of a library, but needs books and maps very greatly, and has two courses based on the English Bible, one of two and one of four years.  Though having this year but few pupils in the regular course, it is doing very thorough work.  The evening class for outside preachers has been for some years a power for good.  A glance at the picture will convince anyone that theology should have better quarters.  Who will give them?  Berkshire Cottage, of which a picture is given, accommodates the industrial training work of the girls.  Here are classrooms for needlework and cookery, with courses extending over four years, and which all girls in the grammar grades are as much obliged to take as they are the English branches.  To the normal girls special instruction in dressmaking is given.  Berkshire, besides accommodating several teachers, has a kitchen, dining and sitting room, and several bedrooms, devoted to practical housekeeping, where, at present, four girls at a time keep house practically for six weeks at a time, so becoming competent for homemakers.  Not far from this cottage is the Ballard shop building, where the manual training of the boys is carried on.  Here to the small boys of the Hand school instruction in knifework is given, and to the boys of all higher grades careful instruction, in accordance with the best manual training methods, in wood-working, with excellent accommodations for more than twenty boys at a time.  Forging, at which eight at a time can work, and mechanical and architectural drawing, with tables and tools for two dozen.  The outcome of this work and of the girls’ industries, teachers of which are supported by the Slater Fund, which has done, and is doing, so grand a work, has been most satisfactory and encouraging in the skill manifested, the increased earning capacity imparted, the greater ability to gain and maintain homes, and the development of character.

[Illustration:  BERKSHIRE COTTAGE.]

[Illustration:  BALLARD MANUAL TRAINING SHOP.]

[Illustration:  CARPENTRY.]

[Illustration:  FORGING.]

One other picture, the Hand Primary building, suggests the practical work of the Normal department, for here the Normal students have practice during the two closing years of their course, gathering pupils from surrounding cabins.

Underneath all the work of the school is the dominating thought of the development of Christian character.  The preaching, the Sabbath school, with its class prayer meetings directed by the Sabbath school teachers, the religious societies, the Covenant for Christian service, the personal influence of teachers and older pupils, all tend in that direction with most blessed results.  Upon the surrounding region growing influence is exerted through the four Sabbath schools from two to four miles away, in which teachers and students from the University assist.  A picture of one of the schools, McCharity, is given here.  Mention should also be made of the “Tougaloo University Addition to Tougaloo.”  One hundred and twenty acres of land have been divided into five-acre house lots, which are being sold at $100 each to former students and those who wish to educate children at the University.  In a few years it is expected that a fine community will be there.