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THE SPHINX, JUNE 1925
TAU CHAPTER ( I n s e r t s Brother Nat. W . H u d s o n and Brother George T. Kyle.) (1) Brother Scott N . H a r p e r , (2) B r o t h e r H a r o l d D . W e s t , (3) B r o t h e r A. W . Booker, (4) B r o t h e r E. F. Hamilton, (.")) B r o t h e r Zero W . W e b b , (li) Brother Addison C. Mosely, (7) Brother T h e o . Tives, (8) Brother A. H . Moss, (9) Brother E. J. Marshall, (10) Brother Walter R. Thornhill, (11) Brother H . Schell, (12) Brother A. E. Woodruff, (13) B r o t h e r T h o m a s H . H a y e s , (14) B r o t h e r Charles F . Lane. TAU
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Champaign, 111. BROTHERS I N A L P H A P H I A L P H A ,
Greetings:
To go to high school is to begin the pursuit after perfection, intelligence, culture, and recognition; to go to college is to "render an intelligent being yet mure intelligent," to fit him for a life of service to mankind, and to throw down, by one's success there, the rigid and seeming invincible idea of superiority still fostered by some of our prejudiced neighbors. Tau shall not be a weak link in the mighty chain of chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha behind the annual educational drive. Mass. meetings have been planned for four cities in central Illinois as follows: Sunday. May 3, 1925, Danville, 111.; Sunday, May 10, 1925, Champaign, 111.: Sunday. May 3, 1925, Spring-
field, 111., and Sunday, May 17, 1925, Decatur, III. For several weeks, twice a week, we have been meeting to practice under the direction of Miss Alyne Mc. Roberts, accomplished musician and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, our National Fraternity Hymn, the Negro National Anthem, the Recessional, and other selections to be rendered at these meetings by the chapter. People passing our home during these hours of rehearsal must have wondered what spirit must have stimulated such soul-stirring song. And the answer comes that it is the spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha—the spirit we hope to have pervade our mass meetings during the drive—the spirit which we hope may be the stimulus to others to join our ranks in college. As Tau Chapter has become larger in the spirit of her Fraternity, so has she been advancing along material lines. Through the efforts of her three seniors, enough money has been raised to redecorate the in-