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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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LISTENING IN STATION
Y. W. C. A.
By El nor a M. James, '31
The V. \V. C. A. is reorganizing for 1930-
31. Begin now planning to become a full-
fledged “V” member in September. We’re
growing and we want you to “grow along
with” us.
At the Annual Georgia State Joint Y. W.
C. A. and V. M. C. A. conference at Atlanta
University, Spelman was represented by the
following delegates, Phyllis Kimbrough,
Minnie Cureton, Prances Callier, Edna Hack
ney, Flora Hill, Lillian Davis, Mary DuBose,
Mabel Dockett, Cassandra Maxwell, Evelyn
Green, Elsie Edmonson and Elnora James.
The delegates reported an interesting and
inspiring conference. In the election of offi
cers for next year Mabel Dockett was chosen
Secretary. Minnie Cureton, a Council mem
ber of the Southern Region, presided as
Chairman of the Young \\ omen’s division of
the conference.
Among the visitors that the "Y” has re
cently brought to our campus as special
guests of the students was Mr. A. Phillip
Randolph, organizer and president of the
Pullman Porters’ Brotherhood Union and
editor of the Black Worker.
Mr. Randolph spoke in Chapel during the
observance of Industrial Week, had inter
views with students during the day, lunched
in the students’ dining room and was honor
guest at an "indoor picnic” given in Upton
Home by the Industrial Committee of the
“Y”.
“Personal Charm” was the theme of a
very interesting Sunday evening Vesper,
April 27. Miss Ruttkay in her delightful
manner explained a number of reciuisites for
a charming personality. Her talk was well
received.
Mamie Bynes recited Proverbs after which
the audience sang "Follow the Gleam.
Miss Josephine Little, National Student
Financial Secretary of the Y. \\ . C. A. re
cently spent a day on our campus. She had
individual conferences with the cabinet mem
bers during the morning and was speaker
in cabinet meeting during the afternoon.
While here she and our Student Adviser,
Miss McGhee, were luncheon and dinner
guests in the students’ dining room.
We were very glad to have as our dinner
guest and speaker at Vespers Sunday eve
ning, May -4, Mrs. Ora Horton, a former
student of Spelman and now a missionary
to Africa. Mrs. Horton gave exceedingly
vivid descriptions of the every day life of the
natives and her native garb lent to the room
an air of that far country in which she has
labored since 1917. Her talk in chapel
showed how vitally interesting and satisfy
ing it is to serve where the need is so great
that the sacrifice seems forgotten in the good
accomplished.
AMONG OUR VISITORS
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune—President,
Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach,
Florida.
Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown—Presi
dent-Founder Alice Freeman Palmer Memor
ial Institute, Sedalia, North Carolina.
Miss Helen G. Harmon—Trustee of the
Harmon Foundation.
Miss Mary Brady—Director of the Har
mon Foundation.
Mr. Anthony Overton—President of Vic
tory Life Insurance Co. and Douglass
National Bank, Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Charles W. Scott—Assistant to the
President of Victory Life Insurance Com
pany.
Mr. Siddalingaiya—Department of Educa
tion, Mysore State, South India.
Mrs. Ora Milner Horton, Community
Hight, Monrovia, Liberia.
Bishop Robert E. Jones, New Orleans, La.
Dr. C. Waymond Reeves—Dentist, Atlanta,
Ga.
Dr. J. B. Brown, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Sue Bailey, National Student Secre
tary of the Southern Region, was a recent
week-end visitor on our campus and was the
guest of the cabinet in the students’ dining
room.
On the second afternoon of her visit she
spoke to a group of students on “Shoes and
Ships and Cabbages and Kings”. This was
a very interesting and unique discourse, com
paring shoes with the things in our lives that
we “pick out” and get “just to fit". They
are the things that we choose and which
are not forced upon us.
The ships were the adventures of our lives.
These are sometimes very small and mean
little and again they are very large and mean
much. It doesn’t matter which they are, we
find the ships very necessary to break the
monotony of our lives. The cabbages were
the unpleasant things with which we are com
pelled to live or with which we must come
in contact often in order that we may have
the pleasant things. Last came the kings,
which are the ruling forces in our lives.
Sometimes it’s a friend, sometimes a habit
and often we find it to lie a creed which
we use as a guide for the shaping of our
whole lives.
Miss Elizabeth Perry has sponsored a
series of Purpose Meetings in which each
part of the “Y” purpose was discussed or
dramatized on a different evening. These
meetings are given every year and the “Y”
wishes to express its heartiest thanks to Miss
Perry for so effectively conducting the series.
Miss Sue Bailey, National Student Secre
tary of the Southern Region, will be on our
campus for one day of the week May 18-24.
in the interest of the Kings Mountain Sum
mer Conference.
DO YOU KNOW RUBEN-
STEIN?
By Marjorie A. Stewart
It is not uncommon for the name of a great
character to be far more widely known than
the person himself. Anton Gregor Rubenstein
was the most eminent and outstanding musician
that Russia has produced. Born of Jewish par
ents in Southern Russia in 1829, he, while very
young moved with his parents to Moscow, where
he was placed under the instruction of the piano
master Alexander Villoing, and appeared on
a concert program in Moscow at the early age
of nine. It was two years later that he toured
western Europe with his teacher giving per
formances.
In 1845 Rubenstein’s family went to Berlin in
order that he might study theory and technique.
Here Dehn was his instructor. It was here also
that there developed the lasting friendship be
tween Rubenstein and Mendelssohn. On the
death of Anton’s father the family had to return
to Moscow, but the young musician, at the re
quest of Dehn, was permitted to remain in Ger
many. Very soon after this he went into Vienna
where he worked and studied for two years.
At this time he began his concert tours playing
first in various Hungarian cities.
Leaving that country he went to St. Peters
burg where he was made court pianist by Grand
Duchess Helene. During the period of eight
years which Rubenstein spent here he composed
the opera Dmitri Donskoi. Two years after this
composition he completed Toms der Narr. Both
of these works were produced in St. Peters
burg.
After this period he visited Hamburg, Leip
zig and London; while in the last city he played
for the first time in public his Concerto in G.
Following his trip to London he w r as appointed
Concert Director of the Royal Russian Musical
Society. From this time on he worked with his
friend Schubert for the advancement of music
in his own country.
Later in his life he made several other con
cert tours coming twice to America. He died
in 1894 in Peterhof.
Rubenstjein played not only with expression
but with the most remarkable technique and
skill. One writer has said that he was Liszt’s
only rival at the piano. Rubenstein wrote for
all phases of music. Opera, choral, orchestra,
vocal and pianoforte numbers belong to his
w'orks. Sustaining melodies and beautiful har
monizations characterize his compositions.
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But not the affectionate talk of a pretty girl,
that is dear.
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