Human Beings

"Show me a nigger who can do a problem in Euclid or parse a Greek verb," jeered Southern Statesman John C. Calhoun before the Civil War, "and I'll admit he's a human being." Since that challenge the doors of higher learning have swung slowly open to U. S. Negroes. Last week the Julius Rosenwald Fund, making its annual fellowship awards, had no trouble finding Negroes to fulfill the Calhoun specifications for a human being.

The Rosenwald Fund each year subsidizes a group of white men and women in the South and brilliant Negroes everywhere for scholarship and creative work. This year it granted $85,000 to 18 whites, 34 Negroes. The Negro fellows, picked from 400 applicants, are expected to make important contributions to U. S. culture in a dozen fields of knowledge.

Well able to do a problem in Euclid is Fellow Schieffelin Claytor, of Washington, D. C., whose studies on "Locally Planar Continua" have been presented before the American Mathematical Society. Parsing a Greek verb is child's play to Fellow Frank M. Snowden Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., who won honors in Greek and Latin at Harvard, will study further at Harvard and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.

No slouch as a human being, either physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics.

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