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THE MAROON TIGER
Junior Class
Freshmen—(Con.)
Paul Bennett
1.11
J. W. Stampley
1.00
G. C. Birchette
1.00
T. C. Arnold
1.00
Horatio Lamar
.30
J. P. Rodgers
.25
M. F. Jackson
1.00
N. F. Allison
.25
A. L. Harper
.10
A. C. Yancey
.25
M. C. Cleveland
.40
Morris Brown
.05
A. P. Perry
1.00
J. E. Smith
.10
Thomas Kilgore
1.00
Joel Washburn
.25
Sophomore Class
L. E. Burgess
.25
T. C. McDuffie
.25
J. C. Long
.50
C. J. Britt
.25
George Edwards
.25
H. E. Morrow
.25
Charles Lawrence
.50
R. S. Douthard
.25
Drew Days
.50
J. M. Robinson
.50
David Mells
.50
B. J. Mukasa
1.05
William Howard
1.00
M. C. Darkins
.25
F. R. Watley
.50
DR. JAMES B. ADAMS, T5, DELIVERS
FOUNDER’S DAY ADDRESS
“Civilization today, as in the past, rests on four pillars—
art, science, law and religion—and no social order may
long endure nor perpetuate itself without these funda-
mentals,” Alumnus James B. Adams, pastor of the Con
cord Baptist Church, of Brooklyn, New York, declared
in his address at the 67th anniversary of the founding
of Morehouse College. A large gathering of students,
alumni and friends of the college heard the inspiring
Rev, James B. Adams, T5
address delivered by Dr. Adams, who graduated from
Morehouse College in 1915.
“No one, or two, or three of these pillars can support
or perpetuate a civilization,” he declared. “If all are not
considered, then the pillars will not endure, but the order
will topple over. We cannot, and must not, discredit any
one of them, for salvation can be had only by a full
knowledge and measure of the whole.”
From history, Reverend Mr. Adams drew the examples
of Greece, which developed its arts and sciences only to
discover that its culture could not save it from vice; and
of Rome, which set the pattern for law and government
but discovered that law alone could not ward off destruc
tion.
Of America he said: “No period in American history
has been so flourishing as that following the World War.
And yet in that period our national government wit
nessed more corruption than in its entire history. Our
city governments became a stench in civic nostrils. New
York City buiit schools, unequalled in history in the
money invested in them, at a time when the operation
of city affairs was most corrupt. Why?
“Because we emphasized achievements for arts and
science and left off due regards for law and religion. Our
wild rush to reap fruits of our experiment and investment
was untempered or unseasoned with the ethical theories
of law and religion.”
It is the business of the Christian college to secure,
protect, and safeguard these pillars, Mr. Adams asserted.
Morehouse College, he said, has done much to stabilize
these eternal values by training and sending out men who
“have made a thousand deserts blossom like the rose.”
Negroes, he declared, have been granted a share in
the fine arts, have participated in the sciences, and en
joyed to some degree the beauty and glory of a pros
perous age, but they have been rigorously denied their
share in the field of economics. As long as this condition
exists, he said, “we shall remain in the desert.”
Happy reminiscences and timely remarks from Presi
dent Archer, President Hope of Atlanta University, and
from Mr. Maynard H. Jackson, Alumni and Endowment
Secretary, added to the already enthusiastic “Morehouse
Spirit” that prevailed throughout the Founder’s Day
celebration. L. R. Bailey delivered an oration in behalf
of the student body.
Following the exercises Sunday, February 18, a recep
tion was held in honor of the speaker and other visitors
in the President’s residence. The celebration of Founder’s
Day was continued when the alumni gathered for their
annual banquet Monday evening, February 19. In the
afternoon a basketball game between the alumni and
seniors was staged in the college gymnasium.
MAJORITY OF ’33 GRADUATES OF
MOREHOUSE ARE EMPLOYED
Three out of every four men in the last graduating
class of Morehouse College are known to be either gain
fully employed or to be engaged in graduate work, ac
cording to a survey made of the whereabouts of the
members of the 1933 class of the college.
Of the 32 men who completed their college work last
June, the survey showed that ten are engaged in teaching,
seven are in recognized graduate schools working for ad
vanced degrees, and three are in business. Two graduates
are working as laborers. One is employed in relief work,
one is a librarian, and one is in newspaper work.
Seven of the recent graduates are either unemployed
at present, or not known to have located jobs for them
selves as yet.
“Considering the vast amount of unemployment
throughout the country, and the difficulty that trained
and experienced men have in getting and holding posi
tions, I think the record of the Morehouse graduates of
1933 is very encouraging,” President Archer said in
making public these findings.
Five of the men who are teaching hold positions in