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Eighteenth Annual Convention, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Detroit, Michigan, December 27-31, 1825.

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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL President, Raymond W. Cannon, 3400 Oakland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.

Fourth Vice-President, Charles Fraser Street, Atlanta, Ga.

First Vice-President, James W . McGregor, 1759 W . 35th Street, Los Angeles, Calif.

Secretary, Norman L. McGhee, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

Second Vice-President, Peyton F . Anderson, 61 W . 130th Street, New York City.

Treasurer, Homer Cooper, 5059 S. State Street, Chicago, 111.

Third VictT-President, James A. Scott, 4452-A, West Belle Place, St. Louis, Mo.

Editor of T H E S P H I N X , Oscar C. Brown, 3763 W a b a s h Avenue, C h i c a g o , 111.

George B. Kelley, 1 113th St., Troy, N. Y.

James H. Hilburn, 1944 Druid Hill Ave., Baltimore,

F. M. Reid, 2303 W . Walnut St., Louisville, Ky.

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A L P H A C H A P T E R , Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. President, Joseph R. Houchins, 411 East State Street. Secretary, W. M. Banks, 411 East State Street. B E T A C H A P T E R , Howard University, Washington, D. C. President, Walter W. Gocns, 2447 Georgia Avenue, N . W. Cor. Secretary, Robert S. Jason, 2447 Georgia Avenue, N. W. G A M M A C H A P T E R , Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. , President, Joseph A. Brown, Virginia Union University. Corresponding Secretary, W . G. Darnel, 734 N . 3rd St. . , D E L T A C H A P T E R , Montreal, Canada (Inactive). E P S I L O N C H A P T E R , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. President, Booker McGraw, 1103 East Huron Street. Cor. Secretary, N. S. Minor, 1103 East Huron Street

Z E T A C H A P T E R , Yale University, New Haven, Conn. President, John F . Williams. 62 Garden Street. Secretary, H a r r y G. Tolliver, 59 Goffe Street. E T A C H A P T E R , New York City College, Columbia and New York Universities, New York City. President. Marshall L. Shepard, 9 W. 99th Street. Secretary. Mvlcs A. Paige, 203 W. 138th Street. T H E T A C H A P T E R . University of Chicago, University of Illinois and Northwestern University, Chicago, 111. President, R. A. Harcwood, 4104 Vinccnnes Avenue. Secretary, Sumner T. Bohee, 4104 Vincennes Ave. I O T A C H A P T E R , Syracuse University, N. Y. President. Thomas Morris, 302 Cedar St. Secretary, A. L. Demond, 302 Cedar St. K A P P A C H A P T E R , Ohio State University, Columbus. Ohio. President, Harley S. Manuel. 202 East Spring Street. Secretarv, Ralph W. Finlev. 202 East Spring Street. MU C H A P T E R , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. President, Frank B. Ransom, 006 St. Anthony Street, St. Paul, Minn. Cor. Secretary. R. A. Johnson, 975 St. Anthony Street, St. Paul, Minn. N U C H A P T E R . Lincoln University, Lincoln. Pa. President, W. A. C. Hughes. Jr., Lincoln University. Cor. Secretary, Theodore Valentine, Lincoln University. X I C H A P T E R , Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. President, W. G. Bland, Wilberforce University. tary. Milton S, Wright. Wilberforce University.

O M I C R O N C H A P T E R , Carnegie Institute of Technology and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. President, R. W. Taylor, 2703 Wilie Ave. Secretary, T. L. Jones, 87 Sylvania Ave. P I C H A P T E R , Case School of Applied Science and Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. President, Leon S. Evans, 4917 Central Avenue. Cor. Secretary, N. K. Christopher, 4002 Central Avenue. R H O C H A P T E R , Temple University and Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa. President, W. F. Jerrick, 1543 Christian S t r u t . Secretary, Theodore R. Penny, 1724 Christian Street. SIGMA C H A P T E R , Boston University and Massachusetts School of Technology, Boston, Mass. President, Samuel B. Hutchinson, 373 Northampton â&#x20AC;˘i, Boston, Secretary, Ernest G. Balla, 21 Codman Park, Boston. T A U C H A P T E R , University of Illinois, Champaign, President, Eugene W. Woods, 602 E. Clark Street. Secretary, H. Dadford West, 602 E. Clark Street. U P S I L O N C H A P T E R , University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. President, Doxey A. Wilkerson. 1101 Mississippi Street. Secretary, Beltron L. Orme, 1101 Mississippi St. P H I C H A P T E R , Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. President. Lawrence V. Jordan, 47 Franklin Avenue. Secretary, Herman I. Holland, 47 Franklin Avenue. CHI C H A P T E R , Meharry Medical College (Fisk University), Nashville, Tenn. President. James J. McClendon, 8 N. Hill Street. Secretary, Norman Cordice, Meharry Medical College. P S I C H A P T E R , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. President, W. Reid Wells, 329 N. 40th Street. Seer.': etl W. J ihnson, 8131 Master Street. A L P H A A L P H A C H A P T E R , University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. President, H. T. Miller, 636 West 9th Street. Secretary, F . T. Layton, 636 West 9th Street. A L P H A R E T A C H A P T E R , Talladega College, Talladga, Ala. President, Edwin L. Phillips, Talladega College. Corresponding Secretary, Noah E. Willis, Talladega College. A L P H A GAMMA C H A P T E R , Providence, R. I. President, C. L. Henry, 33 Hope College, Brown University. Secretary, Roscoe E. Lewis, 2 Hope College, Brown University.

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STAFF OF EDITORS OSCAR C. BROWN, 3763 W a b a s h A v e . , C h i c a g o , 111. GEORGE B. KELLY, 1 113th S t r e e t , T r o y , N . Y V I C T O R R . D A L Y 715 F l o r i d a A v e . , N . W . , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . E L M E K J . C H K K K S , 10912 Quincy Heights. Cleveland, Ohio W . L. HANSBERRY, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

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T h e B r o a d c a s t i n g S e a s o n , by C. C M u r p h y —Alpha O m i c r o n . . . . 2 T h e " S i x t h A n n u a l 'Go-to-11 igh S c h o o l , G o - t o - C o l l e g e ' C a m p a i g n " , a p r o c l a m a t i o n by P r e s i d e n t K. W . C a n n o n 3 " T h e New I d e a " by S y d n e y I' . B r o w n 3 " O p i n i o n F o r m i n g A m o n g Negro A m e r i c a n s " by V. E. D a n i e l s " T h e B l e a t i n g of the S h e e p " b j B. V. Lawson " A l p h a Phi A l p h a a n d Fisk U n i v e r s i t y ' ' by W . E. B. D u B o i s ••The Modern P h i l o s o p h y of E d u c a t i o n " b y J a m e s A. Scott

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P l a n s for S i x t h A n n u a l " G o - t o - H i g h S c h o o l , G o - t o - C o l l e g e " C a m p a i g n , By Raymond W. Cannon, Director ACTIVITIES OF CHAPTERS

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Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the General Constitution, I, Raymond W. Cannon, General President of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Director of the "Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College" Movement, do hereby designate and proclaim the week of May eleventh to May seventeenth, inclusive, 1925, as the campaign week for the Sixth Annual "Go-toHigh School, Go-to-College" Campaign. Done in the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, this twenty-eighth day of March, 1925. (Signed)

RAYMOND W.

CANNON.

General President. Alpha Phi Alpha, Director, "Go-to-High School, Go-to-College" Campaign.

T h e "Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College" Campaign. We arc about to launch the sixth annual Go-ToHigh School, Go-To-College Campaign. And the one burning thought which conies to the minds of all of us is how we can make the campaign most effective. It is true that we have in the past employed various methods and devices in order to impress our boys and girls with the necessity of obtaining education. W e have depended upon the several phases of the campaign, such as the public mass meeting, selected speakers for various groups, our excellent literature. co-operation of prominent individuals, groups and agencies, publicity and propaganda in various publications. All of these have worked out in a very successful way. Yet. it is the belief of this office that a great deal more can be accomplished. Since the middle of last January this office has been busily engaged in a detailed study of our educational campaign with a view toward rendering it more effective. No energy or efforts must be misspent or sent in the wrong direction. Every act, every word must count and score. W e have spent several years building up our campaign. This office now believes that the fraternity has it well enough in hand to carry it out on a different seal.' T i l l - T I M E H A S COME, B R O T H ERS, W H E N W E M U S T E X T E N D T H E GOTO-HIGH SCHOOL. GO-TO-COLLEGE CAMPAIGN T O T H E G R E A T M A S S E S O F N E G R O E S FOR W H O M IT W A S O R I G I N A L L Y P L A N N E D A N D I N T E N D E D . Instead of talking "at them" and "talking to" them, sometimes from a distance, L E T US T A K E S O M E OK O U R CAMPAIGN MACHINERY AND O P E R A T E IT W I T H I N T H E I R M I D S T . IN T H I S W A Y W E W I L L A R O U S E I N T E R E S T A N D BE A B L E T O < I Y E OUR M E S S A G E T O M O R E A T T E N T I V E AND MORE A P P R E C I A T I V E EARS. AND T H E C A M P A I G N W I L L DO M O R E G O O D A N D GET BETTER RESULTS.

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Bach chapter should hold a mass meeting, or, as some call it, the public meeting, in which to give the general message. But this fact must be realized. These people who compose the mass meeting are usually people of above average education. The majority of those for whom we labor in this work do not attend our mass meetings. T H E R E F O R E , W E M U S T GO TO T H E MASSES. Each chapter must do detail work. Individuals must do more in this campaign than ever before. How shall we get better results? How shall we deliver the message directly? How shall we make our campaign more effective? This is the way. First make your general message and your methods of publicity such as will attract the attention of the mothers and the fathers of those whom we would reach. Then get the ear of our boys and our girls; those in school as well as those not in school; encourage the former to continue, and the latter to enter; make contacts with those in the rural and farming communities where education may not be strongly stressed to our boys and girls. Penetrate those congested districts and industrial centers of the North where our people have migrated in great numbers. Go into the small towns, villages and country districts of the Southland, penetrate the homes of Negro mothers and fathers who. because of their unfortunate illiteracy and consequent inability to forsee, are failing to give to their children that which is so vitally necessary, or provide opportunity for them to obtain such. Stimulate their ambition to elevate their children. Make them km w that their children must he so prepared

that they will be able to cope with all of the problems of life. IMPRESS THEM WITH THE FACT THAT THE FUTURE OF T H E RACE IS DEPENDENT UPON THE EDUCATION OF OUR HOYS A N D G I R L S . .Now in order to accomplish the above, this office realizes that one rigid plan would not do, for what might fit one chapter's environment would not another's. Therefore, each chapter has been asked to submit it; plan together with its replies to Bulletin III. On this basis, suggestions will be given your chapter to enable you to accomplish the above described and hoped for results. Elsewhere in these columns you will see suggested outline of argument to follow. ALPHA PHI A L P H A DEMANDS THAT T H R E E T H O U S A N D B R O T H E R S A C T IN U N I S O N T H A T W E MAY H E L P O U R S E L V E S TO H E L P OTHERS. R u MONII W.

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In 1919, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity deviated from the traditional and time-worn path of college fraternities and undertook to blaze a trail hitherto unexplored by any similar organization. The fraternity idea was a total of benefits to the individual members of the clan during his college career. There were, no dtubt, spasmodic attempts to concern itself with

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service to outsiders, but such efforts were short-lived and the particular fraternity very easily fell back into its niche. Such an idea was well suited for white fraternities, but the problems confronting the Negro necessitated a change. When the white man finished college, the various civic, social, business, political and scientific clubs awaited him. Here he could find his peers engaged in the activities that attracted him. Competent organizations were already in existence handling the white man's burden. The Negro college graduate had no such fortune, and since the fraternity was organized by and for the undergraduate, he kept active in the fraternity at the risk of being termed an intermeddler. They were members of the fraternity, to be sure, but for what purpose? Under such a handicap. Alpha Phi Alpha labored for several years asking the question, "After College, W h a t : " In 1917, like a voice out of the wilderness canw the reply, "Not Alpha Phi Alpha for College, but Alpha Phi Alpha for Life." Immediately there grew up Graduate Chapters that gave to our members the association and contact to which they were accustomed. Thus organized, it became essential that there should be si me activity to which they could all subscribe. Politics would not do. for among us are Democrats, Republicans, Socialists and Prohibitionists. Likewise the varied natures precluded the adoption of many other pre grams. However, it was felt that there was some platform on which doctors, lawyers, Democrats. Republicans, teachers, preachers alike could stand. The solution to this problem was anwered; and here it is that Alpha Phi Alpha blazed the new trail. At the 12th Annual Convention of the Fraternity lu Ul in Chicago. Alpha Phi Alpha created within it-

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Dem of Wiley College. f | 1 H E opinion-forming of a group is that group'si syndicated effort to figure on the next step. -*- seeing its way into a dubious future. It is ai Opinion is a working hypothesis upon which we act before science gives us all of the facts. Since science takes so long to work through opinion to fact, DO per centum of our action must be based upon opinion. How important it is. then, that opinion be as nearly correct as possible! And how important it is that effective influences be brought to bear to get all the members of the group to think the same way on matters vital to the interests of the group, provided that way is the right way!- This is the problem of social engineering. This it is that makes opinion-forming the most important "occupation" of any larger group. The problem of opinion-forming among Negroi Americans is one of the most unique, most difficult, and most interesting of the problems of one of the most uniquely situated and of one of the most complexly related groups of all history. In the first place, the Negro American group is a group within a group. In fact, it is almost a nation within a nation. In the second place, there is great variation within the: Negro group. We could not make a greater mistakej than to presume that all the Negro slaves came fromi the same territory, or that all were members of the: same tribe or of similar tribes. Bantu, Sudanese, West Coast Negroes, dwarfs and even Negroes withi Arab and Semitic blood were among those importedI i - be wo r ked in the exploitation of the American continent. Besides, some showed a higher degree of:

self an institution, the purpose of which was to diffuse among our people the necessity for, and importance of education. For the want of a better name, the institution was termed "The Go-To-High School, Go-To-College Movement." T h e fundamental idea is to urge the Negro youth to take the fullest advantage of the opportunities that lie within his reach. It is not designed to send all to college, for some have neither the desire nor the qualities to take on such training, but it does say to the one who is inclined to become a blacksmith to do those things that will make for efficiency in his trade. There is no invidious comparison or propaganda intended. No particular kind of education is urged; no particular school advocated. The content, intent and extent of the movement are to show that a good man with poor tools cannot be a good carpenter; that there must be a union of fit materials and fit individuals in order to produce the proper and required results; that the increasing perplexities of life due to new inventions and ever-changing social relations make the future infinitely more difficult to meet than the past. It was but meet that Alpha Phi Alpha should pioneer this undertaking. Being the oldest among the Negro Greek letter organizations, it was our duty to p. int the way. The fact that the other fraternities and the sororities have adopted some similar movement shows not only the wisdom of our departure but the necessity therefor. These are just some of the immediate by-products of the new trail. When we prepare to broadcast our fiftieth campaign, we will then have the testimonials of men who were guided right, men who improved themselves by reading Negro literature, men who became more efficient in business, and men who went to high school and to college because Alpha Phi Alpha caught the vision, blazed the trail and faltered not.

adaptabiity than did others. Some had quite a start i n the later arrivals. The slaves in different parts of the country were affected by climate, occupation, and neighbors, and much depended on the treatment of the various types of slave-holders. Some Negroes were manumitted, and many ran away, both types becoming free Negroes. But probably the greatest cause of differences in Negroes is racial intermixture. Since the Negro's emancipation, we still note that differences of color, of geographical location, occupation, education, religious belief and fraternal ties operate against unanimity of opinion. In the third place, we must realize that the Negroes were cut off from their former cultures and purposely distributed so that those of the same tribe and of the Bine language could not rehearse old times together. While in this divided, enslaved condition, the Caucasiocentrism of the masters was imposed on the Negroes, for anybody can impose himself upon anybody else, unless the one who is about to be imposed upon is eternally vigilant. In the fourth place, the Americans themselves, forming the more inclusive group, seem hopelessly divided in opinion in regard to almost everything that matters. Members of a larger group in which difference of opinion is the rule, differing among themselves because of an infinitely varying racial and cultural background, cut off from their traditional culture, and having the Caueasio-centric view of a different culture thrust upon them, the Negro Americans faced a proh1cm in opinion-forming that was stupendous. The problem was not to make the race conscious, but to make the individual racially conscious. The first Negro to attract attention as having an absorbing intercst in opinion was David Walker, whose pamphlet, "Appeal, in four articles; together with a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in partial-

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 lar and very expressly to those of the United States of America," greatly alarmed the "southern South." This pamphlet of sixty-six pages was published in Boston in 1829. The next important pamphlet was issued by the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia in 1831. The leader and chairman of the convention was James Forten, a free Negro of Philadelphia. Seven years later we have further evidence of racial consciousness in the appeal of forty thousand colored citizens threatened with disfranchisement. to the people of Pennsylvania. Soon after appeals of this nature revealed the Negro's rising race consciousness, we have the renowned Frederick Douglass publishing the North Star, later called Frederick Douglass's Paper. The average circulation of this paper was three thousand copies. Said Douglass : "In my judgment, a tolerably well conducted press in the hands of persons of the despised race would, by calling out and making them acquainted with their own latent powers, by enkindling their hope of a future, and developing their moral force, prove a most powerful means of removing prejudice and awakening an interest in them." The opening oi tin- group was helped greatly by the founding of churches for colored people. Philadelphia, which became the eastern terminus of the "Underground Railroad." was the center of the church life of the free colored people of the North. The African Presbyterian Church was founded there in 1807. The African Episcopal Church appeared in 1810. The African Methodist Church was founded by Richard Allen in 1816. In 1841 it began the publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Magazine, which later became a weekly newspaper. It is now the Christian Recorder, concerning which the twelfth of the Atlanta University Publications gives us the following information : "This paper was looked upon by the slave-holders of the South and pro-slavery people of the North as a very dangerous document or sheet, and was watched with a critical eye. It could be circulated in the slaveholding states by neither our ministers nor members." As early as the Nat Turner insurrection of 1831, we find the governor of Virginia blaming the Negro preachers, who had gained "great ascendancy over the minds" of the people in bondage. H e intimated that there was collusion between the Negro "religious leaders" and the abolitionists, and influenced the General Assembly to enforce most rigidly the laws reguating the assembly of Negroes. H e even ordered the ministers silenced. (Nat Turner was a preacher.) T h e importance of the opinion-forming power of the Negro church can be fully appreciated only when we remember its close relation to the highly religious life of the African. The prestige of the African priest or medicine-man has become the prestige of the pastor. One of the best ways to crystallize public opinion among Negroes is to utilize the opinion-forming power of the churches by getting them together on the proposition in hand. After the Civil W a r we find the freedmen, poor, ignorant, disorganized, asked to assume important responsibilities in matters political. It was then that the opinion-forming role was played by the political orator, usually a demagogue. And.it is not surprising that a race given to parliamentarianism and having a vivid imagination should develop some powerful political speakers. Nor was the Negro press oblivious of the part it was to play in the political drama that was being staged. One paper characterized the Colored American of 1865 was a "vehicle for the diffusion of Religious, Political, and General Intelligence . . . to keep before the minds of our people the duties and responsibilities of freedom, and to call attention to the wants and grievances of the colored people." There seems to be no doubt that the Negro editor in freedom is thoroughly conscious of his function. The

following statement of C. F. Richardson, editor of the Houston Informer, is typical: "I saw that the pulpit and the teacher could not do all the work of bettering, advancing, enlightening and solidifying our racial group; I also saw the potent factor the white press was . . . in the development, progress and expansion of their race. . . . I finally dedicated and consecrated myself to the task." So important did the W a r Department and the Committee on Public Information consider the opinion-forming strength of the Negro editors that they called a three days' conference of these editors in June, ]!Âť18. "They discussed the relation of the Negro to the conduct of affairs, mentioning his grievances and needs." We must not ignore tiw* poet's power in opinionforming. Dunbar was especially valuable in getting the Negroes to appreciate I heir own physical qualities, African background, and social life. Not only did his Lyrics of Lately Life interpret the Negro to the white man; they interpreted the Negro to himself. No sweeter song of genius could emphasize the Negro's African background better than Dunbar's Ode to

Ethiopia. Opinion-forming has been closely connected with many other "occupations" of the Negro group. Besides its relation to religion and to thought-expressing, we should note its relationship to man-improving, to mating, and to business. Booker T. Washington, in developing Tuskegee, showed the necessity of striking out on lines that would give the group an opportunity to work out its educational salvation without following blindly traditional paths. Also we note that more and more the sentiment is being created that the home life of the Negroes should contribute to an appreciation of things racial. And it is patent that the establishment of "race" enterprises has been the best antidote for unfair treatment in establishments which cater primarily to the trade of white people. Negro business men have made capital of this unfair treatment in their opinion-forming advertisements. Segregation in residence and in education has caused the Negro to become racially conscious, and the study of Negro history has given a touch of pride and of confidence to this racial consciousness.

T H E BLEATING OF T H E SHEEP. By

BROTHER B.

LAVVSON.

What means this bleating of the sheep? Is it that sheep are inherently restless and instinctively criminal ? Is it that they want new shepherds and new pastures. or is it that the shepherd is asleep? This cryptic and inadequate metaphor needs explanation. Students at Fisk University go on a strike. The shepherd has either lost his staff or forgotten how to use itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if he ever had one or ever knew how to use it. Campbell College students go on a strike. Again the perennial and haunting question redounds like the severe monotony of a tom-tom in an African jungle. I need not reiterate the facts. The world knows them too well. Nor is the logic of statistics necessary to prove the general unrest and discontent in so many of our colleges and universities. "What means this bleating of the sheep?" In this age of sophistication, this age of the eleventh commandment, this age of rapid acquisition and still more rapid forgetting, there is a distinctly new student with a distinctly new mind. There is a new student psychologyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not a child psychology. The writer is a student-teacher, more accurately and perhaps more bluntly, a teacher still studying, a naive, superficial, inexperienced observer, puzzled by the frequency and variety of the conflicts that result either from sleeping shepherds and their dogs or their inadvertencies in unthinking moments.

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I do not condemn. I do not criticise. I face and admit the facts, deplorable, incontestable facts. Concomitant with the modern trend of social forces there is a new and modern student in our schools, free, different, rational, thinking originally and differently, and I thank God for it. Shepherds—if I d o n o t mar the beauty of that word—faculties, "boards," if you please, should face these facts and govern themselves accordingly. New forms, new standards, new interests for this new mind are necessary before there can be permanent peace. Yes, we have a new student, a thinking, moral, bleating student, with a new morality and a new religion, preparing to face a new world. God is not dead, but I sometimes think that some of his interpreters are dead or dying— from the ears up, anyway. Generations past have bequeathed to us a priceless heritage and generations yet unborn charge us with this sacred trust. Our fathers admonish us with unusual anxiety and posterity calls to us from the bosom of the future. We teachers must understand, appreciate and adjust ourselves to this new student with his new psychology and philosophy. "What means this bleating of the sheep?" Let us think it over.

A L P H A PHI A L P H A A N D FISK UNIVERSITY. By

BROTHER W .

DUBOIS.

I regret that Alpha Phi Alpha in its annual convention in New York missed a fine opportunity to help in the uplift of Negro education. If I had been able to be present when the matter came up I might possibly have influenced the meeting not to side-track the resolution which had been sent them. This resolution was as follows: "We wish to express our deep and active sympathy with the students and alumni of Fisk University who are fighting for academic freedom and the manhood and womanhood of the Negro race. No institution can hope to attract the flower of Negro youth today if its administration seeks to crush their spirit, allows them no legitimate self-expression, subjects them to insult and makes its policy subservient to the enemies of the Negro race while neglecting and despising the race itself, its own alumni and the parents of the students. If these conditions exist at Fisk University, as has been publicly and repeatedly charged then no little reforms, no matter how well meant, will do. A radical change of administration is demanded." Some people assume that my speech at Fisk University last June started this trouble. Nothing is farther from the truth. Students of Fisk have recently set down eleven grievances, going back for a period of eight or nine years, as follows: " 1 . Student paper suppressed in 1914. "2. Student Council abandoned about 1918. ":s. Athletic Association discouraged and finally suppressed in 1920. . "4. Y. M. C. A. crippled and practically let die m 1920. "5. Independence of literary clubs threatened by Dr. McKenzie's ambition in 1921 to select membership of each club and to supervise each meeting. "6. Baseball stricken from sport calendar in 1921. "7. Track meets forbidden in 1923. "8. Reluctance to allow a student to represent students in international student conference in 1924. "9. Discouragement of dramatics and self-expression in general by minute supervision to the point that all student orations, debates, etc., were practically written by faculty and approved by President. "10. Breach driven between student bodies of Fisk and Meharry by Dean of Women and two members of faculty in letter which insulted Meharry men.

"11. President rendered ineffective efforts, made to beautify campus by discouraging attempts . made to pull weeds and plant flowers." Alumni have been pouring in letters to prove the situation at Fisk during McKenzie's administration. I quote one letter which McKenzie was asked to publish and did n o t : "My dear Dr. McKenzie: "As an alumnus of Fisk University, it grieves me deeply to learn of the recent riotings and demonstrations there. I wish for the prosperity of Fisk in all directions at all times, and because of this feel it my duty to write you about the matter. "It stands to reason there must have been some cause for the occurrences, either justifiable or otherwise. In defense of Dr. DuBois, I can certainly testify as to the authenticity of the majority of his accusations against the administration. (Some of the rules were said to have been imposed since I was graduated in 1919.) But as for fully realizing just what did occur at Fisk University, no one can understand but the students who were there during the time from September, 1918, to the present. None of the former students or other alumni can sense nor judge the situation by the Fisk they knew and loved. It is a far different Fisk and we realize it should be different to some extent. "I for one appreciate many of the things you have done for Fisk in the way of scholarship and expansion, but to be a successful college president, one must not only be a good business man, a scholar— one must have as well diplomacy and tact in the handling of the student body. This last attribute, Dr. McKenzie, is as essential to the success of a school as any, and it is the one I found lacking under your ad• ministration my last year at Fisk University. "Most of the rules made were for the students' own good (some were to my mind absolutely unnecessary), yet, if the students cannot see the wisdom of such rules and wish to peaceably discuss them, should they - not be allowed such a privilege? If they send a committee to talk things over—then the President refuses to see the committee—could we but expect some sort of reaction from repeated rebuffs of this kind ? A President can be of good courage, firm and true to his convictions, yet be sympathetic with the students' viewpoint, open-minded, kind, and talk things over when they wish it. To my knowledge, you refused to see two such committees (one in reference to the Student Council even in 1919!) Instead of having the attitude of a real friend, even sympathetic, you took an altogether different one, which seemed to ring in ( ur c.irs : "/ am the President of Fisk—what / say goes! If you don't like it, leave!" (The last sentence you did actual,y say, over and over again, instead of doing your utmost to make the students like it in spite of the rules.) Another instance of your lack of ' tact and understanding: I distinctly recall one chapel occasion when a student arose and in a very gentlemanly way said: 'Dr. McKenzie, I think ' Beforce he could get any farther you cut him off sharply with these words : 'Think! You're not supposed to think! Do your thinking away from the university!" On another occasion a student raised his hand and said very politely: 'Dr. McKenzie, may I ask a question?' To which you replied just as sharply: ' N o ! ' (That young man quietly left in a few days for another school.) "I could recite instance after instance of such happenings that should have been handled in a far different way. "It is not Dr. DuBois who is causing the so-called destruction of Fisk (he merely warned you at Fisk of the outcome of your policies) ; it is not merely the passing of certain rules and regulations that has wrought havoc; it is lack of sympathy, of tact, and of a winning personality in the President!

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 "With the present administration I cannot see a bright outlook for Fisk. Strife and bitterness often exist in some schools under some presidents. Every one is not born to be a college president. We can have money, buildings and teachers, but without students wc can have no school.' It takes a man of a. different personality, with more tact, to bring Fisk nut of her present crisis. "As one who loves Fisk University and wishes for its success, I beg of you to think deeply on these things I so frankly tell yon for the good (if my beloved Alma Mater. " W r y truly yours." An excerpt trom another letter reads as follows: "I was at Fisk at the time the lamented Herald was suppressed, and with others 1 interviewed Dr. McKenzie several times in efforts to restore it. "I attended Fisk from September, 1!)14, until June, 1920, when I graduated. From 1916 until 1920 my classmates and I, together with others, made entreaties upon Dr. McKenzie and the faculty to give us a chance to get something more than book knowledge out of our college careers. These expressions invariably brought upon us suspicion and distrust. "I am certainly glad you have focussed the attention of the nation upon Fisk and conditions there. I do not condone lawlessness, but 1 am heartily in sympathy with the recent expression of Fisk students on the campus and I believe some good will come of it. "If I can be of any service in this section let me know. Depend on me also for financial support. "Very sincerely yours." The National Baptist Voice said recently after the so-called "riot" which reduced the students of Fisk University from 400 to 86: "The (inescapable conclusion derived is that Dr. McKenzie is an autocrat, a man with no vision, a fossil who treats grown men whom he has educated as though they were children in knickerbockers. He is domineering, overbearing, unsympathetic, and would better be a driver of cattle than an educator of Negro youths of this generation. If he had heard the analysis of the situation of young Simmons, one of his students, he might, perhaps, get an idea into his cranium to the effect that he is no longer dealing with slaves, nor the descendants of slaves, but with freemen who are possessed of every instinct and ambition, conception and vision that any other set of young Americans possess. To educate men and women as Fisk University does, and then to attempt to make puppets of them, bespeaks a narrowness, folly, yes. ignorance, of human nature that actually unfits the man who attempts it to teach in such a school, much less to be its president. Every sensible man knows that the president of a university is supposed to incarnate the intellectual ideals, and also to carry the tender and fatherly feelings of love which actuated the founders to establish such a school. T h e . statement of the troubles in the press by the president are the silliest, most puerile efforts to becloud the clear issue of facts." This, then, is the situation, and the question is : What is Alpha Phi Alpha doing to help Fisk and to help Negro education ?

T H E MODERN P H I L O S O P H Y OF EDUCATION. By

BROTHER JAMKS A.

SCOTT.

Until within relatively recent decades education beyond the elements—felt to be synonymous with book learning—was admittedly for the selected few. During the early stages of our democracy it was only members of the cultured classes who sent their children further than the "Dame School." As a matter of fact, the curriculum of the grammar school—so-called

because of its stress oil Latin grammar—was useless to any save those whose desired future lay in the field of divinity, law, medicine, or pedagogy. Indeed, it was the purpose of the higher institutions of learning—ofttimes avowed but always implicit—to train capable leaders in these fields. So the opportunity tor education was not only largely restricted to a class, but also to individuals of that class whose minds were adapted to the type of subject-matter taught. Occasionally, to be sure, a gifted boy from.the social substratum was graduated, but the exception was rare. Harvard College was founded to prepare ministers, and the majority of its student body was at least middle class. But with the advent of the democratic ideal into educational theory came the conviction that since all Americans are constitutionally free and equal, every one should have the opportunity for schooling. Consequently arrived universal compulsory attendance. Vet, despite this change in the personnel of student America, the content and methods of the higher schools underwent no process of adaptation. So we behold the anomaly of children of all classes and mental types with all sorts of futures attending schools whose unaltered historical purpose was to equip doctors, lawyers, preachers, and teachers. The result was inevitable. Thousands of parents evaded the educational law or withdrew their progeny as soon as they had passed beyond its jurisdiction, and thousands of boys and girls spent profitless year.t not doing the tasks for which they were not fitted and to which they were not inclined. The school system of America was a failure in that it was not fitting people for their probable future environments. •Because of ibis palpable inability of so-called classical education—the stated aim of which was the acquisition of knowledge—to produce men and women ea|iahle of effective participation in society, pioneer teachers began to look around for sounder principles upon which to base their work. True wisdom, they pragmatically agreed with Addison, consists not so much in knowing as in using the knowledge acquired. Starting with the thesis that the aim of instruction is to modify human behavior, they launched a wholesale attack upon the content of the course of study. Every subject taught in the schools was subjected to the utilitarian test. Why, they demanded, should time be spent teaching a child the extraction of a cube root—which he will probably never have to u t i l i z e when we leave untaught so many of the essential facts which would make bis life worth while? Why. since intellects vary in degree and kind, teach everybody the same things? Furthermore, should not the curriculum of a farming community differ from that of a city: A y there not different needs? Consequent upon the answers to these questions rose a new regime of school administration. Subjects were no longer taught simply to "train the mind" for "mental discipline." The criterion by which they were evaluated was their power to function in the lives of the learners—their worth to him from the point of view of health, business, or pleasure. Pari passu with change in content went the initiation of schools and courses plainly necessary to meet the needs of various types of pupils. Vocational guidance—hitherto confined to personal advice by eldersbecame a scientific study and attained the rank of a high school subject. University professors devoted va t research to the formulation of tests and measurements to determine individual differences. Psychoii gj that youngest offspring of philosophy—was haled as the most promising of sciences—albeit still in embryo, And concomitantly with the widespread interest in these problems came their application in the differentiation of courses and in the establishment of numerous types of institutions. Schools for the feebli minded, manual training courses, commercial

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courses, and scientific courses sprang up in every part of civilized America. The South, too, is gradually coming to see that adaptation of school and courses to the child is essential to further educational progress. And in these diverse kinds of schools and courses was inaugurated an evolutionary change in method of instruction. For the death-knell of rote learning had been sounded. If teaching was to be functional rather than formal, if the ideal aim was not to be knowledge acquired, but facts utilized, the obvious procedure was to teach facts in use. Hence the passing of the memory gem type of recitation and the advent of the schoolroom as a laboratory where results were measured m terms of activities. No longer were ideas simply explained; they were explained to be incorporated into the thought habits of the individual. Children had to learn the mechanism of a tool in order to acquire the habit of manipulating that tool with care and efficiency. Perhaps Squeers was as modern as amusing in his scheme of classroom management. At any rate, he worked on a sounder principle than the catechising masters who were his contemporaries. What. now. is the use which Negro educators must make c.i these educational theories so recently formulated? In the first place, they must accept unevasively the problem which is theirs. Entrusted as they are with the children of the race, they must realize that in their hands is the liberating truth that can make a future generation of useful and happy people. In the second place, they must make detailed analysis of the situations in which they find themselves. Reasoning from present to future, from cause to effect, they must take the children as they find them and guide them in such directions and teach them such subjects as will make each child capable of attaining his fullest and highest potentialities. T o do this they need a sociological insight that can bridge past, present, and future; a knowledge of the hitherto discovered laws of education: and a soul on fire with enthusiasm for a righteous cause. 'Phe field of Negro education is no berth to triflers.

For there is an inextricably intimate relation between the American color problem and the American school. How much racial prejudice is due to a difference in condition and how much to purely physical differences is a mooted question I do not raise to answer. But if we are to prefer successfully the charge that America discriminates against a man solely because he is dark, then we must see to it that the future generation while differing in hue from their co-Americans, is not inferior morally, mentally, or culturally to the other groups of this republic. We must be able to show that the sole basis of prejudice is color. When the agitator twenty-live years hence cries to his audience, "You are persecuting" black," the country must lie able to turn and sec a people ostracized simply because of physical characteristicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not for other reasons. Otherwise, his propaganda will be a futile lie and the job of seeing that the race is no more inferior belongs to those who teach its youth. Finally, it is for the Negro educator to equip his students with a workable philosophy of life which will stand them in good stead amid the environing prejudices and racial animosities of twentieth century America. For to be a Negro and to attempt seriously to contribute to the life of the community requires moral courage of no mean degree. Too many of our brightest and most sensitive succumb to the inferiority complex resulting from the suggestions of press and experience that surround us. Thus the exercise of their finest powers is inhibited. Could these people but be able to see themselves as worthy forerunnrs in a just and triumphant cause, they would attack their problems with more hopeful spirit and greater zeal. T o prepare these people manually, mentally, and culturally is no small part of our task, but to light in their souls thu fire of manhood and womanhood is the most important work of all.

There are two kinds of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the doers and the thinkers. The doers do what the thinkers think. Be a thinker; go to high school; go to college.

^EDITORIALS* By Victor B. Daly

STAY-IN-HIGH-SCHOOL, COLLEGE.

STAY-IN-

Alpha Phi Alpha has almost convinced the race that it should go to High School and go to College. Having passed this first notch in our educational campaign, it is time to turn our attention to a step higher up—keeping our youth in school after they have been persuaded to matriculate. Everybody who has had the experience knows that the first year in High School and the freshman year in College are the most difficult on the calendar. Many start, but few return for the second year. The mortality rate of those who wilt under the first year's grind is appalling. The freshman registration of one of our large colored High Schools in the East last fall was 675, by mid-year this number had dwindled to 501, and the following September only :J42, or a fraction over 50% reentered school. This is an educational problem second to none. To drop out of school after a year's initial effort, is really worse than not having entered at all. In the first place it is an expensive waste of time and energy. But besides the material loss, there is the far more serious and subtle damage in the moral effect of quitting school. It weakens the character, it destroys confidence and it furthers the development of an "inferiority complex." Let us broaden the scope of our annual campaign! Let us inculcate into our Go-to-High School, Go-to-College converts the spirit of sticking it out. It's not how many we send to college that counts, it's what becomes of them after they go to college. Let's begin to stress the completion of the education begun—and let our charity begin at home! Nothing is more downright pitiful than the selfmade man who inists on boasting of the fact that he never had an education. He can't realize what an education would have done for him, if combined with his natural ability and talents.

sickening. else!

God help him, for he won't let anybody

RECLAMATION BY PROPAGANDA. The announcement by the Editor of the S P H I N X of a vigorous campaign to round up inactive Alpha Phi Alpha men by the medium of the S P H I N X , is welcome news indeed. There are too many members-at-large, who have no definite chapter affiliations, pay no obligations, assume no responsibility, share no burdens, and yet reap all the benefits that come of membership in Alpha Phi Alpha. The S P H I N X is the ideal medium for bringing back these "strays" into the fold. Get a copy of the S P H I N X into the hands of these brothers, and they will soon affiliate with the nearest Chapter or hunt up their former organization. The S P H I N X is the mouthpiece of the Fraternity. It is propaganda for Alpha Phi Alpha. It serves to keep us in touch with each other over the years and across the miles. All success to Brother Brown in his effort to built a bigger, brighter and better S P H I N X , thereby increasing its purpose and usefulness.

W e are opposed to corporal punishment and all forms of violence; but if there is any one thing that makes us want to use a large, bumpy hickory club. it is the boy or girl who will not go to school.

Brother Contee Cullen, that budding young bard from N. Y. U., is speaking for his defenseless race in a voice that few can match. His poetry is gaining entrance to pages that have long since been closed to prose.

GRADUATE WANTED—AN

ALEXANDER

HAMILTON!

If there is any one thing which Alpha Phi Alpha needs more than anything else, it is a firm, solid, progressive, safe financial policy. Having long since passed the experimental stage, our fraternity has nowreached the point where its further growth, development and usefulness are dependent upon a sound and modern fiscal policy that will lead to financial independence. Money isn't everything in life, but there's mighty little that can be accomplished without it. The steps taken at the last convention in authorizing a Commission of Three to make a study of endowment plans is a bigger step than most of us realize. The President's appointment of the personnel of the Commission will be watched with interest. Much of the future of Alpha Phi Alpha depends upon the report that this Commission will make to the Nineteenth Convention. We are hoping for a real Alexander Hamilton among them. Of all the fools on earth the boy who will not take an education when he has a chance is the most

CHAPTERS.

The old Grad! What the old grad is to the college, the Grad brother is to his frat. While the undergraduate chapters supply a continuous, new life-stream to the fraternity, the graduate chapters' carry on Most the Chapters that will gain admission to Alpha Phi Alpha from henceforth will be graduate organizations. The reasons are obvious 1 he majority of schools that can qualifv for membership in the fraternity have already bee'n admitted • secondly, each year our undergraduate chapters are turning out additional men into life's channels to ake up the burden of a career. These graduate men will naturally seek out the association of their brothers who are engaged in the same business or profession, whose problems are identical with their own and who are therefore naturally closer allied to them than the younger brothers of undergraduate years. t h e Graduate Chapter is destined to play a role of increasing prommence in the furtherance of Alpha Phi a d 3imS o M e / S fh " - T h e ° r Sanization of our older brothers into concrete, solid units of graduate chapters, is a policy that should receive every encouragement from the General Organization and each thinking Alpha Phi Alpha m a n * On the other hand, too much stress cannot be placed upon the elec-

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925

tion of men to graduate chapters. W e must keep vividly before us the fact that Alpha Phi Alpha is essentially, primarily and emphatically a College F r a ternity—a young man's organization, founded upon the college boy's point of view, and built upon the college boy's enthusiasm and fire of youth. Alpha Phi Alpha can never be an old man's club. And no active Alpha Phi Alpha can ever grow old. It's the point of view that counts every time.

T H E SONG

BOOK.

"Let melody flow, wherever wc go, We'll laugh and sing and merric be, And merrie be tonight my boys." What about that Song Book? We've been hearing about that song book long enough to have had a second edition by now. And we need it. W h y doesn't some ingenious bard compile a book of Alpha Phi Alpha songs and put it in the hands of the printing committee for preparation and distribution to the Chapters. We don't need legislation for that sort of thing, we need ingenuity and initiative. W e have almost legislated the idea to death now. Every Convention since 1913 has memorialized the song book and stopped with that—killed it before it lived. Hail fellows, well met, must needs have a smile on their lips and a song in their hearts. Let's have our Song

Bookl Congratulations to Epsilon are in order. Their unique method of paying off the mortgage on the old frat house is worthy of John Pierpont himself. All of which is further proof that something else can come out of Michigan besides a Ford. The delegate to the last Convention who wanted to know if Alpha Phi Alpha was married to any particular sorority, forgot that we are still only eighteen. We haven't reached the age of consent, brother.

Plans For Sixth Annual "Go-to-High-School, Goto-College" Campaign. By R. W. C A N N O N .

Director.

DEAR BROTHERS :

With regard to the approaching Go-To-High School, Go-To-College Campaign this office has plans for carrying it out in every state in the Union regardless of whether or not we have a chapter there. Plans which have consumed nearly two solid months of hard labor are about completed. The campaign date will be announced Saturday morning. It is desired that the public in the vicinity of your chapter be in a very receptive frame of mind when your campaign begins. There must be an interest created to form the state of expectancy in which we desire the public mind. Then you will have the necessary co-operation. To accomplish the above this office has constructed a circular letter which will be sent to as many prominent and leading people in your city and state as you desire. People of influence, prominence, and prestige; leaders of thought and action, of ours and other races, should receive these. Therefore, send to this office at once, names and address of those persons, and institutions, too, which you would have receive this propaganda. // will help your chapter's campaign wonderfully. ACT ! Very fraternally, RAYMOND W .

CANNON,

General President. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Inc.. and Director the "Go-To~High School. Go-To-College" Campaign.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.,—Bulletin I I I . T O : All Chapters of Alpha P h i Alpha Fraternity. S U B J E C T : The Go-To-High School, Go-To-College Campaign. The following requested information must be sent to this office by return mail by the chapter officer receiving this communication. It is not necessary to hold a meeting to act upon this. Please do not delay in this. 1. Name and address of minister or head of each church whose congregation is composed mainly of Negroes. 2. Christian Agencies, i. e., Y. M. C. A., Y. W . C. A., working solely among our group. Name and address of executive heads. 3. Community and Social agencies working among our group, i. e., Urban League Branch, Community Center, Settlement Houses, Welfare organizations, etc. 4. Name and address of the secretary of church societies, women's clubs, civic organizations, literary and scholastic societies, whose membership is Negro. 5. Special talent within your chapter for use in the Campaign. 6. If there is published in your city a Race newspaper, give name and address of editor of same. State attitude, if any, of the publication in former years toward the Campaign. 7. Approximate number of places in your state where our people are to be found in numbers of 100 or more. 8. Name, and address, if possible, of a leader in each place. 9. [s attendance of schools mixed in your city? 10. If not, give name and address of principals of each wherein the students are of our group. State race of each. 11. Presence of any of our nationally recognized leaders in your vicinity. Name, address, and field of endeavor engaged in. 12. Names and addresses of members of your chapter in foreign countries. 13. Other information which you believe this office should possess. Chapters are to be held responsible for the prosecution of the campaign in every community of their state wherein there are 100 or more of our people. Where there are two or more chapters in a state, all will be jointly and severally responsible. Districts will be assigned each. Please submit by return mail in a general way the plan of your chapter's campaign. This office may make suggestions. Such plan will be examined for approval as before. Please act now. The campaign date will be announced Saturday morning. Communications will be sent your chapter very frequently from this date with detailed instructions on the campaign which will be somewhat different this year. BE P R O M P T W I T H Y O U R R E P L I E S . RAYMOND W .

CANNON,

Director

of the "Go-to-High-School, Go-to-Collcgc" Campaign. Issued 17-March-25. All Chapters Take Note. There will be a campaign manager appointed for each state. The duties of this officer shall be to carry on the campaign in the small communities throughout the state where the chapters are not located. He shall ascertain where our people are in numbers of one hundred or more in the small towns, villages, rural communities as well as cities throughout the state where there are no chapters. Chapters will get in

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The idea to convey here is that Alpha Phi Alpha had been in existence for twelve years at the time it created within itself this institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;our educational campaign. In the twelfth convention the delegates came to the conclusion that it was not enough for them to continue along merely for their own mutual uplift, betterment, and to have the fraternity merely insist upon the personal progress of its members. They began to cast about. Some statistics were presented. The brothel's desired to enter upon something more valuable and constructive in rendition of service. So they established the (.â&#x20AC;˘> to High School. Go to College Campaign, which has commanded the attention of the nation.

touch with their managers and co-operate in every way possible. Each chapter must supply its manager with a list of available workers and speakers from its membership. The .State Manager will then assign these to coyer the various places above described m his state. Managers will consider location and distance of chapters in making assignments. Chapters are requested to purchase heavily of the campaign literature. If your chapter must economize, let it be on something else. Each chapter is requested to assign its honorary members something specific in the campaign. Heretofore some chapters have overlooked them. You will find, as 1 have, that your honorary members are eager to take part in any phase of the campaign. Give them a chance. Everyone must work, from the top on down to the bottom.

I I I . EDUCATION.

a. The ability to do. b. Ability to know and understand surrounding conditions and environment. e. Initiative. d. Conception of Nature and laws of Nature. e. Preparation.

An outline for the consideration especially of those who "cover" the small communities is printed elsewhere in these columns. Copies have been sent to chapters and campaign managers for each state. Where there is more than one chapter in a state, all will be jointly and severally responsible for the campaign in their state being successful. Give your state manager KM) per cent co-operation.

IV.

This office will excuse no chapter from its work in the campaign for any reason whatever. Six years ago we dedicated our cause to the service of mankind when we created the "Go-To-High School, Go-to-College" Campaign. We have since admitted many men into the Fraternity on the basis of their ability to serve- and render constructive service. Fifty-four chapters will therefore perform. And none need write this office requesting to be excused. This work is sacred. Every brother must in some way do his bit. There is something each brother can do. Death or ill health are the only excuses which this office will recognize for non-performance of duty. Govern yourselves accordingly. RAYMOND W.

Director

ALPHA

11. T H E GO TO H I G H

FRATERNITY.

SCHOOL. GO TO COLLEGE C A M -

PAIGN; EXPLANATION OF.

a. Describe. b. (Irigin. f. Cause of its establishment.

2. Purposes.

EDUCATION

AMONG

NEGROES

a. Show the progress of the individual. b. Show that the whole group has made nut enough progress. c. Give statistics bearing on illiteracy among Negroes. d. Statistics showing what progress has been made. c. Show what is necessary for greater progress in the fields of learning and education. References: College-bred Negro, by W. E. B. DuBois; Year Book compiled by Tuskegee Institute: Statistics available at National Urban League. Aim to show in a measure that as a race we could have made greater progress if we had stimulated the ambition of the individual to make the most of his opportunities, etc.

School. Campaign:

a. Origin. 1. Date of establishment. 2. Purpose (service, uplift, etc.). :t. A few words about our ideals, standards, scholarship, etc. 4. Mention some of our prominent brothers and their fields of endeavor, i. e., Brothers DuBois, Roberts, Scott, MaIone. Vaun. t o o k , Moreland, Tobias, Hall, George E. Cannon, EL K. Jones. and others. b. Size of the organization, number of chapters, located at leading institutions of learning, etc.

EDUCATION.

AMERICA.

The following outline is suggested for the consideration of speakers assigned by the state campaign t . s as well as the chapters: i. A L P H A I ' m

PURPOSE OF A N

V. HISTORY

CANNON.

The Go-To-High Go-To-College

Tin;

a. To devflop the individual. 1. Morally. 2. Mentally. :;. Physically. b. To develop self-respect. 1. For and of the individual. 2. For and of the race. e. To better social conditions. d. To eradicate all misunderstanding. e. To develop the mind. f. Elevation of moral standards. Elevation of living conditions. ;; h. To develop appreciation for the higher and the finer things of life.

VI.

VALUES OF EDUCATION.

a. To the Slate. 1. Better citizenship. 2. Better laws, intelligent living, less suffering, less vice. b. To the race. 1. Indispensable factor to progress. 2. Ability to uplift and aid. :i. Ability to help defend and protect. 4. An example for others to follow. 5. Arouse the ambitions of the group to higher things. (J. Ability to help promote co-operation and understanding.

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c. To the individual. 1. Satisfaction derived. 2. Enjoyment obtained. 3. Better associations. 4. Greater earning capacity. 5. Less competition. 6. Opportunity for useful service to fellow men. 7. Enables conception and appreciation to be had of the higher and finer things of life. 8. Enables one to give his or her contribution to the world. 9. Enables one to contribute to the social, political, civic and industrial development of his community in an intelligent manner and with effect. 10. Creates self-respect, confidence, ambition, initiative. 11. More regard for fellow men, etc. VI.

VII.

V I I I . T H E APPEAL TO A L L A L U M N I OF O U R RACE. IX.

T H E APPEAL TO A L L O U R SOCIAL AND WELFARE AGENCIES, ETC.

APPEAL AND PLEA TO BOYS AND GIRLS.

a. Those out of school to enter if possible. b. Those out for financial reasons, tell them some of the ways in which to work their way through school. c. Those in school, exhort to continue and remain until they have accomplished something definite. d. Their duty to be learned and efficient.

APPEAL AND PLEA TO PARENTS.

a. Arouse their ambition, that they may stimulate the ambition of their boys and girls for education. b. Show the danger of neglect in this matter. c. Impress them with the fact that they owe this duty to the world, the nation, our group, themselves, their children. d. Make them know the progress of our group, and its future, is dependent upon the education of our youth.

T H E APPEAL FOR THE CO-OPERATION OF O U R

MIN-

ISTERS AND C H U R C H E S . XI. XII.

O U R DUTY AND DEBT TO O U R Y O U T H . T H E GENERAL APPEAL. RAYMOND W .

Director

CANNON,

The "Go-To-High Go-To-College"

School, Campaign.

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Cornell University. BroTHKR.s IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

With yon, Brothers, we are enjoying the springtime; and like most of you we are working hard. Our hearts, too, throh with the aspirations of youth. W e would like to transport into reality some of our air castles, so beautifully built. What we are doing, educationally and socially, and what events of interest are occurring around us may be briefly related. In the College of Forestry we have Brother Paul H . Logan, who has been elected vice-president of the Forestry Club. H e is also the assistant business manager of "The Annual," a publication issued by the same college. Brother Joseph R. Houchins. now of the Law College, was very active last term in the Arts College, as a member of the varsity debate squad. Competition was always keen. Quantity and quality were both present. But he won the position of alternate on the team opposing Pennsylvania University. Brother W. M. Banks, of the Arts College, is the President of the Elite Literary Society, which is the brightest spot in Ithaca's literary and social life. At the close of last semester, Brother Cyril G. Bow left us and joined Brother V. C. Tandey's Corps of Architects in N. Y. City. Last summer" we contributed Brother Frank Leslie Thompson to New York City's corps of business men. H e is doing

splendidly. Alpha Chapter is delighted to have here associated with her Brother I. A. Derbigny, Nu Lambda, who is taking his M. A. in chemistry and Brother W. O. Cook, of Beta Lambda, who is taking his M. A. in Education. Brother Cook received his A. B. from Cornell in 'us. He is still the principal of a very large and progressive high school in Kansas City, Mo. He is here on a leave of absence for study. We are thinking seriously of running an "ad" in The Ladies' Home Journal in order to locate Brother Derbigny's pin. Brother R. L. Harvey, of Cornell Medical College. does not wear his pin any more. But it is being worn right o n ; and he seems all the happier. A beautiful young sophosacn at Howard, Miss Eleanor Taylor, wears his pin. "Dick" confesses that she has his heart. W e offer them the first fragrant flower of the Spring. Fraternallv vours, W. M. B A N K S ,

Chapter Editor. GAMMA

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Virginia Union University. BROTHERS IX ALPHA Pm ALPHA. Greetings: The spring is truly here and with it we see o u r educational campaign, our delating season, and the work of cupid. That ambitious sou of Venus is busy in our midst; we see signs of his activities already. We will call no name but while Mr. C. M. liurrell

is reclaiming the souls of men for God's kingdom, he might do well to reclaim his Frat pin, or we will tell something next issue. [â&#x20AC;˘'our of our Brothers were elected to work with the debating team this year; they are Brothers W . H. Payne. W. G. Daniel, J. T. Carter and D. V. Jamiesoni T h e rival Teams of Union will please take notice as th.se men are fully capable of representing the Red and Steel. Alpha Phi Alpha can depend on Gamma to put the Go-lo-High School, Go-to-College movement over in the Alpha way. W e carried out an extensive program last year and we intend to better the record this year. W e intend to cover all the territory of the state save_ that-.covered by Zeta Lambda and Nu Lambda. \ \ e intend to reach every boy. every girl, every man, every woman. The last peon will hear our message. the educators will be inspired by it, the ministers shall preach it, the people shall act because they shall have been convinced. For, realizing as we do that it is ours to bear the light, that to spread the message of education, is not only a command, but a sacred duty, we will thunder the message until it permeates every vale, surmounts every lull-top, strikes every mountain-side and sends back echoes; echoes in the form of young men and women filled with new ambitions, new aspirations, comes back in the form of overcrowded high schools and colleges in our state, comes back in the form of more men and women who are able to serve, come back in the form of bettered social conditions,' peace and prosperity. Gamma also wishes to take this means of congratulating those of her sons who have been recently elected to till responsible positions in other chapters. May they continue in their good work. Gamma is proud of her sons. H. E. BOOKER,

Chapter Editor. ETA

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N e w York City. BROTHERS OF A L P H A

P H I ALPHA.

Greetings:

As this is the Educational Number of the S P H I N X we assure you that Eta Chapter is bidding for the highest honors in this line. This is of course expected since we have among our members such elites in the educational wi rid as Brothers D r W E B DuBois, editor of the Crisis; Eugene Kinckle Joins executive secretary of the National Urban LeagueCharles S. J,.l,nsâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;n, editor of Opportunity; besides Brothers James C. Harris, professor in the schools c.i New York City; Eric Walrond, editor to the leading new papers and magazines; and Countee P . Cullen, poet, orator and scholar of the highest rank Our program for the "Go-to-High-School-Go-ToL-ollege Campaign" is steaming with zeal, enthusiasm and determination for the most successful, educationally inspiring movement ever presented in this section. After each regular meeting of the chapter * e brothers are engaged at a buffet luncheon and smoker with the discussion of a general educational program Ihe meeting, luncheon and discussion held lasi week was highly honored bv a wonderfully interestJig address of Brother Dr. W. S. Scarborogh

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who was visiting the city at the time and invited to speak at the meeting. So Eta Chapter is carrying on and putting forth its best efforts toward encouraging education generally, and higher educational standards among our people in and about New York. Yours cordially and fraternally, M YI.ES A.

PAIGE,

Secretary.

the 135th St. Y. M. C. A. as religious worker and secretary of that branch of work. Thence he was called to his present office and, as stated further by one of the leading newspapers of New York, "under the influence of Dr. Powell, has developed into one of the ablest ministers of his denomination." H e is vice-president of the New York State Baptist Convention, secretary of the Harlem League of Churches, assistant secretary of the Baptist Ministers' Conference, and a Mason, as well as the father of a fine young son, Marshall Lorenzo, Jr. Brother Shepard was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha at Gamma Chapter in 1910, and has since been a most active member, attending two General Conventions as delegate, and is now president of Eta Chapter, New York City. Respectfully submitted by MYLES A.

Secretary

BROTHER COUNTEE, P .

PAIGE,

of Eta

CULLEN.

Poet, orator and scholar of the highest

BROTHER REVEREND MARSHALL L.

The most outstanding

SHEPARD.

young minister of his

denomination. Brother Shepard is well known to all the brothers who attended either the General Convention of 1023 at Columbus, to which he was Junior Delegate from Eta Chapter and figured greatly in bringing the li)24 General Convention to New York City, or to those who attended that convention here during the past Christmas week, when Brother Shepard was ever on the guard to guide its progress in the channels of greatest needs and possible good effect. H e is the most outstanding young minister in New York today assistant pastor of the, heretofore, greatest Negro Church in the world, the Abysinian Baptist Church, of which Brother Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell is pastor, and where the public meeting of the last General Convention was held. Brother Shepard was highly recommended by the pastor and his other assistants, as well as the congregation upon his successful management of the (livers and immense affairs of the Church during the absence of the pastor while on a three months' visit t<i Europe and the Holy Land. Brother Shepard received his training at the Slater State Normal School, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., and also studied at the City College of New York, and the Union Theological Seminary, New York City. While at Virginia Union University, he was a member of the debating team which did the, almost, impossible in defeating the arguing stalwarts of the Howard University team in 1981. Since his advent in New York, he has been actively engaged in Christian work. First, he was the Harlem Missionary of the New York Bible Society from which position he went to

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Brother Countee P. Cullen has long been known to the public as one of the few poets of the purest and truest American type. Though only a very young man, as yet, his poems have been continually published in the leading newspapers and magazines of the country. The 'New York World, as an example, has devoted even full double columns in its Sunday issues to the works of this brilliant mentor of marvelous rhymes. The first volume of his work will be published next fall by the Harpers Publishing Company. This in itself is great evidence of a notable achievement. But his brilliancy is not restricted to poetic composition, for now it has extended over the whole field of literary endeavors. Brother Cullen is a senior in the College department of New York University, New York City, and has twice represented his school and won for it second place on both occasions in the world-famed Witter Bynner Intercollegiate Contest; and to culminate his collegiate activities, he has just won for himself the very highest scholastic honors, and election to Phi Beta Kappa. Brother Cullen is the son of Reverend Dr. Cullen. who is pastor of one of the largest churches of New York and his church has the greatest seating capacity of all. Brother Cullen is a true Alpha Phi Alpha man, as exemplified by his constant activities in Eta Chapter since his initiation. He will be remembered by the brothers who attended the Pilgrimage of the Seventeenth Annual Convention held here in New York City this past Christmas for his wonderful lines recited there; also to the readers of the last issue of the SPHINX.

Brother Cullen's extreme modesty in his own great accomplishments put me to the task of gathering this material and photo from other sources than himself. Respectfully submitted by M Y L E S A.

Secretary

PAIGE,

of Bta Chapter.

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front Syracuse, N. Y.

Iota has just chosen her officers for the year of 1925, who are, Thomas Morris, president; L. Hamilton Maloney, vice-president; A. L. Demond, secretary ; Arthur L. Royster, treasurer; W. Lester Bryant, Sergeant-at-Arms. The chapter lamented the passing

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 of Brother Thomas A. F . Center, who has worked so assiduously for Iota for the past six years. In his passing from the chair goes Iota's greatest executive of all times. H e has never been tired of devoting brawn and brain to Alpha Phi Alpha. The chapter was cognizant of this fact and they authorized Brother Maloney to present him with a box of cigars. The chapter was stunned by a flame of eloquence from the brother, but the suppressed oratory of the noble brother in receiving the cigars was noteworthy; however; he did nut open the box and share them with the boys. W e have been favored by having in our ranks Brother John Pollard of Thcta-Lambda. During his sojourn here he has been very much alive in the fraternity circle. H e made a very eloquent speech to the chapter and newly-elected officers. His lucid speech will ever be in the memory of the Iota boys. Brother Pollard has served in an advisory capacity to the younger men and has made his influence felt by everyone. We all vote him a unique, enthusiastic fraternity man and a princely guest. Pray send other men of his type to Syracuse. Iota is proud to boast of the success of her athletes, especially Brothers Cecil Cooke and Henry Robinson. Brother Cooke won his block " S " at the university and is one of the best athletes ever. Brother Robinson has won his block " C " and is doing credit for himself at Colgate University. On February 28 we injected new blood into our chapter, namely, W . Lester Bryant, Arthur N. Grant and Winficld Johnson. All of them seem to realize their fraternal responsibility and are applying themselves to the task. Our plans are in the making for a better Go-ToHigh-School, Go-To-College Movement and we shall n< t leave anything undone that may be effective in inducing boys and sirls of central New York to complete their education. As we are being trained mentally and physically in college, we feel the necessity of versatility so on April 30 the chapter will give its third annual Formal Dance. There will be a graceful response to the strains of jazz. All central New York will join us to make this the annual classic of this section of the State. We are working to make this the year of years. We are now signing off. Yours fraternally, T H O M A S G. MORRIS.

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Minneapolis, BROTHERS IN A L P H A

Minnesota.

P H I ALPHA,

Greetings'.

In former years Mu has had none of the Brothers to make a varsity team at the University of Minnesota. Today William O'Shields, a brother in Alpha Phi Alpha has attained individual track honors from a recent all-university indoor track meet. O'Shields is also training with the varsity grid squad and is the prospective full-hack for the 1986 machine. This article was taken from a St. Paul Daily: I'.ll.l. O'SHEELDS T A K E S ALL " U " TRACK HONORS ROCHESTER NEGRO ATHLETE W I N S T.">, SBO-YAUD D A S H IX INDOOR MEET

Flashing to spectacular victory in the dash events, Bill O'Shields, a Negro athlete from Rochester, won the individual championship at the annual indoor alluniversity track meet at the University of Minnesota Saturday. O'Shields broke the tape in the 75-yard dash and the 220, stepping the longer race in the fast time of

:24 flat. Patterson, with a first in the low hurdles and a second in the high, finished in second place, with Max Conrad, who turned in a leap of 5 feet 10!/j inches in the high jump, in third position. Herman Drill stamped himself as a shot-putter of varsity caliber when he heaved the metal ball li~ feet 10 inches. The meet was open to men who had not won a letter in Gopher track competition and brought to a close Coach Sherman Finger's indoor track series. The summary : 75-yard high hurdles—Won by Birtram; Patterson sec. nd, Kyberg third. Time, :1G 2-5. 440-yard dash—Won by Willctt; Anderson second; Hall third. Time, :54 8-5. 75-yard (lash—Won by O'Shields; Murarell second, l.ibby third. Time 108 1-5; 220-yard dash—Won by O'Shields; Nelson second; I.amont third. Time, :24 flat. Half-mile—Won by Scarborough; Bernhagen second, Myles third. Time. 2:08 1-5. 75-yard low hurdles—Won by Patterson; Townsend second, Libby third. Time, :!>!>. Two-mile run—Won by Hubbard; Popkin second. Eliason third. Time, 10:41. Pole vault—Havestad. Meeker and Katter, tied for first. Height. 10 feet. High jump—Won by Conrad ; Just second, Lundgren third. Height. 5 feet 10^4 inches. Shot put—Won by Drill: Schutte second, Conrad third. Distance. :;T feet 10 inches. Broad jump—Won by Kyle; Lundgren second. Just third. Distance, 19 feet 11 inches. Brother Kyle also added more attraction to Mu by taking first in the broad jump, giving three first places to Alpha Phi Alpha. Brother Samuel Stephens did not take the southern training trip with the varsity squad but is sure of his mound position when they return. Brother Harie Weber, D.D.S., an active member of Mu has enlisted another in his household—a fine baby girl. While in St. Paul and Minneapolis with their show Mr. Noble Sis<le and ICubie Blake and the Four Harmony Kin^is gave a noonday concert at the Minnesota Union. Heretofore the Friday noon concerts have not taken very well. At 11 :30, one hour before the concert was to begin the crowd had already began in assemble. More than 2.000 students heard the concert. The program was well received and the Minnesota Daily statis that it was the best so far this season. Mrs. Loraine Green, who holds a fellowship at the University of Chicago, conducted a series of lectures at the University of Minnesota through the Sociology Department. Her lectures were all well taken, InterRacial Relations being her chief topic. Fta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha entertained Mrs. Green at a beautiful reception. What has been : Founder's Day Banquet was to become a part of Mu's program. It has n i t been observed in many years. W hat happened: Monday evening. March 2:1. the Brothers of Mu gathered for this reunion. Messages were received from out of town Brothers and we all had a good time in general. Brother O'Shields spoke on Fraternalism; Brother Foster acted as toastmaster; General President Raymond W. Cannon spoke on the growth of the Chapter and the need of a Chapter House. Brother Fields made a tine talk which ended with a familiar phrase. "Put it down and get from around it." Brother C. W. Jones explained the Chapter-House Plan. A drive was launched for a Chapter House F"und. Several Brothers made pledges, ranging from $100 to $350 which totaled $8,390. Many Brothers

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have not yet made pledges. It is expected that the pledges will total $5,000 before the week of March 22 has passed. Among the Founders present were Bros. Cannon, Titus, Valle and Hilliyar. Bro. Valle submitted a report from Mu to the Seventh Annual Convention of 1914. Visiting Brothers present were E. Carter Urban, League Secretary and George Hamilton of Upsilon, Attorney-at-Law. Bros. Morris and Francis made very impressive talks, both prominent lawyers in the Twin Cities. The pledges were made payable over a period of five years, the first payment being due on most of them was October 1. Fraternally yours, CHAUNCEY

Editor

COOPER,

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Lincoln University. BROTHERS I N A L P H A

PHI

ALPHA,

Greetings:

After strenuous mid-year examinations, from which all brothers successfully emerged, Nu Chapter is again working hard to promote the interest of Alpha Phi Alpha. The latter part of February witnessed a delightful smoker given in honor of Brother McCoy, formerly of Nu, but now of Eta Lambda, and Brother Barber of Nu, but who at present is located in the south. These Brothers, along with Rev. Clarke, who was also at the smoker, were here at Lincoln to conduct the yearly evangelistic services. Among the many features of the smoker was the display of the Balfour Cup, which Nu captured at the recent convention. With the above mentioned gentlemen, members of the faculty, and Brother Carrol as speakers, and Brother Hughes as toastmaster, and with everyone in a jolly mood, the smoker was quite a success. Already plans are being formulated for the .Annual Go-to-High School, Go-to-College Movement. We are working hard, and are planning to make the year's campaign the greatest in the history of Nu. A large Sphinx Club has been tormed, consisting of 13 of the finest young men on the campus. These men are already imbued with the spirit, and show promise of becoming true Alpha Phi Alpha men in the future. Cupid has also been busy at Nu, as Cupid's Corner will show. Wishing success and luck to all sister chapters, I remain, Fraternally yours, JAMES J.

Horso.\,

Editor to the

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XI C H A P T E R . Wilberforce University. BROTHERS I N A L P H A P H I A L P H A :

Xi Chapter extends greetings to all brothers in the bond for the noteworthy progress they made during the past year, but truly hope and wish for all a prosperous new year. We have accomplished much, yet we are aware of the fact that our task is never done, and that there is much more to be accomplished. Therefore let us be up and doing with a heart for every fate. Learn to labor and not to wait. During the present school year there has been taken into our bond of fellowship and fraternal love seven baby brothers, in the persons of neophyte brothers Eustace A. Cann, Carl C. Brown, Theodore Simpsin. John Nance, Joseph Williams, Miller Maupin, and William White.

Brother Charles Williams represented us at the 17th National Alpha Phi Alpha Convention. His report was so inspiring that we felt that we had attended the convention in person. Since receiving the report from Brother Williams there has been a spirit instilled into the members that has never before characterized Xi Chapter. Each brother has pledged to make Xi the best in Alpha Phi Alpha. At the initial meeting of the new year the officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: W. Q. Bland, President; F . C. Beane, Vice-president; Milton S. Wright, Secretary; Beecher Watley, Assistant Secretary; J. Mason Davis, Corresponding Secretary; C. Williams, Alumnae Secretary; J. Q. Clark, Financial Secretary; Eustace A . ' C a n n , Historian; H . T . Williams, Sergeant at A r m s ; Miller Maupin, Editor to

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In Brother Bland's inaugural address he impressed upon the brothers that the age is one of progress and advancement and that Alpha men by virtue of their lofty standards and ideals must set the pace. This year the Sphinx Club has been made a freshman club, and in its fold there arc twenty-three young men who have already won for themselves fame by a most excellent program which they rendered in the University auditorium. Alpha men, as usual, are taking a leading part in campus activities. Brother Julius A. Graham has proven himself of such sterling worth that his fellow students have deemed it wise to elect him Editorin-Chief of the University Annual. He is also Business Manager of the Varsity Debating Team. Brothers F . C. Beane, John Q. Clark, Ben H. Hill and W. Q. Bland are members of the debating team. Brother Hiil is an orator of the first magnitude. H e carries off the trophies in the oratorical contests annually. Brothers John and C. Thompson and J. Q. Clark are promising material for the track team. Brother C. Thompson is also president of the Y. M. C. A. Our Go-to-High School, Go-to-College program is well under way, Bro. Graham is chairman of the committee and assisting him are Bros. C. Thompson, M. S. Wright, H. T. Williams, and Charles Williams. It is the intention of the members to put over the best Go-to-High School, Go-to-College drives in the history of the Chapter. The motto i s : "We must reach five thousand students in our territory this year." MILLR W.

MAUPIN,

Editor to the

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Philadelphia, Pa. D E A L BROTHERS:

We who have been silent, insofar as the S P H I N X is concerned, now salute you. The affairs of the chapter go on very merrily. W e are planning for a big educational drive this year. The meetings are largely attended and have taken on the aspect of a class reunion at Commencement time. The influx of many professional men to Philadelphia recently has given us a decided increase in our membership. The former Alpha men of other chapters are bringing to us vigor, verve and vivacity. They have the initiative and prospective that are so manifestly characteristic of the undergraduate fraternity man. That quality injected into our staid, conservative graduate chapter has aroused it to an interesting attitude on things fraternal. Prominent among the new members are Brother Dr. Mailing, Brother Dr. Johnson, both from Beta Chapter; Brother Forrester B. Washington from Gamma Lambda Chapter and others whose activities will be outlined later in the S P H I N X .

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Brother Leroy Humbert has been admitted to the Tau takes pleasure in announcing the pledging of bar in Philadelphia. H e is a gradaute of University Turner Smith. of Pennsylvania Law School. Brother Booker, secretary, is making a fine showOur president, Brother Dr. Jerrick, has been critiing in that office. W e a r e planning a great "Go-tocally ill, but at this writing he is all right again. High-School, Go-to-College" drive for this year. T a u During his illness he was attended by Brothers D r . wishes for all a greater glory in the ship of Alpha Burwell and Forsythe, both Rho Chapter men and Phi Alpha. very efficient physicians. Fraternally yours, Brother Dr. Winters and Brother Jos. R. Fugett of ZERO W . W E B B , West Chester, principal of the Gay Street School Chapter Editor. there and a member of Alpha Chapter at Cornell University, attended a recent initiation at Nu Chapter. They report that it was an all-night affair, thrills every minute, with the words Alpha Phi Alpha indelibly impressed on the candidates. Both brothers vociferously declared that they were glad they were already in the fold. The chapter sent a vote of encouragement to Brothers Brown and Stevens who figured in the recent bank embarrassment here last month. Brothers Burwell, Shirley and Penny were appointed as representatives from Rho Chapter to attend the inter-fraternal council that meets regularly in this city. On Friday, March 13, 1925, we plan to hold our spring initiation. A fitting comment on it would be, "Beware the Ides of March." Brother Bowman brought us a very elucidating account and report of the General Convention held at New York. H e said that he hinted about the Sesqui BROTHER N A T . W . H U D S O N , T A U . Centennial to be held in Philadelphia in 1926 and how Brother Nat. W. Hudson, A. B., from WilberRho hopes to be the host to the Fraternity. force 1U23, and a Junior in the College of Law, UniW e send greetings to the general and local offices versity of Illinois. Brother Hudson is president of of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. W e renew our Tau Chapter, was delegate to the General Convention pledges of sincerity, loyalty and our efforts to "tranheld in New York Christmas 1924. H e is making scend all." T o a man this spirit seems to dominate good in the Law School, being one of the outstanding in the chapter and there is a happy comaradcrie that few in the college. is noticeable at our meetings. It shows all signs of longevity and bids fair to cement the individual strivings of the members into an irresistible thrust toward the goal of success for the whole fraternity. UPSILON CHAPTER. Fraternally, Lawrence, K a n s a s . O. W I L S O N W I N T E R S , Chapter Editor. BROTHERS OK A L P H A P H I A L P H A , Greetings:

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University of Illinois. BROTHERS OF A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

Tau Chapter is always glad to greet her sister chapters, but this time we greet you with "On to Detroit." W e had with us the past month Brother Albert H . Roberts, a member of the Illinois State Senate, who is also an able lawyer. The relay carnival brought us Brother Roberts of Alpha Nu, who made a good showing in the contest. Brother Kyle, the 75-yard dasher, won first place in the first heat of the preliminary, but due to a pulled tendon in his leg was not able to compete in the finals. Tau is glad to say Brother Addison Mosley is back with us again. Brother E. J. Marthel is holding his own in the Chemistry Lab.; also, Brother Scott H a r per is holding up the banner in the same field. T h e seniors, Brothers Walter Thornhill, Hugh Schell, Harold West and Charles Lane, surprised us all with their senior party and dance, much to the enjoyment of all. The law students, Brothers E. F . Hamilton, A. Moss and Brother President N. W . Hudson, are making a good showing in the Law School. Brother A. Woodruff, one of the charter members of Tau, has won a merit of honor in the U. S. mail service. Brother Z. W . Webb is making good in the school of journalism. W e are sorry to learn that Brother H. Jordan was called home.

Upsilon is again making preparations to do her bit in the annual "Go-To-High-School. Go-To-College" campaign. Last year we succeeded in carrying the message of higher education to a large majority of the Negroes in this district. Thirty-one Kansas newspapers published the news articles that we sent them, and over seventy ministers further aided the cause from the pulpit. This year we are making elaborate plans for a more extensive campaign. It is our indelible purpose to see that every Negro community in this State is impressed with the importance of education to the advancement of our race. W e have a very energetic S P H I N X Club this year. Its members have instituted a progressive program and are carrying out its policies. They demonstrated their ability to entertain with a mid-year party held January 23. It was one of the outstanding social events of the year. W e are proud of our freshmen, and hope that they will keep up their remarkable strides. The monthly smoker for the month of March was held on the 20th of last month, and, as usual, that "Old Alpha Spirit" pervaded the soul of everyone present. It was felt just as much by our pledges as by the brothers. Several of our alumni brothers came down to take part in the grand old get-together. W e enjoyed their short talks which were both entertaining as well as instructive. W e were very glad to have them with us. The smoker was the best that the chapter has seen for some time. By virtue of unforseen and unfortunate circumstances, our former secretary, Brother Victor Gray, found it necessary to withdraw from school early in

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the month of March, and to return to his home in Atchison, Kansas. We are very much indebted to Brother Gray for the brilliant and painstaking way in which he performed his duties as secretary, and we hated very much to lose him. The place which Brother Gray left vacant has been filled by Brother Beltron Orme, our new chapter secretary and editor to the

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Fraternally yours, UPSILON CHAPTER. BELTRON L O R M E ,

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O h i o University. BROTHERS OF A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

Phi Chapter is pleased to announce the initiation

of Brothers Rev. Charles [som, George Calenture, and Ward Kountrcc. Brother Isom, class of 1918, cum laude, was one of the first to suggest the founding of a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha at Ohio University, but before its establishment was completed be was called to the army and thus narrowly missed being one of Phi Chapter's charter members. Brother Valentine, a senior in the College of Business Administration, like several of our members, recently came to " b i n University from Wiiberforce University, while Brother Rountree, a graduate of the Xeuia High Schools, has entered upon his second successful semester of pre-medic work. We were much gratified to see the name of Brother Clarence Tocus, A. B. I<l2:s. A. B. in Music 1<I24, as sixth in the student publication's list of the ten highest scholastic standings for 1923-1924. His was the highest average of any student in the College of Music, and the head of that department has frequently expressed himself as believing that Brother Tocus should study abroad. We were also very glad to have with us over the week-end Brother Randolph Porter, who is at present teaching commercial subjects in the high schools of Charleston, W. Va. Brother Toney has nearly completed bis plans for the Go-To-High-School. Go-To-College campaign. In this activity Phi Chapter is to be ably seconded by many of her graduate brothers, who will hold suitable exercises at their various schools. Brothers Barrier, Warfield. Hazlcwood, Porter and Jefferson have pledged their support. The program of Brother Rupert lefferson, superintendent of the Parkersburg High School, is especially varied and interesting; Brother Tocus renders one of the musical numbers. This, together with the chapter's assigned territory, will greatly extend our field of operations. With best wishes to all sister chapters. I am. Cordially and fraternally. LAWRENCE

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Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.

Speakers will be sent to every school and church that we can reach. Our advertising program is an extensive one. As incentives to greater things we are offering scholarships to worthy individuals. To date, our basket-ball team has lost two games and won four. W e are now in a tie for first place with the Omegas. The deciding game will be played on a later date. The night of February 27, 1925, was a night that nineteen stalwart young men will long remember, because it was at this time that they saw a light that is not placed under a bushelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they saw the light of Alpha Phi Alpha. The men taken into the fold of Alpha Phi Alpha w e r e : Henry E. Hampton, Alvin K. Smith, Maurice L. Kabb, C. Warner Lawson, Edward A. Brown. Fred Henry, Howard Harrison, George W. Streator. Augustus J. Oakes, J. B. Crawford, Robert Walker, McLeon J. Morrison, J. L. Allen, O. D. Lennard, Clarence A. Bowles, C. B. Mason, Hugh A. Key. Percy M. Alexander, Calvin I,. McKissick. Brother McKissick is a graduate of Fisk University, is president of the Negro Board of Trade and is an architect of unusual ability. Brother McKissick is in every way a typical Alpha man. W e are expecting great things of him. At this writing Chi Chapter is very much interested in a play which is to be given on March 21. The play, "The King of Uganda," was written by Brother J. Mack Williams. The play is a musical comedy. W e are expecting Brother Williams and his cast to put things over in real fashion. We are trying to awaken greater interest in the graduate brothers. It is our desire to have them become literally one of us. As our way of drawing the brothers closer to us, the cabinet of Chi met with them in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. At this meeting Brother McClendon. our efficient president, and the chairman of the various committees outlined our extensive program to the graduate brothers and invited them to become more closely affiliated with us and to know more about Alpha Phi Alpha. Very inspiringtalks were made by Brother Hawkins, cashier of the People's Savings Bank and Trust Company; by Brother Davis, president of Walden University; by Brothers I.ark and Baines of the Pharmaceutical Department of Mcharry Medical College, and by Brother Alleyne, of win m you've already heard great things. In Brother Alleyne. Chi boasts of one of the best Alpha men anywhere. Dr. Alleyne says, "If Alpha goes to the skies. I'll be there. If Alpha sinks into the depths of the sea. I'll be trying to keep her up ; nd will go down with her." He means it, too. We have succeeded in finding several "lost pins." Brother A. Maurice Moore take notice. Brother Wilson Ballard is the speaker of the day for Dental Day at Meharry. Brother Prince of Xi Chapter passed through recently. Brother Prince is traveling for Overton-

Hygiene Company, P. S.: The chapter was by Brother Nimrod Booker Brother Allen stressed the Alpha Phi Alpha; Alpha ganization." Chi Chapter wish S you

success in every

worthy

i ndeavor, Fraternally your--.

BROTHERS IN ALPHA PHI At.i-itA. Greetings: This is our last chat before we launch our "Go-ToHigh-School, Oo-To-Collegc" campaign. Chi Chapter wishes you the utmost success in the greatest thing in Alpha Phi Alpha. At present we arc busy formulating plans for our campaign. This year our program will he similar to that of previous years. W e are planning to reach over five thousand young men and young women.

visited on March !), 1985, Allen of Kappa Chapter. need of "institutionalizing must not remain an or-

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kinds of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;those who know who know W H Y . The former and the latter is always his boss. to high school; go to college.

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University of Pennsylvania. BROTHERS,

Greetings:

Psi wishes each sister chapter a happy and successful new year. With the election of the general officers, to whom Psi offers her congratulations, our great fraternity should accomplish all that it sets out to achieveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Psi shall do her bit and urges all chapters to do their utmost in making this year an outstanding one in all activities. The following brothers were elected to pilot Psi through this ensuing year: Brother Dr. Lawrence Christmas, President; Brother William Warrick, vicepresident ; Brother Douglass T. Murray, secretary; Brother Woodley Wells, treasurer; Brother Everett Thompson, sergeant-at-arms. Calvin Coolidge's inaugural address could not be compared to the one delivered by our newly elected president, in which an unusual program was outlined and to be carried into effect immediately. Psi shall sleep no more! Much stress is to be laid on the "Go To High School, Go to College" campaign. We hope to accomplish as much or even more than we did last year, which movement proved to be an assured success, due to the untiring efforts of Brothers J. Duckrey, T. Duckrey, Allen Freeland, and Arthur Fawcett. These same brothers have charge of arrangements for the campaign in May. Psi hopes to see many visiting brothers at the Penn Relays in April and promises to have a Red and Blue affair-de-luxe. If you happen in town, don't fail to look us up. Let every brother act as a cog in this great wheel and see this great fraternity of ours through to greater glory and prosperity. Allow Alpha Phi Alpha to stand foremost and second to none. Fraternally yours, DOUGLASS T.

MURRAY,

Chapter ALPHA BETA

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on "Crime and Criminology" by Bro. Arthur Shores. These talks were followed by some interesting remarks coming from Brother Dr. E. H . Jones. Our brothers are making moves into all forms of campus activities here. Brother Ralph Solomon and Brother Richard V. Sims were members of our recent varsity basketball team. Brother Solomon is a three-lettered man. Our debating team has as two of its strong posts Brothers Thomas and C. C. Patrick. Brother Patrick is a member of Eta Lambda, but is affiliating with us while at Talladega. He is to remain home to battle against his old school, Morehouse College. Brother Thomas, who was a member of last year's winning team will journey to Knoxville College in Tennessee to add another to his list of conquered. Brother Thomas is also president of the Dramatic Club, which gave its crowning play of the year, "Out in the Streets," Saturday, February 28. Six of our brothers are members of the club. Besides our influence in local activities, we are making definite plans for the broadening of our influence. We have outlined a "Go to High SchoolGo to College" campaign to cover this section of the state. This will be our first attempt at such, but we feel that our efforts will be fruitful. Brothers throughout the state have, through the efforts of our secretaries, pledged support to our cause. Our desire is to penetrate the whole of Alabama, but our geographical location and our small membership makes the task beyond our present possibilities. However, we hope that brothers through the state will cooperate with us individually to direct the youth of our race to high schools and colleges during the campaign. W e also hope that these brothers will work with us unitedly in putting over our sectional "Go to High School-Go to College" program. It is our desire to have our aims fulfilled and have a successful harvest. May our efforts and those of our sister chapters to make this a banner year meet with success. May every brother strive to maintain the principles of Alpha, the ideals of the fraternity. May this be a year of accomplishments as well as of aims. N O A H E. W I L L S ,

Talladega

College, Talladega,

Ala.

Ever with the spirit of Alpha pushing us on towards the pinnacle of success, Alpha Beta is striving upward with aspirations of service. Still imbued, not with a new spirit, but with the awakened spirit, we are looking forward to our on-coming events with a feeling of optimism. On the 14th of February we held our largest social event of the year, a partyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Valentine Maraud. Upon entering the place of the party, one was first carried beyond the realms of the present by the beautiful array of decorations. The decorations were carried out in Valentine colors. The only variation in color was in our programs, which were in the colors of the fraternity. In the center of the hall was hanging a heart with a light in its interior. Across the heart were cut the letters A * A. Leaving the lifeless attractions, we now turn to the more active ones. Our number being small, the crowd was not uncomfortable. The guests were composed of the company of the brothers, who were a select group from the feminine population of our campus and who so completely took our thoughts from all else except them, with several guests from our faculty. The climax of the evening was the selecting and crowning of the "Queen of Hearts." This was preceded by a self-composed story of the queen's life by Brother Horatius Thomas. Following the story, Miss Sarah Harris, a fairy with most charming grace of movements, danced to the queen select. Miss Ruth Conyers was selected queen. On Friday, February 20, 1925, we held a most delightful program meeting. The spirit of Alpha permeated the occasion. The most outstanding numbers of the program were a talk on "Relationships between Fraternities" by Bro. Plummer Jacobs and one

Corresponding ALPHA

Secretary.

DELTA.

University of Southern California. Brother Samuel B. Danley, Jr., one of the fifteen charter members of Alpha Delta Chapter, was born in Nashville, Tenn., and while quite a youngster, was brought to California by his very worthy parents, the Rev. and Mrs. S. B. Danley, over twenty years ago. Trained in an atmosphere of refinement and Christian culture, Brother Danley is a splendid example of what a man may make of. himself by habits of wise industry, perseverance and economy. After computing a four-year high school course in three and one-half years, he graduated from the Pasadena High School and faced the arduous duties of the world for some time before entering the University of Southern California in September, 1919. Pursuing his college course with diligence and succes's, Brother Danley graduated from that institution with the degree of A. B. in June, 1923, and in addition won a Social Service Certificate and an Elementary School Teachers' Certificate at the same time. While in the University Brother Danley, although compelled to work his way through, was active in many of its social and literary organizations. H e was a member of the American Sociological Society, the Southern California Sociological Society, the Belles Lettres and Cosmopolitan Clubs; and the same interest which influenced his activities in college continues to manifest itself in his various civic, social and religious connections since his graduation from college. He is a member of the Southern California

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 .Alumni Association, whose Gold Medal he captured for oratory in 1916 while pursuing his high school course, and maintains an active and enthusiastic connection with the Pasadena Y. M. C. A., the Los Angeles X. A. A. C. P.. and several organizations of his church. As Secretary of Alpha Delta Chapter, since its inception in May, li>21, until January. 1<J2(, he holds the high place, in the estimation of his local brothers, as one of the most constructive and forward-looking members of the Chapter. Brother Danley is at present employed as an assistant probation officer of Los Angeles County, a position which he fills with credit and dignity to himself as weil as to his race, and in this connection is a member of the National Probation Officers' Association. He is at present pursuing work in the Graduate School of the University of Southern California looking to the Master's degree, a distinction with which, we have no doubt, our worthy brother will shortly adorn himself. Brothe: i-anley is possessed of that sterling, manly character which is an in pirati m to his associates and one which is worthy of emulation by the growing manIn nil of the race. Of him A!pha Delta Chapter can speak with pride. In him Alpha Phi Alpha has found a loyal, sturdy and faithful sonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a son of worth, because he is. undoubtedly, a son of character.

BROTHFR S A M U E L B. DANLEY, JR.

REV. BROTHER SAMUEL M.

R E V . B R O . S A M U E L M. B E A N E Brother Samuel Miller Beanc, now the popular and respected pastor of Hamilton Methodist Episcopal

BKANE, A.B.,

B.D.

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 Church, Los Angeles, California, was initiated into Alpha Delta Chapter during the spring of 1923. The career of Brother Beane is one to which members of the local Chapter can point with pride and admiration. The son of the Rev. John M. Beane, a member of the Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1880, Brother Beane hails from that sturdy Christian stock whose influence on his early life and training has abundantly reflected itself in his present accomplishments and achievements. He received his early education at Storer Normal College, Harpers Ferry, W . Va., and at Morgan College, Raltimore, Md., from which latter institution of learning he was called to the Washington Conference to assume the pastorate of a cure in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 1907. After nine years of successful labor in this area, Brother Beane was transferred to Roanoke, Va., and there served for three years until he accepted his present charge at Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church, in the city of Los Angeles, in 1919. Entering the University of Southern California in September, 1919, Brother Beane continued his studies, which had been cut short in 1907 because of his ready and willing response to the urgent spiritual need of those whom he so faithfully served at that time, and in 1922 won his A. B. degree with the distinction of cum hnidc. The following year brought him additional accomplishments when he graduated from the Maclay College of Theology (now the School of Religion) of the University of Southern California, with the degree of B. D. A man of considerable reading and intellectual attainments, he is a leader of unquestioned merit and force among the people of his community, and commands the respect and admiration of all classes because of his splendid Christian character and broad culture. Courageous, enterprising and aggressive, he is imbued with a sense of duty which harps not back to the obsolete traditions of the past, but envisions the unlimited possibilities of the future wherein, he believes, are wrapped the destiny of a growing race; and this belief he fully demonstrates in the wide interest which he manifests in all movements which point to racial uplift and the general progress of humanity. He is a member of the Los Angeles Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., the Southern California Alumni Association, the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A., the Los Angeles Methodist Ministers' Alliance and the Interdenominational Alliance of Ministers. Los Angeles appreciates this able and outstanding son; Alpha Delta Chapter accepts and points to him with pride, while we believe that all of Alpha Phi Alpha will share this just pride of their brothers in the Far West.

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W e s t Virginia Collegiate Institute, Institute, W e s t Virginia. Fraternal Greetings: Alpha Zeta wishes to express her supreme sense of responsibility regarding our great educational movement. which is nation-wide in scope. We join you heartily in carrying out the program of promoting a greater interest in things educational and uplifting to mankind. We realize how great is the work to be done and are proud to advise you that our shoulders are, like those of all of you, at the wheel of accomplishment. There is joy to be found in working in harmony with fellowmen who are actually doing things worth while; the fruits of which will be seen, and will be evidence of the big principles and ideals upon which Alpha Phi Alpha stands. W e have not had the opportunity to name to you the latest numbers initiated into the fold of Alpha Phi

Alpha. Brothers Edward Waters, Maceo R. Carr, Langley Spurlock, and Miles Jefferson were our last initiates. Brother Jefferson's father, J. Ruphert Jefferson, and his brother, Brother H a r r y Jefferson, arc members of Phi. Seems that the Jefferson Trio has perfectly good judgment, doesn't it? We have had reason to miss the presence of three of our most active brothers in the chapter here, which was occasioned by graduation last year. Alpha-Zeta will lose about eight or nine more of her members bygraduation in June this year; yet, we should feel no regret, when we consider the great need there is for them in the capacity of hard, manly tasks. Those on the graduating list for June are Brothers Joseph Gough, Harlan Dandridge, Robert R. Carroll, M. H . Cardwell, Earl Dickerson, G. G. Lomans, James W a t kins Haynes, W'Hiam C. Spencer and Frank T. Fairfax. Alpha Zeta is proud to have such a number to reach the goal of graduation, in spite of the loss the chapter must experience. It is our wish to replace these vacancies with other carefully selected young men and continue to put into Alpha Zeta our most sincere efforts and help keep the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at its best. Came near overlooking a very important matter; I am unable to say just how it happened or when: but Brother Edward Waters has lost his pin. It must have happened very recently. In case it is not located within a reasonable time. I shall be kind enpugh to offer some very useful information. Fraternally yours, FRANK

('orresponding

BROTHER CLARENCE CAMERON

FAIRFAX,

Secretary.

WHITE,

Alpha '/.etc Chapter West Virginia Collegiate tute. Institute. IV. I 'a,

Insti-

Brother Clarence Cameron White was born in Clarksville, Tenn., but was reared and educated at Oberlin, Ohio, where he also received his early musical training at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. After spending five years there, he went to Washington, 1). C . where for several years he was teacher of violin at the Washington Conservatory of Music and in the public schools of Washington. In 1908 Brother White went abroad for further study and became a private pupil of M. Zacharewitsch, the famous Russian violinist, and also a pupil in composition of the late Coleridge-Taylor. During his stayin London he was first violinist of the "String Players' Club," said to be the finest string orchestra in Europe. After three years abroad, Brother White returned to America and located in Boston, where he divided his time between teaching, concert work and composition.

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He is a member of the Society for the Publication of American Music and also a member of the American Socie y of Composers. Authors and Publishers. Brother White was for seven years conductor of the Victorian Concert Orchestra Hi:i members) of Boston, Mass. At present he is Director of Music at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, Institute, W. Va. It is impossible to attribute to him in words all he justly deserves for his unsurpassed attainments. Mrs. White, his wife, is also a teacher in the Department i â&#x20AC;˘!' Music at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute. Brother White is an ardent worker in things fraternal, and Alpha Zeta is proud of his presence.

At present mid-year examinations have caused a temporary suspension of Chapter activities; but the near future will see us swinging into form for a determined fight in defense of the principles and custoi is oi the Alpha Phi Alpha of old. Wishing each and every Chapter the greatest prosperity and success, we remain, Fraternallv vours. ALPHA ETA CHAPTER.

ALPHA MU CHAPTER. N o r t h w e s t e r n University, E v a n s t o n , Illinois. BROTHERS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

BROTHER LEONARD BARNETT,

West

. fipha Zeta Chapter, Virginia Collegiate Institute,] Institute, W, Va.

Brother Leonard Burnett comes to us from Phi Chapter. He is a graduate from the College of Arts â&#x20AC;˘ if the University of Ohio. His graduate work was done at Ohio State University, where he received his Master's degree. He is, as all representatives oi Phi, a very live wire. He has been successful in getting on foot an excellent track team which is to be represented at Hampton Institute on their annual field day. Brother Barnett is connected with the Department of Education at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute. His work as a teacher is evidence of high-class preparation. Alpha Zeta is always glad to receive as her associates such men of Brother Barnett's type and personality.

Greetings:

Perhaps you a r e wondering why this small Chapter out here in the Northwest always makes an effort to have a representative at the General Convention. no matter how far away it may convene. Well, it is just this: W e have the spirit and the enthusiasm that should mark, not only every Chapter, but each individual of Alpha Phi Alpha. Our delegate, Brother Clarence Wilson, brought us a wonderful report from the Seventeenth Annua! Convention, which pleased Alpha Mu in more than one way. Brother Wilson spoke the highest commendations for the general officers, who were re-elected and elected, and as the writer is very well acquainted with tin General Staff, save the new elect. Brother Greene, he will, at this time, voice the sentiments of Alpha Mu. when he says that surely the election was guided by the spirit of the Almighty. W h o docs everything perfectly, and always for the lust. M,i\ this year be the best in the history of the Fraternity, both for the record of the General officers, and for the individual Chapters. Alpha Mu has elected tin- following officers, whom she sincerely believes to be w r y capable of guiding her destinies for the present year: Brother Clarence Wilson, president; Brother Lucius Lee. vice-president; Brother C. W. Davis, recording secretary; Brother F. D. Jordan, correspondinc secretary: Brother Ed B. lourdain. Jr tivisiircr: Brother George A. Rozicr, Editor to the S P H I N X ; Brother Ernest Dyett, chapl:>.;n : Brother Wendell Holtcn. sergeant-at-arms. Best wishes to all "honest-to-goodness" Alpha Phi Alpha brothers. Fraternally. GFOKOK A. RoziBR,

lulilor

ALPHA

OMICRON

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J o b n s c n C. Smith University, Charlotte, N . C. ,To BROTHICKS IN A L P H A

I'm

ALPHA,

Greetings:

Ajpua Omicron extends to ail Chapters hearty wishes for a successful season and a highly efficient and widespread "(io-to-high-school, Go-to-college" campaign. V\ e are now making splendid progress under the supervision of our new corps of otiicers, who are endeavoring to maintain m ad fields of endeavor the l.igh pruicp.es n.r winch Alpha Pin Alpha stanus. We have- now almost recovered from the shock of mid-term examinations, during which, we are proud ALPHA ETA CHAPTER. to say, we report no casualties. Alpha men on the campus have distinguished themselves in all lines of H a r v a r d University. achievement, and are taking the lead in all worthwhile and uplifting activities. BROTHERS IN A L P H A I ' m A L P H A , Greetings: On the evening of February 2i>, Alpha Omicron Having returned from the hustle and bustle of the great metropolis, and from the confusion oi the 17th Chapter entertained several of the young ladies of Charlotte's aristocracy, along with representatives of annual convention. Alpha Eta Chapter finds itself lost Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta sororiin a sea of work. The coming of the new year has brought forth from each and every brother, resolutions ties, who are members of Charlotte's teaching Eorce, in an informal social at the home of Miss Lillian which aim at a complete wiping out of the weaknesses Rudisell, one of the Queen City's most popular debuwhich are tending to undermine our general organitantes. zation.

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 The evening was one of unalloyed pleasure for all who attended. T h e striking and picturesque costumes worn by the many charming guests, the zest which all entered into the amusements of the evening, and the fraternal spirit which existed, all combined to make this the most delightful affair of the season. Our president, brother li. A. Armstrong, was one of the two delegates who represented the Y. M. C. A., of Johnson C. Smith University, at the Y. M. C. A. State Conference (white) which convened in Charlotte during the first week of February. Brother E. A. Armstrong was elected treasurer of the Colored Y. M. C. As. of the state. During this conference Brother J. R. Dungee, of this Chapter, was elected delegate to represent the North Carolina Colored Young Men's Christian Associations at the next National Council meeting. W e regret to state that Brother J. Riley Dungee, our former editor to the S P H I N X , has been ill for several weeks. After having undergone a serious operation at the Good Samaritan Hospital, of Charlotte, Brother Dungee has gone to his home at Norfolk, \ ' a . , where he will remain until his health is sufficiently improved to enable him to continue his studies. Brother Dungee is a true and tried Alpha man of the finest sort, and all brothers wish for him a speedy recovery. W e are pleased to have as a member of our Chapter, Brother Carlton L. Murphy, a talented young soprano, who is one of our new initiates. Brother Murphy is possessed of extraordinary talent as an artist and cartoonist, and his gifts along this line are truly remarkable. H e has also an enviable record in scholarship and other phases of endeavor, and has proven himself to be the true type of Alpha man. Two members of Alpha Omicron Chapter, Brother Carlton L. Murphy, and the writer, G. L. Allen, are taking part in the Amy Spingarn Literature and Art Contest, which is being conducted under the auspices of The Crisis. Brother Murphy has submitted some excellent drawings, while Brother Allen will compete in the field of poetry. The University Band, under the directorship of Prof. Boden and under the management of Brother S. C. Johnson, made a successful appearance at Scotia Women's College, Concord, N. C., on March 6th. Notable features of the program, including an excellent bass saxophone solo by Brother Chas. B. Campbell, were rendered by members of this Chapter. Brother Campbell is also a talented violinist. The baseball season is now in full swing, and members of Alpha Omicron are coming in for their share of laurels. Much interest is being shown in the playing of Brother David P . Allen, who has played third base on the University nine for the past two years, and who will, in all probability, hold down the "hot corner" again this season. Brother Allen is an athlete, a splendid student, and a violinist of ability. H e is a member of the junior class and represented his class as speaker on Lincoln's Birthday. Alpha Omicron is planning a great and far-reaching "Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College" campaign. Much enthusiasm has been shown by members of this Chapter and extensive plans a r e on foot for the best campaign we have ever had. Great interest on the part of the students of Johnson C. Smith University is being centered in our Sphinx Club, which is forming many constructive plans for the season. Alpha Omicron would like to keep in touch with her absent brothers and welcomes correspondence from them at any time. Alpha Omicron is always ready to serve the fraternity in any way within her power, and wishes to all Chapters a successful season. Fraternally yours, GEORGE L. ALLEN,

Chapter

Editor.

ALPHA PI CHAPTER. Atlanta University. BROTHERS I N A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

Alpha Pi Chapter is alive, as yet, and endeavoring every day to carry out the ideals of Alpha P h i Alpha in all the activities of school and community life. Each and every member having taken for his motto: "All for one and one for all." Alpha Pi is putting forth all the resources at its command to make this Chapter one of the premier Chapters in the fraternity In the last letter to the S P H I N X , the activities of the brothers of Alpha Pi were spoken of in scholarship and athletics, notably football. But the activities of the brothers did not cease with the close of the football season, but is noticeable in debating as well as basketball and baseball. Brothers Pierce and Walker, both seniors, and letter men of the football team, will carry the banner of the Crimson and Grey in the annual conflict with Howard. W e look to these two brothers to uphold the ideals of Alpha Phi Alpha and to bring back the laurels of victory. The basketball men were awarded letters recently. Brothers who received them were: L. Perry, star forward ; H. Schell. a small, but fast forward; and A. B. Harper, guard. Pledgee T. J. Lamar, last year's captain, also received his letter. Alpha Pi is well represented on the baseball team. Brother Andrews, veteran catcher for the past three years and Brother Harper, left fielder for the same period, are again filling their positions. Pledgees Henderson, K:ng. Montgomery, Lamar are also down and counting their share toward turning out a championship baseball team for 1923. The minds of all brothers are turning to preparation for Alpha Pi Alpha's yearly "Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College" movement. Alpha Pi is already making preparations to conduct the Chapter campaign here with even more energy and enthusiasm than was done last year and to bring to the minds of all of Atlanta's citizens the fact that progress can only be achieved through the higher and more thorough education of all. The trees will not have become much greener, nor the birds to sing more sweetly before some will have been taken over the burning sands of the desert into the green oasis, where the perpetual fountain of life in Alnha Pi Alpha is found. Alpha Pi closes in expressing the desire that all brothers work together as one in each and all endeavors of uplift to keep the name of Alpha Pi Alpha and all it stands for, unsullied, honored and renowned. Fraternally yours. ALVA B. HARPER.

Corresponding

Secretary.

ALPHA RHO CHAPTER. Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. BROTHERS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

Since last you heard from Alpha Rho, tin's machine under the guiding hand of the new offices has progressed appreciably. T h e aims and standards of Alpha have been high in the mind and soul of each brother. Xumerous conflicts and other ill winds have helned to make the fraternity more felt with the brothers. Under heavy loads we advance even more. Tin- weight has kept us more concentrated in our ciforts so that now, with that ingenuous focusing which has characterized every great group of individuals, we push forwardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;forward toward a goal men have approached from a thousand angles, but when defined means always the same big thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;success! The word "success" brings to the fore our contemplated "Go to High School, Go to College" campaign. Under the leadership of the brothers on our campus affiliated with Eta Lambda and Alpha Pi the move-

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ment here promises one of real service to those students of grammar school, high school, and college rank who especially need this movement to keep them concentrated in our various "walls of learning." The tentative program includes representation in the name of the "Go to High School, Go to College" movement of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, in every Negro school in the city limits of Atlanta and in as many schools of Georgia as can be conveniently reached by Alpha men. Just before the publication of the last S P H I N X , but too late to be noted therein, the Sphinx Q u b of Alpha Rho entertained with a dance in honor of this chapter at the Segalian Club. This affair in many respects come up to the real Alpha style of doing things, and proved a charming delight for the fairest damsels the "Gate City" can produce. As Bryant would have put it, "We slumbered not, but gave ourselves to that most glorious night." < )n the night of the 7th of March Alpha Phi Alpha honored through Alpha Rho fourteen pledgees of our Sphinx Club. They crossed the burning sands with not an oasis in sight. On Sunday, the 8th, they filled their first fraternal engagement with Alpha Phi Alpha by worshiping at the First Congregational Church of this city. Religion has its primary advantages and this service proved very appropriate for the neophytes who have come to us, we hope, in the spirit of service. After this we had dinner in honor of the neophytes and they proved to be quite a "wrecking crew." You couldn't help eating heartily with such an appetizing dinner before you and such a generous group of fellows to enjoy it with. Kodaking after dinner allowed the neophyte brothers to straighten up and get into their favorite poses, forgetting entirely the word "barbarian." Something about neophyte brothers, Buggs Carrol Carten, Collins, Dezon, Dooley, Hawkins, Hemingway, Hendrix, Jackson, Reynolds, Roberts, Rodgers, and Young: W e can say that they all are far above the lower class of college students. Bro. Chas. W. Buggs comes to us from Brunswick as an " A " student and succeeds in holding his own at Morehouse. Bro. Alva W. Carrol is a good student, quite affable and plays in the college orchestra. His favorite is the clarinet and he might have good reasons for this favoritism. Bro. John W . Carten proves a good student, scholarship man, and was valedictorian of his high school class. He has our best wishes for this honor in the college. Bro. G. A. Collins comes to Alpha as an athlete and " M " man in baseball. Bro. Runert W. Dezon hails from Macon, is a good student, and athlete. W e believe that he will join hands in the great program ever before Alpha and which serious minds alone can execute to best advantage. Bro. T. P. Dooley is a good student and is liked by the campus in general. He hails from a town in Georgia "conspicuous" for its sizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bearing in mind that Atlanta is the largest city. Bro. Donley is a good mixer and is full of the "spirit of Alpha." Bro. C. Wallace Hawkins, a good student, ambitious, and full of wit, is an " M " man in baseball and stands a good chance for varsity work during the incipient season. Bro. Hemingway hails from Memphis (not Georgia). H e came to Morehouse as an "A" student, is a "flutist" in the orchestra, a good mixer, and is very sincere in his attitude toward college fellows in general. H e plays the piano with an enviable technic and says he is thankful just to be a neophyte. Bro. J. C. Hendrix is a "basso profundo" and holds his own in the college quartette. H e comes to us as a good student, and as a brother whom we feel will make himself favorably conspicuous for his sound thinking and his refined spirit. Bro. Oliver F . Jackson comes to us as a violinist, quite efficient and with a peculiar technic. We might add here an admonition to Bro. Clarence Cameron White, whom Bro. Jackson is no doubt emulating, but perhaps a surprise would be better. Much success to "Jack." Bro. J. T. Reynolds is a scholarship man. He is full of humor, speaks frankly,

and is liked in general by the students. H e hails classical man, versed thoroughly in Latin and Greek, in the Freshman Class. Bro. G. William Rodgers in obtaining Sophomore classification, being formerly orchestra man, playing the second violin well. Bro. comes to Alpha Phi Alpha as a "keen" man. He wears from Montgomery. Bro. Herbert C. Roberts is an Roberts also plays the piano very well. He is a â&#x20AC;˘xiaking him more the Grecian. H e succeeded recently an " M " for baseball and an " M " for football. H e played quarterback on the last eleven and served quite efficiently. We hope and feel that Bro. Rodgers will make himself useful member of the fraternity in every possible way. Last, but not least, is Bro. Neophyte Samuel A. Young, who comes to us as the Freshman choice for baseball manager and as a deserving student. H e thunderously resents the name "barbarian," and is rather satirical in his characteristic moods. Bro. Young promises, we hope, a deal of sane judgment to guide the destinies of this great fraternity. The basketball team at Morehouse College has just completed a most extensive trip, visiting Wilberforce and numerous other places in the East. Numbered with the eight were Brothers Melvin E. Sykes, our efficient president, and A. H. Peeler, who is making himself a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. We regret that Bro. Hoffman Allen was not numbered with this crew this time. H e hopes to be with us next year. Alpha Rho believes that the slogan of every chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha is "A bigger and better fraternity," with emphasis on the "better." Alpha Rho will do her share. We have learned that co-operation is necessary for progress and that every organization progresses in so far as the true and elevating fraternal spirit exercises itself to its broadest degree. Without this we fail! Fraternally yours, WILLIAM

Corresponding

Secretary,

KING, JR.,

Alpha Rho

Chapter.

GAMMA LAMBDA. Detroit, Mich. BROTHKRS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

Gamma Lambda accepts this opportunity to express her delight at the very excellent make-up of the last S P H I N X . The journal, like good wine, improves with age. Real skill and deft touches of art arc shown in the gathering and placing of the news material. T h e editor is in for much praise as a result of his painstaking in providing the organization with such a worth-while periodical. In passing let us say that Gamma Lambda is behind the editor in his efforts to have every A. Phi A. man a reader of her official organ. The chapter has recently had the honor of having in her midst Brother Albert George, Judge of the Municipal Court, Chicago. Few men have visited these shores who have made such a decided impression on the general public as did Judge George. H e was at home under all conditions. Detroit was glad to welcome the Judge and Gamma Lambda lent her best to make his stay pleasant. While here Brother and Mrs. George were the house gucjts of Brother and Mrs. A. L. Turner. The Sphinx Club, auxiliary to Gamma Lambda, presented a unique stunt on Thursday, March 5th. at the Light Guard Armory in the form of a basket-ball game between the Doctors and Lawyers. More than seven hundred persons were in attendance. The game was replete with brilliant playing. The Lawyers won, 18-15. There were two preliminary games, one between the local "Center Five" representing the Urban League and the Epsilon Chapter, Alpha Phi

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 Alpha. The fellows from the university put up a good scrap but lost out in the final minutes of play. The other preliminary was between two girls' teams, one from Windsor, Canada, the other from Detroit. Detroit won. The events were arranged and put through by Brothers Cecil Rowlette, C. Henri Lewis, Harold M. Johnson, and Ye Scribe. The Booker T. CI ub, which is made up entirely of Alpha Phi Alpha men, but having no official connection thereof, is making plans for the coming of Monsieur Blaise Daigne, deputy from Senegal in the French Chamber of Deputies. Monsieur Daigne is advertised as the greatest living Negro. Judging by his accomplishments this appelation is not far amiss. It is thought that Detroit will turn out in full to hear this noted statesman. Next month (April) Gamma Lambda will attend a Sunday service at the St. John's Presbyterian Church in a body. Brother Milton Thompson, chaplain of the chapter, will deliver the annual sermon. In previous years this event has been well attended and it is certain that this year will be no exception. Gamma Lambda at their first meeting in March made a cash donation of $100 to the Y. M. C. A. for furnishings. Brother J. M. Henderson presented the resolution which met with a hearty response. With the flash of money at the presentation lots of brothers were able to collect what they had long ago given up as bad debts. Sometimes appeals bring forth money from where it "stint." , Headed for the Epsilon Chapter banquet at the seat in Ann Arbor Saturday, the 14th, will be Brothers Haley Bell, "Steve" Sparks, A. L. Turner, Cornelius Henderson, F. Penn, Julian Rogers, Charles F . Green, H. E. Simms, Robert Greenidge, James M. Gregory. Coit Ford, Clement Johnson, C. H. Lewis, Grover Lange, R. L. Jackson, F. P. Raiford. and J. A. Moore, provided that at the time he isn't nursing pretty Miss Agnes Joan Moore. More anon. Fraternally, JOHN

DANCY,

Reporter.

DELTA LAMBDA

at Walsche St. School, No. 110, Prof. Wm. H . McAbee, principal, with the local Urban League secretary and a representative of the Baltimore DairyCouncil assisting. The N. A. A. C. P. Baby Contest created quite a stir here. "The kid" of Dr. Jay G. McRae, "Jay. Jr.," was entered as the official "Alpha Baby," and ran high in the contest. The official opening of the million and a half dollar Douglass High School has been delayed until September, 1025, the next term. Delay in arrival of equipment is the cause. When this plant gets in full swing, it will be one of the finest in the country. Here it is that Brothers Perry D. G. Pennington. Gough D. McDaniels, J. Clarence Chambers, Maceo Thomas, J. McFarland Fitzgerald, Joseph N. Hill, and Norman Andrews are rendering service. The local Urban League, under Brother R. Maurice Moss, executive secretary, is making another determined effort to put across the Colored Victory Hospital in Baltimore. City and state aid, help from Johns Hopkins Hospital and backing from colored and white civic leaders and officials are a surely. Julius Rosenwald. the rich philanthropist, has also promised to match dollars. This project must go through. It will go through, with Alpha brothers helping. Among the acts of progress is a further determined effort toward a chapter bouse. An important committee has been appointed for real work. A campaign is on to enroll loose brothers in the vicinity with Delta Lambda. Brother Dr. W. I.eRoy Berry and Brother Howard Murphy, nephew of Brother Carl J. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American, have recently transferred to our chapter. Brother Booker has been working hard on the "Y" membership campaign. The swimming pool, with Brother Mason, " Y " athletic director, in charge, has been opened for the spring season. Finally, Delta Lambda extends greetings to all brothers in the bonds of Alpha Phi Alpha. Fraternally and respectfully yours. GOBERT E. MACBKTH.

Corresponding

Secretary.

Delia Lambda

Chapter.

CHAPTER.

Baltimore, Md. BROTHEKS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A .

Greetings:

The beginning of spring finds all officers and members of Delta Lambda fraternally active and turning toward the "Go to College" campaign. Our budget for the year 1025 has been submitted and adopted with a reduction in dues over 1924. At the last combined social and business meeting of the chapter previous to this writing, the brothers v..ere sumptuously entertained by Brother and Mrs. Gough D. McDaniels, Delta Lambda's "newly-weds," at their new residence on Madison Avenue. The bride, formerly Miss Cora A. Tucker, a leading Baltimore school teacher, made a charming hostess. The groom will be remembered as a happy delegate from Baltimore, honeymooning while attending the Convention. Our chapter is quite active along fraternal and civic lines. The Baltimore Health Week, the \'. A. A. C. I'. Baby Contest, high school plans, Urban League activities, and the personal acts of progress outline our work since the last writing. National Negro Health Week, with headquarters at Tuskegee, was celebrated here in March. The â&#x20AC;˘ community was covered. Brother Drs. Jay G. McRae. Hugh Price Hughes. B. M. Rhetta." Ralph J. Young, Charles Stewart, George T. Mosby, and George L. Hall were among those on the working committee. Several schools were visited with health lectures. Aii excellent health lecture was delivered

GOBERT I-:.

MACBETH,

Attorney, Delta Lambda Chapter. Brother Robert E. Macbeth is one of the pr< â&#x20AC;˘minent younger members of Delta Lambda Chapte Pter. hOth

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within his chapter and in the community. Brother Macbeth was initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity several years ago, and has been an active member from the start. H e has done good work on various committees, served well in the "Go to College" campaign by virtue of pedagogical training. H e has served as chapter secretary, chapter editor to the S P H I N X for the past two years, and was Senior Delegate to the Alpha Convention in New York last Christmas. H e is truly Alpha Phi Alpha in all things. Brother Macbeth, one of Baltimore's most active young practitioners, having been admitted to the practice of law in Baltimore in tB23. H e has since developed a substantial civil practice. He is located in a modern, well-equipped suite of law offices within a stone's throw of the court house. Brother Macbeth's scholastic training is a bit interesting. He was the recipient of several prizes in the elementary grades, completed his Ugh school course in three and one-half years, and led his class, graduating as valedictorian of the Douglass High School. Baltimore. He then entered the Baltimore Ti Echers" Training School, again graduating m the honor row. After teaching for a year, he then matriculated at Howard University Law School and successfully completed the course, receiving the de-

gree of LI- B. (cum laude). Brother Gobert E. Macbeth also served as private during the World War. He later entered the Officers' Training School at Camp Pike. Ark., and graduated :.. Lieutenant of Infantry. H e then served in a western camp of military instruction. It is thus seen that he is an active and energetic young brother. His greatest Step forward, he says, was made when he recently married the charming and accomplished Miss Alice Evangeline Lockerman, daughter of Mrs. and the late Dr. Joseph Lockerman of Baltimore. . Brother Macbeth is the son of Mr. Arthur L. Macbeth, prominent Baltimore photographer and only colored life member of the Photographers National Association of America. Brother Macbeth is 100 per cent Alpha at all times.

to bring an artist of national repute before the St. Louis public. Suffice it to say that the brothers have high hopes for and implicit faith in the program of Epsilon Lambda for 1925. During the past month Brother A. H . Roberts, Theta Chapter, Chicago, delivered an eloquent address at the Pine Street Y. M. C. A. H e elicited the praise and favor of the largest audience at the "Y" during the winter season. In the next issue of the S P H I N X our letter will be entitled "Who's W h o in Epsilon Lambda." The sincere and fraternal regards of all the members of Epsilon Lambda are hereby extended to all chapters which surround us. Fraternally, A. G. LINDSAY,

Chapter Editor. THETA LAMBDA. D a y t o n , Ohio. BROTHERS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A :

Theta Lambda Chapter regrets that her letter did not appear in the first issue of the S P H I N X for this year. However, the failure does not mean that we have no interest in the affairs of Alpha Phi Alpha. Since the beginning of the year the chapter has joined the forces of our city, who are contending for their civil rights and who are engaged in conflict v.ith the local School Board against segregation of Negro students in the public schools. We were fortunate in arranging a meeting with the Hoard of Education, at which meeting a letter drawn up by our Special School Committee was presented and read. It is felt by many that the recent step taken bv Alpha Phi Alpha in Dayton is the most consistent and most highly organized of any move yet made toward the solution of the School Question as it affects our group. All honors to Brother L. H . Cox, B. A. Rose, (). (>. Morris. A. L. Biggs and J. N. Samuels-Belboder, who drew up the letter, which we are mailing for publication in the S P H I N X .

EPSILON

LAMBDA

NEWS.

St. Louis, M o . In the "Chapter surrounded by Alpha Phi I Alpha" many noteworthy events have transpired since last we sent our fraternal greetings through the Columns of the SPHINX. Perhaps, the most significant and far-reaching accomplishment is the revival jot" the spirit and interest of the twenty-five or more chapter numbers. Not that Epsilon Lambda has been inactive. but that this chapter, like practically every organization and enterprise, has received an impetus from the improved economic and social conditions which arc prevalent throughout the United States. It can, m brief be authoritatively stated that distinct cycles have been experienced in this chapter. Fortunately, 1928 is a year when the cycle of prosperity holds t SW

Under the leadership of Brother Geo. W. Buckner, one of the organizers of this chapter, we are making rapid fraternal strides. A yearly program,!, which will be both resultful and beneficial, has been assured by the earnestness and efficiency of the corps of officers which this chapter has elected. Our last meeting was held at the palatial home ot our president, Brother Buckner. Here he sumptuouslv entertained us with delicacies which only the eletc now enjoy. To indicate the spirit and interest of the brothers it will he only necessary to point out that a 92 per cent attendance was registered. De,.,il,d plans for the "Go to High School-College campaign, the annual scholarship and the organization of a "St 1 ouis to Detroit Club" have been approved hv the Chapter. The Education Committee also plans

At the last meeting the following brothers took office: Bro. W . O. Stokes, president: Bro. L. W . Haithcock, vice-president; Bro. J. M. Pierce, secret a r y : Bro. O. D. McFall, treasurer; Bro. J. E. Bush, scrgcant-at-arms. Yerv truly yours, J A Y M E S M. PIF.RCK.

Dayton, Ohio, Chapter of Alpha P h i Alpha M e e t s with School B o a r d . (From

tl'i- Dayton

Guide.)

The Theta Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is publishing their view of the local school question as presented to the Board of Education at its regular meeting Tuesday night. The present membership of the local chapter is as follows: James Dunn, president; B. A. Rose, secretary; Attorney W . O. Stokes, Dr. A. L. Briggs, Dr. J. E. Bush, O . O. Morris, lames Parsons. Pr., Dr. O. D. Mchall. D r E. G. Campbell, Dr. L. H . Cox, Dr. D. A. Gillam Father J. N. Samuels-Belboder. James Pierce. I.. W.'Hathcock, J. M , Pollar, Dr. R. E. Pett.tord. Dr. Russell Sawynt, Dr. C. F. Keller, and Dr. J. E. Bradficld. February H). 1928. To Board of Education, City of Dayton. Hon. W m . A. Weber, President. (Attention, Mr. Paul C Stetson, superintendent.) HONORAHI.E MEMBERS OF T H E SCHOOL BOARD :

W e as citizens and taxpayers of Dayton and the Garfield School District, and members of Theta Lamb-

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925 da Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., an organization whose chief concern is the promoting and encouraging of sound education, honest industry, and dignified culture among colored citizens, beg to call your attention to a situation in the Garfield District which gives not only cause for astonishment and alarm, but which is highly distasteful and regretable if true. 1. Statements have come to us these many weeks from various sources which seem plausible and apparently true, that the School Board has decided to build an annex to the Garfield School for the sole use of colored pupils, and put the main building now used by white pupils in fine repair for their continued use. 2. That the $400,000 alloted to erect a school building on the west side of the city will not be used, as those concerned have hoped, to build an entirely new building for the Garfield District, even though such a promise was implied during the campaign last fall, and is the crying need of the district, accommodation in which is beyond description, and the general condition a source of constant shame to every thinking citizen proud of the city of Dayton. 3. Definite effort seem to be, and is being made by apparent emissaries in close touch with the School Board, to employ and encourage colored agents to win over a majority of the district to petition the board to grant that which will be unlawful and against just, intelligent thinking; subversive to the democratic custom of this state, and contrary to enlightened progress. 4. Whether these citations are true or not we do not say. But we deeply regret their currency and disturbing and divisive nature. We deplore, too, the involvement of the School Board and the superintendent in them. 5. Therefore, as citizens and taxpayers of Dayton we respectfully regret in the name of harmony and progress, and in keeping with the spirit of a bigger and better Dayton, that nothing less than- a regular district school with all modern equipment, including gymnasium, swimming pool and manual training rooms, be erected in the Garfield District to serve the entire district. W e beg to remain very respectfully, T H E T H E T A LAMBDA CHAPTER OF T H E A L P H A P H I A L P H A FRATERNITY.

ETA

LAMBDA.

Atlanta, Georgia. Plans are under way for the annual reception and the "Go to High School, Go to College" movement in the state of Georgia. The annual reception on April 17th promises to be the social event of the South for the year. W e are extending a cordial invitation to brothers in this section to come over and join us in our annual prom. The educational drive will be conducted jointly by the three Atlanta chapters. We, plan to cover the entire state. Bro. Sydney P. Brown is now a citizen of Chicago, the seat of Theta -and Xi Lambda chapters. Eta Lambda loses one of its best members and'Xi Lambda receives'a good worker for the fraternity. Bro. David D. Jones, one of our tireless workers, has recently been elected field secretary for InterRacial work in the South. Bro. Jones was formerly secretary of the Standard Life Company, and for years was the executive secretary of the St. Louis Y. M. C. A. His experience along sociological lines eminently fits him for his present position. Bro. T. J. Ferguson, formerly treasurer of the Standard Life Insurance Company, was elected recently to the position of general manager of the Atlanta office of the combined Standard and Southern Insurance companies.

Bro. Elmer Cheeks, former vice-president of the fraternity, passed through our city and was given a luncheon by the brothers while here. The annual college and fraternal night of the First Congregational Church was held last Sunday and was well attended by students and alumni of the various colleges and by members of all the fraternities. Bro. Wood spoke for Alpha Phi Alpha. Bro. Russel S. Brown attended the inaugural exercises in Washington, D. C. While away he visited his native home in Ohio. Bro. B. T. Harvey of Morehouse has just returned from the East with his victorious basketball team. Eta Lambda wishes to serve notice that it plans to keep the McGhee Cup so the other chapters may just anchor. Fraternally, J. GARLAND WOOD.

IOTA LAMBDA

CHAPTER.

Indianapolis, Ind. Iota Lambda is enjoying a period of great activity and prosperity and hopes that her sister chapters are doing likewise. Brothers John and Sumpter Riley of Depauw University most gorgeously entertained seven of the brothers from Indianapolis on Saturday evening, February 28, at Greencastle, Indiana. After our business meeting we were served a very dainty lunch, each brother being paired with one of his new feminine acquaintances, and the rest of the evening was spent keeping time with sweet strains of ever-changing music. The Entertainment Committee announces that on March 1">, at the residence of Bro. Furniss, the chapter will hold a smoker in honor of pur visiting brother, Judge George, Judge of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 111., who will speak at the Y. M. C. A. Monster meeting in the afternoon of the same day. The "putting over" of the "Go to High School, Go to College" campaign is foremost in the minds of Iota Lambda men. Sincerely wishing that all chapters will co-operate, we remain, Fraternally yours, SOLOMON EDWARDS.

Corresponding

KAPPA LAMBDA

Secretary.

CHAPTER.

BROTHERS IN A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,

Greetings:

The last meeting of our chapter held at Agricultural and Technical College, Greensboro. N. C , March 13th, was the inaugural of our new president. Brother F. D. Bluforde. It was especially gratifying to note the keen interest manifested by the brothers in the work of the fraternity. The zeal with which each member present entered into the spirit of the meeting was an expression of his unswerving support of the administration. The officers elected for the year are, president, F. D. Bluforde, A. & T. College; vicepresident, H. Liston, State Normal School, WinstonSalem; secretary, I. W . Taylor, 206 Holbrook Street, Danville, Va.; treasurer, D. K. Cherry, A. & T. College, Greensboro, N. C.; chaplain, P. T. Johnson, A. & T. College; sergeant-at-arms, J. K. Hilyard, Peabody Academy, Troy, N. C. Too much praise cannot be given our retiring president, Brother F. Luther Merry, for the efficient manner in which he has presided over the chapter during the past two years and for his untiring zeal in all matters pertaining to the best interests of the chapter and the fraternity. Brother Merry is one of the dyed-in-the-wool Alphas, whom we all have learned to love for his congeniality, thorough preparation, and

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adequate knowledge of the tenets of the organization. In his successor, Brother F . D. Bluforde, the chapter feels that he has caught the spirit of Brother Merry, and that success through his efforts is assured. We were especially gratified to add to the personnel of our roster Professors Emmett A. Cox, of the Berry O'Kelly School, Method, N. C.; Brooks Dickens, of Shaw University, Raleiph N. C.; Alphonse Henningberg, the Slater School, Winston-Salem, and Roy Lay, principal Asheville High School. These neophites have come to us highly recommended and we feel sure that in them is the mettle which is characteristic of all true Alphas. Cordially and fraternally yours, IKVIN W.

TAYLOR,

Secretary.

MU L A M B D A Washington BROTHERS,

CHAPTER. D. C.

Greetings:

Our chapter reports progress—real progress. Since the last issue of the S P H I N X , we have adopted the budget plan of financing the chapter, and so great has been its success thus far that we take pleasure in recommending it to other chapters who desire to elevate the plane of chapter finances. Bro. Howard Long, former general president, was the chairman of a very able budget committee. W e are proud to announce that we have had two rousing meetings in the interest of the building of our local chapter house. Bro. Irving Cassell, who designed the building and has the erection in Charge, was present at the last meeting and went over the plans in detail. The ardor of brothers like "Parson" Smith is serving us in good stead in these hectic days. Emory refuses to let his ardor sag. "Charlie" Wesley's appointment as chairman of the Building Committee was a happy selection, too. The drive for "bucks" will start at an Alpha Phi Alpha banquet, sponsored by Beta Chapter on St. P a t r i c k s night in the new Dining Hall. Mu Lambda intends to put its shoulder to the wheel and its nose to the grandstone until this proposition goes over the top. Several new faces arc appearing among the Old (rtaard now. "Billie" Brewer, "Charlie" Burch, "1'riif." Beckham, "J. C." Grant, and "Charlie" Mills all look good to us. "Has anybody here seen Herring?" We regret to announce that our good brother, Norman L. McGhee, the redoubtable "Mac," is about to leave us. One of our charter members, he has always given us the fullest measure of his help and support; but since he gave his heart away, his interests have been in the West. So we bid you goodbye and Godspeed, Mac. "Out of the crucible, what," Has come a brand new Peerless Sedan. All congratulations to our worthy brother, "Parson" Smith. Keep knocking, Emory, you'll arrive! Since "Jinks" Davidson got elected chairman of the Personnel Committee, lots of new brothers have showed up at the meetings, but Jinks stays away himself. That's funny. " N a t " Murray sure is one good chaplain. He makes 'em short and snappy. What a rare treat to see "Fish" Garvin and "Parson" Smith engaged in conversation. "Fish" Gloom —"Parson" Ardor. "Bob" Ogle has developed a "parliamentary complex" since he's been 'sociating down there at the Senate with the old boys like Pat Harrison and Hiram Johnson. Bob sure is a stickler for form. We are all wondering what kind of a basketball team Eddie Lowery is going to bring us this year. The Omega scries are almost here and a spanking

twice in the same place begins to get painful, Eddie, old boy. " H a s anybody here seen Stratton?" Speaking of girls, did you say? Why, yes, congratulations are in order to Brother Louis Russell. Of course it's a girl! Oh, didn't you know? Why, yes, it's three weeks old. We are wondering if Bro. Long, supervising principal P. D. Q., will attempt to fine as many of his teachers as he does his brothers. Mu Lambda should have a gala ball with Merrill Curtis in charge of arrangements—and look who else is on the committee—"Bony" Jones, Eddie Lowery and "Fish" Garvin. Now we'll say, here's a combination hard to beat! One thing about this new administration of Saunders, Donawa & Co., they see that we get plenty to eat. One more, and then we're through. Who was it that said the rich get richer, and the poor get children? Let's see—er—was it Sophocles? Well, you might ask Norman Harris. But don't ask Arthur Curtis, or "Fish" or Merrill.

OMICRON LAMBDA CHAPTER. Birmingham, Ala. To

EDITOR OF T H E S P H I N X :

It affords your humble servant no mean pleasure to broadcast to the world of Alpha Phi Alpha, the glad news of the setting apart of Omicron Lambda Chapter, here in the nether regions of the South. Tins memorable event took place on the fourteenth of February. 1925. The honor of setting apart this Chapter fell to Brother C. W. Greene, Eta Lambda Chapter, Atlanta. After all official duties were discharged, the Brothers repaired to the Fraternal Hotel, and were served a sumptuous menu prepared by special caterers. Included in this courtesy were several friends of the newly formed Chapter. To Brother A. D. Stone, formerly of Beta, and Delta Lambda Chapters, has fallen the task of steering the ship. Brother G. N. Adamson, of Chi, has been selected as a fitting aide to Brother Stone. Brother Reeves, of Eta Lambda and Alpha Pi, records the history being made by this embryo Chapter. Brother U. G. Mason, of Eta Lambda, guards the purse strings. Brother Dowell is to guide our spiritual destinies. Your humble servant, Alpha Beta and Theta is the Associate Editor to the S P H I N X . Brother Wood, the smallest of our group, and Chi, renown. declares he will preserve order. - Brother McCall. of Epsilon, is the remaining charter member. These brothers belt the entire Birmingham district, and are actively engaged in the several activities of the district. Brother G. W. Reeves, Director of Athletics, of Miles Memorial College, is chairman of the Go-toHigh-Sehool. Go-to-College movement. He has enlisted the; aid of the various pastors, principals of the schools and the educational authorities in the interest of this movement. Brother Reeves is indeed the man for this stupendous job, for such it is in this district. We have the belief that he will more than heap honor upon himself and the fraternity in the execution of his assigned tasks. W e were honored quite recently by a visit from Brother Dibble. Medical Director of Tuskegee Institute. Brother Dibble came to the city to speak before the local medical association. Yours in the bond of Alpha Phi Alpha, OMICRON-LAMBDA.

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925

CUPID'S CORNER "What

therefore

God

hath joined together,

Stewart-Hoffman. Good Brother Hoffman, of Nu, not to be outdone by Brother Hailstock, decided that he would like a New York miss. also. So he found Miss Amelia Stewart, who was also agreeable to the plan, with the result that George is now engaged. Nu and the Fraternity at large wish Brother George and Miss Stewart much happiness. Mosely-Hailstock. Again Cupid has been busy shooting his darts, with tfie result that Brother Frank I,. Hailstock, Jr., of New York, and No Chapter, and Miss Emma F. Mosely, popular in New York society, have decided to take the fatal step. However, we hope that the step is not so fatal after all, but that happiness may pursue the parties from now and throughout all times. Ayers-Clair, of Iota Chapter, Syracuse University. Brother John A Clair, of Iota Chapter, Syracuse University, a senior in the College of Applied Science, lias been pledged into the matrimonial brotherhood. The young lady is Miss Geraldine Avers, of Syracuse. Miss Ayers is a senior in Vocational High School, and is very accomplished in music and the social leader in the younger set. Iota wishes them all of the happiness which married life brings. Womach-Williams. Brother J. Mack Williams believes in doing tilings now. H e received his pin one afternoon and that night sent Chi the following notice: "I am willing that Chi Chapter shall announce my engagement to Miss Eloise M. Womach. in the S P H I N X . " Miss Womach is a senior at Fisk University and is a young lady of great talent. Brother Williams doesn't remember the stones in his pin, but is happy "cause "Eloise has it." No wonder Brother Williams wrote: "Tomorrow. Tomorrow, How Happy I Will Be." Houston-Young. Brother C. Milton Young has at last come clean and said "Tense has it." -Now we become- formal just a little, and say, "Chi Chapter announces the engagement of Brother C. Milton Young, II. to MisHorteuse Cornelia Houston, of Houston, Texas. Brother Young "lost" his pin about a year ago. We're glad to find it. Miss Hortense is a graduate of Fisk University and is now teaching in her home town. We wish for Mil and Tense the best of luck. Dinkins-Waller. "Big Charlie" Waller became as faint as a shadow. succumbed, went into a state of coma and recovered to find himself wandering in the garden of love with Miss Ethel LaStella Dinkins. of Selma. Alabama. He "lost" his pin in the garden but fortunately Miss Dinkins found it and has worn it since as an emblem of L O V E , S I N C E R I T Y and T R U T H . Miss Dinkins is a Bachelor of Arts from Hartshorn Memorial College. She is also a graduate from the Musical Department of Hartshorn, and at present

let not man put asunder." Matt. 19:6.

is continuing her study at the New England servatory oi Music in Boston.

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Wilson-Brown. Beta take notice, Chi has captured J. Felton Brown, who admits having entered into mutual agreement with Miss Edith Merrier Wilson, of Richmond. Virginia. He further admits that he has given Miss u ilson his fraternity pin as a seal of good faith. Miss Wilson is a Graduate of Miner Normal School, of Washington, D. C . and is now teaching in the public schools of Winston-Salem. Evidently Brownie and Miss Wilson mean it and we wish for them every imaginable success. Tucker-McDaniel. One of the happiest nun at tin Seventeenth Annual Convention was Brother Gough I). McDaniel, nf Delta Lambda. Baltimore. Xot because he was engaged, but because his wedding bells had rung. He had his "prize' with him and was on his honeymoon at the Convention. The pin of Brother McDaniel has been appearing and disappearing for quite a while. The professor admits that he has been a inverted for sometime, but it is believed that he has been waiting for the opportune time. i IK "prize" is the charming and sociable person of Miss Cora Tucker, a prominent and well-known Baltimore school teacher. Miss Tucker, a leader in her social set, is from one of Baltimore's most prominent families. The groom, an honor graduate of the Baltimore schools and Brown University, is serving as professor of history in the Douglass High School at Baltimore. Brother and Mrs. McDaniel form an ideal couple. We wish them much success. They have the fraternity's most sincere regards for a happy married life and a bright future. Baker-Jones. We received information at the last moment to the effect that Brother Edwin C. Jones, of Xi Chapter, is about to launch out into the field'of matrimony. The charming Miss Carutha Baker, is now wearing the coveted pin and both are all smiles. Brother Jones is one of the most active members of Xi Chapter. Brother Jones and Miss Baker are seniors in the college of liberal arts. We all wish for them a pleasing journey in their new endeavors.

Gardner-Washington. We had done our best for the past six or eight months to aid in the discovery and recovery of the pin of Bro. Alexander Washington. At first we felt it quite deeply to learn that his pin was lost, but now we are made to see the light. The pin was finally located. It contained only seven jewels; but now his riches have been increased: he now has eight jewels; the last more precious than the original seven. The happy union took place at the home of Miss Sadie Gardner on February 14. The fraternity wishes them all the happiness imaginable. Brother Washington is now a member of the faculty at the West Virginia Collegiate Institute.

THE SPHINX, APRIL 1925

30 Robinson-Harden.

Woody-White.

What shall we do? Bro. A. S. Harden of Alpha Zeta has been a suspicious character since early last spring. He does not seem to talk much, yet the old saying that "actions speak loudly" is still in vogue. Bro. Harden happens not to be an insurance man, but he has been successful in getting the dear little lady to take his "policy." We do not know just how soon the delightful affair will take place, but all evidence points to an early date in the future.

Bro. Albert White of Alpha Zeta has not been giving quite all his time to thinking of basketball as some think, even though he is one of the college's best guards. He knows how to divide his time. And I can not blame him much for that, brothers. W h o could want every one to know all his affairs? Why, he had perfect right to keep it a secret if he chose to. I luring the past two years he has helped to win for his college some games which were thrillers, and on 'ast Christmas he had won for himselfâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a charming little wife. To these two the fraternity extends its most sincere wishes for a long life, filled only with sunshine.

Royston-Bland. "Love is the greatest force on earth," says Bro. William Q. Bland, president of Xi Chapter. Bro. Bland has presented to the lovely Miss Leathy Christine Royston his " F r a t " pin as a token of perpetual love, and now they live in the castle of happy dreams, preceding their realization that not "until death do we part." Miss Royston is an Arkansian, a Hamptonian, and a matriculated student in Pratt Institute. New York. Both have chosen well and to these two wanderers we wish the best of luck, and hope that they will have to voyage none but calm seas.

Wheeler-Smith. Cupid seems to be having a rather busy season, the sparkling pin of Brother Charles S. Smith has at last been located. Miss Dorothy Wheeler is now in possession of the pin and Brother Smith asserts that it is to be hers until death. Both Brother Smith and Miss Wheeler are graduates of Wilherforce.

CHAMPION BASKET-BALL TEAMâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;QUI Sitting (Left to Right) C. E. Dillard, E. H. Poole (Captain), and E. B. Clarke. Standing (Right to Left) V. G. Gibson, J. P. Brown, H. H. Weathers, H. D. Clarke, E. Wright, C. M. Young, and C. W. Waller. Well, here we are, We kept our promise. We captured the flag and have been crowned champs of the interfraternal league at M e h a r r y . We won seven and lost two. I t was a tough fight but we kept our promise. Nuff sed.

THE SPHINX, APRIL, 1925

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ALPHA OMICRON C H A P T E R , Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N. C. President, E. A. Armstrong, Johnson C. Smith University. Secretary, J. W . Graham, Johnson C. Smith University. A L P H A P I C H A P T E R , Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. President, Henry Lang, Atlanta University. Secretary, C. Blythe Andrews, Atlanta University.

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