Our system of schools during the year has been working with its full force, and its appliances have been materially extended. The large additions made to our accommodations provided the year before were at once taxed to their utmost, thus proving that our appreciation of the necessity was correct, and that our appeal for the extension had not been made too soon nor too strong. And the enlargement secured during this closing year is now met with the response, “we, too, are full to overflowing.” Of the buildings put up the year before, the two dormitories at Hampton, one for Indian and one for colored youth, have had no empty rooms; at the Atlanta University, the wing built to the Girls’ Hall by the Stone Fund did not have capacity enough for the overflow of the main structure; the Strieby Hall at Tougaloo, brought to completion and dedicated since the opening of the year, had to be supplemented in an extempore way; the Stone Hall at Talladega for boys was filled; the Stone Hall at New Orleans for girls, and for the family of teachers, was only opened to find the need of a boys’ hall; and the Tillotson Institute at Austin, turning the ends of halls into apartments, calls loudly for another building. During this year, at the Fisk University, the Livingstone Missionary Hall has been brought to completion and furnished, providing dormitories for 121 male students, also a chapel, library and recitation rooms. The total cost, $60,000, came from the Stone Fund. This structure, which, in its name, embraces the highest idea of the greatest African explorer, is next Monday to come to its dedication, and some of our friends are to go hence to participate in that service—the address to be delivered by Professor Northrop, of Yale College. At the Atlanta University, the Stone Hall, as the central building of the group, has been erected at an expense of $40,000, and will soon be ready for occupancy. Greatly commodious, and comely enough to relieve the plainness of the halls on either side, it will furnish a chapel, library, reading room and recitation rooms. This structure, as well as the Stone Halls at Nashville, Talladega and New Orleans, has had the wise supervision of Prof. T. N. Chase, who has occupied, meantime, his favorite chair of Greek, and who, as a builder, has shown the rare gift of always keeping within his appropriations. At Macon, Ga., to the Lewis High School we have built a two-room “annex,” to which also was added a wing for the library which is there growing up. At Athens, Ga., our Knox Institute has been renovated, and in it a chapel fitted up for the new church. At Mobile, Ala., our Emerson Institute, that had been burned the second time, has been rebuilt upon an enlarged scale, and at an expense not far beyond the insurance money. At Talladega, the President’s house has been finished, and two cottages on land adjoining our premises have been bought for the use of two of our mission families, one of them being named after Mr.