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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. February 5-10, 1939, there will be conducted on the Immediate!) three numbers by this group followed: the 13th campuses in the Atlanta l Diversity system, a l Diversity Christian Mission. century melody by Praetorius, “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, "Carol of the Bells. (Ukrainian), and the One of the purposes of this Mission is to bring to the “Carol of the Russian Children.' In their next offering the minds of the faculties and students the significance of chorus sang an old English carol. “Down in Yon Forest,” religion as an integral part of life. It is designed to help with Franzetta Williams. Spelman College senior, singing those who are seeking a controlling life purpose and the the soprano solo. Concluding this group was the familiar inner satisfaction which they do not possess—those to whom carol “Stille \acht (German). aimless living is palling—those who are concerned with what The next three numbers on the program, all English Christianity really is and what it has to offer. carols, were sung by the Spelman Glee Club. In this group Religious life in colleges throughout the country has been were " I he Babe in Bethlehem s a Manger. “The Coventry at low ebb, but recently it was found that the attitude of Carol, and the “Great God of Heaven.” The singing by students toward religion has taken a definite change from this ensemble was super!) and the direction excellent. what it was a decade ago. Instead of the former blase at¬ titude—the air of \t the end of the first half of the program Kemper Har- sophistication and expression of disil¬ lusionment on reld played as an organ solo, DuBois’ famous “March of the the part of many students with reference to Magi Kings, which tells in music the story of the journey religion—there is now to be found an open-minded, deeply of the W ise Men. interested and responsive student body desirous of obtaining Th e second half of the program contained several nov¬ spiritual enlightenment. elty carols which were sung by the chorus. The familiar This year the Mission will be held on twelve campuses from numbers were “Pat-a-Pan (Burgundian), which was heard January through March. Other colleges to hold the Mission are the 1 niversit\ of at Spelman for the First lime last year, and the English carol, Georgia, l niversitv of Pitt>- “The Holly and the I\>. New to the audience were the burgh. I niversit\ of Kentucky. Pennsylvania State College. "Song of Christmas Presents (Spanish), and the French- Washington State College, l niversit\ of California, and the Canadian carol. "Whence. () Shepherd Maiden. These l niversitx of Oklahoma. were sung with the accompaniment of percussion instru¬ File first Christian Mission was held at Ohio Stale l Di¬ ments. versity at Columbus. Ohio, in February. 1938. Page i THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1938

William Stanley Braithwaite Encouraged Great Poet

WILLIAMpoet andStanleyprofessorBraithwaite,of creative literatureliterary atcriticAtlantaand University, had a helpful influence on the life of Edward Arlington Robinson, distinguished American poet. This fact was brought to light in a recent biography of Rob¬ inson written by Herman Hagedorn, and published by Mac¬ millan Company in the fall of 1938. The biography recalls: “In Boston, a few months later after the publication of the symposium, Braithwaite, walk¬ ing down Tremont Street with Robinson, turned to him abruptly. ‘The time has come for a collected edition of your poems.’ Robinson was dubious. 'It’s time,’ the critic insisted. ‘You’ve received enough critical approbation to warrant it, and it will fix your position.’ “Under the spire of the Park Street Church, Braithwaite exacted a promise from Robinson that he would lay the suggestion before the Macmillans. ‘There’s no harm in that.' Robinson said doubtfully. A few months later Braith¬ waite received a note. Since he had been the first to con¬ ceive the ‘crazy idea’ of a collected edition. Robinson wanted him to know that the wheels were beginning to turn. “The poems in one volume of six hundred pages, were published in October, 1921, and as Braithwaite had pre¬ dicted, challenged the critics to face not the book merely but a life-work.” It was by mere chance that William Stanley Braithwaite became internationally known as a literary critic. Seated on a bench in Boston’s Public Garden one summer day, he awakened to the need of a champion of American poets, and when this idea was unfolded to the Boston Transcript, he received the approbation of the editor with the words, ”Go ahead with it and we’ll print it.” That first criticism was the most famous article appearing in the Transcript in WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE 1905, and it made America poetry-conscious at a time Laid the when this art was at its lowest ebb. And Braithwaite, the foundations of a friendship champion of the greatest art in the world, was an American producer of that art. with the poetry that sprang into type under his fingers. In the white marble serenity of the Library, the poet and the On Staff of Boston Transcript critic laid the foundations of a friendship.

For twenty-five years, Dr. Braithwaite was on the staff Cultivated Innate Talent of the Boston Transcript, and during this quarter of a cen¬ For three years, from 1896-1899, in Newport, Rhode tury he refused to maintain a desk at the newspaper offices. Island, Dr. Braithwaite cultivated his innate talent with no All of his writing he did at his home among the trees at other teachers save nature and his prized books. His de¬ Arlington Heights. The reviews in the Transcript brought velopment as an authority on books was so great that he him over correspondence from all the world, and Harvard was 1 given the management of a book store on Bellevue niversity s Library now possesses this collection dealing Avenue, owned by an Italian count, and there he became with the development of poetry. In acquainted with the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and J. P. Mor¬ Robinson’s biography appears further: “The first re¬ gan. In 1899 he went to New York with his first manuscript view that appeared was also the most penetrating. It was to meet William Dean Howells, dean of American litera¬ the Boston Transcript's, and it packed into a column of ture. Six close years later at a tea in the Howells’ home, this thinking the wisest analysis which had yet been made eminent critic announced to the of the gathering that Braithwaite qualities by which Robinson was distinguished from had contributed a newr note to American prose. This state¬ all contemporary American poets. The reviewer, it ap¬ ment was based on the preface contained in Dr. Braith- peared. was William Stanley Braithwaite. Robinson, return¬ waite’s Book of Elizabethan Verse. ing from Chocorua, looked him up and came upon him in Brailhwaite’s first book. the Boston Public Lyrics of Life and Love, was Library. Braithwaite a man proved to be published in 1904. His most cherished work, the Book of of unusual perceptivity, partly of Negro blood, descended Elizabethan Verse, came out in 1906, and his most famous on his father s side from the governor of one of the British work, the seventeen volumes of the Anthology of Maga¬ possessions in the West Indies; a scholar and enthusiast, zine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, was pub- who as a a boy in printer’s shop, had become entranced (Continued on page 10) December, 1938 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Pape 5

Only One Member of Class of '38 At Atlanta ticularly. in the “Disaster of War series in Spain, because of the current struggle in that country. For one University Reports Unemployment week in December, the University put on view in the Exhibition Gallery, 30 drawings and water colors bv Forty-one members out of a class of 45 who were gradu¬ Boardman Robinson, dean of American mural painters. ated from Atlanta University in June, 1938, with either Phis showing xvas made possible through the courtesy of the master of arts or the master of science degree, are gain¬ the \\ estern Association of Museum Directors of Seattle. fully employed, statistics in the registrar’s office reveal. V ashington. File latest graduates report employment in educational fields as college teachers, public school teachers and prin¬ cipals, and Jeanes supervisors. Secretarial, recreational, and construction as as Dr. work, well housekeeping, are the William Heard Kilpatrick Addresses various other fields into which these graduates have entered. One graduate is pursuing advanced study. Teachers at Atlanta University The twelve colleges in which employment has been se¬ cured include Meeting with a large group of teachers, administrators, Forsyth A. & M. College, Forsyth, Georgia; and Prairie View Stale laymen at Atlanta University on December 3, Dr. Wil¬ College, Prairie View, Texas; Rust Col¬ liam Heard Kilpatrick, leading American teacher and pro¬ lege, Holly Springs, Mississippi; Virginia State College, fessor-emeritus of education at Teachers College, led an Ettrick, \ irginia; Bennett College, Greensboro, North Caro¬ interesting discussion on “The Work of the School." with lina: Clark l niversity, Atlanta, Georgia; Spelman College, special reference to problems of Negro life and southern Atlanta, Georgia; A. & M. College, Pine Bluff. Arkansas; Claflin living. The meeting xxas held in Giles Hall, on the campus University, Orangeburg, South Carolina; State Col¬ of Spelman College, and xxas presided over b\ Mr. W illiam lege, Orangeburg, South Carolina; Allen University, Co¬ A. Robinson, principal of the Atlanta lumbia. South Carolina; and University Labora¬ Mary Allen Junior College, tory School. Crockett, Texas. Dr. Kilpatrick used the familiar technique that he em¬ Three of the graduates are either principals or assistant ployed in conducting his classes at Columbia l niversity. principals of large city high schools, and the others in the discussing his subject for a xvhile and then raising ques¬ teaching profession are in various public school systems tions. In his throughout the south and in the \ irgin Islands. introductory talk he brought out how inti¬ mately living and learning are related. “In time,” he de¬ One graduate is working as a secretary at Flint-Goodridge clared. “people learn what they live—what Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana; one is in recreational they reallv live, in and from their hearts, and what work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and one is they learn they build working toward at once into personality and character. Since this is so. the the doctor of at philosophy degree Columbia University. school must primarily be a place of living and he essentially concerned with the character of the living of the children, because they xxill build into the xrery structure of their being the quality of their living. The speaker showed hoxv University Holds Various Exhibitions of Art the school, through its living, could help to improve the Encouragement of creative achievement has given Atlanta general living of the people, and ultimately change “the l niversity a recognized place in the world of fine arts, and culture, showing that the teaching method should include the the many exhibitions of art which are a part of this program process of doing-something-ahout the dark spots in “the culture.” continue to he shown at periodic intervals at the University Library. One of the great teachers of the present day, Dr. Kil¬ For one week beginning December 4, there were exhibited patrick holds degrees from Mercer University, Johns Hop¬ 25 pieces of sculpture representing the work of Julian H. kins University, and Columbia University. He has been connected with Harris, Steffen Thomas, and Fritz P. Zimmer, three Atlanta the public schools of Georgia, as teacher and sculptors of international standing. There were displayed principal, and xx ith Mercer L niversity, w here he has served portrait busts, animals, decorative has reliefs, figures, and as professor of mathematics and also as acting president. sculptured units for architecture. The subjects were treated in plaster, wood, stone, bronze, and terra cotta. Of par¬ ticular interest to the patrons were three fine heads of Negro types b\ Julian Harris. Two of these have been exhibited at London's the Rockefeller Center, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Trinity College of Music Lists \its. and the Museum of Modern Art. Spelman College As Authorized Center Because of the interest awakened among the students in the rare and exceedingb valuable exhibits provided bv the to Hold Local Examinations Case Extension Circuit (inoperative of New York, the series On the official inaugurated in 1937 will he continued another year. The published list of American School centres authorized hx Trinitx first of this group of seven exhibits opened in the foyer of College of Music, in London, to hold local examinations in music and the l niversitx Library on December I, with 19 original elocution. Spelman Col¬ etchings b\ Francisco Coxa. Spanish painter of the 18th lege has been included, and named as a local secretary is Mr. century, and one of the great masters of the world. These Kemper Harreld. director of music in this institution. etchings commanded the attention of hundreds of students Boston l niversity, in Massachusetts, was also named as passing through the Library and stimulated interest, par¬ a centre on the list. 1‘ai'r 6 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 193b

Faculty Members Granted Study Leave

To engage in graduate study in universities at home and abroad, and for purposes of research, thirteen members of the faculty and stall of the Atlanta University System have been granted leave of absence during the year. Thi ee members of the Atlanta University graduate school faculty are away during 1938-39. They are Dr. William H. l)ean, o f the economics department, who is at Harvard l diversity; Dr. Luella F. Norwood, of the English depart¬ ment. who is at 'tale University; and Mr. Ira De A. Reid, of the sociology department, who will study at the London School of Economics, after being engaged in research in the Caribbean countries during the first part of his journey. Spelman College extended study leave to six of her faculty members. Miss Ernestine Anthony, an assistant in the Uni¬ versity Library, received leave to study at Columbia Uni¬ versity; Miss Anna M. Cooke, of the fine arts department, to study at \ ale University; Miss Thursa Davis, of the chemistry department, to study at the University of Chicago; and Miss Birdie L. Scott, of the biology faculty, to study at the University of Chicago. Mrs. Elaine Hill Snowden, of the English department, is spending the year at RadclifTe, and Mr. Frank Snowden, of the department of classical languages, will continue his advanced study at Harvard l niversity. Mr. and Mrs. Snowden spent the summer in Italy where Mr. Snowden studied at the American Academy in Rome. At Morehouse, two members of the faculty and staff are away. Mr. Halson V. Eagleson, a member of the physics faculty, returned to Indiana University to work towards the Ph.D. degree, and Dean B. R. Brazeal who, in addition to his other duties, edits the Morehouse Alumnus, will continue his study towards the doctorate in economics at Columbia University. From the Atlanta University Laboratory School, Miss Constance Dupuy, instructor in physical education, will go to Columbia University for the second semester, and Mr. Melvin D. Kennedy, instructor in the social sciences, will spend part of the year at the University of Chicago, and the rest of the time in research abroad. The Administration lildir Atlanta I iver Atlanta University’s Noted Sociologist The Atlanta University At iiiistr, In Two Addresses arid the University Library i he (/i Street entrance to the cam In the latter part of November, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, pm Atlanta University’s noted professor of sociology, was a guest of the students and faculty of ’s new theological department, where he spoke on “Ministers and This newbuildingscampuswereof built,the Universityand the extensivewas acquired,landscapingthese International was as a Relations.” done part of the program of development, which During the same month, he was one of the resource per¬ began in 1929 when the University became affiliated with sons at the Fifth Annual Institute of Social Relations and Spelman College for women and Morehouse College for men. Affairs held at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. At each Erected in 1932, the Administration of the five sections of the was a Institute there visiting re¬ Building provides source person, and Dr. DuBois participated in the section quarters for the administrative officers of Atlanta University, on “Political Action in the World. Other resource persons Morehouse College, and Spelman College, the Universitv on the program were professors from the of University bookshop, post office, and other service rooms, as well as Georgia and Emory University. some classrooms and offices for Dr. DuBois’ latest publication, Black Folk, Then and professors. The Now, will be released in the spring of 1939 by Henry Library, a gift of the General Education Board, serves Holt and the students of the affiliated Company. It is a history of the Negro race in institutions. It is open to students Africa. North and South America, and the West Indies. from other Atlanta institutions. December, 1938 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Pace 7

Registration in the Atlanta University System

The Atlanta I niversit) System, keeping step w ith the leading educational institutions of the south, has had a gratifying growth since the l niversit) was reorganized less than ten years ago. In the University system, which em¬ braces Atlanta University, Morehouse College. Spelman Col¬ lege, the Atlanta l niversity School of Social W ork. the At¬ lanta l niversity Laboratory School, and the Nursery-Kinder¬ garten, there are 1,394 enrolled. Of this number. 930 are enrolled in the colleges, graduate school, and professional school. In the graduate school of arts and sciences, 100 men and women are working toward advanced degrees in the depart¬ ments of biology, chemistry, economics, education, English, French, history, mathematics, and sociology. In the Atlanta University School of Social Work, the most recent member of the affiliation, there are 80 students enrolled. Graduates of this school will receive the degree of master of social work upon completion of the two-year course. Spelman College has enrolled 350 students of whom 56 are seniors, 62 are juniors, 89 are sophomores, and 143 are freshmen. The College has 196 boarding students of college rank, the greatest number in the history of the in¬ stitution. The Morehouse enrollment, likewise, is large with 100 young men registered. Eighty of this number are seniors, 93 juniors, 101 sophomores, and 126 freshmen. In the Laboratory School, there are 354 students, of whom 154 are in Grades 1-6 at Oglethorpe, and 200 are in Grades 6-12 at Giles. The University's Nursery-Kindergarten, conducted by Spelman College in Chadwick Hall, has accepted 110 chil¬ dren between the ages of 18 months and six years for pre¬ school training.

President Emeritus James R. Angell of Yale University Is Visitor on Atlanta University’s Campus itratic thudding and Library, Dr. James Rowland Angell. president-emeritus of A ale l itlanl niversity, was a visitor to the campus of Atlanta l niversit) University on November 11. versilj \ninistration Building (left), The distinguished educator w as in Atlanta to address the Libnl i die distance, from the Fair Southern Conference on Audio-\ isual Education, w hich was in session at the lie cob f . Dr. Angell was president of A ale for sixteen years, from 1921 to 1937. Since the latter Fourteen Atlantans Awarded year he has been educational Scholarships counselor for the National Broadcasting Company. For At Atlanta University more than ten years Dr. Angell was a member of tin* Gen¬ eral Education Board. Fourteen graduate students who are residents of Atlanta were awarded scholarships for advanced study toward the master s degree at Atlanta l niversitx this year. I hose re¬ Gift to Atlanta University Library ceiving awards were James Bussell Caldwell, Julian Ray¬ mond Davis. William Decker King, and John (’.. Wright, in Acquisition of a collection of books was announced this historv: Luther Henr\ Downer. James Bertram Ellison and fall b\ Atlanta l niversitUs librarian. Miss Charlotte I em- William i’ullin, in biology; Hamilton Holmes and Joseph pleton. I he gift, made h\ Dr. J. E. Spingarn. president of Sansoin, in economics; Frank DuBois Hutchinson, in mathe¬ the National Association for the Advancement of Colored matics: Edward Holt, Mildred Sneed, and Lewis Watts, in People, and former professor of comparative literature at sociolog\ ; and Mildred Wardlaw. in education. Columbia l niversitv. included /ristotle’s Theory of Poetry, These students are graduates of Morehouse College. tmerican Critical Essays. Literary Opinion in America. Spelman College, and Clark l niversity. and Amelia F.arhart - Last l light. Page H THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 193H

Hale Woodruff Among Georgia Artists to Exhibit Work at New York’s World Fair

A group of five paintings won for Hale Woodruff in 1926 the Bronze Award of the Harmon Foundation—his first important recognition. This encouraged him to realize a long cherished desire to study in Europe, and in the fall of 1927 he sailed for France with but $250 and promises of sales of pictures. These promises were never fulfilled, and he could not help realizing the precariousness of the arrangement. He began to send pictures to various art gal¬ leries in New York, and luckily several of them were sold. Writing art criticisms for the Sunday edition of the In¬ dianapolis Star also served as a means of support. Study by the artist followed at the Scandinavian Academy of Art and the Modern Academy in Paris. During his three years of residence in Paris, he was encouraged by the late Henry 0. Tanner as well as other leading artists of the day. On several occasions Dr. John Hope saw Mr. Woodruff in Paris and was helpful in letting others know about the artist’s works. He then moved to Normandy and painted along the Channel, returning to Paris for an exhibition at the Pacquereau Gallery. All of this time he was continually sending works back to America and exhibiting in this coun¬ try as well as in Europe. A fourteen months’ period spent on the French Riviera revitalized Mr. Woodruff’s work. Here he painted with a small group of artists in a little village made famous by the great French painter, Auguste Renoir. It was while on the Riviera that he executed a number of landscapes, to¬ gether with a huge mural depicting the Riviera country. But not all of his time could be devoted to painting. He had to live, and at one time when paintings in America were not selling, he “accepted a position’ with a group of road laborers posing as a Moor, since Americans were not granted workers’ permits in France. HALE WOODRUFF In the south of France Mr. Woodruff became interested “Little Boy” at the World's Fair in the technique of paints and undertook an investigation of the methods and processes of the early masters—methods not generally used by a preview exhibition of contemporary American Art in contemporaries. A number of his Among the four Atlantans whose works were selected at at were a water-wax Richmond, Virginia, on January 3, for display at the paintings done this time executed in medium, New York World's Fair, is Hale Woodruff, who for seven resulting from a study of masters of the early 15th century. years has been teaching painting and drawing to the stu¬ In 1930 Dr. dents in the Atlanta University System. Woodruff s selec¬ Hope invited Mr. Woodruff to come to Atlanta tion was based on a painting entitled “Little Boy.’’ Of the University as art instructor, and he returned to America in the fall of 1931 to take up many Georgia artists who entered the competitive showing, this position. only six were selected to represent this state. Mr. Wood¬ During the summer of 1933 the artist spent a period of ruff’s painting portrays a Negro boy of about eight years study at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, made wearing a violet colored sweater and holding a red knitted possible through the American Institute of Architects, and in the summer of 1936, a cap in his hand. grant from the General Education Board enabled him to The signal honor that has come to Mr. Woodruff brings pursue a course offered by Columbia to mind many interesting facts about his life. His first University in Mexico. Here he had opportunity to assist serious study of art was at the old John Herron Art Insti¬ Diego Rivera, eminent Mexican painter. tute in Indianapolis, where he studied under the late W illiam On various occasions, Mr. Woodruff has exhibited at the Forsyth and Harold Haven Brown. While a student at Chicago Art Institute, the Art Center of New ^ ork City. Herron Art Herron, he drew cartoons for newspapers and painted signs Institute, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Smithsonian as a partial means of earning support. During this period Institution, Washington. D. C.; Kansas City Art a year’s part-time study at the Chicago Art Institute broad¬ Museum, San Diego and Los Angeles Museums; Valentine ened the horizon of art for him. Returning to Indianapolis and Downtown Galleries, New ’i ork City; Dallas, Texas; and in a number of schools and he painted independently, and worked as membership sec¬ colleges throughout the retary of the local V. M. C. A. country. December. 1938 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN Pape 9

Atlanta University Inaugurates the John Hope Lectures

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AT THE FIRST JOHN HOPE LECTURE

In tribute to a great educator

Among i lie visitors at the John Hope Lecture were distinguished memorial to the fifth president of Atlanta l niversitv and Atlanta citizens and several out-of-town educators. In the above The first of the John Hope Lectures, established as a group the first head of the Atlanta l niversitv System, was given in Sisters Chapel on November US. with l)r. Arthur II. i left to right l are: l)r. K. R. Carter, pastor. Friendship Baptist Compton, one of the greatest of present day scientists, as Church, \tlanta; l)r. Arthur H. Compton, l diversity of Chicago; the speaker. I he selection of Dr. Compton was in keeping with the policy of Atlanta 1 niversitv to present as lecturers I'rc-ident Florence M. Read, Spelman College; President Rufus E. in the series only persons who have won distinction in some Clement. Atlanta I field of niversity; Dr. OtL \A . Caldwell, visiting professor knowledge. For his great contributions in the held of phvsies. Dr. "f education. Atlanta l niversity. (Second row) Air. Kendall Weisiger. Compton has received many honors, noteworthv among which are the Nobel Prize in 1927. and the Malteucci educational adviser. Southern Bell Ielephone and Telegraph Company; gold medal by the Italian Academy of Sciences in 193.1. A mem¬ Pie-idenl Sprighl Dowell. Alercer l niversity, Macon. Georgia; Presi¬ ber of the faculty of the l niversitv of Chicago, Dr. Compton has taught also at the l niversitv of Minnesota, at Washing¬ dent John B. AA atson. A. M. & \. f.ollege. Pine Bluff. Arkansas; and ton I niversitv, at Punjab l niversitv at Lahore. India, and Acting President Charles I). Hubert, Morehouse College. at Oxford U niversity, in Cambridge. England. (Continual on next pope) Page 10 THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 193ft

In his lecture on “Science, Religion, and a Stable So¬ University System Adds New Teachers ciety, the speaker interpreted for his listeners, who fdled to capacity the spacious chapel, the development of science New appointments to five departments in the University as an increase in knowledge which makes for specialists, System have been made ibis year. Atlanta University’s mathematics saying that as men learn to specialize they become inter¬ department has added Dr. Joseph A. Bierce, dependent. To get along in an interdependent wo:ld, there formerly of the faculty of Wiley College in Texas, and a must be real cooperation, which cannot be fully realized graduate of Atlanta University in 1925. Dr. Bierce holds unless people practice the basic Christian virtue of brother¬ the degrees of master of arts and doctor of philosophy from the hood growing out of mutual good will, respect, and love. University of Michigan. Spelman’s appointments have been made to the “The predominant trend of modern science is toward re¬ departments of mathematics, English, and placing the human interests present in literature, art, and chemistry. Miss Elizabeth McKee, of Yonkers, New York, who is a music,' Dr. Compton said, “with technological develop¬ graduate of Mount Holyoke College, is teaching mathematics courses; Miss Edith ments in which the human factor becomes less and less sig¬ Diggs, whose training was secured at Hunter and Teachers nificant. The most fundamental bases of morality have been Colleges in New York City, has been added to the ruthlessly shaken, with the implication that their value is chemistry faculty; and Mr. Wirt G. negligible.” Eaust, a graduate of Harvard University, who has taught at the University of Wisconsin, was appointed to the Eng¬ Speaking on science and the man, growth of Dr. Compton lish department. declared the search for truth is in one way hard and in At Morehouse, three graduates of the College have re¬ another way easy. “It is evident that no one can master it turned to their alma mater to fill various positions on the fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowl¬ faculty and staff of this leading southern institution for men. edge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises The School of Religion was fortunate to secure the services a certain grandeur. From generation to generation, and of Mr. from George Kelsey, a graduate of the Class of ’34, and age to age, what the fathers learn is passed on to the the department of biology, Mr. Harold E. 1 iidey, ’28. Dr. sons, and ‘each adds a little to our knowledge of nature. In Kimuel A. the Huggins, Morehouse ’23, in addition to his duties growth of this knowledge we can see the central thread of on the the social evolution of mankind. chemistry faculty of Atlanta L'niversity, will he acting dean during the year. “The knowledge of nature which, from the beginning, Several appointments to the staff of the three institutions had been man’s gradually but accidentally increasing also have been made. heritage, has now become the conscious objective of alert After a semester’s leave of absence spent in research in minds. Three centuries ago, as a ama¬ the hobby of few the French West Indies and study at the Sorbonne, Dr. teurs, this new enterprise has gradually developed to become Mercer Cook, chairman of the University’s French depart¬ the most significant intellectual quest of man. As a result, ment, returned to his post. Mr. Clarence A. Bacote, of the changes for the better in our mode of living are the order history faculty, likewise resumed his duties after spending of the day. Our lives differ from those of two generations a year working towards the doctorate at the University of ago much more than life then differed from that of two Chicago. As a part-time teacher in history, Dr. Dorothy thousand years before. Clark, of Spelman College, was engaged this year to assist “Science has forced us to reconsider certain other values, in the LMiversity’s history department. Dr. Clark was continued Dr. Compton. “The rise in technology and sci¬ granted the degree of doctor of philosophy by Radcliffe ence and the lag of society have led man to wonder if it is College and for five years was an assistant in the depart¬ good to be strong. Many have learned to fear new knowl¬ ments of history and English composition at Wellesley edge because of the power it gives to cruel men. Science College. has become the basis of civilization and is the primary Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, visiting professor of education at factor in promoting its growth. Just as earlier society was Atlanta University in 1937-38 and general secretary of based upon agriculture and local trade, so modern com¬ the American Association for the Advancement of Science, munities are built upon the scientific foundations which will be on the campus of Atlanta University during the month make rapid transportation possible and communication, of March, 1939. Dr. Caldwell was at the University for the preservation and distribution of good and adequate several weeks in the months of November and December sanitation. of this year. “Science has proved its practical strength and the indi¬ cations are that the future of mankind lies in the hands of those who guide their actions by carefully acquired knowl¬ William Stanley Braithwaite Encouraged edge of the world. With science and its correlated indus¬ tries, there is every reason to anticipate a continuation of Great Poet the rapid growth and development of civilization, except in (Continued from page 4) those regions and periods where political unrest turns men’s attention to less significant matters.’ lished from 1913 to 1929. Dr. Braithwaite, a twentieth In concluding the lecture, the speaker compared the poli¬ century romanticist, is one of the founders of the New cies of certain foreign countries with that of ours in this England Poetry Club and the American Poetry Society, and country, saying that political leaders over here would solve was the first American poet to become a member of the industrial problems by raising artificial barriers to the co¬ London Poetry Society. operation between employers and employees. According to Since 1935 Dr. Braithwaite has been professor of cre¬ at (Continued on page 12) ative literature Atlanta University. December. 1938 THE ATLANTA l MVERSITY BULLETIN Pape 11

Henry Alexander Hunt Built Living Monument in Fort Valley Normal School

Henrv Alexander Hunt, a graduate of Atlanta l niversity in the Class of 1890. built a living monument in the Fort \ allev Normal and Industrial School that will he forever a testimonial to his long years of unselfish service in the education of Negro youth. Thirty-five years out of a life of three score and eleven Mr. Hunt dedicated to the up¬ building of a plant that today is regarded as one of the best junior colleges in the south. The death of this outstanding educator on October 1 in V ashington, L). C., was the second great loss suffered in 1938 by the alumni of Atlanta University, the first being the death of James Weldon Johnson on June 26. While a student at Atlanta l niversity, Henry Hunt was a fine scholar, a good athlete, and a leader among his col¬ lege mates. A year after his graduation, he became principal of the main public school for Negroes in Charlotte, North Carolina, but before a year had passed he was offered the position of business manager and proctor of men at Biddle, now Johnson C. Smith L niversity. After thirteen and one- half years at this institution, he accepted the job as princi¬ pal of the school at Fort Valley, which consisted at that time of a frame building used as a girls" dormitory, an ob¬ long two-story brick building which was completed only a little above the foundation, an old farm house of six rooms, and a small barn. Through the efforts of Mr. Hunt, Fort Valley today possesses thirteen well-appointed modern buildings that are the pride of the community. For his outstanding work in Negro Education. Dr. Hunt was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1930. and the Harmon Award in 1931. In the latter year he was granted a Rosen- wald Fellowship for the study of cooperatives in Scandi¬ navian countries, and two years later he was granted a leave of absence to serve the government as Special Assistant to the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration. He held this position until his death.

HFNRA ALEXANDER III NT Graduate of University of Paris Studying He built a living monument At Atlanta University

President Clement Heads Association of Harry Mery, a native of Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, and a graduate of the l niversitv of Paris. France, Colleges and Schools arrived in Atlanta on October 1 1 to enroll in the English and French departments of the Atlanta l niversitv graduate On December 8. 1938. President Rufus F. Clement, of school and also to assist in the work in French conversation. \tlanta l niversitv. was elected president of the Association Monsieur Men. an exchange student from the l niversitv of of Colleges and Seeondarv Schools for Negroes. l)r. Clement Paris, was the recipient of a scholarship from the Institute of International Education. He is the first has been a member of the Executive Committee of the \sso- exchange student from a French universitv to be enrolled in a Negro uni- eiation continu<>usl\ since it- organization in 1931. versit\ in this countrv. The winter meeting of the Association was held on the Last year the Institute awarded a fellowship for foreign eighth and ninth da\s of December in Tallahassee. I lorida. stud\ to Miss Carolvn Lemon, of Savannah. Georgia, a at the I'lorida \. X M. College. graduate of Spelman College in 1936 and of Ulanta l ni¬ \ppro\imatel\ 130 delegates representing the majorit\ versitv in 1938. This was the first fellow shi, ) awarded h\ the of Negro colleges and numerous accredited high schools Institute of International Education to a student in a Negro attended the two-da\ meeting. univers tv for studv in France. Pa^e 12 THE ATLANTA l NIVERSITY BULLETIN December, 1928

Samuel Howard Archer Retires From Presidency of Morehouse College President Becomes Emeritus eight years that he was director of athletics and coach that Morehouse teams were R. Samuel Howard Archer who, because of illness, the undisputed champions in football. had been on leave of absence for more than 21 months, Morehouse Receives “A” Rating in retired from his office as president of Morehouse Col¬ Archer Administration lege on October I. 1938. By action of the Board of Trustees, In the second year of President Archer's administration, he became president emeritus. Dr. Charles I). Hubert, direc¬ Morehouse College received “A rating from the Association tor of the school of religion at Morehouse, who had been of Colleges and Secondary Schools in the Southern States, acting president since March 1, 1937, is continuing in this which placed the college on an capacity. equal basis with the leading educational institutions in the South. It was during his ad¬ At the time of his retirement, President Archer had con¬ ministration that the successful drive for $600,000 was com¬ cluded his thirty-third year of service to Morehouse College, pleted, increasing the endowment to more than a million during which time he had been professor of mathematics, dollars and marking an important step toward guaranteeing football coach, secretary of the faculty, director of the sum¬ the perpetuity of the college. mer school, purchasing agent, dean, acting president and On January 1, 1938, Dr. Archer was awarded a scroll and president. This last position he held for seven years prior plaque by the 27 Club of Atlanta, in to his retirement. For 11 months in 1918-19 he was at the recognition of his contribution to the social and educational well-being of the head of Morehouse College as acting president when Dr. citizens of this city. John Hope was overseas, and again in 1930-31 he served in this capacity before he was elected to the presidency. Early Training Faculty to Study Problems of Atlanta University Born in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1870, President Archer attended the public schools in that city, and continued and Undergraduate Colleges his education at Wayland Academy in Washington, 1). C., Atlanta University is sponsoring this year for the first where for two years was a From he student-teacher. Way- time a series of monthly professional meetings to be par¬ land he went to Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, ticipated in by all faculty members offering graduate or where he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of bachelor senior-graduate courses. of arts. While in college, Dr. Archer became prominent in Eight topics designed to analyze the problems of Atlanta athletics, playing for three years as guard on l niversity and the affiliated institutions were scheduled for eleven. He was active also as a debater, and because of his discussion in meetings beginning in October and continu¬ exceptional platform ability, he was chosen to be one of the ing through May. Several committees were named at commencement. by Presi¬ speakers his In 1923 he received the dent Clement to handle the various subjects, and each com¬ honorary degree of master of arts from Morehouse College, mittee was instructed to and in 1932 Colgate honored him with the degree of doctor present its findings, specifically and generally, at a of divinity. monthly meeting. The outcome of the discussions, it is hoped, will a Following his graduation from Colgate, Dr. Archer taught bring about clearer under¬ standing of the educational program of the University. mathematics for three years at Roger Williams University in The topics listed for discussion include the Nashville, Tennessee. He then joined the Morehouse fac¬ following: (1 ) The Present and Future Program of Atlanta University; ulty. just one year before Dr. John Hope became its presi¬ (2) The Cultural Obligations of the University to Graduate dent. For thirty-one years he was a close friend and col¬ Students; (3) The league of Dr. Hope, and when the latter resigned from the Faculty—Its Rank, Tenure, and Leaves— Salary and Retirement; (4) The Library—Some Unmet presidency of Morehouse College in 1931, Mr. Archer was Needs; (5) Does Atlanta the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees to become University Need a Scholarly Journal? (6) The the fifth Type. Quality and Quantity of Instruc¬ president of this institution. In announcing the tion in Terms of Student election of Mr. Archer. Dr. Frank A. Smith, Calibre; (7) The Expansion and secretary of Collaboration of the Board of Education of the American Departments; and 18) Research and the Baptist Home Mis¬ Practical Needs of Students. sion Socielv. said, “We feel it a deserved promotion for one who has served Morehouse College faithfully and wisely for many years. Popular Instructor Atlanta University Inaugurates the One of the most popular and effective instructors More¬ John Hope Lectures house has ever known, President Archer long will be remem¬ (Continued from page 9) bered by the hundreds of men who went through the College and the Academv not Dr. only as their dean and later as their Compton, nothing comparable with the Christian re¬ president, but as their friend. His greatest contribution, ligion has yet appeared that can bring about a spirit of love of our fellows, for “it was perhaps, lies in the influence he has had on the lives of men in the true love by each man who have been fortunate of enough to know him. He believed his neighbor as himself, that Jesus saw the solution of in clean sports and clean victories, and it was during the all social ills.”