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is probably no better material for a School of high grade in the state — perhaps not so good. The interesting commencement has been made. It is in our purpose to constitute the school as a Department of the National University, a well appointed Normal and Collegiate Institution for the preachers and teachers of the freedmen in that section of the country, its advantages being extended to all who may become the Christian educators of their people. Our charter is from the Congress of the United States and it provides that the terms of admission to the privileges of