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51 THE ATHENAEUM Two classes of people compose this city: those who can help and those who NEED help. It is for the benefit of the latter class that the Community Chest Campaign is launched. This effort is not only intended to help the helpless, but to promote health, education, mor ality, Christianity, physical and spiritual well being, and to diminish disease, ignorance, vice, crime, immorality, and human maladjust ments ' It seems that the familiar scene of the “beggar m the streets will be a thing unheard of in a few years, for the beggars who are disabled will be provided for by the community, while the pretenders and fakers will be put to work. . . , The donors in this campaign will wear their buttons which iden tify them as folk who care for the welfare of others as altruists. The present sentiment predicts that in the course of a week or two every one who is not wearing the “I Care” button will be ostracized by the fact that he does not care. , , oc —E. Allen Jones, 2b SCIENCE, AS A NEGLECTED FIELD pr pTyrpifpTfi^r fj The vast field of science has been a greatly neglected one by the average Negro student. Very careful investigation of the enrollment of scientific and classical students in the University of Michigan, Bates College, F. A. and M. College, and Morehouse College shows that only about one out of* every ten students is scientific. Two main reasons for this negligence are very obvious, namely: students fear that their religious belief will be disturbed, which may or may not, and they under estimate their faculties for the intensive studv which most science requires. It is not the intention of the writer to persuade every man to study science as a life’s work, although everyone should have some knowledge of science. Consequently, more and more each day repu table institutions of learning are annexing more compulsory science to the curriculum of classical students. The proportion of scientific students should be greater because there is indeed a greater demand for scientific students all over the world. The field is entirely too broad for such a small proportion as noted in the beginning. The vast number of students should not altogether disregard the study of science if for no other reasons than the following three: Science is plain truth, much of it is hypothetical but hypothetical science is not pretended to be a reality and is recorded as such by the originator. For instance, The Einstein Theory of Relativity, and, for a lon£ t : me the Darwinian Theory of Evolution, was no more than a hypothesis. S-^nce, on account of the intensive study which it requires, develops ones power to concentrate. Science gives us what the entire Greek Philosophy stood fo’’, namely: Know Thyself, and also the environment in which mat li ves> —S. F. Williams, ’27.