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Published by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
During the College Year
Vol. IV May-June, 1928 Number 8
W. T. Foster to Give Graduation Address
COMMENCEMENT PRO
GRAM 1928
Friday, June 1
8:00 P. M.—President’s Reception to Grad
uating Classes, Alumnae and Guests—Rey
nolds Cottage.
Saturday, June 2
Alumnae Day
2:00 P. M.—Meeting of Presidents of Lo
cal Spelman Clubs.
3:00 P. M.—Business Meeting of the
Alumnae Association—Assembly Room, Lau
ra Spelman Rockefeller Hall.
4:00 P. M.—Welcome to the Graduating
Classes. Talks by the President and Dean.
Discussion and social hour.
7 :00 P. M.—Campus Sing—Laura Spel
man Rockefeller Steps.
Sunday, June 3
3:0) P. M.—Baccalaureate Service (Joint
Service with Morehouse College). Doctor
Robert Russa Moton, Principal of Tuskegee
I nstitute—Sisters Chapel.
7:30 P. M.—Vesper Service and Organ Re
cital Sisters Chapel.
Monday, June 4
High School Class Day
(Giles Hall Steps)
10:30 A. M.—Salutatory—Gertrude Lurlene
Xabrit.
Ivy Oration—Alpha Joe Willie Talley.
Valedictory—Augusta Juanita Johnson.
Senior Pilgrimage to Campus Halls.
College Class Day
2:30 P. M.—Graduates in Elementary Ed
ucation—Two-year course.
Tomorrow—A Sketch—Center Campus.
3:00 P. M.—Class of 1928—Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Steps.
Class Poem—Mary Olivia Brookins.
Class History—Sarah Dorothy Roberts.
Last Will and Testament—Jeannette Hicks.
Farewell Ceremonies.
Ivy Oration—Ernestine Vivian Erskine.
Alumnae Procession with the classes led
by Spelman Granddaughters and with the
High School as Escort of Honor.
Wednesday, June 6
10:30 A. M.—Commencement Exercises—
I )r. W illiam Trufant Foster, Director of Pol
iak Foundation for Economic Research, for
merly President of Reed College, Portland,
()regc»n—Sisters Chapel.
Retiring Staff
Left to right, standing: Beatrice Tucker,
Julia Pate, Lillie Sirmans, Minnie Finley,
Phyllis Kimbrough, Frankie Clarke, Ernes
tine Erskine, Jeannette Hicks, Nannie Gad-
son. Sitting: Ruby Brown, Annie Hudson,
Estelle Bailey, Myrtle Balasco.
Adviser for Campus Mirror
Miss Mary Mae Neptune for the last two
years has been head of the English Depart
ment and adviser for the Campus Mirror
staff. This year was her pioneer year as
adviser of the Wheatley-Fauset Literary So
ciety. made up of two working groups, the
debating club and the story-telling club. The
thoroughness of Miss Neptune’s work, as
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William Trufant Foster, Ph.D., LL.D., di
rector of the Poliak Foundation for Eco
nomic Research, is to be the Commencement
speaker at Spelman College on Wednesday,
June 6, 1928.
In 1910, when Doctor Foster was only
thirty-two years old, he became President
of Reed College, Portland, Oregon. He was
President from 1910 to 1920, and under his
leadership new ideas and methods in educa
tional practice were introduced which have
since been widely adopted in colleges and
universities in the United States. The em
phasis on scholarship, on simple and demo
cratic social life, on athletics for all students,
on the necessity of independent thinking, all
combined to make Reed College a stimulat
ing place to study and to teach. An oral ex
amination in the major subject, covering the
general field of study rather than particular
courses, with examiners from outside the Col
lege in addition to the professors, w T as one
of the requirements for a degree at Reed
College from the very beginning. The plan
is now in operation at several institutions in
the East.
Many students who do not know Doc
tor Foster’s work as a college administra
tor ’nave known him as the author of “Ar
gumentation and Debating,’’ one of the fore
most textbooks in this field.
Doctor Foster, with Mr. Waddill Catch-
ings, of the firm of Goldman Sachs Company,
is the author of several recent books in the
field of economics which have attracted
world-wide attention. In the first book, en
titled "Money,” the question was raised as
to why there was sustained business de
pression at a time when thousands of men
were suffering for want of the products of
business, w'hen thousands of men were out
of work, when unsold finished goods were on
the market, and when warehouses were
crowded with raw materials.
In the later book, “Profits,” the authors
propounded the thesis that the problem could
be solved, as all its chief factors were sub
ject to human control. Causes of business
depression were analyzed and possible
changes discussed.
A prize of $5,000 was offered for the best
adverse criticism of “Profits.” In the com
petition 431 replies were received from 42
states, the District of Columbia, and Alas
ka and from forty-five foreign countries. The
authors’ own criticism is given in, "The Road
to Plenty.” This book, published this year,
has aroused considerable discussion in the
business world. Sections of it have been re
printed in Commerce and Finance, the New
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