higher departments of education must be slow in the case of
institutions founded for a race so recently emancipated and laboring
under great poverty and unusual disadvantages. This, however, should
serve to strengthen purpose and intensify effort, for it shows the
vital necessity of well-trained leaders from among the people
themselves. Professional training without previous course of liberal
education cannot provide the men that are required for this day and
generation among the colored people of the United States or for
missionaries on the Dark Continent.

* * * * *

*AN HOUR AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.*

BY MRS. A.B. SHATTUCK.


Two Congregational pilgrims found themselves on the first day of
March in New Orleans, prepared to do all the sight-seeing which the
daylight of forty-eight consecutive hours permitted.

On our way in the horse-cars to one of the beautiful cemeteries, we
approached a group of large buildings on the left, and some one said,
"That is the university of the colored people," and then we saw
"Straight University" in bold letters upon the front of the central
building. Now "Straight" was down upon our list of "points," but we
had not looked up its location and supposed it farther from the
center, so we were glad to stop on our return and save an extra trip.
Three plain substantial structures occupy a handsome corner lot,
leaving space for the additions already so much needed. The location