e could be drawn from abroad
if there were room to receive them. The most inveterate hatred of
puns can hardly keep one from spelling Straight without the gh. Many
of the students are largely of Creole blood and have the traits of
Gallic ancestry well defined.

"In two respects," said our host, "I have been greatly disappointed.
I was told before I came here that I would have trouble in teaching
the pupils habits of neatness, and that they were naturally lazy. I
find them just the opposite. They are exceptionally neat and tidy
about their persons and their rooms. As for being lazy, we could not
ask for more diligent students as a rule, and they are up in the
morning earlier than we want them to be."

No notes were taken of the many interesting statements made, for
there was no thought of this article then. But the recollection of
the talk as we passed through rooms and halls toward our exit, always
brings regret that the audience had not been two thousand
Congregationalists instead of the two who went their way with a firm
conviction that Straight University is a place where the investment
of a few thousand dollars of the Lord's money would bring speedy and
large returns. It is fortunate that in this case, as in the famous
one of the deacon's wife, all have not the same taste and judgment.
The advocates of industrial training need not hoard their money
because Straight has so little manual labor. Tougaloo will gladly and
wisely use all they have to give. And those who hold that the moral
and intellectual training of teachers and pastors is the only proper
work of such schools, need not look askant at the workshops of
Tougaloo, lest some of their benefactions should be spent for saws or
anvils or solder, while Straight is crying out for room to hold those
who want exactly that kind of training.

* * * * *

*CLOSING EXERCISES AT TILLOTSON.*

Of the six chartered institutions of the A.M.A., Fisk, Atlanta,
Talladega, Tougaloo, Straight and Tillotson, the last is the
youngest, the most remote and the most deprived of Northern aid and
sympathy. In plan and aim its work is identical with theirs; in
quantity its work is less, because, in part, it has less resources,
but in quality we believe our closing exercises would show our work
at least not inferior to some of the others.

Our examinations occupied the whole of Friday and extended through
Monday and Tuesday forenoons. The questionin