elementary education. Somewere responsible for as many as eighty pupils.
Several high schools, however, were staffed by relatively competent peo-
ple-notably,
Adams College in Natal (American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions), St. Peter's in the Transvaal (Anglican), and Healdtown (Methodist)
and, above all, Lovedale (United Free church of Scotland) in the eastern
Cape Province. At the top of the system was the South African Native
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