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THE ATHEN/EUM MOREHOUSE COLLEGE SPELMAN SEMINARY VOL. XIX. ATLANTA, GA., MARCH, 1917. NO. 5. EDITORIALS THE ANNIVKRSAKY 1 lie Fiftieth Anniversary of Morehouse College which has just closed was without doubt one of the biggest features ever witnessed in this school It was very interesting to see so many of the old Alumni coining back for a visit ones more. Many had not seen the grounds since the name was changed from At lanta Baptist Seminary. Their feeling of joy and exultation, then, may be imagined. Surely the surroundings which met their gaze were far different from those twenty-five years ago Bur here we see the results of the present college spirit which was present in the days when our school was young. The man once bound to such a school can never be free from the influence of tie prevailing spirit. Such a collection of prominent visitors and such a large number of practical and scholarly addresses were never wit nessed here before. An occasion like this gives some insight into the wide reputation this school has attained in the last fifty years Morehouse has really grown, within the last fifty years, to an in credible eminence. What shall we look for within the next fifty years? SC IIOOJ. HP IT.'CS Some recent private inve-tigations have disclosed the fact that almost all of the colleges and secondary schools of the south are, from time to ti n i tr > tbie 1, ouj vv ty or another, bv the en try of politics into the students’ organizations. A late periodi cal of an institution in Alabama bore an account of some very ef feetive work of a political machine in some of the local organi zations. Most of our schools can tell this same story In consequence of these phenomenal conditions the question inevitably arises: Is not politics a sort of a dirty game for stu dents to tampei with? Is not the political machine a little too