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The Campus Mirror Published by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia During the College Year VOL. V. MAY, 1929 Number 8 INTELLECTUAL RELISH By Thelma B. Brown, '29 Every human I)eiiiK is horn with desires and capacities for recognizing and enjoying the beautiful. What is the process which results in a power of discernment, a scale of true values, or a re fined judgement? The little girl who ate a piece of cake baked by her mother, an expert baker, and felt the desire to assist her mother in the process next time, was experiencing what might be called a first step in the development of taste. And perhaps one day she goes through the process alone, is interested in it, and event- becomcs a producer, a creator, an artist. ()r. she may not take this second step. She may fall into the class, who, through culti vation and refinement, acquire taste. Taste comes by habit. The little girl ate constantly the breads of her expert mother. She formed the habit of liking the very (Continued on page 4) REPARATIONS AGAIN By Myrtle Daphne Clarke, ’29 Early in the year 1929, a second Repara tion' Conference, called at the request of Germany and granted by the Allies, met in Paris for the purpose of arriving at a settle ment of Germany’s debt to the creditor na tions. The German Reparations problem is a child of eleven years, having come into being with the Armistice of the memorable No vember 11, 1918. The claims which the Al lies hold against the Germans are clearly stated in Article 231 of the Treaty of Ver sailles, which is as follows: “The Allies and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her Allies for causing all the loss and dam age to which the Allied and Associated Gov ernments and their nationals have been sub- (Continued on page 6) EXHIBIT OF FINE ART BY AMERICAN NEGRO ARTISTS 2,800 People Visit Exhibit at Spelman College By Gaston A. Bradford, ’29 THE OPERA By Aquilla L. Jones. '29 An opera is a drama set to music. The forerunners of this form of composition were the morality, mystery and miracle plays of the middle ages. The opera had its earliest beginnings in the attempts of a small band of enthusiasts who were united in their attempts to repro duce Greek forms of art. The title of the oldest ex tant opera is Euryrice which was produced on the occa sion of the marriage of Henry IV, and Maria de Medici at Florence, in 1600. As the opera, appearing first as a diver sion of the wealthy, developed, it became popularized, and in 1637, the first opera house for a public audience was opened in Venice, which city became the scene of ac tivity of such composers of the opera as Cavalli and Cesti. As the opera became pop- • ular in the different countries of Europe, the musicians of each began to compose in a style that expressed the peculiarities of their own people. Thus, there grew up the German, French, English and Italian opera. Side In side w r ith the opera grew the opera buffa from which has developed the light musical comedies of today. Some of the greatest contributors to the development of the opera are Cavalli, Cesti. Lully, Purcell, Gluck, Cherubini, Rossini. Don izetti, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Verdi, Gounod and Jacques Offenbach. \ very interesting opera is Lohengrin, writ- Froin April 28 to May 6, 2,800 visitors regis tered, in the improvised art gallery provided in Laura Spelman Hall on Spelman Campus, where there were on display sixty-four beautiful paint ings by Negro artists—a traveling exhibit of fine art, sponsored by the Harmon Founda tion and the committee on Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches. This exhibit was recently displayed at In ternational House in New York City and went from Spelman to the Atlanta Y. W. C. A. The purpose of it is to interest the public in the accomplishments of Negroes in this branch of I ten by Richard Wagner. It was first pre- GOOD ROADS IN GEORGIA By Florence n. Jones, ’29 Georgia is behind many other states in the building of good roads, with the result that she is behind in many other things that good roads make possible. Her cities are growing and providing more and more markets within easy distance of farms if only good roads lay between farm and market place. With hard roads and an automobile, fresh eggs can be taken directly from the poultry farm for the buyers’ breakfasts before they arc cold; fresh veg- (Continued on page 3) the fine arts. Several faculty members with the help of the students, acted as hostesses. Each class was assigned a day to show visitors about the art gallery. To simplify the work the classes were further divided so that at every hour in the day some were on duty to receive the visitors who came. Various types of people came to see the pictures; school children, busy professional men and women, laborers, and shy, timid persons who got a new experience. The majority of the paintings are in oil with the brush as Motley’s Octoroon Girl, or with the palette knife as is Johnson’s Sunny Low, sented in Weimar, August 28, 1850, under the direction of Liszt. Its story is the blend ing of three legends, but its basic one is that of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. The scene of this opera is laid in Antwerp during the first half of the tenth century. The plot is as follows: Henry I of Germany has come to Antwerp to raise an army to send against the Huns, who are on the eve of an invasion. He finds Brabant almost in a state of an archy as a result of the news that Elsa, the daughter of the late Duke, while strolling in | the woods with her brother, Gottfried, has murdered him in order to gain the sovereign ty for herself. Telramund, the guardian of Elsa and Gottfried, who has been rejected by Elsa, marries Ortrud, daughter of the 1- Su'cct Chariot. Others are in charcoal, water colors, or pastels. They treat of a variety of subjects: religious, as shown in Hardwick’s Jesus of Aazareth, and Dillons Christ Blessing Prince of Friesland. After the marriage, Little Children; nature, as seen in the painting ramund claims the dukedom which is Elsa’s, of Jones, I he (iiiardian of the If ood, and Free- The king, who is much disturbed, sends for Ion’s Autumn and Gloucester Coast; landscape, Elsa and kindly asks her to defend herself as seen in Freelon’s Rocky Seek Road—Glou- of the charge of murdering her brother. In cester, and Hayden's Saint Scrvan. There are stead of doing this she begins to sin^ of her (Continued on page 6) (Continued on page 3)