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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
CLlii' (Campus lUimu*
‘ ‘Service in Unity’’
Editor-in-Chief Nannie R. Gadson
Editor of News Lillie M. Sirmans
Editor of Special Features Ruby BROWN
Editor of Jokes _ JULIA PATE
Editor of Sports Annie HUDSON
Editors of High School Section
Edith Tate Walton Young
Society Editor PHYLLIS KIMBROUGH
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager BEATRICE TUCKER
Secretary of Staff ESTELLE R. BAILEY
Treasurer _ JEANETTE HlCKS
Circulation EditorFRANKIE CLARKE
Exchange Editor MYRTLE BALASCO
Advertisements Minnie FlNLEY
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
The Campus Mirror wishes you a very
prosperous year. We are always glad to
begin the New Year because it brings with
it new chances and new opportunities. The
year 1928 holds many unseen events. It
will take much courage to face some of them.
At this time of year most of us make our
resolutions. The Mirror hopes that you will
kindly include among yours the support of
the college paper.
THE PLAY
February 3, 1928, a group of college stu
dents will present the play, Adam and Eva,
in Howe Memorial Chapel. For some years
the annual play has been the main source
of support for the Campus Mirror. The
growth of the paper this year makes our
need of money greater than ever. The staff
says: “Thank You,” now to every purchaser
of a ticket to the play.
- DETROIT CONVENTION
The Student Volunteer Convention held in
Detroit, Michigan, during the Christmas va
cation was reported at a joint meeting of Spel-
man and Morehouse Colleges and Atlanta Uni
versity in Sisters Chapel, Sunday evening, Janu
ary 8, by one of the delegates of the Atlanta
Colleges, Mr. Robert Simmons of Morris
Brown.
1 he purpose of the Detroit Convention
was to discuss plans for a religious program that
will give people something better than creeds,
national pride, and snobbish ideas about other
people. The chairman of the convention said:
“W e are met here to discuss how to carry the
good word of God around the world. We are
here, open minded to learn together.”
SOMEBODY CARES
By Thelma B. Brown
When skies are darkest, and life within you
seems to be as dark as the skies outside, there
comes a feeling that your life would be all sun
shine if somebody cared.
When triumphs come and you are lifted up
into what seems to be another world, you
like to think that some one person out of the
crowd that praised and applauded you was real
ly and truly interested. Interested, rather that
they truly cared, cared enough to help you
dream dreams and build air castles for the fu
ture.
When the whole world goes right, when ev
erything seems to be “My Blue Heaven,” you
can go to that some one who cares and, in go
ing, still know that they share that happiness
with you; that they adore that beautiful sun
set, they are, with you, passionately fond of
that piece of music, that poem you read to them
was simply beautiful—in short, they care.
There is a contentment in having a “some
one who cares, who stands steadfastly near you,
knows you, and likes you for just what you
are.”
Somebody cares!
A rift of sun steals o’er the darkened way.
Somebod}' cares!
A sky lark’s song drifts from the skies of gray.
Somebody cares!
To the tortured heart, when the hours are eons
long,
The knowledge that somebody truly cares brings
peace like an angel’s song.
MR. JOHN DILLINGHAM
Mr. John Dillingham, Secretary of the
Student Council of the Y. M. C. A., spoke
at Chapel exercises Friday morning, Decem
ber 30, on “Youth’s Desire for Freedom.”
“Freedom,” he said, “is not dropped down
into one’s hands but is a result of the will
of the individual. It means hard work. One
must go down the hanks of labor and through
the waters of suffering in order to attain
freedom.”
On the morning of January 5, Mr. Dilling
ham was at chapel services again and con
tinued his discourse on freedom. He spoke
of some of the challenges to freedom. “Real
freedom,” he said, “should he today a chal
lenge for: (1) elevation of sex; (2) sex
equality; (3) race equality; (4) economic
betterment; (5) educational opportunity for
both sexes equally.”
CHAPEL
Mr. Scott, a business man from Philadelphia,
a trustee of Tuskegee Institute, Fairy God
father to Leonard Street Orphans’ Home and
friend of Negro Education, spoke at devotions
Tuesday morning, January 10.
He said: “You are not here to fill your heads
full of facts, but to learn how to use the facts
after you have them.” Your ultimate aim here
is to learn how to think as individuals and as
groups.
THE CHRISTMAS STAR
A Pageant
A play, entitled The Christmas Star, was
given by the ninth grade, Junior High School,
on Friday, December 23, and was repeated
Sunday, December 25, in Howe Memorial
Chapel, for the Christian Endeavor.
The play was in three scenes:
Scene One represented the hills outside of
Bethlehem and the appearance of the angels
to the shepherds.
Scene Two was in Bethlehem, showing the
arrival of the shepherds.
Scene Three was the manger scene with both
shepherds and wise men.
A Greek Chorus, assisted by the angel group,
sang explantory Christmas songs during the
scenes, and in the second scene a little hand
maid of Bethlehem described the events taking
place there and directed the wise men to the
manger.
Misses Jessie Wilson and Velma King played
the accompaniment for the presentation on Fri
day, and Miss Vina Mae Jackson accompanied
on Sunday.
Miss Brookings coached the play.
Christmas records were played on the Vic-
trola between scenes.
HOLIDAY VISITS
Students who spent the Christmas holidays at
home report a pleasant stay.
The following spent the vacation with
friends :
Misses Ernestine Erskine and Viola Bran
ham with Miss Lyda McCree at College Park,
Ga.; Miss Dorothy Roberts with Miss Willie
Reese at Newnan, Ga.; Miss Mary Brookins
wi th M iss Theresa Wilson of Atlanta; Miss
Lillie Sirmans with Miss Gussie Merlalla at
Anniston, Alabama.
Miss Jeanette Hicks was guest to dinner with
Mr. and Mrs. John Dillingham, December 25.
DISCUSSION OF PERSON
ALITY IN Y. W. C. A.
An interesting discussion in Y. W. C. A. on
the subject of Personality was led by Miss Julia
Pate.
Three important qualities of personality
stressed were: Compatibility, Sociability and
Versatility. The compatible person learns to
take as well as give. Men are by nature selfish
creatures; but thinking persons of poise learn
not to excuse in themselves what they do not
excuse in other people—temper, harshness, nor
any unkindness. They stop on- the verge of
anger, calmly think the situation over and say,
“Am I justified in showing off what is boil
ing up here inside me?” Especially in a new
environment, must one learn not to be super
sensitive and not to boil over, but rather to for
get self, to adapt to new surroundings and to
make friends, not enemies.
The desire for friends makes us sociable.
1 here are many people from whom to choose
and cull the different kinds of friends we need
in our game of give and take. Choose every
one for a good reason and let some of them
choose you. Some of them will last you your
whole life.
This choosing and being chosen trains us to
be versatile—to be able to turn to, and respond
to, many kinds of people as Christ, our beauti
ful, perfect Friend, did.