and treasurer, the main library—­which greatly needs more books—­music rooms, the doctor’s office, teachers’ rooms, and the president’s home.  There are now nine large buildings for school use, with several smaller ones.  The next oldest of the large buildings is the girls’ dormitory, just south of the mansion, where is the common dining room, with the necessary kitchen, laundry and bake house appliances, and dormitory room for several teachers and eighty to ninety girls.

[Illustration:  BALLARD HALL.]

[Illustration:  BOYS’ DORMITORY, STRIEBY HALL.]

[Illustration:  THE PLANTATION BARN.]

[Illustration:  BIBLE HALL.]

Washington Hall, built just north of the mansion about the time of the girls’ dormitory, was burned some years ago, and now on its site stands the Ballard Building, containing the study and recitation rooms of the grammar and intermediate departments, which lead up to the normal and the chapel, where all general exercises and Sabbath services are held.  One of the greatest needs of the school is a church building, that can be specially devoted to religious purposes.  There is a grand chance for a memorial building.  A little northeast of Ballard is the boys’ dormitory, Strieby Hall, erected in 1882, a brick structure 112 x 40 feet, and three stories high, with a basement which has a laundry and bathrooms.  In this building the normal and higher work is carried on, with a fairly good physical and chemical laboratory and reference library, but needing great enlargement and additional facilities.  The normal work is of chief importance, for the future of the race lies largely with the trained teachers of the common schools.  Those who have gone from Tougaloo have won golden opinions from both races and do a work which in its scope and missionary character multiplies greatly the influence of the supporters of the school.  Strieby has, by crowding, dormitory room for seventy to eighty boys.  A separate building for normal work is greatly needed, one having a library, reading room, recitation room, museums and laboratories.  Just northwest of Strieby is the large barn, which, with the picture of the cattle, will suggest the large agricultural department of the school with its stock, garden, fruit raising, etc.  Here, too, a building is greatly needed for the farm boys and a foreman, where a special course of instruction can be given in fitting out good farmers.  Not a few graduates and former students have been successful in the conduct of farms and market gardens, some of them in connection with teaching.  Back of the mansion is a little and not at all beautiful building that has been a slave pen, day nursery for slave children; then, under the American Missionary Association, a dormitory known as Boston Hall, then a carpentry class room, then girls’ “Industrial Cottage” and is now dignified as Bible Hall, and houses the theological department, which was established two years ago.  This department has the beginning