y
"keep house" in all details. They not only sweep and clean and cook,
but they buy their supplies, keep account of all household expenses,
and manage as they will have to do when they get homes of their own.
A matron looks closely after the cottage feature, which is intended
to teach neatness and economy and to develop executive ability.

With Tougaloo doing such a work as this, how could the white
Mississippians feel otherwise than kindly toward her. The cry has been
that "education ruins the nigger." It has been asserted over and
over--so many times that most Southerners believe it as true as
gospel--that higher education makes a negro too proud to work. But
here is an education the very central idea of which is work--work with
the hands and the eyes. Here is a university which gives to the State
skilled mechanics vastly superior to those who "pick up" their trades;
farmers who can make two bolls of cotton grow where one grew before;
stockraisers who know all the fine points of the various breeds.
Governor Lowry could well say in his last message to the Mississippi
Legislature:

"This university, by its successful management, commends itself to
your favorable consideration."

At the closing exercises of the year yesterday, Tougaloo took another
step forward. Instead of turning out a class of graduates, the
management increased the course and raised the standard. An
institution which does that is certainly progressive.

Two of the notable things on the programme were an essay by Lucy
Jenkins, on "What Tougaloo Does for the Girls," and an oration by
James Miller on "Industrial Education." Both of them were well
considered, well written and well delivered. The essayist and the
orator were black, not yellow. Their efforts would have done credit
to Anglo-Saxons of corresponding age, North or South. As for the
musical part of the programme--ah, there was melody indeed.

A negro boy named Scott, with all the features of the African strongly
marked, executed a difficult solo with an artistic appreciation which
would have brought enthusiastic plaudits from an audience of critics.

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A TRUE FRIEND OF THE RACE.

And then the Rev. Dr. William Hayne Leavell, of Meridian, arose to
deliver the annual address. What a contrast! Dr. Leavell is a South
Carolinian by birth and a relative of the great Nullifier Hayne. He
comes of one of the proud old Southern families and has the highest
social connections. He stands six