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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen, 1901 The enrollment of Normal Students above Sixth grade has been 537, an increase of 71 over my. Last report. The increase is mainly in the higher classes and consists principally'of young men and women who are prepar ing themselves for teachers. The rigid examination to which teachers are now subjected in this State has given an impetus to our work in the direction of teacher training, and, during the present session, we have directed our efforts towards meeting the demands made upon us. The condition 'of our country schools has been most deplorable. The local ex aminations were a farce. The white men in control of the schools, on account of having members of their own family in the schools, have given more attention as to the competency and character of the teacher employed. Hundreds of incompetent, worthless teachers have been weeded out teachers who had outlived their usefulness. The demand has thus been created for a younger and better grade of teachers, which, to a large extent, must come from Montgomery, Tuskegee and similar schools. Our students this year have shown a much greater inclination to become teachers and mechanics. Our Board of Trustees instructed the Faculty to extend the time given to industrial work. This has been done by lengthening the school day from 3 p. M. To giving so much more time to industrial work without interfering with the academic work done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.