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THE MAROON TIGER
The Voice of the Students of Morehouse College
Volume VII
FEBRUARY, 1932
Number 5
THE STAFF
Charles H. Bonner, ’32 Editor-in-Chief
W. N. Jackson, ’33 Associate Editor
E. 0. Jackson, ’32 Associate Editor
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FOUNDER’S DAY
W. E. Harrison, ’32...
... Athletic Editor
Nathaniel Harrison, ’33
Clubs and Organizations
C. C. Gaines, ’34
Literary Editor
W. H. Shell, ’33
Chapel Chats
Clarence S. Buggs, ’32....
....Wit and Humor
B. R. Brazeal, ’27
Alumni and Faculty Editor
C. Lewis Chandler ...
Faculty Adviser
MANAGERIAL STAFF
B. A. Milton, ’32
.. Business Manager
M. I. Cabaniss, ’33
Asst. Business Manager
W. C. Green, ’33
...Advertising Manager
M. J. White, ’33
Circulation Manager
A. B. Henderson, ’33
Exchange Manager
THE MAROON TIGER
Published Monthly By The Students of
Morehouse College.
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Single Copy
The celebration of Founder’s Day at Morehouse Col
lege has become an outstanding event in the College
calendar. February 18th is the definite turning point
of the year. The backward look brings into bold re
lief the sainted William J. White who, with the faith
and courage of a prophet and pioneer, began a move
ment in education and training that had as a fundamen
tal basis education for the needs of the people—educa
tion that would help one to meet and master whatever
problems life presented.
The reconstruction period in which he lived and
worked had all of the confusion and perplexity of the
present, highly accentuated because of the changed re
lationship from master and slave to man and freed-
man. The mission, the message, and the method of our
Founder in those trying days contain the guiding ideas
for the period in which we live, and furnish a program
for any college that is seeking to interpret knowledge
in terms of the life of the “town and the gown.”
A retrospect should make us apprehend the signifi
cance of those early days and realize the debt of love
we owe, not only to the Founder, but the host of North
ern white teachers from the most cultured homes, who
believed in our capability and our redemptability when
many thought us fitted for menial tasks only. Had they
not toiled and suffered to make permanent schools of
higher learning in those difficult days, it would be al
most impossible to establish them now. The love and
far vision and service of these teachers of early days
place upon us an obligation that transcends all pay
ment and makes us debtors of love.
As we do homage at the shrine and bring our tribute
of praise, we dare not refuse to shoulder our responsi
bility. At every turn of the road we hear the ringing
challenge, “Who goes there, man or mannequin?” The
only sufficient answer is “A man!”
Founder’s Day, with its blessed part of unselfish
service challenges Morehouse College to conserve abid
ing values, garner the best in life and motives and
make love regnant in human hearts.
The first objective is to secure a feeling of oneness
and unity in the midst of a great diversity so that the
worth of human personality may he exalted high above
material things.
Morehouse College, conscious of its responsibility,
pledges itself to contribute its best thought in various
branches, but especially in the upturned field of eco
nomics and use its ripest minds to make an atmosphere
in which all may live a rich, creative, spiritual life.
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