The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1889 vol.1 no. 8

              Vol. 1. ATLANTA, GA., MARCH, 1889. No. 8 THE BULLETIN Issued monthly during term time from the University printing office. Entered at the Atlanta. Ga., post office as second class mail matter.    .       fever    brought on    by    overwork   and exposure    on     a   lecture   trip     under- OF  ATLANTA . UNIVERSITY  taken in the interest of his   department. In his zeal to secure the $400 printing press, for which appeal has been made in previous numbers of the Bulletin, he Subscriptions at 25 cents a year may be sent to the set  out with his private lantern and some treasurer of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.                                                        borrowed Central African slides to give an                illustrated lecture   on Africa in  various Atlanta University,     | Churches and schools which were kind-                Atlanta, GA.,                        |   ly  opened to him for that purpose  He                                          Has 500 students in   College, 'Normal,                    |  lectured  successfully at three  points in College Preparatory, Grammar, and. Pri-                    | and near Atlanta, also at Rome and Ma- mary departments, with practical  instruct-                    |rietta,  Ga.,   and at Chattanooga, Tenn. tion in wood-working, iron-working, farm-                                    * inq, minima, cooking, sewing, and nursing,     :   At the   last named point he encount- under the care of 26 officers and instructors,                                   |ered    very    inclement      weather     and in four large brick buildings, surrounded by, became |60 acres of land within the corporate limits weatner     an damp    and     chilled     in       a , long   search   for   a   friend     whom    he of Atlanta, the land, buildings,  and outfit| desired to and in the city.He had already made large over-drafts upon his strength, and the exposure was consequently too much for him. While his illness has at times seemed very   critical  valued at a quarter of a million dollars; 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 at least $250,000 to put that work on a permanent basis. Remittances of checks or money orders, or enquiries for further information, may be addressed to, Pres.  HORACE  BUMSTEAD, D.D., Atlanta,   Ga. If the typographical appearance of this number of the Bulletin is not what it has been in former issues, or what it should be, the failure must be accounted for by the absence from the printing office of the searching eye and the deft hand of Mr. Arthur L. Shumway, the Superintendent of this department of our   work. For two weeks past Mr. Shumway has   been   critically     ill   with    malarial aud  such as to give us very serious alarm, there seems at this writing good ground to look for his recovery. For such a result we earnestly hope and fervently pray; for Mr. Shumway has already demonstrated his ability to render great service to our Institution, not only in his own department but in many other lines of work for which he possesses a remarkeble versatility of talent. We call the attention of our readers to a book by Dr. Atticus G. Haygood just published and entitled "Pleas for Progress". It is composed of various addresses delivered both in the south and in the north, which the public could ill afford to let slumber in the files of old newspapers or in dusty packages of pamphlets. Dr. Haygood is a live man and in gathering these addresses together into a volume he has made a live book, which all wide-awake people who take interest in the progress of our country in matters of education,   religion, temper- ance, purity, and other matters of reform, will delight to road.   Send address, with; $1.00, to A. G.  Haygood, Jr.,  Decatur, Ga., and receive the book, postage  paid. Among our visitors the past month was Rev. Wm. Gillies, D. D., Principal of the Normal School in Kingston on the island of Jamaica. Dr. Gillies is a Scotchman, was formerly Secretary of the. Bible Society of Scotland and also of the Tract and Book -Society of the same country, and is now giving a second period of service to the uplifting of the needy population of Jamaica. At the weekly gathering of our students, March 1st, he gave a very interesting account of the condition of things in Jamaica. The progress that has been made there in fifty years since emancipation, in matters of education, politics, business prosperity, and the softening of the race prejudice, was extremely encouraging. ------:------------:-----0_J-------------------- A SOUTHERNER'S   PLEA. Dr. Atticus G. Haygood is a southern man, a man of the people, a lover of progress, an experienced educator, a broad-minded Christian and patriot. It would be difficult to find a man more competent than he to utter such words as these quoted from his "Pleas for.Progress "-:— "Brethren of the north—of the strong and rich and populous, north—you have but just begun -You are. like the early settlers in the western wilderness when their first year's work is over: you have made a little clearing; the work of subduing the wilderness has just commenced. Hear me ! The children of this race are born faster than you are teaching them. The colleges you have planted are without endowments ; for a time they must be supported by your contributions, and these people are without money. Every year they will need more money, for the demand upon them increases: My office, as agent of the"John F. Slater Fund," has brought me much information on these matters. One thing I tell you : What you consider the best and strongest of your colleges and universities in the south are in the greatest need of money. Not because they have been extravagant, but because they have done their work so well that the demands upon them have outgrown their resources. And the demand increases steadily. They must not be strangled in their very cradles. The work upon which you have entered is the work of a hundred years. It cannot go on if you fail.'' Let us take Atlanta University as an illustration of the point made by Dr. Hay-