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118 THE ATHENAEUM Betting on games was at one time considered a habit practiced exclusively among that class of people whom we ordinarily regard as the riffraff of socity. The habit has spread so rapidly among college students that the few who refuse to engage in it are con sidered behind the times. This practice is rapidly taking the place of the old Morehouse spirit which formerly motivated competitive athletics. In the good old days students supported the teams in order to establish the fame of their beloved college. Today stu dents get behind the team because their money is at stake. The truth of the matter is they are behind their money and are merely using the Morehouse spirit as a pretense. If our team is defeated the players are objects of rebuke and contempt as a result of fin ancial loss. Such practices were demonstrated perfectly when many students ventured to commercialize our last football game. This habit has cheapened college athletics and discouraged the particip ants of the games. In our efforts to unite as one, each of us would do himself no injustice by letting such a song as “give me that old Morehouse spirit” permeate his very being, thus restoring that moral support to all our athletics which it so rightfully deserves. THE NEED OF NEGRO COLLEGE MEN IN RURAL( COMMUNITIES J. C. Richardson, ’27. The rural communities to a large degree have been neglected by tne young College men of today. The public health conditions in small towns and rural districts are not looked after as they should be There are hundreds of people dying annually for the lack of medical aid to overcome the various diseases from which they are suffering. And in some of these unfortunate communities there isn’t a single colored physician, therefore the unfortunate citizens will have to take as their family doctor a white physician. In a certain town in Georgia whose population is 3,022, and this particular town happens to be the county seat of a county with a population of 18,541, there isn’t a single colored physician although over one half of the population is colored. In these communities drug stores could be very profitably operated if there were any Negro physician there. Thqre is a great opportunity for the Negro college man in the field of medicine in the rural districts. The body must be physically fit before it can be educated properly. The system of education in the rural districts is a system that needs immediate “intelligent” and sympathetic attention. The length of school terms in some districts is from 4 to 6 months. After the children have finished harvesting the crops the short school term be gins and closes as soon as the work on the farms is light enough for the children to help. The schoolhouses are poorly equipped and they are from 5 to 6 miles apart. The children have to walk to school