THANKS, GOVERNOR STONE.
The popular Governor of Mississippi, Hon. J. M. Stone, who has filled the responsible position of chief executive for a greater length of time than any other person since the formation of the State government, in his last message to the Senate and House of Representatives called especial attention to Tougaloo University, as follows:
"Although Tougaloo University is not a State institution, I desire, in its behalf, to convey to you in this parting message a word of warm and sincere commendation. No school in the South is conducted upon higher principles, and its good effects are felt throughout the State. By way of recognition of its great merit, and for the high esteem in which its principal is held in the community, the Board of Visitors has been continued from term to term, and I recommend that a Board be appointed by the Governor for the next biennial year."
As Governor Stone has repeatedly visited Tougaloo, he speaks with personal knowledge of our great work in the "Black Belt." In agricultural and industrial work Tougaloo is not excelled in the South, while the standard of scholarship is greatly superior to that of industrial schools which seek only elementary attainment.