are good, profitable workmen; but they then leave the
Institute to engage in the outside world in the battle of
life. On the farm is a large number of stock, milch cows and
calves, beef cattle, horses and colts, mules, oxen, sheep
and hogs--in all nearly five hundred heads.

In these various industries, the farm, saw mill, machine
shop, knitting, carpentering, harness making, tinsmithing,
blacksmithing, shoe-making, wheel-wrighting, tailoring,
sewing, printing, etc., over five hundred students were
engaged in 1883. They earned over thirty thousand
dollars--an average of seventy dollars each. There is no
question about the fact that this is a "beehive" into which
a bee can enter, if accepted, with nothing but his soul and
his muscle, and get a good education!

Professor Stewart's article carries upon its face the proper reply to
Mr. Magoun's apprehensions and my own deductions, and is the very
strongest argument for a complete and immediate recasting of the
underlying principles upon which nearly all colored colleges are
sustained and operated.

Money contributed for eleemosynary purposes is a sacred trust, and
should so be applied as to net the greatest good not only to the
beneficiary but the donor. The primary object of educational effort
among the colored people thus far has been to purify their perverted
moral nature and to indoctrinate in them correcter ideas of religion
and its obligations; and the effort has not been in vain. Yet I am
constrained to say, the inculcation of these principals has been
altogether a too predominant idea. Material possibilities are rightly