THE university STUDENT
l.«.
JOKES
Just Another Joke
Nice old lady in the city: You
students out there certainly have a
most wonderful church. The interior
is beautiful.
Student: Yes; so they tell me.
Uh, Er, Well, Well
The courses at Smith are num
bered from too (UP. doting
\nother of a certain “Soph” received
he report slip of her son. Upon
1|ewing the said report Doting
other rushed over to the nearest
|ghbor with this: “My, John Hen-
6urc is doing good in college. He
over a hundred in every-
A Matter of Into
Vector v,f Music: Is there any
school who reads: a declaim-
he chorus needs a reader,
liert: What you mean? Some
one\ read out loud?
Happy Boys
1i'Mil
HuLd: Don’t pul(l that spark
down;* heats up the motor.
WifOT wil, too; it looks better
hat wl
—Widow
Waiter%yalter! There’s a button
in my saj,
have come off in
COLLEGE GLEANINS
Authur J. Clement, Jr.
Waiter:Wust
the dressi^
—Froth.
suing the doctor
Mrs. Jon^ i
who remo^■ct Mr. Jones’ appendix.
What -t
For openirlher male.
—The Pointer.
A deaf wor^n entered a church
v/ith an ea)' tri^pet. Soon after she
had seated herllf an usher tiptoed
over and whisiired, “One toot and
out you go.”
—Druxerd.
I fainted and they brought me
too. So I fainted '^>gain.
Why?
Well, they they brought me two
fnore.
—CSfums.
' Somehow I just cant seem to
throw myself into my work, re
marked the grave digger as he threw
down his tools and walked away,
—Columns.
I always said that two could live
as cheaply as one.
Yes. but not nearly so long.
Oh, ma; C’mere onickl
What is it, Mary?
Look, Johnny ate all the raisins off
that sticky, brown paper.
—Phoenhe.
I eat peas with honey,
I’ve done it all my life;
Tt makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
—Reserve Red Cat.
SOPHOMORES
The Sophomore class has begun
the new school year with a bang.
I'he newly elected officers have as
sumed their duties with enthusi
asm that is hard to beat. The class
officers are E. C. Grigg, President;
J. F. Townes, Vice President; C. J.
Jones, Secretary; W. D. DeLarge,
Treasurer; and F. Bogle, Sergeant-
at Arms.
To an observer it would appear
that the class ff 1932 and the word
achievement aie synomous terms,
Even though he members of the
class are kep. quite busy following
up their vaiious curricula activi
ties there ari those who have taken
an active ptrt in extra curricula
activities.
Mr. E. C Grigg, the President is
a, proficienf speaker of the debating
team.
Mv. F. Bogle is that All-Ameri
can star Pf the University and
with hiir there are other members
of ’the cass on the gridiron who
have les fame but just as much
spirit.
Ther' arc also representatives of
the clfJs in other activities.
Thee members have remembered
that tie proverbial saying, “Whatso
ever I man soweth that shall he al.
so rap”, proves true in whatever
ccu?e one might pursue.
/ usual, the Sophomores have
thf Freshmen or “Dogs” decorating
th campus with the green and red
css. No wonder the class smiles
F. D. Alston, Reporter.
Four years ago when there was
quite a bit of bickering in regards
to policy and attitude of our super
visors and seventy-six young collegi
ans left this revered compound little
did anyone think that that was the
beginning of the making of a new
Smith. For irrespective of what oth
ers might say it was during that
period that the decaying spirit of
Biddle gave up its ghost to the new
era of Johnson C. Smith. Only one
who has been here before and after
that ‘death’ c^n really appreciate
the New Biddle and the Newer
Johnson C. Smith University that
we have today. Out of the vicissi
tudes of the past flows the bad and
the good of today and all indications
affirm the fact that there has flown
much good out of the bitterness of
a yesterday into the skyward trend
of today. There is a new spirit here
at Johnson C. Smith this’ year. There
is a new outlook. There is a more
harmonious striving for the things
for which we here are supposed to
labor. With the largest collegiate
student body in the Southeast among
our Race schools there is no reason
why Johnson C. Smith should now
take its long-striven-for position,
the leading college for Negroes in
the Arts and Sciences.
School days again claim our at
tention and here amid collegiate in
dividuals there is much that happens
which should later make us men and
yet, may make us monkeys. By no
means implying anything, but there
is Fletcher, he had lost his heart
for all times in S. C. State College
but now that he has met that cover-
cute little miss why the lanky kid is
in Fletchersville every other night. It
would partially be ‘ok’ did he not
carry one Caesar Walker and one
Jethro Henry with him. These young
fellows should always remember
Whitehead or at least request him
to advise them ni these matters of
the heart.
No one would have thought that
such things were so terribly impor
tant but last week Griffin called in
Gregg, Jackson, Neal, young Powell,
Rutherford, Leake and one or two
pthers of that smooth bunch for a
conference. We understand that the
topic for discussion was ‘How shall
we best offset the encroachment up
on our social engagements that
Jackson Mears and other ‘It’ boys in
the Freshman Class are making?’
"Nothinar drastic 'was decided upon,
we learned.
Coach John Thomas and Prof. G.
Brown made a hurried trip into Vir
ginia last week. Ed Avant accom
panied them.
The entire school went up to the
A. & T,-Bluefield Game. Naps
.Tohnson Clement, and Biggs went up
in last named new cabriolet ‘Four’.
The Douglas girls and Miss H. Rus
sell motored up in Dr. Douglass’, car.
The dean and his family went up,
also did the redoubtable Prof. Fred
‘Bug-bear’ Woodson and ? .
A stranger within our compounds
would think that someone in Smith
Hall and the dinning room conduct
ed ‘Open-Air’ Garages around these
buildings; a more narrowminded
person would have thought that they
wpre Used Car Stands. (Students
must have had successful Summers
with so many cars around here.)
ATRONIZE THE ADVERTIZERS
• Every student in the University
'patronize advertisers in “The Uni
versity Student.” These people are
of the highest type of business men
and are interested in your welfare.
They expect something in return for
their advertising.
If the students co-operate with
them, we would receive more ad
vertising and this would enable the
students to have a bigger and bet'
ter paper.
This Cottage and the New University Church are the latest Additions to the Univer
sity, Constructed by
SOUTHEASTERN CONSTRUCTION CO.
Charlotte, N. C.
der or as efficiently as Carl Russell,
so he is obliging them by doing a
?reditable job. These are just a few
of. the many activities in which the
freshmen are participating. There
are several aspirants to the Varsi-
y foot baV team, the most notable
vSo far are* Rober Tuimer, a hefty
■’enter from Winston-Salem, Hamlet,
an end of no mean ability, from
Pennsylvania, and Dunn, a contend
er for the quarterback position.
Although we came to Smith with
high ideals and determina(tion we
attribute the source of our collegi
ate inspiration to the sayings and
quotations from lectures made to us
by members of the faculty and
^■'riends of the school. The lecture
bat had the greatest effect upon
us as freshmen was made by our
President, Dr. McCrorey.
IN THE REALM OF
DEBATING
LINCOLN CHAL
LENGES SMITH
FRESHMEN
To the average freshman enter
ing college, he is setting out upon
an expedition rivaling that of Chris
topher Columbus. When he leaves
high school he has high ideals, and
visualizes himself as a great man
after having overcome the great
obstacles that loom up before him
as a freshman, and the greater ones
that confront him as a man of the
world. Of course there are those
who do not realize the seriousness
Pnd importance of preparedness, but
we are not concerned by them just
now. We, the Smith University
Freshmen, have already set out with
ail seriousness, intent to battle and
subdue hinderances to success, not
excluding the swellheaded Sophs.
A few days after the opening of
school, we met and chose our offi
cers for the year. Their names ap
pear in the news section of this is
sue of the University Student. By
electing these men, the class' showed
that it had confidence in them as
being stalwart executives, and well
able to carry on the government of
*'he class during this our initial and
most diffcuH year of college life.
We are entering the activities of
the University as college men
should. Already, we are being per
mitted the privilege of showing our
several talents Otto L. Martin, a
diminutive young fellow is being
groomed to play for the Glee Club,
while the several aspiring soloists
are tuning up to show their wares.
It kerned that [the ^student body
felt as if nobody could keep the Sun
day School reports in the right or-
On April twelfth, nineteen hun
dred and twenty-nine, the debating
cam of Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity met and defeated a team from
M5rcfi6use College. On that »arne’
night another Smith debating team
.made a decidedly favorable showing
against the Fisk team, but due to
the lack of judges was unable to
gel a decision.
Now we are entered into a new
year. The past year with its vic
tories as well as its defeats has be-
>.'ome history. By our traditional riv
als, Lincoln University, we have
been challenged. Smith University
•annot allow this challenge to pass
unheeded and retain its honor. So
within the confines of a basement
room the “faithful few” have begun
to assemble and plug away at dry
and someimes uninteresting mate-
I'ial. There are a few new faces in
the group but the proportion is far
from just.
Is it that from a student body of
over three hundred men there is to
be got onA' eight or ten men in-
ollectually fit to debate? Or is it
• hat Smith men have not waked up
to the fact ‘that Smith is calling
Jicm to wi>i her debates as she calls
hem to win her football games?
'lu^st an ancient rival outstrip her
in intellectua] feats and thus sully
"he untarnished foot ball record for
which he “Bulls” have striven so
nobly ?
Traditionary Lincoln is a school
cf good doljutors, of men who are
masters of oratory. So, then, one re
alizes that in order for Smith to
cughly prepared. And not other
beat Lincoln, the men must be thor-
than through extreme competition
and a wealth of material to select
f’rom, can Smith hope to produce
thoroughly prepared debaters?
If Smith does not make a credi
table showing in the forthcoming
debate the query must arise in the
mind of the more motherly insti-
Uition, “What do Smith men employ
themselves in during the interval
^hat separates one foot ball season
from another? Is brawn their only
hope?”
Such criticism would bring from
Smith a storm of protest echoing
to the very campus of our rival. But
wouldn’t they, in a measure, be jus-
ti^ed in putting such queries? After
•all every individual is more or less
Fnged with a bit of that Missourian
“show me.”
Now, then, our path is clearly
outlined. Let us choose the uphill
grade, not the path of least resist
ance where men of “lesser stuff”
are wont to wend their way. Let
ns turn out and help make a win
ning debating team whose slogan
is “Beat Lincoln.”
MY BOYS
With the exception of the Fresh
men, and those upper classmen who
are deriving knowledge from Smith
for the first time, every Smith man
i.s acquainted with the term that the
’ate Mrs. Smith used when referring
to the under graduates of Smith.
Our late benefactress used the
term in its truest sense. Not satis
fied with meeting the president, the
faculty, and others in the communi
ty. Mrs. Smith was always happy
in the presence of students. She had
a willing ear to any student project
that would promote the welfare of
a group which she by choice adopted.
During an interview, Mrs. Smith
made a statement which it wil^ be
well worth while for Smith men to
assimilate, and to digest the facts
in their entirety. She brought out
the fact that it was her purpose that
her boys should geL as thorough an
education as any other group, black
or white. She was of the opinion that
l)er boys were being trained as well
as any student in any university.
In this measure, she took care that
the surroundings should be condu
cive to studv. The faculty of course,
was left to the discretion of the Ad
ministration. It was her wish that
there sho^ld^be no weak link in the
process of bv'coming well rounded.
Our lateAieh^actr^s” was" true to
her ideals. She did more' for Smith
than all the Boards community well
wishers, and the Negro race ever
dreamed of. She was to this plant
what Joan of Arc was to France.
What about her ideals ?
We are all convinced that Mrs.
Smith has nurtured us to knowledge.
Our aims as students and benefici
aries of all her bounties must be to
strive to that ideal of perfection
which she held aloft.
Evei’y true son of Smith must
buckle on the armour of unstinted
effort to better the mental state of
such a height that the world will
see the fruit of a seed which was
«own by the best friend we ever had
in educational circles.
It is our duty to make the recess
es of our minds, cast out all ideas
of indolencv.-, and point our steps to
greater efforts.
Such steps include a change from
a satisfied attitude which too many
.students exhibit when criticiied as o
their grade of work. There must be
a striving for the best; an act of
reaching out for what to some of
us seems intangible. *Let us find
what is best in us, and develop it.
Memories are in good taste for
those who like to live in dreams. But
the ideal which was left with us
must not lip allowed to become a
tender recoJlection, it must live with
us Gverj^^ day. There is no extreme
lump from, indolence to construct
ive endeavor. The only way lies in
the revolutionizing of our thoughts;
the measufip of getting away from
those thing?- which might affect our
ideal; the sifting out of useless
methods and practices.
The impression which our late ben
efactress leift remains with us. Are
we going fo live our part? Is her
ideal and purpose to fini^ and
leave no trace ? Will we abide by
her ideals in all our todays ?
publish our exchange list and write
personal letters to everyone. Our
cld exchanges sustain the same re
lationship, and extend this welcome
other periodicals.
WE THANK YOU
We are deeply grateful to the
readers of the University Student
who have exhibited interest and
friendly co-operation in helping the
staff in its* projects. Our invitation
is permanent to all of our friends,
subscribers and exchanges for what
ever assistance they might offer.
The stock of exchanges that have
come to fhis department is greatly
appreciated by the ■ students and
staff officials. In the library and
University Student office we discov
er excellent literary contributions
from the 'school publications.
In the nbar future we hope to
BOOK REVIEW
T. JEFFERS
“The Dark Journey”, the 1929
Harper Prize novel by Julian Green
is superbly written. Taking the very
ordinary theme of the melancholy
misfit in life he has pi’oduced the
novel of the year and we even pre
dict that it will last longer than this
decade or this generation. Life to
most of us is lived without much
contemplation. We do not bother
ourselves with so much why, instead
we lead a short restless and excited
existance: moving from day to day
all intents bent toward the search
for that elusive something known
as pleasure. Julian Green has made
Gueret taste the dregs of life and
yet continue the struggle; he has
made him realize the uselessness of
fighting the inevitable. Life carries
him along in his rapidly, moving
stream toward an uncertain and dis
mal end, offering first hope and then
despair. “The Dark Journey” holds
you with all the tenseness of the
most pulsating mystery story as it
flow's 'on with the apparent calmness
and majesty of an epic.’ It moves
with the authentic inevitability of
life.”
“ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN
FRONT”
The twelve> years that have inter
vened between the closing of the
world war and 1912 have not dim
med the vivid picture of Herr Eric
Maria Remarque’s life in the World
War for in “All Quiet on the West
ern Front” he lives again for you
those terrible days when triumph
meant death and the winning of each
victory the wanton slaying of fel-
lowmen. He tells how his companions,
classmates—all boys in their late
“teens”—gradually be^me affected
by the war and lost themselves in
its horror. Herr Remarque has giv
en you his own life story, his phil
osophy his yearnings and the feeling
of one who has known the tragedy
growng old and bitter in one’s
youth. The 18 year old lad who went
to war returns two years later aged
beyond even the oldest veteran and
hardened by the horrors of a man
made monster. You who knew the
war will live through it again in the
pages of “All Quiet On The West
ern Front” and those who have
heard will be touched by this vivid
portrayal.
DR. T. A. LONG ATTENDS MEET
ING OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
Dr. Thos. A. Long of the Univer
sity attended the Ninth Annual In
ternational Congress of Psycholo
gists, which convened at Yale Uni
versity from 1—7 of September, in
clusive, This assembly was the first
ever held in America. A probable es
timate of 1000 men and women of
America, Europe and Asia composed
the gathering.
Among other prominent educators
of North Carolina were: Dr. Wm.
McDougall and Dr. Zene of Duke
University; Dr. Frederick Dashiell,
Dr. M. Trabue and Dr. E. E. Crane
of the University of North Carolina;
Dr. J. H. Highsmith of North Car
olina College for Women.
The University considers itself
fortunate m having one of its facul
ty as a member of this grand body.
Tt is an unexcelled distinction among
us and we hope to have more part
through hie lectures and discussions.
JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY '
(Formerly Biddle University)
Founded 1867)
FOR MEN ONLY
Class “A” College, so recognized by the North Carolina
State Board of Education. A Standard Theological SemJ-
inary. Member of the Association of Colleges for Negro
Youth. Large Endowment.
For further information, address
H. L. McCROREY, President,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
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SMITH LICKS BENEDICT
BEAT S. C. STATE
NOVEMBER 9.
(Cotinued from page 1)
made nice gains for the home team.
Lipscombe, Henderson and Fox were
the luminaries for the visitors.
To date the Bulls have scored
four successive triumphs and they
seem well on their way to national
honors. No Eleven, so far, has been
able to muster up enough strength
to cross the Bull’s goal line.
Massey
Coleman .
Standback
Jones . - -
House —.
... . . .-Stevens
R. Hill
E. Gaulden
W. Gaulden
Adamnson
Henry R.T Johnson
Ellis - - —- _ __ R.E. -Jones
Martin . . ___ Q.B A. Davis
Wiliams .. — L.H. -Henderson
Foulkes — - —R.H Lipscombe
Walker P.B. — Pox
Smith 7 0 0 6
Benedict 0 0 0 0
Substitutions for Smith: Bess^
Archia, Blue, Hamlin, Gilliard.
Substitutions for Benedict: Lord,
Hazel, Prince, Wilson, Hazel, Dean,
Dunley, A Hill, H. Davis.
Officials: ’ Refereq^, Richfirdson,
(Wilberforce): Umpire, Diamond,
(Shaw); Head Linesman, Madden,
(Carroll).
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