ed hearty commendation. Its utility was
clearly recognized when on the walls were seen drawings of house
framings, house plans, architectural and building details, etc. It
should be said that the work along industrial lines is neither
optional nor elective, but that it is a part of the regular class-work
of the school as much as grammar or arithmetic.

Another feature has been the opening up of the "Tougaloo University
Addition to Tougaloo." About one hundred and twenty acres of
university land have been surveyed and plotted off into home lots of
about five acres each, to be sold to former students of the school and
to others who desire to educate their children at Tougaloo. Already
several lots have been taken and homes built, and in a few years there
will be quite a little educational community.

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.

The Commencement exercises, May 20th-23d, passed off pleasantly. On
Sunday, President Woodworth's baccalaureate was from the text, "He
endured as seeing him who is invisible." The farewell prayer-meeting
in the evening, conducted by Miss Page, valedictorian of the
graduating class, was peculiarly rich and helpful in its
reminiscences, forecastings and inspirations. All the graduates go out
as earnest Christians. The boys' gymnastic exhibition on Monday
evening drew a very interested audience, and the eighth grade
exercises on Tuesday morning were admirable. The alumni meeting was
the largest that has ever been held, one-third of the alumni having
been in attendance. Two notable papers were read, one by Miss Jessie
Rhone, of '84, on, "It is better beyond," and one by Mr. W. H. Lanier,
'81, on, "The conduct to be pursued by the educated colored young
people in gaining success." Both were hopeful and helpful.

Mr. Lanier's relation of his experience as teacher in one of the most
difficult towns of the State, where former teachers had been run off
and the school closed by the whites, and of the way in which he had so
conducted himself that men whose only greeting at first was, "Howdy,
boy," now recognize him cordially with, "How do you do, professor,"
was a most admirable illustration of how tact and good sense will help
to break down barriers. The Commencement concert on Tuesday evening
drew a very large crowd. Every seat was occupied and all standing
room, and it was clearly shown that the chapel at Tougaloo is all too
small. Over one hundred and fifty of the audience of about six hundred
were whit