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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
(llu'CIamp us 4ttin*nr
‘ ‘ Service in Unity’’
liditor-in-Chicf Mary Alice Dunn
Assistant Editor-in-Chief. Mabel Dockett
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The Campus Mirror Staff gratefully appre
ciates the contributions to the paper from the
Juniors and their Freshman sisters. The Jolly
Juniors have never been known to fail and we
are expecting this same habit to influence their
sisters.
After reading the following article one readily
sees that Spelman and Morehouse had to “hustle
while waiting.” This recognition should inspire
every student to think of a college education,
not as a number of facts to be retained in the
mind, but as a training for discrimination and
for appreciation of essential and significant
things.—Editor.
SPELMAN AND MORE
HOUSE COLLEGES GIVEN
RECOGNITION,
JANUARY 15, 1930
At a meeting of the Association of American
Colleges held in Washington this week, Spelman
College and Morehouse College were elected to
membership in the Association.
The Association of American Colleges in
cludes over 400 colleges and universities and
such other educational organizations as the
American Council on Education, the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
the General Education Board, and the Institute
of International Education. Six Negro institu
tions now hold membership in the Association,—
Howard, Lincoln, Fisk and Wilber force Uni
versities, Spelman College, and Morehouse Col
lege.
Nearly three hundred institutions and organi
zations were represented at the meeting in
Washington. At a dinner in honor of the
British Ambassador and Lady Isabella Howard,
STUDENT COOPERATION
IN CAMPUS GOVERNMENT
Mabel Dockett, ’31
Although student cooperation in campus gov
ernment has been practised in American schools,
private and public, since 1799, and has been con
ducted with considerable effectiveness in many
institutions, it is still apparently in the experi
mental stage.
It must be emphasized that cooperation in
campus government does not imply turning the
entire government of the institution over to
students. Thd charter of any private institution
is a grant of authority from a state legislature
to a governing body, usually trustees. The au
thority of administrators and faculty is dele
gated from these trustees. Since this is true,
cooperation is the main motive of this demo
cratic movement in a college community.
The best conditions in family life came
through cooperation between older and younger
members; so also must faculty and students
cooperate if there is to be the best government
and community life for all. The impulse of the
world everywhere, inside and outside of col
leges, is toward democracy, toward a share in
all that means rights and duties, responsibilities
and privileges, in the desire to live, and be and
have and do. Students need the experience and
guidance of the older members and the older
members need the opinions, energy and enthu
siasm of the younger members. Neither pure
faculty nor pure student government works well
today for reasons that are evident.
It must be clearly understood that student
government will never completely justify itself
addresses were made by the President of the
Association, President Guy E. Suavely of Bir-
hingham-Southern College, and by Dr.' Charles
Moore, Chairman of the Committee of Fine
Arts of the City of Washington. Other ad
dresses at the sessions included, “The Intel
lectual Life of the Colleges,” by President James
A. Blaisdell, the Claremont Colleges; Dean
Luther P. Eisenhart, Princeton University, and
Dr. Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Founda
tion for the Advancement of Teaching; “The
Improvement of College Teaching,” by President
A. H. Upham, Miami University, and Dean Wil
bur L. Cross, Graduate School, Yale University,
and “The Doctor of Philosophy and College
Teaching,” by Dean C. J. Laing, The Graduate
School of Arts and Literature, University of
Chicago. President Charles C. Mierow of Colo
rado College gave a lecture on College Chapel
Buildings in America, illustrated with lantern
slides, and showed among others views of the
Sisters Chapel, Spelman College.
It is a source of gratification that the work
of the Atlanta Colleges is increasingly receiving
recognition. Both Spelman College and More
house College have for several years been mem
bers of the Association of Colleges for Negro
\outh, and their graduates have been permitted
to teach or study in nearly every state with the
privilege of being rated according to the quality
of their work. Membership in the American
Association of Colleges is a further recognition
of the high quality of work of Spelman and
Morehouse Colleges.
DOCTOR HOPE LAUDED
RECEIVES HARMON AWARD
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9. Integer Vitae Horace, 65--H B.C.
Spelman-Morehouse Chorus
10. Greetings
From an old teacher
Daniel Webster Abercrombie, LL.D., Litt.I).
Principal Emeritus of Worcester Academy
In behalf of the Morehouse College
Faculty
Charles D. Hubert, A.B., B.D.
Director of School of Religion
In behalf of citizens of Atlanta
Solomon W. Walker
Vice-President of Pilgrim Health and
Life Insurance Company
In behalf of the Atlanta University
Alumni
Austin T. Walden, B.A., LL.B.
President of Atlanta University
Alumni Association
In behalf of an Atlanta Colleague
William A. Fountain. Jr., B.D., A.M.
President of Morris Brown University
11. Presentation of the Harmon Award in Edu
cation to John Hope, A.M., LL.I)., Presi
dent of Morehouse College and Atlanta
University
Plato T. Durham, D.D.
Professor of Church History at
Emory University
12. “Go Down, Moses” Negro Spiritual
Morehouse Quartet
13. Reading of Telegrams
Florence M. Read. Litt.D.
President of Spelman College
14. Closing Prayer and Benediction
Reverend Edwin M. Poteat, D.D.
Pastor of Second Baptist Church
DR. PLATO T. DURHAM
The college community was shocked on Mon
day morning, February 10, to learn of the sudden
death of Dr. Plato T. Durham. His address at
Spelman College on Sunday was therefore his
last public utterance—a tribute to his friend,
Dr. Hope, and an earnest and courageous plea
for better interracial understanding on the high
ground of the right of ever}' human being to
develop freely and fully his own personality.
anywhere as an administrative system. Student
government functions not as a system but as a
conscious process with a high standard of honor
as the motive force. The mark of student co
operation is noticeable in the character of a
college. A considerable degree of moral develop
ment in right ideals and good judgment is an
essential prerequisite to student government.
What are some definite advantages of student
cooperation in Campus Government ? Students
grow to feel that they are an essential part of
the institution and develop a more vital sense of
responsibility to it. The students are thereby
trained in doing what they do and what they do
not do without an external driving force. A
spirit of loyalty toward the college and faculty
is cultivated. The students are encouraged in
independence of thought with the application of
the principle of learning by doing.
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