Mechanical College
an institu- Education. There are about 800,000 school children in the State. There is Education.-There are about 800,000 no compulsory school law. schools are maintained for white and colored children, and in recent years the legislature was somewhat backward in passing laws tending to improve educational conditions, but beginning with 1910 several important measures have been passed. These included provisions tion maintained by the State of Missisfor consolidation of schools, the estab- sippi to further scientific agriculture lishment of agricultural high schools, and industrial education. and the creation of a text book commis- founded in 1878 and is located at Agrision and of a supervisor of elementary rural schools. There is a normal school at Hattiesburg, and a normal school for colored students at Shelby. The institutions for higher education include the University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi College, and Millsaps College. There are also several colleges for women.
Churches. The strongest denominations in the State are the Regular Baptist, colored; Regular Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, South African Methodist; tions in the State are the Regular Baptist, colored; Regular Baptist, Methodist Episcopal, South African Methodist; estant Episcopal.
Methodist Episcopal; Roman Catholic; itable and correctional institutions include the State Charitable Hospital at Jackson, State Charitable Hospital at Vicksburg, State Charitable Hospital at It was cultural College, Miss. Residents in the State receive free tuition, others pay a fee of $100 per year, the course leading to a degree lasting two years. The College is one in which instruction is milia United States Army officer is detailed tary drill and government is given and for service there. thorities. The enrollment is approxifor service there. The students all mately 1,200, with a faculty of 105.
The students all