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THE MAROON TIGER
Campus
027 STUDENTS ARE ENROEEED IN ATLANTA
UNIVERSITY COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
More than eight hundred persons ranging from chil
dren of eighteen months and upward in the nursery
school to mature men and women working for their
graduate degrees are enrolled this fall in the demonstra
tion schools and the colleges that form the Atlanta
University system. Virtually complete registration fig
ures show 827 enrolled at the end of the second week
of the academic year.
In the three institutions of higher education that com
prise the affiliation—Atlanta University, Morehouse Col
lege for men and Spelman college for women—525 are
working for their graduate or bachelor degrees. In ad
dition. 166 hoys and girls are registered in the Univer
sity Laboratory High School, 114 children are in at
tendance at the elementary demonstration school, and
22 are enrolled in the nursery school for children of
pre-school age that is conducted by Spelman College.
In the LIniversity proper which confines its activi
ties to graduate and professional work, 71 students are
studying for their advanced degrees. Morehouse has 245
men enrolled, an increase of 31 over the total enroll
ment in 1932-33. Spelman has thus far admitted 209
young women, an increase of 12 over last year at this
time.
Ninety-four men and women comprise the instruction
al staff of the schools and colleges in the University
system. This includes eight persons on the administra
tive staff of the University Library which is used joint
ly by the several institutions of higher learning in At
lanta.
To house the varied activities of the schools and col
leges and to accommodate hoarding students and faculty
members, 26 buildings have been utilized this year. Five
of these buildings have been completed and occupied
witfrn the past eighteen months, the University Library,
Administration Hall, the President’s Residence and the
men’s and women’s dormitories, which are designed to
furnish living quarters for 200 students and faculty mem
bers of Atlanta University.
With the largest freshman class in some years and
with registration to date in excess of last year’s total
enrollment, Morehouse College began the new academic
year. A total of 230 were registered at the close of the
first week as against a grand total of 214 for the past
year, President Archer announced.
Freshmen led all classes with 88 men registered, the
best showing since the pre-depression years. Other class
es were tabulated as foil ows: seniors, 51; juniors, 53;
sophomores, 38.
With gratifying enrollment of graduate students from
15 colleges throughout the United States, Atlanta Uni
versity this week began its sixty-fourth year of instruc
tion and its fourth year as an institution devoted entire
ly to graduate study.
Coincident with the inauguration of the academic year
the University officially opened its new group of dormi
tories, consisting of two halls, one for the use of wom
en and one for men, and a commodious dining hall and
kitchen wing. In the group are individual rooms for
200 students and faculty members, a series of suites for
married faculty members and their wives, spacious
lounges and reception rooms, and a modern kitchen
and service room. The new halls, built in the Georgian
Colonial tradition, correspond in their architecture and
decoration to the new University Library and Adminis
tration Hall.
Three new members of the faculty take up their du
ties this fall, Mr. William H. Dean in the Department
of Economics, Mr. Rayford W. Logan in the Depart
ment of History and Mr. Kimuel Alonzo Huggins, in
the Department of Chemistry.
Mr. Dean, a graduate of Bowdoin College in 1930,
comes to the University from Harvard University where
he carried on his graduate studies under the Henry Lee
Fellowship in Economics, the first Negro to be award
ed this honor, and was awarded the Master of Arts
decree in 1932. Mr. Logan was an honor graduate of
Williams College in 1917, has received the degree of
Master of Arts from both Williams and Harvard Llni-
versities, and has completed two years’ residence at Har
vard toward his doctorate in history. He is well-known
for his writings in the field of Negro history, and his
work in connection with the Association for the Study
of Negro Life and History in Washington, D. C. Both
Mr. Dean and Mr. Logan are members of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society.
Mr. Huggins, who was graduated from Morehouse
College in 1923 and received his Master of Science de
gree from the University of Chicago in 1929. was for
merly a member of the Morehouse faculty. He returned
this fall from the University of Chicago, where he spent
the last year in graduate study.
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of The Crisis has re
turned to the University for the academic year as guest
professor of sociology. He will conduct a seminar course
in Economic and Social Cooperation among American
Negroes and a senior-graduate course on the Sociology
of the American Negro (1850-1876).
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS CLUB OFFERS
PECULIAR OPPORTUNITIES TO STUDENTS
One of the oldest organizations for students majoring
in the sciences is the Science and Mathematics Club.
This organization affords one a splendid opportunity
to do research in his respective field as well as to con
nect the interdependence of any science to all of the
sciences. Not only is the student allowed the privilege
of doing research, but he has the able assistance of ev
ery science instructor to aid him in his pursuit. The
club aims to keep each member fresh with the doings
of scientific achievement. This aid comes through periodi
cal magazines of science obtainable in our well-equipped
library.
The Science and Mathematics Club is not necessari
ly a club of students majoring in some science. From
time to time the club has noted speakers whose mes
sages impart valuable information to all and not to stu
dents of science alone. Therefore, the club invites all to
its open meetings. Announcements will be posted when
ever an authority or noted speaker is to lecture.
Advanced Freshmen and upperclassmen who major
in science and who have maintained a good average are
eligible for membership.