The bulletin of Atlanta University, 1896 no. 78

              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 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. Since the announcement of a post- graduate course leading to the degree of A. M., inquiries have come from several graduates with reference to it. The faculty have accordingly settled upon a plan by which the degree may be earned. Its essential feature is, one full year of resident post-graduate work, or its equivalent. It is required that the work shall be resident except in the case of those of our own graduates whose record as students was very good. In such cases the full time of residence will not be required, but the full amount of work must be done. The details of the plan will be given to any applicant. It is a gratifying fact this year that more students than usual have entered our higher classes from preparatory schools. One has entered the Freshman class, and five the Senior Preparatory; all six proving to be very acceptable students. They represent Haines Institute at Augusta, Broad Street School at Athens; the Ware High School at Augusta, and the Howard Normal School at Cuthbert; all of them presided over by our own graduates. We hope that these and similar schools will continue to send us their students. Prof. W. H. Crogman (76) of Clark University has been appointed a member of the University Senate of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is temporarily acting as Vice President of Clark, having the oversight of the scholastic work, which he is prosecuting with vigor and success. Prof. Crogman is a finished orator as well as an able teacher, and a volume of his addresses is almost ready for the publisher. Its appearance is awaited with interest. The first public rhetorical exercises were held Dec. 11, and were unusually well attended by our friends in the city. The Ware Lyceum held its annual public exercises in memory of our first president, Edmund A. Ware, on the anniversary of his birth, Dec.22. The society is to be congratulated on the interesting program presented. Prof. Thos. N. Chase has returned to this country after his sojourn in Great Brit-ian. The trip proved beneficial to him and he is much improved in health. He and Mrs. Chase are spending the -winter in Washington. Christmas this year came on Friday, and the fall term closed the day before. It was quite a vacation to our pupils to have more than one day at Christmas time, and many of our boarding students took advantage of it to spend three days at home. Those who remained enjoyed themselves as best they could, having a sociable at North Hall Friday night somewhat out of the usual order. All were remembered at the "post office" that night, and spent a pleasant evening. There are now six states in the South in which the colored physicians have organized state medical associations. They are North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and Texas. There is a great need of thoroughly well equipped colored physicians. In the investigations now being prosecuted concerning the situation of the Negro in our cities, the help of the colored physicians is proving invaluable. The Senior and Senior Middle Normal classes have begun work in gymnastics. Miss Marvin has made a special study of the Swedish system the past summer, and is making use of it in her classes here. The Knox Herald has come to us, a monthly recently established by L. S. Clark ('87). It is issued from the printing department of Knox Institute, at Athens, of which Mr. Clark is the principal. The Institute is having a very prosperous year, having added to its previous courses, the Grammar and College Preparatory, an Industrial course. The American Missionary Association built during the summer a shop, which serves admirably for the giving of instruction in industrial work.