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TOM GLOVER, temporary president of the freshmen class, explains to a group
of “yearling” tiow he almost got out of wearing the fashionable “crab cap.” Look
ing on with apparent interest are (from left to right) Arthur Vincent, Birmingham,
Alabama; Charles Elam, Sarasota, Florida; Keith Rhodes, Cincinnati, Ohio; George
W. Fourney, Jr., Birmingham, Alabama, and John Dash, of Charleston, S. C. Glover
(front and center) is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, where he attended school
at Parker “Hi”.
Cary Scores Complacency, Lack of
Spirit; Promises Prosperous Year
An overflow crowd of approximately 800 students heard Sterling
Cary, president of the Morehouse Student Body, last out against
the torpor and indifference which has marked the Morehouse
group for the last ten or twelve years.
Calling for a “new deal” within the Morehouse Student Body,
Cary time and time again struck out against students who shift
the burden of responsibility to someone else.
“Many of you,” he said, “have served notice that you expect
me to keep every one of my campaign
promises. Many of you have asked
are we going to have a good year?
Now 'I want to ask you: Are we
going to have a good year? Only you
can decide that question and make
it come true.”
Cheers greeted his shouted excla
mation that “we can have a good
team: we will have a good team; we
must have a good team.” He caution
ed the group that we can only have
STERLING CARY
. . . unity, action
a good team if each man goes out
and “pushes.”
Cary called for an independent
social program not tied to any one
particular college. A thunder of ap
plause greeted his announcement that
the Maroon and White Dance would
be held at the Magnolia Ballroom.
Preceding the president’s speech
Ernest Wright, vice president of the
Student Body, spoke briefly. Wright
and Cary emphasized that the strife
and dissension between the president
and vice-president which has marked
other administrations would not be
repeated this year.
Cary was elected president at the
annual spring elections. He emerged
victorious in a nip-and-tuck contest
with Ernest Wright, the present vice-
president.
Sennett To Attend ACP
Confab At Ohio State
Lerone Bennett, Jr., editor-in-chief
f the MAROON TIGER, will attend
he Associated Collegiate Press Con-
ention which will be held at Ohio
hate University, October 21, 22, 23.
The MAROON TIGER joined the
issociated Collegiate Press last year
nd under the aegis of Editor Rob-
rt Johnson received two First Class
atings. Bennett was elected editor
t the annual spring elections.
H’coming Dance
At The Magnolia
For the first time in more than a
decade House men > will trek off thef
campus for their Maroon and White
Dance. It was in 1937 when Miss
Eloise Usher reigned as Miss Maroon
and White the then Sunset Casino was
the spot where homecoming festivi
ties were culminated.
Last year, although the dining room
tried to accommodate the overflow
crowd, the bulging walls of the little
red barn groaned audibly under the
tremendous pressure of Morehouse’s
800. This year, the spot will be the
same as over a decade ago but the
scene will be different, for old Sunset
has had its face lifted and has be
come transformed into spacious, mag-
nificient, modernistic Magnolia Club,
now one of Atlanta’s leading niteries,
Those attending this annual affair on
the night of November 20 will dance
to the rolling rhythm of' Ralph Mays
and his Troubadors.
From the time of the kick-off be
tween Fisk University and Morehouse
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Top Frosh Job
Goes To Glover
Tom “Mighty Mite” Glover of Bir
mingham, Alabama, clearly outpaced
a field of five candidates to make his
temporary office of president a per
manent one. In his statement to the
press, Mr. Glover said he was “glad
to have the confidence of the Fresh
man class.” He also added that he
was “going to stand up for the rights
of the Freshman Class.”
In the other nominations, the
elections were very close and tech
nical with Dean Brazeal continuous
ly “stepping in” to recite Robert’s
Rules of Order. “Bill” Carter of
Philadelphia swept his race to be
come vice-president. But in the race
for secretary, Wendell Whalen, of
Memphis, Tenn., barely slipped by
Rudolph Smith, President of his B.
T. W. High School 1948 Graduating
class of Atlanta, who became his as
sistant. A1 Huggins of New York
City became Business Manager by
two votes. Another Atlanta lad,
Otis Culbreath, became the Student
Activities Representative.
After the meeting, Freshmen all
over the campus were heard to say
that the Class of ’52 would rank'
among the great classes of More
house.
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Founded In 1898
Voice of the Students
Vol. 50, No. 1
MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA.
October, 1948
Enrollment Drops
Below Previous
College Record
' Enrollment at Morehouse College
for the term 1948- 49 has fallen some
what below the mark set in the past
two previous years. The college has
for the past two years reached the
900 mark. During the 1946-47 school
term the enrollment was 909 and for
the 1947-48 school term the enroll
ment up to date is 785 and the Col
lege is expecting the total to reach
the 800 mark before the close of re
gistration. Still this will be at least
100 short of the record set by the
College during the jiast two years.
The Freshman class is much small
er than that which the College ex
pected. The class up to date totals
approximately 174 with a few more
expected, it might reach the 200
mark before the close of registration.
These 174 Freshmen places the class
approximately 125 students behind the
class of last year and about 163 be
hind the class of 1946-47.
Veterans for this year are con
fined largely to the sophomore, jun
ior and senior classes. Veterans en
rolled in the Freshman class for this
year number some where in the
twenties. If this indication is signifi
cant, it may mean that the rush’
brought on by the war has finally
reached its peak and has gradually
begun to subside.
Perteet Is Spelman
Student Body Prexy
“There is evidence for an ever-
increasing need for better relations
among the colleges of the Atlanta
University System”, observed charm
ing Sue Perteet, senior of Spelman
College and student body president.
This statement was made recently
at an exclusive interview with your
reporter in connection with a pos
sible solution to the recognized un
democratic tendency of certain insti
tutions of the system to band them
selves in a clique creating a strain
in intercollegiate relations. Miss Per
teet, a native of Griffin, Georgia,
continued, “this unfair tendency can
be completely eliminated by students
themselves with a minimum of aid
from their respective administra
tions.”
When asked her opinion of the
Morehouse-Spelman divorce caused by
disagreement over plans for the an
nual junior-senior prom last term,
she made little comment except to
say that “if that is what they want
ed, well and good.” However, she
did express the belief that the sep
aration was educational, in that “it
opened the eyes of the students, as
well as the administration, to the
need for goodwill among all colleges
of the system rather than just be
tween Morehouse and Spelman.”
SAC Gives $4086 To
Seven Campus Groups
Maroon Tiger Gets $2,161; Social Committee
Allotted $710 Amidst Hot Verbal Battles
By Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Tempers flared dangerously high as the Student Activity
Committee got back to the “old days,” when a dollar was a dollar.
The SAC, which is the allocating body of the general student fund,
swung the “ax” hard and often as seven organizations were al
lotted a total sum of $4,086, Sterling Cary, student body president
and chairman of the allocating committee indicated that it was
necessary to pare the budgets of the organization because of a
drop in enrollment which caused a
drop in funds available for student
use. Money which is allocated by the
SAC is contributed by students in
the form of a six dollar activity fee.
President Cary also said in the meet
ing that other means would have to
be utilized to raise money for gen
eral student body use. After the in
itial allocations to the seven depend
ent organizations, the general fund
was almost depleted.
$2,161.00 dollars, the largest sin
gle allocation, went to the MAROON
TIGER after a brief floor fight. A
budget of $2,434.00 was presented by
the editor-in-chief but one edition of
the editor’s proposed eight was lopped
off, tentatively. Herman Williams,
glee club representative, moved the
adoption of that proposal.
After paring one minor dance from
the social calendar, the budget of the
Social Committee was approved sub
stantially as presented, that is, for
this semester. James Traylor, veter
an member and chairman of the So
cial committee, presented the budget
which originally called for a dance
on October 9. After a verbal battle
between William Bennett, an alter
nate delegate from the senior class
and President Cary, Ernest Wright
suggested whittling the minor dance,
three major dances, which were
scheduled for the second semester,
and appropriating the Social Com
mittee $710.00. Wright’s suggestion
was accepted.
After asking for an appropriation
of $450.00, Samuel Turner of the De
bating Society was given $328.00. The
debating team* will make a trip up
the eastern seaboard and engage
Howard, Lincoln (Pa.), Dillard and
Oxford in debating contests. The Ox-
ford-Morehouse contest will take
place at Morehouse.
A. Romeo Horton had a “hard
time of it” in presenting the “Y”
budget. The YMCA asked for an al-
TED HARRIS
. . student action
Top NS A Post
Goes To Negro
Southern Area Job
Goes To E. Wright
Ted Harris, a Negro student from
La Salle University, was named na
tional president of the National Stu
dent Association at the first annual
meeting of the group held in Madi
son, Wisconsin. Ernest Wright, vice
president of the Morehouse Student
Body, was among the 800 delegates
from 250 public and private schools
who witnessed this unusual event.
Morehouse college is a member of
this national group which is compris
ed of white and Negro schools all
over the country. Wright, who was
elected to the office of vice-president
of the Alabama, Florida, Georgia re
gion, was an official delegate from
Morehouse college.
In an exclusive interview here,
Wright saw the election of Harris as
indicative of the anti-racism of the
National Student Association. A busy
campus figure, Wright holds offices
in various other campus organizations
including the Maroon Tiger and Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity.
Negro delegates attended the con
gress from Howard, West Virginia
State, Southern, Dillard, Xavier and
Morehouse.
Writer Says
It Used To Be Rough For Frosh
By Charles E. Johnson
Peace and tranquility now prevail
on the war-torn battlefield. All that
remains is the memory of combat,
a few traditions, and customs to pay
tribute to those who fought so brave
ly on these sacred grounds.
September 13 marked another mile
stone of the traditional Frosh Week.
But no earmarks of the trying week
are to be found on the now peaceful
campus. Times were when the tyro
passed through the hallowed portals
of the House on the little Red Hill,
he knew that he would be subjected
to hazing, harassing, haranguing and
other forms of the higher Elements
of, Frosh Week. This was truly a
period when frustration, tension,
work and nostalgia existed. The in
nocent were tried by the “Justices”
and were declared “guilty.” How the
youngsters then yearned for the
apron strings of Mother and the con
soling affections of an understanding
Father—but they found it not.
The Y. M. C. A. was very active
in endoctrinating the Freshmen with
the esprit de fratemite. Members
of that group met the Freshmen at
the station and directed them to the
campus, acquainting them with the
members of the faculty and the loca
tion of sites.
But in the evening the entertaining
was solely confined to the upper
classmen. That evening the Frosh
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No Offer From
Hampton--Mays
By Ed Saunders
Since the Pittsburgh Courier took
the initiative to publish statements
to the effect that an offer had been
made to President Benjamin E.
Mays to accept the helm of Hamp-'
ton Institute, the Maroon Tiger of
fice has been swamped with writ
ten and verbal statements asking us
to either confirm or deny the sup
position.
We have been also asked two oth
er questions regarding the rumors
concerning Dr. Mays. First, if he has
accepted when is he planning to
leave? And second, is it true that
Drs. Kelsey and Howard Thurmon
have been sought to replace him?
Dr. Mays has been interviewed by
the nominating committee but this
does not constitute an offer. It seems
fairly clear, however, that President
Mays is the number one man in the
minds of the nominating committee
of the Board of Trustees at Hamp
ton.
To our readers, the Maroon Tiger
staff feels quite certain that if and
when Dr. Mays receives an offer from
any other institution and if and
when he accepts another offer he
will make same public to the press.