[Transformers-bugs] . Doane, 3. Lexington, "A Friend, " one doz. plated knives and forks. VIRGINIA,

An audience of three thousand people on the evening of June 2d, attested the interest felt in the school and the work it has done in West Tennessee. A varied program of essays, orations, recitations and personations, with musical selections of choruses from composers of high rank, all occupying fully two and a half solid hours--these made the crowning event of the twenty-seven years' work of Le Moyne Normal Institute. The proud and eager interest of the masses of the colored people in those of their young men and women who persevere in the face of great difficulties and many discouragements to complete a course of study, presents a very attractive and hopeful indication to a student of the rising race. One who has carefully and for years noted the position and influence of these graduates among their own people, the stand they generally take for order and system, and the force and intelligence they naturally bring to bear on the many questions of social and moral well-being constantly arising to be dealt with by the masses of their people--one who has noted the complex working of the moral and intellectual forces largely represented by the grad
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