The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1897 no. 80

              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 306 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 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 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. The public rhetorical exercises the night of Jan. 15 were uncommonly good. Indeed, it seems to be true that all public exercises to which we have invited our friends this year have been very excellent. One reason for this seems to lie in the fact that our work in English is more concentrated this year than it has been heretofore. The weekly rhetorical exercises of the several classes, instead of being distributed among many teachers, are now almost entirely in the hands of two, Mr. Bumstead and Mrs. Herndon. Mr. Bum-stead has had most of the higher classes, and has selected the essayists. Mrs. Herndon, aside from having classes in composition, continues to give instruction in elocution as last year. The value of her work is very evident, and those whom she selects to give recitations prove the excellence of their training. In addition to the essays and recitations, the program is varied by vocal and instrumental music. Miss Haynes is happy in the selections she makes and effective in her training. Two members of our little community* have been called suddenly North for brief seasons. Miss Julia A. Ellis went to Na-tick, Mass., to the death bed of her mother. Rev. A. C. Reed went to Albany, N. Y., hardly expecting to find a sister alive. But by a wonderful providence that which had seemed inevitable was averted and life was spared. Rev. Martin Post, who, with his family, is spending the winter in Pres. Bumstead's house, preached for us most acceptably Jan. 24 and 31. The third lecture in our winter series was delivered Feb. 4 by Rev. C. L. Corwin, recently of Detroit. It was on Napoleon Bonapart, and illustrated by stereopticon views. Talk about bleak New England! Any New Englander transported to Atlanta Jan. 26-28 would have had no difficulty in imagining himself at home. There was no snow, but the ground was covered with frozen sleet and the wind was piercing. Travel was mostly suspended, for it was dangerous to both horse and man to be out on the street. There was much suffering in the city, and abundant opportunity for the exercise of charity. School kept right along of course, but necessarily with a diminished attendance on the part of day pupils. The young and vigorous can laugh, but we feel - excused in wishing for only one such "spell of weather" this winter. The day of prayer for colleges was observed Jan. 28 in the usual way, the afternoon exercises being given up for that purpose.' The praise service at 1.15 was conducted by Prof. Webster. Class prayer meetings were held from 1.45 to 2.30. The school was then favored with an address by Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor of the first Congregational church in this city. Mr. Proctor is a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale Theological Seminary. While in Yale he was counted as one of the most promising of their students. The work he has done in this his first pastorate has been excellent. About seventy have recently turned to God in special services in his church. His address was listened to most attentively, in spite of a temperature that made overcoats and wraps essential for comfort. In it he urged three thoughts, as appropriate to the day. The first was, the power and value of prayer; the second, the close connection between the student and the home, emphasizing what the home does so ungrudgingly for the student, and the return which the student should make to the home; the third, the need of a thorough preparation, both intellectual and religious, as the essential foundation for future work in life.