The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1895 no. 68

              NUMBER 68.                             ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                               NOVEMBER,  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 255 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 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 fro7n its ft lends, 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. The school year has opened auspiciously. The present enrollment exceeds by thirty the total enrollment of last year, and the attendance in the higher classes is a third more than last year. This is especially encouraging, from the fact that when the grades were given up a year ago, it was feared that this might cut off, to some extent, the supply of students for advanced work. The Freshman class is the largest in the history of the University. With the legacy from the estate of Mr. Cassedy, we are making some needed improvements, such as building a new bridge across Hunter street, putting new furniture into the dormitories, and painting Stone Hall and the barn. Very much more ought to be done in this line. Rev. Wm. P. Fisher, of Brunswick, Maine, is spending a few months at the University, and is filling an important gap by teaching a class in civics, and preaching each Sunday. He is also helping in Bible study and in English composition. He has plans for rendering other assistance in the work of the University. Mr. George G. Bradford of Boston, one of our newly-elected trustees, has spent several days at the University in examining patiently and thoroughly the Institution, and especially the finances and method of keeping accounts. He will make a report to the Atlanta University Association in Boston, of which he is treasurer. Before he left, he intimated that his disappointments were happy ones, and that the scope and importance of our work is much greater than he had supposed. Mr. Bradford is a prominent member of the Boston Quiz Club, which annually offers prizes to our students for composition and oratory. Thirteen new members were added to the Christian. Endeavor Society, and fifteen to the Young Men's Christian Association, Sunday, October 27. We print two letters from graduates that will interest their old school acquaintances, and also, we hope, other friends of the Institution, who will like to learn what our graduates are thinking and doing. We hope to have such letters for every number of the Bulletin. Will graduates please send them to us ? We have been favored with a large number of visitors the past month, and the following names are copied from our register : Hon.Wm. T. Harris, U. S. Commr. of Education, Washington,, D.. C; Daniel C. Gilman, President Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, M. D.; James MacAlis-ter, President Drexel Institute, Philadelphia; Rev. H. B.Turner, Chaplain Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.; Prof. H. H. Wright, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Cabell, Henderson, Ky; Arthur H. Bronson, Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. Charles T. Catlin, Brooklyn, N. Y.Geo. G. Bradford, Boston, Mass.; Mary Schenck Woolman, Teachers' College, New York; Mrs. K. N. Gere, Syracuse, N. Y.;< Grace H. Dodge, New York. John C. Poland, Boston, Mass.; Frank R. Wilkie, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Prouty, Spencer, Mass.; Prof. and Mrs. W. O. At-water, Middletown, Conn.; C. H. Harding, London, Eng.; Mr. and Mrs. George L. Lovett, West Newton, Mass.; R. D. Rich-ard, Summit, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Douglas, Plymouth Mass.; C. H. Piper, Jamaica Plain, Boston; Wm. E Benson, Towalega, Ala.; Mr. and Mrs. D.W.Wilder, Bellows Falls, Vt; Mrs. Estelle M. H. Merrill (Jean Kincaid), and Miss Grace S. Rice, Cambridge; Dr. Weidner and Miss Folsom, Hampon, Va.