I rejoice in every such student who really climbs the heights of learning with exceeding joy.

But a far greater proportion than has thus far submitted to thorough-going preparation for skilled labor must do so, or there is no great future for them in this land as a race.
But already the absurdity of beginning at the apex of the educational fabric instead of at the base is being perceived by those who have in hand the education of colored youth.

A large number of colleges are adding industrial to their other features, and with much success, and a larger number of educators are agitating the wisdom of such feature.
Perhaps no educational institution in the Union has done more for the industrial education of the colored people of the South than the Hampton (Virginia) Normal and Agricultural Institute under the management of General S.C.Armstrong.

The success of this one institution in industrial education, and the favor with which it is regarded by the public, augurs well for the future of such institutions.

That they many multiply is the fervent wish of every man who apprehends the necessities of the colored people.
In a recent issue of the _New York Globe_, Prof.T.McCants Stewart of the Liberia (West Africa) College, who is studying the industrial features of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for use in his capacity as a professor among the people of the Lone Star Republic, photographs in the following manner the great work being done at Hampton.