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THE MAROON TIGER Page 7 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.