This is one instance of hundreds which could be cited. Another fact deserves earnest consideration. We need to _conserve_ and utilize for the general good the partial education which the graduates of our colleges have secured. At the present time this is not done as it should be, and as it might be, if _special_ student aid were available. Many graduates go forth from the college who are lost to view. After so much patient labor has been bestowed upon them—and in some instances special pecuniary aid given—they should be encouraged in every way to devote themselves to the greatest good of their people. Take the last class in Straight University as an illustration. We graduated eight students, all bright, talented and promising, and, grandest of all, Christians. All are poor—some of them extremely poor. Their education has cost them a hard, patient struggle. They desire to become teachers of the highest rank. The young men are looking to the learned professions. In order to attain what they desire, and what we desire for them, they should take a post-graduate course. The young men, if God calls them to the work, should take a three years’ course of theological instruction. But left alone, without outside aid, they will be compelled to work for their daily bread, and for them their school days will have forever passed. Is it not worth while to say to these young men: “Come back to the University, and the Christian benevolence of the North will see you through one, two or three years more of study, and then we shall claim you for the college, for the church, and for the work of God. Henceforth you are not your own, but must go wherever God shall call you, and stand in the forefront of every great and good movement for the elevation of your race.” To-day, if a worthy Christian young man or woman appeals to us, “Can you not aid me to keep on in my studies?” our answer is a sorrowful one, “There is no fund that can be appropriated to that purpose.” Will not good men think of this and make a grand possibility of good a fact gloriously realized? W. S. ALEXANDER. * * * * * A STRONG APPEAL. We present below a forcible appeal for student aid. Such aid is essential, and the question of obtaining it in sufficient amount to meet the demand lies at the bottom of the whole possibility of educating the colored youth of the South. If scholarships and educational funds are important to the white students of the North, how much more to the colored students at the South, where employment is so poorly paid, and the money so hard to be collected when earned! This appeal is but a sample of the cry that comes from all our institutions—Atlanta, Talladega, Tougaloo, New Orleans, and the rest. An illustration may be seen in the foregoing article by Rev. W. S. Alexander, President of Straight University.