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October IS. 1953
THE
MAROON TIGER
Page 3
DR. FRANKLIN L. FORBES
COACH FORBES
GETS DOCTORATE
It has been announced to the
Tiger that Mr. Franklin L. Forbes,
director of physical education
here at Morehouse College, has
been awarded his doctorate in
education at New York Universi
ty’s School of Education.
D'r. Forbes has long been a fig
ure in sports here at the College,
and is one of the most respected
coaches in this area. Besides
heading the athletic department,
he coaches the basketball team,
which, by the way, placed third
in the SIAC conference standings
last year.
Dr. Forbes wrote his doctorate
thesis on “A Four Year Under
graduate Physical Education Cur
riculum for Men at the Atlanta
University Center.” The topic,
he says, is in line with hs major
interest. “One of my ambitions,”
Coach Forbes states, “is to coor
dinate the resources of the five
colleges of the Atlanta University
Center in the operation of a tho
rough undergraduate professional
physical educatiofi curriculum.”
Dr. Forbes is a member of the
American Association for Health,
Physical Education and Recrea
tion; the National Coaches As
sociation; and the American Foot
ball Coaches Association.
JACKIE ROBINSON
ON AIR FOR COM
MUNITY CAMPAIGNS
NEW YORK—Urging his lis
teners to “make the world of
tomorrow today,” Jackie Robin
son, star of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
made a nation-wide radio plea
for contributions to the United
Community Campaigns, which
are now under way throughout
the nation. President Eisenhower
spoke on the same program.
With Ray Bolger, top humorist,
Cab Calloway, Jane Froman, Fib
ber McGee, and other stage and
screen stars, on an hour-long va
riety show last week, Jackie said
in the world of tomorrow he ex
pects that when people meet each
other, they will actually be able
to “see each other”.
“Not the clothes they wear, or
the names they have, or the name
of their religion or the color of
their skin,” he said, “but just
each other as human beings—to
be accepted on the basis of in
dividual merit.”
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Although this is a small thing,
the star National League player
asserted, it is a goal toward
which the human race has been
struggling for thousands of years.
Pointing out/that we do not have
to wait until tomorrow to realize
that goal, Jackie urged that much
could be done today.
“The idea of help given with
out regard to race, color, or creed,
is already a fact in the organiza
tions taking part in your United
Community Campaigns,” he said
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LITERARY NOOK
by RICHARD JOHNS
Boms Liierary Trends
A penetration into the inner-
most truth of existence is the on
ly means of distinguishing the
true from the " false, and the
achievement of greatness in liter
ature is dependent on this to a
very large measure. Creativity
discloses a way of looking at the
world and it is therefore a way of
knowing and also a way of de
termining a philosophy.
Today, in a world where there
is not only a great uncertainty of
freedom but also a systematic cur
tailment of man’s liberty in large
sections of the world, there is a
growing tendency towards con
formism in literature. Thus def
initeness and the intrinsic value
of things producing effects are
sacrificed by so-called defenders
of freedom. This conformity is
not without its effects and the
significance of its inevitable de
structiveness is manifest in the
decadence of the literature as a
whole where it occurs. This type
of sickness, for sickness certainly
it is, is clearly seen in the German
writers ten or more year after
World War I, among whom
are Kastuer and Doblin. The
demand for strict obedience to the
powerfully held belief led both
artists and writers to a destruc
tiveness in their works which was
as extreme as virulent.
The influence, of science today
on art, more specifically on litera
ture is- interesting not only in the
development of new forms in the
latter but also in the growing
tendency for the scientific spirit
to become an accepted ideal. The
casualness of manner in spite of
the intensity of feeling is at once
alarming and somewhat disturb
ing to those who want to see lit
erature invested in the maximum
of fuss. The complete elegance
of poetry, for example, is no less
admirable when written in the
casual though inspired manner of
Louis MacNieee or T. S. Eliot,
both of the modern school, than
that of the Classical or Roman
tic periods in poetry.
Literary movements which go
hand in hand with changes in
societies where these recur are
responsible for attempting to in
vent a kind of concrete language
for universal use. There are
some, however, who oppose this
and are caught up in what is call
ed Regionalism as evidenced in
some of the Welsh poets, as Hugh
MacDiaimud, for example; and in
the United States, Carl Sandbrug,
where dialects or colloquialisms
are revived. This tendency to
wards universality in literature on
' the one hand and regionalism on >
the other as observed in specific
areas should be compatible and
complementary.
It would be pleasant to end this
article by making some predic
tions as to the future, if these
trends so briefly outlined here
could be fully developed; this
would undoubtedly stimulate eag
erness to investigate the merits of
today’s literature, but since any
prediction requires evaluation in
terms of the present, this end
could not be honestly achieved.
Moreover, any evaluation of pres
ent-day' literature as dynamic as
it is would not be accepted either
by the modern critic or writer.
Definitely, then, the tendencies
chosen at random in literature to
day as mentioned in this article
point to clear ends. The Pattern
of creativity in literature is using
more and more as its basis scien
tific thought. Consequently mat-
DQWN BEAT
STAR TIME
This is the first of a series of
regular columns about the world
of music. Besides a feature story
about a most prominent persona
lity in the world ^of music, STAR
TIME will be chuck-full of inside
news abuot everything that ef
fects .music—popular, jazz, sym
phonic, country and western—in
addition to “filmland upbeat”,
radio and television chatter.
Perhaps no pair and very few
individuals, are mbre prominent
in the best-seller lists than Les
Paul and Mary Ford. In just
four short years Les and Mary
have sold over six million records,
four of their discs, alone, have
sold one million copies apiece.
And just six years ago the duo
was having a hard time making
ends meet, before going out to
the west coast, and being snagged
by Capitol Records. Les and
Mary’s first big hit was How High
The Moon, and since then they
have turned out one hit after
another. Les,/is rated as one of
the best guitar players in the
country, and Mary also rates high
among the Gibson guitar pluck-
ers. Of course, the double-track
vocals of Mary are a potent help.
At present, their best sellers is
“Vaya Con Dios,” a simple reli
gious-type tune which passed the
million disc sales mark this sum
mer and is still going strong.
AD LIBS: Look for a flock of •
standards, mainly jazz sides that
were recorded in the ‘30’s, to be
reissued during the fall and win
ter by the major record com
panies. Columbia, R. C. A., and
and Mercury have huge pro
grams in the works, mostly col
lectors’ items which will appear
on LP’s and EP’s. . . . Lionel
Hampton’s band is the latest to
make the European concert tour,
following in the wake of Stan
Kenton, who scored a great suc
cess on a one-month tour that
took him from Sweden to Ireland.
DOWN BEAT’S FIVE STARS:
the records which will hit the
best-selling lists in the very near
future.
POPULAR: Nat Cole—Two In
Love (Capitol LP H 420) Best
package of Nat’s reminders of
some of the fine old standerds.
Vic Damone—Ebb Tide (Mercury
70216). Vocal edition of the sax
instrumental finds Damone back
in his true form with a warm and
beautifully-phrased treatment.
JAZZ: Ella Fitzgerald — You’ll
Have to Swing It (Decca28774).
This is a sparkling six-minute
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ter-of-factness is evident in mod
ern English poetry. The conven
tional embellis limenis are replac
ed in the poetry of Auden for
instance with a definite, complex,
emotional tone. This emotional
tone has a vitality which is quite
easily rejected by people who see
it in the conventional mode of
thought as being banal and de
void of feeling.
Conformism in concept and
form, is one of the harmful ten
dencies which grow in a society
which is trying either to maintain
the status quo in the name of
freedom, or to champion human
liberty in a superficial or reckless
way. The result of this conform
ism is a. 1 )ss of force and final
destruction of the human soul.
Finally the movements of reg
ionalism and internationalism in
literature are interesting from the
point of view of ther compatibili
ty. The latter points the way (to
which we may all be rationally
optimistic) towards a world lang
uage. s
CAMPUS SYMPOSIUM
Do you think that moving the col
lege dance to the Campus will re
duce the amount of "Alcohol" con
sumed by Morehouse students?
Benjamin F. Green, Senior—De
finitely not in view of the fact
that “Alcohol” can be drunk be
fore attending the dance, not to
speak of the drinking that can
go ( on outside of the gym.
MOORE JACKSON
William A. Jackson, Senior—De
finitely. There should be a great
decrease in the amount of “Al
cohol” consumed by Morehouse
men. However, moving the dance
onto the campus wouldn’t affect
me very much in this respect.
Donald Moore, Senior—No! If
a man drinks, he is going to ho
matter where you put him. Tam
pering with the inevitable is use
less and drinking on college cam
puses is a thing that cahnot be
stopped—unless you dismiss the
student population.
John Jamerson, Junior — It is
my opinion that
the consumption
of alcolholic be-
by stu
dents will not be
curtailed, if we
to have all
our dances on
E /the campus, and
/ the amount will
a very little.
Take the Maroon and White
dance for example. Past exper
ience has shown me that most of
the students take this gay affair
as something extra special, and
extend their fun, beyond the time
and place of the dance. So, one
can see there will only be a silght
difference by bringing the dances
to the campus.
Aldus S. Mitchell, Senior—No.
It will cause more “Alcohol” to be
consumed on the campus. A re
cent survey by Life magazine
showed that the majority of Col
lege students drink, more men
than women. Morehouse is a
men’s college. Drinking should
be expected.
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