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[[strikethrough]] constructed, well provided with the best modern school furniture, and supplied with all necessary educational appliances.  Philosophical apparatus, maps, charts, globes, books of reference, a new and well selected miscellaneous library, with some historical pictures and other works of art to add to the attractiveness of the rooms. 
The school was opened in October 1867 with two teachers and sixty five pupils, and has been exceedingly useful, not only for the instruction and discipline of the pupils, but for its effect upon the community in elevating the aspirations of the colored youth of the city, and in conquering some prejudices among the white citizens. 
The school will hereafter accommodate 100 pupils and three teachers. As the average scholarship in the schools of lower grade in the city shall be elevated, the conditions of admission to this will be advanced. The course of study and methods of instruction are those common to the best Normal Schools.
The Normal and Agricultural Institute and Hampton, under the American Miss. Ass'n, went into operation late in the school year, but has already given promise of great usefulness and success. It proposes to receive pupils somewhat [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] mature in years, and of established character, and to give them not only a thorough Normal Training, but to [[/strikethrough]]

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