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The Campus Mirror
Published by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
During the College Year
VOL. V. MARCH, 1929 NUMBER 6
ITALO-VATICAN AGREE
MENT
By Minnie Edith Cureton, ’30
The frozen enmity of nearly 60 j^ears
standing, between the Kingdom of Italy and
the Papacy, was dissolved on February 12th
when Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary,
and Premier Mussolini, creator of the Fascist
state in Italy, placed their signatures on the
Italo-Yatican agreement which restored the
Pope’s temporal power in Italy.
By the terms of this treaty “Italy recog
nizes the existence of the Papal state, the
boundary lines of which will include the
present Vatican territory and certain sur
rounding extensions.”
“The Papal state, however, shall have no
corridor to the sea.”
“A special railway station shall be built
within the Vatican border.”
"Italy will name an ambassador to the
Holy See.”
“All the Embassies of foreign nations rep
resented at the Papal court shall be moved
into the Vatican.”
"The Vatican agrees to accept the money
that has been set aside by the Italian gov
ernment yearly, since 1860, to recompense
the Pope for his territorial losses.”
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THE LIBRARY SPECTATOR
By Samantha B. Howard, ’30
It is an endless pleasure for one to find
out certain things about others while he
himself remains unnoticed. Such was the
experience of a spectator who was eager to
know just what sort of reading material the
different students engaged themselves with
aside from lessons.
One Tuesday between the hours of 9:40
and 11:40 the onlooker, sitting in such a po
sition as to get a fairly good view of the
entire reading room, noticed that from time
to time students selected magazines which
seemed to please them. Sitting very near
her was a freshman who seemed to he bored
front constant study, and who decided to
get a magazine. Her choice was “Fash
ionable Dress," which proved to furnish com
plete interest to her.
This puzzled the spectator because she I
had imagined that the student would soon j
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EAGLES OF “30”
By R. Lena Rivers, ’30
Five thousand years ago the Summerians
of the city-kingdom of Lagash in the Eu
phrates Valley, used the “Spread Eagle” as
the symbol of their power, as did imperial
Rome in her day of power and as the Unit
ed States does today. In Greek mythology
we find an eagle represented as attendant
to Zeus. It held in its claws the god’s thun
der-bolts, and it was the eagle that carried
off Ganymede, the shepherd, on its wings to
be a new cup-bearer to Zeus.
Soaring high in the sky, swooping down
like a thunder-bolt, or defending its rights,
the eagle well deserves its reputation of “the
king of birds.”
The class of ’30 has chosen for its emblem
the eagle, known all over the world as a sym
bol of courage and strength and fidelity to
business.
As the college years pass, each Junior is
finding that it is necessary for her to strive
with courage, not to swerve from or dodge
either her tasks or decisions.
The strength which this emblem repre
sents, the class of ’30 is trying to cultivate.
With courage and strength they attempt to
adapt themselves to whatever pleasant or un
pleasant situations come, and to prove that
they are worthy in every day life here at
Spelman. They work with the intention
of attaining much through this strength; they
hope to grasp and to hold the things worth
while, keeping in mind the ideals of Spel
man.
As the eagle sweeps across the mountains
and plains getting a view of the spectacle
that is hourly spread out beneath, so the class
of ’30 looks upon the realm of college life
to take with dignity, elevation and repose
the experiences and opportunities that come.
A HEARTY WELCOME
The students and teachers of Spelman Col
lege are happy to have on the campus Mrs.
Nellie M. Read, the mother of President
Read. \\ e hope that her visit to the South
land will be most enjoyable.
THE CRUISER BILL
By Elsie Edmondson, ’30
After a series of long and bitter debates
in Congress, after much talk about an in
evitable war with Great Britain, and much
more talk about renewing the rivalry in war
ship building, and very soon after the sign
ing of the Kellogg Peace Pact, the Cruiser
Bill was passed by Congress. This bill au
thorizes the building, within three years, of
IS 10,000-ton cruisers and one airplane car
rier ; “it includes an approval of a treaty
regulating the freedom of the seas, and a
request that the president encourage fur
ther arms limitations, in which event he is
authorized to suspend the construction au
thorized by the bill.”
The New York Herald Tribune regrets
very much that we did not long ago take
steps to bring our navy up to the 5-5-3 ratio
as set by the Washington Conference. It
also maintains that we should have started
raising our ratio at the same time as Great
Britain.
In order to understand clearly the situa
tion, it is necessary to go back to 1921, to a
conference known officially as the Wash
ington Conference on the Limitation of
Armaments. This conference consisted of
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LATIN, LIVING OR DEAD?
By Etta L. Haynes, ’30
There are a thousand thoughts that ram
ble through the minds of college students
as they consider the list of electives. When
they think of Latin, these thoughts gener
ally assume the form of questions similar
to these: “Does Latin have any practical
value, or any value at all?” “Why study a
dead language?” Most students are readily
convinced that the sciences, history, English,
mathematics, and modern languages are use
ful. But because they do not see the values
of ancient classics they avoid them.
Latin is valuable because it helps one to
understand English. It may seem surpris
ing, but it is true that over half of the
English words are of Latin derivation. Be
sides words with Latin endings, such as "stim
uli,” "phenomena,” and “alumni," there are
in our language Latin words and phrases, e g.,
“in memoriam" and “post mortem.” Latin
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