content to labor here.

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ALBANY, GA.

BY MR. W.C. GREENE.

Our school is overrun with pupils this school year. I was compelled to
turn away a large number because I didn't have room for them.

The people on their part are manifesting a deep interest in education
They are trying to take advantage of the opportunity as it is given
them. Many are going hungry to get a chance to send their children to
school.

This last week has been one of profit in this part of the State. The
people have been made to see their duty to the colored man more plainly
by the lectures delivered by Dr. Lansay and others in the Georgia
Chautauqua. There were some fine speeches made in behalf of the Negro.

Judge Hook was down one day and visited our school, and said that he was
surprised and glad to see the rapid progress we had made here.

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GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N.C.

A densely packed church of white and colored people witnessed the
closing exercises of the Gregory Institute, a school of high grade for
colored people founded and supported by the American Missionary
Association, and aided by Mr. Gregory. This school has been in operation
some eighteen or twenty years, and has done a most excellent work among
the people it was designed to benefit. The writer of this article has
attended public exercises of the Institute three times, and has been
each time impressed with the dignified and self-respecting deportment of
the scholars and visitors.

The neat programme called for graduating essays from six girls--there
were no boys in the class--and there were six songs rendered by the
whole school, or by the class, and every one present agreed with Dr.
Pritchard when in his address he declared that such was the musical and
literary excellence of the occasion that it would have done credit to
any institution of learning in North Carolina.

The address of Dr. Pritchard was humorous, practical and highly
complimentary to the school, and was received with much favor by the
audience. After the conferring of the diplomas by Mr. Woodard, the
pleasant occasion came to an end. The Institute is an honor to the city,
and certainly reflects great credit on the officers who conduct
it.--_Morning Star._

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SENIOR CLASS AT LE MOYNE NORMAL INSTITUTE.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

The Senior class of the present year is the l