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Volume XXXVI February, 1930 Number 3

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DR. CHARLES SPURGEON JOHNSON

Dr. Charles S$. Johnson, director of the depart-
ment of Social Sciences will be away from the
Campus for several months on a government mis-
sion to Liberia. His appointment comes as an honor
to Fisk and a fitting recognition of the work he is
doing in Social Research. The work he has done
in the field has lifted him above race where he is
recognized as one of the outstanding sociologists of
the nation.

LISTENING TO THE SIREN

It seems that something is wrong with some
students conception of values. Making Moun-
tains out of Molehills, is ragged from use, but
that seems to be what they are doing. We place

too much emphasis on those phases of college life.

that are relatively unimportant, while things that
are truly vital are being neglected. This state of
affairs too nearly affirms the assertion that college
students are a giddy. irresponsible group for our
comfort. Our more charitable elders rationalize our
behavior, attributing it to several causes but
obvious truth continues to supply our severe cri--
tics. When criticisms come, hurling invectives at
our critics we make a counter attack without ever
examining ourselves to see how much there is in
us to stimulate criticism.

Do we not give the impression of giddiness and
irresponsibility by over-emphasizing the social and
recreative sides of college life and neglecting the
remainder? One individual received that impression
from a student who said he would have to be out
of school a quarter in order to get money to join a
fraternity. None but a misanthrope would grudge
a man of his pleasure. Relaxation and recreation are
necessary to make a man fully rounded. When they
are absent we have a warped individual unable to
fit into the scheme of things. But they can be and
frequently are overemphasized. School authorities
have found it strange but true that no matter how

much difficulty a student has paying his bills he
always has money for dances and other social
events.

Social life and recreation are for the normal in-

dividual inconsequential matters filling his idle mo-
ments and relieving the tension of business affairs.
But when college students capitalize them it alarms
people who look on college training as a prepara-
tion for life. They realize that there is much work
to do and if it is to be done we must be preparing
to do sit. Now is the time that indications of our
devotion to our waiting tasks should be shown.
What way .aresaffairs, world, national, and racial
tending and what do we know about these trends?
What sacial problems exist, and what problems are
threatening to arise that we must face? What
equipment are we assembling to cope with them?
Are we watching such experiments in government
as the Facist rule in Italy or the Soviet regime in
Ryssia? Does the political situation in our own
country interest us? Are we giving any careful
study to the acute economic situation of our group?
It appears that most of us are ignorant of their
presence to say nothing of giving them special in-
terest. Everywhere attempts are being made to
reach a better understanding between the races by
students in both races. But at Fisk twenty-five
students cannot be gotten to meet a similar number
from Vanderbilt. if

Our ignorance is due largely to our failure -to
read. One professor made a reference to Sociakism:
and upon inquiring discovered that in a class made
up of Juniors and Sentors not a single individual
had read a book on Socialism. We do enough work
to take out degrees but there is a large amount of

information that is indispensible that: we will. not
get from class room assignmrits.:-The informed and
prepared will control affairs in this day seething
with change and the ignorant individual will receive
no consideraton. If we accompany the Sirens song
with dance and laughter for four years and at the
end find ourselves bound hand and foot the busy

world will have no pity on us.
8 THE FISK HERALD

PASKAL McDOW

The unfortunate death of Paskal McDow came
as a blow to his many friends at Fisk. The esteem
and confidence the students of Fisk held for him
were shown in the petition against the peculiar
machinations of justice that brought about his dis-
missal last year. We have never understood the
case and it still appears to have been one-sided in
its handling. With more than district attorney
ardor the prosecution was pushed while there was
no such zealous working for the defense.

When we look at the intellectual leaders we find
most of them to be erratic and given to be eccen-
tric. The school must be a cross-section of human-
ity with extremes in the group. The valuable edu-
cator or instructor is the one that best directs stu-
dents into channels where they will be serviceable
to society. Young men err and usually expiate their
errors through life but occassionally the supersen-
sitive bows in remorse and ends it all. Most indi-
viduals pass through a period of disorganization
filled with all sorts of disorders. If they are tided
over they make useful men and women. To help
youth in its organization is a worthy task, but to
contribute further to its disorganization is criminal.

BUILDING TO MUSIC

The library goes up, a long cherished dream is
realized. The ring of hammers and the thud of
picks is sweet music to our ears. But in the medley
of voices, heard above the symphony, sounds a dis-
cordant note high and shrill, A Negro Contractor
should have erected the building. The contention
takes various tones.

From various opinions gotten the case resolves
itself into the following discussion: In the building
trades Negroes have only one group to exploit
and must compete with the white builder there.
Since they are restricted, there is a feeling that
they should have the contracts Negro concerns can

grant theni. They cannot compete successfully
against white firms who have a greater capital and
who are more experienced builders. There is only
one way for them to get Capital and experience
and that is by erecting buldings. The Negro labor-
er, artisan, and craftsman must work on the jobs
of Negro contractors for their experience; they are
kept off works where there is organized labor. It
is a source of regret for philanthrophy that Negroes
can not man the building of structures that are
made possible for the group. But it is a vicious cir-
cle: without capital and experienced workers, build-
ings cannot be erected and without erecting build-
ings there can be no capital and experienced work-
ers.

Having followed the matter from the beginning
it seems that President Jones went about the matter
with the attitude that has marked his policy at Fisk
In all Inter-racial relationships he has declined to
recognize race. It appears that while holding to all
the beautiful in our social heritage, he has striven
to make Fisk an outstanding college and not an
outstanding Negro College. Positions on the faculty
have been filled with the best individuals available,
be they white or black. We believe that Fisk has
made the long strides it has in his administration
because of this attitude. We believe it has gained
the respect and increasing support of white philan-
throphy on which the school is dependent, from
the Nashville Community where we must live,
from our neighboring schools, who appreciate the
work being done here, and from the Alumni who
are happy that Fisk is again on a solid footing. We
feel that acting with the same good faith and moti-
vated by the same sincere desire for the best for
Fisk in every way the President countenanced the
selection of the contractor for Fisks first major
building project undertaken in twenty years. On
the basis of the strictest business methods, the bid
was let to the lowest bidder who, as well has a
number of first class, well finished buildings to re-
commend him.

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THE FISK HERALD 9

A Mess of &ottage

A. P. Watson

During the better part of the period from 1920
to 1930 I have been intermittently connected with
Fisk as a student. Within the course of these years
I have seen students come and gosome finished
others unfinished. The term UNFINISHED as here
used has little different meaning from what may
be apparent at first glance. By UNFINISHED I
mean the lack of that socio-psychological thr'll that
should permeate the soul of every student who has
tasted life as it is interpreted by Fisk. I say this
because I believe that if Fisk stands for anything
at all it is this thing called manhood (this term
used in its generic sense). In spite of the fact that
this aim is the very crux of her being, Fisk is fail-
ing if some of the charges brought against her pre-
sent and past student body may be cited as an ex-
ample.

In speaking of the aims at Fisk as being based on
the principles established by the founders, I do not
wish to be understood to mean that Fisk has not
changed. For Fisk has changedchanged tremen-
dously since 1870. But amid all her changes, she
has not (nor should she have) renounced in toto all
the order, ideals and principles which had universal
appeal and proved themselves adaptable ad in-
finitum. It is a well established fact that survival
(not of the fittest, but of the sufficiently fit) wheth-
er it be a person, an institution, or a principle, is
dependent upon its adaptibility to changing condi-
tions. These older principles have met the test.
Hence the notion of developing and instilling the
ideals of manhood remains her most sacred passion
today.

But is Fisk succeeding in her aim? What method
is being used to accomplish the end result? Directly
Fisk is doing nothing; indirectly Fisk is doing every
thing. There is no chair of Manhood at Fisk,
no special courses are offered in this direction.
Nor should there be, for some things are better
caught than taught. The correct use of words in
every day conversation for example. So while di-
rectly there is nothing on which we can lay a finger,
indirectly the idea seems to permeate everyth'ng

that bears a Fisk stamp. Liberal, historical and psy-
chological interpretations of the kindredness of man;
student government, sororities, fraternities, and
interracial meetings are few of the things that
Fisk indorses as a means of accomplishing her aim.
In offering to the student the best to be had both
as to material presented and spiritual values, with
liberal and manly interpretation, there is no doubt
as to her aim, nor will even the causal observer fail
to see method in the procedure.

Fisk, then does have a definite aim, but since the
end result is not a tangible thing on which one can
lay handsit being a mode of conduct that we are
after, let us see to what extent she is succeeding.

As a preface to what is to follow I ask these
questions: Do we as students think straight? Are
we, as Fisk students (with the heritage that is ours)
and as members of a minority group, consistent?
Let us see.

A few weeks ago a Folk-lorist from Mississippi
gave a reading before the student-body . He was
honored with their attention although his first ut-
terance was no less than an affront to his audience.
The act that broke the contact with his audience
and himself can only be attributed to ignorance. It
was psychology at its worst. That the material he
presented in his book, as was that recited on this
occasion, is authentic, nobody doubts. But for him
to think or act as though all Negroes belong in the
class despicted in his work is an insult to intelli-
gent people. It was not the material but the speaker
that antagonized. What the audience resented
was not the display of primitiveness depicted as
existing among a certain element of the race, but
rather that attitude of wholesale grouping of all
Negroes in the same class.

Was the student-body justified in showing a spirit
of antagonism? To this I answer in the affirmative.
To be sure it was a justifiable act, for are we not
Fisk students and does this not itself testify that we
are different? Why not lump together indiscrim-
inately the various classes of all races? But the ab-
surdity here is too apparent to need further elabora-
10 THE FISK HERALD

tion. I turn now the mirror on ourselves, not to
praise, but to criticize.

I wonder if many of the insults we suffer are
not inflicted or at least invited by our inconsis-
tencies? Taking the incident cited as a basis; is
not our conduct in going down an alley to a show
a direct contradiction to our previous act? It seems
to me that we resist an insult on one hand and
invite it on the other. Instead of taking a definite
stand for certain principles and letting the world
know where we stand we repulse and invite almost
with the same breath. We make a joke of ourselves
by our diabolical inconsistencies.

Students and others of Nashville have attempted
to justify their action in going to this place of
amusement on the ground that it is cheaper; that
it is no worse than riding on a Jim Crow street
car; and again they say that they see the best shows.
The first and third argument cancel out since the
low admission fee may have an appeal and since

what is best is a matter of personal choice. But I
question whether the situation is analogous to rid-
ing a Jim Crow street car. I need only suggest two
or three things to show the fallacy in such argu-
ments. The accommodations on the cars are the same
for all, or nearly so. All enter the same way, pay
the same fare, and have a choice of seats according
to arrival. Contrast this with the theatre in question
withs its front and alley entrances, with limited
seating capacity, coupled with the laborious method
of winding ones way to the top.

Some would throw the responsibility on the citi-
zens of the city to protest and get a new front
entrance. What effect would protest have when
the present entrance draws a capacity houseand
of all classes. alike?

Should we not as students and future leaders
define and identify ourselves with certain princi-
ples and point the way out?

stayed in it.)

Sunning all the time?

Gnawing at the bars?

To designate my place?

Anywhere in space.

MY PLACE

(He was a good Negro. He knew his place and

Is my place a stagnant pool
Wallowing in the slime?
Or is my place on the Mountain top

Is my place in an iron cage

Or is my place in God's blue sky
Frollicking with the stars?

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Who's been given the divine right

I want to spread my wings and fly

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QOoihere Was a Fisk

Ollington E. Smith

Slowly we descended the steps of Jubilee, this
old Fiskite and I. We had partaken of one of the
delicious meals in Fisks inimitable college dining
hall.

Did you enjoy your meal? I inquired.

Tt was splendid, he answered; then we walked
on.

When we came to the gates that lead to Jubilees
campus, he turned and, as if gazing for the last
time on a favored child who lies before, in all the
stillness and solemnity of death, whispered almost
inaudibly:

There was a Fisk, but she is no more.

How now, friend alumnus, dont say that.
What makes you breathe such a statement.

Because it is true, he answered, a tear dimming
his eye. I have made a journey, a long journey
to verify the things they told me. It is true. The
old Fisk is no more. There is not even a ghost of
what has been, not even a memory. Only a name
remains to tie the present with the past. I shall
wash my hands of Fisk. I cannot bear to see her
as she is. It is too much, too different from the
school that I have known.

What is it that displeases you with the new
Fisk? I questioned, Do we not have a better
faculty than in the days when you were here?

Better? Ah yes. From a standpoint of degrees,
they are much better. We had no Ph. Ds. on the
old faculties but ah, their souls were bathed and
wrapt in Fisks well being. I am impressed that
your new faculty has none of this. Collectively
they are a group of hollow degrees, impersonal,
uninterested in anything beyond their salaries. In-
dividually, there may be some, but they are few.

But dont you think that it is time the Negro
got away from the missionary type of teacher?
Isnt it time he became Americanized and _ lost
the lowly characteristics of the ignorant slave?

Missionary, slave? Yes, I agree. But I was
simply passing a comment. It is futile to expect
things ever to be otherwise again?

Grant me that point then, I asked. Now what

do you think of our new plan for advancement.
Our new library, the new science building, the new
gymnasium, the faculty apartment and all the other
wonderful things we are to have?

Dreams, dreams, boy, they will never come. to
pass.

Some of them at least, will come true, I re-
monstrated, the library is already a reality.

Oh they may build the houses, all of them,
but fine buildings or a worthy faculty do not make
a university.

No? What then is wrong with Fisk?

Shall I tell you? He hesitated. Yes, it is my
duty to say so. The tongues of women in their
clubs and of men who idly gossip have wagged too
long. It is time someone was brave enough to say
at Fisk the things that are said outside of it. Fisks
student-body is inadequatedont flush! It is true.
Forty years ago, the Fisk student was the pride
of America. Fisk men were gentlemen and had all
the refinements of real culture. Fisk women were
ladies and bespoke their breeding wherever they
appeared. Today, Fisk men are a bunch of rough-
necks, hoodlums, barbarians,. Last night, I stayed
in Livingstone Hall and was kept sleepless until
four A.M. by a dozen brass-headed figure-heads
who were being initiated into one of your frater-
nities. Fraternity, bah! Is this the spirit of brother-
ly love? What real material good has ever come
from one of them? Back in the old days we had
the Literary Societies. We discussed Kant and Ari-
totle, Sophocles or Arisophanes. We tried to get
at the basis of life and how to make it worth living
but today your modern supplement is mainly con-
tent with a few gin bottles, a cigarette and a pack
of cards. I know because I belong to one of them.
This morning I chanced to enter that new smoking
room also. To my way of thinking its just a good
idea gone wrong. The floors were covered with
cardsseveral individuals whom I knew could not
possibly be Fisk students were mingled with a group
of fellows at a domino game. Now if they had
some one in charge, say like they have in Jubilee
12 THE FISK HERALD

foyer, things might be differentthats one thing
I like about the New Fiskthe Jubilee foyerbut
back to the boys. Even adults need supervision.
Who, tell me, is really responsible for the men of
Fisk, the future fathers of a race? It seems to me
that just as most families are apt to do, the boys
are left to their own resources and judgement.

He paused a moment to get breath but before
I could break in, he was off on a similar rampage
against the girls.

And another thing, he continued, is the sta-
tus of the Fisk woman. I'm not fool enough to
believe that all of the things I have heard are true
but the disgusting thing about the whole situation
is that there should have been enough things to
happen to make certain statements possible. These
mind you, are to be the wives and mothers to-
morrow. If reports are true they will soon be hand-
ling their babies a cigarette in place of his bottle.

But sir, I finally interposed, you seriously
wrong the studentyou are basing your claims on
hearsayon mere hearsay!

No, I have seen enough to convince me he
retorted, I have listened just now to the silly
chatter in the dining room. If that is an example
of their conversation, then they are to be pitied,
for their poor shallow brains are capable of almost
any folly.

But one should not be deep at a mealone
should be light, frivolous, comical to give his food
a chance at digestion.

Yes, but there are two kinds of comedythe
high and almost noble type and the purely idio-
syncratic slap-stick typein fact one need not deal
in comedy at all in order to rest his brainpassing
comments on current events would sufficebut this
is the new Fisk student.

I see, sir, that you are prejudiced against the
new Fisk. You are loth to give up your old ideals
for something new and much finer. In other words
you are old, sir, and do not realize that memory
paints only the beautiful to those who would for-
get the ugly, distorted side of the past I grant
you that the Fisk of the present is not perfect.
Who, after all, would be so foolish as to wish it
to be so? I will go further by granting that the

Fisk student was not in a position intellectually
to cope with the new situations the strike gave
him. If student government is a failure on Fisk
campus, and it is largely so, it is not the present
Council who is to blame but the situations which
were created and handed down from the begin-
ning in 1925. Here were a group of students de-
manding things which other schools of similar
standing had. Here were a group of authorities
who, rather than allow the door of the school to
close, as they appeared to be about to do, granted
everything the students demanded, thus going from
chaos into confusion. The modern college that en-
joys that privilege of student government is organ-
ized into a co-operative student-body in which all
student activities are brought under one head and
are governed collectively by the associated students
organizationFisk still does not realize this. And
if it did, a terrible piece of work would be en
tailed in reorganizing the present plan to suit the
situation.

I grant you too, that the Fisk man is weak, that
as an individual he fails to exemplify sufficient
culture to lay claims to being the cream of Negro
society but isnt it true that to walk, a child must
first learn to crawl? For the first time in the history
of Fisk, the student can say, I am the product
of my own laborsnobody gave me anything at
Fisk, either I paid my own way through college or
my parents paid it for me. Fisk has not given me
anything except a chance to face the world as
other men and not hang my head because I am
the product of some missionary institution.!

Maybe, too. some of the women are coarse and
not in the finer sense ladies, but you must realize
that Rome was not built in a day. You must be
patient. If there are those who have no place
among the select five-hundred of Fisks democracy,
they will eventually be weeded out and at length
their types will realize that Fisk is no place for
them and will go elsewhere.

And lastly, I would like to say that Fisk can
not fail. Fisk is just as great an institution now
as it ever was. In fact, it is greater. Fisk is greater
than any one man and any individual or particular
group of individuals. This is a crucial period I admit

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We need money for the numerous plans we hope
to execute. We need students who are worthy of
the trust we placein them and the positions they
holdwe need women who will be cognizant of
the fact that a race is measured by its women, and
we need men who will fail to see things in the
light of their particular group or club, when the

interest of all is at stake. But just as out of chaos
has grown confusion, so out of confusion will grow
the answer to the problems which confront Fisk.
A moment ago you made a statement, There was
a Fisk, you said. Let me restate your sentence:
There is a Fisk and always will be.

QO. E. Smith.

OViewing the Hast

Leonard Tomlison

Among the students enrolled at Fisk this year are
those who occupied rear seats in Livingstone chapel
during the organization of the Student Council.
Those of us who were preps then cannot forget
the strong impulse to suggest and approve. A re-
cognition of the beauty of well ordered words swept
like wild fire from one to the other. Student meet-
ings were held sometimes five days in a week and
sometimes twice a day. To absent ones-self from
a meeting would be the same as staying from class.

Obviously there were various reasons for this
enthusiasm to speak. In the first place, the spirit
of self-motivation permeated the entire student-
body. Everyone wanted to be felt and heard. In
the second place, the practice of Parliamentary
Law invited eagerness on the part of those who
were members of the popular clubs then existing.

I remember how the upper-classmen took great
pleasure in calling the sophomores and freshmen
out of order. It was Boatwrights special privilege
to be out of order each time he rose, and a high:
school-man dared not rise to his feet. One high:
school-man, however, demanded recognition when
he rose. His name was Herbert Shaw, king of the
preps. Whatever we did it was done through him.
While I am upon this point, it should be remember-
ed that Joseph Sowells was the other man that
brought the high-school world recognition. He was
the only prep going with a college girl. The girl's
classification was senior college. His was freshman

high-school.

Apart from such considerations, those of us in-
terested in speaking regarded our high-school club,
the U. L. S., as training quarters for the purpose
of making our stand in Livingstone chapel. We
followed the same procedure as was followed in
the big chapel, calling others out of order and mak-
ing all motions subsidiary but our own. Years of
preparation and toilsome labor had brought us to
the front and we were ready to wage a battle for
those who came behind us. But, sorry to say, in a
changing world our preparations were in vain. For
that year the high-school was discontinued and we
were again at the bottom of the ladder as freshmen.

To recall the election of the first president of
the Student Council is, I am sure, one of the amus-
ing incidents of those days. Practically half of the
student-body had different men to elect. Each per-
son arose to nominate a man with qualifications
that would make Pericles of the Grecian Army
seem inert and degraded. Finally, the two candi-
dates for the presidency were Andrew Simmons

and Chauncey Winston. I remember, how an up-
per-classman passed up the isle that day saying he
was for Winston and the whole right section of
the chapel voted for Winston. Simmons, however,
was elected president by a little more than four

votes.

The next year found Roscoe Campbell, presi-
dent. Campbell spent a large part of his career
14 THE FISK HERALD

trying to pacify men that he had failed to recog-
nize at a meeting. The reign of I. Babington Bry-
ant in the succeeding year marked a decline in the
triumph of enthusiasm and the desire to speak
has gradually fallen short ever since. Such times
made us know speakers like Andrew Simmons, Gus
Latting, Ned Goodwin, George Streator, Fats
McKinney, George Strong, James McClendon, John
Oakes, Harold Brown and others and among the
girls Jean Osby, Marguerite Pennybacker and
Myrtle Wiggens.

At this time, dancing was the unfolding of a
new experience. While it is true that dancing was
not permitted it is not true that a good time did
not exist. Since it was not permitted, everyone con-
centrated his interest on the opportunities that were
afforded him. Take Spring Day for example. On
the foregoing day, Latting would give his Annual
Spring Day Address. This told of the three re-
pasts, it described the feats of the day and likewise
related how the young men and women would look
strolling in the sun-light and sitting in the shade.
This speech would ignite the entire student-body.
The next day instead of coming to a dance and
then retiring for the rest of the day as is now done,
the spirit was high the whole day and everyone
was behind every feat.

This enthusaism was universal. For in singing,
too, there was an earnest effort to attain the heights
of spiritual endeavor. Merritt Hedgeman, James

Byers, Hank Wilson, W. M. Jackson and Edgar
L. Scott composed the quartet that has not yet
heen equalled. This quartet proved its weight in
gold during the campagn then on for Fisk. Hedge-
man and Edward Matthews, the baritone soloists,
who will appear at a recital at Fisk soon with their
breath taking solo-work made King Olaf an over-
whelming success that year. Here-to-fore, artists
from Boston had been secured for those leading
parts.

It was the custom then to sing two or more
spirituals after chapel. Most times, these were lead
by persons in the audience. Such singers as Eloise
Womack, Marguerite Pennybacker, Cecelia Irving,
Anna Goodwin, Leonard Franklin, Edward Mat-
thews, and Merritt Hedgeman kept the students
continually peeping over one anothers heads to
detect the possessor of the sweet and melodious
voice. I recall, especially that when Anna Goodwin
sang There is a Balm in Gilead, and when
Edward Matthews sang Shine on Me, every-
one left chapel deeply moved. Some even cried.

To-day, this interest and enthusiasm exists neith-
er in speaking nor singing. I guess it is either be-
cause the electrifying element has died away, now,
students come to college younger and see no need
to assume a deep responsibility. Whatever opinion
may be entertained on this question there is no
doubt that enthusiasm is contagious.

Prohibition Again

Lawrence Reddick

For approximately the past twenty years, this
whole matter of intemperance, Prohibition, and
liquor has been somewhat of a National punching
bag. Therefore, an additional crack matters more
or less. Although the battle lines have shifted and
the issues have changed yet this fight, continual if
not continuous, has commanded the lions share of
newspaper and periodical space. Roughly, the pe-
riod may be divided into three spans. Although
these divisions are not absolute, for all of the issues
were entangled, yet the strongest influence is as-

cribed to each period. From nineteen-ten to nine-
eighteen may be called the period: National Pro-
hibition, to pass or not to pass. From nineteen-
eighteen to nineteen-twenty-one was a calm with
everybody watching everything. From nineteen-
eighteen to nineteen-twenty-one was a calm with
everybody watching everything. From nineteen-
twenty-one to nineteen-twenty-five was the issue:
To repeal or not to repeal. Beginning in *twenty-
six and reaching its climax in the Presidential cam-
paign of twenty-eight was the cry: Modification,

My

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light wines and beers. At present, we are in anoth-
er period of calm. Some say it is the result of mutual
satisfaction, in that the Drys have their law and
the Wets have their liquor. The concern is rather
with enforcement.

Owing to the lack of uniformity in collecton and
method, anything may be proved statistically. The
Drys prove that Prohibition is socially, economi-
cally, psychologically, and physiologically undesirable
backed by statistics.

Just now, that the boys (Wet or Dry, more or
less) are reloading and getting wind for the per-
ennial setto, we are tempted to slip a fast one
over. With a little twisting or turning it can be
used by both sidesand it may. Now then, what
is the effect of Prohibition on international peace
and goodwill? Let it be understood that we do not
say the observed phenomena is the sole cause of
the effect but we are convinced that this cause is
a potent, if not portentous, factor in producing the
apparently certain effect.

Our first point is, that disregarding either fan-
atic there has been an actual direct and indirect
saving to the American people. Resulting from
increased efhiciency, in part due to sober work, in
partly due to Prohibition. A conservative estimate
places this saving at ten million dollars annually.
This fact is attest by ninety percent support given
by industrial leaders to Prohibition. If the Eight-
eenth Amendment were repealed these manufactu-
rers would still insist upon sobriety for their work-
ers. .

It is a fact that American prosperity is, in no
small measure, built upon increased efficiency in
mass production. It is another fact that drinking
workers cannot compete with sober workers. Mr.
G. G. Vyle, a British anti-prohibitionist came to
America to observe the working of the dry law.
On his return he is quoted as saying Seven Ameri-
can workers with the same plant, same materials,
and under the same conditions would do more work
than ten British workmen under the same condi-
tons. Many manufacturers assert that the sobrie-
ty of workmen has increased their output by twen-

ty per cent.

Thus one thing is clear that, first the American

people are becoming tremendously wealthy; sec

ondly, that this wealthiness is in part caused by

the efficiency of American workers; thirdly, that
drinking workers cannot compete with sober work-
ers.

Our second point is, that the family of nations
is, in the largest sense, a social group. As with in-
dividuals the welfare of each nation is, in a large
measure, dependent upon the well being of the
social group.

Notwithsanding its clumsiness, through Prohi-
bition the people of the United States have made
a great step in the absolute elimination of bever-
age alcohol. The other great nations of the social
group have not, as yet, made such a step. Increased
efficiency and productivity have already been men-
tioned as factors in American prosperity and wealth
accumulation. It is not for the best interest of the
family of nations that one nation should be wealthy
while the rest are in comparative poverty. There
is no mutual understanding so necessary in the sol-
ution of world problems. Whatever may be said,
the fact remains that one has the viewpoint of a
creditor whereas the others the viewpoint of the
debtors. In the present case debts hanging over
from the World War accentuate the disparity.
Further, American business is reaching out and
buying up many of the industries of the other
nations. Over five hundred million has been ex-
pended. Loans are advanced to other nations; over
seventeen nations owe Uncle Samuel.

In the final analysis, all of this can only mean
that American people are actually and compara-
tively becoming wealthier and wealthier; meanwhile
the other nations are becoming comparatively, if
not actually, poorer and poorer. Such a concentra-
tion of wealth but engenders hatred and distrust.
For such a condition to continue will finally result
in either of three things. First, America will eco-
nomically dominate the other nations. Secondly, the
other nations, becoming so indebted to their com-
mon debtor will seek through warfare to destroy
their creditor and their debts. Thirdly, the other
nations through mutual understanding, in all of

their relations including trade and commerce, will

regard America as their common enemy and so

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direct their energies. Either of these results are dis-
asterous and therefore undesirable.

Apparently, at least, it would seem that the fam-
ily of nations should be either all Wet or Dry.
Let it be understood, that the elimination of the
differences between the efficiencies of the workers
of the nations relative to sobriety is no panacea.
It will not make the distribution of wealth equal.
America has the resource and the advantages. Yet
there is no doubt that the disparity will diminish
if the workers of the nations are either all drunk
or all sober.

A Wet view suggests that we eliminate Pro-
hibition in order to give the other nations a chance.
On the other hand the Drys declare such a step
to be a backward one, that the other nations should
eliminate insobriety. The latter view seems indica-
tive of a tendency. England, catching a glimpse of

the benefits of sobriety during the World War, is

trying regulation. Public houses are now open eight

and one-half hours against its former twenty. Bel-
giums Royal Academy has demanded total Prohibi-
tion. In Austria there is now a movement for total
prohibition. Already the sale of drinks to minors
is prohibited. In France and Germany tradition is
strong yet the movement against alcoholism is stead-
ily growing. Japan is re-echoing: the world event.
The Scandinavian countries have made progress in

the control of the consumption of alcohol. In short, .

every civilized nation in the world is making some
effort to cope with this so called curse of mankind.
Thus the attempt at the elimination of one of
the factors behind this very big problem of nat-
ional concentration of wealth causes us to wonder:
Is the world really going dry?
Lawrence D. Reddick

Ma Mena

A tall gaunt old woman, with her head bound
in a fresh head cloth put down clumsy figures on
a scrap of paper and laboriously summed them up.
She wrote the sum and went slowly through the
column again and handed it to me. Her grim face
breaking into a kindly smile.

That's right aint it?

I totaled the column, told her the sum was cor-
rect and counted out the money due her.

T cant read but I sho can figger. They cant
beat me outta nothin. Some of them tries but Im
their change.

For years she fed Fisk students and came to be
known only as Ma Mena and her house the re-
fuge of the hungry hordes. She had a shatp ton-
gue that kept them straight but a kindly smile that
always brought them back again.

Her well seasoned foods and the atmosphere of
the place that allowed boys to relax and be boys
earned her a place in the hearts of generation after
generation of Fisk students. More than one alum-
nus gives Ma credit for having made it possible
for him to graduate. Whether they had money or

not she fed them. Most paid her later, but her
policy remained unchanged. She always remember-
ed the students who were regular customers at her
place and to mention them always brought forth
some humorous reminiscence that she could hardly
tell for laughing. Many of the boys became dear
to her. I remember on my third or fourth visit I
inquired about the pictures on her piano. She told
me their names and coming to one said, You
a oo ee Or ? he was a big nigger
up there on the campus.

When Roland Hayes came to Fisk in December
for his recital she was stricken with her last illness.
He went down to see her, gave her money and
served several customers. It made her very happy
and for days afterward she talked about it.

In the weather beaten unpainted old house she
filled a need the University will soon have to sup-
ply. Ma Menas is the fore-runner of the Tea Room
that will shortly go up on the Campus. But, it will
never enjoy the popularity with the boys that the
passing years have built up around Ma Menas in
the hearts of hundreds of Fisk students.

THE FISK HERALD 17

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ROY W. TIBBS, Pianist

December was quite a musical month at Fisk.
The month was ushered in by a concert given by
Mr. Roy W. Tibbs, an alumnus of Fisk and Ober-
lin, now head of the music department of our
friendly enemy, Howard University. Mr. Tibbs
gave an entertaining and very beautiful lecture reci-
tal at Tennessee State College on the night of
December 2. A group of Fisk students and faculty
members were guests at the recital, the program of

which is given below.

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Andantino
Scherzo
The Submerged Cathedral ....................-- Debussy
Prehide: in: Al Man clans sss secces- oilseeds Debussy
CRG | RRMRME tain ja seth abeetldebain--ucpecethndace Godard
PI Sc AAA bd lek AINE de sediment eailln Chopin
St. Francis Sermon to the Birds ...........:.....--. Liszt
Te PAINE hs elo oes Schubert-Liszt

As may be seen, the program is well arranged,
having numbers from all periods in the history of

music: classic, romantic and modern. Mr. Tibbs
good stage presence did much to aid his brilliant

performance. He has an excellent technical equip-
ment, but he leans so much toward the brilliant
that his melodic numbers were a bit overdone.
This, however, did not prevent one from realizing
that one heard the thoroughly artistic performance
of a genuine scholar and a masterly technician.

STUDENT RECITAL, DECEMBER 6

Important among our musical activities are our
student recitals. I say important because it is in

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these recitals that our future artists get a chance
to show their talent to sympathetic audiences and
get the benefit of constructive criticism. On the
program of December 6, the last student recital of
the fall quarter, appeared piano numbers of all
types and various grades of difficulty. The players,
both from the college and music school, represent-
ed all classes, from sub-freshman through the gra-
duate group. All of them showed the care their
teachers have put into their lessons. The one vocal
number on the program was well done.

It would be a good thing for both performers
and listeners, if our audiences were much larger
at the student recitals. Music students are expected
to attend, and all others, both faculty and stu-
dents, are invited and urged to attend. Notices
are placed on bulletin boards on alternate weeks
when student recitals are scheduled. Please notice
them, go to the recitals, relax, enjoy the music,
and encourage your friends who appear on the
program. Watch the bulletin boards.

RUSSIAN COSSACK CHORUS

On Saturday afternoon, December 7, a large
audience of Fisk people and Nashville music lovers
were treated to a highly interesting and entertain-
ing concert by the Russian Cossack Chorus. These
fourteen voices, under the directorship of Sergei
Socoloff, brother of the famous Nicolai, director
of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, gave an un-
usual sort of concert. Their lyrical numbers were
soft and appealing; their brilliant numbers were
electrifying! The most unusual and effective num-
The Cossack Party.

It is a representation of a group of men singing

18 THE FISK HERALD

and drinking in a home while madam is absent.
Suddenly the news reaches them that the lady is
returning home unexpectedly. Confusion reigns as
the lady walks in on the stag party. All expect an
outburst, but the madam surprises and _ relieves
everybody by sitting and drinking with the men.
All of these effects were well brought out and the
total impression was amusingly realistic. The voice
range of the chorus was very unusual, ranging
from a low g or b flat to a very high d.
All the songs were sung in Russian except the
encores. These were sung in English. It was quite

amusing to listen to the Russo-Negro dialect in

Swanee River and Dixie.

RECITAL OF ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

On Wednesday Afternoon, December 11, the
five members of Mr. Works class in Negro Com-
position gave a recital of the pieces they have
arranged and composed this quarter (fall). The
five aspirants to the art of composition are: Misses
Helen Cox, Gregory Durr, Mayola Givens ,Henri-
etta Miller, and Lydia Mason. Their program was
arranged in four groups.

The First group was made up of spirituals
selected and arranged for chorus. Detts Listen
to the Lambs was used as a model. The first and
last parts of the compositions were harmonizations
of the original melodies. The middle parts were
composed by new arrangers.

The Second group was one of the spirituals
arranged for vocal solo. The original melodies were
used and the accompaniments were composed by
the students.

The Third group was one of vocal solos, and
poems of Dunbar. In this group, the music was
entirely the work of the class members. They had
only to enter into the spirit of the poetry and
compose appropiate music.

The Fourth group was one of original piano
solos, each built on a theme of a spiritual. Here,
free reign was given to the imaginations of the
students, and the results were, in some cases, very
surprisingly good. One versatile young lady com-
posed an extra number, a humoresque for violin

and piano. Its theme was taken from The Mem-
phis Blues.

ROLAND HAYES GIVES FISK A RECITAL

Last fall Roland Hayes great love for Fisk
caused him to offer to give a recital at his alma
mater, the proceeds of which were to go to make
up a deficit which was run into during last years
publicity campaign.

On Friday Evening, December 13, the beautiful
liquid tones of Mr. Hayes wonderful lyrical tenor
voice thrilled a large and appreciative audience that
filled Fisk Memorial Chapel to the doors. Many
who were not fortunate enough to get inside, stood
outside to listen. Mr. Hayes, with consummate
ease and indescribable beauty, rendered a difh-
cult program of Italian, French, German and Eng-
lish songs. He was graciously generous in giving
severals encores, all but one of which were spiri-
tuals, rendered with true feelings. One of the big
things in the recital was the spirit, the dynamic
personality of the man, the electric energy and
powerful force that poured from him in his beauty
of his music.

Mr. Percival Parham rendered his accompaniments
with ease, surety, and artistic touch of one who
knows just what he is about, and enters wholly
into the spirit of the performance.

After the recital, friends and admirers of Roland
Hayes were given the opportunity of greeting and
praising him in the beautiful parlors of Jubilee
Hall.

The financial side of the affair was as completely
successful as the artistic side.

WARNER LAWSON

A Piano Recital by Warner Lawson, in Fisk
Memorial Chapel, Friday Night, January 17, was
something much more than a musical event among
the colored people of Nashville. Mr. Lawson began
his program of three divisions with a Bach Pream-
ble, which he did so well, and with such singing
quality that it was music for all present.

The Beethoven Sonata, Op. 26, which followed,
is more beautiful than the famous Pathetique.

THE FISK HERALD ; 19

and the Moonlight, yet it is less frequently seen
on recital programs than the other two. Mr. Law-
son played the Andante movement of this Sonata
with much grace and tenderness, suggesting the
depth and immortality of love, a mood ever present
w'th Beethoven. The second movement, the Scher-
zo of changing moods, and the Allegro Molto were
given too much of the same treatment as the An-
dante. Also, a greater and more effective use of
dynamics would have been more in the character
of the third movement, the Marcia Funebre. The
fourth movement, the Rondo, Allegro, was brilliant-
ly given, and brought the great composition to an
end. The first group was closed with a very real-
istic rendition of the Rameau-Godowsky Tambour-
in.

The second division of the program began with
three numbers by Chasins, a new name on pro-
grams of fine music. Flirtation in a Chinese Gar-
den, Prelude in D Major, and Rush Hour in
Hong Kong, are all beautiful music, and well
played, but a stretch of the imagination was re-
quired to associate them with the Chinese. In his
excellent interpretation of Debussys Reflets dans
I eau, Mr. Lawson made his audience feel the
beauty of this tone-picture.

The last number in the second group, Brahms
Rhapsody in G minor was so excellently done that
the artist was forced to give an encore: the lovely
Etude in F sharp Major, of Arensky.

The third and last group had four numbers from
Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu, Etude in E
minor, Prelude in E minor, and the Ballade in
G minor. To say that Mr. Lawson played Chopin
adequately is quite enough. He gave expression to
the exquisite poetic and melancholy tenderness,
which is the distinctive quality of Chopin. He made
no effort at a great display of virtuosity, but he
strove for the finest expression in fine art. Great
applause followed the closing number, and Mr.
Lawson gave two encores: that little gem of Mac-
Dowell, Improvisation, and the great Polonaise,
by the same composer.

Mr. Lawsons rendition of this program shows
that he has reached the rank of a creative piano
player, and is now able to identify himself with

the moods of great composers, and interpret them.
Mr. Lawson is a graduate of Fisk University, Col-
lege and Music School. He is also a graduate of
the Music School of Yale University. He has been
for years, and still is, a piano pupil of his father,
Raymond Augustus Lawson, one of the finest piano
teachers in Connecticut. Warner Lawson will sail
in June for Berlin, where he will do several years
of further study. |

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MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

We have had two student recitals this quarter.
These recitals were not well attended. It is a pity
our students neglect the opportunity afforded by
these recitals, to become familiar with what is good
in the world of music for piano and voice. Perhaps
many of us do not know that music students are
expected to attend, and all others are cordially and
urgently invited. A college education is supposed
to add to ones general culture, and music certainly
is a part of that culture.

Wednesday, January 23, we were honored
with a visit of the choir of St. Olaf Lutheran Col-
lege, of Northfield, Minnesota. Mr. Brown, the
director of Fisk Music School, visited St. Olaf last
fall, so the choir repaid the visit when it came to
this city to give a concert at the Ryman Auditor-
ium. The Fisk Octette and the student sang several
Jubilee Songs for the visitors, and the visitors sang
several of their Nordic Songs for us. Dr. Christ-
iansen, the leader and director of the choir and
Music Department of St. Olaf College, was very
enthusiastic in his praise of our singing. He stress-
ed the importance of the Negro Idiom in modern
American music. While the visitors were here, Mr.
Brown announced that our. friend, Mr. Paul D.
Cravath, has agreed to finance our Mozart Society
on a concert tour of the North and East, next year.
This w:ll be the beginning of a new era in the
history of Mozart Society, and we are sure that
the entire school is very thankful to Mr. Cravath
for making this first trip possible.

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I was interested recently to note in a current
magazine article the expression The men who do
our thinking for usCaught by the oddness of
the expression, I let-my minds eye dwell upon it
for a long moment during which time I thought
how ably it applies to the general run of the Negro
populationhow few of us are interested enough
in our own welfare to take time and think the
thing through for ourselvesInstead we would
rather sit idly by in some corner and tweedle-dee
or tweedle-dum until the thing which we should
be employing our deepest thoughts upon to keep
it from happening has occuredThen, suddenly
cognizant of the fact that we have once more played
the part of sleeping disciples we rush madly for-
ward and slash off the ears of our adversaries.

We radicals cry, change, give us a change,
when the truth about the situation is we have not
given the present plan of things a fair chance to
prove itselfThe Liberal cries back at us, Why
dont you? and we answer Because we lack suf-
ficient leaders.

As long as a group has the right type of leader-
ship, it is impossible for any one else to do its
thinking for it. The leaders generate the ideas
that make for group thinking and the group moulds
them into the proper consensus. As a race is mea-
sured morally by its womanhood, so is it measured
spiritually by its leaders, both men and women.

The type of Negro Youth who is preparing him-
self for leadership in the various colleges today is
a sincere disappointmentEither his shoulders are
not broad enough for the responsibilities he had
undertaken or his motives are not actuated by a
sincere desire to bring the group to a higher place
among thoughtful people.

We are being actuated by a personal element in
our various clannish displays and have about com-
pletely obscured the duties we owe to the group
Selfish gain never helped a situation since A house
divided against itself cannot stand-Either we
must minimize our clannish aims and become more
unified in spirit and the desire to help each other

or we must succumb to the wishes of the men who
do our thinking for us. We must either think
ourselves or cease to attempt to strike back after
the blow has fallen.

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THE VALUE OF FRIENDSHIP

To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest
gifts that life can offer. To be a friend is to have
solemn and tender education of the soul from day
to day.

A friend gives us confidence for life. He makes
us go outside of ourselves. He takes heed of our
health, our aims, our plans. A friend remembers us
when we have forgotten ourselves. A friend may
REBUKE US AND WE ARE NOT ANGER-
ED: HE MAY PRAISE US AND WE ARE
NOT EMBARRASSED.

It takes a great soul to be a friend, a large Cath-
olic, steadfast and loving spirit. One must forgive
much, forget much and forbear much to be a friend.
It costs to be a friend. Nothing else in life costs
so much unless it is motherhood. It not only costs
time, affection, patience, and love but sometimes
it costs ones life. There is no true friendship with-
out self sacrifice. One of the dearest thoughts to
me is this, a real friend will never get away from
me, or try to, or want to.

Tis a great thing to say to another: In this
one life we have to live, let us share all things,
temporal and spiritual. Your joys shall be my joys,
your sorrows my sorrows. In absence you shall be
near me. You shall never be so far away from me
that I cannot hear your voice in the twilight and
in the night season. Your letters shall make me
strong and glad. With you I shall never be great-
ly reserved. To you, I may speak the deepest
thought of my heart. With you alone I laugh.
With you alone, I shed tears and am not ashamed.
To you only, can I say: Here am JI, an undis-
guised soul. All others know me in some mood.
You know me in all moods.

L. C. P.

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COLLEGIATE WOMANHOOD

When folk begin to think of college life they
usually visualize a transition period. This pe-
riod means to a female the change into a glorious
womanhood. College presents itself as a means
of promoting this change effectively.

Woman the world over is realizing the extreme
necessity of a constructive program. Her quiet
resourceful ability to solve world problems has at
last been recognized.

In her atempt to prove her fitness, woman has
encountered many difficulties; tradition of female
inferiority, physical weakness, and the double stand-
ard of morals. The Negro woman finds herself
facing the double handicap of race and sex. These
have however served only to strengthen her. She
has found college to be the best place to begin the
struggle for recognition.

The Fisk woman has by intellectual and social
work proved her willingness to fall in line with
the great race movement. At present she finds in-
terest in literary and artistic club groups, conver-
sational hours, and athletic programs both for her-
self and in support of the male teams. She has
also cooperated with the religious program of the
school.

Civil activities play an important role in the de-
velopment and advancement of the intellectual
sphere. The interest shown by the girls in the meet-
ings, which are definitely not in the school pro-
gram, is to be commended. The international Fel-
lowship of Reconciliation Movement at the Ryman
Auditorium and the Inter-racial Conference at
Scarr'tt College were largely attended by the wo-
men.

Classical programs have served to direct their
thoughts from the mediocre to the highest type
of cultural art. The women went in large numbers
to the Ruth St. Dennis and Ted Shawn Classi-
cal Dance and to the Roland Hayes concert.

Radicalism is sometimes necessary for emancipa-
tion. The overwhelming reaction of women in gen-
eral after the great war was startling, but has not
proved useless. After the thrill had worn off and
their purpose accomplished, they became more con-
servative Some individuals, however, still cling to
the idea that womans prime object is to be shock-
ingly radical. The sooner this false idea is eradi-

cated, the sooner womans endeavor will be respect-
ed and accepted. It is the College Woman's duty
to prove her worth; and it is the College Mans
duty, as a part of society to believe in her sincer-
ity and fidelity.

Majorie L. Baltimore

ON GOING TO CHURCH

To whom it may concern: (the majority of Fisk
men and women.)

Each Sunday morning at eleven o'clock the bell
peals out its invitation to the college devotional
services. Each Sunday morning at eleven o'clock,
an average number of men and women, unusually
small, file out and fill the pews of the Fisk Memorial
Chapel as best they can. Now use your imagination
to judge how well a mere hand full of students;
fifty or sixty, can fill the pews of our chapel. Thanks
though to the numerous visitors from Meharry,
Scarritt, Vanderbilt, and from the city, the crowd
grows and the speakers words do not resound on
empty seats. He receives a favorable impression of
Fisk, if he is not able to discern visitors from stu-
dents in his audience. In this manner many Sun-
days have come and gone.

It is very evident that the Sunday chapel atten-
dance is far from satisfactory. It is of such nature
that both teachers and students should feel ashamed
of it; and both should do something to better the
unfavorable situation which is confronting us all.

When I carefully consider the matter I am able
to find numerous cases where our teachers have
attempted to better the situation. Do you remem-
ber how, in past years it was a_ ruling
that each student go to chapel every Sunday and sit
in his or her assigned seat? That is no longer true;
for now we are not tompelled to go
to church, and we may sit just where ever we wish
and with whom ever we please.

Do you remember how long and tiresome, even
though interesting our services used to be? How
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you used to glance so anxiously and restlessly at the
clock as you sat wishing and waiting for the bene-
diction to be pronounced? That is no longer true
either; for now we go to church at eleven o'clock
and by twelve only a very few lingering persons
are seen within the church.

Still I ask why you never go to church? Is the
chapel cold or uncomfortable? No. Is the music
poor? Emphatically no. Is there any thing far-fetch-
ed or unreal about our church service? No, for it
is a sacred and simple form of worship. Then why?
Maybe you are bored? Well, if you are never tell
any one, because if your intellect as young college
students will not allow you to sit and feel interested
in such a thing you are to be pitied. Then if all
of these things are not true, suppose you answer
this question within yourselves. Do you have some-
thing that you deem more vital and necessary to
do? That must be the solution to the matter and
the real answer to the question.

Now girls, that note book to be written up, those
lessons to be learned, that new novel that just must
be read, and your finger-nails that have to be mani-
cured can not all be done in one little hour. Neith-
er can all of those handkerchiefs be washed, or your
hose all mended. These things should not be left
undone until the hour when you should be in
church.

Tell me young men, if you sleep until ten thirty,
cant you arouse yourselves in time to go to church?
Is the time you spend in the smoker, playing, chat-
ting, laughing, and joking more valuable than one
hour in your own church. The same can be said
of your lessons, they cannot all be learned in sixty
minutes. Of course there are many things that

ocassionally prevent one from being able to go to
church, but the occurence of that,thing every Sun-
day seems a bit uncalled for.

Should you really ponder over this situation for
a minute, think how our chaplain feels when the
same minor group, approximately forty young wo-
men and twenty young men, face him each Sun-
day morning. No doubt he begins to feel the weight
of the thing. It is his sincere desire that the whole
matter of our church be a success. Think how a-
shamed he must be when some note worthy speaker
is here and you fail to appear. What can his opin-
ion be of a group who display such little interest in
men he has taken great pains to secure as speakers?
Of a group who proves to be so nondependable in
a time of need. We are the ones and the only ones
to help him. Remember when we help him we help
ourselves; for without question during the next
quarter and quarters to come, if conditions remain
unchanged, the old rule of compulsory church at-
tendance will be placed on us again. Whose fault

will it be? Who can we honestly blame? No one

but ourselves.

Undoubtedly, you will all remember how at the
beginning o this school year we gave a solemn pledge
to assist Rev. Knox by one-hundred percent church
attendance. As it is our attendance is barely ten
percent. Will we as students of Fisk University
brand ourselves with the names of being giddy and
lazy, cowards, slackers and non-thinkers? Or will

we rectify and redeem ourselves before it is too

late? Let each of us do so by going to church for
every Sunday at least until June 11, 1930.

Pearl Winifred Sanders

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SWARTHMORE STUDENTS
DO PICKET LINE DUTY
NEAR NAZARETH MILL

Thirteen Liberal Club Members
Protest Against Mill-Owner Policy

Last Thursday, January 16, thirteen Swarthmore
students, members of the Swarthmore Liberal Club,
went on the picket line at Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Protesting against the unjust attitude taken by the
owners of the Kraemer Hosiery Mill against the
strikers and in order to obtain some publicity on
this attempt of the strikers to organize, these Swarth-
more students together with students from Penn-
sylvania and Byrn Mawr decided to go among the
strikers and do their utmost to encourge them.

The arrived in Nazareth shortly after five o'clock
and went immediately to the strikers hall, where
the strikers were expecting them. Together with
the strikers they took their places across from the
mill, waiting until the five-thirty whistle should
release the strike-breakers. Over two hundred strike
sympathizers were now outside the mill singing
and cheering. The town police (four in all) were
not impressed by the sympathizers. At five-thirty
the first of the strike breakers began to appear.

They arrived in Nazareth shortly after five o'clock
the sidewalk. Jeers and booing arose among the
sympathizers.

Would Not arrest Students

The sheriff stopped the Swarthmore students.
He said they were blocking traffic, and would have
to wait until the mill drive was cleared. He said
that he would not arrest them; it was obvious that
no one wanted to arrest the students; they feared
publicity.

Swarthmore Pheonix

TWENTY-FIVE COLLEGES
QUALIFIED FOR PRE-MED COURSE

Department of Interior Makes Survey

A recent survey made by the Department of
the Interior, under Dr. A. T. Klein classified twen-

ty-five schools as qualified to give courses in pre-
paration for entrance into Standard medical schools.

Class 1

Atlanta University, Benedict College, Clark Uni-
versity, Fisk University, Howard University, Knox-
ville College, Lincoln University, Chester County,
Pa.; Lincoln University of Missouri, Livingstone
College, Morehouse College, Negro Agricultural
and Technical College of North Carolina, Rust
College, St. Augustines School, Samuel Houston
College, Shaw University, Southern University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College, Spelman Col-
lege, Straight College, Talladega College, Virginia
Normal and Industrial Institute, West Virginia
Collegiate Institute, Wilberforce University, Wiley
College, and Xavier University.

Class 2

Agricultural and Industrial College, Nashville,
Tenn.; Bishop College, Claflin University, Colored
Agricultural and Normal University, Langston,
Okla.; Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege, Joseph K. Brick Junior College, Lane Col-
lege, Morgan College, New Orleans University,
North Carolina College for Negroes, Paine College,
Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College,
State Agricultural and Mechanical College, Orange-
burg, S. C., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In-

stitute, and Virginia Union University.
The Hilltop, Howard University

THE OBERLIN OUTING CLUB

The Oberlin Outing Club has been incorporated
as an integral part of the mens activities in the
hope that the men of Oberlin might have a com-
mon stamping ground of their own. The constitu-
tion reads: The purpose for which this corpora-
tion is organized is to provide for the improvement
and development of outdoor recreation for men of
Oberlin College; to provide a place for the enjoy-
ment of outdoor activities in the form of camping,
swimming, skiing, hiking, and other forms of out-
door recreation.
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The college outing clubs of Dartmounth, Wil-
liams, Brown and Yale are famous for their camps
and popularity. Their glory lies in their membership
in the Appalachain Mountain Club. We at Oberlin
have opportunities to rival these eastern schools;
up to the present time little organized effort had
been made to get together.

For over a year the college has possessed an ex-
cellent camp site at Chance Creek, on the Ver-
milion river, eleven miles northwest of town. A
limited number of men have spent zestful days and
week-ends there. Dean Bosworth has seen to the
constant improvement of the property, and has
provided a car for transportation. Two excellent
cabins are already on the location, both with fire-
sides, stoves, bunks, and cooking utensils.

As a big step in the direction of the develop-
ment of mens life at Oberlin, the Oberlin Outing
Club deserves the hearty backing of the men of
the college.

Editorial in The Oberlin Review

RESPECT
by Samuel Prince, 30

They have got to respect me. That is a re-
mark which often brands its author as being un-
able to secure respect other than by verbally de-
manding it.

When one is relying solely on a position of sta-
tus as an organ of gaining respect, we usually find
that person seeking diligently to find implcations
of disrespect in their subordinates, they usually find
them.

Unfortunate is he who falls victim of the res-
pect seeker, for when once his ire is aroused, he
seldom forgives and never forgets.

When we are in a liberal mood, we excuce such
despicable traits in human beings as being one of
the frailties of human nature, and pity one who
otherwise would be condemned. But the more we
come in contact with such people, the more repul-
sive become their demands for that respect which
their very being prohibits them from securing.

When those who wish to be respected (most
of us do) become aware that respect cannot be
had merely for the asking, and begin demonstrat-
ing traits of character which in themselves demand
respect, then and then only will they receive

whole hearted respect. For:

Unto him who hath shall be given, and he who
hath not, even that which he seemeth to have shall
be taken away.Bible.

The Panther, Prairie View State College

CHORISTERS ENTHUSIAMS STIMULATED
BY CHOIR-QUARTET TRIP ABOARD

Singer vie to be Fortunate 40. Recent Norfolk
Trip Successful

A cherished dream was turned into a glowing
reality when it was recently announced that the
contract has been signed for a European appear-
ance of the choir. The tripe which will begin in
the latter part of April, and includes many of the
larger countries of Europe, will be made by forty
selected students under the skillful direction of
Dr. Dett, and the Hampton Institute Quartet which
will visit places to which time will not permit the
choir to go.

The Hampton Script

STUDENTS ORGANIZE

The organization of the Paine College students
was recently completed. The constitution which
the student body submitted to the Executive Coun-
cil of the faculty was returned with the approval
of the faculty.

The organization is known as The Student Fed-
eration. The legislative body of federation is the
Student Council which is composed of nine stu-
dent representatives: two from the senior college
class, two from the junior, two from the sopho-
more, one from the freshman, and two from the
high school department. The purpose of this body
is to act as a medium between the faculty and to
promote the general welfare of the school.

The officers of the council are: Walter Holsey,
President; Walter Banks, Vice President; Ethel

Burroughs, Secretary and Addie Storely, Treasurer. |

The other members of the council are Charles
Williams, Joel Wallace, Julius Collins, James
Childs, and Marion Zealey.

The Painette, Paine College

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INCOMPLETE SONNET

For long the sun has traveled up the sky,
Each beam a speck of white hot light;

Oft has the moon soared to its heavenly height
With silver blaze that dazzles eye.

The astral orbs have ever shone with sly,
Gay winks upon the silent, ebon night;

The Milky Way, a vast and shimmering kite,
In proper time has sailed the midnight sky,
Life, too , goes on in never ending streams,
Eternal as the suns diurnal tour,

Replete with pleasures, pains, and hopeless dreams.

David Roemer

The Lavender, City College of New York

ARE YOU EDUCATED?

Rea a Educational institutions which are serving
their true purpose, the only master that thy should
know, are teaching nothing but that which pre-
pares one to live happily and fruitfully. Successful
pursuit of ones calling is essential; awareness of
all that is beautiful and interesting in the world
is demanded; a mind open and yet determined,
with a spirit of geniality and tolerance is not to
be overlooked for happiness; then, the use of lei-
sure, not in riding one hobby but many; and,
above all else, some inkling the purpose of life,
these are things which carried away from college
will mean fullness of life instead of mere existence.

N. B. M.
The Aurora, Knoxville College

Ere the sun goes down

Bags drag the ground

But brother dreamed:

Price too low
He must go

And sister dreamed:

Brown instruments
With white keys

COTTON PICKERS

Cotton brings a cent a pound
Each must pick a hundred

Mother, brother, sister, dad
Cotton needs picking so bad.

On they go, day after day
And clean cotton fields away

Bobbing up and down

Mother, brother, sister, dad
Cotton needs picking so bad

Picking cotton was too slow

That the cotton stalks were little

On which she played weird melodies
And the music crept up through the leaves.

Marie Brown Frazier

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Forty Years Ago
THE GYMNASIUM

As most of the readers of the Herald know, the
building for the Wood Shop, was enclosed almost
a year ago; but until within the past few weeks,
little had been done toward completing the Gym-
nasium room, on account of a lack of funds.

The shop was completed in time to be occupied
very soon after the beginning of the present school
year. In December, $102.00 was raised among the
members of the faculty, and about $65.00 in cash
among the students, towards completing and fur-
nishing the Gymnasium. Nearly $200.00 have also
been raised by contributions from others. Encour-
aged by this, the second floor of oak has been laid,
the front stone steps erected, and a small supply
of apparatus has been purchased. It is necessary
however, to raise $300.00 more, at once, in order
to put the Gymnasium in condition to be used ad-
vantageously. We greatly desire to secure this
money as soon as possible, and an appeal is made
to the alumni, and to any other readers of the
Herald who may have it in their hearts to help us.
It will be an easy matter to raise this amount if
each one contributes even a small sum.

The importance of physical training in connec-
tion with long courses of study, is being recognized
and emphasized -by educators as never before.

Such training is fully as important in Fisk Uni-
versity, as in any other institution in the country.

Thirty Years Ago

LDiTw RA RY
Excelsior Club Notes

The second of a series of lectures was delivered
by Father Denby of New York City, on December
12. The following was the program rendered in
addition to the lecture.

PaperHenry Ward Beechers Oration in Liver-
Yh SAE CEURRIR ibe W GER EER DP Walter Dyson
PaperAbraham Lincolns Inaugural Address........
PRUE P. H. Benson
PidercdPntrick Hens? s Oration before the Conven-
ROD MELD POD ges es, ohela chk MN 2 a R. A. Foster
Paper-Websters Bunker Hill Oration..A.M. Cochran
_ PaperRobert G. Ingersolls Oration at the Tomb
SI NEN i T. Wr Pratt
Those present besides the club members were
Misses Preston, McDuffee, Malory, Prof. Morgan,
Miss Boynton, and Rev, A. C. V. Cartier, of Hoff-

mann Hall. After the rendering of the program re-
freshments were served.
The election of officers for the ensuing year took
place Dec. 26, The following are the officers:
Pres., E. O. Smith; Sec., L. C. Fisher; Treas., R.
A. Foster.

U. L. S.

Owing to the fact that only a few are earnest
workers, whose lot is to carry on the good work
of the U. L. S. in future years, it is feared that
the U. L. S, will lose its present prestige. The very
soul of the society is centered in R S. Gamble. Clif-
ford Miller, Duncan Scott, Geo. Logan,,H. Buster,
R. H. Hubbard, St. Julian Drayton and F. F. Bowler
and C. McDowell. These are in the society in bitters
and sweets, ups and downs.

A new phase of work has been introduced. The
Chairman calls on the members for extemporan-
eous speeches on whatever subjects he sees fit to
suggest. It is surprising, as well as gratifying to
see how well some of the members can discuss their
subjects. The subjects, gliscussed are very practical.
They are designed so as to make young men of the
society well informed on ordinary affairs. Occa-
sionally those of greater scope are introduced. The
present was in South Africa and a sphere on the
Negro question,

Extempo

At the last meeting of the Club, officers for the
term were elected as follows:

Prin., G. W._Lockett; Croc., G. E. Haynes; Censor,
H. L. Keith; Concilium, G. W. Strickland and G, E.
Martin.

With th new administration, the club looks for-
ward to the continued growth in literary life. J. H.
McClure and G, E. Martin who are members of the
club have returned,

Mr. Martin has been with the Jubilee Singers and
Mr. McClure has been teaching school at his home
in Alabama. The annual letters of the honorary
members are sources of inspiration.

These resolutions were adopted by the Extempo
Club on the death of Mr. Goin, father of one of our
honorary members, Mr. E. F. Goin, 98.

Whereas, it has pleased the Almighty in His wise
providence to call from labor to reward Mr, Goin,
father of our friend and brother, Mr. E. F. Goin.:

Be it resolved, that we the members of the Ex-
tempo Club, extend to Mr. E. F. Goin and relatives,

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in this time of bereavement, our heartfelt sympa-
thy and pray that He, who does all things well.
may comfort them in their sad hours .

Be it further resolved, that a copy of these re-
solutions be sent to Mr. Goin and relatives and copy
be sent to the Fisk Herald for publication,

J. H. Barabin, Prin.
G. S. Lockett. Croc.
S. W. Broome, Censor.

Twenty Years Ago

Remarks of the Librarian at the Dedication of the

Carnegie Library, June 15, 1909.

Those who laid the foundation of this school were
men whose souls had seen the vision splendid,
whose minds could look beyond the sordid present
and see the possibilities of the future. With the
vision of a seer they gave to the school (that un-
sorted crowd of pupils just set free from bondage)
the name University, thus linking it with Oxford,
Cambridge, Yale and Harvard.

It would be absurd if it were not pathetic, it
would be pathetic if it were not sublimeto look
beyond the dingy row of barracks left by the sol-
diers and see a vision of the future Fisk, its mas-
sive buildings crowning the site of old Fort Gillam.

They laid the foundations well, the essentials of
a University must be supplied, and so in Mr.
Whites office was a bookcase, the library, that
those who went there on any errand whatever
might see the inspiration of the hitherto forbidden
books. The books themselves were not of much
value, the first on the list being the Report of the
Commissioner of Patents for 1853, then follow Re-
ports of Agriculture, of the Secretary of War, Ab-
stracted Indian Trust Bonds and a few Sunday
School Books left by the Christian Commission.
The teachers secured some gifts from their friends,
but these were mostly out of date books.

In 1867, the Union Literary Society was founded
at the suggestion of Mr. George L. White, two
years later they decided they must have a library
and a committee was sent into the city to solicit
books, They also took all the money collected since
their organization from the ten cent monthly dues
and bought their first books. They had about fifty
volumes in all and these were given to the Univer-
sity about the time that the Jubilee singers went
out.

Prof. Spences brother, Rev. E. A. Spence, while

traveling in the North, secured several hundred
valuable books, many coming from the Phillips
Church in Boston and so labeled.

In 1871, Prof. Chase came and began the Science
Library to which he constantly made additions
throughout his long years of service.

The Jubilee singers received perhaps eight hun-
dred books in this country and abroad, some being
really valuable and expensive books and some en-
riched by the autographs of their famous donors.
Mr, Isaac Dickerson, beside being instrumental in
obtaining these donations, also raised a sum of
money which is really our only endowment for
books, yielding something over $100 a year.

When Jubilee Hall was opened the Library was
placed in the room on the west end of the floor,
opposite the Assembly room. The class in English
Literature recited there, which arrangement must

. have been pleasing to the teacher. The boys had

their appointed hour for drawing books on Satur-
day morning and then half an hour later the girls
would come. I am told the boys sometimes linger-
ed beyond the limits of their time, but doubtless
it was in the praiseworthy pursuit of knowledge.

The Beta Kappa Beta, a debating literary socie-
ty. furnished some books, one in which they took
much pride being the Statesmans Yearbook, pub-
lished in London.

From the beginning Miss Morgan acted as li-
brarian with students as assistants, and she did
this in addition to full teaching work. One entire
summer and parts of many others she spent here
arranging and cataloging. Under her direction the
books were moved in the summer of 1883 and plac-
ed in the new Livingstone Hall in the room as-
signed to the Library, with great rejoicing at its
ample space. There it remained twenty-six years,
constantly growing till the shelves became crowd-
ed and the cry was more room or else no more
books. We have added each year recently about 230
books, the last volume, entered yesterday, is num-
bered 8995.

This year has seen the completion of the Car-
negie Library, a building whose comfort and con-
venience have been tested for the last three months,
and which will give us for growth for some years
and which will give us room for growth for some
years to come.

We have traced briefly the evolution from the
book-case to the room and from the room to the
building. We have now a good working library in
a home of its own, and next year we open our doors
to the colored citizens of Nashville, to share with
them our treasures.
28 THE FISK HERALD

But the ideal has not yet been reached, there is
still a vision that remains, beckoning onward. No
matter how beautiful and commodious is the build-
ing is useless, the books are silent, without the
reader.

The vision in mind, for whose realization I long,
is the Fisk students making use of the treasures
placed before them, delving into the rich mines of
knowledge.

Dr. DuBois has said, I sit with Shakespeare and
he winces not, across the color line, I am more

arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas... I summon
Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and
they come all graciously.

The world of books is before you, the door is
wide, and while I lament the many to whom the
library is but a thing of brick and wood, and the
books are but as sealed treasures in a foreign ton-
gue, I gladly pay my tribute to the few, who use
the library, and are making its riches their own,
a part of themselves.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Article Page
PR SG SUE. 0's ve gb odie bine 3
The Modern College and the Imponderables... 8
Ranaty AUER. Sos. SRE. SES oe eR USE 16
FiskA University in the South............ we |
Rt SeRAEY OE MOND PUI, 6 os occ we oh ole us 23
A Personal Philosophy of Health............ 27
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*Owing to error the October issue of The Fisk Herald came from
the press as The Greater Fisk HeraldEpitor
*Collegius Moron Africanus appearing in the October issue of this magazine,
is the work of Lawrence D. Reddick Eprror

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AN OLD ADAGE

Fall moves on so does Fisk.

Less than five years ago Fisk was in a quandary.
Fisk, in the midst of student unrest debts
and falling hopes, welcomed a new regime. It did
well to welcome this new regime, for with it came
new hope, new inspiration, and slowly the horizon
cleared as debts were wiped away and students
once more became settled in mind. Then the endow-
ment became a reality, and with it arrived plans
for a larger institution. New faces appeared among
the faculty; old buildings were reconditioned and
then came the new library........gift of philan-
thropies, and expression of confidence.

In every storm there is a steersman who pilots
his ship safely through, and here at Fisk, through
the storm of reconstruction, the new president,
youthful and full of hope, steered the institution out
of the storm and into peaceful waters. His problem
it was to make for the school a place in the fore
of education.

There must have been many who were willing to
suggest to him the best policy to effect in his pro-
gram, but I doubt if there were those who would
willingly have exchanged responsibilities with him.
His achievements have been marvelous. Fisk is ad-
vancing. So, as an expression of confidence and as
a sign of progress we have a new library. We
point with pride to it...... but, there must have
been many mistakes made by this new administra-
tion.

Fisk is growing. There have been difficulties here
as is always true in the life of every growing thing.
There is nothing unnatural in the fact that all
does not go well; as a sign of growth at Fisk we
expect these growing pains. In ten years per-
haps fifteen Fisk will be a great, very great in-
stitution. It will have a wonderful faculty... .but
one thing is necessary, absolutely necessary. There
must be no hindrance in the way of those who are
responsible for our progress thus far. They must
have a free hand a hand unhindered by doubt-

ing alumni, suggesting neighbors, and disgruntled
faculty and students.

Let well enough alone is an adage well worthy
of thought.

IS IT A DREAM?

A new Fisk a newer Fisk Library, a monu-
ment to the ages of progress at Fisk that embraces
new ideals, new standards, new methods, new spirit,
and attitude. A library that is a place most con-
ducive to deep thought and study along the varied
lines of intellect. Fisk University at last enters
this massive edifice that embodies every property
and trait of the Library Ideal. Ours is a library
that equals those of great note and fame through-
out the world. Its superiority to a multitude of libra-
ries is so obvious that we are ever conscious of the
fact. My descriptive element grows. Indeed I could
delineate for hours setting forth in glowing terms
the marvels of our library.

New, novel, and lately made is our library, and
the attitude of we Fisk .students is new, too. Have
you noticed it? How on nearing the library voices
are lowered, on entering the outside wall there is
complete silence, and a feeling of awe is inspired
upon coming into the main entrance. In the cata-
log room the quietude that prevails there is nigh
to perfection, only the faint whisperings of students
who converse about their studies are heard. Won-
derful isnt it, and so different from the library
of years gone by? The reading rooms are used ex-
clusively for that purpose; how glad are we that
the annoyance of strolling through them does not
have to be tolerated this year. Even our table lamps
throw that soft warm light on our books that creates
a studious and literary atmosphere around us. One
might think that those table lamps would attract
many a student as a new toy might. Something to
be flickered; to play with; the cords, pretty chains
to dangle just for amusements sake. That is absurd,
for no Fisk student would dream of playing with an
object like a lamp, why more serious things absorb
their moments of distraction from a lesson; never
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a lamp. Marvelous that we do not have to be bur-
dened with our coats or have them slung on the
backs of the chairs while we attempt to study, our
convenient locker room is most ideal.

Newer still is the method of securing modern
student decorum in the library. The persons of au-
thority who vested the right of controlling the
problem of library decorum in the junior class must
have explicit faith in their intergrity and executive
ability. That is just as it should be. Dignified Jun-
iors, the pride of the university, filled with vim and
a will to do. Right proud are they of the honor be-
stowed upon them. They strive each day, by word
and action to prove their merit in accomplishing
such a task. The juniors of 1931 endeavor to set
a precedent for the classes that shall follow in their
footsteps. Of course they will succeed. Can't you
see the fruits of their labor? Dont you think theirs
is a worthy and noble undertaking.

oak hiss Confusion in my brain, or am I dream-
ing? I rack my brain in distraction. Yes, after
several minutes of thoughtful musing I must con-
fess that I am mistaken, that I have painted the
situation in terms of too high appraisal. I am sorry,
for it was an ideal dream.

O, Junior with your mock dignity and pseudo-
sophistication, you have much to learn. You who
have just realized your position, your worth to the
university, your place in the senior college of the
university; have you actually stopped to think of
the weight that you have on your shoulders, of the
responsibility that you have pledged to bear through-
_ out the year? You are still so gay and happy that
you have not thrown off that old attitude of lib-
rary decorum yourself. How then can you expect
to be able to guide others; to advise others and to
express your disapproval at their least misdemeanor?
"Tis a matter that deserves more deliberation and
actual force of action. Stop here, you thinking jun-
iors before you resume your every day library act-
ivities.

Then other fellow students, you innocent fresh-
men, you wise sophomores, and you noble seniors,
cast off the cloak of you hilarity and frivolity. Help
to make that dream of an ideal library come true.
Thus far it has been anything but ideal, and yo
as much no, more so than any body else, are rd

sponsible for the lack of perfection in conduct
there and in the attitude toward the library. Gig-
gles, chatter, gossip flirting, dating, promenading
and such nonsense, when absolutely excluded from
our library will enhance the dream, will show forth
the ability of the junior class as the Vigilantes
Committee of the new library of Fisk University
and will prove the sincerity of the students in re-
gard to something nearer our high standards of
education and development.

If you can dream and not make dreams your
aR , says Mr. Kipling. You know
the rest and so do I. Then, we dreamers, PLEASE
lets wake up, and as college men and women face
the issue of our new attitude in our new library.
Since it is ours for keeps, since we must use
it for years and years, why not employ the best
methods of study, the best methods of approach and
studious endeavor, in order that we may reap the
very best results, that we may claim the most in
every way now, and in the long run. Think about
it, you who are the frequenters of the new Fisk
Librarybut do more than just think.

Sin OA? CGrade CChapel

The failure of American college administrators
to solve the problem of student chapel attendance
may be summed up in one word: lack. Lack of
brains or lack of volition. The round-faced peda-
gogs either lack the necessary gray-colored matter
or they, remembering their own sophomoric days,
have no desire to furnish a solution. Although good
humor inclines one to believe the second of these
lacks yet when it is remembered that a conference
was held on this very problem about a year ago,
scepticism is given a boost. At any rate, these jovial
gentlemen have the whole matter worked down to
a dilemna. Say they: If we make chapel attendance
compulsory, the students rebel; if we make chapel
attendance voluntary, the students stay away.
From this their action has been to jump from one
dilemma horn to the other or else to do nothing.

Now, what is there fundamentally about chapel
attendance, as it is, that makes it the psychicsex
scar of the university? It is this; the relation of the
student to chapel attendance is passive, not active:
negative, not positive all minus and no plus. This

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.is indeed the sine qua non of the present system.

Concretely, if a student comes to chapel every day
and sits in his seat, he is unnoticed. But if he is
absent once, he is marked; for the third absence he
is warned; upon the ninth absence he is not allow-
ed to register the following quarter, and if the
student is ignored; for being bad he is kicked in
the university. In other words, for being good a
student is ignored; for geing bad he is kicked in
the physiology. Since students are more or less
human beings, they do not take to such a system.

It would appear therefrom that any successful
solution must aim at this spot; this passive student-
chapel relation. The failure to consider this snag
has caused the scratching of many a former plan.
What, then could be the solution?

In the first place, chapel attendance should not be
compulsory but rather required. Although this
difference is mainly one of terminology yet to make
a thing compulsory is to compel attendance. This
word students rightly hate. To compel is per-
sonal and emphatic; to require is less personal
and less emphatic. Concretely, classroom attendance
is required. Result: the student attends.

The second step is more fundamental. Instead of
our present marking system whereby the student
present is unnoticed while the student absent is
noticed and subsequently spanked, we would revise
our marking system so as to give grades. Concrete-

Wore About Fisk's

In the October issue of The Greater Fisk Herald,
someone, over the initials L. E. M., took me to task
for my article in the October issue of The Fisk News.
Although I am unaware of the identity of L. E. M.,
as he or she isnt listed as a member of the editorial
staff, despite the fact that the article appears as an
editorial, I think the issue involved is of sufficient
importance to justify an examination of the con-
tentions of this almost anonymous article.

I must confess that I am not sure I get the mean-

ly, if a students chapel attendance is perfect,
that student should get an A. If he misses cha-
pel not more than twice he should get a B. With
three absences the mark is C. With five absences
D (and a warning). Nine absences are equal to
E that 16am,

What yokel, having maintained a straight D
average in the rest of his courses, would not feel
proud to thrust out his chest and say: I made A
in Chapel Attendance? Further, his parents (or
purse string keepers) in receiving the quarterly re-
port would feel proud of their son for, at least,
in one thing Johnny or Lawrence had held his own.
On the other hand, where is the student so devoid
of pride or vanity as to allow it to go down into
the records: flunked in Chapel Attendance?
Who would let his parents or associates learn that
in a course which required only sitting in a seat he

had failed?

As you note, this plan is in keeping with psy-
chology, in that it emphasizes the regard for attend-
ing chapel rather than the punishment for missing
chapel. The converse is true of the present plan. As
you perceive, this plan has its analogy in the class-
room. It is no new-fangled fantasy. As you see,
this plan is simple enough, but, I trust, it is not a
simple plan. Required attendance with grades (with
good programs) should work!

Football Beam of '29

ing of the first sentence about the cleted hoof.
I am assuming that cleated hoofs is what is meant.
The meaning of cleted hoof, if it has any mean-
ing, is far from cleated hoof as L. E. M.'s inter-
pretation of my article is from its true meaning.
After making her (the logic is so poor, the author
must be a girl) statement of my case, L. E. M. says,
Granting that Mr. Wesleys remarks are in a
measure justified. What measure? I accused those
responsible for athletics of deliberately going pro-

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fessional, am I justified in that? I said we should
take steps to see to it that Fisk never does that
again, am I justified in that? I offered a suggestion
for getting a team and invited others to do the same,
am I justified in that? Having conceded a measure
of justification, L. E. M. should tell us how much
of the above the measure covers.

L. E. M. asks, dramatically, why is it that Fisk
had to resort to such methods in order to procure
one (meaning team)? That begs the question. My
whole article was devoted to showing that Fisk not
only didnt have to but couldnt afford to stoop to
such methods. I venture the suggestion that all
Alumni are as alert in recognizing the importance
of a winning team as L. E. M. But those that I
know would differ with the idea that a winning

-team should be had at the price of honor. True,

Fisk had a winning team in 29 but the notoriety
Fisk got entirely overshadowed any worthwhile ad-
vertising.

In the same issue of The Greater Fisk Herald in
which the L. E. M. article appearsis an editorial
entitled, Is there An Answer? After talking of
distrust, suspicion, fear, conspiracy, impatience,
and sickening attitude, the editor says, There re-
mains the unalterable fact Fisk IS NOT THE
SERRE, sc amd It cannot be while there is that
sickening attitude of students to each other, and to

faculty; of faculty to each other, to students to each

other, to studentsdistrust yet waiting. Even L.
E. M.s article supplies the answer. Where are the
traditions and ideals of Fisk when a student can
dare write that, We do not feel that the Fisk stu-
dent should), o..4.. swear to never offend the

sacred ethics of foot-ball any more. In the Nov-
ember issue of The Fisk News, Dr. Jones says, I
found these violations to be of two kinds. First,
that the assistant coach had made promises to play-
ers, without my knowledge, that he would take care
of part of their tuition and expenses at Fisk......

Second, he played persons on the Fisk team who
had been actively engaged as players on the Atlan-
ta University team the year before, thus violating
a rule in the constitution of the Southeastern As-
sociation (italics are mine) .... Asa result of my
investigation, I reached the two following con-
clusions:

(1) That it is unethical for a coach, or any
member of the coaching staff, to pay or promise to
pay the college expenses of a foot-ball player at
the school where they are coaching......

(2) It was unethical for Fisk to play students
who had played the year previous on the Atlanta
University team: . slog". % y

Incidentally, Dr. Jones expressed a different at-
titude about my article from that expressed by L.
E. M. Dr. Jones said, I am indebted to Mr. Wes-
ley and all alumni who represent high ethical ideas
regarding inter-collegiate athletics.

Finally, L. E. M. questions my right to criticize.
I claim the right. Let the reader judge. My record
at Fisk on six varsity teams and in the classroom
will aid in vindicating the claim. My support of
Fisk goes th rest of the way to justify the claim.
And, L. E. M., I am always at your service to
discuss a: better Fisk.

Carter Wesley.

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GOTHIC PREDOMINATES THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY

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Qe Modern e@ollese and the CY mponderables

Herbert E. Hawkes, Dean of Columbia College, Columbia, University

(Delivered at the dedication of the New Library)

The scale upon which the conferences have been
planned which lead up to and follow the dedication
of this library indicate that something important in
the life of Fisk University is taking place. No such
celebration would naturally attend the completion
of a recitation building or a dormitory or a labora-
tory or even an athletic field. There is something
more significant to the institution and to its friends
in the dedication of a library. One may dismiss the
whole matter by saying, yes, a place for books. Stu-
dents and teachers must read books, else they are
not real students or competent teachers, and the
library is the building where these books are housed
and used.

This way of putting it, however, does not come
anywhere near telling the whole story. I cannot

hope to tell the whole story in the remarks that I

am about to make. But I do want to analyse with
a little care the idea for which the library stands,
particularly in a college or a university.

A library connotes knowledge made accessible.
Ever since the dawn of civilization the efforts and
the progress of men have centered upon the enter-
prise of making knowledge accessible, the develop-
ment of language, either written or oral, the whole
long story of the attempt to pass knowledge and
the things that knowledge has taught us to produce
from person to person and from place to place and
time is all a part of this attempt to transmit ideas
to make knowledge and its results accessible. To dis-
cuss all that this point of view suggests would in-
volve the entire history of civilization, starting with
the development of spoken language on the tongue
of primitive man, and ending with the aeroplane
and television, a story which I am certain you would
not care to be detained to hear and which I am far
from competent to tell.

As we dedicate this library to its high purpose
of making knowledge accessible, what are the alter
natives that this purpose replaces? Contrasted with)

accessibility, as expressed by all of the reading rooms

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and reference departments, one recalls the various
cults of esoteric knowledge made inaccessible and
the older type of librarian who regarded himself
as essentially a book-keeper. Contrasted with the
idea of knowledge one may mention belief or opin-
ion, ignorance and indifference. By virtue of in-
dividual experience one may arrive at an opinion
or sort of working hypothesis that is the forerunner
of real knowledge. Many farmers learned that land
produced better results in the long run if they varied
the crops from year to year, instead of always rais-
ing corn or wheat or beans on the same plot. But
this opinion did not rise to the level of scientific
knowledge until the chemist through analyses of the
soil demonstrated just what and how much certain
crops take out of the ground. In the old days of the
ancient astronomy almost everyone supposed that
the world was flat. This opinion was reinforced
by spiritual quotations which seemed quite con-
vincing. If the world is round what sense is there
in talking about the corners of the earth? The
beautiful prayer of the Psalmist, Far as the East
is from the West, so far has He removed our trans-
gressions. again. But, in recent times the question
one asks concerning the form of the earth is not,
Do you believe the world is round? It is instead, Do
you know that the world is round? The issue is no
longer between belief and disbelief, but between
knowledge and ignorance. We do not ask, Do you
believe that bodies in motion very closely follow
Newtons Laws? but, Do you know what Newtons
Laws are?

Pleading of ignorance is not the only or the
most discouraging reply that one hears in response
to questions that can be answered. Ignorance may
give place to knowledge if one has the will and the
opportunity to learn. If, however, one is so ignorant
that he is indifferent to knowledge the situation is
almost hopeless. We have all seen not a few men
and women whose ignorance is so absymal that they

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glory in it. This indifference comes, however, not
only lack of intelligence but perhaps more frequent-
ly on account of intellectual blind spots which pre-
vent the development of a well rounded intellectual
life. Many a college student not only professes lack
of knowledge of mathematics or history or physics,
but declared that these great fields of knowledge
do not interest him. And not only that, but he seems
to think that it is a serious reflection upon mathe-
matics or history that he is not attracted by them.
Of course this means that he possesses only a frag-
ment of an intelligence. It also goes without saying

that in one short life one cannot expect to pursue

every interest. Perhaps it is nobler to be a fragment
of a dialogue of Plato than a complete penny
dreadful, or even best seller of today. In any case,
it is the function of the library to serve as one of
the foci in the attempt to replace indifference by
intellectual life.

In spite of all those who prefer opinions and be-

liefs to knowledge where it is available, and in spite
of the hordes who for one reason or another are

indifferent to learning, the fact remains that books

are being written, researches are being carried for-
ward, and today we are dedicating a beautiful li-
brary to the end that this increasing knowledge may
be accessible to the students of Fisk University. We
are certainly gaining.

There is no question that in recent times a great
many topics have been transferred from those re-
garding which one might express belief or disbelief
to those concerning which is obliged to confess
knowledge or ignorance. It goes without saying that
this process will never stop and will never be com-
pleted. For the number of items of knowledge pos-
sessed by any individual or by any race is finite,
while the number of things that we do not know

_ is infinite. Hence unless some bright mind begins
to acquire knowledge with infinte velocity we shall

never complete the process of replacing ignorance
by knowledge.

But has this process of replacing ignorance by
knowledge so far as it has gone, always been a gain?
Has all of the invention, all of the experimentation,
all of the ways of doing things that civilization
has developed been a good? This question is a

favorite one for debate, and has always seemed to
me a question that illustrated admirably the fact
that most differences of opinion between people a-
rise because they do not accurately define their
terms. If by good one means ability to do all of
the things that increased knowledge enables us to
do, if it means increased physical comfort, the ca-
pacity for establishing wide relations and doing big
things, then the increase in knowledge is certainly
a good. There is, however, another side to the ques-
tion.

In recent years we have weighed much and touch-
ed many things that to our elders were counted
among the inponderables and intangibles. We have
weighed the stars and determined their chemical
structure. We have learned to control many epi-
demic diseases that our fathers counted as inscrut-
able acts of God. We have learned how to measure
with reasonable accuracy the native intellectual abil-
ity of individuals which would have seemed im-
possible to attempt a century ago. We see in the
world around us many opportunities for further
weighing and touching. The physical world is. very
far from being known in terms of the measurements,
and analyses of our physicists and chemists. The
tendency on the part of some few of our scientific
and philosophical friends, however, is to assume
that everything which cannot in the last analysis
be reduced to the kind of weighing and the kind
of measurement that is practiced by the scientist
of the present time either does not exist or is not
worth their attention. If the slight knowledge such
as we possess of the physical world around us leads
us to assume that what is not included in our little
sphere of information is not significant, then I say
that knowledge has done us irreparable harm. This
does not mean that the ambition to know is to be
blamed, but that we are not broad and big enough
to put things in their proper perspective. Nothing
could be more unscientific than the assumption that
everything which does not come under the scienti-
fic formulas as at present envisaged may be neglect-

ed. True enough, many imponderables and intan-
gibles have been measured, but plenty of them are
left. Integrity, loyalty, religious emotion, love, life
itself, at present are not susceptible of measurement
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in the same way that we measure distance and time.
Poetry, sportmanship, music all evoke something
within us that we feel but do not attempt to
estimate in terms of units. All of these things are
still in some other domain, rather than that domain
of measured knowledge or ignorance. But they
ought not to be in the domain of indifference. One
either admires a certain character, or else he does
not, according to his own temperament. One per-
son may gain inspiration and elevation from a
poem or a symphony.. Another may not. To say
that the results of these emotions can at present
be reduced to the same formulaic expression that
one meets in chemistry or mathematics is far from
true. But on that account to assume that we cannot
accept as actual and be enlarged in our spiritual
life by these things is just as foolish. The fact is
that with the recognition of the existence of the
imponderables and a consciousness of their impor-
tance, goes an obligation to understand them better,
To this end the objective open-mindedness of the
real scientist is necessary.

Some of you are undoubtedly familiar with the
experiment recently performed by placing a large
fish in the same tank with a number of minnows.
As the large fish sees the minnows at the other
end of the tank he naturally dashes over to them
and one by one devours them. A little later a glass
partition is placed in the tank separating the large
fish from the little ones. Again the large fish sees
the minnows at the other end of the tank and dashes
over to catch one. Instead of catching the minnow
he strikes the glass with sufficient force to cause him
to withdraw and think it over for a considerable
time. As soon as he has forgotten the effects of his
bump he rushes out again to catch a minnow, with
the same result. After repeated trials he discon-
tinues his attempt to catch any minnows. He has
gotten into a state of mind where the effect of
bumps on the nose stands between him and his
desire to catch minnows. This experiment has been

tried with glass partitions on all four sides of the
large fish, with the result that he finally discon-
tinues going after any of the minnows in any one
of the four directions. When the large fish has
been educated to this extent the glass partitions

are removed so that nothing stands between him
and the smaller fish. The result is that although
the minnows feel: free to leave the part of the tank
where they had previously been confined, the large
fish never attempts to touch them. As a matter of
fact, there is no glass or other hindrance between
him and the minnows, but he does not realize it
and allows them to swim around him at will. Con-
sequently although he is physically free to act, he
is trapped by his experience as securely as if he were
surrounded by a physical barrier.

The analogy with our own life is close. All of
us to a certain extent are trapped by our own ex-
periences. Instead of looking at things as they really
are we are tempted to look at them in terms of
tradition, or in terms of what we would like to
believe, or in terms of what we are afraid may
exist. I suppose the reason that the large fish does
not depend upon his having lost his taste for min-
nows, but on the fact that he does not have ability
enough to envisage things as they are, rather thain
as a recent experience has led him to assume they
are. This experiment, if analyzed and taken to heart,
furnishes a strong incentive toward an attempt on
the part of each one of us to replace what to us
are traditions, and assumptions by knowledge.

It is easy to confuse the traditions and assump-
tions that may come some day to be replenished by
knowledge, with ideals and aspirations. It is true

that the idealist whose feet are not on the ground

is a very dangerous character. But the ideal-
ist who starts from the solid earth and sketches a
temple that looks toward the stars, is the architect
of the structure that the rest of us slowly and solid-
ly build. But whether we are the fish in the tank
or individuals in our complex civilization, we must
start from facts as they are.

Any feature of this university whose aim is to
make real knowledge accessible plays into the hands
of those who wish to enlarge the area of things
known, at the expense of the so-called imponder-
ables. This library will be the center of the enter-
prise here at Fisk on the part of both students and

faculty of replacing what is not known by know-
ledge; of placing in their proper perspective the
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of faith, and of works, all of which have their place
in human aspirations. It holds up the hands of those
who are determined to find all that the present
holds in the way of truth, as opposed to those who
prefer to remain blinded by ignorance and indif-
ference.

I want to enlarge a bit upon one class of impon-
derables which in recent years we are beginning
to learn something about. In the modern college we
hear a great deal about tests and measurements in
education. We are able to determine with very con-
siderable accuracy by means of a test the intelli-
gence quotient of the individual. Twenty-five years
ago intelligence was regarded as definitely in the
domain of the imponderables as capacity for lead-
ership and integrity are at the present time. Dur-
ing that time we have gone far toward transferring
the concept of intelligence from the domain of the
unmeasurables to the domain of things that we
know-a good deal about. It is possible that this
process may be carried further, not with the tools

of the physicist and the chemist but with new de-

vices adapted to the purpose. Assume for the mo-
ment that we could find some means of measuring
the various aspects of the human spirit in terms of
units as definite as one finds on the various tests of
intelligence. How would this knowledge help us
in our analysis both of ourselves and of those with
whom we come in contact? Suppose, for instance,
that one could definitely measure for a given in-
dividual qualities like the following: physical fit-
ness, social adaptibility, integrity, normality in sex
life, nervous stability, optimism, initiative; and sup-
pose that we were able to determine in just what

way these and other qualities were interlaced with

each other in the make-up of ones entire personal-
ity or character. If this could be done the result

might be expressed graphically in terms of a series

of rays extending from a center in various direc-

tions, each ray representing one quality, the amount.

of which would be indicated by the length of the
ray. lf, then, one possessed all of the positive qual-
ities that make up a personality in full measure

a line joining the extremities of these rays would be.

a well-rounded curve, indicating personality. If,
however, the intelligence, for example, were very

high but all of the other qualities were very meagre-
ly developed, the personality curve would be shaped
more like a needle than like a circle. At any rate,
it would not be well-rounded. I would imply that
persons developed unsymetrically were not useful.
It however would be very interesting and important

if we could find out and understand the facts in.

the case.

Futhermore, the size of the circle would indicate
the measure of the magnitude or massiveness of the
personality under consideration. It goes without
saying that we are very far from being able to get
these results at the present time. I mention it mere-
ly to emphasize the direction in which we are going
in our modern education in the process of trans-
ferring the imponderables into the domain of what
can be weighed and measured. For one must under-
stand that the imponderables and the intangibles
are not real or important on account of being im-
ponderable or intangible. They are important for

what they are. They would unquestionably be more

real and more significant if we knew more about
them and could determine the stuff of which they
are made, how much there is of it, and what rela-
tion they bear to each other.:-

In this process of learning the constituent parts

of personality, and in the more general enterprise
of weighing the imponderables, of touching the in-

tangibles, and hearing the inaudible we are not
moving a mechanistic view of things. We are mov
ing toward what seems to be an interpretation of
the world in terms of personalitythe personality
of the Author of it all.

In a recent address delivered at Cambridge, Eng-
land, Sir James Jeans makes the following state-
ment: To my mind, the laws which nature obeys
are less suggestive of those which a machine obeys
in its motion than of those which a musician obeys
in writing a fugue or a poet in composing a sonnet.
The motions of electrons and atoms do not resem-
ble the parts of a locomotive so much as those of
dancers in a cotillion. If all this is so, then the uni-

verse can best be picturedthough still very im

perfectly and inadequatelyas consisting of pure

thought, the thought of what for want of a better
word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

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The dancers of a cotillion or the musicians interpret
their own personality through the medium of the
dance or fugue. If the stuff of which the material
universe consists is pure thought, then the medium
through which confused and mistaken thought be-
comes clear and ordered is the most important of

human devices.

Fisk University is to be congratulated upon the
possession of this beautiful building. In dedicating
it she must need rededicate herself to the cause of
truth made accessible. For this involves nothing
less than thinking the thoughts of God after Him.

THE HYPOCRITE

I shall learn to love again,

I shall learn to live,

I shall learn to refrain,

I shall learn to give,

I shall travel down the way,
Singing as I go;

I shall wait till close of day

None shall ever know.

I shall swing my hands in glee

I shall imitate the bee

And soar beyond the clouds

But when once more close of day
Finds me all alone
I shall brush a tear away
Sad because you're gone.

I shall join the mad affray
I shall lead the crowd

I shall let my feet to stray
I shall beg the shroud

I shall beg the evening sun
Nevermore to rise ;

I shall laugh when lifes day done
Lends me to the skies!

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Lorbrary Murals

Aaron Douglas

To say that the murals are modern is to come
as near as possible to a description of their style.
All of the colors are put on in broad, flat masses.
Throughout the work there is little indication of
cast shadows or reflected light. There is little ana-
tomy in the sense of bulging muscles and distorted
torsos. Instead of a representation or portrait, a
mere symbol of the idea is used. So accustomed to
soft, merging, lost-and-found outlines, the observers
make conscious adjustment to the geometric pre-
cision of the style.

Blue and green are the dominant notes in the
color scheme of the decorations. Three color schemes
are to be noted in the color ensemble of the reserve
room. The figures, foreground, and over head foli-
age are done in a green tone which stands out
against a changing background. The background is
made up of yellow, to yellow green, and so on
through the dark green hues. The color scheme in
the reference room is the same except that the
dominant color is blue. The periodical and Negro
collection rooms are also decorated in tones of blue.
The story of the Negroes progress from central
Africa is told on the north wall of the reserve room
and the south wall of the reference room. Beginning
at the eastern corner we see the jungles which re-
present the homes of the slaves. Further along the
wall appears a group of men going down into Egypt
and bearing packs upon their heads. Three pyra-
mids against a blazing sun graphically express
Egypt. Beyond the pyramids we encounter a group
of hunters and warriors. Effectively placed in the
center of the wall there is a group under the spell
of the fettishwhich plays so large a part in Afri-
can religion. The war dance which inspired many
of the petty conflicts between tribes was a boon to
the slavers, who after the battle often made off with
both the victor and the vanquished. At. the ex-
treme west end of the wall a long line of slaves,
chained together, march down to the sea. Around
the angle of the end wall a three mast slaver ar-
rives for the cargo. )

The story is continued on the north wall of the
reserve room. Proceeding from left to right as be-
fore, the slaves march up from the shore massed
against a darkening background. Just beyond a
fettered slave kneels upon the auction block. The
light of Christianity penetrates the encircling sha-
dows and causes yellow ribbons of light to surround
the figures. We follow the slaves bearing their
heavy burdens.

Christianity, the first great source of spiritual
light for the American Negro, is syrabolized by a
skull. Golgotha, over which is spread outstretched
wings. The idea of wings is often encountered in
the spirituals and symbolizes the flight of the soul
from death to eternal life. An arresting group,
burdened on head and shoulders, marches toward
Christianity for them an unfailing source of joy
and beauty. Significantly, one figure, conscious of
a greater light, has put his burden aside. The other
three figures hurry forward to fall upon their knees
in exultation before the rising star of freedom.

The four figures, leaving their work in the cotton
fields turn toward the light of learning, symbolized
by Jubilee Hall, built by funds raised by the Jubilee
Singers, was in the early years of freedom a beacon
light in almost total darkness. This building spring-
ing from the depths of the souls of the black folk,
makes a perfect symbol for the Negro education.
Young people pass along to take their places in
life. The last large figure measures a building which
has the simple outlines of the new library. The
small figure at the end of the wall goes out into the
world in search of truth which is symbolized by a
pyramid upon a hill with a star at its apex.

Negro work life takes up an entire wall. There
is a definite effort to avoid sentimentality. In all

the work an expression of the beauty of the ryth-
mic motion of arms, legs and bodies is always one
of the ideas. At the extreme end of the wall a lab-
orer sits upon a slope, hammer in hand, gazing to-
ward a factory just beyond. Behind him a railway

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train moves into the distance; the three figures are
railway workers. Further on, farmers are at work
in the field, cotton pickers gather their crops; min-
ers work their way into the earth. At the extreme
end of the wall a tiny figure turns questioningly
toward a compact mass of skyscrapers. Will the
Negro become a machine-tending city dweller or
will he remain: a rural people?

The walk of the lobby or catalogue room are
divided into a series of seven panels. Philosophy is
represented by a single isolated figure with lifted
head, in deep meditation upon the ultimate pur-
pose of life, time spaces and substance. The decay
of philosophical thought is symbolized by the broken
and over turned drums of a Greek column. Drama
is expressed by two figures of comedy and tragedy.
The traditional comic and tragic masks hang from
a Greek column. The curtain fringing the panel
gives a modern note against the city background.
Music occupies a door panel. Sections of several
musical instruments have been enlarged and so in-
terlaced and toned as to form rhythmic background
for the foreground figure of the three figures. The
poet, a minute figure, standing insecurely upon
the thin edge of a whirling world, strains to catch
the music produced by the progression of the planets
through space. The scientist, holds a torch which
gradually lights up unknown worlds to man. In one

of the smaller door panels Diana, Goddess of the
Moon, is in full flight across the sky shooting her
golden arrows. At the other door Apollo in his
chariot, guides his plunging steeds across the sky
dispersing the shades of night.

The periodical room is decorated with the top-
ography and outstanding monuments taken from

_ the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and

America. One recognizes the skylines of New York
and Chicago; the Lincoln Memorial, the Washing-
ton: Monument, and the national capitol. A railway
passenger train, a Zepplin, and an aeroplane symbo-
lize Americans transcontinental system of trans-
portation.

On the east wall a camel and rider are massed

against the domes and minarets of the Arabian mos-

gues. Elephants, in full trappings, bear the mahara-
jahs of India upon their backs. Further along Hindu

_ temples, surrounded by palm trees, appear. The Taj

Mahal, the most imposing structure of all Asia, is
effectively centered. The Eiffel tower and Notre
Dame express the soul of medieval and modern
France.

In the mural decorations, the artist has succeeded
in effectively representing the education, achieve-
ment and religion of the Negro. This has been done
by an unexplained means of symbolistic representa-
tion.

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OF isk--Al OtAniversity in the C&outh

Thomas E. Jones, President

When Fisk was called a University in 1867 the
trustees expressed the hope that in the working
out of a system of education in the south, Fisk
might sometime become a real university. Almost
from the beginning a university relationship was
established with the high schools and elementary
schools in the southern Negro education system.
For the past sixty years public institutions have
looked to Fisk to train teachers, social workers,

_ Ministers and other leaders. It was not, however,

until the inauguration of the research program in
the field of social sciences, the erection of the new
library building and the transfer of the Meharry
Medical College to the proximity of Fisk campus
that the institution began to assume the proportion
of a real university. At the same time there has
been such an increasing demand for college trained
men and women that the establishment for a real
univers:ty is not a presumption but a necessity.
Until 1927 Fisk found it necessary to maintain
a high school department to insure a sufficient
number of students to man a strong college de-
partment. In 1925 there were but 68,000 Negro
children in all high schools in America. Three
years later this number had doubled. During the
same period enrollment in elementary schools in-
creased in even greater proportion. In 1925 there
were slightly more than 36,000 certified Negro
teachers. Today there are 47,400. This is an in-
crease of 76 per cent. It happens that less than
one-tenth of these teachers hold college degrees
and that nearly half of them have not finished
high school. As most cities and many states are
requiring all of their high school and many of
their elementary teachers to hold college degrees,
the demand for schools where teachers may be
trained is imperative. Meanwhile as these demands
grow upon colleges, graduate schools are pressed
to provide specialists in various fields. Business
men, state boards of health, social settlements, and

churches are all calling for people who have com-
pleted not only a college course but who are fur-
ther prepared for particular positions in these
various fields of responsibility. A Negro univer-
sity in the South has become a necessity.

Fisk University is situated by location and by
tradition to become such an institution. It is in the
great Mississippi Valley, about midway between
the north central and south central states. Here
a good per cent of the Negro population of the
United States reside and here 77 per cent of Fisks
graduates work and rear their families and from
here 80 per cent of Fisks students come. The time
is ripe to step forward and put real meaning in
the title which this institution has carried for so
long.

Fisk should become a real university. The ac-
crediting agencies in the South have been asked
to judge Negro schools by the same standards as
those set up for the white schools. Educators will
increasingly call for teachers who have been train-
ed in schools which can meet the highest require-
ments of American educational standards. There
can be little excuse for a Negro university in the
South which does not hold up its students to the
most rigid standards.

If young people are to be able to compete
in the economic world, are to maintain a high stan-
dard of living, and to develop a breadth of vision
they must receive careful training under wise in-
structors. Both faculty and students must have com-
fortable and beautiful surroundings and they must
have library and laboratory equipment with which
to work. With this in mind every brick, every
beam, every picture and every book that has gone
into the new library has helped to realize the dream
of a real university in the South where leaders of
high proficiency and integrity may be trained for
1 icreasing opportunities and responsibilities in Amer-

ican life.

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THE SPIRAL SCHUTE WHICH CARRIES BOOKS FROM THE STACKS TO THE LOAN DESKS

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We sat in a cozy room in Ballantine Hall. She

University at the time Fisk became the proud
possessor of the Carnegie Library which is now
used as the hall for social science. I was merely
an eager student, bent upon learning from her
something about the library of that day and time.
Quite a nice person to talk to, full of such interest-
ing bits of informationjust like a person in a
story book, I thought, as I sat there near Miss
Marvin, in my low chair, while she complacently
rocked and answered all of my questions besides
telling me much more that I would never have
thought to ask of her. An interview or a visit for
the purpose of securing information is rather a
Ee difficult procedure for me, because I never know
: | just what to ask first or next. However, we finally
ee achieved the height in a most interesting conver-
he) sation about Fisk and the Library of old. Miss
Marvin talked for a long time while I hastily
scribbled what she said.
4 At first the library was in one room on the west
| side of the fourth floor in Jubilee Hall. Then in
1900, it was moved to Livingstone Hall to a room
that extended clear across the front of the building.
bd The room was quite long with eight very heavy
{ wooden book cases and a small number of books.

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There were two long tables on either side with
stout racks in the center where the magazines were
placed. A huge fire-place was in the room, and I am
wondering if it is still there. Finally the room
became very crowded indeed. Shortly afterwards,
Mr. Carnegie gave money for a new library and we
were very proud and glad because of his gene-
rosity to us.

In May 1908 the corner-stone laying took place
and Secretary of State Taft was here as our speak-
er. We moved in the new Carnegie Library in the
early spring of 1909. It was late in March or the
early part of February, a very wet season, that the
library books were moved.

The students were the ones who moved all of

was the person who had been the librarian of Fisk -

Qe Loibrary of COM

Pearl W. Sanders

the books from Livingstone Hall to the Carnegie
Library. Mr. Brumfield remembers well about it
all for he was among them. They made a social
occasion out of it and the boys and girls strolled
back and forth with their arms filled with books
You see in those days we shortened periods to
make time when we wanted extra time for some-
thing. We started loaded couples and gave them
numbers and they wandered over Bennett Field
and back to Livingstone Hall. Oh, they had a won-
derful time because at the last social new couples
had been made and this was an occasion to show
how lovely were their new friendships. In a few
days all of the books were moved. There were eight
or nine thousand, the number is still in the acces
sion books that are in the library somewhere.

In the new building we had plenty of room, the
building was beautiful. Then the wall was not closed
up, the arches were very pretty too.

We used to have our Christmas tree there, it
was all so beautiful, the tree reached very high in-
to the well. The boys and girls brought their gifts
to be distributed and it was a jolly time. Faculty
parties were held in the library sometimes too, and
often the students had socials there.

In 1919 I left the library and stayed away until
1921, then Dr. McKensie telegraphed me to re-
turn because he did not have a librarian.

I had six boys to help in the library, but I did
all of the cataloging of the books. Sometimes I had
a girl to help me. There was no office but only the
desk to work at. I generally had my pick of the boys
and usually I got very nice ones. Mr. Brum-
field was a student assistant once, and then during
my last years since he has been a teacher he has
helped in the library.

The west side was where the boys studied and
the east side was for the girls. I always gave them
permission to speak to one another though, they

weren't free to go across and sit inter-mingled.
. They would just look at me and I would nod my
head in answer.

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Sometimes the girls used the side entrance, you
see it opened right into the library then, however
later the office was built in there. The front door
opened right into the main room, it was not built
as it is now.

I gave the boys the cer of coming into

the library right after breakfast so that they could
_ begin to study without having to go to Livingstone

Hall and then return. I would look down over the
railing and say good morning to them as they came
in. I had moved into the library building on the
second floor to live, at that time there were six or
seven rooms that were not used for anything, that
is true except for one room and it was used as Dr.
Hayes Seminar Room. Eight or nine ladies lived
in these rooms too, we had a lovely parlor, kitchi-
nette and our bedrooms, it was very nice too.

The library was open regularly in the evening;
the library was in little demand at night time, and
it was not open regularly at night, but when stu-
dents wanted to use it I always gave them permis-
sion. The students did debate work there, and I
always reserved the west alcove for that purpose.
The library was open Saturday and Sunday after-

-noons, that is when we had most visitors and the

boys and girls always came in to read.

The order was exceptionally good; very quiet
most of the time. No monitor was ever employed for
the atmosphere was such that the students all fell
in with it and I had very little trouble with disci-
pline. Sometimes around the desk there was a little
noise from talking.

The biggest space at the east end of the north
wall was covered with the picture of the Jubilee

Singers, but a good view of it could not be secured
unless one stood far away from the painting. There
were three copies of the paintings of Henry O.
Tanner, they had been secured from Paris through
Miss Parmenters uncle who was an art dealer in
Chicago. We were very proud of these copies, they
were The Annuncuation, The Raising of Lazarus,
and On the Way to Emmaus. They were as valu-
able and as interesting as anything that we have,
and I often wonder what has become of them. At
another end of the library was a portrait of Booker
T. Washington. We had many small statues placed
throughout the building and other pictures on the
walls. This all added much to the appearance of the
rooms as you can see from pictures of the library.
I always kept green ferns in the building too. The
archways showed up very beautifully, especially
in the pictures. :

We were as proud to enter that building as you
are to enter this magnificent building this year. That
was twenty-one years ago, and yet it doesnt seem
such a long time ago. When I was here we had a
fine group of students who tried to achieve and
reach fine things, just as I suppose you do today.

TI believe that I have said everything that I know
or can think of now about the library. I am certain-
ly glad and proud that I can be here to see this
new library dedicated.

The library of old a thing of the past. On-
ward Fisk! Can you see the library of old through
Miss Marvin's eyes? It is a memory to be cherish-
ed, something that we shall ever hold dear in our
hearts though we have stepped onto a higher plane.

Not without Laughter but with tears as well
Not without smiles but with thoughts that dwell
On things unworthy and beneath the goal

Not without heart aches but with sighs too deep
Not without longing but with a vengeance sweet
That saps and soothes the cares that tear the soul.

by Ollington E, Smith, 30

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THE Fisk HERALD 48 3

A. Bersonal Philosophy of Health

C. V. Roman, M. D.
Director of Health, Fisk University

I wish to emphasize sharply the difference be-
tween a Science of Health and a Philosophy of
Health. One is a matter of understanding and the
other is a matter of attitude. There can be no per-
sonal science of health. Science is always imper-
sonal, apodictic and demonstrable; while philoso-
phy may be and usually is assertory, subjective,
and individual. Science is facts; philosophy is in-
terpretation.

Etymologically, Science means KNOWING and
Philosophy means loving wisdom. One may love
what he does not possess and Philosophy may be,
and alas! sometimes is, devoid of wisdom.

There is no wisdom without some knowledge,
but there may be a lot of knowledge without the
slightest trace of wisdom.

Knowledge may be found in books, but wisdom

is always and only to be found in man male

and female, of course.

Wisdom is a little word but it is greater than
any or all of its synonyms, and they are a veritable
army. The Century Dictionary lists more than a
score and discourses as folows:

| ...attainment, depth, discernment, discretion,
enlightment, erudition, foresight, information, in-
sight, judgement, judiciousness, knowledge, learn-
ing, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, rea-
sonableness, sagacity, senge, skill, understanding,
ENLIGHTENMENT, INFORMATION, KNOW-
LEDGE, LEARNING, and SKILL are acquired
by study or practice. INSIGHT, JUDGEMENT,

~PROFUNDITY, DEPTH; REASON, SAGACI-

TY, SENSE, and UNDERSTANDING are native
qualities of mind, but capable of increase by cul-
tivation. The other qualities are on the border-line.
WISDOM has been defined as The right use of
KNOWLEDGE, or the use of the most impor-
tant means for attaining the best ends. Wisdom
thus pre-supposes KNOWLEDGE for its existence
and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting up-

_ on the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the

most effective way. There may be what is termed

practical wisdom, that looks only to material re-

sults; but in its fullest sense WISDOM implies the
highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the
moral nature as well as of the intellect. PRU-
DENCE is a lower and more negative form of the
same virtue, respecting outward and practical mat-
ters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss or in-
jury; WISDOM transcends PRUDENCE so that
while the part of PRUDENCE is ordinarily also
that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of
business or of war, when the highest WISDOM is
in the disregard of the maxims of PRUDENCE.
JUDGEMENT, the power of forming decisions,
especially correct decisions, is broader and more |
positive than PRUDENCE, leading one to do, as

readily as to refrain from doing; but JUDGE-
MENT is more limited in range and less exalted
in character than WISDOM. To say of one that
he displayed good JUDGEMENT is much less than
to say he manifested WISDOM. SKILL is far
inferior to WISDOM consisting largely in the prac-
tical application of acquired KNOWLEDGE, pow-

er, and the habitual processes, or in the ingenious

contrivances that makes such application possible.
In the making of something useful there may be
great skill, but no WISDOM.

And Sound Philosophy is builded upon intense

LOVE of THIS WISDOM a love that will

make one seek the object loved.

One of the chief functions of a college educa-
tion is to enable one to build a sound personal
philosophy of lifeto interpret oneself, the forces
of the universe and his relation thereto to find
what the ancients call a GNOSIS.

I build my philosophy of life upon the
virtues of my associates;
The keenest zest and the happiest quest of my
daily pilgrimage,
Is the earnest search for the true and beauti-
ful in the lives of men and women.

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It is the only joy that does not cloy in Lifes
perpetual feast.

It is an upward climb to things sublime

Where the soul is whole and troubles are
surceased.

If there be one hallowed spot on this terres
trial ball where happiness dwells serene,

It is that elevation of contemplation where
tolerance concedes good motives,

And Wisdom thwarts bad action in the con-

duct of our fellow-mortals.

Let us then keep our feet on the ground and
our head on top

While we treat the tangled maze of duty,
And read however imperfectly,

The cryptograms of the Book of Destiny.

The comparison of a man to a machine is a very

old methaphor. The auto is today our most typical

machine. Its life is measured by years and by mile-
age. An auto may become useless from age having
never run a mile; or it may go to the junk pile
very young in years, but old in performance. -It
has only so much potentiality. When that is ex-
hausted, its usefulness is over, except for two pos
sible avenues of help. Its performance may be worth
reviewing for future guidance and its parts may
be worth salvaging for new machines.

Intellectually and physically man is like an auto.
He reaches a stage when maintenance of status
and repetition of performance are his only virtues.
I feel that I am approaching there. As Browning
says,
oe Not off the stage

But approaching close on to the exit.

I made my first speech at Fisk University in the
dining room in Jubilee Hall in 1888.

The Nashville Board of Education had promised
to put all colored teachers in the colored city schools
if enough would pase the examination which was
held in May 1887. The city limits had been extend-
ed and there were several new white schools. Much
enthusiasm was aroused by the approaching examina-
tion for city teachers. There were nearly two hun-
dred applicants all told.

First and second places were both won by col-
ored applicants, though they formed but a third

of the number. Twenty-five colored passed only.

fourteen were needed. Those with highest marks
were selected. All made good.

Dr. Cravath sent an invitation to the winner of
first place to speak at the commencement dinner.

My first appearance in this Chapel was in 1905,
by invitation of Dr. Merrill. Having proved accep-
table as a lecturer, these invitations continued sev-
eral times yearly, until 1919 when I became a mem-
ber of the faculty; which fact, strange to say,
has not stopped the invitations or cured me of
accepting them. Thus I have served under all the
administrations of Fisk from Dr. Cravath to Dr.
Jones, and have about said my say. Repetition of
argument with conservation of reputation is all that
is left me.

However, what I say is true if not new.

A Philosophy of Health is only a segment of
a Philosophy of Life; but it is a basic or foundar
tion segment; for life is worth little or nothing
without a measure of health. To be helplessly or
hopelessly sick, is to intensify tenfold the tragedy
of death.

What then, are the tenets of a sound personal
philosophy of Health? They are four in number,
s follows:

1. A recognition of the Eternal Triangle of
Life-The Individual, the Group and the Environ-
ment. This is an equilateral triangle, each two sides
of which touch and oppose the other side. These
interacting oppositions constitute the adgenda of
Sociology Their successful balancing is the basis
of civilization.

2. The knowledge that health is a CONDI-
TION to be attained and maintained, and not a
commodity or possession to be acquired or dispens-
ed. Thus the searches for elixirs of life and founda-
tions of perpetual youth are but the veriest moon-
shine the ignes fatui of fool's errands.

3. Credos are more fateful than dietaries. In
this country foolishness ruins more people than
indigestion or malnutrition.

Purposeful living is the only pathway to suc-
cess. It is the only way to avoid the path of

FOLLY
Theres a road that runs down the young,
young years,

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To a distant, shining river:

And it winds, they say, through the
Valley of Tears

And they name it The Road to Never.

The end of the road, the end of the dream,
The lure of the shining river:

For they who follow its fitful gleam

Are lost in its waves forever.

Health like morals and religion, is a compound of
hereditary impulse and environmental opportunity.

Bulwer Lytton has truly said: Through zeal
knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge
is lost. Let a man who knows this double path of
gain and loss thus place himself, that knowledge
may grow.

There is a type of mind that is like the pupil
of the eye the more light you throw upon it,
the smaller it gets. Evidence brings not convic-
tion but resentment. An attack of bigotry is apt
to prove fatal to intellectual advancement. The years
of the bigot not only increase without wisdom, but
egotism fortifies ignorance and stupidity cultivates
meanness. Foolishness is dangerous. but bigotry is
hopeless disaster.

I pray you keep an open mind.

4. A fourth item or tenet in a sound personal
philosophy of health is a recognition of the fact
that, as a class, doctors are quite as intelligent as
their constituents. Miracles of medical knowledge
professed by the laity are usually based upon mis-
information, misconception, ignorance, venality or
falsehood. 8

As a group doctors know all the known facts of
life and health. The belief in miracles stands in in-
verse ratio to the intelligence of the believer. The
greater the belief the less the intelligence and vice
versa. A miracle is simply something we do not
understand. The miracles of our forefathers are the
commonplaces of tomorrow.

There are two guide-posts which the trained
mind recognizes in travelling in the region of the
unknown:

1st. Established facts.

2nd. Logical deductions from these facts.

Now the educated physicians know the facts of

life and health and are capable of making logical
deductions there from. Biology is a science; so are
anatomy, physiology, patology, hygiene and thera-
peutics. No one is competent to guide in health mat-
ters who is not familiar with the facts of these
sciences. Of course, efficiency and acceptability are
largely matters of conduct, training and personali-
ty. A sane personal philosophy of health would lead
one to consult a trained physician in matters of
health. The use of patent medicines, the quest for
cure alls, belief in various cults and pathies, are
all manifestations of mental aberration.

I will conclude this tale with the statement of
three fundamental propositions:

1. In his bodily make-up man is an animal.

In frail mortality, a full brother to the beast,
the worm and the weed. He is conceived and pro
pagated, born and nourished, elaborated and des
troyed in common with the myriads of animated
nature. How dieth the wise man? As the fool
dieth. How dieth the fool? As the beast dieth. Yea,
they have one breath. Thus laconically but truly
is mans corporeality disposed by the pessimistic
Sadducean philosopher.

2. In many ways man is an inferior animal.

He can neither see nor orientate as well as the

birds, No training will give him the strength of the
lion or the elephant, nor the agility of the cat or the
tiger: nor the fleetness of the daulphin or the deer;
nor the cunning olfaction of the fox or the dog.
No wonder the poet plaintively queries Oh, why
should the spirit of mortal be proud?

3. In every clime and under all circumstances,
man is the supreme occupant of his environment.
Nothing that flies in the air, or crawls on the earth,
or swims in the sea can boss man except a man.

These propositions are as firmly established as
any tenet of human reason. The evidence of their
validity is mountain high.

Our final question is HOW DID MAN OB-
TAIN. THIS PREEMINENCE?

- There is but one answer BY REASON
Thought is the dynamic force by which man has
become the master of this world. He is Natures
masterpiece. His powerful brain is sui-generis in

its ingenious convolutions. His erect posture and

30 THE Fisk HERALD

his wonderful prehensile organs find no parallel
among the other inhabitants of the earth. His body
is the acme of terrestial mechanics and his mind
makes him the soul af the Universe, the intellectual
sensorium of Nature, Man is the residuary legatee
of Natures bounty and rationality is the only pass
port to his inheritance. When REASON can find
no way there is but one recourse of sanity .

EQUANIMITY Trust in the intelligent kind-
ness of the universe. When the night of trouble
is too dark for the eyes of knowledge, Wisdom

casts the Anchor of Faith and patiently waits for
the dawn, -

God of our spacious universe,

Lord of the land, the sea,

Victor o'er Time and Tides reverse,

Help us to cling to Thee! 3
Lift us on high, a holy race;

Use us within Thy plan

Show forth Thy light on every face.

And strengthen every man!

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HALF WHITE

Ollington Smith

Half white! And the other halfdog. So Amy
Cable had labelled him as he shiftlessly strolled
down the village street late one afternoon in Sep-
tember. He had lived most of his life in the foot-
hills beyond the town, men fearing him, he hating
men. No one knew how he lived in his little cabin
but some said it was the filthiest hovel this side of
God-knows-where, hell perhaps. He never spoke to
anyone unless he wanted something, in fact had

needed the thing he asked for a long time. Then

he payed full price and sometimes more. Inde-
pendent! That wasnt the word for it. Old Abe,
they called him. Nobody knew his other name.
Like as not, he didnt have one. Someone said he
had money hidden away in his orchard. At any
rate, he lived on the food his farm produced and he

never got money from any visible source. He raised
the nicest gardens in the country but nobody ever
saw him peddle anything. Seemed as if he farmed
for pleasure. The only companions he had with him
were a couple of fine mules and a snaggled tooth
dog that looked like an airdale breed. His clothes
were a queer combination of grain sacks and patch-
ed-pants. He wore a dirty dilapidated felt hat at
a jaunty angle on the side of his head and his feet
were shod in a pair of rough blunt shoes.

Folks called him a wizard and the plantation Ne-
groes used to say that if you wanted to put a spell
on somebody who had wronged you, you simply
had to pull a few strands of any sort of plant he
had growing inside his fences and that person was
doomed.

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He didnt like white people, Lord no, how he
hated them! And he could stand Negroes. The

only time he had ever had anything to say on the

subject was years back when an upstart of a young
white fellow attempted to make fun as he passed
along the village street and then he had only turned
and looking squarely into the face of the young
upstart :

Mixed blood aint good when its riled, he said,
Its too good to be black and a dam sight bettern
whitebetter learn to stay indoors hereafter.

Such a mumble of words! People tried to make
it mean all sorts of things. Some said it was a threat
outright, others merely a bit of Abes homely phi-
losophy clothed in the queer language peculiar to
him. Especially were folks interested in the phrase
about staying indoors. Was it a prophecy, a curse,
or was Abe merely suggesting that the boy at-
tend to his own affairs? A few months later, the
lad was badly hurt in a skirmish late one night.
Yes, people said, they understood it now. Abe was
just a wizard.

Half whiteAmy said of him, too good to be
colored, and no better than a dog. She watched
him ramble shiftlessly down the village street neith-
er looking to right or left of him, giving way to
no one, dominant in his self-sufficiencyshe watch-
ed cars stop suddenly to keep from hitting him, the
drivers cursing and gritting their teeth. What an
old fool! It would be good if someone hit him and

got rid of him. Never any good to anybody not much

worth to himself. Amy scanned his ragged patch-

work pants in disgust and turned up her nose in a
sneer at the shirt made from grain sacks.

Its a reflection on the niggers in this town,
she mumbled, to let anybody go around looking
like that, why I myself would rather give him a

pair of pas old pants an Charlies ol shirts than

to have to look like that.

Half whiteAmy mused againwonder what
his mother was likemust uv been an awful crea-
ture to give birth to a beast like thatand his father
must uv been the poorest kind of white trash
OE ee My God, Amy screamed,
My child, the auto!.

With a cry of despair and heart rending terror
she covered her eyes to close out the sight of the
accident which she could not prevent. There was
a crash Amy came torushing feet carried her,
she never knew how she got to the scene -

Its Abe, Maam, pore ol feller, *fraid hes pur-
ty bad hurt, rushed in y know to save this brat
oyournought to keep im in off the paved street

Thank God, thank GodAmy breathed half
white she thought a moment later when they
had taken Abe to the hospital and she was safe
home with her string haired brat, yes, half white,
she mumbled aloud, but the other halfGod-

knows-what! :

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OVerse

VERSE
by Marian Vanderburg >

I SHALL REMEMBER YOU

I shall remember you
As a dark cypress
Etched against an autumn sunset.

I shall see you standing there
When the soft night winds caress you ~
And sparklets of moon dust. oe

I shall remember you there
Against the sky
Alone, always alone.

MOONRISE

A golden goddess

Hiding her smiling face with blue-grey veils.

Her handmaiden, the breeze, holding scarves of sil-
ver mists

About her shoulders

Entangled in the branches of a tree.

STAR DUST

Last night a cresent moon
Fell into the western sea.
I was alone with the stars
Falling, falling on me.

The silvery glamour of those stars
Was mingled in my hair.

I was an eerie enchantress
Calling, calling the fair.

Hidden among the hollyhocks
Curtained around with green
Gleaming of star-dust
Weaving, weaving a dream.

VERSE
by Wm. H. Reeves

OPPORTUNITY SPEAKS

Some have accused me of an unjust thing.
They claim I only come a single time

Into the lives of men. They err. I ring

And knock upon their doors; I even climb

Up to their windows, but to no avail.

They, with absorption in Lifes petty things,
Refuse to hear my call, my clamorous wail;

Success is theirs, if theyd but loose the strings.

The dreamer, drunk with his fantastic dreams
Of what the future holds, turns a deaf ear

To persistent poundings; and it seems

That he will never sober up and hear.

He thinks that dreaming will his ends attain,
And sits and mopes about what can be done;
But seeks me not, the while I pound in vain
Then painfully regrets, when I am gone.

The toiler, too, is prone to ever be

Content with what his daily routine brings; -
No more, nor less, but just enough wants he
To secure him Lifes necessary things.

I pound his door with never-ceasing vim,
Intent to aidto lend a helping hand.
Though ever present, I but seem to him

A mytha thing of some Utopian Land.

I cannot make my poundings heard if they
Persist in slumbering on in lethargy. ;

The fault is theirs, not mineIll always stay,
The sun may set, and daylight slowly wane,
Tomorrow, Ill be on the job again,

If, today, I cannot make them hear.

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LIFES PHILOSOPHY
At times we all are slaves to discontent,
And grow so tired of our earthly lot;
That we are what we are, for some intent
We seem to know and understand it not.
Such fickle beings, at times, were prone to be;
We know not what we want, nor how, nor when;
-We cannot all enjoy prosperity
And coveting, we know, is a great sin.
And all their apparent progress they have ante
But they too, sip the bitter cup of strife,

And vow: For happiness, their wealth they'll trade.

Yetwho is there who knows a man of wealth
Who gladly swapped it for a poor mans health?

CORIOPSIS

Blonde ladies crane their wiry stems,

Athwart a leaden vase.
Lilting from its diadems,

Each peering, needed, face 2
Is tender! And that must be why,
(Lest any thief should linger nigh),

Like sward or green bersark,
Strike out around some reedy Hades
As if the little shock-head maids,

Were fearful of the dark.

Mabel O. Renee

HOPES

A week-day hopes a speck that floats

Before my sight, a grain of dust
That passes, round and meaningless,
And disappears in nothingness,

A moments trust.

Dream-day hopes are those dim notes
That follow where my vision turns,

Low-hung upon an inner eye,

And luminous with beams that fly
Where fancy yearns.

Mabel O. Keemer
ROMANCE

The whispering breeze

Carries my kiss

To my love.

My love receives it

And smiles sweetly

To the breeze.

Love thoughts paint roses

On the fair cheeks

Of my sweet.

Cherie send a kiss

Back to me by

The same breeze.

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IS THE STUY UF MUSIC JUSTIFIED?
Miriam E. Price

Shelley left some lovely lines on music.
I pant for the music which is divine
My heart in its thirst is a dying flower
Pour forth the soul like enchanted wine,
Loosen the notes in a silver shower
Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain,
I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Let me drink of the spirit that sweet sound,
More, oh more, I am thirsting yet,
It loosens the serpent which care has bound
Upon my heart to style it.
The dissolving strain through every vein,
Passes into my heart and brain.

Is it possible that a study of music can enable an
individual, with or without an innate love of beauty,
to think of, long for, and appreciate music to any
such degree as the above poem indicates? I say, yes.
First of all the study of music covers three dis-

tinct fields, appreciation, creation, and interpreta-
tion. Appreciation is a matter of familiarity with
music history, fine compositions and an understand-
ing of them. Creation presupposes the existence of
musical ideas to be expressed after having learned
the laws of theory. Interpretation involves a mas-
tery of this instrument. It has been the general
opinion of most of us that a study of music was
valueless except as you had chosen it as your voca-
tion or had the money and time to make of it a
pretty accomplishment or a pastime. However,
noted educationalists are now expounding the in-
trinsic mental value of a musical education. The
Superintendent of Public Schools in Chicago recent-
ly said, It is more necessary to study music than
mathematics. Why then has the consensus of opin-
ion changed so radically?

Let us take the piano for example; it, being an

independent instrument, has a particular education-.

al value. Employing all ten fingers, it demands a
kind of brain training that surpasses every other

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study in school or college curricula. Piano playing
insures accuracy, the memory is trained to a high
degree, and the value in the mental drill of play-
ing the right note at the right time translated to
business or any profession is immeasurable. Schwab,
Americas Steel King who started out as profes-
sional music teacher still considers the mental drill
obtained invaluable. Poise is cultivated in the indi-
vidual, because the ability to do at command what
one wants oneself to do is acquired, thus develop-

ing quick thinking. Lastly, it frees ones mind from .

daily, humdrum affairs. Surely then, the study of

- music means more than a pretty accomplishment,

especially when men like George Eastman, of the
Kodak firm in Rochester, New York, donate twelve
million dollars for the establishment of a music
school in that city. Besides this great advantage to
the mental development; Shelley tells us in his last
line that it is to the heart also that music appeals.
Who among us can listen to the poignant stirring
melodies of Chopin, Schumann and countless others,
and remain untouched by their beauty? But, do we
understand them even then? Musical study opens
the soul to the elevating effects of good music and
develops as well as enriches of concords or beauti-
ful sound, and the unloveliness of discord. It creates
and opens up many new avenues of pleasure, exalt-
ing life to the highest ethical and cultural plane.
If therefore, we can educate ourselves up to the
level of sincere appreciation of all the beauty that is
to be found in the world of music we will be bring-
ing into our lives a new and richer happiness that
will amaze and then delight us with its limitless
boundary of possibilities and opportunities for de-
veloping a background of refinement and cultural
enjoyment to our prosaic educations. As the musical
study advances all the beauty that is Bach, Bee-
thoven, Schubert, Wagner and many others will be-
gin to unfold and dawn upon us and then perhaps
we will begin to understand, appreciate, and echo
the wish of the young Shelley when he wrote
Let me drink of the spirit of that. sweet
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ELIZABETH AND ESSEX Lytton Strachey
| CMe A. Griffey

Here ye, all ye book lovers,
Heres book you should get
acquainted with.

Lytton Strachey rightly calls Elizabeth the Queen

of the Ambiguous Age. No other character in
Englands multi-colored history stands out as does
the Virgin Queen for two qualities; pusilanimity,
and verisimilitude in externals. Under the surface,
one might easily distinguish an iron will and an
unforgetting vindictiveness. In matters of state, the
lady was always the temporizer; her one method,
relevant to the rendering of important decisions,
was that of procrastination. She seemed, however,
to reign under a lucky star, because her delays
never cost her any great disaster during the entire
course of her long period as monarch of England.
As a woman, Elizabeth was a true son of her
father. She was loud and boistrous; her big hearty
laugh resounded through the palace halls. She loved
a joke, but she was a poor loser. Whoever bested
her in a duel of words, or in anyway inflamed her
quick temper, was almost sure to get his ears boxed.
This ear-boxing propensity of her quickly-aroused
choler; she was known also, on not infrequent oc-
casions, to mouth loud and foul oaths. Socially, Eli-
zabeth was as highly accomplished as a queen should
be. She had sufficient education to converse in pol-
ished Latin, to dash off elagant personal letters, and
to compose impressively worded state documents.
Brilliant conversation and witty repartee delighted
her. She enjoyed dancing and cards, she played the
virginal and sang Madrigals in a good voice. Physi-
cally, Queen Bess was a hefty gal. She took long
walks, and on state occasions, she could often out-
stand her courtiers. She literally died with her
boots on, at the age of seventy, a very old age in
her day. She was ill only about four days, the first .

one of which she spent standing up, trying to fight
off the approaching spectre of death.
Her love-life was a curious thing, sometimes even
to Elizabeth herself. In childhood she acquired a
strange temperamental and psychological anamoly
which unfitted her physically for marriage. But,
says the author, Nature had implanted in her an
amourousness so irrepressible as to be always ob-
vious, and sometimes scandalous. She was filled with
delicious agitation by the glorious figures of men.
Leicester the comely, Hatton the stately, Henlage
the handsome, De Vere the dashing, Blount the
modest, and last, but not least, Essex, who com-
bined all of these characteristics: these and other
gallants came and went in the affections of the
capricious queen. She was jealous, too, even of

Essexs wife. The flattering adoration of men was

as necessary to her as water to a fish; she lived in
it; she practically wallowed in it; she could not
live without it.

It was in this love-connection, chiefly, that Essex
played his most important part. He furnished the.
queen more flattery, extracted more favors, and ob-
tained more royal pardons for blunders than any
of his predecessors. But he had his faults. One of
the greatest of these was. his hot-headed heedlessness
of good advice. Had he listened to the sagacious
counsels of Francis Bacon and others who wished
him well, he might have ascended to unheard of
heights of power and authority. Instead, he fol-
lowed his own ambitious and injudicious procedures
in his campaign in Ireland; and his failure there
may be stated as the genesis of the train of
events that resulted in the three fatal: strokes where-
by he lost his head. His character was not the sort
that should inspire youth to follow its example.
While he was bold and brave in a romantic way, he
was wastefully over-generous and too self-confi-
dent. He also lacked clear vision and good judge-
ment. Had he not lacked these two important char-
acteristics, he would have been able to see that his
position indeed his very lifedepended on the

36 _ Tue Fisk HERALD

whims of an erratic old exponent of Tudor pater-
nalism. He was to honorable for the kind of dip-
lomatic dissimulation that was going on all around
him, so his hot-blooded resentment of this evil finally
led him into treason and cost him his head. Roman-
cers like to say that Elizabeth died of a broken
heart soon after her lovers execution, but that is
far from the truth. The old lady died of paralysis
and old age.

To show all of Elizabeth and Essex, or any other
characters is the principal intent of the modern ex-
ponent of the new biography. The method of the
writer of the neoteric life-story is purely iconoclas-
tic, and Lytton Strachey is one of the great con-
temporary destroyers of illusions. By showing Eli-

zabeth as a woman; by revealing her shortcomings,

_which historians and romancers have been careful ~

not to mention, Mr. Strachey has painted a picture
we can understand and sympathize with. His beau-
tifully flowing sentences and extensive vocabulary
make the book a positive joy to the discriminating
reader. The arrangement of the story is not that of
the ordinary dry-as-dust chronicle or events. Rather,
each event is related to the lives of Elizabeth and
her dependents, as well as to the political situations
of the day. Colorful details are sprinkled plenti-
fully over the entire book, and they are related
simply and realistically enough to make even the
most cursory reader take hold and read earnestly and

fully.

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Since the last issue of the Herald was published
a number of interesting events have occured:

The Y. W. C. A. invited the women of the uni-
versity to an informal masquerade in Jubilee foyer,
Friday, October 31. The evening was spent playing
appropriate games. Incidentally under the capable
influence and leadership of Miss Pearl Sanders the
Y. W. C. A. is awakening from a long sleep. The
successful conference of representatives from the
. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. adequately bears
proof.

Another fad has arisen on the campus of small
birthday parties. Misses Florence Blount, Louise
Rivers, Marie Stone, and Pearl Sanders surprised
Miss Mackie Kendall with a birthday party at the
home of Mrs. A. N. Johnson on November 2.

When the football team went to Institute, West

Virginia, it left behind one of its most able men in
the person of Halley Harding, who was suffering
from a throat illness.

One notices too the collegiate preference for
camel hair and llama coats. Mr. Davenport, at other
times editor of the Herald, seems to have a knack
for exhibiting the lining in his llama coat in the
Jubilee foyer. That may be his point in coming to
meals on cold days.

Little Catherine Jones acquired such a fondness

for Dr. Jason Pierce, minister to former Pres. Calvin
Coolidge, that she couldnt resist the temptation to
lend him her support while he spoke in the week-
ly assembly, November 5. It was very amusing to
see her toddle up to him and remain there looking
gravely in his face. When he sat down she climbed
upon his knee.

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Meharry stretches further up every day. Al-
though there was cold, drizzling rain, a number of
people gathered at the corner-stone laying, Sunday,
November 9.

In lieu of the anticipated Freshman dance there
was a show in Fisk Memorial chapel Saturday night,
November 8. The picture was the Unholy Night.

By the time the Herald is published the name of
the Knox house will be decided. Mr. and Mrs. Knox
offered a prize of five dollars to the student who
suggested the most acceptable name for the house.

Fisk had guests for three conferences during the
week of November 20. During that time, also, the
new Fisk Library was dedicated. One heard of the
intention to take the Interracial Seminar down Mr.
White Mans Alley to Lowes reserved seats.

Speaking of Loews, something ought to be done
about it. We kick about going in a side door to
sing for money and we pay our money to slink
down Loews alley and up a million stinking stairs.
There are rules and rules at Fisk. I wonder why
one isnt made for that. :

The ruling of the Executive Committee that stu-
dents who signed pledges must buy the 1930 Light-
house before they can take the final examinations
is a reflection on Fisk students. It demonstrates a
business irresponsibility that is disappointing.

A few of the students heard the program spon-
sored by Negro educators over the National Broad-
casting Chain. It was the first time that a Negro
educational program has been broadcasted over a
national chain. Among the speakers were Dr. Am-
brose Caliver, former Dean of Fisk, and now spe-
cialist in Negro Education; Dr. John W. Davis,
president of Institute, Charleston, West Virginia;
and the Honorable Ray Wilbur, Secretary of In-
terior. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard
University, was master of ceremonies. The Hamp-
ton choir under the direction of R. Nathaniel Dett,
- furnished music.

Dr. Charles S. Johnson, who recently returned
from his government mission in Liberia, has been
invited to take part in the White House Child Wel-
fare Conference which is being held the week of
November 20.

Incidentally, I thought the gravity chute in the
library worked by magic. I didnt know that some-
one had to work in the stacks.

C. Camille Perry

WE'D LIKE TO KNOW

If our friend from Houston will have made a
thorough and constructive investigation of athletics
at Fisk upon his visit here Home-coming Week.

Why a freshman back played out of position sixty
minutes of the West Virginia Fisk game.

When the University will decide to give our
coach a permanent assistant.

Why one of our varsity backs changed his mind
and is back in uniform again.

When the alumni will wake up to the fact that
successful athletics are an essential item in a schools
advertising program.

Why the student body doesnt consider itself an
important element in the success of athletics at Fisk.

If Stevenson really leaves Tuskegee and collegi-
ate football this year.

Why certain members of the team have seemed
so discontented and indifferent the latter part of
the season.

Why two varsity backs sat on the bench during
the entire West Virginia Fisk game.

What position Cox is playing this year.

Why our last years end went back to Atlanta.

How the new varsity guard ever got the oppor-
tunity to show off his stuff. :

If a certain new member to the second string
squad will get a letter this year.

If Crite has kept his promise made in the last
issue of the Herald.

What the Thanksgiving game was like on the
New State College field.

What has become of the fighting Fisk spirit.

If you have read this far?

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The Bantu are coming!
It seemed as if some great social force were
mocking history writes Max Yergan of the Com-
munion Service of the European-Bantu conference,
where in spite of racial and traditional cleavage
and centuries of crudest strife, Africans and Euro-
peans in perfect equality and union took the sacra-
ments together.
Federation News Sheet

So!
=. Even Deston. = has seen fit to allow re-
laxation of law and order during the stay in the
Hub of the buddies of the American Legion, those
glorified Americans who fought, the slogan says,
to make the world safe for democracy, and who have
come back to raise hell annually so no one can for-
exit

Harvard Crimson

Bon!

At the convention of the American Federation
of Labor a resolution was passed pledging the finan-
cial and moral support of the A. F. of L. to the
Sleeping Car Porters.

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Sweet Piffle!
Can you think of the world this morning? What
does it need? First, authority in the moral realm.
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan
in the Christian Index
What about economic adjustment?

JuniorYou're just a crab and you won't be a
freshman until you have fifteen hours.

DorisBut Ive been here more than fifteen
hours.

BallardEvery time I kiss you it makes me a
better man.

NellieWell you dont have to try to get to
heaven in one night.

BabeIs trousers singular or plural?

DizzyBoth, singular at the top and plural at

the bottom.

Miss ScribnerUse the following words in sen-
tences; deduct, defeat and defense.
HallDe boy took deduck by defeat and

throwed him over defence. :

Camille has decided that Hallie has musical feet:
two flats.

AlphaHow were your grades last quarter?
KappaJules Verne.

AlphaHows that?
KappaTwenty thousand leagues under the C.

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M. B.And lawd among other things keep me
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