The special religious interest continued several weeks, and extended to the large village of Geog Tapa, but the results appear not to have been distinctly reported.
The eighteen young men who graduated in 1854, were of higher promise than any previous class.

Several of the performances at their graduation were very gratifying, particularly the valedictory addresses, pronounced by a young man of eighteen, which would not suffer in matter or manner, Dr.Perkins thought, by the side of similar addresses at any American college.

Nearly all were hopefully pious, and were returning to homes widely distant from each other.
In some parts of the field there was much enthusiasm.

In Geog Tapa, for example, about seventy adults had commenced learning to read.
The mode pursued there and elsewhere, was to induce teachers, scholars in the village schools, and other readers to teach adults, by the promise of a Bible, Testament, or other book, if they were successful.

At an examination, the forenoon was devoted to the girls' school, taught by two graduates of the female seminary, and the afternoon to the Sabbath-school.