the second year more attention is given to the symptoms and the
diagnosis of disease, with something of its treatment; and the proper
course in emergencies, as in cases of burns, wounds, loss of blood,
sun-strokes, drowning, and poisoning.

The pupils have been chiefly from the Normal grade, though some who are
outside of the college family have been glad to avail themselves of the
opportunity to enter the class, and they have proved apt and faithful
students. Early in the beginning of this school year the instructor
offered to organize a class among the young men, and to meet them at an
hour not to conflict with other studies. Six persons responded and a high
degree of interest has been manifested.

The value of this department is increasingly manifest, not only in the
varied service rendered by the nurse teacher, but in the assistance given
by pupils of both dormitories at the bedside of the sick, by mothers in
the neighborhood who have been in the classes, and by the prophecy of
better things for many homes where the influence of this work is felt.

Printing.

The college has maintained a printing office with but few interruptions
since 1877.

A number of the young men were put through a course of training by one of
the officers of the institution, and for some time the printing has been
in the hands of those thus instructed, and with but little supervision.
The department has done a large share of our job work, and during the
school year has issued a monthly paper called the _Talladega College
Record_.

Sewing.

Miss A.B. Chalfant, Teacher.

While it is believed that all industrial training develops both mind and
body, yet special attention is given to the work among the girls, that it
shall be in the line of improving their future homes. With this object in
view, sewing is by no means an unimportant factor. It holds an important
place in the curriculum of this school. Beginning in the third grade it
extends through the seventh. Over two hundred pupils have received
instruction this year.

In the lower classes, felling, hemming, and making of button holes are
taught; in the intermediate, cutting and making plain garments; in the
higher grade the girls cut and make dresses. Instruction is given in
making garments from old clothes and also in mending--two important
accomplishments in most homes.

Some of the girls are able during the school year, but especially in
vacation, to earn enough by t