The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1890 no. 15

              No. 15 ATLANTA UNIVERSITY JANUARY, 1890 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.           Subscription at 25 cent a year may be sent to the treasurer of Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., Has 650 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory.  Grammar, and Primary depart-ments, with practical instruction in wood-work-ing, iron-working, ------------printing, cooking, sewing, and ---------- under the care of 26 officers and instructors in four large brick buildings, sur-rounded by 6 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 teachin and other useful work in Georgia and surround- ing states. Having practically no endowment, the Institu- tion requires at least $18.000 a year in donation from its friends to continue the work now in hand and a fund at about $250,000 to put that work on a permanent basis.   Remittances of checks or money orders, or in-quires for further information, may be ad- dressed to,- Pres. Horace Bumstead., D.D., Atlanta,   Go., The closing   months-" of the calendar year are always the most trying months for our treasury.  Payments from students ¦are small because   they do not receive, until the holidays the   wages for their summer's ' school-teaching.     Donations ' from our  friends  are likewise small, most of them' preferring" to give between January and  June. The New Year is now begun. The students'payments have already begun to increase, but not enough to meet the heavy liabilities already incurred for their tution and board during  the past three months. Donations must also increase, and that largely, to enable us to main-t;un our credit with those to whom we are indebted for necessary supplies. In view of our debt of $.10,000 for last year, will not some of our friends  increase the amount of their gifts this year? Some   of our TRUSTEE OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY FOR ONE YEAR. Rev. Wm. J. White,........................Augusta, Ga. lev. Jas. W. Cooper,  D. D.,......New Britain, Ct. Rev. Dana Sherrill, A. M.,..............Marshall, III. lev.. A. F. Board. D. D.,..........New York, N. Y. FOR TWO YEARS. lev. C. L. Woodworth, D. D.t ...Watertown, Mass. lev. Joseph E. Smith, ........Chattanooga,   Tenn. Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop............Sherwood, Tenn. lev. Lewellyn Pratt, D, D.,.............Norwich, Ct. FOR  THREE YEARS. lev. Horace Bumstead, D. D.,..........Atlanta, Ga. Richard R. Wright. A . M.,............Augusta Ga. lev. M. E. [Strieby], D. D.........New York N. Y lev. Edgar J. Penney......................Selma, Ala. FOR FOUR YEARS Re. Joseph H.Twichell,..............Hartfod, Ct. Rev. Cyrus W. Francis, A. M.,.........Atlanta, Ga. Thomas N. ---------.......................Denver, Co.  . Rev. James ------, -------..........................................Oberlan, --.. friends who have not linen money' have  influence  which can secure money. Two years ago one such friend (whose gift of less  than $50. was a noble one for him) was able, by friendly suggestions and letters of intro-duction, to secure for. our work more than $1,000. A dozen friends like him would soon have our debt paid and our treasury full. Will not you, good reader, be one?- EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Boston, Mass., Dec. 31, 1889. After an interval of seventeen years, I am enjoying the privilege of spending the holiday month in this city of my childhood. In the midst of work for the University, my eyes and cars arc being continually reminded of the wonderful character of this New England civilization. Not a day passes that does not offer some attractive feast for intellectual, spiritual or artistic taste. Even to walk the streets at this holiday season and look into the shop windows with their 'infinite variety of wares for the Christ- mas  trade 'is- an   experience not  easily, duplicated elsewhere. Soon after my arrival here, a  three days meeting of  National Evangeli-cal Alliance was held in Tremont .Tem-. ple,which  made a profound impression; upon the community. Seldom has such an array of able speakers from so many different denominations of Christians, and from, so many different parts of the country been brought together upon the same platform.  Seldom  has so much good practical common sense in regard to the work of our common Christianity been crowded into the addresses of any religious gathering. It was my privilege to  attend three of the nine sessions. The-addresses of Archdeacon Mackay-Smith, (Episcopalian) of New York, of Dr. Hoge, (Presbyterian) of Richmond, of Dr. Parkhurst, (Presbyterian) of New York, and of Dr. Phillips Brooks, (Episcopalian) of Boston were especial-ly stimulating. At one point when a subject had  been  thrown open for discus-sion, several of the volunteer speakers got badly off the track and the presiding officer, Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, was obliged to remind the audience that it would be well to stick to the subject. "If any one," said he, "has any practical suggestions to make as to  how all Christians can unite in the work of their common Lord we shall be delighted to hear him." Then up rose a colored Episcopal cler-gyman from Texas, who said: "I should be recreant to the race I represent, if I did not respond to such an invitation as that." And then followed a ringing speech on the co-operation of Christians without regard to race or color, the eloquence of which elicited the loudest applause from the great audience; and at the close of the session the speaker was called upon to pronounce the benediction. Another  event of the past month has been Mr. Henry W. Crudy's brilliant