The guardian., 1948-06-05

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not only to be congratulated bu
also fortified and enlightened a.
to the future world condition,
many of them will face. I wa,
one of those thousands whC
graduated into the Depression
Other classes graduated into tht
war. All graduates meet various
WORLD CHALLENGES. The
brave succeed.
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YALE LIBRARY at New Hav.
en-, Connecticut, today boasts Of
the finest collegiate collection oi
colored authors in the north
Yale now has the JAMES VEL
DON JOHNSON MEMORIAL col.
lection of Colored- American Arts
& Letters, established this yeal
by CARL VAN VECHTEN, a close
friend of Johnson and a white
citizen who wrote some of the
first best seller novels about col
ored people.
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CLAUDE MCKAY, the brilliant
poet and novelist who passed re.
Gently has reminded us of the
Yale Library which will keep his
memory green. Some men when
they meet Easy Street" forget
entirely the pooor and down
trodden. Mckay never forgot,
Trotter never forgot.
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BOSTON SYMPHONY orches-
ira director SERG KOUSEVIS-
KY conducted, in 1926, the
James Weldon johnson compost
ton, "The Creation" at Town
Hall, New York. The work had
previously been presented in Vi
emma, Austria. Weldon and his
famous brother, Rosamund, COM
posed over 200 songs, at least one
of which helped make BERT
WILLIAMS one Of greatest com
edianS the world has ever known.
THE MET OPERA HOUSE in
New York presented the Spanish
opera, "Goyescas' in 1915. The
English libretto was by James
Weldon, 1t seemed he could do
everything in the literary y-muSi-
cal realm. He was more than
ONE JUNE graduate. His
schooling included Atlanta, Tai
ladega, Howard, and three years
post grad at Columbia.
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NORTHERN COLLEGES still
remember Johnson. He was a
distinguished looking man, full
Of sage sayings, knowledge, wit
and humor in his many lectures.
Yale asked for the Van Vechten
Collection which will include all
outstanding colored literary men
and women since 1900. The pic
lures, letters, and originals in
clude authors of wide variety. 1t
is valuable contribution to So
ciety
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YALE Is, claims vechten,' 2
the first white college in the
north to make determined eff
fort to secure such material
And Carl further predicts, "Any
collection that is unique is bound
TO BE USED BY SCHOLARS
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY" AS
before stated this collection goes
back to about 1900 and will GER
tainly give more understanding
Of colored than textbooks.
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THE STUDENTS of our nation
do not possess a well rounded
understanding of the ideas,
hopes and aspiration Of the col
ored citizen. Some of the teach
ings are ridiculous, distorted,
stupid. DR.. Washington's views
are taken as final. We are not
given credit for having leaders
of different solutions to our
problems. The authors at Yale
reflect these many ideas, new to
scholars.
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TT WOULD DO MORE good
at white university opinion.
ates the now aged white haired
Van vechten, who wants al,
scholars to study the variec
opinions of colored people as
written by colored people. Since
I started it, every university ha;
tried to start one, he says, lin.
cluding Drake, Princeton, anc
Harvard. None has as muci
source of material as we have "a
Yale).
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CARL VAN vECHTEN is tn,
most enthusiastic champion TO