This is a marvelous institution. It is a reproduction of New England,
and that the finest; therein lies its supremacy and its _offense_.
The Glenn Bill, designed to ruin the institution, has had the usual
effect of such devices; it has improved decidedly the fortunes of the
school. Nothing advances a cause like persecution; the peculiar
advantage and irresistible power of the University are more manifest
than ever, and in the space of a few months it has gained a
reputation over the country, and won a place in the hearts of all
good people, which twenty years of ordinary work could hardly have
done; still, we must not be blind to the fact that this is _really_
due to the twenty years of hard work, prayer and self-sacrifice.

When the books of Heaven are opened, it will then be seen how much
of silent self-sacrifice, how much of grand living and grand doing,
is set down to these Southern missionaries. Much called inglorious
now, will be glorious then, and "the last shall be first."

The anniversary exercises of the University commenced on May 24, by
oral examinations, which continued two days. They were in all
departments, classical, normal, preparatory and industrial. The
classical department, though small, as in all these institutions, has
always been very high in Atlanta; the chief advance, however, the
past few years, has been in the normal and industrial divisions, and
this appeared in the fact that all the graduates this year, numbering
thirteen girls, were in the normal department. The work is done by
teachers from the North, experienced in the best normal methods,
and nothing on the Southern field can be more vital and important.
Three-quarters of the students going out from these higher
institutions devote themselves to teaching, and when the North has
some realization of the dense ignorance of the Southern black