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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.” (Continued on Page 7) 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 (Continued On Page 5) 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 (Continued On Page 7) 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 (Continued On Page 5)