The second and third floors are used as dormitories. The rooms, 34 in number, are of good size, light and airy, neatly and substantially, though simply, furnished. While in the construction of Strieby Hall strict economy has been studied, modern ideas of convenience have been introduced. Water is brought to each floor from large tanks underneath the roof. A large bath-room is on the second floor. The large “mansion,” which has served a great variety of purposes, has now been turned for the most part into school uses. It has two large recitation-rooms, a library, a reading-room, two music-rooms, besides an office and suitable rooms for one family and guests. These four buildings, together with the neat little cottage for the president and his family, comprise the chief externals of Tougaloo University. The old building for young men, known as the “Barracks,” is to take its proper and more humble place among the barns and outhouses connected with the farm. * * * * * INDUSTRIAL WORK AT TOUGALOO. BY PRES. G. S. POPE. In considering the desirableness of having Industrial departments in connection with any of our schools, it is necessary, of course, to decide as nearly as possible what the expense of establishing and maintaining such departments will be, and what the advantage to the pupil. In other departments of training it is found necessary to secure liberal endowments in order to meet expenses. Why should more be asked of this? We sustain our Theological departments to train men to be successful preachers of the Word. We sustain our Industrial departments to train them to be successful business men. But one is direct Christian and missionary work. So is the other. God first put man to pruning the garden, not to preaching the gospel. And whatever is done to make the world again a garden is evidently in the line of God’s plan. It is certainly possible for us to give too little weight to the training of workmen. I suppose it is expected that I will present my thoughts in the shadow of experience. The Industrial department at Tougaloo University embraces: 1. General Farming. 2. Strawberry Culture. 3. Gardening. 4. Stock-Raising. 5. General Housework. 6. Work in Laundry. 7. Work in Sewing-Room. In our general farming we have confined our work to those crops that we can consume on the place—corn, oats and potatoes. We expect to cultivate cotton hereafter, rotating it with other crops. Corn yields fairly, but not equal to the West, of course. The oat crop, I think, can be made equal to the Western crop. We have done enough with grasses to satisfy ourselves that grass can be very profitable grown and marketed.