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THE MAROON TIGER
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LIFE OF MAHATMft' GHANDI PRMSED BY
MR. PAREKH,
No man the history of the world has influenced the
thought arafLaction of as many peonje during his lifetime
as has Mahatma Ghandi, India’s apostle of passive re
sistance, according to Mr. Manilal C. Parekh, of Rajkot,
India, who spoke in chapel recently. Mr. Parekh, who
has been a personal friend of the Mahatma since his boy
hood, characterised the Indian leader as “the supremely
great man of his time.”
“Ghandi’s great contribution, not only to India but to
the world,” Mr. Parekh said, “is his pronouncement of
the policy of passive resistance and economic and political
non-cooperation. It is good to have a man of this type
in the world today, one who is upholding spiritual values
in a large and complicated political situation.
In summarising the story of the struggle of India for
independence, Mr. Parekh told how Mahatma Gandhi
as a lawyer in South Africa first became conscious of the
race problem when his sympathies for the black people
of that continent were aroused, how after he came to
India in 1914 he assumed virtually overnight the leader
ship of 350,000,000 persons by his dramatic espousal of
the cause of Indian independence, how by a series of
pacific demonstrations against British rule he rallied mil
lions to the active support of his policies.
Mr. Parekh is spending some months in America, and
during his stay in Atlanta has been a guest at Spelman
College. Other foreign visitors to Atlanta University and
Spelman and Morehouse Colleges this week were Rev.
W. Eric Hodges, Vice President of Wesley College, Iba
dan, Nigeria, West Africa, who is in the United States
studying elementary school methods, and Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Hugh-Jones, of Oxford, England. Mr. Hugh-
Jones, a lecturer in economics at Keble College, Oxford
University, is spending a year in the United States. He
is a holder of a Rockefeller Foundation traveling fellow
ship.
MOREHOUSE ALUMNI LAUNCH NEW
CAMPAIGN FOR ENDOWMENT
Faced by the necessity of raising $68,000 from Negroes
during 1934 in order to meet provisional gifts from the
Julius Rosenwald Fund and the General Education Board,
the alumni of Morehouse College, Founder’s Day Week,
inaugurated an intensive campaign in the course of which
every friend of higher education will be asked to have a
share. At the annual alumni banquet which marked the
67th anniversary of the founding of this pioneer college
for Negro men, it was announced that Philip M. Davis,
president of the Morehouse Alumni Association and Su
perintendent of Buildings and Grounds of Spelman Col
lege, and L. D. Milton, vice president and cashier of the
local Citizens Trust Company, will serve as generals in
this major effort.
Under the terms of the gift from the General Educa
tion Board, Morehouse College was offered $300,000 for
endowment purposes, provided it raised a like sum. This
offer was followed by one from the Julius Rosenwald
Fund of $100,000, provided colored people raised as
much. To date Negroes have paid in approximately $32,-
000 of this goal, leaving $68,000 to be raised before the
end of the year. White friends of the college have raised
or underwritten $100,000. Thus, there remains only to
raise the balance of the colored people’s quota to insure
the addition of $600,000 to the college endowment fund.
One hundred graduates and former students of the
college were present at the banquet marking the 67th
anniversary of the founding of Morehouse. Outstanding
speakers at this event were Rev. James B. Adams, pastor
of Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York, who
came to Atlanta to give the Founder’s Day address; Pres
ident Archer, who admitted that he came to Morehouse to
spend only eight months and remained for twenty-eight
years to serve successively as teacher of mathematics, coach
of the football team, dean of the college, acting president,
and finally, in 1931, to be elected to the presidency; Presi
dent John Hope, of Atlanta University, who served as
Morehouse’s president for a full quarter-century, and Dr
D. D. Crawford, executive secretary of the Georgia Bap
tist Convention, who has been associated with the college
as a student and active alumnus for forty-eight years.
TWENTY-EIGHT STUDENTS ARE LISTED ON
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP ROLL
Twenty-eight Morehouse College students have been
accorded a place on the scholarship honor roll for their
work during the present semester, it was announced at
the semi-annual honors day exercises at which Dr. W. E.
B. DuBois, professor of economics and sociology at At
lanta University, was the speaker. Three of the honor
men—Haron J. Battle, of Houston, Texas; Wilbur H.
Sullivan and Asa G. Yancey, both of Atlanta—received
the highest possible grade under the college rating system.
Two of the honor men are residents of Africa: Balamu
J. Mukasa, of Hoima, Uganda, and William Calvin Hum
bles, of Cape Town, South Africa. A third student
from outside the territorial United States, Darwin Creque,
of St. Thomas, Virgin Island, is also listed.
In his address to the student assembly, Dr. DuBois
declared that the large objective of the college was to
discover potential scholars and to establish scholarship.
Along with the encouragement of scholarship, the college
must develop character. He cited among the many things
comprehended in character “a certain sportsmanship, an
attitude toward truth, willingness to make sacrifices, and
honesty.”
On the honors list, besides those already mentioned,
were the following: Frank B. Adair, Jr., Pine Bluff,
Arkansas; L. Raymond Bailey, Columbia, South Carolina;
Elmer G. Barksdale, Atlanta; Winfred O. Bryson, Jr.,
Chattanooga, Tennessee; Hortensius Chenault, Mt.
Healthy, Ohio; Drew S. Days, Jr., Gainesville, Florida;
George Harrion Edwards, Chicago; Charles Clement
Gaines, Atlanta; Berton E. Graham, Birminghgam, Ala
bama; Charles W. Greenlea, Atlanta; Alvin Harrison,
Birmingham, Alabama; Thomas E. Huntley, Atlanta;
Hobart C. Jackson, Chattanooga, Tennessee; George D.
Kelsey, Atlanta; Charles R. Lawrence, Jr., Vicksburg,
Miss.; John C. Long, Atlanta; William Bryant Mitchell,
Shreveport, La.; Roy E. Norris, Atlanta; Richard H.
Payne, Calhoun, Ala.; Richard L. Perkins, New Orleans,
La.; George R. Shivery, Atlanta; Alex R. Stickney.
Greensboro. Alabama.