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Series III DECEMBER. 1937 No. 19

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Entered aa eecond-claaa matter February 28. 1935, at the Poat Office at Atlanta. Georgia, under the Act of Auguat 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at apecial rate of poatage provided for in the Act of February 28. 1925. 638, P. L. & R. Page 2 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1927

Atlanta Citizens Welcome University’s New President

‘I like Atlanta. ‘1 knew you would,’ he said, ‘for there AtlantaRufus E.citizensClementextendedat a massa meetinghearty welcomeheld on Novem¬to Dr. you will find some of the finest people in the world. ber 7 in the f irst Congregational Church. Several “And here I have found these people, beginning with the hundred citizens filled the auditorium to capacity to pay people on the campus, the people in the affiliated system, tribute to the new head of the Atlanta l Diversity system, and in the other institutions—at the School of Social Work, who took office on July 1, 1937. at Clark, at Morris Brown, at Gammon—everywhere I have Two-minute talks by representatives of local organiza¬ found a most cordial reception—just as I have found here this afternoon. tions, professions, and businesses were made by Dr. Charles I). Hubert, Acting President of , who "I realize the immensity of the task which confronts me. spoke for the Atlanta colleges; Attorney Austin T. Walden, Perhaps no one in this house is more keenly conscious than who spoke for the professional men; and Principal C. L. I of the responsibility, as well as the opportunity which Harper, of Booker T. Washington High School, who repre¬ goes with the position. But it will not be ‘Travelin Through sented the public schools. For religious organizations Dr. an Unfriendly World.’ I shall have problems, and there will W. A. Fountain, Jr., President of , be heartaches, but there will be friends, and joys, and com¬ spoke for the Methodists; Dr. M. L. King, of the Ebenezer pensations. I shall not always be right—I shall not always Baptist Church, spoke for the Baptist Ministerial Alliance: see eye to eye with my friends. You will not see eye to eye and Reverend John C. Wright, of First Congregational with me in all matters, but all 1 ask is the spirit that has Church, conveyed the sentiments of the Interdenominational gathered you here—that we may have mutual trust and that Ministerial Union. Mr. C. A. Scott, general manager of the we may realize that only through uniting our efforts may Atlanta Daily World, spoke for the press, and the women we do the thing that is possible to be done here in Atlanta of Atlanta were represented by Mrs. H. W. Pitts, supervisor by all of these great institutions working towards one goal. of the Carrie Steele Home. The business men’s representa¬ “So I tive was Mr. Jesse B. Blayton, President of the Atlanta Negro pledge you that I shall attempt to do my best, what¬ Chamber of Commerce. ever that may be; that I shall work earnestly at all times to foster and further the spirit which prompts this meeting Local alumni associations participated on the program today. We must cherish the spirit of cooperation as it exists and chose as their speakers the following: Mrs. Ida E. between Atlanta University and the affiliated Brittain, for Spelman alumnae; Mr. W. T. Cunningham, for colleges, and the other educational institutions of Atlanta, and we must be Clark alumni; Reverend E. M. Hurley, Pastor of Warren sure that this Memorial Chapel, for Gammon alumni; Mr. C. W. Greene, spirit extends to the business and professional life of Negro Atlanta. for Morehouse alumni; Dr. R. A. Billings, for Morris Brown alumni; and Mr. B. J. Jefferson, for the alumni of the At¬ “We expect to work with you and we expect you to work lanta School of Social Work. with us, and may I ask that as I pledge my support, you yours Appropriate music for the occasion was furnished by the pledge again, that working together we may reach the Booker T. Washington High School, Morris Brown College, high ideals, that we may approximate the great goals which our illustrious the Harreld String Quartet of Atlanta University, Morehouse predecessors have set for all of us.” College, and . Prayer was offered by Rev¬ erend E. C. Mitchell. Dean of Morris Brown College, and Affiliated Schools Have World Situation Reverend W. R. Wilkes, pastor of Allen Temple A. M. E. Church, pronounced the benediction. Eugene M. Martin, Explained by Experts president of the Atlanta University Alumni Association, was On October chairman of the citizens’ committee on arrangements. 28, at the first assembly of the academic year in Howe Memorial Hall, Ben Ames, American war corre¬ Just before the benediction, Verdelle Jackson, a student in spondent and journalist, and a Fellow of the Royal Geo¬ the Atlanta b Diversity Elementary School, presented a basket graphic Society of London, in his first lecture four days of roses to Dr. Clement with the words, “Entire Atlanta after W elcomes Vou. arriving in this country from Spain, spoke to the fac¬ ulties and students of the affiliated schools on the present In response to the many fine tributes paid to him, Dr. situation in war-threatened Europe as he has had oppor¬ Clement said. “I should be ungrateful should I not say just tunity to observe it. At the close of his lecture, the speaker a word to you on this occasion in order that you might know showed several films of motion pictures of the destruction how deeply I appreciate what you have said and all your wrought in Spain, which he had taken, oftentimes at the presence means here today. I confess, however, that it was risk of his life. unnecessary that you come to this place to make me feel as Another speaker whose knowledge of the European situa¬ I do now, for since I arrived in your city I have experienced tion qualified him to give a graphic picture of foreign a very cordial reception. I have found everywhere that you affairs was Kirby Page, well-known author and a former were willing to take me in and make me one of you and editor of The World Tomorrow. Mr. Page, known as one of to believe in me and trust me in many matters. the great present-day advocates of peace, spoke at the first “Not long ago I was at the bedside of a very dear friend University Convocation of the college year on November 29 who is recovering from a grave illness, and he called me by in Sisters Cbapel on the subject, “W hat Shall We Do About my first name, for he was my father’s friend. I said to him, Italy, Germany, and Spain?” December, 1937 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 3

Noted Educator-Scientist Joins Faculty Howard, of the laboratory high school faculty, who is working toward her Ph.D. in the French language. Dr. Otis \\ illiam Caldwell, professor emeritus of educa¬ At Cornell University in Ithaca, New A ork. is Miss M. tion of Teachers College, Columbia l niversity, and one of Lenore Robbins, an instructor in home economics at Spel- the most distinguished of American teachers, writers, and man College, who is continuing her work towards the Mas¬ scholars in the field of teacher training and school admin¬ ter’s istration, joined the faculty of Atlanta University in Sep¬ degree. Two members of the University faculty, Dr. Mercer Cook tember as \ isiting Professor of Education. Dr. Caldwell and William H. are is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance¬ Dean, able to study this year because of ment of Science and holds the position of general secretary fellowships awarded them by the Julius Rosenwald Fund in of this major scientific society. April, 1937. The awards were based on achievement and Dr. Caldwell is by training a biologist. His interest and promise and were made to thirty Negroes in the l nited activity in the larger field of education developed as an out¬ States, out of five hundred and forty applicants. Dr. Cook, growth of his years as a professor of biology, first at Eastern who is to sail from New York in February, 1938, for a nine Illinois Stale Normal School, where he served from 1899 to months’ residence on the continent and in the French \A est 1907. and later at the University of Chicago, where he was Indies, has recently had his latest textbook, “Portraits Amer- associate professor of biology from 1907 to 1913, and later icains,” accepted for publication by the University of was professor of biology and dean of the college. In 1917 Chicago Press as part of the Heath-Chicago French Series. he left the l niversity of Chicago to become professor ot Mr. Dean is spending the year at Harvard l niversity to education and director of the Lincoln Experimental School further his study of the factors in regional migration and of Teachers College, a position Columbia University, he held the growth of cities. until 1927, when he was appointed director of the Division of School Experimentation. He retired from Columbia Uni¬ versity as professor emeritus in 1935, and has since devoted University Players Open Season With time largely to his work with the American Association for Greek Tragedy the Advancement of Science, which has kept him in touch In the production of Robert Turney’s “Daughters of with many of the leading educators and scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Atreus,” the 1937-38 season of the l niversity Players got under Dr. Caldwell is a native of Lebanon, Indiana. He was way on the evenings of November 19 and 20. Under the skilled direction of Miss Anne M. graduated from Franklin College in 1894, and received his Cooke, this newest degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of version of the Agamemnon-Flektra legend of several family Chicago in 1898. In 1917 his alma mater, Franklin College, murders introduced many new faces to the campus theatre¬ conferred on him the degree of doctor of letters. In addition goers. The splendid acting in the play has been the source to his work as a teacher and college administrator, Dr. Cald¬ of much favorable comment and high praise, and its smooth well is the author of a number of texts on botany, general running performances were made possible by the excellent science, and education, and has been a frequent contributor work of the technical stall. to scientific and educational journals. His latest book oil Latest efforts of the University Players are devoted to tbe press is the new edition of “Do You Believe It? a scien¬ sponsoring a contest for amateur playwrights, which opened tific treatment of was prevailing superstitions, which written on November 21 and will close on Februar) 1, 1938. The in conjunction with Gerhard E. Lundeen, of McPherson, winners of the contest will be rewarded by having their Kansas. plays produced later in the year with a selected cast of stu¬ dents under the direction of a member of the dramatics Seven Faculty Members on Leave of Absence faculty. Studying for advanced degrees in their respective fields and completing researches during tin* present vear are seven Paintings on View in Exhibition Gallery members of the faculty of the Atlanta I niversit) system. Atlanta l Clarence A. Bacote of the department of histor) in At¬ niversit) opened its Art Exhibition Series for 1937-38 on October 10. with a group of about twenty color lanta I niversity is at the l niversitv of Chicago, where he is reproductions of paintings by foremost American painters. working toward the doctorate* in American history. Like¬ The works were assembled and circulated 1>\ Living Ameri¬ wise at the l niversit) of Chicago, for a part of the year, is can Art, Incorporated, of New A ork City, and covered a \x ide John Hope, Jr., a member of tbe economics faculty of range including landscapes, portraits, "till life and Atlanta l niversitv. and the manager of the l niversit\ Book imaginative compositions. Painters like Eugene Speicher. Henrv McFee, Maurice Stern, and Reginald Mai "h had Shop. Columbia I niversity has attracted two members of works in this collection. the l niversitN - facult\ and stall James Alexander Hulbert. The second exhibition of paintings on November 7 dis- an assistant in the l niversit) library, who is enrolled in played the most recent works of Hale Woodruff. I his was advanced courses iti library science, and Miss Camilla the artist's first showing in Atlanta since 1935. Page 4 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1937

.. . Unto Men of Good Will” My dear Friends:

If we are ever to have the kind of world you and I would like to see—a world of peace and happiness, a world without poverty and slums, a world in which crime has been reduced to a minimum, a world without greed and hate and lust and prejudice, a world of healthy, eeonomically-secure, spiritually-minded human beings—some of us must refuse to he discour¬ aged by the rather fearful conditions now existing on our globe.

In the face of wars we must continue to build for peace; we must plan an economy in which every able-bodied person will have an opportunity to earn enough to provide a decent living for himself and his dependents. Each young person in every new generation must he afforded that training of hand and heart and mind that will assist him in planning a life of sobriety, of honest toil and righteousness. We must make every man see that conflicts, wars, oppression, persecution and crime will not cease until each in his own heart conquers the hates and fears and greeds and prejudices which are the foundations of all human turmoil.

Ibis is the program to which Atlanta re-dedicates itself at the beginning of the New Year. We shall continue to point out the higher way of life to the young Negro men and women whom it is our good task to serve. We shall teach them the nobility of honest labor, we shall inspire them to put forth their best efforts in the service of mankind, we shall train them for specific tasks. We shall teach them to play as w'ell as to work wholesomely. We shall guide them towards a proper ap¬ preciation of their fellow's and of their God. We do these things led on by our faith that friends of the University, new and old friends, believe that this work is emi¬ nently worthwhile, and that they, therefore, will support it. Try as we can, cut and save as we do, Atlanta l niversity can¬ not exist without continual support in the form of the annual gifts from these friends.

So we appeal again to you, that you will make a contribution to our work. In this year of the Recession, you may under¬ stand that unless our friends are generous, the work of the University will suffer. We believe that you are interested in the sort of thing we are trying to do at Atlanta University, in our important work of preparing young Negro men and women for meaningful, serviceable life.

If won t you agree with us, you be good enough to mail your contribution to the University at once, using the form below' if you desire. Sincerely yours,

Rufus E. Clement

To Eugene M. Martin, president of the alumni asso¬ 1938. ciation, is due much of the credit for the success of this cen¬ Atlanta University tennial celebration, which w'as participated in by educational Atlanta, Georgia leaders in the city, outstanding alumni of Atlanta Univer¬ I enclose herewith $ as my sity, and close friends of the Ware family. Appearing on contribution to the Current Expenses of Atlanta Uni¬ the program were President Rufus E. Clement of Atlanta versity for 1937-38. L niversity, President Florence M. Read of Spelman College, President Matthew S. Name Davage of Clark University, Miss Amy A. Chadwick, the former superintendent of the Leonard Address Street Orphans Home, Professor Asa H. Cordon of Georgia Please return to the President, Atlanta University, State Industrial College, and Dr. E. R. Carter, of Friend¬ Atlanta, Georgia. ship Baptist Church. Musical selections were furnished by Mrs. Mildred Wimberley Rosette and Richard Durant.

following the last number on the program, the children Atlanta of the University Alumni Observe Oglethorpe school formed a candlelight procession and marched from the 100th Anniversary of Birth of Founder chapel out on the campus, where they placed a wreath on the boulder that marks the grave of The one hundredth Mr. \\ are. The was anniversary of the birth of Edmund service closed with a brief prayer by Asa Ware was observed on December 22 by the alumni and Bishop W. A. Fountain. friends of Atlanta University in Ware Chapel. Present on Immediately after the ceremony the occasion as the principal speaker was Mrs. Gertrude at the grave, the large wended its Ware Bunce, the youngest daughter of Mr. Ware and a throng way to the Atlanta University Women’s former kindergarten teacher at Oglethorpe, whose quiet Dormitory where an informal reception was tendered to Mrs. Bunce. Here a basket of beautiful flowers was dignity and gracious manner recalled to many of those presented present other members of the Ware family, to whom belongs to her as a token of the esteem in which she is held by the the honor of formulating the ideals of Atlanta l niversity members of the Atlanta University Alumni Association and in its pioneer days. other Atlanta friends. December. 1937 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 5

Chorus of 90 voices from the affiliated institutions at the eleventh annual Christmas Carol Concert in Sisters Chapel

at these concerts were Carols Usher in Christmas Season at “Pat-a-Pan,” a carol of Burgundv, suggestive of the fife and drum, and the English carol, “The Spelman College Holly and the Ivy.’’ Three European carols by the Spelman Glee Club, a A truly great event on the calendars of the affiliated group of Negro spirituals by the Morehouse Glee Club, and schools is the annual Christmas Carol Concert, which suc¬ an organ solo by Kemper Harreld were included on the cessively each year attracts a larger audience eager to hear evening’s program. this seasonal offering. Outstanding of the closing numbers was the arrangement December the 17th marked the eleventh year that such an of the Negro jubilee, “Roun" de Glorv Manger,” which was entertainment has been held in Sisters Chapel, on the discovered by Mr. James in South Georgia and arranged b\ campus of Spelman College. The custom of giving Christ¬ him for a chorus of mixed voices. This jubilee was pub¬ mas Carol Concerts was inaugurated at Spelman College lished for the first time in November, 1937, b\ G. Schirmer in 1927 by President Florence M. Read, and since that time & Company, largest publishing house of classical music in the concerts have become a tradition during the Christmas the United States. season in Atlanta. 1 he hearty participation of the great audience with the Coming as a surprise to the audience was the Prologue, a chorus in singing “Go Tell It on the Mountain” made a stir¬ Negro spiritual, “Behold that Star," sung b\ the Morehouse ring final number before the choristers left the platform. Clee Club in tin' entrance of the chapel just after the candles were lighted, and preceding the procession of the choristers Chemistry Professor at Atlanta University into the chapel. The concert was given under the general direction of Kemper Harreld, director of music in Spelman Awarded Highest Degree and Morehouse Colleges, assisted by \\ illis Laurence James, Dr. Kimuel A. Huggins was awarded the highest academic who conducted tin* Spelman Clee Club, Mrs. Naomah Wil¬ degree in chemistry by the l niversity of Chicago at the liams Maise, who played the organ accompaniment, and close of the summer session, lie has the distinction of being Miss Florence Harris, a student in Atlanta l Diversity, who the second member of his race to receive the Ph.D. in ehem- was assistant organist. istn from this institution. Pleasing to the throng were the familiar songs of Christ¬ Dr. Huggins’ dissertation entitled “Studies in the Di- mas, as well as the Hungarian, French, German, Polish, methvlbutadiene Series was written under the supervision Burgundian, Czech, and Negro folk songs of the Nativity, of Dr. I rving E. Muskat, a former member of the facultv at some of which have become a traditional part of this Christ¬ the l niversit) of Chicago, who is now research director at mas celebration. Two new numbers sung for the first time the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Barberton, Ohio. Page 6 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1937

The Case Extension Circuit Cooperative

wooden cups and combs. But the religious influence in their Extension Circuit art Anew idea in art educationCooperativerepresentedis enablingl>y theAtlantaCase is very strong, and native craftsmanship was evident in University this year to offer to the students and facul¬ the anklets, pendants, carved heads, and items of personal ties of the A fill i ated schools loan exhibits of inestimable adornment which were on display. value. The unique features of this cooperative have aroused Sixteen examples of lettering and illumination in Eu¬ great interest in museum and educational circles throughout ropean Manuscripts from the 12th to the 17th centuries were the country. shown from November 20 through December 4. The exhibit The a idea of cooperative arrangement by which a group displayed the great care lavished on the manuscripts which of institutions may provide for themselves a series of ex¬ were written on parchment and vellum and decorated with hibits was first conceived by Mr. John Davis Hatch, Jr., of pigments. New York, in 1935 when in the course of his visits to Negro Perhaps the most unusual showing was the fourth exhibit colleges he found a deplorable lack of art materials, and of biographical material relating to the life of Prince Saun¬ withal an eagerness on the part of the colleges to secure ders, a Vermont-born Negro who rose to great prominence them. Because the colleges were willing to pay for such in the early period of our country. The story of Saunders materials hut were limited in funds, the idea of a cooperative in connection with the of Haiti was seemed development effectively practical. told through the labels in the exhibit, which contained views of Haiti Fourteen of the leading Negro colleges were invited to during the lifetime of Saunders, a copy of the Amer¬ ican edition of join the group, and nine agreed to do so with the 135th Haitian Papers, which was published in Street Branch. New York Public Library, each contributing Boston in 1818, a book from the printing shop of the Em¬ one hundred dollars to defray the expenses of the exhibits peror Christophe in Haiti, portraits of Prince Saunders and for the year. William Wilberforce, and other historical material.

To assist the group to inaugurate the plan, the Carnegie Corporation donated three exhibit cases to each founding member, and the Harmon Foundation agreed to be respon¬ 1,309 Students Enrolled in sible for the necessary clerical work and to handle the prob¬ Atlanta System lems of distribution for the first year. University The cases in which the exhibits are housed are interesting The Atlanta and attractive in design, and highly practical for the pur¬ University system has registered this year pose. Each case is six feet long and two feet wide, made of 1,309 students in every department of the University, from the natural finish mahogany and provided with a glass top and nursery school for children of pre-school age through the six-inch deep glass sides. A cork cover on the top of each graduate school of liberal arts and sciences. table is an excellent background for any type of label or In the Graduate School, 107 students representing 35 exhibit, and the depth of the glass sides makes it possible different colleges are enrolled in ten departments. Of this to include small dimensional objects. number, 66 are full-time students, and 41 are part-time. The three cases are placed in the foyer of the Atlanta Uni¬ The undergraduate colleges likewise have registered large versity Library—a convenient location for anyone passing numbers of students. In Spelman College the enrollment has in or out of the library to view. reached the highest figure in its history since it has been The exhibits are displayed at each center for a minimum offering work solely on a college level, with a total of 350 of sixteen days, to include three week-ends. Of the seven young women registered. The freshman class is the largest on record with 152 students that have been worked out for the present year, four already taking first year work. There are enrolled in the have been on display: upper classes, 81 sophomores, 64 juniors, and 53 seniors. The first exhibit of Japanese Woodcuts carried fourteen Morehouse original color prints by the leading Japanese print makers College has enrolled 379 students. There are 149 freshmen, 85 from Masanobu to the present time. The labels attached to sophomores, 76 juniors, 66 seniors, and 3 unclassified students. the prints explained the characteristics of each artist repre¬ sented. the In the type of life depicted, and described the taste of laboratory school, which is operated in connec¬ Japanese people during the lifetime of the artist. tion with the University’s department of education, 155 students are The second display of original African Negro Carvings enrolled in the elementary grades, 1-6. and 198 in the aroused much interest. The African Negro has found artis¬ higher grades, 6-12. tic The expression in making many of the ordinary implements nursery-kindergarten, conducted as a child develop¬ of everyday use, such as wooden spoons, bronze weights, ment center, has enrolled 120 students. December. 1937 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Pape 7

President and Mrs. Clement Washington described the farm demonstration projects of the New Deal Administration as similar to the program pro¬ Honored at Formal Reception vided by his father for the Negro farmers of Alabama many years ago. During the four days he spent on the campus as a guest of One of the outstanding social events on the campus during Spelman College, Richard Hurst Hill. Executive Secretary the early fall was the formal reception held by President to the President of Howard h Florence M. Read in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Rufus E. Clem¬ niversity, met with various student groups and addressed services at ent. Several hundred local alumni, faculty members and the chapel Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. Mr. Hill concluded his visit on friends of the affiliated schools were present at the affair, December 5, at the Sunday afternoon Vesper Service at which was held on the first Friday evening in October. Spelman College. The scene of the event was the spacious dining room of Morgan Hall, which for the evening was colorfullv deco¬ rated with gorgeous dahlias, roses, magnolias, and stately Morehouse Freshmen Choose Business Careers palms. At one end of the hall were twelve removable panels, painted by Hale Woodruff, suggesting scenes about the That better opportunities are gradually developing in the field of campus throughout the months of the year. Incidental music business for trained young Negroes is perhaps one by a string trio was furnished during the evening. of the reasons that business is listed as the first choice of at In the receiving line were President Florence M. Read. profession by the freshmen class Morehouse College this Dr. and Mrs. Rufus E. Clement, and Dean Jane Hope Lyons year. Medicine is the next largest field indicated, with gov¬ of Spelman College. Members of the faculties of Atlanta ernment service, teaching, law, and the ministry following in the order named. l niversity, Morehouse College, and Spelman College as¬ sisted in the receiving of the guests and in serving the A survey of the 1937 graduating class at Morehouse re¬ refreshments. vealed that only two graduates out of a class of 71, largest class on record to be graduated, were out of work. Seven¬ teen of the men are Spelman College Entertainment Series Provides studying for advanced degrees, 27 are employed as teachers, two have gone into the ministry, two World Famous Artist and Variety of Lectures into government service, and 23 are employed in various fields throughout the country.

A Morehouse alumnus in the class of 1935 was recentlv As a major offering in the Entertainment Series of Spel¬ honored by the University of Toulouse in Toulouse, France, man College for the year, the concert of Harold Bauer, world when he was made a docteur de EUniversite insti¬ famous pianist, thrilled a large audience in Sisters Chapel by that tution. on Thanksgiving eve. Mr. Bauer's program included six numbers from Handel, the famous Beethoven Sonata, opus No. 57, better known as Last Old Building at Spelman Torn Down the “Apassionata ; Schumann’s “Papillons, opus No. 2; On October Brahm s Rhapsody in E Flat, opus No. 119; Debussy s “ I he 18, just before the destruction of the Barn, the Sunken Cathedral”; and the popular Chopin Scherzo in C last of the five frame buildings which had been used as Sharp minor. officers' barracks during the Civil War, and which had housed Mr. Bauer came to Spelman College under the auspices of Spelman College after the purchase of this site in the Association of American Colleges Concert project, or¬ 1883, several hundred students, alumni, and faculty mem¬ bers ganized for the purpose of giving college students the oppor- gathered to commemorate this building, which in the tunity of coming into close acquaintance with musicians of early years of the school had been used as a dormitory. merit. While on the campus, Mr. Bauer met informally with The services of commemoration were opened in Sisters several of the classes and musical organizations of the Uni¬ Chapel by the united singing of the old hymn, “Carry On,” versity system. after which the entire assemblage marched, through a heav\ On Thursdav afternoon, November 11, Mr. Charles Craw¬ downpour of rain, to the Barn, located at the southwest end ford Gorst. one of America’s leading naturalists, delighted of the campus, where the program was continued. an audience in Howe Memorial Hall with his interesting As a representative of the alumnae. Miss Johnnie Louise lecture. “Snaring Bird Songs. Mr. Gorst, who is endorsed Fowler gave the students an insight into the living conditions hv such eminent scientists as the late John Burroughs, T. of the Gilbert Pearson. sceretar\ of tin* National \udubon Society, Spelman College of the earl) days, and challenged them to achieve Frank \1. Chapman, editor of “Birdlore. and W illiam greater tilings in life with the comforts that are theirs today. The students were 1 inlev. famous bird photographer, was awarded recently the represented b\ Eloise John Burroughs Medal In the \merican Museum of Natural l sher, a member of the senior class and chairman of the Historv in New York City for his remarkable work with Com mu nit\ Council. bird songs. The present student body, which is the largest on record since work has been offered on a strictly “Perpetuation of the Spirit of Booker 1. Washington was college level, in¬ cludes the subject of a talk In Booker T. Washington. Jr., on lues- representatives from twentv-seven states, the District day afternoon, November 30, in Howe Memorial Hall. Mr. of Columbia, and two foreign countries. Page 8 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1937

British Colonial Officials Visit Atlanta Dr. Clement stopped in to attend the meeting of the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for University Negro Youth which was in session at . There he took part in the panel discussion on the subject of To Atlanta University on October 6 came a party of dis¬ graduate instruction for Negroes. tinguished British Colonial officials who were in this country studying and observing the educational and social problems of the Negro, under the auspices of the General Education 35 Board. While at the University the visitors had an oppor¬ Graduates of Colleges Enrolled at tunity to confer with the presidents of the three schools and Atlanta with Dr. W. E. B. DuBois of the department of sociology. University They also visited the University Homes, and were present at One hundred seven men and women graduates of 35 col¬ a tea given in their honor at the home of President I'lorence leges in 19 different states are taking work in the liberal arts M. Read on the campus of Spelman College. The early part and sciences at Atlanta Lhiiversity this year. of the day was spent in visiting the other colleges in Atlanta. The students have come from accredited southern institu¬ Prominent among the guests were: Reverend Johan Rey- tions and also from the following northern and western neke, Secretary, Native Affairs Committee, a member of the coll eges: Brown University, Delaware State College, Hunter Federal Council of the Dutch Reformed Churches of South College, Milwaukee State Teachers College, Northwestern Africa, and Central Secretary of the Board of Missions of University, University of Cincinnati, University of Kansas, the Dutch Reformed Church inter Transvaal, Praetoria, and the University of Pennsylvania. South Africa; Mr. L. A. C. Buchanan, Superintendent of Southern colleges represented in the enrollment are Ala¬ Native Education, Nyasaland Protectorate, Central Africa; bama State Teachers College, A. M. & N. College of Arkansas, Mr. K. A. Hobart Houghton, Inspector of Schools, Cape Atlanta University, , , Blue- Province, Capetown, South Africa; Mr. B. E. Carman, Su¬ field State Teachers College, Claflin College, Clark Univer¬ perintendent of Education, British Honduras, Central Amer¬ sity, Dillard University, , Hampton Institute, ica; and Dr. F. R. Irvine, Adviser in Agriculture, Achimota , LeMoyne College, Louisville Municipal College, Gold Coast, Africa, and Mrs. Irvine. College, Miles Memorial College, Morehouse College, Mor¬ ris Brown Others in the party were: Mr. T. D. Cranston, Assistant College, New Orleans University, Prairie View State Director of Education, Accra, Gold Coast, Africa, and Mrs. College, , Spelman College, Talladega Cranston; Mr. W. E. Holt, Superintendent of Education, College, Tennessee State College, Tillotson College, Tuske- Nigeria, West Africa; Mr. H. Jewitt, Director of Education, gee Institute, West Virginia State College, and Winston- Salem Teachers Kampala, Luanda, British East Africa; Mr. A. Travers College. Lacey, Director of Education, Nyasaland Protectorate, Cen¬ Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, affiliated with Atlanta tral Africa, and Mrs. Lacey; Dr. D. M. Malcolm, Chief In¬ University since 1929, have the largest representation in the spector of Native Education, Natal. South Africa, Mrs. Mal¬ enrollment. colm an d M iss Shela Malcolm; Reverend Julian S. Rea, Central Training School, Inhamhani, Portuguese East Af¬ rica; Reverend J. G. Strydom, Secretary of the General Mis¬ Forum Meetings and International Debate sions Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Orange Free State and Rhodesia, Bloomfontain, South Are Sponsored by Morehouse Students Africa; Mr. R. H. W. Wisdom, Chief Inspector of Schools, Kenya, Africa, and Mrs. Wisdom; Mr. G. H. Wilson, Super¬ intendent of Native Education, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia; Thus far this season four nationally known figures in edu¬ and Miss Hilary Page, Achimota College, Accra, Gold Coast, cational circles have addressed the lecture-discussion meet¬ Africa. ings of the Morehouse Open Forum. On October 25, the first speaker of the series, President Rufus E. Dr. Clement Fills Speaking Engagements Clement, of Atlanta University, discussed “War or Peace: Which Shall It Be?” in the Exhibition Gallery of Many speaking engagements have filled the calendar of the University library. Other speakers in the series were the President of Atlanta University this fall. On November Dr. Rayford W. Logan, who spoke on “Oil for the Lamps 2 he was invited to deliver the principal address at the cele¬ of China”; Mr. Forrester B. Washington, whose treatment bration of Dudley Day at A. & T. College, in Greensboro, of the subject, “Has the Government Housing Program North Carolina. Helped the Negro? ’ provoked the greatest discussion in any of the During the Thanksgiving holidays, he delivered two ad¬ meetings; and Mr. Ira De A. Reid, the Forum’s dresses at Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, speaker for December, whose topic was “What Should the when he spoke to the Conference of Negro Principals of Negro Expect from Social Legislation in the United States?” Alabama and to the Older Boys Conference. At the latter The sixth international debate in which Morehouse has meeting the theme of his talk was “Better Manhood Through participated was held in Sale Hall Chapel on the evening of Proper Types of Education. December 9, when a skilled Morehouse team matched wits with two brilliant debaters Early in December the President was invited to Texas to forming an Oxford-Cambridge speak at Houston College for Negroes, at , and team, to decide whether or not the power of trade unions at Prairie View State College. On his return trip to Atlanta, ought to be increased or diminished.