In 1877-78 the attendance in private institutions was 12,146; in 1894-95 the attendance was 25,717.[5] But help from the North must still continue, and if possible increase. Matters have not yet so adjusted themselves in the South as to warrant the leaving the educational interests of the colored race altogether to the hands of the Southern whites, and the negroes instinctively turn to the Northern teachers for education and guidance, notwithstanding the large appropriations made for schools by the Southern whites. The leaders of the race, both white and black, are now alive to the importance of industrial education, and most of the schools we visited had introduced manual labor of various kinds as a part of the curriculum, and where it had not been done the additional expense had been the obstacle. Everywhere we found the strongest desire on the part of a large number of girls to learn the profession of nursing, and those who have already acquired it have been very successful, the whites willingly employing them at high wages--from $10 to even $20 a week. Some schools already announce a course of training, but they seem to be unaware that a nurse can no more be trained without a hospital, than a cook without a kitchen. We found but two training schools attached to hospitals during our travels, the Dixie at Hampton, which is doing excellent work and should be assisted in order to strengthen and extend it, and that at Spelman, Atlanta, where there is a small hospital in which they nurse their own sick under an excellent Superintendent, and have already sent out some nurses with satisfactory results, and would be glad to extend the work if they could receive assistance in paying teachers. In Savannah at a meeting where we met nineteen of the leading colored men of the place, they assured us of their ability to start a small hospital, if they could be assisted in the salaries of teachers to train the pupil nurses. None ask support, merely help. Several of the schools we visited require just a little help to make them very prosperous and useful. Those at Lawrenceville, Va., and Kittrell, N. C., managed by Hampton graduates, are especially to be commended and should be strengthened. A good nursing school might be established at Mr. Joyner’s school at Columbia, S. C., where they have a little hospital, closed for want of means. Five hundred dollars given to Claflin would enable it to do the same work. Especially would we urge assistance to the two rural schools in the black belt of Alabama, where Hampton and Tuskegee graduates are bravely toiling and truly civilizing the people around them.