Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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LINCOLN NEWS 15 poet’s Corner LOVERS RETURN (Song for a Deserted Woman) Ma old lime daddy Came back home Iasi night. His face was pale an' His eyes didn't look just right He says to me I'm Cornin' home to you So sick an lonsome I don't know what to do. 0, men treats women Just like a pair o' shoes. I say treats women Like a pair o' shoes—, They kicks ’em round an Does ’em like they choose. I looked at ma daddy,— Lawd! an’ I wanted to cry. He looked so thin.— Lawd! that I wanted to cry. Rut de devil told me Damn a lover Comes home to die! Lancston Huciies. NOW—TO LINCOLN Your sunsets Are a red gold voice Singing a sad amen. And the gray cloud streak Over Oxford way Is a finger Writing “The End.’’ CONFESSION TO THE ETERNAL SHE Someday I will be your lost ecstacy When your lips cease to utter love’s lay. For I am the god your love created A god with feet of clay. Some day I will be your fondest dream That will into fragments crumble. And you will see me through a mist of tears Broken, despised and humble. Some day your shrine of love where stands My image to remember when I was born. Will be a dismal vaulted tomb For me, the dead creature of your scorn. For I have known such deaths before— In such numerous tombs have I lain. I do not care to be resurrected And be forced to live and die again. George Chester Morse, ’22. NEGRO COMPOSER Bring me the weirdness Of a jungle night— Bring me the sighs of tropic winds Blowing through palm trees— Bring me the staccato of tom toms Beaten by bare black boys Bring me the aching breast of a jungle maiden And the prayerful fervor Of my forefathers— Bring me rythm That I may sing A sad soul song To the broken heart Of the world. Edward Sii.vera. ’28. Edward Sii.vera. ’28.

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If LINCOLN NEWS PHI LAMBDA SIGMA LITERARY SOCIETY $ )i lamfaba tgma Hiterarp orietp CHARLES E. LEE,...............................President BOOKER T. WASHINGTON..........................Secretary HOWARD JASON..................................Treasurer LANGSTON HUGHES ALBERT ANDERSON GEORGE C. MORSE EDWARD STRATTON, J R. EDWARD SILVERA FANNIN S. BELCHER, JR. JOHN HAYWOOD LITERATI LANGSTON HUGHES belongs to the school of young Negro Poets. His two volumes of poems, “Weary Blues” and “Fine Clothes to An Old Jew” have been heralded as one of the achievements of the New Negro. This young student, once prolific with his poetical expressions and “blues” interpretations has forsaken the muses to study. We expect him to resume writing not only in poetry, but also in prose. Edward Silvcra writes poetry that earns the praise of critics who generally dislike most of the art of young Negro writers. His poems have appeared in magazines and Caroling Dusk, an anthology edited by Countee Cullen. We are expecting a volume of verse from him in the future. George C. Morse has a satirical propensity that makes his prose effective. George says he is going to be an iconoclast and write essays and novels that will be different. His work with the Lincoln News as editor has stamped him already as a journalist. Theodore Valentine is a humorist whose articles about Lincoln and its students appear weekly in The Inter-State Tattler. He has a talent to write satire that will make one laugh and yet reveal an undertone of truth that is food for thought. Journalism is his well-chosen field. Fannin S. Belcher, student instructor in English, has had an article “Black Magic and White” published by the Messenger. We are expecting to read stories and essays by him in the future.

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16 LINCOLN NEWS BETA KAPPA CHI SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY LEON MURRAY MARCUS CARPENTER PETER J. L. HALL JR. Members: GEORGE WASHINGTON COLEMAN ISAAC I). FAULKNER JOHN W. CAULDER THOMAS R. WERRER HOWARD M. JASON MARK E. PARKS ANDREW HORACE JENKINS ROOKER T. WASHINGTON $5eta appa Cfn Scientific Society President WILLIAM SINKLER Vice-President HARVEY M. DIGGS . Corresponding Secretary THEODORE R. ESPY Recording Secretary Chaplain Treasurer STUDENT INSTRUCTORS