The bulletin of Atlanta University, no. 13

              No. 13. ATLANTA, GEORGIA. NOVEMBER, 1889 THE BULLETIN OF ATLANTA  UNIVERSITY Silver Medal received at the Piedmont Exposition. 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 be sent to the treasurer of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., Has 575 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory, Grammar, and Primary departments, with practical instruction in wood-work-ing, iron-working, farming, printing, cooking, sewing, and nursing, under the care of 26 officers and instructors, in four large brick buildings surrounded by GO acres of land within the corporate limits of Atlanta, the land, buildings, and outfit valued at a quarter of a million dollars; with 200 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 in quiries for further information, may be addressed to, Pres. HORACE  BUMSTEAD, D. D., Atlanta,   Ga., TRUSTEES OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. FOR ONE YEAR. Rev. Wm. J. White,......'................Augusta, Ga. Rev. Jas. W. Cooper,  D. D.,......New Britain, Ct. Rev. Dana Sherrill, A. M................Marshall, III Eev. A. F. Beard, D. D.,..........New York, N. Y. FOR TWO TEARS. Rev. C. L. Woodworth, D. D., ...Watertown, Mass. Rev. Joseph E. Smith, ........Chattanooga,   Tenn. Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop............Sherwood, Tenn. Rev. Lewellyn Pratt, D, D.,.............Norwich, Ct. FOR THREE YEARS. Rev. Horace Bumstead, D. D.,..........Atlanta, Ga. Richard R. Wright, A . M.,............Augusta Ga. Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D.,........New York, N. Y. Rev. Edgar J. Penney,.....................Selma, Ala. FOR   FOUR   TEARS. Rev. Joseph H.   Twichell,..............Hartford, Ct. Rev. Cyrus W. Francis, A.M.,.........Atlanta, Ga Thomas N. Chase, A. M..................Denver, Col. Rev. James Brand, D. D....................Oberlin, O. Six weeks of the new academic year have passed, and in that time the enrollment of students has considerably exceeded the total enrollment of any previous year in the history of the Institution. In 1887-88, the total enrollment reached 518. The following figures show the attendance as we go to press: College Course,..........................16 College Preparatory Course,...........44 Normal Course,..........................80 Grammar Course,.......................320 Primary Course,........................115 Total...............    575 Boarding Pupils,.......................197 Day Pupils,..............................378 Total................    575 This large increase in attendance has greatly taxed our resources in the matter of seating capacity, dormitory accommodations, and teaching force. New recitation rooms have had to be extemporized, new desks and chairs for school rooms and recitation rooms have had to be ordered, and also new cots, bedding, tables and crockery for the boarding department ; and two new teachers have had to be engaged to assist in the teaching. On every hand we are taxed to our utmost capacity, and never has the need of enlarged accommodations been so sorely felt as at present. This need is especially felt in the direction of a new school building for our Grammar and Primary work. Up to the present time this work has been carried on, with many limitations and embarrassments, in the basements of the two dormitories. And yet, much as we need money for enlarged accommodations and increased equipment in various lines of our work, we are willing to wait for these things if we can only put our present- work on a permanent and stable foundation. We must have enlarged donations to meet our current expenses, and we ought to have an endowment to deliver us from the hand-to-mouth method of living to which we are now subjected. Sometimes an institution is fully endowed by a single individual. We should not be disposed to quarrel with any man or woman who desired to monopolize that opportunity in regard to Atlanta University. At the same time, we are not inclined to wait for an endowment to come in that way, because we know that it is likely to come, as the endowments of most institutions do, from a considerable number of givers. And, if we were to choose, we should much prefer the latter method. A fund of $250,000 given by five, or ten, or twenty-five or fifty warmhearted friends of our work would mean more for our future success than the same sum given by one individual. We already have a little over $30,000, mainly scholarship funds, and most of this has come in sums ranging from $500 to $10,-000 from as many as eight different donors. We, greatly desire a few single gifts of $30,000 each to endow professorships.