The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1890 no. 21

              NUMBER 21. ATLANTA. GEORGIA. OCTOBER, 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. Subscriptions at 50 cents 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 departments, with practical instruction in wood-working, iron-working farming, printing, cooking, sewing, and nursing, under the care of 28 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, 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 inquiries for further information, may be addressed to, Pres. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D. D., Atlanta,  Ga. TRUSTEES OF  ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. FOR  ONE   YEAR. 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   TWO  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. A. M.............Selma, Ala. FOR   THREE   YEARS. 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. FOR   FOUR  YEARS. Rev. A. H. Bradford, D. D..........Montclair, N. J. Rev. A. F. Beard, D. D............New York, N. Y. Rev. Jas. W. Cooper,  I). P.",......New Britain  CT Rev. L. B. Maxwell......................Savannah, GA Our enrollment on the   second  Monday morning of the term   reaches 425, with many still to   come who   have  already engaged places in the school. ------------«------------ In the interest of the health of the Institution in view of the defects of the city water, a new water supply is being provided for drinking purposes. The well near the summer house on the highest point of land on the east side of the brook and remote from all buildings, is being deepened and the old spring windmill is being moved to this point. By the combined efforts of this and the windmill on South Hall, an abundant and perpetual supply of pure drinking water will shortly be furnished through the old system of pipes. ----------—-•------------ With this number we enter definitely upon the plan tried tentatively in our June number, of publishing eight pages. In consequence of doubling the size of our issue, we shall be obliged to advance the price of subscription to fifty cents per annum, though subscribers at the old rate will continue to receive the paper till their subscriptions have expired, without additional charge. With this enlargement we shall have space for the insertion of a few advertisements of a select character. We have a large constituency at the North, among whom our paper circulates, as well as a constituency among our graduates, former and present scholars, and their friends, in the South. We believe that we offer a valuable medium for a certain class of advertisements, and while we do not ask any to patronize us unless they believe it to be for their interest to do so, we are ready to receive a limited number of advertisements at very moderate rates. Onr charges will be $1.00 an inch for a first insertion, and 50 cents an inch for each subsequent insertion. Our aim in admitting advertisements is to render our printing department self-supporting. In spite of the increase in our rates of tuition, we open with larger numbers than ever. Last year brought us many more students than ever before, and this year there are even more students than last. Especially is this true of the boarding department. Within two or three days from opening, all rooms were filled, and new comers placed on cots. What we are to do with the many more that are coming, and are anxious to come, is a serious question with the management. We could undoubtedly fill another dormitory with applicants. And then, behind these are the great number of those anxious to come and who, in some instances, have been waiting with this hope in view for years, but are excluded by the charges, in themselves small, but relatively to their means, large, which we are compelled to make. The great desire of the colored people of the South for education, which public provision does so little to meet, is a most touching, as well as noticeable fact. ----------------e---------------- OUR TEACHERS. As is usual every autumn, we announce a few changes in our corps of teachers. Miss Idella M. Swift has been promoted from her position in the grammar school to that of tutor in the College Preparatory and Normal department. Her place in the grammar school (to which Miss Merrill is not yet strong enough to return) is filled by Miss Julia A. Ellis,-a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 1884. Miss Sarah E. Harrington, a graduate of the Framingham (Mass.) Normal School, takes charge of our Primary School. Miss Hattie E. Clifford becomes Teacher of Music in place of Miss Rebecca Massey resigned. Miss Mary L. Santley returns to the position of matron in the North Hall, filled by her for a number of years in the earlier history of the Institution. To all these teachers, we extend a  hearty