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Americans.” Some of our one hundred per cent patriots
talk to us about the danger of entangling foreign al
liances. “Let us stay out of international affairs,” they
say, “and leave Europe alone. Let us attend strictly to
our own business.' Is it not our business to help other
nations out of distress, although it has been our busi
ness for decades to meddle in their affairs and to get
all of their resources we can acquire?
America boasts of being a land of freedom and op
portunity. “America is another word for opportunity,”
said one of our Presidents, but is it? Is this a land of
freedom and opportunity where one-tenth of its citizens
is restricted, segregated and constantly reminded that
the color of its skin is a social and economic barrier?
Is this a land of fair play when Negroes in the South,
and in the North too, are considered inferior, given a
bitter treatment of social injustice or occasionally lynched
in a swamp or left hanging dead somewhere on the
limb of a tree? So well has America blended beautiful
oratory about freedom with the eloquent facts of social
atrocities until an Americana missionary in a certain
Oriental country, after he had finished an address on
Christian good-will, was taken aside by a native who
said, “You must know that the educated people of this
country look upon Christianity as a blood-spilling re-
ligion.
This is our shameful record. Minding our own busi
ness is almost unknown by us. Facing the issue of our
own social malady would be an entirely new procedure
on our part. There are thousands of Americans ready
to diagnose the case of sick Europe and prescribe the
needed remedy, to ten million Americans who are will
ing to face their own condition with honest doubt and
searching misgiving.
We do well, therefore, to condemn the racial policies
of Hitler and oppose injustice wherever it is found, but
it seems to me that it would be far better if we would
dedicate ourselves to the serious task of setting our own
houses in order first. We should take the beam out of
our own eyes first, then we can see clearly to remove
the mote from our brothers’ eyes.
SHOULD WE HAVE FRESHMAN RULES?
W. A. Allen, III. ’37
Of course not! At the beginning of each school year
one week is set aside for Freshmen to become acquainted
with the rules and regulations of the institution so that
the Freshmen may not be ignorant of the government
of the college. In spite of this preliminary training the
upperclassmen always insist that we should have Fresh
man rules. What is the reason that they discuss the ques
tion over and over without a final decision?
It is true that all students need rules to be governed
by, but why should the F reshmen need rules aside from
the regular ones. Do the upperclassmen think that the
Freshmen are wild and uncultured? If they do, then
they are not aware of the truth that Freshmen as well as
anyone else can abide by the general laws of the insti
tution.
The Freshmen have the ability to produce self-con
trol and to secure the cheerful acquiescence of the other
students by the general rules that are made for the good
of the entire student body. The Freshmen know that
they are no longer high school students, that the days
of childish folly have vanished, that the road before
them is stony and that college is the place where a man
is on his own merits; then why is the superflous set
of rules needed for them? If the Freshmen were not
treated like babies by having certain “shalls” and “shall
nots”, then they would not act as such.
Give the Freshmen a chance to display their man
hood. their culture, and their quality of self-control.
They will not lake advantage of their freedom. If the
upperclassmen can set a good example as law-abiding
students, then the Freshmen can not fall below that
standard. That example will in itself be the greatest
rules that the Freshmen will need.
The Freshmen want a democratic student body in
that they may have a representative on every commit
tee. They want to feel at home, and to do that they
rrust have the same showing that the upperclassmen
liave. Until everyone is convinced that we do not need
Freshman rules, the course in Sociology will not have
done its full part.
“SO TO BIND EACH SON THE OTHER
Welcome Freshmen! Now that Freshman Week is his
tory and the tedious business of meeting the great grand
upperclassmen has for the most part been disposed of,
this verdant field of ninety-three strong should be now
well orientated to join into the spirit that promises to
give Morehouse College one of its greatest years. The
enrollment of the Freshman Class this year exceeds
that of last year’s highest enrollment by twenty-eight.
From East and from West, from North and South they
have come; big ones, little ones, wise Freshmen and
Freshmen that are otherwise (There! There!) And what
with three parties already given in their honor, two at
Morehouse and one at Spelman, the Freshmen should
begin to feel a bit of the spirit which bind . . . each
son the other"’ the men of Morehouse into the great
family that history has proved them to be. The Fresh
man Class is geographically distributed as follows:
Alabama 1 Michigan 1
Georgia 69 Mississippi 1
Illinois 5 North Carolina .... 6
Indiana .. _. 1 Oklahoma 1
Kentucky 2 Texas 6
SOPHOMORES WELCOME THE FRESHMEN
The members of the Sophomore Class wish to welcome
every Freshman to Morehouse College.
There is a beginning to everything. We were ‘ crabs”
one year ago, but we did not allow the thrusts of the
upperclassmen to get the better of us. We were quick to.
get adjusted to the environment and to display our sev
eral abilities. We are attempting now to maintain the
standard that we set last year.
In you, Freshmen, lie hopes for future Morehouse men.
We hope that you will realize the all-important task
that is before you. An institution is not only what the
founders, the alumni, the trustees and the faculty make
it, but, more conspicuously what the students make it.
We feel certain that you are going to do your part
this year to better conditions and to take advantage of
every opportunity that the college has to oiler.
(NSFA)—The Institute of Advanced Study at Prince
ton. N. J., opened October 2 for its first year of work.
The Institute is under the direction of Dr. Abraham
Flexner, and includes in its faculty of noted professors,
Dr. Albert Einstein.—Princetonian.