SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY.

The Southern University is located at Greensboro, Alabama, and was established by the Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. It was incorporated by the general assembly, January, 1856, and the first regular meeting of its board of trustees was held March 17, 1856, at Greensboro. The corner stone was laid January 11, 1856, and the university opened for students, October 3, 1859. From that date until the present time, its doors have been opened, with the exception of the session of 1864-65.

The charter was amended in 1882, so as to make the university the joint property of the Alabama and North Alabama Conferences, these two conferences having united in its support and pledged their respective bodies, and the churches in their bounds, to raise an endowment for the university and to use their patronage and influence to make it a success. Under the joint direction and control of these two conferences, and with the support of 80,000 methodist communicants in Alabama, the university has become, in power and usefulness, one of the leading denominational colleges in the south.

The Southern University, prior to the late war, possessed an equipment, in buildings, lands, apparatus and libraries, amounting to the value of $100,000, and a productive endowment additional of more than $200,000. In the financial disasters attending and succeeding our civil strife, the endowment fund, owing largely to the nature of its investment, was almost entirely lost. The institution, however, preserved its mag

ficient building and valuable outfit.

In addition to this building, a new and commodious hall, called" Hamilton Hall," has been established for the benefit of students who may wish to pass through the college course at the least possible expense.

The university possesses full and valuable chemical, philosophical and mathematical apparatus, purchased from the best makers of instruments in Europe and America. The museum contains a large variety of valuable specimens, mineralogical, geological, numismatic, archaeological and anatomical.

The university is governed by a board of trustees, and the officers of the board are president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary.

The faculty is composed of six professors, four tutors and two assistants, in the various departments of instruction, and a principal of preparatory department. The head of the faculty is a president.

The following are the schools taught in the university: school of ancient languages, school of modern languages, school of history, English language and literature, school of moral philosophy, school of natural philosophy and astronomy, school of mathematics and school of chemistry, mineralogy and geology.

The Bible is a text book in the university, and lectures are delivered by the president on christian evidences and natural theology.

There are two literary societies connected with the university, having for their exclusive use two large, attractive, nicely-carpeted and well-furnished halls, and good libraries.

The degrees conferred by the university are: graduate in a school, bachelor of philosophy, bachelor of science, bachelor of arts, master of arts.

The Southern University Monthly, a monthly magazine, is published by the students.

The session is nine months, divided into two terms, and commences in September and ends in June.

The expenses are: Tuition, per term, $25; bookkeeping, per session, 815; incidental fee, per session, 85; library fee, $2; board, with lights and fuel, in private families, per month, $10 to $14; board in Hamilton Hall, per month, $7.50. The whole annual expense of a student boarding in a private family need not exceed $190, and those of a student boarding in Hamilton Hall, $160.

Free tuition will be given to two students from each presiding elder's district in the two conferences, who receive the proper recommendation and are unable themselves, or by the aid of their friends, to pay tuition.

Tuition fees are remitted to the sons of itinerant methodist ministers and to young men preparing themselves for the itinerant methodist ministry. The latter must be licensed by the

quarterly conference from which they come. They will be required to give notes for their tuition; said notes to be void. when they are admitted into full connection in an annual conference.

There is connected with the university a preparatory department, designed to prepare students for the freshman class. The terms begin and close with those of the university. The course of study in this department covers two years. Tuition, per term, in this department is $15 to $20.

All students are required to attend church, and each pupil must elect, in the beginning of the session, which he will attend. The social and religious influences brought to bear upon young men are of a superior order.

For full information and catalogues, address the president.

GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE.

This institution, located at Greensboro, Ala., was chartered in 1841. The school, while under religious influence, is nonsectarian.

The building, recently enlarged, is a handsome, commodious structure, containing recitation, music, art rooms, and boarding department, and is situated on an elevated site in a primeval grove of stately oaks and sycamores. Arrangements of departments are such that no exposure on the part of pupils is necessary in going from one to another. A well of most excellent water is in the yard.

The college is under the control of a board of trustees. The faculty is composed of a president and five lady assistants, who are all well and favorably known as teachers and have made enviable reputation in their departments.

In the literary course there are the following departments: Primary, intermediate, academic and collegiate. There are, also, a music department and an art department, presided over by thoroughly competent teachers. The school year, divided into two terms, begins in September and ends in June.

Board and tuition in regular department $62.50 per term.

The number of pupils in attendance during the year ending June, 1892, was 100.

For catalogue and full information, address the president.

ALABAMA CONFERENCE FEMALE COLLEGE.

This college is located at Tuskegee, Alabama, forty miles east of Montgomery, and six miles from Chehaw station, on the Western Railway of Alabama, with which it is connected by the Tuskegee railroad.

It was chartered by the Legislature of Alabama in 1854, under the name of " Tuskegee Female College," and its title and management were placed in the hands of a board of trustees. It was organized and began its career February 11, 1956. Under its original name it continued to prosecute its work until 1872, when the Alabama Conference became the owner of the property in fee-simple, had the name changed by legislative action to "Alabama Conference Female College," and appointed a board of managers to supervise its administration. This board makes contracts with the president, who employs the teachers and manages its affairs.

The college grounds embrace twenty-five acres near the center of the town. An area of seven acres is used as a campus.

The college buildings have cost more than $75,000. During the past four years $10,000 have been expended on repairs and additions. The buildings, all so constructed as to require no out-door exposure, embrace sixty-eight rooms, every one of which has an outside view and receives sunlight during some hour of the day.

The college courses of study comprise the English and the classical.

There is, also, a school of music and a school of art.

The literary schools are in charge of the president, assisted by seven able and experienced teachers; while the schools of music and art are taught by thoroughly competent teachers.

Certificates of proficiency and diplomas are conferred.

The number of pupils in attendance during the session ending June, 1892 was 191.