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THE MAROON TIGER
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When you are out at midnight on business, pleasure
seeking, or gallavanting around are you mindful of
the city’s eyes? What the the city’s eyes? People?
No, not exactly. The city’s eves are the thousands of
lights to guide and surely, if asked to speak, would
tell of many a happening, accident, and thrill. Millions
of eyes are strung up and down the avenues, on cor
ners, in buildings, on buildings, and in homes. The
city’s eyes see and know, when people are asleep. They
help to make the crowd see and know what could not
be known otherwise. The city’s eyes show us up when
we least suspect it.
Even though you did creep out of bed quietly and
turn down the lamp, slip the latch off the door, and
were gone, the bickering light witnessed everything you
did. The light on the corner saw an only child turn
into a “Chop Suey” to meet her lover while her mother
believed her to be at church. A pair of eyes saw you
as you ducked cunningly in at the side door of a sa
loon to drink from the stimulating faucet. A string
of colorful eyes over the front of a restaurant saw
her as she flitted gayly up the narrow stairs into the
cabaret to experience ‘“Savoy life.” And how did the
old step-mother know to come and pull her out of the
“Ritz”? She beheld her by the city’s eyes as she looked
queeringly into each building lighted along the streets.
The eyes of the city are sometimes tiny bulbs; then
again they are big spot lights. They see all. At one
place a string of these eyes high overhead saw a girl
^Biographical Sketches
By Prof. C. J. Gresham
Professor Lloyd Overton Lewis. Born in Hunt-
ingson, West Virginia, the son of Rev. A. D. Lewis, one
of the most influential ministers of West Virginia. His
early training was in the public school system of Hunt
ington. He took his high school course in the Douglas
High School of which Dr. Carter G. Woodson was a
teacher and the principal. Another instructor who was
influential in his high school career was Dr. J. W. Scott,
the present principal of Sherman School, Cincinnati,
Ohio, and U. S. expert in Negro Education. As a boy
in high school, Mr. Lewis won honor as a debater and
achieved high scholarship standing. Professor Lewis did
his college work at Virginia Union University, Rich
mond, Virginia. Aside from being a good student he
played on the baseball team was a member of the or
chestra and quartet, and won prizes in essay and poetry
writing. After getting his B. D. degree, Mr. Lewis en
tered the Theological Department of the same university.
In his senior year at the seminary he became pastor of
the Eighth Street Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia.
He married Miss Emma Bryant of Chicago, a graduate
of Spelman and Morehouse College. In 1921, Profes
sor Lewis left this church and joined the faculty of
Morehouse College. Professor Lewis has served as presi
dent of the Alumni Association of Virginia Union; has
done graduate work at the University of Chicago, and
the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Massachusetts.
He has traveled over Europe, Egypt, Syria, and Pales
tine. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred
on Professor Lewis by Virginia Union University in
of eighteen clad in knickers hop into a taxi and go off
to her future. The same set of eyes saw an old woman
crushed to death by the wheels of the speeding taxi. It
was the city’s eyes that showed the poverty-stricken
lads, robbing the store on the corner at twelve Satur
day night. Another set of eyes, although la’e in open
ing, awoke in time to see Bill steal at dusk from Irs
sweetheart on the doorstep. Some eyes witnessed the
crowds coming and going to the synagogue.
What have the city’s eyes to say about you? Was
it you that the eyes at the entrance of the college,
saw cubing the campus at midnight? Was it you that
one eye saw ducking your head to keep from being
known in the slums? Was it vou the light in the hall
saw pull off your shoes and creep up the stairs at
two in the morning? Was it you who borrowed your
friend’s clothes and the lights at the fraternity ball gave
you away? No, not you? Vou must have been one
of the number seen going into the synagogue.
The city’s eyes behold everything—and you can never
tell when they might reveal what they see. Yonder
lights are the city’s eyes strung up and down the
avenues. If asked to speak, they whisper the good
news and bellow scandal about whomsoever it is due.
Are you mindful of the citie’s eyes? What could they
say about you?
It is well said that Life is what you make it; It may
be either a mild, sweet smoke, or an irritaing inhale.
—Carrie Adams.
1931. He has been connected with Morehouse since
the fall of 1921, teaching in the fields of English, Re
ligion, and Philosophy.
Professor John Philip Whittaker. Born in New
Orleans, Louisiana. He also is the son of a minister.
He did his grammar school work at Beech Institute,
Savannah, Georgia, Tuskegee Institute, and the public
school of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1909, Professor Whit
taker was graduated from the high school department
of Tuskegee. In 1910, he finished the course in car
pentry in the same school. Professor Whittaker did
his college work at Atlanta University, whe e he fin
ished in 1915 with honors. While in college he was a
debater and Y. M. C. A. worker, being a member of
the first Kings Mountain Y. M. C. A. Conference. In
1922, the University of Chicago conferred on him the
B. S. degree. He got his A. M. in Education from Co
lumbia University in 1928. From 1915 to 1916 he was
director of the Academic Work of Tyler, Texas. In
1916 he came to Atlanta University as Principal of the
High School and later became professor of chemistry,
Dean and Registrar of the University. He married Miss
Alva Brown of Darlington, South Carolina, who is a
graduate of A. U. Professor Whittaker is a member of
the National Association of Deans and Registrars and
was treasurer for two years, member of the American
Association and Registrars, and the National Educa
tional Association. In 1932, in connection with the
affiliation of A. U., Morehouse and Spelman, Professor
Whittaker became Registrar of Morehouse College.