The American Missionary — Vol. 33, No. 3, March, 1879Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Vol. 33, No. 3, March, 1879
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Prof. Bennett gave encouraging statements concerning Fisk University.
Prof. Spence is in Scotland; Prof. Cravath at his post, and the
machinery is running smoothly. The number of students is about as large
as usual; the religious interest not quite so decided as in former
years.
* * * * *
It was voted to invite the Congregational churches of the South to meet
in convention at Atlanta in November, 1880.
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GEORGIA.
=Atlanta University, Alumni and Students.=
PROF. J. F. FULLER, ATLANTA.
This is the _tenth_ year since the organization of this school. The
first class graduated from the higher normal course in 1873, and the
first from the college in 1876. Classes have graduated regularly from
both departments each year since. The _alumni_ number 52, of whom,
at graduation, 50 were professing Christians. With the exception of
three who are now pursuing a higher course of study, and one who has
died since graduation, these are all doing active work for the Master
among their own people, and, with others who have left school before
completing the regular course of study, are selecting and sending to
the University the more promising of their pupils.
The present year shows a larger number of students in attendance and of
a better class. Besides those already established in different parts of
the State, over a hundred of the students teach during the long summer
vacation in the public schools, and also engage in Sabbath school
work. It is estimated that during the year 1878 over _ten thousand_
pupils in the State of Georgia were taught by those educated at this
University. The influence of the school is commensurate with the number
of its workers, and that influence, now very marked, is constantly
increasing. The last catalogue shows 30 in the college classes, 37
in the preparatory, 72 in the higher normal, and 104 in the normal.
The buildings are of brick, plain, substantial and convenient, but
_inadequate_ to the present and prospective needs. The grounds are
ample—nearly sixty acres—and beautifully located in the outskirts of
the city.
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=Revival among the Students.=
REV. C. W. FRANCIS, ATLANTA.
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