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THE MAROON TIGER
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MOREHOUSE TO MEET CAMBRIDGE FOR SECOND
INTERNATIONAL DEBATE
Morehouse College will participate in the second in
ternational debate of its historv when on November 2
its spokesmen will meet a team from Cambridge Uni
versity and argue with the visiting Englishmen over the
adequacy of the League of Nations as a guarantee against
war.
The team to represent Morehouse College as selected
this week will consist of Louis Raymond Bailey of Co
lumbia, South Carolina and Frank B, Adair, Jr., of Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, both of whom are seniors, with John
B. Long of 30 Booker Street, Atlanta, a sophomore, as
alternate.
The debate arranged by the National Student Federa
tion of America will be on the question: Resolved that
the League of Nations is the only secure guarantee of
world peace. Cambridge will uphold the affirmative.
Both Morehouse principals are experienced debaters.
Adair, who came to Morehouse College last year as a
junior from Arkansas State College, was a member of
the Morehouse team that toured Texas and Louisiana
in 1933. Bailey has engaged in intercollegiate debate
with Talladega, Howard, Shaw and the University of
Vermont. He is editor of The Maroon Tiger, campus
literary publication.
The Cambridge men are both upperclassmen and sea
soned debaters. They are Alaslan Sharpe, a native of
Aberdeen, Scotland, and a student at Clare College, Cam
bridge, and Michael Barkway of Redcar, Yorkshire, a
student of Queens College, Cambridge. Mr. Barkway
is a noted proponent of the League of Nations, and is
President of the British Universities League of Nations
Society. He debated the war debts question over the
radio with Yale University earlier this year.
SPELMAN STARTS YEAR WITH LARGER
ENROLLMENT
Spelman College this week began its new academic
year with an enrollment slightly in excess of last year’s
opening registration. Nine new faculty members began
their duties with the opening of the new year, Presi
dent Florence M. Read announced. Fourteen new courses
were announced as additions to the college curriculum.
Among the new instructors were Mr. Willis Laurence
James, formerly head of the music department of Le-
land University and the Alabama State Teachers Col
lege; Miss Charity Bailey, graduate of the Rhode Is
land College of Education and Boston University and
for three years a student at the Juilliard School of Mu
sic, New York City; Miss Clara M. McDonald, gradu
ate of Simmons College and recipient of a Master of
Science degree from Teachers College, who will teach
chemistry and physics; Miss Ailsie M. Stevenson, gradu
ate of the University of Illinois and Teachers College,
Columbia University, who will teach economics; Miss
William Byran Geter, who holds degrees from Boston
University and Radcliffe College and diplomas from the
Universities of Paris and Nancy, who will teach French,
and Mr. S. O. Roberts, who received his Master’s degree
from Brown University and will instruct in psychology.
In addition, two Spelman college graduates, Miss
Birdie Scott and Miss Effie O’Neal, have been appointed
graduate assistants in the departments of biology and
chemistry and physics, and Miss Ida Louise Miller,
former student at Spelman College and holder of the
Racial Minority Scholarship at Mount Holyoke College,
was named graduate assistant in dramatics.
Among the new courses offered this year at Spel
man of special interest are one in Negro History to be
taught by Mr. Rayford Logan of Atlanta University’s
department of history, a course in experimental psy
chology, and a lecture discussion course in art appre
ciation given by Miss Mabel R. Brooks who holds a
grant from the Carnegie Corporation.
DR. AND MRS. ARCHER RECEIVE
THE STUDENT BODY
A very cordial reception at the home of President and
Mrs. Samuel Howard Archer was accorded the new stu
dents and the old students who have returned to More
house. The reception was given on the evening of Sep
tember 30th, at eight o’clock. Mrs. J. Id. Lyons repre
senting President Florence M. Read in behalf of Spel
man College and Professor J. H. Jenkins representing
the faculty of the Affiliation were guests at the recep
tion and added their timely remarks to the pleasantries
of the evening. ’Twas good to see familiar faces again
a d to welcome the new men into the College activi
ties. Morehouse also welcomes back to the campus
many former men who for divers reasons have been
away from their Alma Mater for a year or more. These
men we know will add much to the perpetuation of
Morehouse activity and Spirit. They are:
I wis M. Bivins, Lisbon Blaylock, Marshall Bonner,
James Boston, Earl P. Byrd, Hortenius Chenault, Charles
Donald, Edward T. Gore, Berton E. Graham, Martin B
Graham, Fred A. Haynes, Melvin W. Houston, Ernest
B. Lewis, Slater Maddox, Richard L. Perkins, Horace.
Winston, George H. Edwards, David Latimer.
The Student Activities Committee, the Athletic Asso
ciation, the Debating Society, The Maroon Tiger, and
the Science and Mathematics Club were well repre
sented by short talks from Messrs. H. J. Battle, Leonard
Archer, John Young, L. Raymond Bailey, and Scott
Barrett, respectively. Mr. Maynard H. Jackson, Alumni
and Endowment Secretary for Morehouse College, spoke
welcoming the new men to the College and injecting
into the men returned the inspiration that is character
istic of whatever he has to say.
Thomas Kilgore, President of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, presided. After refreshments were
served, the men left the President’s home with the strains
of Dear Old Morehouse still ringing in their ears.
(NSFA)—Approximately 2,375 Coca-Colas of differ
ent flavors are sold about the Indiana University campus
daily. The greatest number of calls are for “plain cokes,”
with “lemon 7 a close second. Two thousand, three hun
dred and seventy-five five-cent drinks mean that $118.75
is spent on “cokes” each day.—Yellow Jacket Weekly.