ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA., Is a Christian Institution, unsec-tarian in its management and influence, wholly controlled by an independent Board of Trustees, and receiving no aid from city, state or national government, or benevolent society. Has 216 students in College, Normal, College-Preparatory and Sub-Normal departments, under 15 officers and teachers. Trains teachers and leaders of their race from among the sons and daughters of the Freedmen of the South.' Has sent out 275 graduates from College and Normal courses, nearly all of whom, together with hundreds of past undergraduates, are engaged in teaching and other useful work in Georgia and surrounding States. Owns four large brick buildings, on sixty-five acres of land, one mile from the centre of Atlanta, Ga,; library of 8,000 vols., apparatus and other equipment—-all valued at not less than a quarter of a million dollars. Having no endowment {except about $33,000, mostly for special objects), the Institution requires at least $20,000 a year in donations from its friends, to continue the work now in hand, and a fund of about $500,000 to put that work on a permanent basis. Annual scholarships of $40 each are asked for to provide for the tuition of one student for one year, over and above the nominal tuition fees paid by the student. ¦ Subscriptions of $100 and upwards, or any smaller sums, are solicited for general current expenses. Remittances of donations, or inquiries for further information, may be addressed to Pres. Horace Bumstead, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. John Howard Hincks. Born at Bucksport, Me., March 19, dover Theological Seminary. Ordained 1849. Removed in childhood, with his pastor of the . Bethany Congregational father's family, to Bridgeport, Ct., where Church, Montpelier, Vt, September 27, he received his early education. Gradu- 1877, and dismissed June 19, 1888. Was ated from Phillips (Andover) Academy, in Professor of History and Social Science 1868; from Yale College, in 1872; and and Dean of the Faculty in Atlanta Uni- from Yale Theological Seminary, in 1876, versity from October, 1889, until his death having previously studied two years at An- in Atlanta Ga., December 11, 1894. MEMORIAL N U M B E R.
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