The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1891, no. 24.

              NUMBER  24.  ATLANTA, GEOEGIA. MR. FAYER WEATHER'S BEQUESTS. Bowdoin  College............................................ $100 000. Amherst   College..........................................     100 000. Williams College..........................................    100 000. Dartmouth College...........'.............................    100 000. Wesleyan University.....................................    100 000. Yale University.............................................    300 000. Columbia College.:........................................    200 000. Union   Theological Seminary........................    50 000. University of Rochester.................................    100 000. Hamilton College..............................¦.........    100 000. Cornell    University.....................................    200 000. Lafayette College...........................................     50 000. University of Virginia.................................    100 000. Lincoln University......................................    100 000. Hampton Institute........................................    100 000. Maryville College.........................................    100 COO. Marietta College............................................      50 000. Adelbert College........„..................................     50 000. Wabash College.............................................      50 000. Park   College..............................................      50 000. Total...................................................$2,100 000. Most of our readers have probably read in the daily and weekly press the above remarkable list of legacies to twenty institutions of learning made by the late Daniel B. Fayerweather of New York. There are special reasons why such a list should be reproduced in the columns of the Bulletin. In the first place, we wish most heartily to congratulate our sister institutions on the good fortune which has come to them. There is not a college or school on the entire list that does not, as we believe, richly deserve the benefaction that has been bestowed. There are, doubtless, several times twenty college presidents in our country who could amend Mr. Fayer-weather's list in just one particular, by the insertion of their own omitted institutions, and thus make the list simply perfect. But it is probably fortunate for the cause of education at large that Mr. Fayerweather did not have too many advisers in making out his list, for he might have become so bewildered and disgusted as to abandon his beneficent project altogether. For ourselves, we see no occasion for envy but only for rejoicing. We are especially glad that our work for the Freedmen has been remembered in the gifts to Hampton Institute and Lincoln University. But there is another reason why we wish  to assist in giving this matter  the JANUARY, 1891. 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. Advertisements $1 an inch for first insertion, 50 cents each subsequent insertion. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., Has 650 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory, Grammar, and Primary departments, With practical instruction in wood-ing,  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. Wood worth, 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, D. D,,.,.„,New Britain, Ct Rev. L. B Maxwell,........„,.„.,.,.....Savannah, Ga.  widest publicity. We wish to hold up  Mr. Fayer weather's example as one worthy to be imitated by other men of wealth. We wish also to call especial attention to the very great amount of good that can be accomplished with a comparatively small amount of money. Two million, one hundred thousand dollars is but a small fraction of the wealth of quite a large number of individuals in the United States; and yet here are a score of useful institutions of learning that are greatly assisted in enlarging their usefulness by this same sum of money bestowed by one individual. Among the Fayerweathers of the future—we know that more of them are coming—we hope there may be one who will remember especially the larger and more useful institutions for the education of the Freedmen in the South. At least a dozen such institutions could be named which possess fine equipments of land and buildings, are managed by able and devoted men and women, and are thronged with students. The ample endowment of these institutions in our Southland would have an influence on the welfare of the South and the entire country unequalled, as we believe, by the endowment of an equal number of institutions in any other part of the land. And among them all we do not believe that there is one where $300,000 could be placed to better advantage than in Atlanta University. A Congregational pastor in a Northern state who was formerly in the service of the American Missionary Association in Atlanta, and who when here sent his son to attend the classes of Atlanta University, to the great scandal of a legislative committee, writes to us as follows: " Thanks to the thorough training in Latin received there, my son stands among the best in his class in that department in college, and I remember that there were at least three of the colored boys at Atlanta University who surpassed him"