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VOL. VII
March 15, 1931
Number 6
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Trees
Spelman Day in Atlanta
The fourth Sunday of March has been
sot apart by the churches of Atlanta as
Spelman Day in preparation for the Golden
Jubilee of Spelman.
The program for that day will include a
short history of the growth and develop
ment of the institution in the field of edu
cation and general culture.
The congregations are being asked to give
a birthday contribution toSpelman’s Golden
Anniversary which will be celebrated on
April 11th.
PROGRAM
FI FT1 ETII A X XI VERSARY
April 10-11-12, 1931
Friday, April 10
Afternoon
Athletic Meet Morehouse Gymnasium
Evening
Alumnae Night . Howe Memorial Hall
President’s Reception to Delegates, Alumnae
and Other Guests Reynolds Cottage
Saturday, April 11
Morning
College Program Howe Memorial Hall
A f ter no on
Founder’s Day Kxercises Sisters ( Impel
Dr. Julian Lewis, Assistant Professor of
Pathology of University of Chicago
Medical School.
Evening
Pageant Sisters Chapel
Sunday, April .12
Morning
Devotional Service Sisters Chapel
. I fternoon
Anniversary Sermon Sisters Chapel
Dr. Rush Rhees, President of University
of Rochester.
Evening
Sisters Chapel
Trees Through the Seasons
Jewel Woodard, ’31
Reaching up with their branches high,
Spreading their lace against the sky,
The sturdy trees in the winter’s cold,
Loose not from earth their firm foothold.
So let our minds toward heaven soar,
While hands and bodies work the more.
Giving shelter to the birds in spring,
Allowing the feeble vines to cling,
Growing green in the sun and rain,
Calling happiness back again,
So let our hearts like the oak tree be,
Full of love and sweet harmony.
Sending cool breezes upon a hot brow,
Giving the shade that is needed now,
As the summer sun smiles far and near,
Its heaven-sent blessings of heat and cheer.
So let us live as Christians should,
Helpful, and kind, doing good.
Autumn, the leaves are turning brown,
Or red and gold, then falling down,
Leaving the limbs to stretch and sleep,
As winter again over them creeps,
We, safe from winds so wild,
Dream of our King who was once a child.
Ira Reid on Economic
Problems
Fraxkie Butler, ’33
To what extent have race relations af
fected the present status of the Negro in
the economic world? To what may be at
tributed some of the apparent injustices to
which many, especially the common laborers,
are often subjected in their effort to retain
employment ? It is true that scarcely any
of America’s industrial power is in the
hands of the Negro and it is also only logi
cal that the group to which this power be-
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Doctor Dubois a Visitor in
Atlanta
Velma Dolphin, ’32
Dr. V . E. B. Dubois, of New York City,
editor of the Crisis, was recently a visitor
in Atlanta and the guest of Atlanta Uni
versity. During this visit Doctor Dubois
gave four lectures: two at Atlanta Univer
sity, one at Spelman, and one at the Butler
Street Y. M. C. A.; he also conducted sev
eral small group meeting or forums with
members of the faculties and with students
of the three affiliated institutions.
The series of lectures given at Atlanta
I Diversity and at Spelman College were on
the general subject of Negro Art. Lecture
number one at Atlanta University dealt with
tlie Negro Literature before 1860, giving espe
cial attention to the literary work of Phyllis
V heatley, to the peculiar difficulties under
which she wrote and the influence her art
lias had on writers since her time. In the
second lecture of the series, given at At
lanta University, Doctor Dubois divided
Negro literary artists into three distinct
groups. The first group included men who
are dead and those who are very old, such
as Williams, Chesnut, Dunbar, and Wash
ington. the second group included men who
are now middle agred, as Braithwaite,
Woodson, Johnson, and Hill. The third
group, composed of younger men and
women, included Mackay, Fauset, Cullen,
Toomer, Hughes, Waldron, and Larsen. The
aims he finds in the work of these literary
artists are research, criticism, propaganda,
revelation, didactic lyrics and rhythm. The
methods they use are those of romanticists,
idealists, impressionists, realists, and neo
realists.
The third lecture of the series, which was
given at Spelman College, on the Economics
of Negro Art, by including the literary
artists mentioned in the two former lec
tures, made this a kind of summary of the
series; but in it he included very interesting
information and appreciations of the work
ot Negroes in all the major fine arts: paint
ing, sculpture, music, and archiecture.
Concerning the economic values that crea
tive workers in any of the fine arts are able
to realize, the speaker assured his audience
that Negro artists find out exactly what
artists of all time have experienced: that
the reward of an artist is not in physical
returns that contemporaries make for the
pleasure he gives them, but rather in the
satisfaction and joy an artist actually feels
in being able to create that which enlarges
and enriches the lives and spirits of his
fellow-men. The recounting of the names
of groups of Negro artists with descriptions
of their work and the financial and artistic
ratings they have received made this lecture
a rare treat to the large audience that
heard it.
Vesper Service