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THE MAROON TIGER
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then was Students’ National Secretary. He told the
meaning of the conference and the motive behind it.
Well, after that meeting we rested for about an hour,
during which time we ate supper. About six o’clock in
the afternoon when the sun was sinking slowly in the
West and everything seemed to be still, we went to the
foot of a high mountain and there sitting on terraces,
we had one of the best prayer meetings I’ve ever been
in. And Boy! I’m telling you, I have been in some
mighty good ones down in Florida. It was the kind which
makes people weep. Yes, those which make men strive
to better their lives. That’s the kind I’m talking about.
At seven o’clock, which was platform hour, Mr. Paul
Harris, Secretary of National Council for Prevention of
War, talked of the feasibility and possibilities of pre
venting war. Mr. Harris gave many of the things that
cause war: disrespect of personality, commercial rival
ry, imperialism and foreign investments. Using these
along with the social, political and economic conditions
of various counties, Mr. Harris fully showed the possi
bilities of preventing war. After the speech we broke
up in small groups where we were able to capitalize
and crystallize the experiences that we got by listening
to Mr. Harris. When this group meeting was over, it
was about ten o’clock and as you know that’s my bed
hour. I went to bed. I was up early the next morning
to make the Sunrise Prayer Meeting. Boy! that meeting
was fine.
Every morning at 9 o’clock Bruce Curry, Professor of
Biblical Interpretation at Union Theological Seminary,
conducted the Bible study period. For eight days Profes
sor Curry talked from the fifth chapter of Matthew, “The
Sermon on the Mount.” Professor Curry said this chap
ter is often thought to be impracticable and unreason
able, but if there was a revolution of the social insti
tutions such as home, church, school and state, which
influences the lives of men, the beatitudes would be
easy.—By the way: Professor Curry has written a book,
“Living by Footnotes,” and another, “Outline of Campus
Problems.” You might be interested in reading them.
On Sunday morning, Professor B. E. Mays—you know
him? he spoke in chapel the first Sunday in October—
well he preached, what I would call the greastest ser
mon of the year. He talked about “The Unconscious
Lost of Power.” “How easy it is for a man to miss his
ideal in college because of athletics, fraternities, or too
much social life and come up at the end of four years
not aware of his having lost his ideal,” said Professor
Mays. As Sampson, the giant lost his strength unaware,
in wooing Delilah, the beautiful woman, so can men
today lose themselves unaware. Man! that sermon was
a burner. The next day President Hope told us of his
trip to Jerusalem. He urged the men to travel making
spiritual, intellectual and physical investigations. As he
talked we were mentally in Jerusalem, and other places
of great interest. Another fine thing of the conference
was the association with so many students who seemed
to he interested in worthwhile things. There was one
fellow there by the name of Katabola, a student from
the West Coast of Africa. Such an ideal thinker was
he! His whole talk was “making the principles of Jesus
practical,” which he thought possible, but not easy.
Boy! I left that conference in ecstasy. I could see
why Peter said to Jesus, “Master, let us build three
Tabernacles.” Well the bell bas rung and both of us have
got to study. I’d better go. I’ll tell you more from time
to time.
Good -ni ght.
AS COLLEGE LIFE APPEARS
TO A FRESHMAN
W. E. Harrison, ’31
A few weeks ago about one hundred and fifty students
entered Morehouse as Freshmen. Most of us out of that
one hundred and fifty had never before attended boarding
school, while all of us were entering college for our
first time; thus we found it imperative to adapt ourselves
to our new surroundings.
A man entering college is showing to all that he be
lieves that higher education is for anyone who wishes
to be successful in life. He further shows that he is
willing to submit himself to the criticism of the more
advanced students and teachers. This does not mean that
he feels inferior because he is a Freshman, but shows he
is willing to be subordinate for the present so he might
conquer in the future.
Many students enter college with an inferiority com
plex. Thus if they go to a class which has a few upper
classmen in it, they become afraid that if they ask any
questions about the different things around the college
they will appear dumb; after many weeks of silence in
and out of the class room the student finds himself ob
taining less knowledge than his classmates. Some at this
period realize their mistakes, correct them and become
from that date good scholars; while the others—which
are only a few, do not get much further in life.
In facing these new situation we, the Freshmen, find
for ourselves a new world, and a new life; hence we are
going into all college activities and all our classes to
make good.
LIKE YOU, GYPSY
O, the open road, the open road,
I’m out to plod your way;
The sky, the sky, 0 the clear blue sky.
I’m ivand'ring ’neath today:
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O Gypsy wand’ring, tvand’ring lone,
I, too, for the open spaces—
The out-of-doors, God’s great out-of-doors■
Attended by phantom faces:
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0 love, O love that drives me on,
In shadows and in sun;
Heart loving, loving, yet unbeloved,
I’m Gypsy on the run: