The Fifth Annual Convention of the Colored Teachers’ Association of Georgia was recently held in the House of Representatives Hall at Atlanta. Upwards of one hundred colored teachers formed what the local press called an “intelligent and decorous body.” The sessions continued for three days. The papers gave full reports of the proceedings. Much popular interest was taken. Many white people attended. The range of the discussions was wide. The science of teaching in all of its departments was introduced by papers and addresses, and evoked very general discussion. It was a convention of both interest and power. It was a demonstration, beyond all doubt, of the Negro’s intellectual capacity and of his willingness to use and improve it. One of our Atlanta teachers writing us about this convention says: “I wish our Northern friends could have attended it. I am sure, if they could have done so, those who are helping would want to help more, and those who never have helped would be stirred up to lend a hand in raising up a people, so many of whom have proven and are proving that they can be raised. Certainly those of us here on the field can but feel encouraged and strengthened to go on.” * * * * * A GRADUATE AND A PORTER. There appeared in an Atlanta paper a few days ago, a paragraph stating that a young Negro man of Atlanta, who had the best university education, was acting as a porter in a cotton room, and that all but two of his class, perhaps thirty, had dropped back into just such work as he was doing, and saying that perhaps a good deal of higher education was wasted. This paragraph has been copied by a large number of papers and is likely to injure the cause of education among the colored people, and for this reason it seems necessary to call attention to the errors it contains. The young man referred to has not a university education, but left school during his freshman year. He was not a member of a class of about thirty, although sometimes when his class recited with one in the normal department, the two combined probably reached about that number. While he was junior preparatory his class numbered ten, and when he was college freshman, eleven. Of these eleven, three went through the course and were graduated. Two of these are teaching, one in Texas, and the other as principal of a school in Chattanooga. The third graduate is employed by a wealthy resident of Atlanta, at whose home he always has lived, as collector of rents, etc., and may be said to be “in business.” So, instead of the young man in question having a university education, he did not finish his freshman year; instead of his being a member of a class of thirty, his class numbered only eleven; and instead of thirty falling from the sublime heights of university graduates to the low estate of porters in cotton houses, the three of that class who completed their college course are occupying the important positions mentioned above.