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Atlanta University Bulletin Published Quarterly by Atlanta l niversit\ ATLANTA, GEORGIA hntered as second-class matter February 28, 1935, at the Post Office at Atlanta. Georgia, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, 538, P. L. & R. Series II DECEMBER. 1938 December, 1938 Pane 2 THE \TLA NT A ININERSm BULLETIN RICHARD R. WRIGHT Graduates of 32 Colleges Enrolled in Atlanta University Atlanta University’s Oldest Living Graduates of 32 College Graduate colleges and universities in the United States and abroad are enrolled for graduate work in At¬ lanta 1 niversity, according to tabulations prepared at the Claiming the distinction of being Atlanta l niversity’s close of registration for the first semester. While the greatest oldest living college graduate is Richard R. W right, promi¬ number of students are graduates of five colleges of liberal nent banker and educator of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arts in Atlanta, students this year have come from institutions who was graduated in the Class of 1876—the first college of higher learning located in eighteen states, the District of class to he graduated. Columbia and France. The northern and western universi¬ Many honors have come to l)r. Wright since his student ties represented are Iowa State, Arkansas State, Philander days at Atlanta. Three years after his graduation from the Smith College, Northwestern University, Illinois State Nor¬ University, his alma mater awarded him the honorary de¬ mal, Oberlin, Indiana University, Hunter College, the Uni¬ gree of master of arts, and in 1899, he received from versity of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pennsylvania. Wilberforce University another honorary degree—that of Southern universities which sent one or more graduate stu¬ doctor of laws. For eleven years, from 1880-1891. he served dents to Atlanta include Knoxville College, Bluefield State as principal of the Ware High School in Atlanta, the first Teachers College, LeMoyne, Louisville Municipal College. Negro high school in Georgia to he supported by public Livingstone College, Leland College, Tillotson College, funds, and in 1891, he became the first president of Georgia Johnson C. Smith University, South Carolina State College, State Industrial College at Savannah, serving there for 30 Hampton Institute, A. & T. College in Greensboro, North years. Since 1921, Dr. Wright has been president of the Carolina, Talladega College, Alabama Stale Teachers Col¬ Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company of Phila¬ lege, Dillard University, and Tennessee A. & I. State College. delphia, the first trust company in America to be organized Thirteen graduate students are carrying full-time work in by Negroes. English, eleven are enrolled in the department of history, and ten are enrolled as full-time students in the From “Who’s Who in America” we learn that Dr. Wright department of served in the Spanish American War as an additional pay¬ biology. Education, economics, and sociology are the next most master with the rank of major; was organizer and president popular departments this year with eight in each of the Georgia State Agriculture and Industrial Association; engaged in full-time study. Five students are working this was anniversary speaker for the American Missionary As¬ year for their master’s degree in French. Full-time gradu¬ ate work is sociation. 1880-1889; was at one time trustee of Atlanta being done also in the departments of chemistry, mathematics, and art. University; a delegate to four national Republican conven¬ tions; traveled extensively in Europe; is a member of the Registration of part-time students is largely in the depart¬ ments of education, American Academy of Political and Social Science; at one sociology, and economics. time was president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools; is a former president of the National Negro Bankers Association; secured passage of an Act by U. S. Senate for appropriation of $250,000 to promote Semi- Members of the Atlanta University System on Centennial Emancipation Exhibition in 1913; was appointed chairman of the Colored Association of Food Production and Program of the A. A. A. S. Conservation by the Governor of Georgia; was appointed by Two members of the the Governor of Georgia as Negro historian of enlisted col¬ faculty of the Atlanta University ored troops in France, and visited England. France, and Bel¬ system participated on the program of the American Asso¬ ciation for the Advancement of Science, which held its gium to collect historical data for the archives of Georgia, winter and for a book on the Negro in the Great War; was appointed meeting December 27-31 in Richmond, Virginia. A by Governor J. S. Fisher of Pennsylvania member of a com¬ clearing house for the nation in matters of science, the American Association consisted of mittee to erect a statue in memory of the colored soldiers of many sections dealing with different all American wars; and is a promoter of Youths’ Thrift phases of science. Clubs. Before the section of the American Society of Zoologists, Dr. S. Milton Nabrit, professor of biology at Atlanta Uni¬ The story is often told that when Richard Wright was a versity, presented by title a paper on “A Study of the young boy so great was his desire for an education that he Effect of Cautery on Regeneration in the Central Nervous walked from Cuthbert to Atlanta, a distance of 231 miles, System of the Embryo on Fundulus Heteroclitus.” Dr. to attend the Storrs School, out of which Atlanta I niversitx Nabrit was elected to associate membership in the Societv grew. It was while he was a student at Storrs, in 1868, that before the close of the December meeting. General Oliver 0. Howard visited the school. After his On the program of the American Genetic Association. address he asked if any one had a message for the other Section F. of the American Association. Harold E. Finley, children he would visit, and one little boy of about 12 professor of biology at Morehouse College, participated in years, wearing a clean white jacket, arose and said. "Just a symposium on Genetics in Ciliata. An abstract of Dr. tell them we are rising. It was this incident that \\ hittier Nabrit’s paper appears in the December supplement of the Anatomical Record, while an abstract of Mr. I ndex's put into his poem entitled "Howard at Atlanta. 1 hat boy paper will was Richard R. Wright. Atlanta l niversity 76. appear in the January issue of the same journal. December. 1938 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Page 3 Large Audience Receives Brilliant For those who delight in hearing the singing of male voices, the three selections by the Morehouse Glee Club were Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman received with joy. The first number bv this group “Good King W enceslas was an arrangement by Kemper Harreld. Christmas Carol Concert with the baritone solo sung by J. A. Moore, a Morehouse junior, and the role of the boy soprano sung by Alvin Before one of the largest audiences ever to fill Sisters W ardlaw. a student in the Atlanta F niversitv Laboratoiw Chapel, the students of Atlanta l Diversity, Morehouse Col¬ School. In its next number, the Glee Club attempted ultra lege. and Spelman College, on December 16. opened the modernism in singing a carol of the Bressan W aits, “Chris¬ 1938 Christmas season on the campuses of the affiliated tians, Hark. Their concluding number was the spiritual institutions when they presented a varied program of "Glory to That New-Born King." one of the traditional Christmas carols and songs dedicated to the birth of Christ. favorites at these concerts. before the program seats were at a Long began, premium, Negro spirituals and jubilees to and hundreds of pleasing the audience persons were obliged to stand along the were the St. Helena Island Negro jubilee, “Mary Had de walls of the chapel. Among the distinguished visitors were Beetle Baby.’ and twrn arrangements by W i 11 is Laurence the state superintendents of education from Arkansas, Flor¬ James, “Oh, Po’ Little Jesus." and "Roun" de Glory Manger.” ida. Mississippi. South Carolina. Tennessee, and Texas, and The jubilee, “Go Tell it on the Mountains' all too soon Dr. A. B. Mann, Mr. Jackson Davis, Mr. Leo M. Eavrot, brought the magnificent program to a close. and Mr. Ward V Madison, of the General Education Board, and Mr. f red McCuistion of the Southern Association of Kemper Harreld directed the singing of the Atlanta-More¬ Colleges and Secondary Schools. house-Spelman Chorus and the Morehouse Glee Club, and Willis 1^aurence James conducted the three numbers I he sung program, including religious and novelty carols from by the Spelman Glee Club. Mrs. Naomah Williams Maise almost every country, contained airs that were foreign wras at the piano, and Miss Florence Harris plaved the french, l krainian, Russian, Old English, German. Spanish. organ. Burgundian, and French-Canadian. An important part of For the first time this season, the living Christmas tree the program was made up of Christmas Negro spirituals and in front of Sisters Chapel was brightly illumined with jubilees which the carolers sang in all their natural beauty. lights, adding a note of Christmas festivity to the occasion. Ihe service was opened by the traditional lighting of candles by two robed students of Spelman College, while the unseen Morehouse College Brass Quartet softly played three old English chorals. Before entering the chapel, the chorus, as a prologue, sang the Negro spiritual, ‘‘Rise L'p, University Christian Mission Coming to Shepherd, and Follow.” Atlanta lo the singing of the 13th century old French carol, “0 University Come, 0 Come, Emmanuel, the large chorus of ninety From voices Filed down the aisles of the chapel on to the platform.