All preparatory males were required to take industrial training classes ... To meet the goal of providing leadership in the community, Atlanta University sponsored the Atlanta Conference each summer so that Atlanta University students met with other educators and community leaders to discuss a specific problem relating to the Black experience such as "The Negro in Business" or "The Negro Artisan."

Truly a pioneer in the educational arena, Wiley College took the leadership role in reorganising Black schools of higher education and in 1929, renamed itself Wiley College, dropping the use of the word "University".  It was at this time the high school and trade school were discontinued.  Wiley College was recognised in 1933 as an "A" class college by the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the southern states.  This marked the first time any Black school had ever been rated by the same agency and standards as other universities.

Many thanks are due Prof P S Dwyer, to whom the writer is greatly indebted for advice and encouragement.

The object of this paper is to study the case of a universe of n finite populations, considering both the expectations of population moment-functions and the moments of sample moments, and to make applications of the results which may be of interest to mathematical statisticians. The sampling formulas which are derived reduce to the usual infinite or finite sampling formulas, under appropriate assumptions. Also a method is given whereby finite sampling formulas may be transformed into the corresponding infinite sampling formulas.

1. The derivation of general and specific formulas for the expected values of population moment-functions.

2. The derivation of generalised sampling formulas under the condition that samples of n are formed by selecting one variate from each population.

3. Methods for the transformation of generalised sampling formulas into the corresponding infinite and finite sampling formulas.

4. A method for the transformation of infinite sampling formulas into the corresponding finite sampling formulas.

5. A demonstration of the fact that adjustment formulas for moment-function of grouped data involve central moments of a rectangular distribution.

6. A general formula for the expected value of the ith moment of grouped data.

7. New adjustment formulas for central moments of grouped data.

8. New adjustment formulas for Thiele semi-invariants of grouped data.

9. A method for the evaluation of the term ..., which appears in the precise adjustment formula for the variance.

In this paper the author derives general formulas for mean values of sample moments in samples of size n formed by drawing each element from a different finite population. He verifies that under the appropriate conditions these general formulas reduce to various known formulas such as those for repeated sampling from a single finite population, those for sampling from a single infinite population, etc. He then applies his results to the problem of determining the mean values of moments from samples of grouped data, deriving formulas for correcting bias (due to grouping) of central moments and Thiele semi-invariants.

It was pointed out by F A Ross that summations of progressions find useful application "in time series analysis where straight lines and more complex curves are fitted as secular trends." Ross presented formulas for the first six powers of the first t natural numbers and of the first t odd natural numbers. He also gave supplementary formulas to be used in fitting a secular trend when the mean of time is taken midway in the time series. These formulas were derived by elementary algebra methods which require a separate and individual derivation for each formula. The purpose of this paper is to present recursion formulas for sums of progressions which may be used to extend easily the list of formulas given by Ross to include those of higher order.

The first phase of the study consists of the application of a short schedule, designed to secure basic information from all businesses in each of the seventeen cities. Then, on the basis of the returns of these short forms, a representative sample in each city is to be selected and from these samples extensive information relative to business facilities, practices and problems will be obtained. Concurrently, with these activities schedules for employees and consumers will be applied to samples of these classes. Field investigations are taking place in the following cities: Birmingham; Baltimore Montgomery; Washington; Atlanta; Louisville; Savannah; Philadelphia; Nashville; Cincinnati; Memphis; St Louis; Durham; Houston; Richmond; New Orleans; Hampton area. In each locality the local director has direct responsibility for the local activities. The active cooperation of local labour, trade, business, educational, civic and professional organisations is secured through the formation of a local committee made up of representatives of these organisations. The Local Director obtains assistance, when needed, from this committee on all matters relating to the local study.

On the eve of the stock market crash of 1929, there were twelve colleges offering four-year courses leading to bachelors degrees in business studies. Today [in 1944], there are twenty-eight colleges offering four-year courses, and twenty-two of these had opened business departments since 1926. ... In their desire to be "different" from white colleges, many Negro colleges have made a complete "mess" of the cultural side of their business curricula by devoting minimum attention to it. If white colleges are gradually realising the need for broad training by requiring at least two years of liberal education for their business students, there is all the more reason why Negro colleges place even a greater emphasis on this aspect of their curricula. This emphasis is necessary for counterbalancing, so far as it is humanly possible, the defective environmental background of Negro students who are precluded from getting the full benefits of the social heritage of our white compatriots. Such education ... will prove helpful to the student in building up a well-integrated personality. There appears to be no doubt in the minds of educators that specialisation in the early stage of a student's college career is dangerous as it tends to make him narrow and one-track minded.

Admission to graduate programmes had been denied to blacks at southern universities until 1948, when Texas State College for Negroes was granted authority to confer the master's degree. Thus there was a pent-up demand for graduate degrees, particularly in education, and when Pierce took over as dean of graduate studies, he faced burgeoning enrolment and faculty overloads. He was particularly effective in recruiting senior professors from nearby universities to assist with this demand for graduate faculty. Master's degrees conferred by Texas Southern University rose dramatically, from ninety-five in 1948 to a peak of 304 in 1955. In the first ten years of Pierce's tenure as dean, Texas Southern University conferred a total of 2,287 master's degrees and 3,663 bachelor's degrees. In 1963, when the Manned Spacecraft Center was established near Houston, Pierce and B A Turner, Texas Southern University's dean of technology, were released from teaching duties for eighteen months to recruit minority engineers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

A noted advocate of education for women, [Juanita George Pierce] was the founder and long-time head of Texas Southern University's Women's Department of Health and Physical Education and was a fixture on the Texas Southern University campus for many years; she was a devoted member of St Philip's Episcopal Church and enjoyed spending time with friends and neighbours and playing bridge with the ladies of the Five O'clock Bridge Club. Juanita George Pierce was a woman of integrity, honour, and intelligence, and although she will be missed by all who knew her, her spirit will live on through her legacy of success and through the many individuals whose lives she touched ...

... graduated from Jack Yates High School, in Houston, Texas in 1952. He joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and Beta Kappa Chi National Scientific Honor Society in 1955 at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas where he received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1957, and his father Joseph Pierce, Sr. served as dean of the graduate school in 1952; and later, president in 1967. He earned his M.D. degree in medicine in 1961 from Meharry Medical College of Medicine, in Nashville, Tennessee. Pierce completed his internship at GW Hubbard Hospital of Meharry College of Medicine. Pierce entered the United States Army in 1962. He completed a residency in anesthesiology at Brooke General Hospital/Fort Sam Huston in San Antonio in 1967, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and he completed a tour of duty in West Germany from 1967 to 1970. Then, in 1970, Pierce received his Texas State medical license and entered into private practice with Anesthesia Consultants in San Antonio, and joined the American Medical Association.