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...excellence of the institution and its advantages to the State are acknowledged by even its enemies. Five sixths of the colored teachers in Atlanta are graduates of the university and a large proportion is found in all the cities of Georgia. The Atlanta University deserves support for its stubborn attempt to elevate the colored race and to extinguish the hated race distinction in one of the most advanced and prosperous of the Southern States. It is amalgamating the two races by showing to the oppressors what useful citizens the members of the proscribed race become when properly treated...
...real character, and his fame as a warrior and poet was long preserved by tradition. Singlehanded he put hundreds to flight, and with a few followers dispersed the armies of Chosroes, King of Persia. The field of Arabic poetry is comparatively unknown even to the most cultivated, and this attempt to bring it within the reach of the public is most welcome. Mr. Jewett is a recent graduate, who has just returned from a stay of three years in Egypt and Syria, where he has been studying the Semitic languages. He has been appointed instructor to supply the place...
...office, and so there will be no change in the powers of the president. Thursday night the students serenaded both Dr. Cosh, whose place it will be hard to fill in the hearts of undergraduates, and Dr. Patton, both of whom made short speeches. The latter said he would attempt to carry out the policy which Dr. McCosh had inaugurated and would make no changes in the government of the college. The news of his election created great enthusiasm, as those undergraduates who have been under his instruction are devoted to him. He preached yesterday in the college chapel, which...
...movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...
...Story," by the same writer, is an article which embodies some startling ideas. It is a description of a Harvard's man's attempt to conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...