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Volume No. 2 Atlanta, GloL.ua, October, 1942 Number 1
Morehouse Welcomes Freshmen
MOREHOUSE ENDOWMENT
1942 Freshman
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Student Adjustment
Committee Organizes
resentatives were elected from the
Junior and Senior classes. The fifth
student member will be the President
Evidence of democracy acting in the
Morehouse community was shown re
cently with the extension of the Stu
dent Adjustment Committee member
ship to include student members. The
committee, previously composed of
five faculty members, has, by a faculty
decision, been enlarged to include five
representatives from the student body.
At a meeting of the student body on
October 5th, four of the student rep-
STUDENT BODY PREXY
James Holloway, ’43, will serve as
president of the Student Activities
Committee and of the Student Body
during the school year of 1942-43. The
Student Activities Committee governs
the affairs of the Student Body at
Morehouse College. Not only does this
Committee serve an immediate pur
pose, but it serves as an interesting
laboratory in which our potential
leaders of tomorrow may become ex
perienced as democratic leaders.
of the Student Body, James R. Hol
loway. The four members elected for
service on the committee were, from
the senior class, William M. Wesley
and David C. Gandy; and from the
Junior class, James Payne and Clar
ence L. Henderson. The Committee is
primarily concerned with problems of
student delinquencies which affect the
harmonious relations in the More
house community.—Griffith J. Davis,
’44.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV, RUSSIAN
NOVELIST, SPEAKER AT
MOREHOUSE
Mr. Nabokov was guest speaker to
the Morehouse Student-body. He gave
an address on Pushkin.
Mr. Nabokov has been described as
the greatest Russian novelist writing
today. He has had published “Mash-
enka,” “King, Queen, Knave,” “Lu-
jins Defense,” “Camera Obseura,”
“The Exploit,” “Despair,” “Invitation
to a Beheading,” “The Gift,” and
two collections of short stories and
plays. Most of his novels have ap
peared in English, French, German,
Czech, or Swedish translation.
The speaker was born in St. Peters
burg, Russia, in 1899. As a boy he
attended the Tenishev School in St.
Petersburg, and later he went to Cam
bridge University, Trinity College.
For fifteen years Mr. Nabokov was
in Berlin teaching language to pri
vate pupils, but his work came to an
end in 1937 when he found it neces
sary to leave Germany.
Between the years 1930 and 1940,
the speaker lectured on different as
pects of literature in Russian, Eng
lish, and French, at clubs and socie
ties in France, England, Germany,
Belgium, and Czechoslovakia.
Mr. Nabokov has served as Visit
ing Professor at Stanford University
and at Wellesley College. He is at
present Research Fellow at Harvard
University. He has recently had
short stories and poems published in
the Atlantic Monthly, critical reviews
in the New Republic and poems in
the New Yorker.
The War has slowed up our endowment efforts. During the past two
years we have raised $43,000. About $37,000 of this amount has been matched
by the General Education Board, thus increasing the endowment by $74,000.
The time for raising $393,000 expired June 30, 1942, but the General Edu
cation Board was kind enough to extend the time tc June 30, 1945. We have
three years in which to raise $350,000. Should we succeed in raising that
amount, we will get $350,000 from the General Education Board, thus in
creasing the Morehouse endowment by $700,000. It is hoped that students,
faculty, alumni and friends will do all they can to make it possible for
Morehouse to claim this sum.
The College has two main sources of income—student fees and endow
ment. By student fees we mean tuition. It is only tuition fee that helps to
carry the educational load. The future development of the College must de
pend almost wholly upon these two sources. If the income from endowment
is greatly reduced, the College will suffer. If the students do not pay their
bills, the College will suffer. If the College is to be able to hold its own when
income on investments is low, the endowment must be increased or student
fees must be raised. If we are to grow and expand, the endowment must be
increased. We have no choice but to move forward rapidly on the problem
of endowment. It is most urgent that we do this.
1 — Benjamin E. Mays.
Statistics in the office of the
registrar at Morehouse College reveal
that one hundred and seventy-eight
freshmen have registered this year
from 20 different states. This is the
largest freshman class in the history
of the College. Ninety-two of this
number are Georgians, and fifty-five
are natives of Atlanta. Twenty have
come from Alabama, and fourteen
from Florida. North Carolina has
twelve representatives and South
Carolina, eight. Six are from Texas,
four from Tennessee, three each from
New York and Indiana, and two each
from New Jersey, Michigan, Missi
ssippi, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ar
kansas, and one each from West Vir
ginia, Virginia, Ohio and Oklahoma.
The president of the freshman class is
John Westley Forte of Birmingham,
Alabama.
DR. MARC MORELAND, ’29, AT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
Among the alumni attending grad
uate schools in various sections of the
country is Dr. Marc Moreland, ’29,
who was awarded a Kirkpatrick
Scholarship for study in the Harvard
University Law School for the year
1942-43.
During his undergraduate years^St^
Morehouse College, Dr. Moreland was
active in extra-curricular activities—
being the editor of the Maroon Tiger,
a tenor soloist in the college gleeclub
and a member of the orchestra. He
was also an honor student.
The recipient of the Kirkpatrick
Scholarship was awarded the degrees
of Master of Arts and Doctor of Phil
osophy from the University of To
ronto. While there he wrote three im
portant studies, “Individualism in
American Social Theory,” “The
Theory and Practice of Liberty in
New England—1630-1700,” and “The
Implications of the Concept of Indi
vidualism in the Age of Roger Wil
liams,” the later being his doctoral
dissertation.
He has been employed as professor
of English and Philosophy at Ar
kansas State College, head of the de
partment of social studies at Lang
ston University, Editor of the “Okla
homa Eagle,” correspondent for the
Associated Negro Press, chairman of
public relations for the Hotel Ther
esa in New York City and secretary
to the publisher of the New Jersey
Herald News, which position he held
at the time of his entrance into the
Harvard Law School.
Enrolled at Harvard in the depart
ment of Biology is Mr. Frederick E.
Mapp, ’32, who was awarded the de
gree of Master of Science by the
University at the June, 1942, com
mencement. He is now studying for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at
this same institution.
Before going to Harvard, Mr. Mapp
served as instructor of Biology at the
Booker T. Washington High School
in Atlanta.
SPELMANITE, ASSISTANT SOCIAL
HOSTESS, SPRING AREA SERVICE
CLUB
Mrs. Matthews, wife of Lieut.
Samuel Matthews, a supply officer
with the 25th Station Hospital at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina, has been as
sistant social hostess of the Spring
Area Service Club. She attended
Spelman College, Northwestern Uni
versity, Lewis Institute, University of
Chicago, and Eureka Business School.
She is an expert swimmer and holds
a Red Cross life guard certificate.
— Spelman Mirror.