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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Campus Mirror
‘‘Service in Unity’’
Editor-in-Chief JULIA PATE
Editors of News RUBY Brown
and Catherine Burris
Editor of Special Features MARY Dunn
Editor of Jokes and Sports
Elnora James
Social Editor JUSTINE WILKINSON
Editors of High School Section
Ida Miller Cora Douthard
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Business Manager Estelle Bailey
Secretary of Staff FLORA MCKINNEY
Treasurer MINNIE CURETON
Circulation Manager THELMA BROWN
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LET SOPHOMORES BE
PRAISED
It is not necessary to say that this is the
Sophomore Issue, for we are sure that our
readers took note of the fact at their first
glance of the Mirror.
We must give the Sophomores credit for
being able to assume the responsibility of
doing important things. They showed genu
ine college spirit while writing for the Mir
ror. Willingness and anxiety to do their very
best characterized their every effort. They
have not only worked well as individuals, but
they have been most responsive as a group
and we now think of them as the budding
staff of the Mirror of 1931. If it is true that
one defines himself by the type of responses
which he makes to the demands and oppor
tunities of life, we can truthfully conclude
that the “gay young sophomores” have de
fined themselves to be highly socialized
members of the Spelman Community and
we shall always thank them for the beautiful
service which they have given to us.
A LETTER
Spelman College,
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10, 1929.
Dear Readers :
Many of you, no doubt, are of the opinion
that “sophs" are slightly wise and slightly
otherwise. Many times has that been said
of a proud sophomore. The “sophs” about
whom you now read are good sports—they
take all that and much more. Well, you see
now, the}' will soon be "upper classmen”—
I mean juniors. They have good heartedly
and cheerfully covered a whole semester.
This is to be admired in them.
Besides their good nature, they do worthy
deeds. Some of them participate in every
extra-curricular activity on the campus. From
this paper you can see that they are capable
of doing things. They are worthy of praise;
if they were not, a junior would never praise
them.
They certainly are good mixers and good
entertainers, especially with gentlemen, be
cause a little bird tells me that the majority
of them have many friends who take every
opportunity to call and talk with them. When
it comes to social affairs, they are as a whole
“next to the nearest.”
Would you think that a “soph” could value
good reading? These surely do. They draw
many good books from the library and are
sometimes so interested in them that they
forget to bring them back exactly on time.
Do they pay their fines? They can’t miss J
their exams.
In athletics they are good. Basket ball,
baseball, slagball, apparatus work and all
do they enjoy. They want to develop them-1
selves so that they will be physically fit to j
accomplish something.
Now, dear readers, the Editor has kindly j
consented to slip this letter into the sopho
more issue of the “Mirror” without their
knowing it. You must keep it a secret so!
that they’ll never know that a junior praised!
them.
In case they get it some way, they are
partly wise and partly otherwise.
Very truly yours,
RUBY L. BROWN.
NEGRO HISTORY WEEK
Negro History Week conducted at Spelman,
February 4 to 8, by Mrs. Margaret Curry, head
of the history department, was a bit unusual
in the facts and ideas stressed. The speakers,
Misses Sue Bailey and Marian Cuthbert and
Professors Redding, Brazeal, and Harreld did
not emphasize unduly 'the achievements of Ne
groes nor did they show a pessimistic outlook
for the future. In the subjects presented: ap- j
predation of color and form in art and espe
cially in literature, practical economics, and a
fair appreciation of real attainment in music,
the speakers told definite things that Negroes
must know to be able to make the sort of prog
ress which will be above adverse criticism.
There is an urgent need for the Negro to
understand the things that he can do as well
as the things he has already done. It has been
said that one learns more from failures than
from successes, and therefore successes are not
all that need to be stressed. You wouldn't call
a man a pessimist for simply relating facts,
would you? The students are grateful to the
speakers of the week for uncovering some of
the faults of our race so that they can line up
for correction.
4 he week ended with an impressive program
of vocal and instrumental numbers by Negro
composers. Inspired by the lectures and pleased
with the efficient work of their instructor in
planning the program of the week, the students
in the department of history contributed S10 to
the library to start a new collection of Negro
books.
“The sun, to me, is like a golden ball that
the East throws every morning across the
earth, to his brother West.”—Cecil Long.
CHAPEL ECHOES
‘Prayer is one of the most natural aspira
tions, desires and instincts of the human
family. Practically everybody prays every
day.”
“Lord, I have a life; help me to live it.
Lord, I have a place; help me to find it.
Lord, I have work; help me to do it.
Lord, I have a message; help me to say it."
—Mr. Willis J. Sutton, Superintendent
of Atlanta Public Schools.
“From hour to hour keep awake so that
you may he sensitive to the significance of
your own deeds.”
—Rev. Howard Thurman.
“If the heart is right, God has a way of
over-ruling mistakes.”
—Miss Kurrelmeyer, High School Principal.
“Education should help us to live more fully
and more completely day by day.”
—Miss Elizabeth Perry, Professor of
Education.
NEWS ITEMS
By Flora Hill, ’31
It is pleasing to the faculty and students of
Spelman College to know that Miss Lucy
Hale Tapley, President Emeritus, who was
injured by an automobile, is regaining her
strength.
“The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” a
play written by Jerome K. Jerome, that was
presented here January 11, 1929, by the col
lege department, was repeated at Morehouse
College Monday night, February 4, under the
auspices of the Neighborhood Union.
It grieves the students to know that Miss
Helen Pierce, a sophomore who was called
home on account of the illness of her mother,
will not return to school this semester.
Among the delightful affairs of the month
of January were the two dinners given by
Miss McGhee, Student Advisor for senior
and junior classes of Spelman College.
Both classes enjoyed a delicious menu and
a pleasurable evening. Miss McGhee has
kindly consented to be an honorary member
of the Junior College Class.
Within the recent year there has been an
addition to our department of biology. This
addition is a course in comparative anatomy.
Its aim is to trace the development of life
from the simplest to the more specialized and
complex forms and to compare the systems and
organs of one animal with those of another
animal. In comparing, for example, the simple
respiratory surface of a protozoan, like the
amoeba, with the complicated lungs found in
man, which after ordinary expiration contain
1,000 cubic centimeters of air, we are able to
see by comparison a clear and beautiful dem
onstration of how the higher forms came into
being.
Rev. Howard B. Thurman is an honorary
i member of the Sophomore class.