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as a part of their instruction. The girls spend a portion of one
year, during the normal course, in the" Model Home," where
they put into practice all the principles of housekeeping in which
they have been instructed. There is increasing demand for
graduates of Atlanta University as teachers in industrial school,
and many of the graduates hold important positions in such
schools throughout the South. This industrial training is given
only in connection with the academic work. Every student,
before graduation, is required to spend at least one year - his
senior year - as a member of the boarding department. This
association of the students with each other, and with the teachers
!n the school family, is considered an important feature in their
right education, and is a powerful influence in the lives of the
students, arousing them to the best that is in them, when other
influences fail.
Atlanta University is more than a mere institution of education,
it is a home. The school" Home" is a center of the school
influence. From the first, among the ideals entertained by the
university is one that may be designated as " Home Building."
Officers and teachers kept before the minds of students and their
parents the desirability of securing land and homes, and when,
at the beginning of a summer vacation, students by the scores,
• were sent out to teach school in small towns and rural districts,
among other injunctions it was impressed upon them to encourage
and assist the people among whom they were to labor
to buy land, and make themselves homes. The effect of this
policy is shown in the statistics of egro property in Georgia, and
while, of course, other influences in addition to Atlanta University
have been at work in this direction, yet the influence of this
institution has been a potent factor in the increase of property
from nearly nothing in .1860 to a real value of more than thirtyfive
million dollars at the present time.
Studying Social Problems
The university has become a center for careful, earnest, and
minute study of Jegro problems. A department of social
inquiry has been established, and an annual. conference has been
held to study problems of the egro. The social studies revealinO'
actual conditions amon" the Negroes have included the b b ~
following topics since 1896:
" Mortality among Negroes in Cities"; "Social and Physical
Condition of Negroes in Cities"; "Some Efforts of Negroes for
Social Betterment"; The Negro in Business"; "The College
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Bred Negro"; "The Negro Common School"; "The Negro
Artisan"; "The Negro Church"; "Crime among Negroes ";
" The Health and Physique of the egro American"; "Economic
Cooperation among Negro American ."
Under the direction of Prof. W. E. Burkhardt DuBois is
published the annual eries of these valuable sociological studies
which have brought Atlanta niversity out a a world-wide
repre entative of students of ociology.
The opportunity for effective service by Atlanta University
is limited by the meager endowment received for the work.
The total assets, including the building and invested funds,
amounts to about $350,000, of which $72,000 is in the form of
endowment. The annual budget is about $60,000, and the
university is dependent upon gifts from friend for raising nearly
$40,000 of this amount. The imperative need is such an enlargement
of its present insufficient endowment as shall, in a
large degree, save it from the necessity of incessant and harassing
solicitation of money for running expenses, and will enable it to
strengthen and enlarge its work, by enlarging its facilities and
teaching staff. Legacies for the endowment of current expenses
should be made payable to the trustees of Atlanta University in
Atlanta, Ga., and witnessed by three persons. Checks, money
orders, or registered letters may be sent to President Edward
T. Ware, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., and they will receive
prompt acknowledgment.
Mount Meigs Colored Institute, Waugh, Ala.
FOUNDED 1881. Seven teachers and 312 students in 1908.
This institution i the outgrowth of Tu kegee Institute, but i
chartered under the laws of Alabama. The amount needed for
annual expenses is $2,500, secured from contributions from the
friends in the North and from friend of the work in the community
where the chool i located.
Sterling Industrial College, Greenville, S. C.
D. M. Minus, President
FOUNDED 1896. Property, $11,000. Income for current expenses,
1907, $3,000. Eight teachers, 185 tudcnt. Has a
summer school attended by farmers from three counties. The
school draws its pupils moslly from the farming class, and
seems to be an outgrowth of natural demands.
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