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252 The Crisis [[images: 5 portrait photographs with the following captions - Oswell William Bannister Honor Student Bluefield State Carlus Mathis May Ranking Student Morris-Brown University Elizabeth Garland Schmoke Magna cum laude Shaw Almeta Virginia Crockett Honor Student Lincoln University, Mo. Wilma B. Knowles B.A. A., M. & N., Pine Bluff, Ark.]] College Graduates (Continued from page 236) [[3 column table]] School | Number Enrolled | A.B. or B.S. Tougaloo College | 107 | 17 State College, Dover, Dela. | 83 | 11 Voorhees N. and I. | 83 | - Florida A. & M. | 54 | 54 Benedict College | 47 | 47 Gammon Theological Seminary | 38 | - Bennett College for Women | - | 27 Total | 19,902 | 1,791 New York University | 321 | 8 Ohio State | 268 | 19 University of Kansas | 149 | 21 Indiana University | 136 | 3 University of Illinois | 108 | 14 University of Iowa | 58 | 5 Western Reserve | 54 | 8 Butler University | 53 | 3 Oberlin | 47 | 2 University of Pittsburgh | 40 | 6 Kansas State | 28 | 1 Loyola University | 27 | - University of Nebraska | 25 | 1 University of Minnesota | 25 | - Hunter | - | 23 University of Colorado | 19 | 1 College of the City of New York | 18 | - University of Cincinnati | - | 11 Simmons College | 12 | 2 Boston University | - | 2 Pennsylvania State | 9 | - Harvard College | 8 | - University of Denver | 8 | 1 University of New Mexico | 8 | - Rutgers University | 7 | 1 Radcliffe | 6 | - Springfield College | 6 | 1 Dartmouth | 6 | 1 De Pauw University | 6 | 1 Mass. Institute of Technology | 6 | - Mount Holyoke College | 3 | 1 University of So. California | - | - Beloit College | 3 | 1 Carnegie Institute of Technology | 3 | 1 Syracuse University | 3 | 2 Yale University | 3 | - Creighton University | 2 | - Colorado College | 2 | - Bowdoin College | 2 | - Tufts | 2 | - Drew University | 2 | - Amherst | 2 | - Wooster College | 2 | - Hamline University | 2 | - Barnard | 2 | - University of Buffalo | 1 | - Grinnell College | 1 | - U. S. Military Academy | - | 1 Keuka College | 1 | - Total | 1,494 | 141 Meharry Medical College Enrollment | 280 Graduates | 55 Medical | 32 Dental | 6 Pharmacy | 4 Nurse Training | 10 Dental Hygiene | 3 Howard Professional Schools D.D.S. | 5 LL.B. | 4 M.D. | 35 Going Is Rough (Continued from page 240) participate in, if they were in any other but a predominately white institution. If campus friendships are to count most in critical situations, these friendships must include some of the stalwart student leaders and the articulate minority whose voices carry weight on the campus. It will not do solely to attach onesself to the jolly good fellows, or to the chronic non-conformists and complainants, who are always crying "wolf, wolf." In time, sound friendship and esteem built on mutual high regard maybe of inestimable advantage when the Negro student needs allies to stay the hand of ruthlessness. Then Negroes can also definitely help to educate both professors and students. They can call the attention of students and professors to pertinent articles on the Negro appearing in the learned journals and other magazines; you can get the library to acquire books on the Negro and subscribe to Negro newspapers and periodicals; they can work to bring to the campus artists like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson, who will be good for the box office and also present to the student body a type of Negro white students know so little about; they can also join with the Christian associations (some Christian associations) and anthropology faculties and socio-civic groups in arranging institutes on cultural conflict to acquaint small bodies of students at a time with the true facts concerning Negroes and other minority groups. Negroes who live a sheltered life and refuse to attend functions open to them for fear of being insulted, or of embarrassing their host, turn their back on great opportunities to convert and win friends for the Negro race. Many white students know only the Negro of the screaming headlines, the grinning Negro of the newsreels, or the moronic Negro described in the old high school sociology textbooks. They have never had a chance to meet any others, either in history or in the flesh. Many of these students – or the best of the lot, can be made to see and to appreciate the Negro so few white people really know, through meeting Negro personalities who give the lie to the headline, the movies or the half-baked texts. Courage and an enlightened viewpoint on the part of college president and faculty, potential liberal public opinion, the interest of articulate students in fair play and justice, and concern of negro students in sharing fully in college life will all help in overcoming the obstacles and annoyances which confront Negro students, just because they are Negroes. But of all these qualities, courage on the part of an enlightened president is the greatest need to prevent colleges and universities from inculcating into students the ideology that honesty, fair play, and respect for human personality are virtues not to be practised where Negroes are involved. If a president is square, if he will not wink at known discriminations based on race, creed, and color, his subordinates will recognize that they haven't an open field to run rough-shod over those students who happen not to be born from the right family stock. The Negro graduates of white institutions have had extra problems to meet and overcome. If these obstacles have not arisen everywhere, it is because of one, or several, of the reasons I have tried to outline. The writer hopes that no one will want to say that because the way is rough that Negroes should not attend the leading educational institutions of the country. They should. White men and women and black men and women must live together and work together and in the new American democracy in the making it is especially necessary that white educated Americans learn early to know and get along with members of a significant part of the American body politic and social. It is not bad, either, for Negroes to have problems; the essential thing is what Negroes do about these problems and
