The Maroon tiger. (Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia) 19??-current, October 01, 1933, Image 7

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE MAROON TIGER Page 5 c'News 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.