eginning, with its attendance of 250 pupils
of low grades, to the present year, with an enrollment of over 700,
distributed through its twelve years of study and training, over 200
of whom are in the Normal Department fitting for the work of
teaching.

[Illustration: LE MOYNE INSTITUTE AND MISSION HOME.]

The first class of two was graduated in 1876; since that over two
hundred young people have received the diploma of the school, most of
whom are living useful, self-respecting lives in the many communities
where they have found homes.

To meet the needs of this constant growth the buildings have been
enlarged repeatedly and a separate building for manual training,
woodworking, printing, etc., has been erected.

Probably the most apparent work accomplished by the school has been
the training of teachers for the public schools, hundreds of whom
have gone out from our training and are now doing good work in
Tennessee and the adjoining States of Arkansas and Mississippi.

Under the direction of the same principal for all but the first two
years of its existence, the school has become the centre of many
lines of influence extending in many directions and affecting many
interests among the people. A library of some three thousand volumes
has been gathered and has proved of great value to the students and
to the community. Nothing else so directly and surely acts to train
to thoughtful and self-respecting lives as an acquaintance with the
literature of the English language and with the personalities of the
great minds who have produced it.

One of the cherished purposes of the school is to fit up a number of
"traveling libraries," each of a score or so of volumes, carefully
selected to place at the disposal, in routine order, of graduates of
the school teaching in country communities.

The public school teachers (colored) of the county have for years
held monthly meetings at Le Moyne Institute, and for the past year
have received regular instruction in the teaching of vocal music from
the director of music of the school.

[Illustration: GRADUATE TEACHERS, LE MOYNE INSTITUTE.]

The Alumni Association is an active and influential organization
which acts with the institution in many ways, carrying on a course of
lectures each term by prominent men of the community and assisting
materially by the contribution of money for its Industrial work. At
the present time this association has in hand a fund of over $200, to
be