The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1895 no. 63

              NUMBER 63.                                  ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                                 MARCH,  1895. 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, Co llege-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 fiends, to continue the work now in hand, and a fnnd 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 up- wards, or any smaller sums, are solicited for general current expenses.  Remittances of donations, or inqui-ries, for further information, may  be addressed to Pres. Horace Bumstead, D. D, Atlanta, Ga. Although the abstract in another column of the talk of Mrs. Lucy E. Case, upon the Atlanta University exhibit at the Midwinter Exposition, comes rather late, it will not fail to interest. The lesson of stick-to-a-tiveness will not be lost upon the school. Mrs. Case has been connected with the school from its beginning, and is the " mother of all the boys." The exhibit received a diploma and first-award medal. We were glad to have our students see and hear Miss Susan B. Anthony, because she is one of the prominent women of this age, and because, whether the equal suffrage movement succeeds or fails, her name will go down in history. Our students will enjoy telling their grand-children how they heard Miss Anthony speak while they were studying at Atlanta University. The public meetings of the recent national convention of the Woman Suffrage Association, held in Atlanta, were at De-Give's Opera House, and the colored people were not required—as usual—to go to their places in the gallery, via the back alley, but were permitted to enter the front door of the building. We have been favored with short visits from Dr. Frissell, Miss Ludlow and Dr. Waldron, of Hampton Institute. Their presence and words were helpful and inspiring. Miss Ludlow said that one of the things that had interested her most was the name, " Gasway," on a door  indicating, as she was told, that an old student had given $25 to furnish a room. Our Graves Library has received as a donation from Hon. Edward L. Pierce his Memoirs of Charles Sumner, in four large volumes, published by Roberts Bros., and Sumner's Works, in fifteen volumes, by Lee & Shepard. Several of our alumni are sending a small donation to the school each month, and some others are quietly getting together money to be forwarded soon. There has appeared in some newspapers a statement that Mr. George M. Ward, of Andover Theological Seminary, has been offered the position of Dean of Atlanta University. This statement has no foundation, in fact. The Executive Committee exhausted their authority by appointing Professor Thomas N. Chase Dean for the rest of this year. Further action must proceed from the Board of Trustees. It is due to Mr. Ward to add that he was in no way responsible for the erroneous statement, and was greatly surprised at its publication.  The death of Rev. S. Graves,. D. D., who was for nine years President of the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, occurred soon after that of our Professor Hincks. For four years the two labored within sight of each other, in close friendship, and with a common aim. In the funeral sermon, Rev. Dr. Jackson said of Dr. Graves: '' Seventy-five years of honorable life he lived—fifty years of continued service in the work of his Master. Not one day of the fifty years was he out of the harness. Either in the pulpit or the professor's chair the years passed on, each leaving the result of faithful work until the end came, and he passed peacefully and joy-fully to his reward." The University is feeling the effects of the low price of cotton. Fathers sent their sons and daughters here in October, expecting to have money with which to pay their board and tuition. But when cotton went down they found their pockets empty, and, in many cases, have been unable to meet their obligations to  the   school.