The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-07-13
Remarkable
Influence
Is BEING EXERTED BY ATLANTA
BAPTIST COLLEGE UNDER
PRESIDENT HOPE.
Efficient Services
liz Preparing Young Men for High
Literary Work Makes the Institu.
ton Rank High in the Southland
Best Schools Represented in Fa-
Guilty.

Guilty.
Atlanta, Ga, July 10-The re-
markable influence Of the Atlanta
Baptist College, John Hope, presl-
dent serves to show in a peculiar
| manner the worth Of this Young
man and his intense interest in the
people among whom he works.
| without calling too much attention
| to that fact, it can not be denied
that his election to the presidency
OF Atlanta Baptist College, as radi-
| cal as 1t was in that he was the first
Negro elected to he head Of any of
the Home Mission Schools, was the
beginning Of a broader policy on
the part Of the American Baptis,
Home Mission Society, and one that
has endeared it very much to the
! Negro people.
Atlanta Baptist College is an IL
stltution that can point to long and
| efficient service for the Negro. That
service, in preparing young men for
| high literary work is equally as I'M
portant as any other training, and
the service is performed here in a
manner that makes the college Sec
| Ond to none in the South. Some
| graduated from the college course
here, going to Chicago University
have taken an A. B. degree in nine
for it's efficiency.
John Hope, is a graduate from
Worcester Academy and Brown
University, getting his education by
hard work, in much the same way
as other Negro boys have received
theirs. He rose rapidly in his pro-
fession, was a teacher in a school
at Nashville, later teacher in At
Ianta, and when a change was nee
essary because Of the resignation of
DR.. George Sale, he was made pres
ident of the Atlanta Baptist Col
lege.
nr. Hope declares that the cor
dial support Of the students AMI his
teachers, in the beginning da>s Of
his administration was largely re-
&poEsible for much of his success
ana that for several years, te tch ais
worked under high pressure, con-
81 lOhs Of the fo :t that the u-m st
tNer, ems must be put forth to make
the first Negro's administ: alton a
hoNling success.
As a result, >,ianta Bapti it CO..
leGe stands in tn \ front rank among
I'e;srD schools In the South; it's
boys are readily accepted iu At
lanta iomes and churches and COM
nIended for their gentlemanly de-
pOrtment. One surprising feature
| III connection with the discipline of
Atlanta Baptist College, is the fact
thar it is very. largely in the hands
| Of the students themselves. A Y. NJ
=. Is. Cabinet, composed Of the Of
Gcers Of the Y. M. G.. A. AMI one
i:Ie1nber from each class ccltr,'l
very largely the discipline a1nurg
| the students and exert a wholesome
influence.
in athletics the boys have wei
cared reputation for cleanliness,
and as d rule the athletes make the
! best students.
On the faculty are some ;nd:vid-
uals from the very best schools of
the country, among them, being Rev.
Roy l.. Van Deman, Franklin Col
| lcGc and Rochester Theological
SEMINARY; Rev. Catlett G.. Smith,
University or Chicago; Rev Edwin,
P. Johnson, Atlanta University;
Samuel II. Archer, Colgate; Mat
thew T. Bullock, Dartmouth; Cnns.
| II. Wardlaw, Atlanta Baptist and
| Columbia; Miss Claudia r. White,
| orellman and Oberlin; Robert p.
| Watts, Virginia Union and Harvard;
John r. Williams, Yale, Kansas
STAGE and Marquett Medical Col
leses; Miss George M. Starr, Pot
tsdam Conservatory Of Music, Mrs.
Maggie Rogers Howard, Miss Will
| hollnina Johnson Miss Camilla,
Neems, Spellman; Mrs. D. e. har-
vey, Roger Williams University; AL
fred y. Jones, Howard Medical COL
legc and others.
| The students for the most part
make good, and as an example every
graduate from the college Depart
ment this year has secured good
WORK. John f.. Davis and MOrueCai
" Johnson are members Of At'Hn:A
! kUpt:st faculty; Phillip NJ. Davis,
Principal Of one Of the city schools,
Birmingham, Ala; Samuel a.
i OMnes, student in theology and ls-
i kiSt&nt teacher; King d. Reddick
Alo Victor G.. Turner, teachers i'll
.Aiocricus Institute and John II.
Young, teacher in Lakeland. Iiorj-
da.