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Maroon Tiger
November, 1967
MAROON TIGER
DR.GRAEFFE
SPEAKS
Dr. Didier Graeffe' electrified the Morehouse
Editor In Chief Walter K. Dancy '69 College campus with a series of lectures on myth
Assistant Editor Craig W. Finley '68 and man. In a series of formal and informal lectures.
Editorial Assistant Arthur O'Keefe'69 Dr. Graeffe' defined myth as those poetic tales
Business Manager Milton Wilkins'69 created out of culture (as distinct from individual
News Editor Carl Horton '69 creation) to explain natural, psychological, and
Features Editor Mose Chirunga '68 social fact. Then he sought to show how myth=
Sports Editor Alfred Person '70 making still continues as a dynamic and enriching
News Reporters Emerson Godwin'70 process in the anesthetic methods, i. e., music, art,
William Keaton, III '71; Michael Willingham '71 literature, etc. His formal lectures were divided in-
John W. Holmes'69; James H. Cofield'71 to three topics: Man the Myth—maker, The
Tyrone Thomas'69; Vernon Odom, Jr.'70 Theater, and Humanistic Astronomy. In the first
Feature Reporters William H. Cain '68 lecture. Dr. Graeffe' used the Genesis Myths to
Larry T. Byrd '71; Arthur Lewis, Jr. '69 show how they expressed real facts. His chief aim
Jerome Eppington '71; Robert DeLeon '70 was to attack the fundamentalists who take Myths
Robert T. Smith, III '70; Eugene T. Lowe'69 too literally and the scientific man who dismisses
David Nelson '70 these myths altogether. In a sense, myths, like the
Sports Reporters Charles E. Jackson '69 works of the humanitistic disciplines, are accurate
Donald Boddie '69 formulae of experience in the same was as x + y =
Cartoonist Donald Boddie '69 xy. Both describe what man has defined as "real."
James Hogan '69; Herman Howard '69 In the course of this opening lecture. Dr. Graeffe'
Faculty Advisors . . Professor Finley Campbell '56 laid out the framework for the other two lectures
Professor Cason Hill '53 which amplified this beginning point: myths are
humanistic truths about men, and hence about
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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
FIRST SEMESTER 1967-1968
October 13 Bus trip to Columbus Georgia
October 14 Student Government Association Dance Spelman
October 21 . Alpha Phi Alpha Dance Morehouse
October 28 Student Government Dance Morehouse
November 4 OPEN
November 11 Omega Psi Phi Trip to Washington
Study Weekend for Mid-Term Examinations
November 17 . Coronation — 7:30 p. m.
Morehouse S. H. Archer Hall
November 18 HOMECOMING:
Parade — 12:00 Noon
Game — Morehouse vs Fisk — 2:00 p. m.
Maroon and White Ball — 8:30 p. m.
December 2 Affair to be announced Spelman
December 7, 8, 9 Christmas Concert Spelman
December 15 Christmas Formal Spelman
January 21 Flunkers Ball Morehouse
WHAT MANNER
OF MAN?
by Belvie Brice
Since I have been at Morehouse, I have learned
quite a bit, and it all has not been from books, as
my record will clearly show. Much of this learning
has not been what I expected to be taught at
Morehouse. The greatest lesson to date is that I
thought I knew about man-and how he sought to
better himself by moving into a college (the origin
al meaning of that word "college") where emphasis
was on the development of the mind, body, the at
titude or the self in a direction of ever—important
value systems. I thought that I knew what made
man tick, but I was so very wrong. The man to
whom I address myself is the 'Morehouse Man'.
Morehouse seeks, or sought in the past, to build
character in the men who sought her out as a
teacher. Morehouse has wanted to elevate and en
courage these to adopt their own philosophies of
life and to develop those philosophies along brqad
lines, to uphold with all their power what society
has deemed the best choices. This, I am told, form
er students and alumni have done down through
the ages.
Some of us are proud of what has been accom
plished as a result of heavy toil and relentless ef
fort. Some of us are proud to walk in the footsteps
of those before us. But to be proud is not enough;
we have to do as those before us have done, and to
improve upon what they did, that is, to work hard
to make our college the best that it can be. This
should be the goal of each generation of More
house men. Are we striving for that goal?
From what I have seen, many Morehouse stu
dents are heading in the opposite directioaof that
goal. Instead of trying to promote the welfare of
Morehouse, some are demoting the welfare of it.
Instead of trying to make "a good school better,
and a better school best," Some are making it
worse. There are those of us who will ask after
reading this article, "Who are you to say what, is
right or wrong?" My reply is that, presently, I am a
man at Morehouse, not a Morehouse man, for I
care not to be a part of this exploitation, and I do
not want to be known as an artificial Morehouse
man. Dr. Whalum emphatically stated in chapel the
other day "... this is my school; I love her." I say
to you, Dr. Whalum, I love her too, believe me.
Furthermore, I care how she looks and I care what
MAC ARTHUR STEWART TO DIRECT
UPWARD ROUND AT MOREHOUSE
Mac Arthur Stewart, Financial Aid Officer at
Morehouse College, has been named Director of the
Morehouse Upward Bound Pre-College Program,
according to an announcement by President Hugh
M. Gloster.
He succeeds Dr. Arthur Banks, who resigned to
become president of the Greater Hartford College
in Connecticut-
He holds the B.A. degree from Morehouse Col
lege and the M.A. degree from Atlanta University.
Prior to assuming his duties as Financial Aid
Officer in 1965, Mr. Stewart taught in the public
school systems of Georgia and Indiana.
His organizational affiliations include Alpha
Kappa Delta National Honorary Sociological Socie
ty, American Personnel and Guidance Association,
Southern Association of Financial Administrators,
and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Stewart of
Macon, Mr. Stewart is married to the former Earn-
estine Clemmons, a teacher in the Atlanta public
school system.
Morehouse College
she does-l kid you not.
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DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR
NAMED AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER
UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES
Dr. Babette Levy, professor emeritus of literature at Hunter College, has been named Distinguished Visit
ing Professor in English for the first semester of the academic year, 1967—68, according to an announcement
by Dr. Tobe Johnson, professor of political science at Morehouse College and coordinator of the Distinguish
ed Visiting Professors Program. She is the first of some 20 prominent scholars and teachers who will visit the
four Atlanta University Center undergraduate colleges during the next five years.
A native of New York, Dr. Levy received her A.B. degree from Hunter college, and her M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Columbia University. She also holds a degree in Librarianship from the University of Denver.
She began her professional career as an instructor in English at Hunter College in 1929. Last year she retir
ed there as a full professor. During her 35 years at Hunter, she taught at all levels-from freshmen needing re
medial training to M.A. students. One year she set up the literature sections of the graduate reading room at
Hunter. This past spring she taught a special seminar and another class at Rutgers University.
A prolific writer. Dr. Levy has authored two books and is now completing a two-volume Collegiate Outline
of American Literature for the Putnam Press and a study of Cotton Mather for Twayne. Her first book,
Preaching in the First Half-Century of New England History, received the Brewer Prize from the American
Society of Church History. Her discussion of New England local color, published in The New England Quart
erly. is listed in the Literary History of the United States as one of two essential essays on the subject.
Other articles by her appear in College English. The Journal of Religion. The Colophon, and The William and
Mary Quarterly.
Dr. Levy is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the American Association of University Women, and of the
American Association of University Professors.