The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1897 no. 85

              NUMBER 85.                                     ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                                OCTOBER,   1897. 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 290 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 317 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 9,400 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 up-wards, 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 opens this year with a large attendance. There is an increase over what it was last year at this time, indeed the number has already almost reached last year's total, which was 300. The present enrolment is, approximately : college, 30 ; normal, 135; preparatory, 65; subnormal, 45; total, 275. — ----------------------------------- Pres. Bumstead was with us the first ten days of the school year. He then returned to his work in the North, leaving us wishing that we might be rich enough to get along without the necessity of his almost constant absence. --------------------------------------------- Prof. Webster spent six weeks of his vacation in the University of Chicago, pursuing special studies in the line of higher mathematics and Chemistry. The rest of the time he passed, with his family, in the more restful occupation of visiting old friends and acquaintances in New England. We congratulate our sister school in Atlanta, Clark University, on the selection of a permanent president, the Rev. Charles M. Melden, Ph. D. Dr. Melden comes here from a pastorate in Maiden, Mass., is admirably equipped for his work, and is entering upon it with every promise of excellent success. ------------------------------------------------- The quartet had a pleasant trip, and a fairly profitable one, during the summer. It was composed of G. A. Towns ('94), R. W. Gadsden ('97), E. L. Simon ('00), and A. Seng-stacke ('02). The proceedings of the conference held here last May have been published during the summer by the Atlanta University Press, in a neat pamphlet of 86 pages, entitled "Social and Physical Condition of Negroes in Cities." This pamphlet has been favorably reviewed by many papers. It can be obtained by subscribers to the  Bulletin,  upon  application. Among the many notices of our sociological conference last May, one of the moat .appreciative and suggestive was found in an article by Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D. D., "Among Colored Educational Institutions," published in the Outlook of June 19. ----------------------------------------------------- The presence of Prof, and Mrs. Chase seems natural. Both are well, having evidently profited by their year of comparative rest. ----------------------------------------------------- In accordance with a recent vote of the faculty, honors will hereafter be given, at the end of their Sophomore and Senior years, to those college students who have maintained a certain average rank. The designating phrases to be used are : With Highest Honor ; With High Honor ; With Honor. The first award, to the class of 1899, is as follows: With High Honor; Carrie Elizabeth Brydie, Tena Beatrice Johnson, George Francis Porter. With Honor; Joseph Taylor Porter, William Andrew  Rogers. ------------------------------------------ In the August Atlantic is an article by Prof. DuBois, "Strivings of the Negro People." Prof. DuBois' pen has. already won much public attention.