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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Campus Mirror
‘‘Service in Unity’’
Editor-in-Chief JULIA PATE
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
To the subscribers, readers and friends of
The Campus Mirror we wish a merry, merry
Christmas. Realizing the wide differences of
your individual wishes, we doubt if we could
tell in the entire space of the Mirror every
thing that we must necessarily mean when we
wish you a merry Christmas. However, what
ever is needed to make your Christmas merry,
we wish all that and even more. We also won
der if there are not other ways in which you
are planning to keep Christmas. Of course
you will respond to the old recollections and
dormant sympathies which the joyous circle
at home will awaken in you: Certainly you will
not forget your best friends, but, in the words
of Henry Van Dyke, “Are you willing to stoop
down and consider the needs and desires of little
children; to remember the weakness and loneli
ness of people who are growing old; to stop
asking how much your friends love you, and
ask yourself whether you love them enough;
to bear in mind the things that your people have
to bear in their hearts; to try to understand
what those who live in the same house with you
really want, without waiting for them to tell
you ; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts,
and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the
gate open—are you willing to do these things
even for a day? Are you willing to believe that
love is the strongest thing in the world—stronger
than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than
death—and that the blessed life which began in
Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the
image and brightness of Eternal Love.' Then
you can keep Christmas.”
WEEK OF PRAYER,
NOV. 19-23
"1 shall read to you prayers that have been
a comfort and help to many,” said President
Read at chapel, Nov. 19. Among those read
was the prayer of St. Augustine, Psalm 130,
and selections from the Book of Common
Prayer. On another day selected poems were
read. There were also lectures and prayer-
hymns. As the organ softly pealed out the
touching tones and heads were bowed in rev
erence to God, these things seemed to take
on a new meaning. The sacredness of this
week stands out distinctly to all.
During this week a number of persons who
were attending the Inter-racial Commission
visited Spelman and attended chapel.
We quote here significant thoughts from
the lectures given :
When we pray, we open our hearts to God
and the air comes in. How good we feel,
how refreshed. When we pray a great ocean
comes in and cleanses our little souls.—Dr.
Louise Wallace.
Pray that all people may be large to reflect
the spirit of Jesus Christ. Pray that avenues
of service may be open for us.—Mrs. M. M.
Bethune. ,
Prayer helps me to keep faith in God. It
helps me to love people, thus keeping hatred
out of my soul. It helps me to do the simple
duties and kindnesses of life. Through pray
er I get strength for my own personal life.—
Mr. Clarence Gresham.
DR. JAMES H. DILLARD ON
READING
A good deal of thinking on the subject of
“Books and Reading” was occasioned by the
talk on that subject w T hich Dr. Dillard gave
at Spelman Chapel Dec. 6, at the special re
quest of Miss Read. In introducing the
speaker, Miss Read told how much Dr. Dil
lard’s friends value his opinions of books.
“Reading,” he said, “is more than merely
going over words.” It is getting behind the
words to get ideas and images.
“Reading for pleasure is a perfectly legiti
mate thing.” Some novels are well worth
the time; Jane Austen’s for example, because
they give you real experience. But a novel
that is at least two years old has had some
testing and is more trustworthy than a new
novel.
Reading for information was urged. We
need to know more about the world in which
we live. His opinion is that this kind of
reading should be definitely planned. One
may well choose a single period of history
for careful and wide reading. Know one pe
riod thoroughly well. Those not interested
in history might choose art, literature or
science for thorough study.
In the field of inspirational reading Dr.
Dillard named a number of things, including
Matthew Arnold’s edition of Wordsworth’s
Poems with criticisms and The Book of
Psalms.
Real reading gives you the power to cher
ish what is true in all your lives.
JEANES AND SLATER
FUNDS
On Friday morning November 26, Dr. W.
T. B. Williams, Dean of the college depart
ment of Tuskeegee and Field Agent of
Jeanes and Slater funds told the Spelman
students of the great work done by the
Jeanes workers. He first gave the history of
the beginning of these funds. The Slater
fund helps colleges to meet the new and
pressing demands of new enrollments, par
ticularly in the fields of science and English.
The Slater fund is to aid teachers in coun
try schools. The Jeanes workers are doing
one of the finest pieces of educational work
in the South.
NEGRO ACHIEVEMENT
WEEK
Observance of Negro Achievement Week
as sponsored by the Omega Psi Phi Frater
nity was fittingly begun in Sister’s Chapel
by an interesting address delivered by Miss
Georgina Gollock, an English woman who
has spent two years in Africa studying na
tive men and women who have made good
there.
“Africa,” said Miss Gollock, “has a great
contribution to make to civilization.” The
Negroes in America have something good
to contribute to Africa. She believes that
individuality and personality are great assets
to the Negro. She told of the progress the
Africans have made despite the great dif
ficulties they have had to overcome.
Miss Gollock gave a parting word of ad
vice: “The deepest and most significant
things are not those you have to do, but
those you choose to do.” She reminded us
of the times when quickness of thought and
decision were absolutely necessary. One
should be so trained in making the right
choices that when the time comes he will
find himself making the right choice without
thinking about it.
Negro Poetry
To show some of the literary achievements
of the Negro, Miss Cooke, a graduate of Obcr-
lin College, and a member of our faculty,
read some of the poems of Negro artists.
The entire chapel services on the second day
of this Achievement Week was given to Miss
Cooke to read these poems. Among the au
thors included were Langston Hughes, Coun-
tee Cullen and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
African Achievement
Mr. Martin Dow of the Atlanta School of
Social Work emphasized the achievement of
the Negro in Liberia. The free Negroes
from America, before the year 1820 pur
chased a strip of land in Africa. They were
inexperienced. The greatest achievement of
these people is that they have perpetuated a
form of government that has gained the re
spect of the world. They had to overcome
the climate, encountered the uncivilized na
tives, overcome prejudices and strife and won
wars. Now Liberia is a going concern.
‘‘To infuse into the native inhabitants,” said
Mr. Dow, “foreign culture and spiritual val-
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