For Negro Colleges

Yale University spent seven and a half million dollars last year to educate 3,112 students. Last week the United Negro College Fund Campaign for only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich.

Said Keynoter Jones, a Quaker: "For effective living in a world community, the Negro has the dual advantage of being an American and a person who has pigment in his skin. . . . His identification with members of darker races should be advantageous. For the Negro, the slogan should be 'Go south, east and west.' "

If the drive gets its $1,500,000, Fisk University will get $40,000 of it, to provide for operating expenses.

*Located in Nashville, Fisk University is bigger (573 students, 47 on faculty) and better off than most other U.S. Negro colleges, is typical of the best of them. Its chief educational aim: to prepare Negroes to make themselves economically independent. A Fisk specialty: the study of foreign Negro peoples. Fisk's International Student Center may make an important contribution to postwar U.S. relations with Africa and the Caribbean islands. The University's faculty is about half Negro, half white. Fisk is one of the few U.S. colleges whose enrollment went up last year.

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