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180 Several hundred students have already been trained as teachers and a number of young men have been prepared for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

The grounds of the school, embracing some forty-two acres, are devoted to a campus, surrounding the various school buildings, and to a garden in which supplies of fresh vegetables are raised for the school table. The whole property is situated on the outskirts of Raleigh, near enough for convenience and far enough out to be away from the distractions of city life.

While every effort is made to inculcate a respect for manual labor, yet nothing is allowed to interfere with progress in the various studies of the school. The faculty is an able one of ten teachers. Three of them are college graduates, four are graduates of the school, one of another normal school, and the author of this book is lecturer on physiology and the laws of health.

The invested funds of the school at present amount to something over $30,000, the income of which, along with the aid received from the Church, is used in carrying on the school. Total value of funds and school grounds, with buildings, is $65,000. The school charges $7 a month for board and tuition. All of the students are able to reduce this to about $5 per month or somewhat more, in needy cases, by manual work on the school grounds.

Progress is now a watchword of the school, but it is a progress that is conservative of the past as well as hopeful of the future. No progress is of any avail which does not lay its foundations in the moulding of Christian