The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1898 no. 90

              NUMBER 90.                                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                                           MARCH,   1898. ATLANTA   UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA., Is a Christian Institution, unsec-tarian in its management and influence, wholly controlled by an independent Board of Trustees, and receiving no aid from city, state or national government, or benevolent society. Has 300 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory and Sub-Normal departments, under 23 officers and teachers. Trains teachers and leaders of their race from among the sons and daughters of the Freedmen of the South. Has sent out 317 graduates from College and Normal courses, nearly all of whom, together with hundreds of past undergraduates, are engaged in teaching and other useful work in Georgia and surrounding States. Owns four large brick buildings, on sixty-five acres of land, one mile from the centre of Atlanta, Ga., library of 10,000 volumes, apparatus and other equipment—all valued at not less than a quarter of a million dollars. Having no endowment {except about $33,000 mostly for special objects), the institution requires at least$25, 000 a year in donations from its friends, to continue the work now in hand, and a fund of about $500,000 to put that work on a permanent basis. Annual scholarships of $40 each are asked for to provide for the tuition of one student for one year, over and above the nominal tuition fees paid by the student. Subscriptions of $100 and upwards, or any smaller sums, are solicited for general current expenses. Remittances of donations, or inquiries for further   information,  may  be addressed to Pres. Horace Bumstead, D. D., Atlanta, Ga On The Campus. Rev. Martin Post has begun another series of historical discourses to our students. The topics are : 1. Leo the Great, or the Beginnings of Popery. 2. Mohammed, or the Crescent and the Cross. 3. Charlemagne, or the Church entering the Middle Ages. 4. Hildebrand and the Road to Canosa.    5. Martin Luther. Aside from visitors named elsewhere in this column, we have had the pleasure of seeing Messrs. Chas. Sawyer and S.W. Wilder of Bellows Falls, Vt,,Mr.B. F. Wyman of Lancaster, Mass., and Hon. R. L. Smith of Oakland, Texas. Mr. Smith's remarks to the school are referred to elsewhere. Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., of Worcester, Mass., and Mrs. Merriman paid us a flying visit Feb. 25. It was Mrs. Merriman who designed the beautiful memorial windows given by graduates in memory of Pres. and Mrs. Ware, and Dr. Merriman has for years been one of our trustees. Rev. Ellsworth Bonfils, who has been one of our workers for the past year and a half, has resigned. He enters at once upon his new work as pastor of the Auburn St. Congregational church of Paterson, N. J. The monthly rhetorical exercises continue to be well attended, and the parts are well sustained. The exercises Feb. 18 were very good indeed. Dr. D. H. Mann, a representative of the National Temperance Society, addressed the school the morning of Feb. 18. Rev. John W. Ballantine of Ridge-field, Conn. gave a talk to the students on India the night of March 3. He is a native of that country. Our Graduates. In the Atlanta public schools there are employed forty colored teachers. Of these no less than twenty-seven are graduates of Atlanta University. '73—The Hunes Journal, published at Haines Institute, where Miss Lucy C. Laney is principal, reports : "Our total enrolment is 407, seventy of whom are boarders.'' '76—Rev. G. W. F. Phillips is now pastor of a Methodist church in Brunswick, Ga. '79—Rev. E. P. Johnson of Madi-son was elected a trustee of Spelman Seminary Feb. 18. He is also a trustee of the Atlanta Baptist College. '85—We have recently received a copy of the Lamson School Observer, published by the Lamson School in Marshallville, of which Mrs. Anna (Wade) Richardson is the principal. In a letter just received Mrs. Richardson, like so many of our graduates, expresses her hearty interest in every thing that concerns Atlanta University. '93—H. M. Porter. Esq., was a speaker at the Augusta celebration of Lincoln's birth-day, Feb. 12. '94----The Tuskegee Student in speaking of Principal Booker T. Washington's Emancipation address at Jacksonville, Fla., remarks that " the following eloquent speech of introduction was made by Prof. James W. Johnson, Principal of the Colored Grammar School." It then prints in full Prof. Johnson's introductory address. '96—No less than six of the Normal graduates of this class are teaching in the city schools of Atlanta.