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President MOORFIELD STOREY Vice-Presidents ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES BISHOP JOHN HURST JOHN E. MILHOLLAND MARY WHITE OVINGTON OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD Executive Officers DR. J. E. SPINGARN, Chairman of Board OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Treasurer DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS, Director of Publications and Research ROY NASH, Secretary JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, Field Secretary NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE DIRECTORS Chicago JANE ADDAMS DR. C. E. BENTLEY Boston JOSEPH PRINCE LOUD BUTLER R. WILSON Baltimore BISHOP JOHN HURST DR. F. N. CARDOZO Springfield, Mass. REV. G. R. WALLER Washington PROF. GEO. WILLIAM COOK Brooklyn DR. V. MORTON JONES DR. O. M. WALLER New Haven GEORGE W. CRAWFORD Philadelphia DR. WILLIAM A. SINCLAIR New York REV. HUTCHINS C. BISHOP MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY PAUL KENNADAY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL ARTHUR B. SPINGARN CHARLES H. STUDIN DR. JOHN G. UNDERHILL LILLIAN D. WALD WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING A time of National Crisis must be a time of redoubled effort and vigilance if the Negro is to advance his status during the war as the women of England and the oppressed masses of Russia have advanced theirs. The N. A. A. C. P. never needed your support more than now. Date ………………………, 1917. MEMBERSHIP BLANK The Crisis is sent without further charge to members paying two dollars or more. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Treasurer, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. SIR: I desire to become a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and to receive The Crisis. In payment of my dues for one year, I enclose ……… dollars. Name …………………………………………… Street ……………………………………… $ ………… City and State ………………………………… Mention the Crisis [[end page]] [[start page]] WITH 4-PAGE MEMPHIS SUPPLEMENT THE CRISIS A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, AT 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, CONDUCTED BY W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS; AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DILL, BUSINESS MANAGER Contents Copyrighted, 1917, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Contents for July, 1917 PICTURES Page COVER. Design by Lorenzo Harris. PHI BETA KAPPA ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 113 RECIPIENTS OF HIGHER DEGREES ………………………………………………………… 115 HARVARD AND RADCLIFFE …………………………………………………………………………… 117 RANKING SCHOLARS, NEGRO COLLEGES ……………………………………………… 119 GRADUATES, NORTHERN COLLEGES ……………………………… 121, 123, 125 ARTICLES OUR GRADUATES ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 116 "GRAY EYES." A Story. By "Jack Howard" ……………………………… 126 DEBATING AND ATHLETICS IN COLORED COLLEGES. By V. D. Johnston and E. B. Henderson ………………………………………………………………………………… 129 ETHIOPIAN MAID. A Poem. By Walter Everette Hawkins …130 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK. By John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City .................................. 132 DEPARTMENTS EDITORIAL ......................................... 111 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ............................................ 131 THE LOOKING GLASS ................................. 133 THE HORIZON ....................................... 139 THE CRISIS for August Will be VACATION NUMBER with prize essays on "The Best Summer I Ever Spent" (see page 111), and the gripping finish of "Jack Howard's" story. Don't forget to change your summer address. TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA RENEWALS: The date of expiration of each subscription is printed on the wrapper. When the subscription is due, a blue renewal blank is enclosed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. MANUSCRIPTS and drawings related to colored people are desired. They must be accompanied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. [[italicised]]Entered as Sesond-class Matter in the Post Office at New York. N. Y.[[/italicised]] ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL UNION LABEL NEW YORK CITY 26 [[end page]]