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44 THE ATHENAEUM of tassels and green. All the earth so bright and verdant under the summer sun has donned its somber cast and in the very air one feels that the year is drawing to a close. The garners are stored, the bins filled, the desire to rest from one’s labors increases and one begins to take store of what the year has wrought. It is the month of Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving shall we give thanks? What has the college man to be thankful for in 1923? We are thankful for the hordes of Negro youths who are filling the classrooms of our colleges and universities, filling their minds and training their hands for the tasks that face them. We are thankful for the vision that has filled their souls the vision of serving their fellowmen and of giving themselves for the salvation of their race. We are thankful for the spirit of co-operation that is gradually cementing the Negro into a constructive unit, the spirit that makes one willing to sacrifice his own rights and pleasure and will for the coming of the Beloved Community. We are thankful for undaunted courage in the face of multiplied discrimination and segregation and injustice, for the courage that dares to struggle on and upward though an host should oppose. We are thankful for renewed faith in the power of right, for the faith that righteousness will yet rule in the earth and the children of one common Father will yet see each other as common brothers. We are thankful for those souls who see the light—oftentimes as through a glass darkly—and burn out their bodies to pass the torch to us who “carry on.” Larger becomes that group of men who are devoting their thought and study and energy to the spreading of the gospel of goodwill and justice and liberty and we give thanks for them. We are thankful for the millions of giant souled colored people whose heart, burn often at the humiliations they must endure, whose fists clench, and whose im pulse is to revolt but who in silence and patience wait for the vengeance which cometb from the, Power of Righteousness, whose ears are ever open to his faithful people. , I° r u , u and f fertl e pkln ° ur gratitude ascends. Yes, and we are thankful for the hardships, for unsatisfied minds and unfinished tasks-for these are the materials out of which strength comes. From every rebuff and every failure and every unconquered task we gain new courage, new determination, new confidence that we shall yet bring it to pass. For all these things and dedicate our hearts to the sons.—Lionel F. Artis. more, O Thou God of the Harvest, we give thanks and service of the Common Humanity as becomes favored THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STUDENTS By W. D. Morman, Jr., ’25 Fellow students, let everyone who loves God and his fellowman ? e ,eve ? in the infin «te possibilities of his race, give ear to these vital questions. 5 6 10 co-operate te " hOTe you heard indictment, "Negroes do not Negroes today are in majority in several states, and cities. In