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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
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Vol. VII
January 15, 1931
Number 4
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The Nursery School
Malissa L. Varner, ’32
The Nursery School—Spelman College
1'hc Detroit Conference On Making Resolutions
Marjorie A. Stewart, ’32
The National Student Faculty Confer
ence, sponsored by the National V. M. and
V, W. C. A.’s, which convened in Detroit,
Michigan, December 2(i to 31, 1930, had
for its purpose the furtherance of educa
tion and the betterment of student and
faculty relations by bringing together these
groups to discuss the fundamental, social
and religious problems on the campuses over
the country. The conference convened in
plenary sessions and in commission groups,
each group taking up a specific educational
problem. In the three general sessions
everyday, there was a main lecture and
in some meetings there were shorter ad
dresses.
The speakers during the five days were
Ceorge Coe, formerly of Teachers College,
Columbia University; Frederick J. Kelly,
lecturer in higher education, Chicago Uni
versity; Reinhold Nieburh, of the Union
Theological Seminary, New York City; .1.
Stitt Wilson; Marion Cuthbert, National
Y. W. C. A. Secretary; Sherwood Eddy,
writer, and Norman Thomas, leader of the
Socialist Party.
From the student 's point of view the ad
dresses of Ceorge Coe, Frederick Kelly and
Norman Thomas were significant because
many of their facts bore directly upon stud
ent interests and student life. The first of
these lecturers emphasized the value of
questioning on the part of the student.
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Fanny Smith, ’33
With the ever increasing complexity of
our life in college, which involves divers
adjustments, associations, contacts, thoughts,
pleasures, studies and habits, the old cus
tom of making New Year’s resolutions has
become as unpopular and extinct as flannel
underwear and “hen socials”. We mod
erns now are so completely overwhelmed
with our seeming sophistication that we
regard the making of resolutions as a waste
of time and thought. We say that we never
keep them, so what’s the use of making
more, just to break them even before we
have fully resolved not to. We say that
there isn't any use in making a resolution
and then not be able to keep it; but that
is exactly the trouble. We think we are
not able.
There is all the logic in the world in the
statement, “There is no use of making re
solves only to break them”. But do we
realize that at the moment that we utter
statements similar to the above we are
admitting to ourselves and to our friends
that we are weak, incapable of being true
and faithful even to ourselves? Would
we enjoy admitting to our friends or have
the world know that we can not be true
to others? Anyone that has anykind of
sense of honor prides herself on being
trustworthy and dependable. Tf we are
not able to be true to ourselves, able to
learn to hold firmly to that which we call
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The Spelman College Nursery School,
which has been making steady progress
since its opening on November 6, 1930,
offers an environment conducive to the
maximum physical, mental, emotional and
social development of a selected group of
children between the years of two and five.
On Friday evening, December 12, at six
o’clock, the staff of the Nursery School
held its first meeting with the parents of
the nursery school children. The aim of
this meeting was to acquaint parents, more
fully with the methods that are used to
promote the highest type of physical, men
tal, emotional and social development of
the children in the nursery school.
As the guests arrived they were greeted
bv Miss Sarah J. Bennett and Miss Ethel
31. Seames, teachers in the nursery school,
and by students in the class in Child Care
and Training, who conducted them through
the department and explained in detail
each piece of equipment and each phase
of the nursery school program. Toys of
the nursery school were on exhibit to give
parents suggestions for the type of toys
that should be provided for little children.
Durability and educational value determine
the standards by which toys are purchased
for the nursery school.
A very appetizing dinner was served in
the Home Economies dining room; it was a
typical nursery school dinner to show
the parents the kinds of foods that are served
their children. Tables were artistically
decorated with the Christmas colors.
After dinner the members of the faculty,
parents and students of the Child Care
and Training class assembled in the play
room of the nursery school department for
an informal discussion. Miss Pearlie 41.
Reed, Director of the Nursery School pre
sided and introduced each speaker.
President Florence M. Read spoke of
the significance of the cooperation of
parents and the genuine interest mani
fested by them.
.Miss Daisy A. Kugel, head of the Home
Economics Department spoke of her inter
est in each child and especially of the in
terest manifested by the fathers of the
nursery school children.
Miss Ruth \. Watson, head of the Food
and Nutrition department, spoke of the
foods that are suitable for Pre-School
Children explaining the value of each food
included in the menu served that evening.
She then discussed six groups of fowls and
told why each group is necessary for opti-
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