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THE ATHENAEUM 9 Editorials f WE NEED MORE ATHLETIC PUBLICITY By F. W. Crawford, ’23. ¥ AST summer I was astonished to find how little the people in the C* cities of Chicago and Detroit knew about the athletic career and standing of Morehouse. It is true that some knew of the scholarly attainm'ents of her sons and of the high regard in which her curriculum is held by northern universities. These facts in themselves are commend able and are facts of which every Morehouse man should be proud. But publicity and notoriety based on scholarship alone are after all publicity and notoriety which are confined within reach of a few*, the irfore learned and scholarly; while the great masses of the people, the skilled and un skilled laborers, v/ho never get into the learned, scholarly atmosphere, seldom hear of Morehouse in any respect. Now, this is an element of people which concerns itself very little with either the classics or the sciences, as are found in libraries. This element includes the newspaper-reading people, who get all their news concerning wars, social, political and economic affairs, classics, science, schools and everything else from the newspapers alone, and from the children of this element our student body is recruited with w“orthy young men, whose parents in most cases have heard of Morehouse, or have read of her athletic achievements in the newspapers. Since these people never get into a position in which they can appreciate the scholarship of Morehouse, but will send to Morehouse worthy m[en from their ranks if they find any great respect in which Morehouse excels, therefore it falls upon us to give Morehouse as rn'uch athletic publicity as is possible in the newspapers throughout the country; for this is the most certain channel through which this worthy class of people can be reached. Our Athletic victories, career and standing have been too great to be minimized, kept silent and excluded from the press as they have been. They ought to be published in the sporting columns of every big colored newspaper in the country, in order that those who read newspapers only may know that Morehouse is the athletic chan^pion of the South. Every one who has a fair knowledge of athletics among American colored people should know that the Fisk-Morehouse game is the “football classic” of the South, just as the Lincoln-Howard gamie is the “football classic” of the North. ATTENTION! Please Trade With Our Advertisers.