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[[strikethrough]] of the [[/strikethrough]] High and Normal School and of the advanced classes in the [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] Intermediate Schools. Here were some [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] fine examinations in written and mental Arithmetic , English Grammar Physical Geography, and History, [[strikethrough]] and Grammar [[/strikethrough]].  The [[strikethrough]] examinations [[/strikethrough]] notations in Arithmetic 
[[strikethrough]] in the more advanced Schools [[/strikethrough]] were a surprise to all who listened to them, and dissipated [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] scepticism in regard to the capacity of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] colored children to learn those branches which require the exercise of the [[strikethrough]] powers of [[/strikethrough]] reasoning power and analysis.  Complicated questions, which would stagger even an educated mind not fresh to this kind of work, were repeated accurately [[strikethrough]] after the teacher's statements, [[/strikethrough]] and the analysis conducted logically to a correct conclusion. It is not claimed that these examinations were superior to those seen in Northern white Schools, under teachers of equal merit; it is not necessary or practicable, perhaps, to bring them into a fair comparison. But it is claimed that they demonstrate, beyond a doubt, if demonstration is still necessary, that under good teachers the masses of the colored youth of the South will [[strikethrough]] readily and [[/strikethrough]] rapidly acquire the knowledge necessary to fit them for the business of life, and that [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] large numbers will distinguish themselves as scholars, [[strikethrough]] writers and speakers, in proportion as the [[/strikethrough]] of opportunities [[strikethrough]] of advanced scholarship [[/strikethrough]] are offered them.

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