Junior High School at the head of her class, ranked highest in French and won the first prize given by the Hawkes Fund for the best essay contested for by over three hundred pupils.

Three of the honor graduates of the class of 234 at the 1924 Commencement of the Atlantic City High School were Negroes: Misses Gwendolyn Herbert, Mary Celebon and Margaret Lee.

Hilda Bolden was valedictorian of her class in High School of Darby, Pennsylvania.

Roy Fulton Scales, Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, was awarded a year's scholarship at the University of Chicago. He graduated from the general language course with a total average of 94 per cent for his entire school term.

Donald Whittle, a high school student at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, won the Jamaica scholarship entitling him to four years in Oxford University. He also was awarded a special prize given by Cambridge University, England, to the scholar passing the highest examination in the British Empire. He made the maximum in every subject he took and he is reported to have gained particular distinction in Latin, French, Bookkeeping, religious knowledge and applied mathematics, including advanced algebra, geometry, trigonometry, logarithms and analytical calculus.

Joseph J. Rhodes won second prize in the spring term examination, 1923, at Yale University, which carried with it the enrollment as an "Allis scholar" and a cash reward of $150.

Martin E. Gibbs won the James C. Attix prize of Temple University, Philadelphia, for the highest general average in chemistry. He also won the Sigma Epsilon Phi Fraternity Medal for the second highest average in all branches of the senior year and the John R. Minehart Gold Medal for the highest general average for the senior year.

Countee P. Cullen
Wins Second Prize
In Poetry Contest.

Constance T. Crocker completed her junior year in the college of Practical Arts and Letters of Boston University with one of the highest Her name was inscribed in gold letters on the permanent averages made. honor roll in College Corridor. This is one of the highest and most coveted honors that the College awards. Miss Crocker finished from the Girl's High School in Boston at the head of a class of 308 and was awarded the Kingston Scholarship for fine character and unusual ability. She maintained an average of “A” in her studies during the four years of her high school career.

Miss Mary Ann F. Hall received a reward for exceptional ability in a psychological contest conducted at the University of Pittsburgh. These contests are given to undergraduates of high schools of the city and are under the direction of the Civic Club. Miss Hall made a score of 124 and stood 15th in a list of seventy-one honor students.

Countee P. Cullen, graduated in 1923 as valedictorian from Dewitt Clinton High School, New York City, with an average of 93 per cent for the whole four years of his high school course. He won the Douglass

Fairbanks oratorical contest with his original poem, "I Have a Rendevous with Life." He entered New York University and was winner in 1923 of second prize in the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest. Seven Hundred (700) undergraduates representing three hundred universities and colleges competed. The title of his poem is "The Ballad

of the Brown Girl." In 1924 he was again winner of second prize in this poetry contest with the poem, "Spirit Birth."

Harriet Ida Pickens, twelve years old, stood highest of all the pupils, white and colored, in intelligence tests in public school 119, New York City.

Miss Viola Grant, a teacher in the public schools of Portsmouth, Ohio, and a graduate student at Ohio State University, is one of the originators of a special series of reading tests, which are being used in various schools throughout the country. The title of the work is "Attainment Scale Series First Grade Reading."

Negro Students

Elected To Membership

Phi Beta Kappa.

Election to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter is through scholarship only. Elections of Negroes to this membership, 1922-1924, were as follows: Collins Davis and Alphonse Henninburg, Grinnell College Chapter; Clarissa M. Scott and Elizabeth West, Wellesley College Chapter; Lucille W. Spence and Melva L. Price, Hunter College Chapter; Gladys A. Wilkinson, Oberlin College Chapter; Robert Shaw Wilkinson, Jr., Dartsmouth College Chapter.

William H. Hastie, at the end of his Junior Year, was elected in 1924 a member of the Amherst College Chapter and also chosen as the president of the Massachusetts Beta Chapter of the Organization. He is the first Negro student to be accorded the honor.

William Allison Davis, elected in 1924 a member of the Williams College Chapter. He graduated with the highest scholastic record. The Williams' Alumni Review for June in commenting on Davis' record says: Williams College has always given Colored students every opportunity to qualify for her bachelor of arts degree, the only degree granted for undergraduate effort. Her list of Negro graduates is not large, but among these are men of marked ability, holding responsible positions in the business and professional world. William Allison Davis of Washington, stands out as the scholar par excellence in the graduating class with summa cum laude rank, no classmate attaining the magna cum laude honor, next in order. He has been awarded the Horace F. Clark prize scholarship for post-graduate work at Harvard."

Charles W. White Awarded

Harvard University LL. B. Degree
Magna Cum Laude.

William Yancey Bell was awarded the "Doctor of Philosophy" Degree at Yale University in 1924. He specialized in the Department of Semitic Languages and Letters.

Edward P. Davis was awarded the "Doctor of Philosophy" Degree at the University of Chicago in 1923. His thesis was the "Semasiology of Verbs of Talking and Saying in the High German Dialect." He is a teacher of German at Howard University, Washington, D. C.

J. Alston Atkins graduated from Yale University Law School with

the degree of LL. B. cum laude.

Blaine G. Alston, student, John Marshall Law School, Chicago, in a competitive examination on the subject of "Common Law Pleading," attained the highest average on the subject.

Miss Alberta Roose, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from a four year course at the Portia Law School of Boston, having completed the course in three years.

Charles W. White was graduated with highest scholastic distinction in a class of 220 at Harvard University receiving the LL. B degree, magna

cum laude. He was awarded his B. A. degree at Fisk, in 1921. His high scholastic distinction was won in spite of his having worked his way through college by "waiting table" throughout the school year and by doing similar work on Eastern steamer lines during the summer.

Mrs. Ruth Whitehead Whaley was awarded the two highest scholarships obtainable at Fordham University Law School, New York, where she was the only Negro woman student. The first prize was for the highest average in the first-year morning division. The other was the highest average in the entire first-year class of over 500 students. average was “A plus."

Her

Miss Thelma D. Brown of the Institute of West Virginia was selected by the Graduate School of Columbia University as one of eight persons doing work in the Department of Romance Languages to study in France from February 1923, to June, 1924.

Charles A. Houston was awarded the Sheldon travelling fellowship of Harvard University which allows him a year's study abroad. planned to spend six months at the University of Madrid; two months at the University of Paris; two months in Rome and two months in London specializing in civil law.

Negro Physician

Reported To Have Made

Serum For Goiter Cure.

Dr. Agnes Griffin, a graduate in medicine from Hunter College, was awarded an interneship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is the first colored woman to receive such an assignment in the New York hospitals.

Dr. Uriah M. Murray, Boston, Massacusetts, was second highest in an examination for physicians' and surgeons' certificates at Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Lillian Atkins Moore, of Hampton, Virginia, graduated with honor from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and was awarded first prize in anatomy with an average of 97.

Miss Dorothy Celeste Boulding, student, Tufts Medical College, was made a member of the Epsilon Chapter of the Zeta Phi Fraternity. This fraternity is composed entirely of medical women and undergraduates in medical schools. It is national in scope and only American women are members.

Arthur N. Brown, Tufts Medical College, was admitted to membership in the Robert Andrew Research Society and awarded the key. The key is awarded to men attaining a high rank in scholarship.

Earl B. Patterson graduated cum laude from Tufts College Dental School. He was selected a member of the Robert A. Andrews Society for the promotion of dental research, and was awarded the Key. He is said to be the second colored man, elected to this society.

Dr. N. P. G. Adams was elected a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Fraternity of Rush Medical College, Chicago. This is an honorary fraternity and membership is based on scholarship. Dr. Adams ranked second highest among the group elected at that time to the Chapter and is reported to be the second Negro to be honored with membership in the Rush Medical Chapter of this fraternity.

Frank S. Rankin, medical student of the University of Illinois, stood second out of 52 competitors in an examination for the position of Senior Bacteriologist in the Chicago Health Department.

Dr. Lloyd H. Newman, graduate of Howard University, was awarded a fellowship of $2,300 by the National Research Council to do graduate work in medicine at the Harvard University School of Medicine.

Dr. D. M. White, Chicago, has made a serum from the blood of goats effective with paraphroidism which is reported as being used successfully in the curing of goiter.

Roland Hayes
Awarded 1924
Spingarn Medal.

In 1914, J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, established a gold medal to be given to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship, who during the year shall have made the highest achievement in any field of human endeavor.

The awards of the Medal have been as follows: in 1915, to Ernest Everett Just, Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology, Howard University Medical School, for excellence in research work in biology; in 1916, to Colonel Charles Young, United States Army, for organizing the Liberian Constabulary and establishing order on the frontiers of Liberia; in 1917, to Harry Burleigh, New York City, for distinguished work in musical composition; in 1918; to William Stanley Braithwaite, Cambridge, Mass., for distinguished work as a poet and literary critic; in 1919, to Archibald H. Grimke, for services: as Consul at Santo Domingo, as President of the Negro Academy and as President of the Washington, D. C., Branch of the N. A. A. C. P.; in 1920, to W. E. B. Du Bois, New York City, for organizing the Pan-African Congress; in 1921, to Charles S. Gilpin, New York City, for the most distinguished work as an actor during the year, 1921; in 1922, to Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, of Buffalo, New York, former President of the National Association of Colored Women, for services in behalf of Negro women; in 1923, to George W. Carver, Director of Agricultural Research, Tuskegee Institute, as a recognition of his work in developing products from the plants, vegetables and clays of the South; and in 1924, to Roland Hayes, of Boston and London for distinguished work as a singer in both Europe and America.

Richard Singleton and Richard Rather

Each Retired On Pension

After Years In Service Of Railroad.

In a competitive examination of five best stenographers of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Beatrice H. Bayless made the highest grade and was appointed stenographer of the Mayor of Pittsburgh.

Laurence T. Young, of Wilmington, Delaware, student in the School of Commerce and Finance of Ohio University, was awarded a bronze medal by the Underwood Typewriter Company in a speed and accuracy typewriting contest. He wrote sixty words in one minute without an error, the best average in the class.

Miss Lulu J. Cargill, clerk in Varick branch of the New York Post Office, won the United States letter distributing contest. She sorted 30,215 pieces of mail in eight hours.

Joseph Brooks, of Honeoye Falls, New York, was awarded a gold service medal with four stars; the first for ten years' service and one for every five years thereafter. This medal was given by the Telephone

Company of which Mr. Brooks is wire chief. He has served the for more than twenty years.

company

Richard Singleton, of Sumter, South Carolina, retired on a pension after fifty years' service for the Atlantic Coast Line, was awarded the service emblem of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Fourteen of these emblems have been thus far awarded by the Company. The emblem is a gold pin.

Richard Rather seventy years old, of Decatur, Ala., a section hand of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, retired on a pension after fifty years service. He was awarded the service emblem which was a gold button set with ten diamonds. Negro Art Students

Awarded Prizes

Albert Alexander Smith, art student now in Paris, had his "Naples Italy" painting accepted and exhibited at the International Etchers Exposition in New York, 1923.

Sonoma Talley received the artists' diploma from the Institute of Musical Art, Boston. While other colored students have completed the regular course of the Institute, Miss Talley is the first colored person to receive this highest recognition the School offers.

Miss Marion Anderson, contralto, of Philadelphia, was awarded the National Association of Negro Musicians scholarship of $1,000 to continue her musical education. She had the distinction of appearing for the season of 1923-24 as the soloist with the Philharmonic Society of Philadelphia.

Miss Gertrude Martin, a student of the James Russell Lowell School, won the bronze and silver medals and honorable mention in the New York Music Week contests for 1924.

Miss Mabel Sanford Lewis, was awarded the first prize a gold medal at the Chicago College of Music on May 30, 1924 for the best rendition on the piano of Rubenstein's concerto in D. Minor. Twenty-three students took part in the contest and the decision was made by 11 judges. Her average was 99 per cent.

G. Julius Ballanta-Taylor, a native of Sierra Leone, West Africa, and now a student in composition at the Damrosch Institute of Musical Art, New York City, is attracting attention as a student of African music. He has recently returned to Africa to make special researches in African music.

Primitive African Art

Continues To Attract

Attention Of Art World.

The claim is made by some authorities that the modern movement in art got its inspiration from African art. It is said that this is true of painting, sculpture and music. It is claimed that this is particularly true of modern art in Europe and that "all the interesting developments in art have drawn inspiration from African creations."

Primitive African art continues to attract the attention of the art world as was shown by the comments on an exhibition of primitive art at the Brooklyn Museum. Commenting on this exhibition Stewart Culin, curator of the Brooklyn Museum, said "This exhibition marks the first employment of African ideas in industrial arts. Already sculptors and painters have felt the influence of the vigorous and novel wooden sculpture of the Negro and now the industrial world is being stirred and inspired in the same manner by Negro arts and in a wider range of activ