The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1896 no. 72

              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 265 students in College, Normal, College Preparatory and Sub-Normal departments, under 23 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 285 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 volumes, apparatus aud 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. Sometimes our students say that this college is not like other colleges in certain respects. The reply is that circumstances are different and, if they were not, we would not like to imitate other colleges in some things. Hazing for instance never has been known here. On the contrary new students are treated with great kindness and consideration by old ones and a young man who is awkward and shy or even one who puts on airs is made to feel at home here and learns from the start that he is among friends. One thing that makes our college unlike many is the small number in it. On this account there is less room for hazing and • other evil customs. Another difference lies in the poverty of our students. They cannot afford luxuries and injurious diversions. Then our college differs from most in its pronounced -religious atmosphere. The teachers come here with a missionary spirit, and the students are from Christian homes. The New Testament idea of life is all the time kept in the foreground. Another feature here is the home life. The statement in the catalog that it is desired as far as possible to make the school a home for those who attend and that not only their intellectual, but also their physical, social, moral and religious culture receives careful attention, is not simply on paper, and the word social might well be put in italics. At present, all the teachers but one board and lodge in the dormitories, and with the students, constitute one large family, under a maximum of home and a minimum of school regulations. The plan looks to the good of the students, rather than to the comfort of the teachers. On account of the inability of our students to pay a high rate for board and tuition, every one is required to work an hour a day for the Institution. All who have any reduction in rates must work two hours a day. By this method, the care of the buildings, dining-room work, some of the cooking and sewing, many of the repairs, and some of the farm work is done without serious interference with the literary work of the University. This system is doubtless incidentally beneficial to the health of the students, especially since most of them have been accustomed to manual labor. In addition to the work of one hour a day by all the students and two hours by some, all the college preparatory students go to the shop an hour and a half a day, and the girls in the family have gymnastics a half hour in the evening. All of this labor and training tends to work off the surplus energy of the young people, and affords them a good amount of needful physical exercise. Because of the poverty of our students and the physical exercise of various kinds which they get from their regular work and duties, there is not so much room or call for athletics. Naturally, the baseball grounds are not much used, and even when a match is on the tapis, the preliminary practice is largely neglected. Still, as a matter of fact, much work and little play does not to any extent in this case make  "Jack a dull boy." But, after all, do sweeping, dusting, printing, carpentering, blacksmithing, tinkering, farming, grading, cooking, dishwashing, sewing, washing, calisthenics, etc., do away with the need of a gymnasium ? Even if they afford the requisite amount of exercise, do they bring into play all the muscles and forces sufficiently ? Do they not fail, in a large measure, to furnish the proper scientific basis ? While the need of a gymnasium is not so imperative as it might be, is there not still a reasonable demand for it ? By utilizing a large room that is not much used, and the services of two teachers who are competent and willing, a small sum of money for equipment would provide a useful gymnasium, although not an ideal one. The recent sudden death of President H. S. DeForest, of Talladega College, called vividly to mind the even more sudden death of our President Ware, eleven years ago. Both had served their respect five institutions the same length of time. President DeForest combined so many qualifications for his work that a worthy successor will be difficult to find. He was valedictorian of his class in Yale University, was an eloquent preacher, served in the war for the liberation of the slaves, and, most of all, was a warm and enthusiastic friend of the colored people, in whose abilities he had unbounded faith. His work for them was a labor of love. Duriug his sixteen years of service he did much to build up Talladega College materially, while he put first the Bible and Christianity. The high appreciation of his character and work, expressed by students and other friends, must afford consolation to his sorrowing widow and children in this hour of their sad bereavement. It may be said in truth that he rests from his labors and his works do follow him.