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EDITORIAL
We have seen during the last three years
a phenomenal activity in the field of cur
riculum making at Spelman College and
Morehouse College. This activity lias varied
all the way from modest revisions and addi
tions, dictated by the exigencies of the
moment, to ambitious programs, conceived
in a desire to evolve from the old to the
better.
The movers of these changes are backed
by a conviction that the road to the prom
ised land has finally been discovered.
The students, especially of the South, are
on the mountain and are looking over into
the promised land. The foresighted people
who named the present graduate school
Atlanta University more than fifty years
ago hoped and prayed that the name Uni
versity would prompt the idea in some of
the future race leaders to give to the South
ern Colored youth the opportunity to climb
in the scholastic world as high as he would.
Morning Chapel
Myrtis McComb, '34
On my way to chapel these lovely autumn
mornings there are many beautiful things
that I see. God is showing himself in every
thing around us. There are the trees with
their many colored leaves and, as T walk
beneath and the leaves fall slowly down
ward, T often think of them as faring as we
human creatures must—after all they have
done, they, too, must fade and die.
A calm always steals over me when T
enter the chapel. I sit and listen to the
prelude, the hymn, the morning talk; and
my thoughts sing to the rhythm of the serv
ice. I am prepared for the new day with
new hopes and determinations, new courage
to live this life to the full.
The Campus Mirror
One morning, when our president spoke
of one who has been taken away from the
midst of the college family, a wave of lone
liness seemed to pass away from the stu
dent body to find harbor in the vaulted
roof. The strong sun rays helped bravely
to remind us that our lives are our Maker’s,
and we went out again to the campus and
the day’s work, thankful that chapel had
fostered one memory.
The Juillard Lecture Course
Carol Blanton, ’33
Miss Helen Riley of the Atlanta Branch
of the Juillard Foundation of Music, spoke
in Howe Memorial Hall, October 29, on
“What We Find in Music”. The time’s being
very short necessitated her giving only
glimpses of the development of music up to
the time of Johann Sebastian Bach
The theme of these very interesting and
enlightening glimpses culminated in the fact
that the music of a people, like any other
art, portrays the national feelings, customs,
aspirations, and characteristics of a people
through “movement and sound” and that
the development of these characteristics has
given contributions, along the ages, to make
the art what it is now. We noticed how
the ancient civilizations of the Chinese, Ara
bians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Hebrews, In
dians, Romans, and Greeks contributed their
bit to the development of the art, how the
Christian era had its effect, and finally how
these things have had their influence in
bringing the art to what it is now.
An interesting fact which challenged our
thought was that in former times, music
was a necessity of life; the savage had to
make music, for it had a vital place in his
life. Now, music is classed as a luxury.
To illustrate various points, given in the
lecture, records were played and music was
given by Miss Riley and a friend — both
accomplished artists, who were students in
the Juillard Foundation. The Suite in G
Minor by Bach, which was played by the
fellow artist, was particularly interesting
and very much appreciated, for the artist
seemed to understand and to convey her
understanding of the master to the listeners
so very well. This suite was a fitting close
for the lecture; it conveyed, through the
work of the most intellectual and greatest
musician that has, perhaps, ever been, the
infinite properties and possibilities of the art.
The Blue Ribbon
Malissa Varner, ’32
The Spelman display at the Southeastern
Fair had for its purpose showing the work
of the school and educating the visiting pub
lic. No effort was made to display products,
but rather to display ideas and to convey
something broader in Home Economics and
Home Making. The underlying idea in this
year’s exhibit was orderliness and beauty.
There were three divisions: the first a
clothing corner, second a kitchen cabinet,
and third a table displaying models of food
and a table set for luncheon. The clothing
corner contained a dresser top which showed
beauty in restraint. There was an omission
of the usual paraphernalia that people have
on dressers. The upper dresser drawer
showed the ease with which it might be kept
in perfect order by the use of various paste
board boxes fitted together, each a container
for such things as beads, gloves, hairpins,
hosiery, powder, and handkerchiefs.
The clothing corner also contained a ward
robe, or locker, the purpose of which was
to show how to equip it properly, and how
the clothing in it should be cared for. Each
garment was on a hanger with a covering
of paper or cloth. Hats were placed on hat
stands or in boxes on the shelf above. Be
low the garments, a slanting shelf extended
across the wardrobe to support the shoes in
order to keep them off the floor. Other
shoes were in a shoe bag on the door, and
there were shoe trees in all the shoes. A
pocket of this bag contained dust cloths and
shoe polish. The wardrobe also provided a
place for a cretonne laundry bag.
Another section of the exhibit contained
a properly equipped kitchen cabinet and
showed the use of color in painted chairs,
stools, painted tin cans used for containers
and in handles of tools neatly hung in the
cabinet or on nearby railings.
At the rear of the exhibit was a table
displaying models of food rich in vitamins.
The models were very colorfully painted by
Miss Jean Taylor. Above the models were
four attractively colored posters explaining
the use and value of vitamins in the diet.
In the foreground was a dining room table
properly set for luncheon. Color was evi
dent here in the green glassware, green tea
pot, and water pitcher with marigolds for
a centerpiece.
There were appropriate placards explain
ing the meaning of the exhibit, and on a
shelf accessible to passers-by were various
Spelman College publications. The exhibit
attracted a good deal of attention and won
first prize.
A National Inquiry
What are the colleges doing? Has edu
cation been meeting the pressing need in
human relationship? What can students and
faculty do toward raising the moral in
tegrity and spiritual vitality of the national
life of the future?
Pursuant to these inquiries a National
Student-Faculty Conference, under the aus
pices of the National Student Y. W. C. A.
and National Student Y. M. C. A., operating
through the Council of Christian Associa
tions, will convene on December 27 at Hotel
Book-Cadillac, Detroit, Michigan.
We had as our guest on the campus Sun
day, November 9, Mr. W. H. Seaton of the
Department of Native Development in
Umtali, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa.
Being especially interested in Negro educa
tion of the rural type in the United States,
Mr. Seaton is visiting many schools with
the purpose of finding out how much edu
cation is devoted to training teachers to
teach rural schools in rural communities.
A group of students met with him for
an hour Sunday morning and discussed in-
formallv with him these vital problems of
rural education or, in truth, the lack of good
rural education in the schools of the South.