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Located in Atlanta, Ga., was one of the pioneer schools for the freedmen and their children.

Scarcely had the last guns of the late war ceased firing when the founders of this institution began the work from which has developed what now answers to the name of the Atlanta University, said by many to be the foremost and best equipped school in the South attended by the youth of the freedmen.



About a mile out from the center of the busy city, but connected with it by electric cars, are its seventy acres of land, four large brick buildings, a large barn and three cottages, two of which are the homes of the president and one of the professors.

The following clipping from the Atlanta University's leaflet. No. 4, will give some idea of the character of the school: