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THE MAROON TIGER
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And comments the Daily Northwestern:
“The hard-working college boy, upon falling into the
clutches of the co-ed, suddenly undergoes a transforma
tion from that of a virile he-man crashing through op
posing football teams into a delicate, timorous, tea- and-
coffee drinking habitue of a co-ed circle.”
Morehouse, you may be quasi-co-educational. We
like you that way. We share none of Knute Rockne’s
misgivings.
A THOUSAND CHEERS
Not only this nation, but many nations are honoring
Thomas A. Edison, who is without a peer in his field.
He combined old and new ideas into the highest form
of practical utility. President Hoover said that he made
it possible for us to read the type in the telephone books.
He also made telephone books possible. The wizard
said of himself, “I have, besides the usual inventor’s
make-up, a bump of practicality as a sort of appendix.”
Long live Edison!
AN INVITATION TO FRATERNITIES
It shall be the policy of The Maroon Tiger during
From Our
The Life Of A Gold Fish
An old-fashioned person of former-day ways,
Regarded some goldfish with sorrowing gaze.
Quoth he as he watched them advance and recede:
“How cramped is the life that a goldfish must lead,
With nothing to do and nowhere to go;
Small wonder their faces all register woe.”
Remarked a young matron: “I’ll never agree,
No smug little goldfish gets pity from me.
A one-room apartment with plenty of light,
With service and meals is decidedly right.
His combined hath and parlor meets every need;
How lovely the life that a goldfish must lead.”
—The Le Moynite, Le Moyne Junior College.
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A coroner may be one end of a room, a man who in
terviews dead men after a murder and pronounces dead
men dead, or a man who prepares a body for the un
dertaker.
A monastery is a place where monsters are kept.
False doctrine is when a doctor gives wrong stuff to
a man. The Aurora, Knoxville College.
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Our gifts to Negro education have been all too small
in the past. We are not rich, but we must make sac
rifices, and no greater cause will ever demand our
sacrifices than the continued progress of our dear Alma
Mater. Therefore, our part in the work at Talladega is
just as great as any other part of this great endeavor.
—The Mule's Ear, Talladega College.
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Literary work is service, not alone public service that
is wide and inspiriting, but personal service as well,
that imposes many obligations, and makes many a heavy
the term, 29-30 (and we hope as long as it exists) to
invite news of fraternal affairs. There has been a feel
ing on the part of the students that such is little short
of sacrilege. We hope to publish news not only of
additions to your pledge clubs and chapters, but of your
various activities as well. The four fraternities on the
campus are asked to consider this and to have some
news for the next issue. After all, fraternities are merely
fraternities. It takes a queer sort of arithmetic to figure
it out any other way.
THE NEW UNIVERSITY
This is a tremendous year for Morehouse College. We
are making history. The world is watching us. This
is the first year in which the University brought about
by a unique affliliation of Morehouse College, Spelman
College, and Atlanta University is being experimented
upon. It is truly an experiment. A noble one. We
are rooting for the ones at the head of this great under
taking. May we, as students, give our unreserved moral
support to what already has every indication of being
epochal in the history of education.
Exchanges
demand on one’s time, tact, patience, and—upon occa
sions—one’s courage, loyalty to self and to the com
munity or group. However, it is an undisputed fact
that man or woman with the necessary national equip
ment and cultural foundation can look forward to a
life of usefulness and honor.
—The Mentor, Clark University.
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It is said that there is nothing constant but change—
if this be true, everything changes and so does a college.
Colleges have changed from old institutions where seem
ingly everything was run by the teachers and for the
teachers.—The Living Stone, Livingstone College.
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Greetings from the Collegian, State College, Orange
burg, South Carolina:
“Colleges exist to add new dimensions to one’s ex
perience, to serve as a medium through which ideas may
be exchanged. Since it is not always possible to bring
about this exchange of ideas through personal contact,
student publications solve the problem. For this rea
son we are more than glad to enter into an exchange
with The Maroon Tiger. Our belief is that the spirit
of Morehouse lives in your paper; for in every college
there dwell, in a real sense, spirits of great men and
women of the past who have left, as a guide for those
following, “footprints on the sands of time.”
We shall do our very best to make the year worth
while, and hope that it will bring you great success
and happiness.
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Editor’s Note: We hope that this column will grow
into something of which we shall have every reason to he
proud. It is good for us schools to know what the
others are doing.