons which only women can teach. Thedegraded womanhood of Central Africa could not but be thebetter, and therefore the children the better, for those years oftievoted service which had been so ungrudgingly rendered sincethat day in October, 1895, when Miss l^urley and her five fellowworkers arrived in Mengo. That band of six single ladies hadgrown into one of twenty at the close of 1903, whilst at thetime of writing the single and married ladies working in theMission number fifty-two. The work of this strong force hashad to do largely with the education of

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