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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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‘ ‘Service in Unity’’
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OUT OF THE AIR
The Eagles (Seniors) on their flight toward
graduation dropped a number of manuscripts
which were collected by the Campus Mirror
staff. The staff believes these opinions of the
departing Eagles have enough merit to be of use
to under-class men in choosing or evaluating
majors.
SCHOLARSHIP
The day of cloistered learning has gone
by; knowledge for service is what we need.
We seek for wisdom to lead us into paths
of right judgment.
Recently much has been said concerning
scholarship. Still there are some who are in
doubt about what its real meaning is and
what it should include. One of the best
definitions given is: “Scholarship is the ca
pacity for usefully relating and applying
knowledge to the contacts and manifold in
terdependencies of real life, in the world of
living men and things.”
Scholarship requires intellectual accuracy,
not mere skimming for present needs. It re
quires thoroughness in research, not indis
criminate gathering of facts. Constructive
ness in conclusion is necessary—conclusions
based on true perspective and unbiased feel
ings.
Knowledge for service is a stay to good
scholarship; for it is through doing that one
can learn to think out whole situations.
There is no place in this world for sterile
scholarship. The education needed is an edu
cation intended to fit men to live together
and to understand themselves and each other
and their problems.
Students negligent of their opportunities
are a hindrance to high scholarly attain
ments of members of their college. Very
often this negligence is due to inaccuracy.
In order to eliminate this, select some sub
jects that necessitate accuracy of understand
ing and sound reasoning, subjects that rep
resent breadth, height, and depth of infor
mation. These subjects should have con
tinuity and close relationship. Mere ability
to talk and answer questions is not scholar
ship and is of little value in education.
We were very proud when we learned that
Morehouse and Spelman Colleges had been
accepted in the American Association of Col
leges; but we must not stand all day and
rejoice. Since we have chosen this college
as our intellectual training ground the above
definition of scholarship may he a criterion
for us all. Every student can aid in setting
high standards and promoting scholarship.
It takes work, comprehensive and construc
tive work.
A TRIBUTE TO
DR. PLATO DURHAM
The friends and acquaintances of Dr. Plato
T. Durham, everywhere, recognized the ex
ceptional versatility and many-sided person
ality of this leader and teacher. In the death
of Dr. Durham the Negro race has lost a
warm and staunch friend. To have a person
of such understanding and vision to be a
mediator between groups whose ideas con
flict has brought blessings of better under
standing to both groups. His sudden death
on February 10 caused a shock of deep re
gret to his friends and co-workers wherever
his work and influence are known.
Dr. Plato T. Durham was born September
9, 1873. at Shelby, N. C., of an excellent
family of educators and preachers. His back
ground, his early interests, and choice of
enterprises gave promises which came to rich
fulfillment in his life—fulfillment that will
live on and on in lives of generations of peo
ples for whose interests and welfare he
thought and strove. His unstinted prepara
tion for useful service included undergradu
ate work at Trinity College, now Duke Uni
versity, 1891 to 1895; two years at Yale
Theological School, with graduation at Union
Theological Seminary in 1899, and two years
study at Christ Church College, University of
Oxford. His terms of service to different
institutions have been: on the faculty of
Trinity College, 1903 to 1907; then in the
active ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church until he was chosen dean of the
Emory Theological School in 1914. The dean-
ship he resigned in 1918 because of ill health,
but he continued until his death as profes
sor of Church History, a subject on which
he was an acknowledged authority.
As a student Plato Durham constantly
maintained contact with a variety of extra
scholastic interests so that his breadth of
understanding, both in religious subjects and
in the fields of arts and sciences, peculiarly
fitted him for educational endeavor and made
him throughout his life a man possessed of
SAINT PATRICK’S DAY
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At the age of sixteen years he was captured
by Irish pirates, and was sold into slavery in
Ireland. Later he ran away from his master
and Patrick was seen wandering over Ireland,
while still very young.
When he became a man, he labored both day
and night to win over the chiefs of Ireland to
Christianity. He also founded many churches
and schools; it has been estimated that these
institutions numbered more than two hundred.
Every one who knew of these schools wished to
attend them; therefore poets, druids and musi
cians came from all over Europe to attend St.
Patrick’s schools.
Then came the time when, after having given
many years of faithful work and having made
most of the Irish people Christians, St. Patrick
died. This was in the spring of the year when
the shamrocks covered the ground. He was
made the patron saint of the Irish people. In
many Irish families there is either a “Patrick”
or a “Patrica" named for their beloved saint.
This day is celebrated the world-over, and we
Americans parade with music and banners, we
wear green and make speeches in praise of the
“Emerald Island,” but can we ever feel about
St. Patrick’s Day as our Irish friends do?
broad sympathies and a deep understanding
of human problems of justice, mercy or a
square deal. His philosophy has been com
pared to that of Theodore Roosevelt, ex
pressed in these words, “Be sure you are
always fundamentally right in your relations
with your fellow man, then in the fear of
God go forth to duty.”
Dr. Durham’s wide range of interests made
him an active worker in many local, na
tional and international organizations, such
as the Federal Council of Churches in Amer
ica, Inter-Church World Movement of North
America, Committee on Church Cooperation,
Committee on Inter-racial Relationship, As
sociation for After-War Reconstruction of
Inter-racial Affairs. He was interested in
any efforts designed to harmonize civic af
fairs with moral interests.
The language and the thoughts of Dr. Dur
ham, used in his presentation of the Harmon
award to Dr. John Hope, were those of a
man who lives not in the past, but who lives
in vibrant touch with the hands and pulses
of all who are striving to solve hard prob
lems in noble ways. He said, “It has come to
be my deliberate opinion that the most tragic
and most difficult of all parts being played
in human civilization today is being played
by a cultured, educated Negro leader of his
people. The deep tragedy of that, I have
come through long years of association with
them to know." Another sentence in that
same profound utterance in honor of Dr.
Hope describes Dr. Durham equally as well.
“No small man can stand today in the pres
ence of the great tides of racial movement
and stand in leadership who is not a strong
man ; a prophet, a statesman—far more than
a mere educator.”
Dr. Durham was himself that strong man,
no less than the friend he has so described.