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Title: Crisis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, ed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: (New York, Crisis Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ge at whichit may, without assumption, claim to be ashaping element in the life of Negro collegemen. It was organized by seven young menof high character and scholarly ambition, andis not to be judged by its growth in num-bers alone, nor even by the local influenceof its chapters, but by the real value of itsoutput. It numbers among its active membersthe leading lights in college activities andscholarship. One year alone all the honormen in the college class of Howard wereAlpha Phi Alpha men; for two years theleading oratorical prize at Columbia and thehonor prize in French were won by Alpha-Phi Alpha men. These are but a few of thehonors won by Alpha Phi Alpha men andshow the type of men the fraternity seeks.Its alumni and honorary members areamong the foremost men of the race. The anjiual conventions of the fraternityhave been unusually successful; the first washeld at the seat of Beta Chapter, the secondin New York City, the third in Philadelphia, THE ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY 197
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DELEGATES TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. the fourth aj; the seat of the Epsilon Chapter vice-president; Joseph R. Fugett, Cornell, and the fifth at the seat of the Kappa Chap- secretary, and Clarence A. Jones, Ohio State, ter. Ohio State University, on December 26, treasurer. 27 and 28. In connection with this was held The Negro Greek-letter fraternity is no the first alumni reunion. The officers for the longer an experiment; it is a dominant factor past year were: Charles H. Garvin, How- for good and binds Negro college men as no ard, president; Leon S. Evans, Michigan, other organization can. HAERIET GIBBS-MARSHALL, PresidentHARRY A. WILLIAMS, Vice-President LOUIS G. GREGORY, Financial SecretaryGREGORIA A. FRASER, Recording Secretary The Washington Conservatory of Musicand School of Expression Piano, Violin, Wind Instruments, Piano Tuning, Vocal Expression, History ofMusic Theory and Modern Languages The first and only Mission Music School founded and controlled by Negroesin Ameri

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