COLLEGE GLEANINGS
By “Klem,” Jr.
A new year began in this month. It will
mean new hopes, new dreams, hew disap
pointments and new successes. These
bringings of a new year, they are not so
surprisingly novel, for does nol each day
bring to each of us new hopes, new
dreams, new disappointments, and new
successes; then, further, a new year is but
a new day. The first of January saw many
new and old resolutions made and re
made; the second of January saw many
new and old resolutions broken and re
broken. “What is man that thou art mind
ful of him?”
The Rev. Dr. I. H. Russell, Synodical
Evangelist, conducted a week of prayer
services on our campus from the seventh
through the thirteenth. Much good should
have been the results of such services.
Our President, Dr. H. L. McCi'orey, has
been ill for a few days with the now
common ailment. Mr. S. D. Williams,
Principal of our High School, has also
been among those confined to the sick room
for the past two weeks. We are, indeed,
thankful that both of these persons are in
good health again. Mr. Wililams’ mother
and sister visited him during his illness,
the former coming from their home in
Georgia, and the lattei from Reidsville
where she is teaching in the high school,
there.
The little Mr. Whn. Byrd entertained in
honor of “la petite femme” at the “House”
a few nights ago. An affair of such a na_
ture is a novelty in the activities of our
students. If one is to render a decision
baaed on the delightfulness reaped on that
evening all that we can inquire is—“When
is the next one to be?”
Prof, and Mrs. S. H. Adams, Prof. Thorn,
ton and Miss Louise Bass motored to
Bricks, N. C., during the first of the
month for a bidef stay there. Mrs. Thorn
ton, who had been visiting there, returned
with the party. “Klem,” Jr., was also a
delightful partaker of this deviation from
the routine of campus life.
There seems to be a concerted move on
the part of those of our students who are
grouped under the t'tle, “smooth” to get
over their “line,” to win the heart of some
fair maid, and to vanquish some trusting
King Arthur. We have only to consider
the following to verify our foregoing
statement; Whiteman in .Shelby; James El
lis and Lytle in Concord; Whitehead in
Durham; Troy and one Bryant in Gasto
nia; Sam Long and Thompson in Green
ville; Neal and Crawford around the
Arch; Carraway, Greggs and Skinner in
the Wards. The hardened veterans in this
social game such a.s Ozier, Newell, Lowe,
“Pap” Williams and R. E. Jones smile to
themselves when they note these mighty
lovers sally forth to their respective fields
of battle (verbal.) Vick, Lee, Walker and
W'atkins must be sad at heart when they
think of fields lost. That foursome and all
others who have felt the effects of a Back
biters’ assault have our sympathy and best
wishes if they attempt any form of retali
ation.
“It is whispered” that Jno. Powell spent
twelve hours one night during the Holidays
taking a peep into night life around Win
ston. “They say” F.d House has followed
“Bun” Hayes into p conservative settle
ment near the campus. The lastest “grave
yard” says Big Brother Evans and Tony
Brown are vieing for the same lady; tha’
Osborne'Wilson is to attend the next Con
vention of Deans, and that Jethro Henry is
giving the High .School weak eyes and a
weak heart.
First Semester examinations are sched
uled for the last wee’K in this month. It
will be, the usual pO'-iod of cramming and
over-taxing of the nervous system. Profs,
will lie attempting to flunk Johnnie. And
Johnnie will be picparing to answei' a
thousand questions that the .“Profs” h'd
never thought of a;sking. More “getting-
In this, let us not be bias, so prejudiced,
so much of the slave to the hypocritical
that we will not wish to consider the true
facts in the case. Do we not think that it
is time that we as a coming powerful in
tegrant in American life make an inven
tory into our present position and respon
sibilities? Can not we now frankly and
fearlessly consider one of the greatest in
fluences that is affecting our masses today?
Are we, students in the College of Life, to
be permitted to view passively, the subjec
tion of a race to the ignorance of the past?
Or are we to be permitted to consider the
national emotional nature of our people,
the influence the coiored clergy has upon
this emotional people, the unfitness of so
many unlettered members of the clergy,
and the results from these conditions and
situations that we may see in many of our
Negro churches; not only those in the ham
lets, the villages or the towns, but even in
our most cultured civic centers?
When as a policy of warfare and for the
sake of the perpetuation of the Union,
Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest of
America’s great Presidents, set up a race
of Freedmen that had been perverted emo
tionally for over two hundred years. This
group launched out into this new day with
the eyes of its masses cast beseechingly
unto those of its members that were min-
istei’ially inclined for its leadership, advice,
informaiton and hope. And in the just past,
comparatively few years have painstakingly
struggled against the material and more
investigative pui'suits of their Anglo-Sax
on contemporaries and are becoming a
most important cog in the machinery of
American life; not only because they form
such a large part of that industrial class
which every nation must have, but also
because they are contributing something to
America’s pursuits on the higher way of
living. And in all these years that these
people have struggled upward they have
identified and have had identified as their
leaders, their ministers—the components
of the colored clergy. Any layman with
proclivities for leadership has been quietly
relegated to the land of the forgotten
W'henever he competed for this leadership
with the spiritual di.spenser.
That clergymen have been identified as
leaders of the race is not surprising when
we consider that the Negro even before his
gloomy advent into American fields of en
deavor (a literal meaning is applicable
here) and , before , American freedom
(American freedom is peculiarly different
from any other possible kinds of freedom)
was suddnely thrust upon him, the witch
doctor, the ■ “hoo-doo” man, and the “jack-
leg” had cast a spell upon his forbears
that was to still have a most poignant ef
fect even unto the present. This heritage
from the past has hung tenaciously to pos
terity as generations have passed from one
era into another; the subjection to a dis
course on an unquenchable, fiery hell, and
a gold-paved, easy-living, honey-flowing
heaven as presented by those versatile
manipulators of words—a clergy all their
own—has made colored America lose much
of its initiative, backbone, and desire to
sally forth to be conquerors. These emo
tion raisers have failed to be fair to their
hearers, to their wonderful responsibility,
and to themselves. They have propagated
a philosophy far foreign' to the tenets of
true Christianity. This domination and
misinterpretation of a great philosophy by
irresponsible members of the colored clergy
has meant a geat “marking time” and re
trogressive influence in-'.the Negro’s spirit
ual and intellectual development..
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