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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR (Die (limit }j us trnn* ‘ ‘Service in Unity’’ Editor-in-Chief Mary Alice Dunn Assistant Editor-in-Chief Mabel Dockett Editor of Xcws Elsie Edmonson Assistant Editor of News Oteele Nichols Editor of Special Ecaturcs Ruby Brown Assistant Editor of Special Ecaturcs Augusta Johnson Editor of Jokes and Sports Edith I ate Social Editor Maenelle Dixon Editor of High School Section Beautine Hubert BUSINESS STAFF Easiness Manager . Mary DuBose Secretary of Staff Rubye Samson Treasurer .... .... ... Minnie Cureton Circulation Manager .. Annie Hudson Exchange Editor Flora McKinney Advertising Managers Frankye Berry Phyllis Kimbrough Eaculty Adviser M. Mae Neptune SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75c Per Year 40c Per Semestei 10c Per Copy Postage 2c a Copy 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 (Continued from Page 1) 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.