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SOUTHERN FIELD NOTES.

BY REV. GEORGE W. MOORE.

Three thousand people were present at the Commencement exercises of
LeMoyne Institute, Memphis. That vast audience paying an admission fee
on an inclement evening to attend the closing-exercises gives evidence
of the strong hold LeMoyne Institute has on the people.

The essays and orations were thoughtful addresses on the practical
questions of the day. The meeting of the alumni association evinced the
high regard in which Professor Steele and his corps of teachers are held
by the graduates. The association expressed their intention to aid
Professor Steele to sustain departments of the industrial work that had
to be given up on account of hard times.

An amusing and interesting incident, which illustrates the struggles of
many of the parents to educate their children as well as their faith in
God, occurred at the alumni dinner of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
At the close of the Commencement, Rev. H.H. Holloway, of Turin, Ga., the
father of one of the graduates, was called upon for an after-dinner
speech. Mr. Holloway told of a letter he received from President Cravath
when he felt compelled, owing to the hard times, to have his son John,
who had been in the University only four months, return home. Mr.
Holloway, being unable to decipher the president's writing (the
president's chirography resembles that of the late Horace Greeley--ED.),
asked a Southern minister of his village to read it. The minister read