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296 one of the youngest in a class of sixty students, among whom there was only one colored member beside herself. During her college course she rarely stood second to any in scholarship, and in her junior year was elected class essayist. After graduation she was made assistant principal of the Wilberforce Institute in Chatham, Canada. Severity of climate led her to seek employment in the States. She was appointed to a position in the city schools of Indianapolis, and afterwards in the schools of St. Louis. In these she taught with success and acceptance. She later accepted a position as head of the normal department and instructor in Latin and geography in Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., where she labored for four years. In 1885 she accepted the position she now holds as lady-principal and instructor in the English language, literature and history in Wilberforce University. Though teaching especially these branches, she has been called upon at times to teach zoology, logic, German and elocution. The long time which she has been engaged in teaching, the branches she has taught and the length of time she has held important positions in one of our best schools, Wilberforce University, is sufficient evidence of her worth and success as a teacher. She regards her work in the classroom, in stimulating young men and women to take a high stand and live a pure and useful life, as of far more importance than a mere training in books for the sake of intellectual development alone. She regards it a mistake to seek mental development at the neglect of the moral and practical side of the student. Upon one