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A UNIVERSITY FOR YOU
ill] AFFILIATION of Atlanta University, More-
ihouse and Spelnian, to form a university system,
Uis perhaps the most significant step in Negro
education the South has seen. It augurs grand
things for the people of the Southeast.
Dr. Jonh Hope, the present president of Morehouse
College, has been offered the presidency of the new uni
versity, which he will probably accept.
Morehouse and Spelman are to continue to do under
graduate work while Atlanta University, which heretofore
has done only college work, will do graduate work.
This is a great task to perform and whoever thinks
the performance is like the snap of the fingers, is hardly
aware of the situation. Dr. John Hope is assuredly an
able man. The hoard in charge chose wisely. May the
spirit of unanimity which marked the choosing of the
the board pervade those who are to assist in the realiza
tion of these plans for a great university for you.
COACHES, CONFERENCES AND COLLEGES
The recent refusals of two city colleges to play sched
uled games have aroused the interest and indignation of
many followers in college baseball. The reason for the
refusal is that certain coaches have taken it upon them
selves to organize a new conference leaving out among
others, Morris Brown, Clark and Tuskegee.
Why leave Tuskegee out, that has been the life of the
conference for the past three or four years?
Please, explain the inability of Clark to qualify.
What are the objections to Morris Brown?
It is said that all parties concerned have plausible
arguments. We do not doubt it.
What we are concerned with is that whatever the pecu
liar problems of the individual members, the colleges
owe it to their supporters to live up to the scheduled
games. Why throw over everything because of this silly
action of a few self-centered coaches?
Perhaps the organizers of the new conference are
jealous of Mr. Abbot, of Tuskegee, and Mr. Taylor, of
Clark. Perhaps, they are not. But, whatever the expla
nation, it appears cheap and little that any school should
fail to carry out the program of the present season.
We think the motive of the organizers questionable.
Yet we think the refusal to play smacks little of a sensi
ble solution of the situation.
That men can do anything as well as women, is a
statement equally senseless.
That both can work well and better than the other in
their respective ways, is a statement more worthy of con
sideration.
Masculinity must work the things that are masculine.
Femininity must work the things that are feminine.
There are physical feats that only masculinity can
face successfully; and there are physical feats that only
femininity can brook successfully. The same holds
true in matters of the spirit and the mind.
What intelligent man can afford to argue that women
should not be given equal opportunities to live full and
free lives? None.
It is biologically unsound to say women are the equals
of men. Women are not like that. A bit of enlighten
ment as to why women are like that may be gotten from
John Langdon-Davies’ A Short History of Women.
It is mentally faulty to claim women the equals of me.n
A bit of enlightenment may be gathered from the records
of genius.
Perhaps, the many instances of profound spirituality
in men would suffice to show women are not the equals
of men even in a condition which the restrictions and
limitations of women would seem to enhance. All of
which is no shameful reflection on women. (Not even
in Texas where men are men and women are governors.)
Why, of course, let women have their fling at what
ever phase of life they choose. But, perhaps, it is a
grander and more blessed thing that women be good
mothers!—that men may be better men!
What woman is there that would have preferred to be
the most lackied of queens rather than the mother of
Abraham Lincoln?
Perhaps, there are some women who would have pre
ferred being queen of Rome than being the mother of a
Nazarene, named Jesus.
Nancy Hanks and Mary,—are they exemplary women?
Above them is no man. On them every man lays his
weary head, sooner or later, that he may receive comfort
and inspiration. And so with DeQuincy, who had in
mind the noble worth of such women as Marie Antoinette
and Charlotte Corday, we, too, apostrophize:
Woman, sister, there are somethings you cannot do
as well as your brother, man; but there are those things
in which you far surpass him and in which there is a
nobility unspeakable!
But a male is writing this, and that accounts for the
silliness of it.
WOMAN, SISTER
The young men present at Founder’s Day exercises over
at Spelman a few days ago were pleasantly amused, in
their usual masculine conceit, over some of the things
which the speaker of the occasion uttered with the air of
a profound pronouncement. “What a clever speech,”
some said; “quite idealistic,” others thought; “a trifle
off”, said others; “I actually believe it,” some confessed.
That women can do anything as well as men, is a
statement hardly worthy to be questioned. The truth
of which, however, is no reflection on women.
THE LESSER GOOD
As graduation nears and the commencement upon
things beyond academic walls faces us, we hope that
none will have paused beneath these bowers only to be
engrossed in the unessentials of life and bogged in their
own benighted blundering.
May all who tarry here leave with open eyes, fluid
minds and purified spirits. Our thought is best ex
pressed in these words:
“All my desires for you are summed up in the simple
prayer, that you may be kept from the peril of the lesser
good.”