the quality of the work done has been excellent. A graduate
of Fisk recently took his diploma from an Eastern school of medicine,
with a rank two per cent. higher than any other man in his class.
Another graduate of Fisk is a missionary in Africa under the American
Board, and is not only declared by the Secretaries to be one of its
best missionaries, but has shown such business capacity that he has
been chosen treasurer of his mission. His wife, a worthy helpmeet,
is also a graduate of this institution. Fisk has high ideals--few
institutions in the South have higher ones, or come nearer reaching
them.

Talladega College, in Talladega, Ala., has had 427 students in all
departments. Its year's work has shown most satisfactory results.
Talladega is closely connected with the church work of the State. All
the pastors in the Congregational State Association but four are from
its theological department and several other States have found pastors
there. The last State Association, with its fine body of young men,
educated, dignified and earnest, was a most emphatic demonstration of
the good work done in this institution. The students of Talladega have
carried forward during the past year, under direction of a member
of the Faculty, a systematic mission work in the surrounding
neighborhoods, which has yielded large results, both in the good done
in the neighborhoods and in the training received by the workers for
future usefulness.

Tougaloo University has been filled to overflowing with 343 students,
and after the last inch of room had been filled, scores had to be
turned away. This school is situated almost in the center of the
State, and reaches a far larger region not limited by State lines.
It is near the border of the Yazoo country, which has begun to be so
wondrously developed, and is so rapidly filling with colored people.
The evangelization and enlightenment of this new Africa must largely
come through Tougaloo. Here must be trained preachers, teachers and
other leaders of character for this new region, as well as for the
older portions of the State. Good, solid work has been done here
all through the year, and preparation has been made for even better
results in the future.

Straight University, in New Orleans, La., is peculiarly situated for
an important and far-reaching work. It draws its students not only
from the States, but also from Mexico and the West Indies--484
last year. With the enlarged accommodations