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Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga., April, 1958
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Number 6
Morris Brown Gradaiate
Succumbs in Armed Services
Funeral Services of the late Private Carlton Hopkins, 1957 grad
uate of Morris Brown College, were held Sunday, April 13, at 2:30
p.m. at the St. John A.M.E. Church in Boston, Georgia.
Representatives of his former fraternity, Iota Chapter, Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Morris Brown College, served as Honorary
Pallbearers. The Georgia Military Guard was represented as Active
Pallbearers. Mrs. Hessie Lee Glenn, Miss Jennie Haggins, Mrs. Willie
Mae Givens, and Miss Margarie McCaskill served as flower attendants.
The services commenced with
the Alpha Phi Alpha National
Hymn. Reverend Daniel Grant de
livered a prayer, followed with a
selection by the choir. John Epps
read the scripture; Rev. N. W.
White spoke of “Brother Hopkins
as a Christian,” and David Blount
referred to the deceased as a “Fel
low Brother.” The obituary was
read by Miss Lillian Glenn, Miss
Etta Wilkerson rendered a solo
and Rev. M. D. Bennet of Gammon
Theological Seminary gave the
eulogy.
The deceased Private Hopkins
was called into the Armed Serv
ices immediately after graduating
from Morris Brown last June.
Well loved, admired, and respect
ed by the entire student body,
though he has passed beyond our
reach, his memory shall be long
lived in the hearts of many men
and women.
The Brownite family mourns
along with Private Hopkins’ im
mediate family including a bro
ther, Mitchell Hopkins, Morris
Brown senior, a sister, Miss Josie
Hopkins, Morris Brown graduate,
and a grandmother, Mrs. Josie
Bell Richardson.
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Miss Millie Fletcher, a senior
majoring in Chemistry, attended
the National Convention of the
Beta Kappa Chi National Scien
tific Society and the National In
stitute of Science at Alabama
State College, Montgomery, Ala
bama. Miss Fletcher attended this
meeting as a delegate for the At
lanta University Center Chapter
of Beta Kappa Chi of which she
is a member.
Western Civilization Headed For
Total Destruction, Sorokin Avows
Dr. Pictrim A. Sorokin, noted Socioloist and writer, delivered the
Thirkield-Jones Lectures in Thirkield Memorial Chapel at Gammon
Theological Seminary on April 10-11.
Drawing a capacity audience from all over the Gate City, Dr.
Sorokin’s lectures were centered around the subject, “The Crisis of
Our Age and the Way Out.” The first lecture, held at 10 o’clock
Thursday morning, was concerned with “The Nature of the Crisis.’’
The second lecture, delivered the following evening at 7 o’clock, was
titled;. “The Way Out: A New (Integral) System of Realty, and
Values.” On Friday Morning he concluded hislecture on the subject;
“The Way Out: Creative Altruism.”
In discussing the “Nature of
the Crisis,” Dr. Sorokin said that
“In every important aspect of life
the organization and culture of
Western civilization is in a crisis.”
He averred that our values and
morals have changed, and whereas
man once placed value on spritual
ideals his culture has changed in
to one that is sensate. And now
“we seem to be between the dy
ing sensate culture of yesterday
and the coming new culture of our
creative tomorrow.”
Sounding off on a very pessi
mistic note, Dr. Sorokin said that
there exists no universal moral
concept or legal law between west
ern cultures, and because of these
conflicting values, Western cul
tures are headed toward total de
struction.
The Way Out: A New (Integral)
System of Reality and Value was
lecture. Despite his brogue which
caused the listeners to give a
strained ear, Dr. Sorokin held
their attention magnificently as he
suggested that in order to solve
this crisis we must change our
political regime, prevent another
world war; make democracy our
way of life; and build a new and
solid foundation for cultures for
the new generation.
Finally, Dr. Sorokin told his
audience that “Mankind still has
an opportunity to halt the greatest
tragedy of our history—through
“Creative Altruism.” “Trhth and
beauty,” he stated, “are the two
greatest energies to help in “The
Way Out.” In his last resounding
note, Dr. Sorokin averred that
love should be the international
policy for establishing peace.
Dr. Sorokin was accompanied by
the thesis of Dr. Sorokin’s second Shis charming wife.
My Generation
Is All Right!
“What’s gonna become of the
next generation?” How often have
you heard these words ? Each time
I respond to it I say, “the same
thing that happened to the last
one.”
It would be an impossible task
to paint a picture of an entire
generation. Therefore, the adults
should not label the entire young
er generation as being destroyers
of the future generation.
Each generation has a million
faces and a million voices. What
the voices say is not necessarily
what the generation believes, and
what it believes is not necessarily
what it will act on. Its motives
and desires are often hidden. It is
a medley of good and evil, promise
and threat, hope and despair. Like
a straggling army, it has no clear
beginning or end. And yet each
generation has some features that
are more significant than others;
each has a quality as distinctive
as a man’s accent, each makes a
picture of itself.
A great many writers and social
critics have termed the years of
the Second World War and its
aftermath as an “Age of Anxiety,”
an age characterized by fear,
skepticism, and cynicism. The gen
eration which has reached ma
turity during these trying years,
it is often said, reflects the
climate of the period in its lack of
idealism and loss of faith, at the
same time that it has proved it
self fully capable of accepting a
grim reality. It would be foolish
to deny that our generation shares
the sense of anxiety common to a
large part of the modern world;
yet in my experience this fear has
rarely led to indifference or synic-
ism.
Our experience at college so far
has offered further evidence that
our generation is all right. It is
not one to be characterized gen
erally by skepticism or despair.
Today’s college student is aware
of the competitive society of which
he is a part. Naturally appre
hensive about his personal future,
he is showing, too, an increasing
concern about the welfare of
society. My “liberal education” has
included many vigorous arguments
and debates, both, in and out of
The Spanish Class
Marks Celebration
The sixty-eighth anniversary of
the founding of the Pan American
Union representing the organiza
tion of the American states of
North and South America was
beautifully commemorated at Mor
ris Brown College under the di
rection of Miss Betsy Horne, head
of the Spanish department here.
Miss Horne and her devoted
students made an outstanding
showing of the dream and the de
sire that the great Liberator Si
mon Bolivar had in 1826. He is
called the George Washington of
the Southern Hemisphere and his
dream was fulfilled April 14, 1890.
His objectives were Peace, Health,
Education, Agriculture, and Unity
throughout all the America’s.
Because of the rental fees for
materials and the lim.-t«d space
provided for displays, Miss Horne
and her students decided that it
would be convenient to place just
six flags out of the twenty-one
representing the countries that
celebrate this occasion annually.
The flags of the countries of
Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Ven
ezuela, Argentina, and Brazil,
along with many other informa
tive and significant pictures of
South America were displayed.
Miss Horne stated that unless
higher education returned to the
Christian emphasis, the American
heritage will be lost completely.
The Spanish students are taught
the philosophy of “love thy neigh
boring nation as well as thy next
door neighbor.” This is the only
way we can hope to reach and
maintain permanent world peace.
Morris Brown College is very
fortunate to have on its faculty a
person like Miss Horne, who has
such an outstanding religious
philosophy and is a superior Span
ish instructor. We hope that Miss
Horne will be able to spend many
more semesters with us and con
tinue her successful work.
—Benjamin Geer
Saunders Redding greeted by students at the reception after lecture to
the Morris Brown family. The noted Hampton Institute instructor is
held in session by William Hixon, Yvonne Crosby and Bernice Crafton.
By Wayman B. Shiver, Jr.
Saunders Redding, noted professor of English at Hampton In
stitute, gave two lectures in the second annual Lecture Series at Mor
ris Brown College sponsored by the Division qf Language, Literature
and Art. Mr. Redding is the author of six well known books about
Negroes. Two of Redding’s best works are They Came in Chains and
On Being A Negro In America. These works are attempts to culti
vate better understanding of the Negro citizen.
Mr. Redding’s latest book is j . . ...
The Lonesome Road. This book teHectuai operate effectively with
tells of the struggle of the Negro j a non-cooperating culture?
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toward progress from the time
of the Civil War through the U. S.
Supreme Court decision of May
17, 1954. This book has as its char
acters 13 Negroes who marched
from slavery toward the realiza
tion of equal rights. A typical
character is Daniel Payne, Metho
dist minister and teacher who
marched toward equality.
Redding’s first lecture, Wednes
day night April 16, at Fountain
The second of Redding’s scholar
ly lectures was given to the hu
manities classes and other interest
ed students on Thursday, April
17, in the college chapel. The title
of this lecture was “America’s
Reputation.” Again a scholarly
mind was reflected in the kind of
analysis given to this problem.
The speech may well be divided
into two major headings: “What
is America’s true reputation ac-
Hall, had as its title “The Ameri- I cording to her own standards?”
can Intellectual at Mid-Century.” j and “What is America’s reputation
The core of this lecture was that according to Asian and European
the state of the mid-century intel
lectual is a precarious one, as it
has always been. The lecturer
traced the intellectual’s history
from ancient Greece and Rome to
mid-century America. While do
ing this, Redding pointed out the
prevailing concepts, ideals, and
functions of the intellectual.
interpretations?” The major idea
of the discussion was this: What
ever America is, so far as reputa
tion is concerned, her present posi
tion in world affairs is due to the
sudden power thrust upon her.
Morris Brown College communi
ty members were stimulated to
become more thorough in their
Mr. Redding raised the very j thinking and in their intellectual
scholarly question: “Can the in-I pursuits.
A FACULTY FOR FUN
The professor, a sworn enemy
of coeducation, asserted: “It’s im
possible to teach a boy mathe
matics if there’s a girl in the
class.” “Oh, come,” objected some
one, “surely there might be an ex
ception to that.” “There might
be,” snapped the professor, “But
he wouldn’t be worth teaching!”
(The Reader’s Digest)
the classroom, on such varied
questions as academic freedom,
civil liberties, armament control
and international cooperation. My
contemporaries and I agree that
there is no easy solution to any of
these problems, and we are fearful
that some of the solutions may
not be found in time. But the im
portant point is that we continue
to debate such questions; had we
lost our values and our hope for
an ultimate answer, we should
have ceased to argue.
“Operation Pucker-String*'
at MacMurray College
Jacksonville, Ill.— (I.P.)—Operation Pucker-String at MacMur
ray college is an attempt to capture the unity of knowledge under the
draw-strings of a single course. An unusual approach to this objective,
“Senior Seminar” endeavors to awaken students to the basic inter
relationship of the natural sciences, the behavioral sciences, and the
humanities.
President Louis W. Norris, be
lieving strongly in student recog
nition of this “oneness of knowl
edge,” has cooperated for the past
six years with Dr. Ray E. Hol
combe, chairman of the Speech De
partment, in presenting the course
to all seniors. The seminar meets
under the guidance of faculty
members representing 13 depart
ments cooperating in crystallizing
to seniors the meaningfulness of
four years’ undergraduate study.
The present lectures, which are
followed by discussions twice
weekly, emphasize the fundament
al similarities and differences in
scholarship in the sciences and
humanities. Seminar subjects are
equally applicable to such diver
sified fields as art, drama and
speech, physical education and rec
reation, home economicSj ^nd
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Dr. Holcombe originated the
idea at Ithaca College when he
was asked to organize an introduc
tory course that would be an eval
uation of academic study for all
students proceeding into graduate
work. He proposed such a course
to President Norris in 1952, with
five academic departments coop
erating in the first year of experi
mentation with the course.
Since then, Dr. Norris has been
“the real spark-plug of the
course,” according to Dr. Hol
combe, especially with his begin
ning lecture on ‘Where Now,
Senior’?”
. . . “The articulation of all
parts of knowledge” is the way
Dr. Norris likes to describe the
course. “With the senior seminar,
we hope to combat the increasing
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