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Ol)e Campus ^ttirror 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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 (Continued On Page 7)