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14 THE ATHENAEUM There are many advantages to be derived from the change, how ever, there are six that present themselves to us as we pen these few lines. They are as follows: 1— It enables more courses to be offered. 2— It gives the student a wider range for selection. 3— it gives more time for study and preparation. It also gives more time for laboratory work. 4— It gives an increase in semester hours by giving hour periods. 5— It brings the school year to nine months without shortening the summer vacation. 6— It eliminates the so called "blue Monday” by linking the weeks. We hope that the efficiency of the new plan will be realized by teachers everywhere, so much so, that other schools will follow our example. Morehouse is the pace setter! May she live long, and the great principles for which she strives be far reaching in their effect. SIMMONS’S SIMPLE SOUNDING SPEECH I30SC0E CONKLIN SIMMONS, self-styled foremost Negro orator and racial mediator, has invaded Atlanta, spoken to more than 4000 people and departed. He left us as he found us—with no un certain scruples relative to his draffy type of leadership. It is, there fore, with no fear of contradiction; and feeling that we are in perfect harmony with the masses including those who heard him here, that we caption our article, "Simmons’s Simple Sounding Speech.” Brother, his far fetched comparisons, and his ridiculous examples cited at the expense of the Negro, were some simple sounding. They served Well the dual capacity of the white man’s jest and the Negroes’ regret. The Athenaeum eagerly looks forward to the time when such ungrounded play toys and tools for the white man will take .a back seat in the auditorium of racial interest and progressiveness. Such is the inevitable! There is no mold like time for the minds of men. It is the great refiner, yea, the great sifter of human thought. What interest of the Negro could our noble "racial mediator” have been fostering when he proudly asserted that "the duty of the American Negro was that of keeping the American white man in the lead”? Since when has the Negro become desirous of falling in love with the white man to the extent of aiding him in a leadership that actually means the suppression of his own progress? Why should the glory in a supremacy that spells injustice, whether in a court room or on a railroad train?