THE CAMPUS ECHO
Vol. 2
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR NEGROES, DURHAM, N. C., OCTOBER 25, 1937
Number I
N.C.C. Extension Courses
For ’37 Off to Good Start
Extension Department Has
Phenomenal Growth
Over Few Years
By Ulysses
The off campus extension service
of the North Carolina College for
Negroes for the current year has
been definitely and successfully
launched and is off to a good start.
For many of these groups were or
ganized during the month of Septem
ber shortly after the schools opened,
and the others have been set to work
within the last few weeks.
All of these extension centers are
located in towns and cities, easy of
access to the large numbers of urban
and rural teachers working in these
cities and the surrounding rural com
munities. The classes are generally
conducted at the local high school of
the particular community served,
where room, light and heat, in most
instances, are furnished gratis.
The particular feature of our in
stitution’s work, the off-campus ex
tension service, has had a most re
markable growth and development,
almost as phenomenal as that of the
institution itself. For it is a far away
call from the small groups of teachers
that in the beginning gathered at the
local college/lite afternoons or nights
for work in extension classes, con
ducted only at the college to our
present setup, covering a dozen or
more counties with extension centers
in an equal number of places and an
enrollment of five hundred or more
in-service teachers working in a score
or more counties of the state.
Only last year a full time instruc
tor was placed in charge of this work
in the belief that one individual giv
ing full time to this service would be
able to conduct all the several group
centers. But it was soon made evi
dent that additional help would be
necessary to do what was needed to
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Alpha Chi Group
Greets New-comers
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ROLAND HAYES
The Alpha Chi Chapter of the Al
pha Kappa Alpha Sorority welcomes
those of you who are new to our
campus. During the school year we
would like to feel that we are put
ting something worthwhile into your
campus life.
In order that you may know us,
our roster is composed of the follow
ing officers:
Basileus—Soror Mayme Spaulding.
Anti-Basileus—Soror Florence
Green.
E. Pistoleus—Soror Juanita Yeates.
Grammateus—Soror Dorothy Whit-
ted.
Dean of Pledges—Soror Pocahon
tas Scott.
Sponsor—Soror Pauline Newton.
Homecoming Game
The Home Coming Game this year
will be played Saturday, November
6, with Virginia Union University.
This will be a great game. Every
former student and graduate of the
Institution is expected to be present
and make this a great reunion.
The rallying cry from now until
November 6—MEET ME AT THE
HOME COMING GAME!
Shorthand Lesson
Astounds All Comers
By Miss Gee Vee Harris
If you want to see a class of stu
dents which looks as if it is being led
to an intellectual slaughter, visit a
class room for the presentation of the
first lesson in shorthand. One in the
group, more precocious than the oth
ers, will usually come to the teacher’s
desk, or stop her in the aisles, and
inform her that he has never studied
shorthand before and, therefore, all
of his errors or slowness in absorbing
the art must be excused by his lack
of experience.
As a matter of fact, everyone who
begins a course in this abbreviated
writing, especially the Gregg Sys
tem, has been studying some of the
rudiments of the subject ever since
he learned the script alphabet. It is
a system based on curves, circles, and
straight lines, and has a slant of
about fifteen degrees. The A in
Gregg shorthand is identical with the
large circle in the longhand letter A.
The E, likewise, is a replica of the
small circle in the longhand E. Our
first consonant is taken from the
downward curve in the letter B.
The study of shorthand affords an
opportunity for all p>oor spellers to
conceal their shortcoming, as short-
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Bri-Dra-So Stagers
Hold First Meeting
and Elect Officers
By P. L. Scott
The Bri-Dra-So Stagers held their
first meeting Tuesday, October S,
1937. Officers for the term, ’37-38,
were elected and the projects for the
year were outlined by the directress.
Miss Katie Kelly. The officers are as
follows:
President, Walter Ellerbee.
Vice-President, Burnett Riddick.
Sec.-Treas., Esther Delaney.
Business Manager, Milton Grant.
Stage Manager, William Stafford.
Costume Man., Pocahontas Scott.
Property Managers, Leon Greene,
Emmett McCullough.
Electrician, Charles Graves.
Makeup, Esther Delaney.
The first major production of the
year will be Jerome K. Jerome’s
“Passing of the Third Floor Back.”
]\Ir. Alphonse Heningburg has vol
unteered his services to the dramatic
club and expresses a keen desire to
help those especially interested in
the mechanical phase of dramatics.
The club is happy to welcome Mr.
Heningburg and we sincerely feel
that his services will be invaluable.
At the present time fifty-six stu
dents have made applications for
membership to the Bri-Dra-So Stag
ers. The tryouts will be held Tues
day night, October 19.
The Bri-Dra-So Stagers have great
ambitions and inspirations for this
year. Watch us!
Dormitories Should Be The
Educational Centers of Campus
World famous Negro tenor, who will
give a recital in the new auditorium
December 6, 1937.
Roland Hayes Expresses
Genius Of His Own Race
Europe Amazed at Beauty of Spir
ituals as Sung by Leading
Tenor
The first concert in our new audi
torium will be given by that world
famous artist Roland Hayes. The ad
mission will be $1.00 and $1.50.
Send in your reservations early.
The reason for the surpassing fame
of Roland Hayes is not hard to ex
plain. He has not only expressed the
particular genius of his race more
completely than any other Negro—
he has made his voice a more deli
cately perfect organ than any snger
of any race, and he has probed more
truly than any other the inner beauty
of the world’s great songs.
Through the mirror of his tenderly
beautiful voice and his probing sym
pathy, the spirituals have found, ac
cording to general opinion, their most
poignant and complete expression.
These songs of stark, disarming emo
tion, of touching childlike faith, of
vivid word imagery, have taken such
a complete hold of Roland Hayes’
audiences that there are often, after
the final cadence, several moments of
silence before the applause breaks the
illusion.
Europe, which scarcely knew the
spirituals, has been amazed at their
unsuspected beauty. One recalls in
particular the profound impression
they have made in London, and in
musical Vienna, which proclaimed
them a true discovery.
Even to Russia, Roland Hayes
carried the songs of his race, and it
is a tribute to the universal language
of music, that, although having no
inkling of what the words might
mean, the audiences, likewise of serf-
heritage, were evidently deeply
moved, and many, coming to the
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Incomes Under
$2,000 Buy 60 Per
Cent Of All Autos
Sophomore Class
Settles Down For
Best Year Yet
Ready To Tackle Any Problem
By Joseph Christmas
With the suddenness of a summer
shower, this year’s Sophomore Class
has swept down upon the North Car
olina College Campus; full of vip,
vim, and vigor; ready to tackle any
problem; adjusted to absorb some of
the abundant college education. It
is no wonder that the class goes to
college for education, for there is a
lot of it; the Freshmen always bring
a little in, and the seniors never take
any away.
Because such a few old classmates
failed to return, because of a cooper
ative impact, well-organized execu
tive committee, because of an under
standing, upright group of class
mates, the zealous air of endeavor
prevails in each member. As a whole,
the class feels that education is to
unsettle the minds of the young and
to inflame theii' intellects. It is need
less to say, therefore, that the Sopho
mores stand firm in their convictions
of right, that their aim is through
truth.
With the faithful supervision of
its beloved sponsor, Mrs. J. W. Har
ris, the Class prospered during all
last term in drinking from the ioun-
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Youth Of Today
Is No Churchgoer
Schoolman Tells Episcopalians
Majority Never Attend
Church
40% of Mechanical Refrigerators Are
Bought by Same
Group
Frvm the Herald Tribune Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—Fig
ures indicating that about 60 per
cent of all automobiles and 40 per
cent of the mechanical refrigerators
in use in American cities are used by
families having incomes of less than
$2,000 a year were made public to
day by the Department of Commerce.
The findings were based on a
study of cross-section groups of the
families making up the population
of fifty cities. The statements ex
plained that in each city there were
more than two and one-half times
as many families with incomes below
$2,000 as families with incomes
above that amount.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—(AP)
—Thirty-six of the 49 million young
persons in the United States have
never set foot inside a church, the
Eastern Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church was told Monday.
The statement was made by the
Rev. Frank E. Gaebelein, headmaster
of the Stony Brook School for Boys,
Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y.,
who said a questionnaire revealed
that “of 55,000 youngsters attending
certain schools in New York, more
than 16,000 never heard of the ten
commandments.”
Of more than 18,000 students in
Virginia, he said 16,000 were unable
to name four biblical prophets, 12,-
000 to name the four gospels, and
10,000 to name three of the Christ’s
disciples.”
Gaebelein cited these reported facts
to illustrate his contention that the
young people of his country are
“spiritually illiterate.”
Dean Ruth G. Rush Explains
Purpose of Residence Halls
and Outlines Plans
By Dean Ruth G. Rush
It is assumed from the title that
we think a dormitory should be an
educational center. Anna Pierce in
“Deans and Advisers of Women and
Girls” gives the following purposes of
residence halls:
1. To afford the students a low-cost,
model home.
2. To furnish surroundings which
will develop and maintain high
ideals and a taste for culture and
refinement.
3. To overcome the present ten
dency in school life to over-em-
phasize certain pleasures and
amusements and to give too little
attention to others of equal or
greater value.
4. To utilize every worthy social
accomplishment of each student
and develop his dormant social
abilities.
5. To check the tendency to over
stress the fraternity and sorority
factor in student life and to cul
tivate instead the genuine spirit
of democracy.
6. To provide a form of residence
where adequate attention com
mensurate with its social, and
moral health maintenance and
where the maximum of help is
afforded to check at its inception
any departure from perfect
health in any of these depart
ments.
7. To furnish surroundings for stu
dents so free from disturbing in
fluences that they will be able
to do their best scholastic work
at all times.
Our students have inherited a tra
dition which makes it difficult to se
cure an atmosphere conducive to the
development of the intellectual.
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Physical Education
Adds New Classes
Governor Hoey To Speak
At Dedicatory Exercises
Our beautiful new auditorium,
dormitory, library and six cottages
will be dedicated Sunday, December
5, at 3:00 P. M.
The dedicatory address will be
delivered by Governor Clyde R.
Hoey. Every graduate and friend of
the Institution is invited to hear the
address and to witness the wonder
ful expansion at North Carolina Col
lege.
Schedule Includes Tumbling
and Apparatus
The Physical Education depart
ment offers something new—two
classes in tumbling and apparatus.
The instructor has set forth nearly
one hundred individual activities in
volving work on all apparatus. Over
a third of these events must be ac
complished by each student. A point
system is in use and all men who ex
pect to receive a grade of C must
earn at least 490 points out of a
possible 1470. 890 points must be
earned for a grade of A. At the end
of the second quarter three medals
signifying gymnastic ability and in
dividual achievement will be given
to the individuals having the greatest
number of points. At present the
leaders are George Logan, Edward
Norris and James Newton, each hav
ing 120 points.
Despite the novelty of the work
and despite the likelihood of falls
and shake-ups the effort and interest
shown by those enrolled promises
keen competition and a realization of
the class’ objectives.
McLendon, Instructor.