Atlanta Daily World

Morehouse Gains In Enrolment

Registration figures at Morehouse College show an increase of 28 per cent over 1943-44. President Benjamin E. Mays has announced. With 340 young men enrolled, the College is slowly recovering from the onslaught made in its student body by the Selective Service. Last year the enrollment dropped approximately 50 per cent when only 244 young men were registered, but this year's total of 340 is an increase of more than 28 per cent. This year's freshman crop of 191 is the largest on record at the College, although the upperclassmen are still very scarce on the campus. There also are registered 89 sophomores, 38 juniors and 19 seniors. Two students are unclassified. Four new appointments to the faculty include The Reverend Lucius M. Tehi and Dr. Joseph W. Nicholson to the School of Religion and Mrs. Juanita Paschal Toomer and Mrs. Ruth Jackson to the Department of English. The Reverend M. Tobin was a graduate at Virginia Union University, The University of Michigan and Colgate-Rochester University. He is a former dean at Morris College in Sumter, South Carolina, and at the present time is pastor of Providence Baptist Church. Dr. Nicholson, a graduate of Howard University, Garrett Biblical Institute and Northwestern University, is currently on the faculty of Gammon Theological Seminary. Mrs. Toomer earned the bachelor's degree at Spelman College and the master's degree in English at Atlanta University. Mrs. Jackson is a graduate of Atlanta University with the bachelor's and the master's degrees.