The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1897 no. 87

              NUMBER 87.                                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                                   DECEMBER,   1897 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 aud 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, We welcomed a brief visit Nov. 22 from Miss L. L. Chapman, Lady Principal of the Tuskegee Institute. The Y. W. C. T. U. presented a very pleasing temperance program in the prayer meeting room Friday night, Dec. 3. Thanksgiving was observed, as usual, by a sermon in the morning and a sociable in the evening. Our holidays are so few that all are appreciated. A change has been made in the noon hour, by which the city students resume their study at 12: 30 and classes begin at 1: 00. The change gives general satisfaction. Rev. E. P. Johnson ('79) conducted our devotions one morning recently. He was in Atlanta as chairman of a committee of Baptist clergymen, here to influence the legislature not to cut off $400,000 from the state appropriation for public schools. A valuable collection of rocks, obtained for the University through the influence of Prof. Webster, has been moved into an unfinished room in Stone Hall. At some future day we hope for the systematic arrangement, and perhaps the enlargement, of this collection. At morning devotions recently Mrs. Case read the address of Hon. P. L. Smith of Oakland, Tex., before the Farmers' Improvement Society. Mr. Smith, who was once a student here, has been previously referred to in our columns as a member of the Texas legislature, president of the society above named, editor of the Helping Hand, and in general as a useful and influential citizen. The address was full of good thoughts. Our Graduates, '82—Henry L. Walker, former principal of Ware High School, Augusta, Ga., is principal of one of the city grammar schools while the case of the High School is pending in the courts. '86—L. M. Hershaw, clerk in the General Land Office at Washington, has recently received a promotion and an increase of salary. Mr. Hershaw is president of the Bethel Literary Society, a well known and prosperous organization now entering upon its seventeenth year '88—An interesting stereopticon lecture on Africa was given in the Ware Memorial Chapel Nov. 29 by Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hoyt. Mrs. Hoyt is one of our graduates, from the Normal class of 1888. '93—H. M. Porter, Esq., has joined Hon. Judson W. Lyons in the practice of law at Augusta, Ga, The firm is doing an excellent business. '94—John DeB. Jackson has left his position in Western College, Macon, Missouri, to accept the prin-cipalship of the public school of Mexico, Mo. Mr. Jackson has recently been married to Miss Brookins, a recent graduate of Western College. '96.—Miss Fanny T. Habersham is teaching in Burroughs, Ga. '97. Stephen A. Peters has recently entered into business at Norfolk, Va. Misses Annie M. Brown and Anna B. Hooker are teaching in the Howard Normal School at Cuthbert, Ga.,a school of which F. H. Hender-son('79) has been principal for several years. Miss Nellie H. McNair is temporarily employed in the orphanage of Mrs. Dinah Watts Pace ('83), who is now absent in the North.