Newspaper Page Text
Page 6
THE MAROON TIGER
QdbWlpllS
MOREHOUSE AUXILIARY PLAY IS GALA EVENT
Otherwise staid Morehouse College faculty members
and faculty wives forgot their dignity for an evening when
the Woman’s Auxiliary of Morehouse College, March 30,
presented with alhfacuity cast the farce “You’re Telling
Me” before an audience that filled Sale Hall Chapel to
capacity. In the audience was the entire delegation of
the national Association of College Women, whose annual
convention opened earlier in the evening at the Atlanta
University Library. The proceeds of the play went toward
payment of the pledge of one thousand dollars which the
Auxiliary has made to the Morehouse College Endowment
Fund.
The play depicted the complications that arose in the
home of a wealthy Long Island family when the daughter,
Kit Carstairs, played by Miss Mildred L. Burch, secretary
to President Archer, in an attempt to recoup the family
fortunes, invited a “newly-rich” mother and her two
daughters, played by Miss Alma Ferguson, Mrs. K. A.
Huggins, and Mrs. Rayford W. Logan, to visit her home
to meet some friends who were to pose as titled foreigners.
The ineptitude of Mrs. Carstairs, played by Mrs. G. Lewis
Chandler, the blundering of her sleepy brother-in-law (Dr.
Raymond H. Carter) and the unwillingness of their house-
guest, Pamela Snowden (Mrs. R. W. Mitchell) to enact
the role of a titled English lady added to the complica
tions.
Confusion was thrice confounded by the appearance of
Loyd Hamilton (Mr. E. A. Jones), a rich young man who
allowed himself to be drafted as a butler, his clumsy
friend, Ward Wanger (Mr. H. V. Eagleson), and Edou
ard La Rue (Mr. R. W. Mitchell), an aviator who hap
pens in just in time to straighten out the ever-increasing
tangle.
The play was skillfully directed by Mr. G. Lewis
Chandler of the Morehouse College department of English.
Mrs. Clarence J. Gresham served as stage manager.
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART VISITS ATLANTA
UNIVERSITY TO STUDY ITS LIBRARY
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard University,
who, as chairman of the building committee of Howard
University's board of trustees, is in charge of the Univer
sity’s new library development, visited Atlanta University
to study the construction and organization of the Univer
sity Library.
During his day’s visit in Atlanta, he addressed an audi
ence of members of the faculties of Atlanta University,
Morehouse College, and Spelman College, and the gradu
ate students, and told of his life-long interest in the prob
lems of slavery and reconstruction. His first association
with the Negro problem, he said, was with the working
of the “underground railway” in Southern Ohio, where
both his father and his aunt were actively engaged in the
work of assisting escaped slaves to pass through to safety.
Professor Hart is one of the most prolific and well-
known of American historians, being the author of more
than forty volumes or series on United States History. He
was a member of the faculty of Harvard University for
43 years and is now a professor-emeritus of that institu
tion. He has served as president of both the American
Historical Association and the American Political Science
Association. His most outstanding recent public service
was his work as historian of the U. S. Commission for the
Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of
George Washington. On July 1 of this year, Doctor
Hart will celebrate his eightieth birthday.
YALE UNIVERSITY VISITS ATLANTA
UNIVERSITY
In the course of a three-week tour of the southern states
for the purpose of observing the social and educational
status of Negroes in the South, eight members of the sem
inar in culture contacts and race relations of the Institute
of Human Relations of Yale University spent a day in
Atlanta as the guests of Atlanta University, Morehouse
College and Spelman College. The party was headed by
Dr. Charles T. Loram, Sterling Professor of Education in
Yale University and head of its department of race rela
tions.
During their stay the party conferred with the staff of
the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and studied
at first hand the working of the affiliation of Atlanta Uni
versity with Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. The mem
bers of the group expressed themselves as being impressed
by the Atlanta University development and stated that
they regarded its program of cooperation as an example
worthy of emulation by both white and colored schools
and colleges.
Eight members of the seminar, Doctor Loram, and his
son, Jan Loram, a student in Choate School, Wallingford,
Connecticut, comprised the party. During the trip which
began on March 18 and ended on April 8, the group has
visited Washington, D. C., Hampton Institute, the North
Carolina State Department of Education at Raleigh, the
University of North Carolina, Duke University, and the
Penn School. Following their stopover in Atlanta, the
seminar visited Tuskegee, Nashville, and the Cherokee
Indian reservation in western North Carolina.
Doctor Loram, director of the seminar, has been Ster
ling Professor of Education at Yale University since 1931.
He is a native of South Africa and previous to his appoint
ment at Yale, was in public service at Natal, Union ot
South Africa, serving as inspector of schools from 1906 to
1920, member of the native affairs commission from 1920
to 1929, chief inspector of schools from 1929 to 1930, and
finally superintendent of education. He was graduated
from the University of Good Hope, and holds graduate
degrees from Cambridge University and Columbia Uni
versity.
The students in the party consisted of Harwood Catlin,
Hampton Institute, Virginia; Z. K. Matthews, Kimberly,
South Africa; C. L. Davies, Gwelo, South Rhodesia; W.
S. Dale, Aukland, New Zealand; H. Libenberg, Peters
burg, Transvaal; W. B. Ackermann, Washington, D. C.;
S. K. Bunker, New Haven, Connecticut, and Frank Mid-
kiff, Honolulu, Hawaii.
In England there is a college with a staff of forty pro
fessors, although the student enrollment is never over
eighteen. —Carnegie Tartan.