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THE MAROON TIGER
COLLEGE DEBATING
E. B. Williams, ’27
As the time for inter-collegiate debating ap
proaches, many wits are being sharpened in prepar
ation for the preliminaries to be held, prior to the
choosing of varsity teams.
Already the quadrangular league composed of
Fisk, Talladega, Knoxville, and Morehouse has chos
en the subject for debate, Resolved: That the U. S.
Should Cancel All Financial Obligations Due From
the Governments of the Allies on Account of the
World War.
Professor L. D. Blanton who will direct the de
bating activities for this season has not announced
his plans for the tour which the team hopes to take.
Nevertheless, several moving pictures have been
sponsored as a means of making it possible for More
house to compete with other colleges outside of the
quadrangular league.
Of the six regular debaters of last season, J. H.
Gadson, Jr., A. J. McGhee, B. R. Brazeal and E. B.
Williams have returned. In addition to these regu
lars much new material is expected to appear dur
ing the initial tryouts. When each aspirant shall have
shown his forensic ability, it will then be a question
of the survival of the fittest.
THE COMRADES CLUB
W. E. Gardner, Ac. ’27
The members of the Comrades Club have been
listening to some very inspiring speeches made by
members of the faculty.
One of the most interesting of these was Mrs.
Hope’s address on her trip to the Le Zoute Confer
ence and to Belgium. She injected into us the spirit
that dominated the conference and held us spell
bound as she talked of her trip into the battlefields
of Belgium. So spell-bound were we that Hackney
was asked afterwards why he sat with his mouth
opened.
The Comrades are getting ready to present the
“Womanless Wedding” immediately after the holi
days. The wedding bells are ringing and someone
of my comrades is going to enter the life of greater
responsibilities. Come and see who will be so for
tunate.
The club is progressing nicely under the ever-
mindful eye of Prof. C. E. Warner, director.
The College Endowment
Campaign
Oliver Jackson, ’28
"Dear old Morehouse, the pride of the South!
Whether in defeat or victory, we are loyal just the
same."
Let’s see about this loyalty. Has every student
availed himself of the opportunity to participate
in the Endowment Campaign? Have the chieftains
of discontentment made their first move toward
amelioration? Is there one among us upon whom
there has not been sufficiently impressed the ne
cessity for a more serious attitude on the part of
the Negro in the financing of his own education?
Philanthropic support of Negro education is
rapidly diminishing and the Negro is being thrown
more upon his own resources. This condition ought
to cause the Negro student to feel more respon
sible and more respectale. However, such is not the
case.
Our College Endowment Fund calls for a mere
pittance, so to speak, of the average Morehouse stu
dent’s ‘‘pin money.” There ought not to be the slight
est hesitancy on the part of any man to give what
would be his share of the quota, were it levied upon
us, pro rata. People are continually declaring that
they function more efficiently when issues are vol
untary than they do when they are impelling. Let
our statistics prove this.
Those who are continually raving for the best
in instruction, have their opportunities now to place
Morehouse on a firm pedagogical foundation. Teach
ers, as well as any other trained persons, cannot be
obtained, to say nothing of being retained, without
finance.
The Morehouse student enjoys a rather liberal
administration, comparatively speaking, which al
lows amiable relationships between faculty and stu
dent body, to obtain. We have no student council,
and yet, Morehouse appears to be none the worse
off for it.
Now men, the lethargy in our ranks has been
too lengthy and too thorough. It is noontime in
Negro education, and the proposition of turning
back to the fundamentals of college life, confronts
us. Just remember, please, that this is the college
of college presidents; and if it falters, what will the
others do? Let us make Morehouse a real college—
a replica of her erstwhile self; not college as it is
sometimes defined: “a large athletic bowl with a
team, lots of cheerers and a dormitory building in
the rear.” This is not a winter resort.
Kelly Miller said, “we do not know what the
New Negro is. He seems to be an outgrowth of
the World War. He is apparently embodied with the
necessary psychology, courage and stamina to meet
and to combat the repressions, prejudices and ob
stacles that militate against the personal and mu
tual interests of our group ” Every Morehouse man
should be a new Negro, for if they are, the fact is
not potent enough. As we have shown ourselves in
ferior to the Morehouse men of yesterday, in that
we have allowed a decadence of some of our great
est activities, notably the annual Shakesperean
drama, college periodicals, etc., it becomes our duty
to get back on the right path. We have made a
slight start and we must see it to the end.
“Where Thy Treasure Is, There Will Thy Heart
Be Also.” Suppose we put our hearts in Morehouse.
A card of thanks was sent by Mrs. M. W. Red
dick to the students and faculty members for the
remembrances and sympathy evidenced during the
illness and death of Dr. M. W. Reddick.