years' course of study. There are 13 members of the faculty, including 10 white teachers from the North. Albert Loughridge, A. M., is president of the college. The enrollment for a number of years has ranged from 200 to about 350 students.

The Home Mission Society appropriates from $6,000 to $8,000 annually toward the current expenses of the college.

GUADALUPE COLLEGE AT SEGUIN.

This is emphatically a "negro institution, owned, officered, managed, patronized, and supported by the negroes themselves," as stated in the College Record. The property was bought by the negro Baptists of Texas from the Roman Catholics in 1884 for the sum of $10,000, and with improvements since made is now valued at $60,000. The school is organized with 12 professors, or teachers, and has preparatory, scientific, collegiate, normal, theological, and industrial departments. There are 332 pupils in the school, of whom 170 are boarding in the institution.

It is a coeducational school, and the industrial department provides separately for the young men and women. The young men are taught carpentry, printing, farming, etc., and some of them make money to pay their way in school in this way. The young women are taught all kinds of domestic work, and one room is set aside and provided with a number of sewing machines where their skillful use is taught. They own a printing press and publish their own periodicals, and numbers of students learn the printer's trade.

The original property consisted of one three-story stone building and two frame structures.

The history of the institution is remarkable. Most of the founders and contributors were formerly slaves. There are 183 female students in the industrial department. The college entered upon the work of higher education in 1886. Rev. J. H. Garnett was the first president. The incumbent, Rev. David Abner, jr., has held the office for seven years. Rev. W. B. Ball, Rev. Hiram Wilson, and Rev. L. Ilsley were among the most prominent founders of the college.

MARY ALLEN SEMINARY.

This school was planned some time in 1885 by the board of missions for freedmen of the Presbyterian Church. The purpose to establish a school somewhere in Texas was largely due to Mrs. Mary E. Allen, wife of the secretary of the board. She had been for some time previously seeking information concerning the condition of the colored women of Texas, and finding that a very large proportion of them were wholly illiterate and suffered all the evils incident to such a condition, she determined to try to do something for their relief and elevation, and at once brought the matter to the attention of the board.

The school was located at Crockett, and three teachers were chosen. to begin work. These were Rev. John B. Smith, Mrs. A. E. Smith, his wife, and Miss Margaret P. Bolles. They arrived at Crockett January 1, 1886, and in a few days opened school in an old farm dwelling rented for the purpose. In the following April Mrs. Allen died, and in honor of her memory and interest in this special work the school was named Mary Allen Seminary. The first term closed in June of that year with an enrollment of 46 students. As the school was designed to be for the women of Texas and neighboring regions, adequate provision had to be made for the work by the erection of a suitable building for caring for all who should attend. In that year brick were made and the walls of the first three stories of the main building were put up, and the building, 107 feet long and four stories high, was completed in time for the opening of school in November, 1887. The enrollment in 1886-87 was 88. In 1887-88, the first year in the new building, the enrollment was 152, and the year following 167. The ground upon which the seminary is built consists of 10 acres, donated by the citizens of Crockett. A year or two later Mr. James Synder, of Illinois, gave the seminary 260 acres adjoining the ground upon which the seminary is built. In 1889 a large donation of money was made by Hon. James McMillan, of Michigan, by means of which McMillan Hall was erected. This is a brick building, 90 by 45 feet, four stories high, with basement for dining hall, kitchen, pantry, etc. This greatly increased the capacity of the seminary, and in 1890-91 the enrollment was 266. This number, however, was found to be too great for the room at command and interfered with the best work for the students, and so large a number has never been accepted since. Rev. John B. Smith, A. M., D. D., has continued president from the opening of the college.

In addition to the brick buildings above mentioned, there are frame buildings for three large recitation rooms and a sewing room, a large laundry and bath building, and other necessary buildings. The grounds and buildings are valued at $45,000.

The money for the erection and equipment of this school was donated principally in small sums, the gifts resulting from the self-denial of those interested in the work of the church for the freedmen.

TILLOTSON COLLEGE, AUSTIN.

Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute was founded by the American Missionary Association. It was opened on the 17th of January, 1881, the association having partially sustained for some years in Austin a school taught by Mrs. Garland. The association is much indebted to the liberality of the late Rev. George J. Tillotson, of Wethersfield, Conn., for whom it is named, for the money to purchase the lot, and for his industry in collecting a part of the funds for the

erection of Allen Hall. This is the five-story brick building near the south end of the lot in which the school began, and which furnished dormitories, schoolrooms, sitting rooms, parlors, dining hall, and kitchen for teachers and students of both sexes till 1894, when the new and convenient Girls' Hall, near the north end of the lot, was opened for the use of the girls, and contains a beautiful and comfortable dining hall, kitchen, etc.

The lot or campus contains 20 acres, and is an ideal situation for a school. Its cost was about $5,000. One-fourth of this amount seems to have been donated by James H. Raymond, of Austin, from whom the land was purchased.

Allen Hall was named for Mr. Woodbridge Allen, who contributed largely to the fund for its erection. About $10,000 was contributed for furnishing and equipping the school by various donors in many parts of the North. In the list of donors named are some familiar in business and educational circles, as Henry P. Haven, New London, Conn.; A. S. Barnes, the publisher, of New York; Mrs. Henry A. Perkins, of Hartford, Conn.; Charles Benedict, esq., Waterbury, Conn.; A. L. Williston, esq., and Mrs. E. G. Williston, Easthampton, Mass., the seat of Williston Seminary; Elihu Burritt, "the learned blacksmith," New Britain, Conn., and the poet John G. Whittier.

Donations from the Slater fund toward the expenses of the manualtraining department have been received from time to time, but not regularly; also from the Daniel Hand fund, administered by the American Missionary Association, regular grants in aid of needy students are made yearly.

The expenses of the school are met largely by annual grants from the American Missionary Association. This is under the control of the Congregational churches of the United States.

Nominal tuition fees are charged, and boarding students are expected to meet the cost of board in money, or in money and labor, the proportion depending upon the circumstances of individuals. The first session, January 17 to June, 1881, there were no tuition charges. From that time to 1887 the charges were, in the grammar department, $2 per month; in the normal, $2.50; and for board and tuition, $12 per month.

In 1887 the tuition for grammar grade was changed to $1 per month. In 1892 the tuition became uniform for all, $1 per month. The charge for board and tuition has never been changed. All salaries of teachers are paid by the association. The manual training department has been made a prominent feature of the school.

The value of the property belonging to the school may be put at $40,000. The attendance of students has ranged from some 200 to about 250 annually.

The names of the principals of the school in the order of their service are: Rev. W. E. Brooks, A. M., from 1881-1885; Rev. John Ker