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file copy UBLie|TV OFFICE The Atlanta University Bulletin Published Quarterly by Atlanta University ATLANTA, GEORGIA Series III DECEMBER. 1937 No. 19 Entrance to Women's Dormitory, Atlanta l NivERsm ♦ 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 Morehouse College, 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 Morris Brown College, 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 Spelman College. 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.