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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta. Georgia
VOL. VII
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Greeting From President Read
Ernest Dimnet says that the just and most
obvious characterization of the thinker is
vision; that the thinker is pre-eminently a
man who sees where others do not. We are
embarked on a new college year. What are
we going to see during the year? To what
will our eyes and our minds be open? The
power of observation is a thing that can be
developed. When you look at a tree, do you
see just a hazy outline of trunk, branches,
and leaves—something that might as well be
a post for all the pleasure you get out of
it or do you notice the texture of bark,
the shape and color of leaf, so that the tree
becomes to you a living thing that gives you
joy? Do you notice when the first maple
leaf turns golden in the fall? Do you watch
for the first arrival of the cardinal on his
journey northward?
What do you observe in your classmates?
-Just their mannerisms or their clothes? Do
you notice their helpful acts and courtesies?
Do you see a chance to say a good word
when one is being unfairly criticized? Do
you look for sincerity and honesty and fair
play in your friends? What qualities do
you see in people?
What do you see in your assignment of
French verbs to be learned? Just a dull
grind—or the chance to get command of a
tool that will be a joy to you when you
have mastered its use? Behind the study of
the circulation of the frog, do you see the
marvel and the mystery of living things, of
life? Beyond the consideration of a “his-
toiy lesson", does your mind open up to the
movements of men and of nations that help
ns understand and interpret our present life
in Georgia, in America, in the countries of
the world?
The power to see grows not through
vagueness and general impressions but
through a thorough and complete knowledge
of the thing which at the moment is the
center of observation.
What—and how—shall we see during the
year 1 <>30-1931?
Fifth Annual Freshman Week
At Spelman
Clara Haywood, ’34
'Hhe class of ’34 is wondering how other
college freshmen who did not have the ad
vantage of “Freshman Week" ever became
acquainted with the campus, the buildings,
ami"different regulations, because the class
which met September Hi, 1930, on Spelman
campus at 9:00 o’clock a.m., immediately
began to be familiar with all the necessary
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Katie Maude Walker
Julia E. Pate
Katie Maude Walker, a member of the
present senior class of Spelman College, a
graduate of Spelman High School and of
Spelman Sunday School Teacher Training-
Course, in the class of 1927, died at the
college infirmary at 3 :45 o’clock on Thurs
day morning, October 9, 1930. An announce
ment of her death was made at the regular
college chapel devotional service of the same
day. Both students and teachers were deeply
grieved and found it hard to believe the
sad truth that Katie was no more.
Katie Maude was entering her eleventh
year as a boarding school student at Spel
man. Two days after her return to school
from a vacation with her sister at Beaver
Falls, Pa., she complained of not feeling-
well and went to the infirmary for treat
ment. While there she continually grew
worse and was never able to return to her
classes and friends by whom she was dearly
loved.
Katie was generally known as a popular
favorite among the students and teachers
because of her ever-cheerful and pleasant
disposition, her good scholarship, and her
charming personality. - She was highly de
sirous of a college education and the vari
ous experiences of college life. She made
good use of every opportunity to realize her
ambition.
During her years both in high school and
college she maintained a creditable scholar
ship record and was active in many student
organizations, holding the following offices
of responsiblity: President of senior high
school class, vice-president of sophomore
college class, treasurer of the Spelman Sun
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New Student Adviser—Miss
Ruth O. Eakin
It is a pleasure to introduce to the stu
dents of Spelman College the new Student
Adviser, Miss Ruth 0. Eakin, who has come
to us while Miss McGhee is studying on
fellowship at Columbia University. Miss
Eakin attended Wooster College in Ohio for
two years. She holds the degrees of B.S.
and M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia
University. None of us—unless it be Miss
Clara Howard—knows the feeling of being
one of two American women in a village in
a foreign country and the only one respon
sible for the educational work, with every
thing to be done in the way of building a
school, training the teachers, planning the
courses, and teaching the students. What a
pull on one’s resources it must make, and
what a strain on one’s faith and on one’s
backbone! Miss Eakin has spent two pe
riods of about six years each in Trang,
Siam, starting from nothing and building
a school for girls which now has more than
100 day pupils, thirty-five boarding pupils,
and six teachers. We should marvel at the
quiet and effective way Miss Eakin has fit
ted into her life and work in the Spelman
community if we did not know that pioneer
ing wherever it is done invariably develops
initiative and resourcefulness and brings out
sturdy qualities of mind and heart and
character.
We welcome Miss Eakin to her work
with us.
Florence M. Read.
Member of British Parliament
Speaks at Spelman
Oteele Eloise Nichols, ’32
Mi-. Rennie Smith, member of the British
Parliament and Private Secretary to the
I ndei-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, who is
lecturing under The Institute of Inter
national Education, spoke at Sisters Chapel,
Sunday, October 5, 1930, on the Inter
national Outlook of the Negro. Some of
the interesting ideas that he presented were
these:
He said that he is visiting the South in
order to see the type of education the
American Negro is getting, so that when
he returns to England lie will know better
how to plan for the education of the South
African youth.
He prophesied that twenty-five years
from today Africa will be the Dig inter
national question as India is today.
He urged that we think of tin* British
Government not as the British Empire, but
as the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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