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THE MAROON TIGER
| SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF PROGRESS j
In my years of service, I have seen the coarse boy be
come the talented preacher, the cultured professor, and
the wise leader of thousands, and from long and wide
acquaintance and observation I am prepared to sav that
the investment lias paid a hundred fold.”
Henry L. Morehouse.
Sixty-five years ago some Negro young men in Augus
ta. Georgia, under the leadership of Rev. W. J. White, an
educated Negro, organized themselves into a school and
wrote to friends in Washington asking for a teacher to
instruct them in things other young men were learning
in colleges all over the country. In this humble effort
Morehouse College had its beginnings.
A little later the American Baptist Home Mission
Society assumed the sponsorship of the undertaking. The
years move along. The work begun by the Rev. William
J. White in Augusta grew into a college presided over
by Dr. Joseph T. Robert, a South Carolinian. In 1855
Dr. Samuel Graves, a New Hampshire man, became the
second President. In 1879 the school moved to At
lanta. The third President, Dr. George Sale, a Cana
dian, took office in 1890, and in 1906 Dr. John Hope,
a Georgian and the first Negro President, was inducted
into office.
One of the most constant and energetic friends of the
College was Dr. Henry L. Morehouse, a former Corres
ponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mis
sion Society, and as a lasting memorial to him the Col
lege now bears his name. The College is fully accredit
ed. It is one of the six Negro colleges holding mem
bership in the American Associations of Colleges. More
house occupies fourteen acres on one of the highest points
in Atlanta, virtually joining the twenty acre campus of
Spelman College.
The College has a vital history. The value of the
plant has grown to over Half a Million Dollars. The
endowment has grown to $320,000.00. The enrollment
represents 22 States and 2 foreign countries and is the
largest Negro college for men south of Washington, and
and the widest geographical distribution of students of
any Negro college. From Morehouse have gone out 10
men who are now serving as college presidents, which
is more than the number of those now serving from all
other Negro colleges combined. Seven of the 10 are
presidents of major colleges, namely, Howard Univer
sity, Washington, D. C., Jackson College, Jackson, Mis
sissippi, Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina,
and the State Colleges in Georgia, Alabama, West Vir
ginia, and Oklahoma. Morehouse also has produced 7
college deans and registrars; 40 college teachers; 3
teachers in agricultural colleges; 21 school principals;
52 public and private school teachers; 128 ministers;
36 physicians and dentists; 7 lawyers; and many in
trade, industry and commerce.
In other words, not less than three-fifths of the liv
ing graduates of Morehouse College are definitely known
to be either preaching or teaching, while at least an
other fifth are engaged in the work of the medical pro
fession, Y. M. C. A. work, social work, or other lines
of definite service.
Thus the work moves on, and the far-flung line of
its useful graduates is serving to build up the educa
tional and cultural foundations of our Republic. Where
there is human need, there you will find Morehouse men;
where the work is hardest, they go. In crowded cities,
in country towns and villages; in the mesas of New
Mexico and the jungles of South America and Africa,
there you will find Morehouse men working. Some of
them have seen many years of service; some are young
men; but Morehouse College has stamped upon them
all the ideal of service, and today that ideal lives and
gathers force.
The many living graduates now rendering distin
guished service are a testimonial to the quality of the
work of Morehouse College and are a good indication
of a still greater work which may be done by More
house men.
Morehouse College, like all growing colleges, has in
creasing needs of support from those who believe in edu
cation and welcome the opportunity to help themselves
prepare for efficient service in a world sorely in need
of leadership and inspiration. It now lias an emphatic
challenge in the fact that the General Education Board
has offer $300,000.00 provided an additional $300,000.00
is raised by the college. The late Mr. Julius Rosen-
wald offered to give $100,000.00 provided Negroes give
$100,000.00. The Alumni themselves have pledged more
more than $60,000.00 of this amount. The American
Baptist Home Mission Society has pledged $25,000.00.
The sum of $115,000.00 is therefore urgently needed to
secure the conditional gifts of $400,000.00, thereby in
creasing the endowment by $500,000.00.
The field of service of this great southern college is
barely touched. Thousands of young men are in need
of the opportunities Morehouse affords.
Morehouse is now at the threshold of opportunity for
a larger and more efficient service.
Your help is needed to make this opportunity a reality.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
Graduate. Scholarships
Applications are invited for scholarships for the aca
demic year 1932 to 1933. There will be open to can
didates eligible for graduate study in the departments of
Biology, Chemistry, Economics and Business Adminis
tration, Education, English, History, Home Economics,
and Mathematics, the following appointments:
1 Scholarship, stipend $500
2 Scholarships, stipend $300
4 Scholarships, stipend $250
12 Scholarships, stipend $200
5 Scholarships, stipend $100
Applications for these scholarships should be made
on or before June 1, 1932. Application forms and fur
ther information may be obtained from the Registrar,
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia.
A point of etiquette has been brought before the
present junior class at Williams College, that is, they
must not leave their chapel pews until the opposite
Senior pews have been vacated. This is a traditional
courtesy.