Tougaloo University has been filled to overflowing with 343 students, and after the last inch of room had been filled, scores had to be turned away.  This school is situated almost in the center of the State, and reaches a far larger region not limited by State lines.  It is near the border of the Yazoo country, which has begun to be so wondrously developed, and is so rapidly filling with colored people.  The evangelization and enlightenment of this new Africa must largely come through Tougaloo.  Here must be trained preachers, teachers and other leaders of character for this new region, as well as for the older portions of the State.  Good, solid work has been done here all through the year, and preparation has been made for even better results in the future.

Straight University, in New Orleans, La., is peculiarly situated for an important and far-reaching work.  It draws its students not only from the States, but also from Mexico and the West Indies—­484 last year.  With the enlarged accommodations for the primary and intermediate work which have been planned, this institution will be better prepared to meet the demands of higher education.

Tillotson Institute, at Austin, Texas, the youngest of our chartered institutions, has had a prosperous year with 230 students, in the Primary, Intermediate, Grammar, Normal, College Preparatory and College departments.  Situated at the capital of the great empire of Texas, it is destined to be an educational, religious and evangelistic centre, a power for the building up of the kingdom of Christ.  It greatly needs enlarged accommodations.  Where is the Lord’s steward who is ready to give it at once the imperatively needed Girls’ Hall?

NORMAL AND GRADED SCHOOLS.

Next to our chartered institutions come our normal schools.  These have the same course of study up to the college department as the chartered institutions have.  These normal schools are eighteen in number, and are situated at Lexington and Williamsburg, Ky.; Memphis, Jonesboro, Grand View and Pleasant Hill, Tenn.; Wilmington and Beaufort, N.C.; Charleston and Greenwood, S.C.; Atlanta, Macon, Savannah, Thomasville and McIntosh, Ga.; Athens, Mobile and Marion, Ala.  Adding to these the normal departments of our five chartered institutions, gives us twenty-three normal schools in the South.

Besides these, we have in the South thirty-seven which we class as common schools.  Eight of these are graded, with two or three teachers each.  Nearly all are parochial schools.  The teachers are in both the day schools and the Sunday-schools, and are not only school teachers, but church missionaries.  They train the young of our congregations for greater usefulness, encourage many of the most promising to go to higher institutions, teach the parents better ideas of home life, and lead all ages to a more intelligent and spiritual worship.

INDUSTRIAL WORK.