Unfortunately this instance of misrepresentation is not an isolated case, but one of a thousand of similar character. The statement that the graduates from colored colleges are all idle vagabonds, has become too stale to produce an impression any longer when made in the abstract. Now what are the facts upon this point? Let the published list of graduates from the Atlanta University, with their occupations, answer. This school has a classical course of study covering a period of seven years, for pupils who have completed the common English branches. From this have been graduated forty students in ten classes averaging four to a class. This university has also a normal course of four years, for admission to which the same is required as for admission to the classical course. From this have been graduated in thirteen classes one hundred pupils, averaging about eight to a class. Of the forty graduates from the classical course, five are dead, eight are in the service of the U.S. Government, four are pastors of churches, one is a lawyer, two are in the theological seminary, one is engaged in business in Atlanta, and the remaining nineteen are teaching. None are unemployed and all are engaged in occupations in which considerable education is required, and a thorough one is desirable. It ought to be added that two of these graduates are professors in colleges, one is editing a respectable weekly newspaper, besides teaching, and one of those in the service of the Government has been promoted three times upon merit alone. Of the one hundred graduates from the normal department, six have died, seventeen are keeping house for their husbands, one is in a medical school, one is pursuing a college course, one is a mail carrier, one is still living at home, one is a hired housekeeper, and the remaining seventy-two are teaching. With reference to putting an education to a practical use, how many schools in the United States can show a better record? It may be said that a thorough education is not required to fit a person for a government position, such as clerks in departments, postal route agents and letter-carriers. But if such an education enables one who has it to get from sixty to one hundred and thirty dollars a month instead of seventy-five cents a day in the city whenever he can obtain a job, or ten dollars a month and “rashuns” in the country, it becomes to him an eminently and interestingly practical thing. Even in the case of this young Negro porter, the gentleman under whom he works says he could hire some one else to do the same work for half his wages, but he prefers his services at the double cost. If three years of Latin and two and a third years of Greek and the mathematics that go with them double the value of the services of a colored youth, let us challenge studies that are usually considered more practical to show a better record and be careful how we speak sneeringly of higher education.