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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
SPELMAN’S GROWTH
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assembly rooms and contained residence
rooms for students and teachers. The fur
nishing of the rooms in Giles Hall as well
as in Packard and Rockefeller was given by
persons whose names appear on the doors.
Mr. Rockefeller had given $56,000 for the
erection of Giles Hall. Salaries for the nor
mal training teachers were paid from the
Slater Fund.
In 1900 Mr. Rockefeller gave $200,000 for
the enlarging and improving of the campus,
for repairs on Packard and Rockefeller Halls,
for four new buildings, the erection of the
power house with a complete system of heat
ing and lighting, and a beautiful iron fence
around the entire campus.
The same year ground was broken for
these four much-needed buildings—a dormi
tory, a dining-room, a hospital, and a home
for the president. Work was also begun on
the steam plant.
November 14-17, 1901, were gala days for
Spelman; it was then that the four build
ings were dedicated. MacVicar Hospital took
the place of the old barracks hospital. It
was named for Dr. MacVicar, Superintend
ent of Education for the schools of the A. B.
H. M. Society. Morehouse Hall, a dormi
tory, was named for Dr. Morehouse, cor
responding secretary of the A. B. H. M.
Society. Morgan Hall contained the teach
ers’ and students’ dining rooms with kitch
ens and pantries, also rooms for about 80
girls. The president’s home, Reynolds Cot
tage, was named for Mrs. M. C. Reynolds,
corresponding secretary of the woman’s so
ciety.
On the completion of these beautiful build
ings, the old barracks disappeared. One of
them was transformed into a spacious barn
for the cows. It was a comfortable home for
15 well-fed, frolicking cows, the beginning
of a herd which was maintained until 1924
and furnished the Spelman students with
good milk. Another of the barracks was
transformed into a workshop which still con
tains the superintendent's office, repair shop
and storage rooms.
In 1905 an underground coal house was
added to the steam plant, and Upton Home
for Nurses was completed.
The next buildings were the Laura Spel
man Rockefeller Memorial, named for Mrs.
J. I). Rockefeller, Sr., to be devoted to Home
Economics; and Bessie Strong Nurses Home,
named for Mrs. Bessie Strong, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller, Sr.
At this time Upton Home was remodelled
into living quarters for teachers. An in
teresting feature of the dedicatory exercises
in 1919 was the unveiling of the portraits of
Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller in the Home Eco
nomics Building, and of Mrs. Bessie Strong
in the Nurses Home.
A gift from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
was Tapley Hall, named for Miss Lucy Hale
Tapley, now President Emeritus of Spelman
College, who served the institution for 37
years. It was completed in 1925.
Spelman Seminary became Spelman Col
lege in 1924 and was ranked as a Class A
college by the state of Georgia in 1925.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
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things—they thought they had no business
The participants of the enterprise talked
among themselves quite a bit. "Say, I hear
we re going to have ice cream tonight,” said
one, "and it isn’t even Sunday. This is an
unusual day."
You could hear at another place on the
campus, “After all, we re going to have mac
aroni for dinner.”
"Please don’t say that. You discourage
me.”
She didn’t mean that, for Spelman students
never become discouraged when there is a
big piece of work on hand. It might inter
est one to know that neither the macaroni
nor the ice cream appeared at dinner.
You could see a little girl sometimes with
such a high stack of books that she could
hardly carry them. Then there stepped an
other person very briskly with about two en
cyclopedias—very handy to carry. This
wasn’t the fault of the captains nor of the
leader for a wee voice would say: "I can
carry more than that,” when about four
books were handed down. Sometimes she
couldn’t, but that was the spirit.
Finally the magazines and papers were left
to themselves in the old library. How lone
ly they must have felt without their old time
friends. “Don’t worry,” we said, “for you’ll
see them again soon." We wouldn’t dare
let them walk over to the new quarters be
cause their poor backs were too weak—not
hard like the books’ backs. The cart came
for them again and again until every one had
landed safely at the door of Laura Spelman.
"Thanks for the buggy ride," they seemed
to say as they walked from the door of Laura
Spelman to the main entrance of the new
library.
Since the library is in the basement where
the “gym” was last year, we just wonder
sometimes if at night the books dance, skip,
and play about as we did there, or if they
can stay in their places.
It’s an advantage to have the library on
the basement floor. In the summer it will
be cooler than if it were higher and in the
winter it will be very warm. The cork car
pet will keep away the dampness from be
neath. It is very airy and light there.
We say that our library is ninety-nine and
ten-tenths per cent sufficient, and we will
let it remain there until somebody takes a
notion to want to give us a new library.
May 19, 1927, will long be remembered by
Spelman students for the dedication of Sis
ters Chapel, given in honor of Mrs. Laura
Spelman Rockefeller and her sister, Miss
Lucy Maria Spelman. The chapel is a rare
ly beautiful piece of architecture, built of
brick and stucco. One is reminded of the
ancient Greek temples. Mr. John I). Rocke
feller, Jr., was present at the dedicatory ex
ercises and made an address explaining the
meaning of the name of the chapel and then
presented the keys to Mr. Arnett, president
of the Board of Trustees.
I he older buildings on Spelman campus
are decorated with masses of Boston Ivv,
which give them dignity and beauty.
VISITORS ON THE CAMPUS
The Rev. Alfred C. Williams, graduate of
Morehouse College and at present the pas
tor of New Hope Baptist Church, Detroit,
Mich., spoke in chapel Friday morning,
March 23, on the subject, "The Power of
Christ versus the Power of Pilate."
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Miss Edith M. White, Secretary of the
Board of Admissions, Wheaton College, Nor
ton, Mass., in speaking to the faculty and
student body, Tuesday morning, March 27,
said that nothing can ever happen to one
more important than what happens in one.
The purpose of Wheaton College is to edu
cate just as any other college. Its motto
is: "That they might have life and that
they might have it more abundantly.”
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Mrs. Alice Coleman, Trustee of Spelman
College, in the devotional exercises Friday
morning, March 9, read and outlined the
thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. The
outline was as follows:
I. Comparison of love with other things.
Verses 1-3.
II. Qualities of love. Verses 4-8.
III. Conclusion. The remainder of the chap
ter gives the conclusion, but there is a
summing up in the last verse: “And
now abideth faith, hope, love, these
three, but the greatest of these is love.”
EXCHANGES
Pretty dreadful. I never had such a tough
time in my life. First I got angina pectoris,
followed by arterio sclerosis, lust as I was
recovering from these I got tuberculosis,
double pneumonia and phthisis. Then they
gave me hypodermics. I know I had diabetes
and acute indigestion besides lumbago and
neuritis. I don t know how I pulled through
it. It was the hardest spelling test I’ve ever
seen.—The Aurora.
If all the people wanted to take an auto
ride some evening and all the autos in the
country could be commandeered to gratify
them, the owners could take them all and
have only five to each machine.—The Aurora.
“Education Cited As Basis For Better Race
Relations." Education was declared to be
the solution to racial misunderstanding and
prejudice by the representatives of the Ala
bama State Interracial Committee, which met
in Birmingham recently in the auditorium of
the Y. W. C. A.
Practically every speaker expressed the
opinion that "more can be done from the
school desk and through the school children
in solving our current difficulties than
through any other source," and that “whites
as well as Negroes must be educated toward
this objective."—The Tuskegee Messenger.
hriend; "What is the first thing you do
when a man presents himself to you for
consultation ? "
Doctor: "I ask him if he has a car."
Friend: “What do you learn from that?”
Doctor: "If he has one, I know he is
wealthy—if he hasn't, I know he is healthy.”