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THE MAROON TIGER
to win for the Negro his deserved place in the history
of the world; and second, that historians were needed
to refute the charges of many writers and politicians who
are endeavoring to prove that the Negro is inferior by
proving that he has done nothing worth while.
Mr. James, assistant in the Department of Music and
director of the Morehouse College Band, spoke the fol
lowing day on the subject, “Negro Work Songs.” Mr.
James traced the origin and development of work songs
and outlined their connection with the history of the
Negro.
A musical program of Negro folk music and spirituals,
sung by Mrs. Rayford Logan and Mr. James, closed the
program. Mrs. Logan’s rendition of “Somebody’s Knock
in’ at Your Door” was received enthusiastically. Mr.
James scored a hit with the students in his interpretation
of “Cabin Boy.”
SAMOANS CAN TEACH US HOW TO LIVE
Americans and Europeans who devote their lives to the
business of making a living have much to learn from
the people of the East who are chiefly interested in liv
ing beautifully, Edwin R. Embree, president of the Ju
lius Rosenwald Fund, told a large assembly of students
of Atlanta University, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges,
January 19. To illustrate his thesis and point his moral,
he described in detail the organization of society in Samoa
which he visited last year in a tour of the Pacific.
“We here in the Western World work, save, and sac
rifice so we may arrive eventually at a worldly heaven
which we call success,” Mr. Embree said. “In the East,
particularly in the Pacific Islands, success is something
that must be achieved every day. Life there is some
thing to be lived, and living is the act of expressing one
self as fully and beautifully as possible.
“The East and the West would benefit if each part
could share the wisdom of the other. The East, for in
stance, needs our tools. We need its philosophy that life
exists here, and the successful man is the one who lives
fully every day.”
Particularly at this time, Mr. Embree believes, we need
to know how “to enjoy life in a meaningful way.” It is
no longer necessary for us to worship work as we have
been used to doing. Under the New Deal, he pointed
out, the Government is compelling us to work shorter
hours. As the codes develop, we will work even less and
we will face the necessity of deciding how we are to use
the leisure that has been imposed on us.
In illustrating the elaborate ritual which is followed in
the village council of Samoa, Mr. Embree dramatized the
event by having the local college presidents, who sat on the
platform with him, impersonate the chieftains.
DOCTOR DUBOIS LECTURES IN FIVE TEXAS
CITIES
With the history of the Negro since 1876 as his topic,
Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, guest professor of economics and
sociology at Atlanta University and the affiliated colleges,
and editor of the Crisis, made a series of five addresses
in Texas during Negro History Week. The tour was
arranged and the lectures were given under the auspices
of the Texas Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History.
The schedule of addresses was as follows: February
12, Prairie View; February 13, Houston; February 14,
Beaumont; February 15, Marshall, and February 16, Cor
sicana.
TEN NEGRO ARTISTS EXHIBIT THEIR WORK
AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Ten nationally known Negro artists have contributed
specimens of their work to an all-Negro art exhibit which
was held in the Art Exhibit room of the Atlanta Univer
sity Library. The show was arranged as a feature of
Negro History Week by Hale Woodruff, of the art de
partment of Atlanta University in co-operation with the
Harmon Foundation of New York City and a number
of local collectors who have loaned paintings.
Thirty paintings, several drawings and one bronze com
prized the exhibit. Among the exhibiting artists were
Palmer Hayden, who sent his well-known still-life “Fe
tiche et Fleurs,” which won the Rockefeller prize at the
Harmon Foundation exhibition in 1933; Aaron Douglas,
whose studies for his Fisk University murals were exhib
ited; Henry O. Tanner was represented by a drawing;
Miss Elizabeth Prophet, whose bronze head entitled “Si
lence” is a replica of one now owned by the Rhode Island
School of Design; and Hale Woodruff, several of whose
Atlanta landscapes were on view. Other exhibitors were
Sargent Johnson, William E. Scott, William H. Johnson,
John W. Hardwick and James A. Porter.
CURTIS STRING QUARTET APPEARS
AT SPELMAN COLLEGE
The Curtis String Quartet, made up of graduates of
the famous Curtis Institute of Music, of Philadelphia,
played a program of chamber music in Howe Memorial
Hall, Spelman College campus, before an audience of
students and local friends of music. The concert was the
second in the entertainment series sponsored by the col
lege, and marked the first appearance of the quartet in
Atlanta.
ATLANTA COLLEGES WILL UNITE FOR
THE 1934 SUMMER SESSION
The 1934 Summer School of Atlanta University will
be conducted in conjunction with the six other institu
tions of higher learning for Negroes in Atlanta, it was
announced following a meeting of the presidents of these
institutions. Following the precedent which was estab
lished last year, Morehouse College, Spelman College,
Clark University, the Atlanta School of Social Work,
Morris Brown College, and Gammon Theological Semi
nary will be affiliated with Atlanta University in the
session which will begin early in June and continue for
six weeks.
In conjunction with the summer school, an interdenomi
national Ministers Institute will be again held, and in
accordance with an agreement reached last year, when
the first institute was held, the sessions will be conducted
on the campus of Gammon Theological Seminary. The
Institute will offer ministers and other religious workers
an opportunity for further training in their special fields
of endeavor.
The success of last year’s summer school in which 353
students were enrolled in regular courses, and 75 others
participated in the Ministers Institute has led to a repe
tition of last year’s program of cooperative effort, Presi
dent John Hope of Atlanta University announced fol
lowing the meeting of the presidents of the Atlanta col
leges at which preliminary plans for the session were
agreed upon.