THE COLLEGE NEGRO

One thing, it seems, that many university officials imagine is a demand by the college Negro for social opportunities. This is a tragic delusion, for nothing is further from the intelligent Negro's mind. He has long ago become socially self-sufficient-and especially in a city as large as Boston, social satisfaction is quite obtainable. What he does expect includes the practical advantages that his university can offer: the opportunity to learn by conversation, and, if necessary, by invitation. These are pitifully denied him at Harvard. Of the four Negro members of the Class of 1932, all of whom are candidates for honors, none was admitted to the House plan, which, ironically enough, was to present a cross section of the University. President Lowell, in a letter to "Opportunity", a Negro journal, readily states that there is no policy with regard to Negroes in the Houses. Yet none have been admitted.

Medical schools the country over look forward joyfully to the day when Negro schools will be able to offer a medical education which will be sufficiently attractive to Negroes graduating from white universities. If this question is put: "How may this Utopia be achieved?", the inevitable answer is that the best white medical schools must educate the better prepared Negroes to undertake the responsibility of raising the standards of Negro medical schools. Harvard has not admitted a Negro since 1927; as a leader in liberal education, it sets a bad example.