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The Campus Mirror
Published by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
During the College Year
VOL. v.
APRIL, 1929
Number 7
Estelle Roosevelt Bailey
Business Manager of Mirror Staff
Debating Tedrrc
Story Tellinq Club
Lois DeRutti Dave n t port, President
Spelman College Representatives
in the
Atlanta Jnterracial Forum
The Campus Mirror Stott
Jit 1 ia E fin o r Pate
Editor-in-chief of Mirror Staff
Student Council
Y.W.C.A. Gaston Hi ice Bradford, President
Deba/incf Club
Willie Hue Barnett, President
A GREAT NEW OPPOR
TUNITY
Atlanta University, Spelman
College and Morehouse Col
lege Affiliate in Uni
versity Plan
On April 1. 1929, an arrangement was
completed between Atlanta University, More
house College and Spelman College for the
affiliation of these three institutions in a
university plan, the graduate and profession-
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THE SOUTHERN BOOK
EXPOSITION
By Elsie Edmonson, ’30
"The Soul's Rialto hath its merchandise.”
Literature is the merchandise of our souls, but
it is more than that; it is the expression of the
vision of our souls, the record of the hopes,
joys, fears, sorrows, pains, in fact of every
deep emotion of the human race. "Where there
is no vision the people perish." The people who
fostered the Southern Book Exposition realized
these things and have given the residents of
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STUDENT ORGANIZATION
OF SPELMAN COLLEGE
Above is a picture of the leaders and repre
sentative members of major student organi
zations of Spelman College.
Reading from left to right the members
i of the smaller groups are as follows: Campus
! Mirror Staff: Justine Wilkinson, Flora Mc
Kinney, Ann Xabrit, Willie Barnett, Mary
Dunn, Annie Hudson, Ruby Brown, Cath
erine Burris, Elnora James, and Minnie
| Cureton.
Debating Team: Cassandra Maxwell, Minnie
j Cureton, Frankie Clarke and Catherine Bur-
! ris.
Spelman Representative of the Atlanta In
terracial Forum: Minnie Cureton, Bernice
Starling, Catherine Burris, Julia E. Pate and
| Phyllis Kimbrough.
Student Council: First row, Julia F. Pate,
Irene Dobbs, Maggie Moore Powell. Second
| row, (itissie Merlalla, Minnie Cureton, Cas-
■ sandra Maxwell, Willie Barnett. Third row,
| Mary Dubose, Augusta Johnson, Gaston
Bradford and Magnolia Dixon.
THE VALUE OF EXTRA
CURRICULAR ACTIVI
TIES
By Lois Davenport, ’30
When we speak of extra-curricular activ
ities, we mean those in which one engages
outside of the regular routine of school work.
What puts so much life into these activities
is the fact that they are voluntary and there
fore more interesting. Of course one must
not get the extra-curricular activities con
fused with the curricular, because there is
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A LETTER
Spelman College,
Atlanta, Ga..
April 16, 1929.
My dear Winifred,
It has been a real pleasure for me to collect
the information that you desired. You will
notice from what 1 .shall tell you that student
organizations have been keeping pace with the
transitions that have come since you were here,
for six societies have been organized. The two
main results of the organizations are self-ex
pression and power of application.
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