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EDITORIAL
GREETINGS
When the college year is over, will you
look back and say, “If I had it to live over,
I would do better”?
As you pass from one period to another
you have the opportunity to apply your
self. You will have some cases wherein you
might create opportunities.
It will take hard work, close application
and attention to make this year fruitful.
Are you willing to sacrifice in time?
Are you going to be reluctant to change
your mode of living, indifferent toward
fitting yourself for something better?
Be a good sport and don’t cry; you have
a whole year in which to work.
The ait and secret of real college living
must be more in the individual’s ability to
find for herself simplicity in complexity and
to learn to make right choices on the bases
of both needs and desires.
You have student organizations that need
your cooperation. You also need the con
tact which these organizations afford.
The Campus Mirror staff welcomes the
old and new members of the campus com
munity and hopes that you will in every
possible sense make the paper your own.
Our new head was designed by Marjorie
Wheeler of the Junior College class. We
hope you like it.
President Read's Challenge
Oteele Nichols, ’32
President Read, in her opening chapel
talk of the year, September 24, 1930, said
that most people are like kittens, born with
their eyes shut, and go a long way lief ore
they learn to open them to new interests;
instead they are quite content to know only
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the same old things in the same old way.
She told a strange story of some supposedly
wise people who built a city hall and forgot
to put any windows in. Because they forgot
to put in windows they tried to furnish light
by forking it into baskets with pitchforks
and carrying it in. This scheme didn’t work.
They couldn’t get light by the bushel basket
method, and students can’t get an education
by depending on the teachers to fork the
knowledge into them. Eyes must be open
to new things, and students must lie as ac
tive in seeing and getting light as a teacher
can be in giving it.
On the following day she carried the same
idea further as it applies to increasing our
appreciation of good music, and Mr. Har-
reld played Wagner’s “Evening Star”.
Friday’s talk contained the same urge to
students to keep their eyes open in observ
ing the world about them and in selecting
worthwhile reading and in testing what they
read by what they already know.
The S pel man Cafeteria
Augusta Johnson, ’32
A complete evolution has occurred in the
boarding department. It is now under the
supervision of the Department of Home
Economics. The system of table service is
replaced by the cafeteria plan. An annex
to the west end of the students’ dining room
contains the kitchen, the bakery, and the
ventilated storeroom. There is an addition
of such modern equipment as steam tables,
a dishwashing machine, an electric bread
mixer, an automatic potato peeler, and a
steam oven. By electric refrigeration the
cold rooms keep meats, fruits, and vege
tables at and below a temperature of 50° F.
In the basement is the ice plant that will
supply ice for the whole campus. A social
hall, two rooms for dinner parties, and a
rest room for teachers are interesting fea
tures.
Spelman is a pioneer in being among the
first schools for Negroes that have adopted
the cafeteria plan. Put yourself in the
shoes of a returned student who has just
arrived and does not know of the change.
The bell sounds for dinner. As you come
in sight of the dining hall you see at the
i ight entrance a line of students stretching
far down the walk. The line moves for
ward. You enter the dining room.
Can it be the same place? What an at
tractive color scheme—cream-colored walls
and cream-colored table tops covered with
individual mats of pink, yellow, and green;
pink or green for the edge of the table
tops. Your eye stops between the new soft
lighting and the newly waxed floor, and you
see on the other side of the room a line of
teachers as they go to be served at their
steam table. Then you discover that the
teachers’ dining room is where the students’
kitchen and dishroom were.
By this time you have taken your tray,
silver and napkin from the silver stand,
passed the door of the dietitian’s office and
now you are ready to be served. The steam
table extends along the west end in the
front part of the annex. On the wall be
yond is posted the well-balanced menu.
Watch your plate while the contents increase
as it passes down the table. One girl serves
you meat, another bread—plain or whole
wheat—a third, vegetables. Ii' you do not
choose flavard beets, take spinach. Today
you select your dessert from cake with
whipped cream, baked custard, and junket.
From the cooler you may get a refreshing
drink.
When you sit down, glance back at the
steam table. You admire its green color and
its usefulness in keeping some foods hot
and other kinds cool. You say you will be
glad to see the coffee urn in operation.
Then you view the whole room.
Besides additional windows you notice
that the painted glass has been removed
from the semi-circular windows. Instead of
it there is clear glass. If you were outside
you could see how by careful planning the
roof of the annex is made to decline east
ward by steps so as to allow the greatest
amount of light to be admitted. You sense
the comfortable spaciousness afforded by
more light and ventilation. The beauty of
the room aids your digestion.
Katie Maude Walker
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day School, secretary and chairman of the
program committee of Spelman Y. W. C. A.,
and for three years a prominent member
of Spelman Glee Club and quartet, and of
the Morehouse-Spelman chorus. In addition
to her extra curricular activities Katie was
for two successive years student assistant
in the library of Spelman College.
There was never a more willing worker at
any task than was Katie. Every little duty
became a matter of vital importance to her
when she Avas to be responsible for it. Her
Avork, Avhich greatly concerned her, was al-
Avays done quickly and well. She prided
herself on working Avith a smile, being cour
teous under all circumstances, and never los
ing her temper. She Avas frank, open-
minded, and genuine in friendship.
Since Katie Avas just approaching the
threshold of the major aspirations of youth,
her death, in one sense, seems to be the sad
dest of the sad; but on looking at it from
the viewpoint of the full and beautiful life
Avhich she lived in the Spelman community,
of the Avorthy ideals of Christian woman
hood to Avar d Avhich she Avas striving, one
cannot help feeling that a high purpose has
been fulfilled.
“I must go,” said Katie, during her last
hours. She has gone. We must be Avilling
to see her go; but never forgot to cherish
the beautiful spirit that characterized lie-
life at Spelman College.
Stray Thoughts
Rachel Davis
Life, to me, is a Avhirlpool of disasters
in which sAvirl around sparse joys of happi
ness that live for a short while. +■
Life, a gem of precious A’alue, is like a
rainbow reflecting iridescent colors.
The missing virtue in almost all of, our
lives is that of justice.
Jealousy is the unseen thief which steals
aAvay happiness.
Thought is to the mind as the skeleton
is to the body.