odate the little army
of student-teachers, which is sent out annually to the country public
schools. It was found that by far the larger number of these schools
do not begin until the first of July.

Fisk is fortunate in having alumni who are everywhere noted for their
love and loyalty, and the University points to them and their work
with great pride and rejoicing. The anniversary exercises of the
Alumni Association this year were excellent. Mr. Crosthwait spoke of
"Nehemiah's Plan," and most beautifully and forcibly applied it to
the work to be done by the colored people to build up the walls of
their city. Prof. L.C. Anderson, Principal of Prairie View Normal
School of Texas, spoke of our "Public School System," in a very
instructive way. Mr. Anderson is doing a noble work at Prairie View,
and has made the school the pride of the State which supports it.
Nearly $300 was contributed toward the alumni endowment fund, as the
result of the movement to persuade each graduate to contribute
annually one per cent. of his earnings to help his _alma mater_.

The number of students in the past year has been the largest in the
history of the University. The catalogue shows an enrollment of 475.
There has been marked growth in the numbers in the Department of
Music. Students begin to seek the University for instruction in this
department alone. During the year the Mozart Society rendered the
oratorio of "Elijah," both in the city and at the University, with
marked success.

The address at the graduating exercises of the Normal Department was
delivered by Rev. C.S. Smith of Nashville, Secretary of the
Sunday-school Union of the A.M.E. Church. It was an earnest and
forcible appeal to the colored people of the South to respond to the
efforts made in their behalf by Northern friends, by doing the utmost
possible for themselves. Many readers of the MISSIONARY will remember
Mr. Smith as the delegate of the A.M.E. Church to the Triennial
Council in Chicago. The Sunday-school Union has just purchased a
handsome building on the public square in Nashville as a publishing
house, and under Mr. Smith's management has been eminently
successful.

The missionary sermon on Sunday morning, June 10th, was preached by
Dr. Warren A. Candler, who has just been honored by being elected
President of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. All will remember that this
place was vacated some two or three years ago by Dr. Atticus G.
Haygood, that he might devote h