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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Camp ms Mirror
‘‘Service in Unity’’
Editor-in-Chief JULIA PATE
Editors of Nevus 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
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager ESTELLE BAILEY
Secretary of Staff FLORA McKinney
treasurer MINNIE CURETON
Circulation Manager THELMA BROWN
Exchange Editor ANNIE HUDSON
Advertisements .ANN NABRIT
Willie Barnett
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EDITORIAL
Thanks To—
The “Jolly Juniors” who have rendered
such beautiful and willing service to the
Mirror this month. We feel sure that the
members of the Spelman community and oth
er subscribers will enjoy their articles. We
are also thinking that, perhaps, it would be
bad psychology to give them the many com
pliments which we will admit that they de
serve, but are withholding until they grow
wiser, or better still, take on their senior
dignity which will help them to do the un
usual without excitement. They call them
selves “Eagles.” Well, they are pretty good
“Eagles.” However, we recommend that they
loose themselves of a few of their thick
feathers of egotism. Our readers may be
interested to know that the picture of the
eagle shown on the front page of this issue
was drawn by Johnnie Price, who is known
as the “Junior Artist.” She says that the
wide stretched wings of the eagle represent
the Juniors’ fleetness and influential ability.
We grant that and prove the fact with the
following paragraphs which were written by
one who came as a new student to Spelman
last fall, and is now a member of the Junior
Class from which, it seems, that she has
learned to grow a few egotistic feathers also.
THE JUNIORS
“The Junior Class of Spelman College is
not an unusual class, though as a group
they have the following characteristics : Love,
loyalty, sincerity and integrity, an air of se
riousness, a sense of humor, a love for the
beautiful and a strong desire to give sym
pathetic help to their associates and above
all to their college. There is also within
this little group a deep craving for increas
ing their knowledge. It is because of these
traits and tendencies that they are constant
ly doing things which tend to give them ex
pression and which tend to work out their
purposes.
They hold, at least, a creditable number
of responsible positions in student activities,
which have come to them by election or ap
pointment. Junior representatives in extra
curricular activities are as follows: Student
Council, three; Y. W. C. A., one; Inter
racial Forum, three (members); Campus
Mirror staff, six; Story Telling Club, five;
Debating Club, two; Dramatics, Juniors in
the cast for the college play of 1929, six.
But best of all the Student Adviser, Miss
Ethel McGhee is an honorary member of
the Junior Class.”
MYRTLE LAGARD, ’30.
Now dear Eagles don’t ruffle your pret
ty feathers. Some day you are going to be
great Eagles that will fly away up, up and
up until you reach the high standard which
"Beloved Spelman” has set for you.
NEWS ITEMS
Miss Elizabeth Perry, member of the Spel
man College Faculty, represented Spelman
College at the National Association of Col
legiate Deans and Registrars in Negro
Schools in Prairie View, Texas.
The Y. W. C. A. of Spelman College was
delighted to have Mr. and Airs. Holmes in
their meeting Sunday night, March 10th. Mr.
Holmes led a very interesting discussion on
“Women In Industry.”
President Florence M. Read spent a few
days in New York this month.
Miss Marjorie A. Everingham, Registrar at
Spelman College, is now taking a course in
Chemistry at the Central Night School of
Atlanta.
Miss Ethel E. McGhee, Student Adviser,
was a delegate from Spelman College to the
Conference of College Religious Workers at
Fisk University. She brings greetings from
the Spelman girls at Fisk.
Miss Anna Cooke spent a very pleasant
week-end in LaGrange, Ga., at the home of
Mrs. Howard Thurman.
ISAIAH T. EPPS
By Johnnie S. Price, ’30
The students of Morehouse and Spelman feel
keenly the death of Mr. I. T. Epps, which oc
curred Monday, February 25, 1929, at his
home in LaGrange, Ga.
Air. Epps was a student of Morehouse Col
lege, a member of the Alorehouse Glee Club,
and also of the Spelman and Alorehouse Alixed
chorus. His death occurred while he was at
home on a week-end vacation. He was born
in 1908 at La Grange, Ga., and completed his
High School work at the East Depot High
School in La Grange.
The Alorehouse College Quartet, Professor
Harreld, Aliss Webster and Miss Aquilla Jones,
attended the funeral on Wednesday. The quar
tet sang “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and
"The Unclouded Day.” A message of condo
lence was sent from the Spelman Glee Club,
and a floral offering from Alorehouse Col
lege.
CHAPEL ECHOES
By Gussie R. Merlalla, ’30
The highest good in life may be summed
up in the one word “growth.” When ma
turity is reached growth is only beginning.
A democratic community is one which sees
to it that every one of its members has an
opportunity to grow. “You can measure
the efficiency of a community by the chance
it gives its members for growth.”—Dr. How
ard W. Odum, Professor of Sociology, Uni
versity of North Carolina.
“Educational institutions are not only
places where we receive knowledge but
where we also shape and mold character.”—
Mr. T. Ninan Jacob, Principal of Normal
School, Travancore, India.
“Jesus came to establish a better social
order.”
The following list of things must be firm
ly fixed in one’s mind before he can live
by the social principles of Jesus:
1. Alen—the goal of social living.
2. The solidarity of the human family.
3. The supremacy of the common good.
4. Equal rights for all.
5. Cooperation and not selfish competition.
6. Love and not force—the social bond.
“There is a task for all.”—Aliss Cartes K.
Swartz, National Field Secretary of the
Home Afission Board of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, Washington, D. C.
Some think that in South Africa there is
but one race, but that is not true. There
is a lack of unity because the people speak-
various languages. They have not yet learned
how to work together as the Americans.
The mission schools are all that they have.
“It is very necessary that we live and work
together. We are praying that through
Christian religion unity will be formed.”—-
Miss Margaret Walbridge, Principal of In-
anda Seminary, in Natal, South Africa.
“Live day by day with the things you have
at hand.”—Airs. David G. Yarnall, Philadel
phia, Pa.
“The church and Christianity are always
in the lead.
“After emancipation Christian schools were
the first sources for Negro education. — Dr.
George Rice Hovey, Secretary of Education of
the American Baptist Home Mission Society.
"By hard work we learn to apply our
selves. Hard work gives patience and en
durance that will help us in later life.
Each one can do something better than
any one else. Study yourself and find out
what that something is. There is always
room at the top for people who can do
things well.”—Aliss Ethel E. AlcGhee, Stu
dent Adviser.
THANKS
The Campus Alirror expresses a hearty
“thank you” to the citizens of the Spelman
College Community for your cooperation in
attending the college play, “The Passing of
the Third Floor Back,” and the motion pic
ture, “The Connecticut Yankee.”
ESTELLE BAILEY,
Business Alanager of the Campus Mirror.