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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
Age and Youth
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brook that gets wider and wider and flows
farther and farther until it becomes part of
a larger body. "1 he world generally thinks of
60 years of age as a time for retirement
from active work. 1 he silly world points
at this stage of life as “sans eyes, sans teeth,
sans taste, sans everything.”
Tradition has been a handicap to Age in
many respects. It says that old men and
women are physically and mentally unfit to
do anything worthwhile. It wants them
to sit aside and let Youth have a chance.
Eckener did not retire and did not fear the
loneliness of age. He believes that, as long
as he is in the world, he is a part of it. The
world is large enough for youth to have its
place on the platform of life and age to
have its place. Why can't Youth look to
Age for the dignity and gravity that its
small experiences do not afford?
Eckener was not one who bragged about
the fulfillment of his ideal; instead he ac
cepted fame with the soberness of a genius.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 25 years old,
made a non-stop flight “alone,” across the
Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris in
33 hours. The name Lindbergh is a common
word on the lips of people all over the
world. People have stopped saying that the
trip across the Atlantic was so great because
it has become common to fly across the
ocean. Lindbergh is being admired now, be
cause of the way in which he accepted fame.
Fame was not a handicap to his future.
We see him doing yet greater things for his
country. He has helped to bring about the
spirit of good will among nations by start
ing the fashion of “Good Will Tours.” Lie
is now aiding in the perfection of air mail
service, blis influence on youth because of
his modest acceptance of fame has been re
ceived as one of the popular qualities of
good etiquette. The Lindbergh family has
been as quiet as any other people that have
reached fame. He knew how* to wear a
laurel wreath without stretching it. He
showed that refinement is the soul of good
taste. Without the modesty of a Lindbergh
the grandest nature fails to win love.
“Alone” is another word for individualism.
Lindbergh does what he does in his own way.
He forms bis own opinion. It was the con
fidence that he had cultivated in himself that
enabled him to go alone. Youth must learn
how to do his work, and then do it—alone,
not leaning on crutches. There are too many
who frame their diplomas and point to them
as an evidence that their education is finish
ed. Then they go down to be swallowed
in the multitude of the mediocre. They grow
coarser day by day, not attempting to think
on knowledge obtained nor to make a defi
nite contribution alone.
Ambition for adventure was the inward
force that drove Lindbergh across the ocean ;
it was his ideal. It is the one innate char
acteristic that stimulated his very being and
caused him to counteract all other tendencies
that might be a hinderance to the growth of
his powers and of his genuine self.
Union Hall
Glances Into the Life of Miss
Clara Howard
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by a continuous porch or covered board
walk. “This, with the wide veranda sur
rounding Union Hall, the residents used for
a place to exercise,” said Miss Howard. “We
would walk all the way around Union Hall,
to the end of the Barracks and return
without stepping on the ground.” Union
Hall was destroyed by fire in June 1887, and
the Barracks were moved off the campus
as fast as better buildings could be built.
The change of name from Atlanta Baptist
Female Seminary to Spelman Seminary oc
curred when Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
on a visit with his family to the school, learn
ed of the serious need of money to continue
the work and contributed more than half the
purchase price of the nine acre campus.
Other buildings, the first of which was
Rockefeller Hall, were kindly contributed by
northern friends among whom Mr. John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., was the chief donor.
The school had early begun to stress the
training of teachers, because the need for
them was so great. Elementary pedagogy
and psychology and practical methods of
teaching were taught even in the first year
of high school, because so many girls either
left school after a year or two to teach or
taught during the summer vacations.
After Miss Howard had completed the
normal studies, which included high school
subjects, in 1885, she taught three summers
in the Negro rural school of Langstry, Eman
uel County, Georgia. When she went to take
the county examination, her neatly written
manuscripts, along with the contents of them,
occasioned favorable comment from the
examiner. She took with her to this school
the things she had learned at Spelman, and
because of her improved methods and new
kinds of books and materials to teach with,
her school became favorably known in the
county.
Recalling her experiences with her friends
in the north where she had many dates to
speak and sing, Miss Howard said, “I shall
never forget my first trip ’way up north
alone. Miss Packard and Miss Giles had
arranged for me to stay over night in Wash
ington with Mrs. York, a friend of theirs,
so that I would not reach Boston in the
night. As my train arrived in Washington,
the conductor said to me, ‘Aren’t you go
ing to Boston?’ ‘Yes,’ I replied.
GILES PACKARD BAUGH
Mr. Giles Packard Baugh, a namesake of the
founders of Spelman College, died in Atlanta,
November 28. Mr. Baugh attended the Base
ment School in Friendship Baptist Church in
his infancy because his mother, who was a
pupil there, was compelled to take her small
children, the boy and his sister, with her to
school.
Miss llaisy A. Kugel, head of Home Eco
nomics at Spelman, attended the Tri-State Con
ference of Llome Economics held at the Uni
versity of Georgia, at Athens, recently. The
subject of the Conference was Parental Edu
cation, and the purpose was to discuss what
is being done and what may be done in this
field.
“ ‘Well, there’s your train. Come on and
get on,’ said he, taking my hand bag. For
getting for the time every instruction, spoken
or written of both my mother and of Misses
Packard and Giles, thinking of nothing ex
cept that I was going to Boston, I boarded
that train and on I went.
“When I realized some hours later what a
blunder I had made and that I would cer
tainly arrive at night in a strange city with
no one to meet me, I was in great distress.
A woman, who turned out to be Mrs. An
drew J. Pollard, a member of the Board of
Missions and friend of Miss Packard, noticed
me and carefully drew from me the facts
of my situation. My instructions had been
‘do not talk to strangers.’ She helped me
through with the scrape I had got into. I
gave my Boston friends a surprise and learn
ed a good many things about traveling that
were far from amusing at the time.”
Miss Howard completed the Scientific Lit
erary course at Spelman in 1887, and then
taught in Mitchell Street public school until
1890, when her opportunity came to go to
Africa.
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