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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
‘‘Service in Unity’’
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Editor-in-Chief
Editor of Xeivs
Assistant Editor of Xews
Editor of Special Features
Assistant Editor of Special
Features
Editor of Jokes and Sports
Social Editor
Mary Alice Dunn
Mabel Dockett
Elsie Edmonson
Oteele Nichols
Ruby Brown
Augusta Johnson
Edith Tate
Maenelle Dixon
Editor of High School
Section Beautine Hubert
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Mary DuBose
Secretary of Staff Rubye Sampson
Treasurer .... Minnie Cureton
Circulation Manager Annie Hudson
Exchange Editor Flora McKinney
Advertising Managers Frankye Berry
Phyllis Kimbrough
Faculty Adviser M. Mae Neptune
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THOUGHTS AND
EXPRESSION
In the busiest of lives, there is time for
thoughts and expression. Thought without
expression is of little benefit, for each must
supplement the other.
There are hundreds of people who re
ceive their daily thrills by reading, attend
ing theatres and listening to various artists.
At the end they tell about the “thrills” that
they have had. Thoughts that thrill are akin
to ideas in a person’s brain that have not
succeeded in getting out. Why should one
person have taken your thoughts and writ
ten a book or composed a piece of music
or painted a picture? These thoughts were
similar to yours. If the brain sows not corn,
it plants thistles.” The most enjoyable—the
deepest—thrill is received when we have nur
tured our minds with great thoughts.
Thoughts that are yours should be given
out; they are hammering to get out. If they
are expressed, others will say what you have
been saying, "I have had the same idea.”
Then you have won, because you were the
first to say it.
The earliest training of any child should
be that of expression. If it is in speaking,
be should he so carefully trained that he
will always have a purpose for speaking.
“Speaking without thinking is shooting with
out aim.”
The average student has more leisure
thoughts during the summer than during the
school term. Will he profit very much if he
spends all of his time reading novels instead
of trying to write one, or listening to musi
cal programs over the radio, instead of at
tempting to learn how to play some instru
ment himself? It is true that enjoying these
artistic productions will furnish him inspira
tion to think, but in return he must exter
nalize his thoughts.
ART AND INTER
NATIONALISM
By Phyllis V. Kimbrough, ’30
Fine Arts and their broader meaning have
embedded in them the basic element for
bringing all people into a closer and deeper
understanding of each other. True art finds
exchange amongst the Truth-seekers and
Beauty-seekers of the world. It knows no
barriers of race, color or station—all art
lovers are in the same class, although some
are more advanced in the point of appre
ciation than others.
It is through the influence of the fine arts
that we hope to establish a universal lan
guage which will make all people kin. Music,
painting, sculpture, literature, and architec
ture carry with them a universal appeal
which surpasses all other mediums of com
munication. The development of such an
appeal must necessarily be slow. Slowness
is essential to the creation of beauty—art
is a thing of beauty and truth. The inter
pretation of true art draws on the deepest
intellectual and emotional resources of a
people, and it is the expression of this high
est intelligence that is hoped to establish
Internationalism. The achievement of a civ
ilization in beauty seems to be inversely to
the rapidity of its pace.
One cannot escape the fact that art car
ries with it something that is essential to
the inner growth of man. A people do some
thing to themselves and to the artist, too,
when they accept a foreign artist on their
soil. They act as co-workers in giving the
fullest expression to a piece of art. This
freedom of interpretation and the expression
of a piece of art is the only kind of freedom
which we may hope to obtain. And it is this
common striving to give art its proper place
in each nation that will give birth to inter
nationalism in the broadest sense of the term.
REMINISCENCE
By Lois D. Davenport, ’30
There comes a crowning point in every
person’s life—an event which has been looked
forward to with eager anticipation. During
our four years in college we have had today
as our goal. We cannot say that all of our
days have been worth remembering and cher
ishing, but we do feel that each one, whether
filled with sunshine or sadness, has served
as a stepping stone towards our goal. Each
day has helped to- make our lives richer and
fuller, and this one serves as a very impor
tant link between the past and the future.
Though it gives us a sense of satisfaction
to watch our plans develop and materialize,
we feel that our responsibilities are many,
because we are carrying away more than any
preceding class. This is not due to our un
usual ability, but to the fact that our college
has more and more to offer to each out
going class. We leave you, for we must move
on to give of our best as we have received
it. We aim to be even more serviceable to
humanity as citizens than we have been as
students.
But before we, the class of 1930, take our
leave from those we hold dear, we pause to
call to your attention some of the things
which impress us most. We present our
thanks in the most affectionate and sincere
manner to our loved President for her keen
interest in us, and for her earnest efforts to
seek nothing less than the best for us ; to our
Student Adviser for her consideration, friend
ship, and ever-read}' advice in all things; to
the members of the faculty for their counsel
and inspiration which helped most when we
became discouraged; we also present our
thanks to our fellow-students for their co
operation and companionship. To all of you
we take this occasion to assure you of our
friendship and loyalty.
We hope, above all things, to prove our
selves equal to our tasks, whatever they he ;
for we must remember, fellow-classmates,
that it is for us to enlarge our responsibility
in promoting the ideals and standards of
Spelman, which its founders have so faith
fully established.
So, as we are about to say farewell to our
Alma Mater, faculty and fellow-students we
want once more to review our loyalty and
to assure you of our indomitable courage, in
attempting some worthy achievements so as
to make for Spelman, our race, and our
selves an honored place in our civilization.
The Business Manager of the Campus
Mirror expresses in behalf of the business
staff the hearty appreciation of all readers,
subscribers, and supporters of the paper. We
speak for our successors the same support
and a larger subscription for the year
1930-31.
THANKS
We, the newly elected officers of the stu
dent organizations of the campus, wish to
thank the student body for their confidence
in giving these responsibilities to us.
We will do our best to live up to your
expectations. We will strive to retain the
confidence you have entrusted in us. We are
to serve.
OFFICERS FOR THE CAM
PUS MIRROR 1930-1931
Editor-in-Chief Mable Dockett
Assistant Editor-in-Chief Augusta Johnson
Editor of News Oteele Nichols
Assistant Editor of News Alpha Talley
Editor of Special Features Mamie Bynes
Assistant Editor of Special
Features Jean Taylor
Editor of Jokes and Sports Edythe Tate
Social Editor..... Ida Prater
Editor of High School Section.
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Marjorie Stewart
Secretary of Staff.. Ermatine Hill
Treasurer Mary Dubose
Circulation Manager Maude Price
Exchange Editor Rachel Davis
Advertising Managers Florence Morrison
Lucia Griffin