The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1898 no. 95

              NUMBER 95.    .                                 ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                            NOVEMBER,   1898. {Thirtieth Year.) ATLANTA   UNIVERSITY. The higher education of carefully selected Negro young men and women, in both academic and industrial lines, is emphasized by this Institution as necessary for the elementary and industrial training of the masses. "Men of light and leading" in other spheres of activity are also greatly needed by the race that has so long sat in darkness. Earnestly Christian, as required by its charter, yet entirely unsectarian, the Institution is controlled solely by its own board of trustees, on which several denominations are represented. Some 300 students are enrolled under 23 officers and teachers. From the college and normal courses 333 graduates have been sent out, nearly all of whom have readily found permanent employment in teaching or other useful occupations. Situated only about seventy miles from the centre of the Negro population of the country, in one of the largest Southern cities, and at the railroad centre of the South, its location is of strategic import-ance for promoting the educational advancement of the South. Its plant includes sixty-five acres of land, four large brick buildings, library of 10, 400 volumes, apparatus and other equipment worth not less than $250, 000. With practically no endowment, with no lid from public or denominational funds, receiving about one-fourth of its support from its own students, the Institution appeals for an endowment of $500, 000, and, until that is secured, for $25, 000 annually o meet current expenses. Gifts of any amount are welcome, but special appeal is made for subscriptions of $100 and upwards, and for $40 scholarships. Remittances may be addressed to Pres. Horace Bumstead, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. On The Campus. The public rhetorical exercises of the year began Nov. 4. These exercises, as usual, were interesting and well attended. Pres. Bumstead attended the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association at Concord, N. H,  Oct, 25-27. Miss Susan A. Hosmer, one of our matrons, has been sick since the term began. For a time the illness seemed light, but her condition is now considered somewhat critical. At the union prayer meeting Sunday night, Nov. 6, Mrs. H. H. Proctor of this city gave an interesting account of the July convention, at Nashville, Tenn.. of the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor. We were visited Nov. 5-7 by Mrs. Anna Wade Richardson ('85). She was on her way from the North, where she had been speaking in the interests of the American Missionary Association. An extract from her paper, read at Concord, appears elsewhere in this issue. The first number of vol. 3 of the Scroll has made its appearance, with Geo. F. Porter ('99) as Editor-in-Chief and E.E. Curtright ('00) as Business Manager. Subscriptions to this, our students' monthly, will be received by the business manager at fifty cents a year. The Atlanta Baptist College dedicated its new building, Quarles Memorial Hall, Oct. 21. Several of our teachers were present, and Prof. Adams represented this institution in extending congratulations. The new building is excellent in itsudap-tation for its purpose, which is, recitation and laboratory work. Our Graduates '76—Prof. W. H. Orogman of Clark University delivered the Commencement address at the Ga. State College in Savannah, of which his classmate, R. R. Wright, is the president. '84 '85—L. B. Maxwell ('85") has resigned the pastorate of the First Congregational Church in Savannah that he may have more freedom in his work as secretary of the International Sunday School Convention. His present residence is Decatur, near Atlanta. J. W. Whitaker ('84) succeeds him in the Savannah pastorate. '96—F. A. Curtright is establishing a new school at his home, Greensboro. It is intended to combine the features of an industrial and high school. N. W. Curtright was unanimously re-elected principal of the Eddy High School at Mil-ledgeville,but accepted instead the principalship of the Walker Baptist Institute in Augusta. His classmate A. B. Cooper takes his former position at Milledgeville. '97—Geo. F. Smith graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1898. He was one of six speakers representing his class at the Commencement exercises, and ranked fourth in a class of 72 in eligibility for the Phi Beta Kappa society. He is now professor of mathematics in Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo. '98—-A. H. Brown teaches science and the mechanic arts in the J. K. Brick Normal and Agricultural School, Enfield, N. C. Miss O. O. Brooks assists A. B. Cooper ('96) in the Eddy High School at Milledge-ville. Miss Julia G. Childs is associated with J. A. Bray ('93) in the West Broad High School at Athens.