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COMING MARCH 13 GLEE CLUB CONCERT A most promising concert by the College Glee Club is scheduled for March 13- The members are work ing very hard to make their initial concert the best that can be given. A FAMOUS VISITOR Probably most of the girls have noticed a new figure on the cam pus lately. She is Miss Elizabeth Griffin. Her early work associated her closely with Miss Tapley and so she has come back, after many years, to visit with her and see the many changes in the campus. The crowning years of her own educa tion v/ere two years at Wellesley. From there she went to Roger Wil liams, in Nashville, Tenn. After two years there had opened her eyes to conditions in the South, she was influenced by Dr. McVicar to come further South. Before coming to Spelman, also through Dr. McVicar’s efforts, she v/ent to •Oswego, the oldest normal school in New York state, in order to pre pare herself for her future work at Spelman. She is also a graduate of the Senior Normal Course at Potsdam. She came to Spelman in 1892 and organized the Teacher’s Pro- fess.'o al Course, the first in Bap tist work. This organization made Spelman the first to have a real nc mal school for Colored girls. At Spelman she found herself among girls whose circumstances were rot the best, their allowances being meager. Having worked her way through College she was able to sympathize with the girls. The first year of the T. P. work had to be done in one of the old barracks buildings- Then Giles Hall was finished and they moved in with Miss Griffin as the first Principal The furnishings for this building were given by Northern friends as is shown by the names on the doors. One of which every one should be proud is the Student Teachers’ Parlor. This room was furnished by the Glenns Falls Bap tist Home Missionary Society for the sake of Miss Griffin. In this room the girls would gather after supper at least once a week and seated upon the floor in a circle they would tell stories and sing their songs. Miss Griffin says that these songs were quite a bit of in spiration to her, for the girls seem ed to put their entire souls into them as they sang. At special times the men from the Atlanta Baptist College, now Morehouse College, would come over. At the end of the first year’s nor mal work, when the students re turned in the fall, it was true that during the summer they had taught an aggregate of a thousand stud ents. Naturally this gave Miss Griffin inspiration for she knew that her efforts were not in vain. The girls loved her and this is shown by the fact that even tho they v/ere far away from her, they thought of her just the same- Sev eral girls went to Maine to work for the summer and on their way back to Spelman they stopped in Boston. Here they walked around Bishop Brooks’ Church, just be cause they knew that it was her Church. This was only another assurance to Miss Griffin of the tie that existed between her and her girls. With the small number of teach ers, the work was exceedingly hard on each individual, for responsib ility could not be’ divided. The supervision of English work in ad dition to normal training and read ing was in Miss Griffin’s daily pro gram. She always enjoyed a visit from the girls, but at times she was too tired to receive them. When they had stayed their time, all that Miss Griffin would have to say would be, “Good-night, girls,” and