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URBAN LEAGUE FELLOWSHIPS
(Southern Workman, November, 1922) E. E. Riley, ’23.
T HE National Urban League has announced the appointment of
fcthree “Fellows-” for a year’s social service training. Two are
appointed to the New York School for Social Work, and one to the
Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh.
The two persons assigned to the New York School of Social
Work are Miss Alice 1. Brown of Plainfield, N. J., and Miss Mabel E.
Bickford of Chicago. Miss Gertrude A. Clark of Pittsburgh has been
appointed to the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The appointments
were made froml a list of some twenty-five candidates from schools
located in all sections of the country, the result of a competitive
examination. Miss Bickford is a graduate of Howard University and
has studied at the Chicago University Graduate School. Miss Clark
is a graduate of Wilberforce University, and Miss Brown was gradu
ated from New York University having completed four year's course
in three and one-half years, and has studied at the New School of
Social Research located in New York City.
The above information should at least be inspiring to the Race
and especially to those of us wjho are particularly interested in that
kind of work.
OUR ADVANCEMENT
By Allina J. Strong, T. P. C. ’24.
TMPOSSIBILITY is now an old-fashioned word with a definition, but
•*- not a meaning. Alm’ost every dream! of the past is a reality of
today. The magic cities of our grandmothers’ fairy tales were not
nearly so wonderful as those in which we now live. All the philoso
phers and wizards of the ages never accomplished so much as we
have within the past half century. Time and thought are constantly
bringing into reality the wildest anticipations of our forefathers.
Conceptions once deemed magic have become commercial. The
genius and plugger who once entertained rom,antic ideals of the
future state oi industry are now industrial promoters and potentates.
There was perhaps never before such a wonderful period. We never
before knew so much or could do so m,uch. The average mechanic
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