Southern men who have accumulated wealth are realizing their social responsibility.

Several recent gifts of a million dollars or more are not included in the sum mentioned above, and many smaller gifts or bequests likewise.
Standards of work have been raised with increasing income.

As elsewhere the effect of the reports of the Carnegie Foundation has been patent.
The stronger institutions have brought up their requirements to the minimum, on paper at least, and to a great extent in fact.

Some of the weaker institutions have dropped the pretense of doing college work; others have accepted the position of junior colleges doing two years of college work and giving no degrees.

The States exercise little or no supervision over the quality of work done for college degrees, and some institutions continue to grant diplomas for what is really secondary work, but the fact that they are not up to the standard is known and the management is generally apologetic.
No other phase of Southern life is more hopeful and more encouraging than the educational revival.