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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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EDITORIAL
One of the greatest achievements in the fur
thering of human progress is the invention of
the incandescent electric lamp. The words of
Thomas A. Edison given at the celebration of
the Golden Jubilee of Light: “If I have spurred
men to greater efforts and if my work has
widened the horizon of man’s understanding even
a little, and given a measure of happiness in the
world, I am content,” are not only a summary
of his whole life, but they will be a perpetual
inspiration to all who know them.
A new librarian and a larger library and
reading room, but why so many undernour
ished minds? What do these minds lack?
Usually they lack a well balanced intellec
tual diet. Can we expect a sound mind from
unbalanced reading? Minds, like bodies, need
food that is wholesome, clean and nutritious.
Can we read the “Vogue,” “Delineator” and
“Fashionable Dress" and say that our intel
lectual diet is balanced? For an intellectual
diet consult the bulletin board in the library,
the card catalog and the librarian. With the
aid of these you will be able to regulate
your diet and to choose intellectual food with
proper bulk, variety and vitamin. As a result
of the well-nourished minds the table con
versations will change, more will participate
in the discussion groups, and the class work
will no longer seem a burden. “Books are
the food of youth.”
PLAYING FOR PAY
Onnik Nichols, ’33
The subsidizing of college athletics has
been investigated by the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching and their
investigations made public. They claim, that
the heads of universities are directly to blame
for the subsidizing of athletes. The notion of
the youths, that their athletic ability can be
turned to advantage, is so widespread that
the athlete influenced by money seldom
thinks of getting an education or of playing
for sport; instead he plays for pay. Many
boys who are financially able to go to col
lege, go only because of their athletic ability
and the chance of saving their own money
by getting a subsidy for playing on the team.
Basketball and baseball have fewer players
who play for pay than has football.
One sporting editor has said that the South
seemed inclined to adopt a “Well what of it?”
attitude toward the report of the Carnegie
Foundation dealing with the subsidizing of
college athletes by American colleges. Many
of the educators agreed with the sporting
editors that the report told much that wasn't
known to be true and admitted that a number
of the colleges did aid athletes along with
the other youths that were deserving, but
they denied that help was given more freely
because of a boy’s athletic ability. It is true
that every college or university wants its
team to win, but some of the schools have de
cided to fight such practices as subsidizing
whether or not they ever win another game.
But whether subsidized or unsubsidized
many of the major college football games
had record-breaking crowds during the
month of October.
LIGHTS AND DARKNESS
BEFORE 1879
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have hardened, the moulds are dipped in hot
water for a second to loosen the candles which
are removed and are ready for lighting.
Lamps were first made by placing a strip of
rag in a bowl or a dish of oil and lighting it.
Later it was found that a better light would
be made if the wick was held stationary and
perpendicular. As a result of this discovery we
have the Argand burner. Later the spur wheel
was invented to turn the wick up and down, in
creasing and decreasing the flame. Once when a
Swiss scientist was heating a bottle over a
flame, the bottom of the bottle broke and fell
out, and he noticed that the flame gave a
brighter light within the broken bottle. From
this accident we have the glass chimney.
One lamp that is distinctly American is the
Stone lamp of the Eskimo which is a round
stone bowl or perhaps the skull of an animal.
The Eskimos used the oil of walrus, seal or
whale with dry moss for wick, and they still
use these lamps for heat as well as light.
The American colonists used the Betty lamp,
a slot lamp with the wick held in place by an
iron tube fastened to the bottom of the lamp.
Benjamin Franklin’s improvement on the Betty
lamp had two circular wicks and was made of
tin instead of iron. Until 1845, lard oil was
used in all of the lamps; then a highly explosive
WORLD FELLOWSHIP
WEEK
The projects of World Fellowship Week,
Nov. 17-23, inclusive, as sponsored by the Spel-
man Christian World Education Committee, will
be an International Exhibit in Laura Spel-
man Rockefeller Memorial Building, daily chapel
talks, and a tea on Saturday afternoon for for
eign students of Atlanta.
The programs of the week will begin with a
service in Howe Memorial Hall, Sunday night
at 7:15, to which the Christian Endeavor is espe
cially invited.
The International Exhibit will be open to vis
itors on Sunday the 17th from ten to eleven
o’clock and from twelve to one, and on week
days from four to six.
A much coveted painting—“Shadows,” by
Daniel Garber—will be awarded the Spelman
student (high school or college) who writes the
best essay on the Spelman observance of World
Fellowship Week. The prize essay will be pub
lished in the next issue of the Campus Mirror.
oil called Piller’s fluid was introduced, but this
was not practical because of the expense and
danger of explosion. In 1860, kerosene, then
known as coal oil, came into use. To use coal
oil for light a glass chimney was needed and
that was the beginning of the improved oil
lamps ; those with the round burners and others
with the asbestos mantles give a light almost
equal to gas or electricity.
In 1792 natural gas was used by an English
man to light his house. The gas was brought
in through tubes at the end of which was a
modified Argand burner. At the Palace Elec
tric and Gas Exposition in 1882 a platinum
mantel was suspended over the flame to steady
it. From this experiment we have the use of
the asbestos mantel on all gas lights.
Thinking of the thousands of years of dimly
lighted nights before the inventions which now
turn night into day, it is little wonder that even
our own grandmothers should have had their
store of tales about “Jack O’Lanterns” and
“Will O’ the Wisps” who used to lure people
out of the road into the mire on dark nights
and other wierd tales about ghosts. These
Myths could only originate when there
was no light. As President Hoover said in his
speech, “Light casts out fear.” We no longer
wait at home for moonlight nights; the streets
are well lighted and the use of the moon for
light has been almost forgotten. Our homes,
churches, schools, factories, offices, stores,
amusement parks and streets are so well lighted
that we can hardly imagine how little light there
was on rainy and dark days and nights in the
time of candles and kerosene lamps.
The music of great pianists, violinists, singers
and orchestra, thousands of people are able to
hear by means of the phonograph, another bless
ing from Mr. Edison. The invention of the ear
drum has been a blessing to the deaf, and Mr.
Edison considers it his greatest contribution to
the world.
The electric light did not just happen; it is
the result of thousands of years of experimenta
tion. Mr. Edison “carried on” the work others
had begun.