The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1889 vol. 1 no. 9

              Vol. 1. ATLANTA, GA, APRIL, 1889. No. 9. THE BULLETIN OF ATLANTA   UNIVERSITY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------•----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------¦— . Issued monthly during term time from the University printing office. Entered at the Atlanta. Ga., post office as second class mail matter. Subscriptions at 25 cents a year may he sent to the treasurer of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta University, Atlanta,   Ga., Mas 500 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory, Grammar, and Primary departments, with practical, instruction in wood-working, iron-working, farming, printing, cooking, sewing, and nursing, under the care of 26 officers, and instructors, in four large brick buildings, surrounded by 60 acres of land within the corporate limits of Atlanta, the land, buildings, and  outfit valued at a quater of a million dollors; with 184 graduates from College and Normal courses nearly all of whom together with many hundreds of past undergraduates are engaged in teaching and other useful work in Georgia and surrounding States. Having practically no endowment, the Institution requires at least $18,000 a year in donations from its friends to continue the work now in hand and a fund of about $250,000 to put that work on a permanent basis. Remittances of checks or money orders, or inquiries for further information, may be addressed to, Pres.  HORACE  BUMSTEAD, D. D., Atlanta,   Ga. Rev. C. L. Woodworth P. P., our Financial Agent, is prepared to answer inquiries or to deliver public addresses in reference to our work. Remittances may also be made to him. His address is Watertown, Mass. $8,000 to the University, we have had prominently in view the promotion of cordial relations between ourselves and the whole body of the people among whom we live. Previous to the well remembered events of two summers ago, we were rejoicing in an existing good feeling that was remarkable both for its strength and for the rapidity with which it had grown. The official relations which had brought the representatives of the State and University together had promoted mutual acquaintance, and mutual acquaintance had tended to foster mutual confidence and respect. # * We have good reason to believe that the disturbance of these pleasant relations was more the result of a political accident than of any growing hostility to the University or its work. And we have even better reason to believe that there exists in the State among the more influential people of all classes, a genuine feeling of regret that any misunderstanding should have arisen. In the negotiations incident to the recent attempt to adjust our differences, a new opportunity was afforded for the expression of mutual and kindly feeling, which was not neglected by either side. So that, even in spite of the apparent failure of the effort, we feel that much has been gained. President Bumstead has gone to the North to spend a few weeks in assisting Dr. Woodworth, our financial agent, in raising the funds needed for the current year. Various causes have hindered the collection of funds thus far. The excitement of the presidential election in the autumn, accompanied and followed by the disastrous shrinkage of railroad stocks and the cutting down, or cutting off, of the dividends of many of our friends— have been among the prominent hindrances. Only some $5,000 of the $18,-000 needed has thus  far  been secured. But as the spring months have hitherto brought us our richest harvest, we appeal to our friends with strong confidence that they will not suffer the University to mar the record of its first score of years of active work, to be completed next May, by incurring for the first time in its history a troublesome debt. With profound sorrow we record the death of Mr. Arthur L. Shumway, the Superintendent of our printing office. In our last issue we spoke of his illness which b^gan Feb. 17, in an attack of typhoid malarial fever. Though his case seemed almost hopeless at times, he was apparently on the way to recovery when an attack of pneumonia set in which ended his life at 10 o'clock on the morning of Sunday March 24, five weeks, almost to an hour, from the time when he first took to his bed. His mother was with him the last three weeks of his life and his father reached Atlanta a few hours after his death. In another column, we give some account of his life and of his work among us. This is the second time within the current year that death has invaded the ranks of our teachers. Mr. Alvord and Mr. Shumway were born in the same year, just seven days apart, and now, within four months, have followed one another from faithful service in Atlanta University to their   well earned rewards in heaven. -------------------?-------------------- AN   EFFORT TOWARDS HARMONY. We have already stated in the Bulletin that the Georgia Legislature last December renewed the appropriation of $8,000 to Atlanta University, but did not modify the conditions which prevented us from drawing the money a year ago. It seemed desirable to discover how far this recent action was prompted by a genuine desire on the part of the representatives of the State to resume the alliance of former years with the University, and whether such desire A prominent Southern man said recently to one of our teachers : "I have been travelling all over the State of Georgia, and every-where I received the most favorable reports of the work done by your students as teachers in the public schools. I was told that they possessed not only the education but also the character requisite for such work, and that they did as good work as is done in the white schools." In renewing our application to the State authorities for the payment of the