We are orthodox, and believe in the good old idea of discipline through the hard study of Latin, Greek, and mathematics, with the usual amount of science, both natural and mental, and the et ceteras. The colored man is just a man, and his mind must be dealt with as are other minds. He must climb the difficult hill of education, as his white brother, by many a slow and weary step; and, as in white colleges, many a toiler falls out by the way and few reach the shining top. The average time spent by each of the thirty-two college students thus far under our instruction is four and nine-sixteenths years. Some have been with us as long as seven or eight years. The average time is growing less with better schools and increased facilities elsewhere. Quite a number now come to us prepared to enter the college preparatory course, and, occasionally, one fitted to enter college. A college planted in an intelligent community takes root at once in a soil prepared, and soon brings fruitage. Not so with the effort begun here twelve years ago, to develop a college among a people just out of bondage. Nearly all the students in college are dependent on their own efforts, with the aid so kindly given by friends in the North, in acquiring an education. Only one has property, and two live at home with their parents in the city. Several have others dependent on them. One, a lady, has care of the family, both parents being dead. During the last summer all were at work‒three as porters on railroads, two as clerks, one had charge of a church, which, under his ministry, enjoyed a revival of religion, and the rest taught school. Some teach classes in the university and some do manual labor. Nearly all are compelled to be absent a part of the college year, thus increasing their toil when they return. Who would not help people who are thus helping themselves? All the college students are professing Christians, and out of the thirty-two, twenty-one have become so while students here. One is a licentiate for the ministry, and several, we hope, will enter that calling. Four of the college students are ladies. The college is the apex of our educational pyramid. The higher the apex, the broader the base. Passing downward, we find in college preparatory 48; in higher normal, 27; in normal, 167; in the model school, 135. Scattered through different grades we have 12, taking, in addition to other studies, one hour a day of special instruction with reference to the ministry. Twenty-four have already graduated from college, one of whom is dead. Of the others, one is a lawyer, one is a minister, five are learning professions, three being the ministry, and all the rest are teaching, many of whom occupy important positions, one being a professor in this University. A DAY AT LE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN., FEB. 15, 1882. _By Prof. A. J. Steele._