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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR (llu'CIamp us 4ttin*nr ‘ ‘ Service in Unity’’ liditor-in-Chicf Mary Alice Dunn Assistant Editor-in-Chief. Mabel Dockett Editor of Neu's Elsie Edmonson Assistant Editor of N exes. Oteele Nichols Editor of Sferial Features Ruby Brown Assistant Editor of Special Features Augusta Johnson Editor of Jokes and Sports Edith Tate Soeial Editor Maenelle Dixon Editor of High School Section BEAUTINE Hubert BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Mary DuBose See ret ary of Staff .... Rubye Samson Treasurer Minnie Cureton Circulation Manager ... Hnnie Hudson Exchange Editor . Flora McKinney Advertising Managers Frankie Berry Phyllis Kimbrough Faculty Advisor M. Mae Neptune SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75c Per Year 40c Per Semester 10c Per Copy Postage 2c a Copy 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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. (Continued on Page 3)