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Bolu trim' Volume 26 \ Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga., April, 1958 Pu ft LX c AX jc-o kiS 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. what’s Happening Sanders Redding Delivers On Third Floor? ft , M _ g. g_ 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? . . i . • nnii/s o/wi/vtifl aT a/I /liu rr’c* c*/»l 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 music. mm mm ^ mm am $&K£3in2}3 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 (Continued on Page 4) % mb* awi wflui * / mis