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ATLANTA UNIVERSITY OFFERS SCHOLAR-
SHIPS FOR GRADUATE STUDIES
DURING 1934-1935
A limited number of scholarships open to men and
women who are eligible for graduate study will be avail
able for the next college year, according to an announce
ment made this week by President John Hope of Atlanta
University. Application for these scholarships, which are
open to graduate students in the departments of biology,
chemistry, economics and business administration, English,
history, mathematics, and sociology, should be made to
the Registrar, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga., before
June 1.
The University this past year gave scholarships to 38
students who are now carrying on work in ten depart
ments. These scholarship students are graduates of 16
colleges throughout the country, and they come from 12
states. Indicative of the wide appeal of Atlanta Univer
sity to students who desire to engage in graduate study
is the fact that the present student body is made up of
graduates of 19 American colleges.
MOREHOUSE FORUM HEARS
■ NORMAN THOMAS
The Morehouse College Forum joined one hundred
students from white and colored colleges and universities
in Atlanta to hear Norman Thomas, executive director
of the League for Industrial Democracy and twice candi
date for the presidency of the United States on the So
cialist ticket, discuss the necessity of taking immediate
steps to improve the relations between the races at a
meeting Monday, January 12, in the exhibition hall of
the Library. The meeting which was arranged by the
Atlanta Intercollegiate Council, was presided over by
Mr. Tom Morgan of Emory University.
The present system of racial prejudice and discrimi
nation contains abundant material for the American fas
cist movement, if and when it arises, to stir up a national
feeling of hatred for the Negro, Mr. Thomas declared.
By inference he compared the possible persecution of
Negroes under an American fascist dictatorship to the
existing oppression of the Jewish people by Hitlerites in
Germany. Mr. Thomas frankly decried in strong words
the shameful system of racial discrimination in this coun
try which has for so long hindered the progress of the
American people.
Following the speech of the great Socialist the meeting
was thrown open for questions, and the speaker was
queried for forty minutes by members of the group.
The Morehouse Forum meets fortnightly and has as
guest speakers outstanding men in their respective fields.
N. S. F. A.
A system of referring all proposed legislation to a
committee before it can bt put to a vote has been insti
tuted by the Student-Faculty Congress at Bucknell. The
reason given for the action is that “the members of the
Congress were wont to spring motions, and, after a brief
discussion, ask for- a vote on the question,” and that
“often these motions were either unworthy of congres
sional consideration or so poorly worded that confusion
on the floor resulted.”—Buc\nellian.
Eight of the ten male movie stars are college gradu
ates, while only one out of every ten female stars has a
degree.—The Maroon.
Butler University, the college which pioneered in mar
riage courses, is now offering a course in the art of
staying married.—Northwest Missourian.
A Junior in the college of engineering at the Uni
versity of Nebraska accumulates enough revenue repair
ing watches to put him through school.—Johnsonian.
A psychology professor, after a thorough investigation
at Colgate, announced that chewing gum improves a
student’s pep about eight per cent.—Swarthmore Phoenix.
A professor at Wisconsin State College recommends
the old institution of cramming because it represents con
centration of the highest order. He also asserts that
modern psychologists believe knowledge gained more
rapidly will be retained longer and more fully.
—The Crimson and White.
Five thousand New England High School students
recognized and identified the name of A1 Capone and
45 % of the group failed to recognize Charles Evans
Hughes as Chief Justice of the United States, according
to a survey conducted by a committee of representatives
of the New England Association of School Superintend
ents and of Boston University. Capone was the only
cne in a list of “thirty leaders of the current times” which
every student was able to identify.
CORRECTIONS
In H. J. Battle’s article entitled “Youth Movements in
America,” which appeared in the January issue, several
errors were made which are corrected in the lines that
follow :
In the second paragraph, the lines that read “In the
United States there have been very little organized effort
. . .” should have read: “In the United States there has
been very little organized effort . . .”
In the paragraph which preceded the final one,, the lines
which read “We see, then, that we have student organiza
tions ranging from a dynamic to less apathetic. The
racial can perhaps intensify the desire for a new order.
. . . The conservation as represented by the N. S. F. A.,
in my opinion, have been a wonderful opportunity to
develop leaders and gradually reform the present order
. . .” should read as follows:
“We see, then, that we have student organizations
ranging from a dynamic radicalism to a more or less
apathetic conservatism. The radicals can perhaps intensify
the desire for a new order. . . . The conservatives, as
represented by the N. S. F. A., in my opinion, have a
wonderful opportunity to develop leadership and gradu
ally reform the present order.’
The errors appeared through no fault of the author.