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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. spits. 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? Ill Who's been given the divine right I want to spread my wings and fly RMarie Brown Frazier ee ee ee a, . THE FISK HERALD 1 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 t i THE FISK HERALD 13 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 THE FISK HERALD 15 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 ~ ~~ wel Peat Wis A 16 THE FISK HERALD 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 POGSSPSSSSSSSSE GPF 2DDS99S9SSSSSSS9SSS 9995999 F9F9OSSS9 SS SEEE OEE i. from the Pusic dichool 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. Toccata and Fugue in D minor............ Bach-Tausig te Be a GRE 9 RS oe Re Schumann DUACOMUGK 150-LP i Tab, aeycicdede vit oeeetn- Schumann Bd ili AU ly ad csbinn os Schumann Weenie AMIR DE a cele lee Schumann 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 $599 99999999 99998665959 ber on the program was S59 95959S9S S664 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. | HG. 6: SE 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. Se 20 THE FISK HERALD OF ree Ounce 5599599599999 5999S 9S SOOO OOOO 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. ; E: 3. 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. THE FISK HERALD 21 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 22 THE FISK HERALD 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 THE FISK HERALD yr. SIDODPDODOGODS. SPSDSPSPDPEPEPIDPDPEPISILSPID PPPS PSS PSS LSPS SSSA CMiher Folks OD rite POOP PPOPE POOP OEIC POPPE 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. 24 : | _ THE FISK HERALD 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 THE FISK HERALD 25 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 ee eee j [ 4 3 yb te ne de toed _ ie a ee eT AeA 26 , THE FISK HERALD Cae Back Hy ot 5995559595955 5 5999955595 9560 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, THE FISK HERALD 27 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. Armstrong's Bells Booteries DORK ae GAN Nae ses whe Castner-Knott Citizens Saving Bank & Trust Co Durys Endicott- Johnson Fisk University Joseph Frank & Son Globe Drug Store B. W. Graves Inside Front Cover 29 Gulbenk Engraving Company Hemphill Press Holmes Brothers Ideal Lunch Room Jamison Electric Company Kennedy Baos. Taxi (ek ic... oes cad Lebecks R. Z. Levy & Son Inside Front Cover Loveman, Berger and Teitlebaum Maxwell PRN DEORE 65s sess ce ceveee McKissack & McKissack National Life and Accident Insurance Co.... Paragon Drug Co. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. .. Inside Front Cover Schulmans Filling Station Schumacher Scott-Mayes Wiley Drug Company % % x bY by x %, % : b) % %, % , x, , % %, y %, re) > % % % , | Yy %, % % %, % y , %, y X, b % % %. HALF CENTURY OF SINCERE SERVICE JOSEPH FRANK & SON CHURCH AT FIFTH FLORSHEIM SHOES FASHION PARK CLOTHES SOWA OID EOL . SW DONDERO FOOSE SSIS IF FF FPF ISP SSSI x | Mens Oxfords at Popular Prices . ENDICOTT JOHNSON SHOE STORE ds 607 Church Street 4 } : Womens Sport and School Oxfords Jhe Store All Wemen Know WELCOMES FISK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS wWe Specialize in Womens Silk Underwear Beads Bags Dresses Toiletries Hosiery Furs Millinery Coats OS OS OSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSREOSSSSSOMBEOESGSS 553335 S999S8OS SS SOSS: 8 PPP PPPS F FSO 6X $5699 080000004 ad > Soo OSS school graduate. Fisk Says Yes Howard says No A STIRRING INTELLECTUAL TREAT SUBJECT Resolved: That it is an un- sound policy to provide a liberal arts college education for the average secondary school gra- duate. 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Entered as second-class matter, December 31, 1925, at the post-office at Nashville, Tenn., Under the Act of March 3, 1879 Miriam E. Price POP PPSPP DOSS PSPS SO OSS OSS SS SS SSO SSOSS 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 Short StoryHalf White..........2....... 30 MEE WS aa at oe ey SOLE . 4s SCO eye emes 32 asin Comreenite os. ae ws Sos es Mss oe 34 POG TRICE ip ock da SUPE 05c0. Naw be ase 35 RTI CRIN | COMME, . o nse win eh whweiieis 36 DRO MAREE 6 55 SUE. co bob bow ehaescue 3 WV ME BOVE CENON 15.3 UE, cA sreete ies Gils 38 *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 : PODOOSSSSSSS SSO OSS SS SSS SSO OPS SSS OOOO SSS THE Fisk HERALD THE Fisk LIBRARY \ } , THE Fisk HERALD KA? ELESLESALASSALELLALSSEEELEEEEEEEEEE LILIES EEE EEL EEE EEE EEE IEEE EAA DID ADDI RAI IAAIEIIEEEEEEEDE SE BREESE CE ditorials 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 THE Fisk HERALD 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 THE Fisk HERALD 0 .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- 6 THE Fisk HERALD 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. _ THE Fisk HERALD GOTHIC PREDOMINATES THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE LIBRARY a ee 8 THE Fisk HERALD 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 | } ! | 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 THE Fisk HERALD LOOKING IN FROM THE FRONT Door THE Fisk HERALD on ai THE PuBLic CATALOG AND INFORMATION DESK THE Fisk HERALD 11 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 12 THE Fisk HERALD THE PERIODICAL RooM THE Fisk HERALD 13 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 elements of tradition, of idealism, of fact, of fancy, 14 THE FisK HERALD 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. Tue Fisk HERALD 13 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! dah Miia a 16 Tue Fisk HERALD 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 S if THE Fisk HERALD 17 A Story OF THE NEGROS PROGRESS AS TOLD BY THE MURALS 18 THE Fisk HERALD 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. 19 THE Fisk HERALD WOOY ONIGVAY HLONOS AHL NI GNNOd STIVYNIYT AHL AO MATA YHHLONY : Tue Fisk HERALD. 20 THE Fisk HERALD oh 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. pa THE Fisk HERALD THE SPIRAL SCHUTE WHICH CARRIES BOOKS FROM THE STACKS TO THE LOAN DESKS THE Fisk HERALD 23 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. 4 { 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. O4 THE Fisk HERALD A CorRNER OF THE BrowsING RooM . ( H Soo see it later t opene as it i the lik begin Hall railing fa. 1 seconc seven is tru Hayes in the nette a the li it wa dents sion. alway The noons boys i oof most the a in w pline noise mo wall t Fa Tue Fisk HERALD ok 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 26 Tue Fisk HERALD it 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. 28 Tue Fisk HERALD 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, re P~ Fe ee ee eT Tue Fisk HERALD 29 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! eCShort C&tory 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. Y ein EE ann, WEL. ae" apa Sega, OM cee THE Fisk HERALD 234 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! : 32 Tue Fisk HERALD 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. OT a te OP ee EE RG egiae, Sk gpemmmage re ee. <> Lecmaiy ee Tue Fisk HERALD 33 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. Wa. A. Griffey 30 34 - THE Fisk HERALD SSOOSSO SHESHLHSSSSSSSSHSOHHSHSHSHHHHHHHSHHPGP IG NMeusic eomments POSSSSOSGSSOSOO OSS OSTIORE 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 xe CSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE: 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 -sound more, oh more, I am thirsting yet. of th ar OM la cat isl to he v1 Tur Fisk HERALD 35 BBADEALEABEELIDEELDEEELE SB SSA SSRL LLLSAAALESEEAEEALSAD EASE EAEDS ESAS S ALE LEALLSA BADE SALLE ALIASES LLL LLMOOODOoOOOOOL OOS OOOO OOOO LOL SOLOS Book Review LIVVLL WaYatataaalaavataavalavaalavaavaalatalatavalataaalAaaravayaa Y WAVAVATATATATA'AYATATATATATA'AVATAVATATATA' AAA ATATA'ATAYAYATATATATATAYATAA ATA AYAYA YA AAA AA ATA AN NN AA A Yavavaataaaa'aaaey 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. eStrolling Around IGSSSOO OOOO SSS S SSS 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. rh po sian Poe. Cre. See ; , tee .'s, OD Ret Co ees ae es eee ee By ct est oct 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? 38 THE Fisk HERALD FROM THE EXCHANGE COOOOOOOOSOOOL LL ALLL DLA LDLLLSLDLSAS DOOAMAOADAAAS. SLs SLLODADSLODOLAADALAAL. pravavavaaavavataatavaavalaaaaaaaaatavaaalaaaaaaaaaaas waYavavava'aaavaavaaaavavavavaaaaaaaaaavaaaas FavavatatAvavavavavavaavavaavaavaAvAavaAaavavaayaaaaaaaaaaaaYaAaAaaAaavaaaavaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"avaayat Progress! Oberlin College, after much deliberation, has decided to build two dormitories, one for the sin- gle students of the institution and one for the mar- ried men of the college. Kitchinette suits and all modern conveniences will be found in the latter dormitory. | N. S. F. A News Exchange 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. Opportunit-y 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. College Humor M. B.And lawd among other things keep me off my knees. Latest Talkie Productions. Henry Yost in The Bad Man. Camille Perry in Poker Face. Marguerite Davis in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Louise Rivers in Captain Shrimp. Geraldine Williams in Cake Walk. 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Shoe Prices are lower than for years past. Or we'll put it this way lower prices or far greater values for the same money all along the line. See the proof in our win- dows! Priced ELLIS SHOE COMPANY Priced $4.95 to $7.95 305 3rd Ave., N. $4.95 to $7.95 THIS MAGAZINE WAS PRINTED BY THE HEMPHILL PRESS S. B. HEMPHILL, Manager 2024 JEFFERSON STREET i PHONE SEVEN-5440 Mention he Fev De peR Se FLOW ERS-- FOR 325 UNION 601 CHURCH FASHION AND VALUE FOR SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS LOVEMAN, BERGER AND TEITLEBAUM FIFTH AND UNION WHERE QUALITY IS REASONABLY PRICED SOCIETY BRAND AND GLENROCK CLOTHES SMITH SMART SHOES STETSON HATS 223 4th Awoen FISK STUDENTS ALWAYS WELCOME SOOO SHOSOSSSOSK POOSSGSCSOSS SSS SSSSOOSK Mention the Fisk HERALD SS {5S OSSOOOSSGGHSDSSSOSSHSHSSHSSHHSHSSHHS SINCE 1898 WE HAVE SOLD THE BEST COME TO SEE US FOR YOUR STUDENT LAMPS AND ALL KINDS OF ELECTRICAL MERCHANDISE. HERBRICK AND LAWRENCE 607 CHURCH STREET PHONE 6-3141 To the Students and Faculty of Fisk University! LEONS Shoe Store invites you to visit them and to receive a useful SOUVENIR 4s a token of their oes : for the patronage they have attained from the Students and faculty of FISK UNIVERSITY BEAUTIFUL SHOES Wear Leon Shoes Same the Difference & OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT Corner Fourth Ave. and Deadrick St. ADVERTS: IN THE GREATER FISK HERALD CLOTHES FOR COLLEGE MEN OWENSTEIN Cor. 44 Ave. e Deaderick Street. EVERYTHING YOUNGMEN WEAR. LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR AND MILLINERY Mention the ae fea ON ON NN VPC CCCOCOC CCR OM NE SEE I PIP PPP PPPPPPFKS HIGH ART CLOTHES $22.50 $17.50 WEAR HIGH ART CLOTHES DIRECT TO YOU FROM OUR FACTORY 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 y/ COMPARE VALUES $>b>~Oa~b~BO~b~ do~do~da~ PIPPI ; J. B. STRAUSS AND CO. 228 4th Ave., N. SPORTING GOODS Andrew Holmes Joe Holmes Phone 6-9388 HOLMES BROTHERS LOW RATE TAXI SERVICE First mile 25 cents, each additional one- ha'f mile 10 cents. Four can ride for price of one. 411 CEDAR ef -BAUMAN'S Good Clothes for Young Men 509 Church Street Nashville, Tenn. LUGGAGE GIFTS Trunks Hand Luggage and Leather Novelties WHITE TRUNK & BAG CO. 609 Church St. Also 21 Arcade Quality Service Radios Shoes - RASTEURIZED - $ | PRopuCTS : Best by every Test Nashville's leading Clothiers NASHVILLE PURE MILK CO. , Since 1843 Purity Safety % SSSSSHSSHSHSSHHSSHSSHSSHSHOSSSSSSSSSHSSHHSHHHE Mention the Fisk HERALD i a a al ee ca a Ne aa Sd a ag Ww SWPPP Ad EO. ~ &~ >> PPP III IIIT . DK KKEES EFA OOO OPAL ESESHESSSS E> F>F> Fy FEES OO ON a $~~0~ CKAASPGroonew > PP SISISINSI III ENS NONI SPNSINSIP SII IS SES OOO AN i 4 he Fisk HERALD PHONE 6-010! Mention t THE ONE PERFECT FOOD FIVE RIDE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE MADE ITS WAY BY THE WAY ITS MADE" VPPNI III IF E> FESS GaP YN ><3< VP BDI. GL EY O~O~O~OrS LPO SESEF> ] ee 3 MILES FOR 50 CENTS POW WN > <5 ge al i > BO B~O~ POOPY OF LSSOSSSSSSSSSOOGS GOSS SI IS IIS SSSSOOSGSISSS SESSSSSSSSOSSSOOS SSI SISSY o~> LF I-b~8~b~Ob~b~Eb~b>~b~b0~b0~b0~b~O~b~b>~b~b>~bE~bE~Fb~EO>~O}>~Fb>~O~O~b~b>~O0>4b-~b0-~4b->b-~O>b>~bn->~4n>O> =X c SONS \ << g g <3? Ng >< PISO SOS OS SSS SS NASHVILLE, TENN. T. L. HERBERT AND SONS BUILDERS SUPPLIES NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE CONTRACTING ENGINEERS WE CONGRATULATE FISK ON COMPLETION OF THE SPLENDID NEW LIBRARY BUILDING Mention the Fisk HERALD MUNICIPAL PAVING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 413 COTTON STATES BUILDING &~ 4 Sd b~3~b$>~b~b~O>~b~O0~O~O~O~O~Pb OOO ~O>POYO~AP~OYOYOYAP>OrO>YOO> >o>b>> EEEEEEEESHHSSS$SSSHSHSSSSOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssSsoqoo$ GS Soossss SoS Goooo oes K PPPIFPIFLFIF ILI EPI EIT a er eee wONISNI NII NI NIN NS KB PAPA BEPPEPAEEEEEQOED SHSSHSHSSSSESsssssssessxr : PL FQDDDGDPPPBGPFEIII III III NII ISIN IS CHEAPEST TAXI CAB RATE IN TOWN : i M /, , ; y yy, S / y / y y y, A i, y, Y , g Py, PHONE 6-6131 ALL HOURS | | : | Office Hrs.: 10 to 12 a.m.; 2 to 4 p.m. 7 te > pa. | Phones: Ofc. 60800; Res. 6-4484 If no answer call 3-0018 | ERA I SA For expert quick service Come to ISOM'S MODERN BEAUTY SHOPPE (Mile. G. M. Isom, Prop.) Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay No engagements necessary Special attenion given to diseases of women French and Vapor Marcels a Specailty Ofc.: New M Bide Root ....5 Agents Wanted : a ety Gel A Jefferson St. at 18th Ave.. N. Across from Jubilee Hall aaa DR. R. C. CHEEK Physician and Surgeon LS ALYCE BEAUTY SHOPPE EXPERT BEAUTY SERVICE Compliments of Phone 6-9166 409 4th Ave., N. 4 __<$<$<$<$$< $e ~ CHULMAN'S FILLING | | $ > STATION HARRIS-CHATMAN % J. B. Schulman, Prop. Gasoline - Oils - Accessories - Road Service % Twelfth and Jefferson St. Phone 69126 | ADVERTISING CO. % ae ee % SHORE a. i hade es 7540) General and Novelty Advertising % Set At 5 ESTELLE'S BEAUTY SHOPPE Owned and operated by Mrs. E. B. McLinn New Masonic Temple - 419 Ath Ave., N. aaa SE SSSR PPI III III IEE 214 Morris Memorial Building THE SOUTH'S STYLE CENTER. Offers the smartest in Womens Apparel of quality...... and prices range most moderately. a ton a ae ae Lol = \e GOSSOSSSSSOGES , S$ HHSHHSHHSHHHHOHHGGR Mention the Fisk HERALD J. L. Strassel Co. LOU | So . FURNITURE MAKERS DECORATORS IMPORTERS.