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irror ■ Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIMMIIIIMMIIMIIIMMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIM IIMMIIMMIIIIMIMMIMIMMIMMIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIMIIIIIIIIMMIIIIMIIIMIIIMIMIIIIimiMIMMIIIMMIIIMIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIinillllMIIIMMMIMI 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. (Continued on page 2) 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 (Continued on page 3)