And better yet, eighty-three per cent.

of the graduates stick to the practical work afterwards--an unusually high record.
The president of the college, Dr.D.H.Hill, is a son of the Confederate general of the same name, who has been called "the Ironsides of the South." There are a number of other important educational institutions in and about Raleigh, and there is one which, if not important, is at all events, a curio.

This is "Latta University," consisting of a few flimsy shacks in the negro village of Oberlin, on the outskirts of Raleigh.
"Professor" Latta is one of the rare negroes who combines the habit with white folks of the old fashioned southern darky, and the astuteness of the "new issue" in high finance.

Years ago he conceived the idea of establishing a negro school near Raleigh, to which he gave the above mentioned name.

He had no funds, no credit and little or no education.
Nevertheless he had ideas, the central one of which was that New England was the land of plenty.