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President John W.
Davis of West Virginia
State College, member
of President Hoover’s
National Advisory
Committee on Educa
tion, and a Morehouse
Alumnus, as principal
speaker, opened More
house College’s cele
bration of its 65th An
niversary Thursday
morning at a special
chapel held in Sale
Hall.
Following one of
the most stirring ad
dresses that \l ore-
house students have
heard in the last few
years, President Davis
led off an enthusiastic
Irive toward the liquid
ation of all outstand
ing debts of the college by presenting the school a $25
check. It was also announced by President S. H. Archer
of Morehouse that Mr. Davis had named the school in
his will.
The drive for $16,000 was started Thursday morn
ing by President Archer, when he dramatically told the
students that if Morehouse College raised that amount
by the first of May, an additional $90,000 would come
into the school’s coffers from the Julius Rosenwald Fund
and from the General Education Board in New York.
Further momentum was added to the financial effort
to clear Atlanta’s only college for men from debt, when
M. H. Jackson, Alumni Secretary in a fiery challenge
roused the local school’s alumni to action. President
Davis again came to the aid of the school by adding his
personal check of $100 to the growing sum. Three
other Alumni did likewise. President Archer then guar
anteed that he, personally, would give 5 per cent on the
money willed to Morehouse by President Davis until the
money was given the school. This would amount to ap
proximately $1500 annually which would be given by
the school’s president.
Several pledges were made by both members of the
student body and visiting Alumni. Other speakers on
the Thursday morning program included P. M. Davis,
President of the Morehouse Alumni Association; L. 0.
Lewis, M. K. Curry, and L. K. Milton.
At 8 o’clock, President Davis delivered a burning mes
sage to a capacity audience of Atlanta citizens on “Edu
cational Trends Among Negroes.” The speaker in his
usual eloquent manner, very interestingly related sig
nificant trends of local, national and international events
that were a vital influence on the history of education
at the time Morehouse was founded, and later during
its development.
He pointed out that the vital necessity of insuring the
future of private institutions like Morehouse.
The evening of February 5th, Morehouse College,
upholding the affirmative side, debated Howard Univer
sity, who defended the negative side, on the question of
“Capitalism as an Economic Organization Is Unsound
in Principle.” George Harrison and W. E. Harrison,
seniors, represented Morehouse; Minnis and Plant, also
seniors, represented Howard. The debaters, while bril
liant in spots, did not clash on fundamental points.
Moreover, they failed to drill to the heart of the ques
tion.
On February 10th, Spelman College dedicated the
new driveway that leads from the center of the campus
to the new library.
The Glee Club and Orchestra returned from a ten days’
trip through Georgia and Florida, February 17th.
The Interracial Forum met at Morris Brown College,
February 10th. Mr. G. L. Chandler, instructor in the
English Department of Morehouse College was the key
note speaker. Mr. Chandler struck fire in his calleng-
ing affirmation that the races were not ready to do away
with segregation. “Segregation,” he says, “has helped
us to build up an individualism. This is the element
that we need.’ If Negroes were all grouped together,
he said in essence, in a state, perhaps, this could be
better realized. The audience interpreted this as the
colonization argument. The future of this segregation
will be solidarity and independence, but the color line
will not crumble.
Thi speech provoked much “back-fire”, and an ava
lanche of caustic c riticism in regard to segregation
and the “colonization plan”, which the speaker inordin
ately denied as being his method of solution. If the
gods would make mad before they destroy, then they
would destroy the listless, nodding, acquiescing Ne
gro. Therefore, they sent Mr. Chandler to make them
mad. If so, he really pleased the gods.
The Campus Mirror, of Spelman College presented
the University Players in Oscar Wilde’s comedy, Lady
Windermere’s Fan, the evening of February 6th. The
play was staged in the Little Theatre on Spelman’s
campus. The University Players, an organization com
posed of students from Spelman, Morehouse and Atlan
ta University, made a big hit in their first attraction.
The acting was superb, the settings gorgeous.
February 10th, the student body voted to bring Philip
Randolph, labor organizer and practical economist, to
the college as their guest. The date has not been ar
ranged.
February 12th war observed as Lincoln-Douglass Day.
Rev. W. H. King, ’27, spoke in chapel on the “Signifi
cance of Douglass.” He scored three points concerning
Douglass. First, the building of self-trust was what
Douglass fought for. His autobiography is evidence of
this intention, the speaker said, “The race needs more
men that it can trust.”
The second point, the realization of the power of a
minority group in the face of the large majority.