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THE ATHENAEUM 47 THE YOUNG AUTHORS CHANCE /AN another page of this issue we have published Opportunity’s ^ Literary Prize Contest Awards. This should not have been necessary. But we find on conversing with our fellow students that many of them know nothing at all of the contest, although it was published in the September number of Opportunity and has been re printed in the succeeding issues. This bespeaks a condition that would be bad enough were it the result of a canvass of the masses but which when known to be a state existing among college students is well nigh calamitous. It means that Negro college students who are supposedly preparing themselves to carry forward the work of raising the cultural level of our group are not even taking a glance within standard Negro periodicals. This highly commendable step taken by Opportunity is calculated to and no doubt will stimulate creative effort among young Negroes. Coming at a time when the country is being flooded by white authors with books about Negroes that are designed to perpetuate Southern prejudice and<.rpisconceptions, this contest should prove productive of a flock of .Negro writers who can forcefully and entertainingly set before the American public the Negro as we know him. Believing tfiat a portion of this flock treads the walks from Graves and Robert to Science and Sale we urge Morehouse men of ability taisyqlje the Muse so earnestly that she will take delight in encircling,.the brows of Morehouse men with some of Opportunity’s Laurel Wreaths. A PLEA FOR GREATER SCHOLARSHIP OF THE NEGRO By John W. LaWlah, 25. TT is an appalling thing to find that among our group scholarship is A less pronounced than among any other group in our civilization. The question becomes more appaling when we find that a major ity of our students spend a great portion of their time in idleness—in looking after the secondard things of life. At an early stage jn their^^yelopment their life becomes a routine; tbeifib hajjbitjs ^come, stereotyped; to the things which make life WQrthjJiviqg thgy are dead already—a walking loquacious corpse -frajid.aR/vyhich <|yen now remains for the last hour to take away is hut thsLjp^ltry residue of what was once a man’s life, sill! *»v*-v* »-*• -