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College Faculty
Adds Twelve
New Teachers
Morehouse College began its 82nd
year on September 22 with an en
rollment of better than 800 students.
The school has further strengthened
its excellent faculty by the additior
of several persons.
Dr. Webster Chester, A. B., Colgate
University, M. A., Harvard Univer
sity; D. Sc (hon), Colby College; D.
Sc (hon), Colgate University, joins
the Department of Biology. Dr. Ches
ter has taught at Colby Academy in
New London, N. H., and at Colby
College.
Dr. Melvin Watson, B. A. More
house; M. A. Oberlin College; B. D.
and S. T. M., Oberlin Graduate School
of Religion; D. Th., Pacific School of
Religion, became a member of the
faculty of the School of Religion. Dr.
Watson has taught at Shaw Univer
sity, Dillard University and Howard
University.
Dr. Philippine L. Hannak, a gra
duate of the Teachers College of
University of Vienna (Austria) with
a diploma in the teaching of foreign
languages and holding the Jur. Dr.
degree from the University of Vienna,
will teach German at the College. Dr.-
Hannak has been a member of the
faculties of Wilson College, in Cham-
bersburg, Penn., and Spelman Col
lege. ,
Charles Hugo Curl, B. A., Virginia
State College; M. A. Atlanta Univer
sity, has been added to the Depart
ment of English. His experience in
cludes a principalship of the Madison
County (Georgia) Training School
and a position as English Teacher at
the New Kent Training School.
Miss Evelyn E. Barnett, B. A.,
Howard University, M. S., Howard
University, joins the Department of
Psychology.
Miss Carrie Mason Gartrell, B. S.,
Fort Valley State College; M. A. At
lanta University, comes to the De
partment of Sociology. She has taught
at Shaw University and at Washing
ton High School, in Washington,
Georgia.
John Hewitt, B. S. New York Uni
versity, is an English Department
addition.
Robert H. Brisbane, .Tr., B. A. St.
Johns; M. A., Harvard University, a
candidate for the Ph. D. degree in
Political Science at Harvard, is added
to the Department of History and
Political Science. Mr. Brisbane has
been Social Science instructor in New
York City Schools and has done re
search for the American Jewish Con
gress and other institutions in New
York.
William Henry McArthur, B. A.
Morehouse; M. S. Atlanta University
joins the Department of Biology.
Charles Dubbs, B. S. Duke Univer
sity, with graduate study at Tulane
University and the University of
North Carolina to his credit, is being
employed jointly with Clark College
in the Department of Physics.
Ozie Tucker, B. S. Morehouse; M.
S. S. Atlanta University, is a part-
time member of the Department of
Chemistry.
Calvin Calhoun, B. S. Morehouse,
is a part-time member of the De
partment of Biology.
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were sufficiently urged to go to a
desolate site where they were given
bays to enable them to catch a my
thological “Snipe.” In order to ap
prehend the Snipe, the Frosh bellow
ed and beat upon the trees. This pro
cedure, supposingly, brought the non
existent animal from the tree and
into the bag. Why the poor Fresh
men would be there until the wee-
wee hours of dawn endeavoring to
catch the elusive snipe! And the
next day our dear little brothers were
soundly thrashed for failing in their
impossible endeavor.
Despite it all, the Freeshman has
been treated better and better by vir
tue of an organizaed program until
the old hazing and initation have
reached a low ebb. Thanks again to
the returning servicemen.
CHATTING WITH OLYMPIC CHAMPION Alice Coachman at a reception held in
her honor Thursday, September 23, are (left to right) Raymonde Odom and
Elisha Paschal, Jr., captain and co-captain, respectively, of the Maroon Tiger foot
ball team.
Students Should Support NSA On
Local, Regional And National Basis
By Ernest Wright
The first National Congress of the United States National
Student Association was held at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wisconsin, August 23 to 28. Gathered at Madison were
750 delegates, alternates and observers, representing over 750,000
students.
Out of eleven workshops, using a non-directive” technique
free of agenda and pre-arranged planning, came project proposals
for action by the NSA staff during
the next year. Sectionalism reared
its ugly head on such heatedly de
bated questions as segregation and
discrimination in education and unity
among students of the world.
The workshop treating discrimina
tion in which the writer participated
was characterized by violent discus
sions of the problems of discrimina
tion in every phase of student life.
Since matters of policy must be de
cided at congressional assemblies, it
'was necessary to take a forthright
stand on this issue.
The most controversial issue at the
congress was that of negotiations
for affiliation with the International
Union of Students. Upon recommen
dation of the National Executive
Committee of NSA and five delegates
were sent to Europe this summer
to study the question, the congress
decided upon non-affiliation with
IUS.
Walter Wallace, speaking on be
half of affiliation, drew a striking
parallel of NSA and IUS with
America and the United Nations Or
ganization which pictured the chaos
which would grow out of the United
States dropping out of the UN. Mr.
Wallace, a young Negro from Colum
bia University, was one of the
founders of the National Student As
sociation and is now national chair
man of the youth division of the
Progressive Party.
When the congress ended many
delegates expressed the feeling that
too much hedging had been engaged
in at the conference. But when one
realizes that the NSA is only one
year old and is still in its forma
tive years, one recognizes that un
derstanding, interest and desire for
NSA must come as this young or
ganization begins to approach adol
escence and maturity.
NSA must be directed to students
on the campuses. The basic unit of
NSA is the individual student body.
Through the medium of NSA, the
voices of students are to be heard in
community, national and internation
al affairs so that students may con
tribute to national and international
understanding and peace.
The solemn manner in which the
delegates faced student problems was
most impressive. They were a group
of mature men and women quite in
tent on improving student affairs
both here and abroad.
Anderson Gets Law Post
Charles Fisher Anderson, More
house ’40 and a former MAROON
TIGER editor, is a recent appointee
to the faculty of the Boston Univer
sity School of Law. Anderson, who
formerly lived in Birmingham, Ala.,
was recently featured in a spread in
Ebony Magazine.
IT WON’T HURT is probably what Dr. Albert M. Dais tells Paul A. McDaniel
as he undergoes treatment at the new, ultra-modern Archer Medical center on the
Morehouse campus. Head Nurse Sadie M. Neal, who is a graduate of Grady Me
morial Hospital assists in the medical manuvers. The infirmary has facilities to
accommodate 31 patients.
Institution Needs More Than An
Excellent Faculty Opines Mays
Maroon Tiger Cops
First Class Rating
For the second consecutive semes
ter, THE MAROON TIGER has re
ceived a First Class Honor rating
from the Associated Collegiate Press.
The rating is the second highest
awarded by the ACP, and is for per
formance ' in the 1948' spring semes
ter. A First Class Honor rating is
the equivalent to “excellent” in ordi
nary parlance.
Two excellent ratings were receiv
ed by the 50-year old campus organ
one for coverage and the other for
front page make-up. Rating of ex
cellent were also received in head
lines, typography. and makeup. In
side news and page makeup received
ratings of very good.
A “gossip” column and opinionated
news stories were largely responsible
for THE MAROON TIGER not re
ceiving a top rating of “All Ameri
can.” 278 papers received ratings in
the contest.
Within recent years the. only Negro
college paper to receive an All-Ameri
can rating is the Hapton Script. At
the last contest THE MAROON
TIGER and the HAMPTON SCRIPT
were the only two Negro papers
rated.
Robert E. Johnson and Bennie Har
ris were the Editor • and Business
Manager of THE MAROON TIGER
at the time of the contest. Johnson
is now reporter with THE ATLAN
TA DAILY WORLD.
Journalistic Frat
Is Revived Here
Fourth Estate partisans here are
spearheading efforts to revive Delta
Phi-Delta Journalistic fraternity. Le-
rone Bennett, Jr., editor-in-chief of
the Maroon Tiger!, disclosed at press
time that at least 12 or 15 students
have indicated a desire to take part
in the revival of Alpha chapter of
the fraternity.
V. Trenton Tubbs and Moss Hyles
Kendrix were among the founders- of
the organization on the Moreho.use
campus in the fall of 1937. The pur
pose of the organization as stated
then was “To stimulate among Ne
gro college men and women an inter
est in the science and art of Jour
nalism. . . . To unite in bonds of good
fellowship college trained men and
women either engaged in collegjate
journalism or proposing to engage in
the profession of journalism.”^
Ex-Tiger Editor
On Editorial Staff
Of Atlanta World
Robert E. Johnson, editor-in-chief
of the MAROON TIGER during the
last school term, is now employed
on the editorial staff of the Atlanta
Daily World.
Among his many accomplishments
as editor of “The Tiger” was the
acquisition. of an office and two Asso
ciated Collegiate Press First Class
ratings. He is still active on behalf
of the MAROON TIGER, if only
spiritually. According to present
plans he will address the members
of Delta Phi Delta Journalistic So
ciety at their first meeting in early
November.
Morton, Brazeal Write
For Quarterly Magazine
Charles Morton, ’46,. and Dean B.
R. Brazeal were contributors to the
spring edition of Prophetic Religion,
quarterly magazine published by the
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen.
Morton, Morehouse student body
prexy -45-’46, while a student at Un
ion Seminary in New York, wrote
on his experience as room-mate to
Reese Griffin, alumnus of Emory Uni
versity, in an article entitled “We
Were Room-mates.”
The inspiration for Dean Brazeal’s
article, “Action for Democracy”, was
discussions by students at the con
ference of inter-collegiate councils at
Paine college.
Addressing the first chapel
assembly of the eighty-second
academic year of Morehouse
College, President Benjamin E.
Mays pointed out that a College
is best known By the teachers
who make up its faculty and the
quality of work of its graduates.
These factors are not sufficient, how
ever, to insure--the greatness of a
college, he added. “As equally im
portant,” continued Morehouse’s dis
tinguished head, “In making a college
great is the enrollment of students
who come to college for the express
ed purpose of preparing themsplves
for life, in order that they may have
a share, in improving life and in mak
ing mefi better.”
The eminent educator and leader
said that all members of the More
house community: teachers, students,
trustees, administrators, secretaries,
buildings and grounds personnel, etc.
are equally important in the success
of the college.
“There are no ‘little’ people and
no big people in the Morehouse fam
ily, no “big I” and “little you.”
Every man, every woman at More
house College is important ... The
man who cleans the buildings is not
a janitor but a human being. He is
incidentally and secondarily a janitor
but fundamentally he is a human
being.”
He concluded, “So, as we meet and
greet each other from day to day,
may we do. it with the consciousness
that our lives on this campus are
interlaced, interwoven, and intertwin
ed to such an extent that if I fail
to do my duty the Entire Morehouse
family will suffer and that if I do my
task well I am one of the builders of
a great Morehouse. We are many
members but one body, Morehouse.”
Holland Confab
Subject of First
A.U. Convocation
By Claude Chamlee
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, address
ing the first convocational assem
bly of the University system, praised
highly the ideas set forth in the
meeting of the World Council of
Churches which met in Amsterdam,
Holland, on the 23rd of August, 1948.
“This council,” Dr. Mays stated, “is
in its infancy, and what the World
Council is to be we" must make it.”
“This conference”, Dr. Mays stat
ed, “is a new creation, international,
interracial and interdenominational
organization with the purpose of se
rious discussion of their differences
and conferences with each other.”
Concerning race, the conference
proposed the idea that human rights
should be insured by social legisla
tion, and that the church should set
a pattern which all could observe
and follow. All delegates to the con
ference agreed on this except the
Dutch Reform Church of South Af
rica.
Criticizing the economic society the
Amsterdam conference condemned
communism and capitalism equally.
The conference believes that the
Christian church should stay from
both, Dr. Mays reported. “The peo
ple of east Europe”, stated Dr.
Mays,, “are afraid of Communism.
They are also afraid of Capitalism.
Capitalism c^oes not mean the same
to them as to us.”
The subject of war was one of the
most heated discussions of the con
ference, reported Dr. Mays. “War is
contrary to the will of God” was the
one point upon which the whole con
ference agreed. In order that all
members might have some alterna
tives the conference decided upon
tjhree issues: (1) the pacifist could
refuse to go to war; (2) in the ab
sence of a superior institution when
some situation arose that Christian
should go to war rather than accept
a greater evil; (3) even though we
fight we must never sanction war
because there is no justice in war.
In expressing the significance of
the conference, Dr. Mays stated
“There was an amazing amount of
unanimity. It is a reality. The Am
sterdam Conference promises to be
one of the most significant gather
ings in the history of Christians.”