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THE PANTHER
November, 1963
LITERARY SYMPOSIUM IS AMONG LARGEST DEPARTMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Clark’s Busy Family
Bolden Article In Journal
English Group
Presents Film
About England
The Clark College Literary
Symposium presented two films
on Thursday night, October 3, in
the Audio-Visual Room. The
films were: “England—Back
ground for Literature” and
“Hawaii, the 50th State.”
In “England—Background for
Literature,” the England of Ten-
n y s o n Dickens, Wordsworth,
Shakespeare and other English
writers was depicted. The sea
of Coleridge’s “Rime of the An
cient Mariner,” the countryside
of Wordsworth’s, “I wandered
Lonely As A Cloud,” and the
people o fthe immortal Shake
speare’s plays were cited.
The Literary Symposium is
composed of students whose ma
jor or minor area of study is
English. Dr. Stella Brewer
Brookes is faculty advisor.
The officers of the organiza
tion are: President, Leroy Mar
tin; Vice President, Betty Mar-
able; Secretary, Flora Wilkes;
Reporter, Ala Steagall. Others
members are: Lafayette Cleve
land, Bessie Crawford, Leon
Davis, Johnnie Downs, Gloria
Games, Mary Hunter, Johnny
Spencer, Gwendolyn Mahone,
Gwendolyn Young, Brenda Al
len, John Cherry, Jacquelyn
Culver, Alma Hosch, Alyce
Marshall, Harvey Metcalf, Bar
bara Prince, Fannie Terry, Rose-
ann Pope, George Smith, Alonzo
Resse and Barbara Lee.
Toronto Speech
In Recent Trip
By Dr. Lincoln
by Johnny Spencer
Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor
of social relations at Clark, has
recently returned from speaking
engagements in Boston, Toronto
and Detroit. The Toronto ad
dress marked his first appearance
as a speaker on foreign soil, but
Dr. Lincoln has spoken before
audiences in cities throughout
the nation.
During his recent trip to Bos
ton, Dr. Lincoln was guest of
Benjamin Shaperio, head of the
Commission Against Discrimin
ation of the State of Mas
sachusetts. He delivered an ad
dress at Temple Ohabei Sha-
lomin in Brookline, a suburb of
Boston on October 22.
On the following day, he ap
peared as a speaker at Boston
State Teachers College talking
on the “Negro’s Place in United
States History.” “This lecture,”
says Dr. Lincoln, “was one of
a continuing series to help
teachers in the Boston area be
come more knowledgeable about
the Negro’s participation in the
making of America.” Other pro
minent lecturers in this series
are Dr. Horace Mann Bond, pro
fessor of education at Atlanta
University; Dr. Gordon Allport
of Harvard University; and Dr.
Samuel Proctor, president of
North Carolina A and T College.
In Toronto, Canada, Dr. Lin
coln appeared on the “Pierre of
Borton Hour” on October 24.
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Coleman’s Work
Tours Georgia
Art Department Faculty mem
ber Floyd Coleman’s water color
was one of 60 paintings accepted
from among more than 1000
entries from southeastern states
for a recent Atlanta Art Associa
tion exhibition. The exhibition
will tour the state until March.
Earlier this month the Art De
partment exhibited a collection
of contemporary European
paintings. Mainly oils, the paint
ings represented the realistic,
semi-abstract and impressionistic
styles.
This program was “an attempt to
interpret the racial situation in
this country to Canadians, and
to tell them something of Clark
College and its academic pro
gram for the improvement of the
competitive position of Negro-
youth.” According to Dr. Lin
coln, this program is similar to
our Today Show—on which Dr.
Lincoln has appeared.
Appearing at Wayne State
University on November 4. Dr.
Lincoln was one of an eminent
group of scholars participating
in a series of lectures celebrating
the Emancipation Centenial. In
cluded on this series were sociol
ogists Gunnar Myrdal and Ar
nold Rose; historians Rayford
Logan of Howard University and
John Hope Franklin of the Uni
versity of Chicago, Thurgood
Marshall, Langston Hughes, Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
and Ralph Magill.
Dr. Lincoln’s address on
“Black Nationalism and Social
Anxiety” has been included in a
new book on the Negro edited
by Professor Arnold Rose of the
University of Minnesota.
French Club
Elects Officers
The French Club has recently
elected its officers for this school
year.
Those elected are Sharon Wat
son, president; Ann Alston, vice
president; Karen MacMillan, sec
retary; Addie Shopshire, assis
tant secretary.
Jackson Writes
On “Salesman”
Dr. Esther Merle Jackson’s
article “Death of A Salesman:
Traic Myth in The Modern
Theatre” appears in the Sep
tember edition of the College
Lanuage Association’s Journal.
Calling attention to the Amer
ican dramatists’ handicap of
having no body of native natural
myths—symbolic interpretations
of the life of man on which to
build their plays - Dr. Jackson
calls Arthur Miller’s play “per
haps the most mature example
of a myth of Contemporary life.”
The superiority of “Death of a
Salesman” over other worthy
American dramas, she asserts,
“is the sensivity of its myth: the
critical relationship of its central
symbol—the Salesman—to the
interpretation of the whole of
contempary life.”
“The chief value of this
drama,” continues Dr. Jackson,
“is its attempt to reveal those ul
timate meanings which are re
sident in modern experience.
Perhaps the most significant
comment on this play is not its
literary achievement, as such,
but is, rather, the impact which
it has had on spectators, both in
America and abroad. The in
fluence of this drama, first per
formed in 1949, continues to
grow in World Theatre. For it
articulates in langauge which
can be appreciated by popular
audiences, certain new dimen
sions of the human dilemma.”
Social Science Department
Chairman E. F. Sweat has writ
ten a review of Black Cargoes:
A History of the Atlantic Slave
Trade for the most recent edition
of Phylon.
Dr. Sweat calls the book “an
engrossing account; a clear and
frightening record of man’s ab
ility to allow the lust for money
to deaden his sensibilities. For
those who are unfamiliar with
the activities of American op
ponents of the slave trade,” he
asserts, “this book will prove
revealing.
“Going beyond a detailed ac
count of the trade [authors Man-
nix and Cowely] devote a sub
stantial portion of their study to
Dean Wiley S. Bolden’s article
“Tasks for the Negro Teacher in
Improving Academic Achieve
ment of Negro Pupils in the
South” appeared in the spring
edition of The Journal of Negro
Education.
Dean Bolden asserts in his
article that the increasing use
of standardized tests among Ne
gro pupils has helped to validate
the generalization that Negro
students in the South perform
relatively poorer than pupils on
whom the tests were standard
ized and that their performance
becomes progressively worse as
they move from one grade to the
next.
He calls attention to the “ex
ceedingly complex” situation
which has given rise to generally
poor performances among south
ern Negro pupils and lists seven
goals which teachers might seek
in their efforts to improve the
academic performance of these
pupils.
As “crucial determiners of the
quantity and quality of achieve
ment,” Dr. Bolden asserts
teachers should gather a full un
derstanding of the validity of
standardized tests. They should
maintain an objective attitude
toward the problem and help
pupils and parents understand
the problem of low academic
achievement.
While the teaching of respons
es to standardized tests item is
the something less than success
ful “ ‘joint’ ” efforts of Great
Britain and the United States to
suppress the nefarious traffic in
the nineteenth Century.
“The book is not, perhaps, the
definitive scholarly study of the
Atlantic slave trade,” Dr. Sweat
continues, “but it is a savage in
dictment of all those connected
with what Wilberforce called
This bloody traffic, written
in such a style as to make it easy
but not pleasant reading. The
authors have made a useful con
tribution in organizing and pres
enting with clarity the details of
the trade while at the same time
taking pains to place it in proper
perspective.”
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a “wasteful experience, not to
mention ethical considerations,”
he continues, teachers should ex
amine teaching in the light of
standardized tests and their re
sults. Teachers should utilize re
sults. Teachers should utilize in
their classrooms the knowledge
about relationships among teach
er-behavior, psychological cli
mate and learning.
He concludes the article with
an appeal for teachers to develop
a greater understanding of their
pupils and to work harder for
self-improvement.
Another article by Dean Bold
en, “Improving Selection Prac
tices in Pre-Service Teacher Ed
ucation,” appears in the spring
issue of the Georia Teachers and
Education Association’s Herald.
Brantley Study
Cited In Review
Dr. Edward J. Brantley’s stu
dy of The Student Personnnel
Program at Clark College has
been cited in The Review of Ed
ucational Research as one of the
few significant such studies con
ducted among American four-
year colleges.
Dr. Brantley, Clark’s Director
of Research and Admissions, not
only investigated the college’s
student personnel program, the
objectives of its educational pro
gram and the social environ
ments, vocational interests and
problems of Clark College stu
dents, but also made recommen
dations for the development of
a student personnel program.
Reynolds Serves
On Committee
Dr. George Reynolds, chair
man of the Language Depart
ment at Clark is serving on the
Sub-Committee on arrangements
for the Thirty-Third Annual
meeting of the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association to
be held at the Biltmore Hotel.
Sweat Reviews For Phylon