EWBURY, MASS.

My wife and I recently spent about four weeks in New Orleans, La.
While we were there, Straight University was constantly under our
observation; and, without suggestion from any one, it comes to mind
that testimony to the efficiency of American Missionary Association
work in Straight would be welcome to you.

We not only attended more than once the general morning devotional
exercises in the "Daniel Hand Preparatory School" and the "Central
Building," but were also present during a recitation to nearly every
teacher in the Preparatory, Grammar, Normal, College Preparatory,
College and Theological Departments. The departments of music,
woodworking, sewing and printing, and also the Boarding Department
came under our observation.

The impression made upon us throughout was most favorable. The claims
of the catalogue are fully sustained in every particular. We have been
familiar with work in all these grades in the schools of several
Northern States; but we have never seen more thorough work, never a
school on the whole more satisfactory in deportment and scholarship.
We cannot compare this with other American Missionary Association
institutions. This is the only one we have visited. So we are glad to
let this represent them all, and confess to a surprise in finding that
we had never known better schools.

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WHAT OUR GRADUATES ARE DOING.

FROM GRADUATES OF STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS.

I.

"I am principal of the public schools of Vicksburg, Miss. I
have been teaching fourteen years, having had charge of my
present work nine years. I have under my present charge eight
hundred pupils, all the school can accommodate. Several hundred
have been turned away."

II.

"Am editor of the _Southwestern Christian Advocate_, and
practicing physician and minister. Have taught school in
Alabama and Louisiana."

III.

"My present occupation is clerk in the War Department,
Washington, D. C. I have taught three years in New Orleans. I
graduated as doctor of medicine, April 13, from the medical
department of Howard University."

IV.

"I am principal of the Harper Industrial Institute, Baton
Rouge, La. Have taught almost continuously since graduating in
1879. For the American Missionary Association I entertain a
feeling of the greatest possible gratitude. What little I am I
o