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VOL. VII
May 15, 1931
Number 8
in
From Gymnastics To
Athletics
Jean E. Taylor, ’32
With the change of the season have come
other interesting changes. A few weeks
ago, in Physical Education classes, gym
nastics was the form stressed. Students of
all classes were quite enthusiastic over
marching tactics, drills, mimetic exer
cises, exercises with or on apparatus—
form was the paramount issue.
This aspect of the course pointed more
directly to certain skills in exercises, to
the development of good neuromuscular
control. Such gymnastics, formal or in
formal, contributed toward strengthening
muscles and developing a well-poised body.
There have been changes in the form of
the course in Physical Education. Instead
of gymnastics, athletics is now the form
on which emphasis is placed. “ Track
events’’ are now the paramount issue.
Athletic practice provides interests for
students as individuals and as groups. Stu
dents of all Physical Education classes are
now earnestly engaged in high jumping,
running, hurdling, and such athletic ac
tivities. These activities tend to bring out
other capacities and abilities of the stu
dents. They stimulate initiative, precision,
and accuracy. The group activities in
athletics, for example, games, serve to im
plant and develop the spirit of co-opera
tion, and to reveal the importance of re
sponsibility.
Physical education, on the whole, which
includes both gymnastics and athletics, has
its physical, mental, and moral values,
having for its purpose the development of
a healthy body, a sound mind, and a strong
moral character for every student.
Commencement Proqram
1931
SATURDAY, MAY 30
Alumnae Day
3:00 p.m.—Business Meeting of the Alum
nae Association—Laura Spel
man Rockefeller Hall.
8:00 to 10:00 p.m.—President’s Reception
to Graduating Classes, Alum
nae and Guests—Reynolds
Cottage.
SUNDAY, MAY 31
3:00 p.m.—Baccalaureate Service (Joint
service with Morehouse Col
lege). Dr. Will W. Alexander,
Executive Director, Commis
sion on Interracial Co-opera
tion.
8:00 p.m.—Vesper Service and Organ Re
cital—Sisters Chapel.
MONDAY, JUNE 1
Class Day
3:00 p.m.—Rockefeller Hall Steps.
Class Poem—Frances Eliza
beth Callier.
Class History—Mary Estelle
DuBose.
Last Will and Testament—
Mabel Christie Dockett.
Farewell Ceremonies — Willie
Juliet Dobbs.
Ivy Oration — Jewel Alma
Woodard.
Alumnae Procession with
Spelman granddaughters as
escorts of honor.
0:30 p.m.- Campus Sing— Rockefeller Hall
Steps.
TUESDAY, JUNE 2
8:00p.m.— History of Spelman College in
Pageant, 1881-3031 -Sisters
Chapel.
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The Parting of the Ways
Willie Juliet Dobbs, ’31
The full significance of the word com
mencement, which is applied to graduation,
has never really dawned upon me, in its
full meaning, until this year, and more es
pecially in these last few weeks of school.
To realize that we Seniors are now living
through our last college days and all the
fruitful experiences which they afford, is
a fact that none of us wants to face. It
baffles us to know that within a few weeks
we shall be standing without the threshold
of the existence that has been ours for
eight years, as high school and college stu
dents. Each year we have left school say
ing good bj T e to our friends and to campus
life for a short period of three months,
knowing that the following September
would find us happily and snugly content
with the enthusiasm of beginning another
year.
Now, we find ourselves at the beginning
of new roads and new pathways—going
out from our sheltered environment and
stepping into or trying to fit ourselves
into entirely new surroundings. There is
something trembly about the feeling that
sneaks over one when he knows that no
longer is his mode of living, his routine
of life, safe and secure; but, on the con
trary, it is uncertain and is waiting, as
a lump of yielding clay, to be shaped into
form by us, by our own endeavors. It will
be our task to establish a worthy and com
mendable existence. Life for us after col
lege should be a re-birth, a continuing ren-
naissance.
Even though commencement brings with
it some sorrows and regrets, these should
be obscured by the joys and enthusiasm
that will be ours—together with that spirit
of adventure that drives us on—away
from the situation of the past—into the new
situations of the future, thus giving us a
chance to prove ourselves worthy of our
existence.
Miss Read's Trip
On May (ith and 7th, President Read at
tended the annual meeting of the New
England Division of the American Baptist
Home and Foreign Mission Societies, which
convened at the First Baptist Church of
Boston, Mass. This year marked important
anniversaries of institutions founded or
fostered bv these societies. In the list is
recorded Spelman’s celebration of her
fiftieth year. In one of tin* meetings
President Read gave an address on the
subject “Spelman Comes of Age”.
After leaving Boston, Miss Read went
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