The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1897 no. 79

              NUMBER 79.                                       ATLANTA, GEORGIA.                              JANUARY, 1897. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, GA., Is a Christian Institution, unsectarian 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 30S 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 tip-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, Not They Who Soar. Not they who soar, but they who plod Their rugged way, unhelped, to God Are heroes; they who higher fare And, flying, fan the upper air, Miss all the toil that hugs the sod. 'Tis they whose backs have felt the rod, Whose feet have pressed the path unshod, May smile upon defeated care, Not they who soar. High up there are no thorns to prod, Nor boulders lurking 'neath the clod To turn the keenness of the share, For flight is ever free and rare; But heroes they the soil who've trod, Not they who soar. Frederick Douglass. Oh, Douglass, thou hast passed beyond the shore, But still thy voice is ringing o'er the gale! Thou'st taught thy race how high her hopes may soar, And bade her seek the heights, nor faint, nor fail, She will not faint, she heeds thy stirring cry, She knows thy guardian spirit will be nigh, And, rising from beneath the chast'ning rod, She stretches out her bleeding hands to God! Dawn. An angel, robed in spotless white, Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night. Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone. Men saw the blush and called it Dawn. Paul Laurence Dunbar. The Atlanta University Association of Boston and Vicinity tendered a very pleasant reception to President and Mrs. Bumstead in the rooms of the Boston Art Students' Association, on Wednesday, Dec. 9. The receiving party consisted of Mrs. William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Mr. Richard P. Hallowell and the guests of honor. In the course of the afternoon Mr. George G. Bradford gave an account of the investigation which our graduates are now conducting into the conditions of city life, and especially the causes of excessive mortality among the Negroes. Emancipation Day was celebrated, as usual, by public exercises in the chapel under the auspices of the Phi Kappa society, the night of Jan. 1. Not only was the program good in itself, but every body was thoroughly happy. For the game, the outcome of which had been so anxiously looked forward to, had been played and won. In the city the principal emancipation exercises were held in the Friendship Baptist church, under the auspices of the Negro Historical Society. The chief speaker was President R. R. Wright ('76), of the Georgia State College in Savannah. As the Constitution says, he is "one of the best known as well as one of the ablest Negro orators of the South." His subject was; The Danger Signals in Our National Progress. It was an admirable address, in which the speaker raised danger signals at the following points: Unhappy homes, untrained children, a corrupt ballot, unsafe leaders and a tendency to forget God and Christianity. The Academy Letter comes to us, a monthly published by the Florida Baptist Academy, at Jacksonville. The president of this school is N. W. Collier ('94), who has been connected with it since he graduated here, and who has been made president this present school year.