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63 THE ATHENAEUM Ideals of co-operation must be the basis of all advancemtent. If students are not taught to co-operate at college, the chances arc that they will never learn this necessary lesson. Student activities must be supported, and there must be co-operation between students and faculty in maintaining the highest interests oU the school. The college can best serve the community through students Who are loyal to the greatest ideals. Real service cannot be rendered by a man who does not have moral ideals “Education that does not better mankind is evidently the wrong kind”. Our colleges must instil those ideals in students that will produce a symmetrical character.- The community will then be benefitted by contact with such great personalities. Mr. William M. Stratford of Arlington and Miss Ruth Thomas of Atlanta were married Thursday night, December 7, at the home of the bride’s brother, Mr. Roscoe W. Thomas, on W. Fair St. The couple was promfnent young people and their marriage Was attend ed by a number of Atlantans. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. W. Holley, President Georgia Normal and Agricultural College at Albany, and the wedding march was played by Mrs. Eva Henry, teacher of music at the sanie institution. Mr. Stratford, a former Morehouse student and athlete, is promient in New Jersey business circles. He and Mrs. Stratford left Friday at midnight for Newark, N. J., where they will open their apartment, 14 Fairview Ave., to their many friends, who wish them the best of success and happiness. THE “LOCK STEP” By. J. C. Walker, ’24. The “lock step” is a shift used originally by the Centre College football team to smash its opponent’s defense, thus increasing the chances of achieving victory. This shift is carried out by the play ers’ doing a left face from a normal formation and walking lock-step parallel to the line of scrimmage, until the last man, the end, gets over the ball and passes it to a backfield nian. Such a mass forma tion concentrates the executing team’s force and enables it to be more terrific and effective in its offensive. In my judgement just as this team needs such mass play to make headway against its opponents, so does an institution, and even a race, need to employ the principles of the “lock step,” bene- fitting thereby from its strength of coherence, concentration of power and concerted action. Especially should the Negro race give consideration to the principles of the “lock-step,” for its opponents are many and its wealth is blighted by limited resources. Educa tional facilities for Negroes are crippled, their opportunities are re- ATTENTION! Please Trade With Our Advertisers.