for the primary and
intermediate work which have been planned, this institution will be
better prepared to meet the demands of higher education.

Tillotson Institute, at Austin, Texas, the youngest of our chartered
institutions, has had a prosperous year with 230 students, in the
Primary, Intermediate, Grammar, Normal, College Preparatory and
College departments. Situated at the capital of the great empire of
Texas, it is destined to be an educational, religious and evangelistic
centre, a power for the building up of the kingdom of Christ. It
greatly needs enlarged accommodations. Where is the Lord's steward who
is ready to give it at once the imperatively needed Girls' Hall?

NORMAL AND GRADED SCHOOLS.

Next to our chartered institutions come our normal schools. These have
the same course of study up to the college department as the chartered
institutions have. These normal schools are eighteen in number, and
are situated at Lexington and Williamsburg, Ky.; Memphis, Jonesboro,
Grand View and Pleasant Hill, Tenn.; Wilmington and Beaufort, N.C.;
Charleston and Greenwood, S.C.; Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Thomasville
and McIntosh, Ga.; Athens, Mobile and Marion, Ala. Adding to these
the normal departments of our five chartered institutions, gives us
twenty-three normal schools in the South.

Besides these, we have in the South thirty-seven which we class as
common schools. Eight of these are graded, with two or three teachers
each. Nearly all are parochial schools. The teachers are in both the
day schools and the Sunday-schools, and are not only school teachers,
but church missionaries. They train the young of our congregations
for greater usefulness, encourage many of the most promising to go to
higher institutions, teach the parents better ideas of home life, and
lead all ages to a more intelligent and spiritual worship.

INDUSTRIAL WORK.

Nearly all our schools--chartered, normal and even common--give some
industrial training.

At Fisk, the young men are taught wood-working and printing; the young
women, nursing, cooking, dress-making and house-keeping.

At Talladega, the young men learn farming, carpentry, painting,
glazing, tinning, blacksmithing and printing; the young women,
cooking, house-keeping, plain sewing and other needle-work.

At Tougaloo, the young men learn farming, carpentry, blacksmithing,
wheelwrighting, painting, turning and tinning; the young women,
sewing, dressmaking, cooking and house