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Page Twenty-four 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.