Besides the oral examinations of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, there were black-board drawings and displays of written work in each room, so that those who passed through might see something of the work of each grade. There were also industrial exhibits of the young ladies’ work, and work from the shops. Col. Power, of the State Board of Visitors, spoke of our new school-house and shops themselves as being a most gratifying industrial exhibit, having been so largely the work of our apprentices. On Wednesday afternoon the black-boards in one of the large school-rooms were seen to bear these scrolls, in dashing capitals: “Welcome, Alumni!” and “There’s no place like Home.” And presently about a score of Tougaloo graduates, with teachers and friends, were gathered to listen to an address by Mr. J. N. Granberry, one of the very first class graduated here. He said, in beginning, that he had decided to take for his theme “That which most men try to shirk, namely: ‘Duty.’” He then spoke of the duty of the sons and daughters of this institution to themselves, to their school, to their people, to their country, to the world at large, basing all upon the thought of duty to God. At a business meeting, next morning, of the Society of the Alumni, President Pope pledged funds with which to erect, within two years, an Industrial Cottage for Girls, and the Alumni pledged funds for the furnishing. This is with a view to placing our girls’ industries more nearly on an equal footing with those for young men. In the meantime our good friend, Mr. Ballard, of New York, has again come to our rescue and made it possible to set the enterprise of girls’ housekeeping on foot at once—that is, next year—in a small way, as we can with our present accommodations. An unusual number of graduates were present at Commencement, and enjoyed their own separate dinner and “the olive branches” about the table. There were never so many babies at Tougaloo before, and a well-behaved and promising little company we thought them, upon the whole. May God bless the little ones and make them every one burning and shining lights in His kingdom! Our graduating class was small this year—two young ladies from the Elementary, and a young man from the Higher Normal. The exercises were good.