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322  and justifiable assurances for continued progress and sure development.

It has been and is still the purpose of the Atlanta University to send out men and women of any race or nationality who may have gained admittance within its walls, rounded and well-equipped in mind and character to uplift their fellows-men, to give special service helpful to those with whom they must come in immediate contact in life.

The past and present assure us that its labors are not in vain, and that ere long this whole Southland will feel more effectually than now its influence for developing true worth in men and women.

This lady of the rostrum was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and remained in that State till two and a half years of age, when her father died and her mother, Mrs. F. E. W. Harper, moved to the East, where Mary spent most of her early life. She received her early primary training in the public schools of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometime later they moved into the State of Massachusetts, where Mary finished her education, graduating with honors. Afterwards she taught school in Virginia for several years, and also in Maryland. She had previously