───────────┴───────┴──────────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴──────────┴─────────── The annual income for current expense of the 24 schools is $304,861, of which $150,637 is received from the board. On the basis of income five of the schools have incomes between $1,500 and $5,000; ten between $5,000 and $15,000; six between $15,000 and $30,000; and twenty have incomes of over $30,000. The total property is valued at $3,870,744, of which about three and a third millions are in plant and almost half a million is in endowment. According to property, only one school has a valuation under $10,000; three schools have valuations between $10,000 and $25,000; four between $25,000 and $50,000; seven between $50,000 and $150,000; three between $150,000 and $250,000, and six over $250,000. The attendance of these schools was 5,504, of whom 3,186 were elementary, 2,068 secondary, and 250 collegiate. All the schools maintain elementary classes, and all but two have secondary pupils. Seven of the institutions are offering instruction in college subjects. Two of the seven, however, had neither the equipment nor teachers to maintain college work. The number of teachers is 419, of whom 139 are white and 280, or 66 per cent. are colored; 148 are men and 271, or 65 per cent., are women; and 295, or 70 per cent., are academic teachers. [Illustration] [Illustration: BENEDICT COLLEGE, COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. One of the leading colleges for colored people in the South. It was founded in 1871, by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It has 30 teachers, over 700 pupils, an endowment of $140,000.00, and property valued at $635,744. ] [Illustration: MAIN BUILDING, ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN. The school is located on a high bluff, overlooking the Tennessee River. It was founded in 1867, by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It has twenty teachers, one hundred and fifty students and a property valuation of $100,000. ] These percentages for the color, sex, and work of the teachers indicate that the Baptist Society is following an average course in the selection of its workers, and the arrangement of the school program. The high grade of colored officers and teachers now in charge of some of the Baptist Society schools indicates that the transfer from white to colored management has usually been made with considerable care. Of the 419 teachers and workers, only 42 are offering industrial courses and seven are teaching agriculture or gardening. For a people eighty per cent. rural, this proportion of agricultural teachers is evidently not adequate. [Illustration: MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA. One of the leading Baptist Colleges. It is owned and controlled by the American Baptist Home Mission Society. It was founded in 1867, and now has 20 teachers, about 300 students and property valued at $185,000. ]