Teaching in the Elementary Grades, A Scientific Course in the
College Curriculum, Compulsory Education, What Can the Negro Do?
What the Ministry is Doing to Elevate the Freedmen. A résumé was
given of the educational work of the different denominations,
mainly by the secretaries of their educational societies. The
reports of the colored Methodist churches were especially
interesting, as indicating the gratifying extent to which the
colored people are taking hold of the work of their own education.
No paper of the Convention, however, was received with such
spontaneous enthusiasm and applause as the report of Dr. Beard of
the work of the American Missionary Association. It was the
eloquence of facts. The proceedings of the Association will
constitute a large volume, which will soon be published and widely
circulated.

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_"AN OPEN PATH FOR TALENT."_

Napoleon said this was the meaning of the French Revolution. He gave
promotion in the army not for what a man's ancestry had been, but for
what the man himself could do. Who else ever had such efficient
subordinates? Opportunities became open generally in France, according
to each one's personal ability. The excesses of the revolutionary period
were transitory. The enlargement of the nation's power, by removing the
fetters of prescription, has been permanent. The recuperative energy
displayed by France in the last twenty years is a marvelous example of
the strength imparted by liberty.