The Southern Industrial School has enjoyed a good degree of prosperity during the past two years. Improvements have been made in equipment and plans. Difficulties have come of necessity, but in most cases these have been surmounted, and, on the whole, the school now is in good condition to go forward and accomplish the purpose for which it was founded. The attendance has not been as large as last year, but a successful church school has been conducted with an enrollment of about twenty pupils who would, in former years, have been counted as pupils of the academy. We have had, however, an older class of students, and the prospects are that a larger number of students than ever will be prepared to enter the various branches of the work. GCB April 9, 1901, page 167.9