Show There arc about 2500 negro 0 graduates 1 from different colleges In the United States Of these 2331 can be definitely accounted for The number of women graduates is 252 Of the graduates i eleven negroes graduated In 1SG9 while In 1S9S there were 141 to receive degrees 1 I de-grees There Is today about one col legetrained no TO In every 3800 of the S 1 race The colleges from which these negroes have come embrace nearly all I the leading Institutions of the country I Harvard has sent forth 11 Yale 10J University of Michigan 10 Cornell s Columbia 4 University of PcnnsyU l I vanla 4 1 Williams 1 Amherst 4 1 Bates 15 Colgate 9 Brown S and so onMDbeiv Hn has the high record being held as I moat friendly to the race It has graduated grad-uated 128 Most of these have come from the South Fifty per cent of the Northernborn college men have gone South to work among their race Fully 00 per cent of the Southernborn I t lege graduates have remained among I their own people In the matter ol home life while the weakest pointIn = character is owing to African the negro r polygamlc Inheritances and to slavery I tticso graduates have a creditable I I showing to make Ocr onehalf of the I graduates are teachen onesixth professional another onesixth preachers I cent farmers sional men about G per I artisans and murchunUi WhlleJ percent per-cent are In the Government service i 1 I I Tho collegebred negroes of the United States own in tho aggregate over 10 000000 worth of property or an average I I of 35000 for each person < 4 J |