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Rearrangement of the Spelman
Museum
Juanita Jernigan, ’32
The Spelman College Biology Department
is alert in making discoveries of material
for the growing museum. Many specimens
have been bought from biological laborato
ries, and in addition to these many rare
specimens have been discovered in Tapley
Science Hall, Room 310, where they had
been put away without order, catalog, or
label. Inquiry of older teachers on the
campus reveals the fact that a part of
Quarles Library, then in Packard Hall, was
for many years given to display cases where
these valuable specimens were kept. When
Tapley Hall was completed, there being
great need of space in the library for book
stacks and reading room, this museum ma
terial was stored in Tapley until the Sci
ence Department should grow to need it.
During the short history of this depart
ment the need for specimens has been so
great that last year, besides the new speci
mens which were purchased, the Biology
teachers prepared some specimens which are
now in the museum exhibit.
This year many new specimens have been
added to the department and are arranged
in the museum display. The natural history
museum mounts are mostly displayed in
cases in the /eulogy laboratories in Rooms
201. 207, and 209.
The various eases in Room 201 show in-
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And He’ll "Fix” It
Augusta J. Johnson, '32
8:30 P.M. More lessons to study. Tests
tomorrow. No lights. Fuse burned out
Go tell Mr. Long.
Bathroom flooded. Floor covered with
water. Faucet can’t be turned off—
Go tell Mr. Long.
Almost meal time. Food to be kept warm.
Steam table won’t work
Go tell Mr. Long.
Face needs washing. Full of cold cream.
No hot water
Go tell Mr. Lon <T'
Party dress wrinkled. Social tonight.
Laundry closed. Iron out of “fix”—
Cro tell Mr. Long.
Mercury falling fast, racing with the rain.
Cold radiators. Icy feet. No heat-——
Go tell Mr. Long.
Thus goes the story of a campus friend.
Ready to help at any time. Willing to help
in any way. Cheerful
That’s Mr. Long.
Interracial Forum
“Ghandi and His Technique of Non-
Violence” was the subject of a talk given
by Mr. Howard Thurman at the Interracial
Forum on Spelman Campus, November 9.
in which he left the members thinking of
this statement: "When I refuse to fight
back by tin* use of the same weapons as
my persecutors, I rob them of their power.”
A Sweep of Time
Frances Collier, ’31
Did you enter Spelman three years
ago as a college freshman ? Did vou
feel "brand new”, queer, and half
afraid to venture through or beyond
the gates which seemed so very, very
wide ? Perhaps you did, but unneces
sarily so, if you had known that just
a few days ahead of you, with the
same degree of newness, had ventured
another of your classmates, Miss
Florence M. Read, who entered, for
the first time as President of Spelman
College.
Since that time, we, who have known
her can most heartily agree with those
who knew her before, who say, “We
think first of her vitality and her
reputation for doing whatever she
sets out to do. This vitality is com
bined with sound judgment and a ca
pacity for grasping all the aspects of
a situation, a combination which au
gurs Avell for the future of Spelman
College.” It is the fulfillment of this
latter prediction, “augurs well for the fu
ture of Spelman College,” which we wish,
to share with you, for these have been
fruitful years in what they have meant to
Spelman College and its community and in
what it Avill mean to our future.
T his bit of information may seem some
what irrelevant, but perhaps it is my preju
dice in favor of real music Avhich makes this
event most outstanding - among m\ - first im
pressions of the Avonderful things college
could provide for us. This event was the
appearance of the Russian Cossack Chorus
in Sisters Chapel early in December three
years ago. The quality of the voices, their
precision in singing, and the thoroughness
in training as shoAvn both in voices and in
individual control were exceedinglv striking.
Melodies Avere requested from us and I think
that never before had Ave sung wilh so much
spirit, A'itality, and sincere appreciation, for
each group seemed to be aware that it was
a unique event at Avhich two groups were
singing Avith all pride their folksongs.
We have also noted with pleasure the
lapid progress of our Glee Club and Cho
rus and can think of our own Girls’ Orches
tra, though quite new, as giving promise of
a commendable future.
In 1928 avc noticed the organization of
the Morehouse-Spelman Summer School
(with Atlanta University affiliated). Since
that time tlie Atlanta School of Social Work
has also become affiliated, having resources
and facilities of each institution at each
other’s disposal.
September 25, 1929, marked another sig-
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