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The Campus Mirror
Qamp us <JMirror
"Service in Unity ”
Editor-in-Chief AUGUSTA J. JOHNSON
Associate Editor-in-Chief MAMIE A. BVNES
Editor of News Ai pha Talley
Associate Editor of News MALISSA VARNER
Editor of Special Features CARRIE ADAMS
Associate Editor of Special Features
Ercell Powell
Editor of Jokes and Sports
Matilda McMahon
Social Editor JEAN ELIZABETH TAYLOR
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager JULE CLAYTON
Secretary of Staff __.Iredelle Howard
Treasurer of Staff MARJORIE STEWART
Circulation Manager LOTTIE LYONS
Exchange Editor RACHEL DAVIS
Advertising Manager MARGERY WHEELER
Faculty Adviser M. MAE NEPTUNE
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Editorial
The Campus Mirror extends a broad wel
come and best wishes to the new faculty
members, new students, and new subscribers.
To our old friends we renew our greetings
with all the good feeling that a new term
can stimulate. This feeling contains a desire
to please by giving the best reflections of
student life and opinions on our campus.
Further, this good feeling is the effect of
a new start and a response to the sacredness
of a beginning. The new term comes to offer
us another chance to learn to live.
If we have learned anything from other
experiences it is that a flourish at the begin
ning does not count the same as persistent
effort throughout. If the thrill of a start can
be gradually changed, as the days pass, into
a thrill of carrying on, we shall be learning
our lesson.
A Pound Sterling
On board the Steamship Homeric en route
to New York from Southampton last sum
mer two cabin mates talked of the things in
which they were deeply interested. Their
interests coincided upon the topic of the
education of women. One mate told the other
of Spelman and of its students and their
Campus Mirror. The other. Miss F. G. Ruth
erford of Langford, Sussex, England, listened
keenly, then gave her cabin mate, Miss Nep
tune, a pound sterling note to be used for
the Campus Mirror. The staff is grateful
for this complimentary gift.
Spelman Girl Granted Mount
Holyoke Scholarship
During the early spring of 1931, the stu
dents of Spelman College were informed of
a letter addressed to President Read, which
stated that a competitive scholarship of One
Thousand Dollars for the school year 1931-32
would be offered to a Negro girl, preferably
to a student applying for admission to the
junior class, on the basis of scholarship and
personality. The scholarship was awarded
to Ida Louise Miller, a prospective member
of the junior class of Spelman College.
Every person in the Spelman community
rejoices in the competence of the one chosen,
and all feel that as she has met the scholar
ship requirements here she will also meet
the requirements of Mount Holyoke. In ac
cepting the scholarship, Miss Miller lessened
the breach in the understanding of problems
peculiar to both races.
This scholarship, known as the Racial
Minority Scholarship, was awarded by the
Mount Holyoke Board of Admissions, of
which Miss Harriet Newhall is Executive
Secretary, and the money was raised by the
faculty and students of Mount Holyoke Col
lege; a fact which adds much significance
to the gift.
A Gift of a Million Dollars
An anonymous gift of $1,000,000 to At
lanta University was announced October 6th
in New York by Dean Sage, President of the
Board of Trustees of Atlanta University.
This generous gift from a friend of the Uni
versity will be used to erect five new build
ings, including an administration hall, a cen
tral heating plant, a women’s dormitory, a
men’s dormitory, and a residence for the
President, Dr. John Hope. It is estimated
that these additional buildings will cost
$625,000. The present buildings are to be
renovated at an approximate cost of $40,000
and the remainder of the fund, about $335,-
000, will be set aside as a permanent fund
for the maintenance of the buildings. The
James Gamble Rogers, Inc., who are also the
architects for the new $300,000 library
building, have announced that plans are
under way for beginning work soon on the
buildings.
Improvements on the Campus
Ercell Powell, ’33
Teachers and students were happy to be
gin their duties in Tapley Hall and Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Building
since these places have been done over with
fresh paint and shellac. The ivory-colored
walls, light oak floors, newly waxed, and the
radiators freshly covered with a shade of
cream paint combine to create an atmosphere
which is conducive to thought and concen
tration.
Especially are they pleased with the new
classroom in Laura Spelman. Its position
on the southeast corner of the second floor,
its spaciousness and large blackboards make
it a very desirable place for a lecture room.
The ringing of the bells by a system of
electric clocks at the end of each class period
is accepted as a helpful feature of the daily
college program. The bells regulate very
effectively the passing of classes. Everyone
appreciates the bells.
Another splendid addition to the campus
is the tile walk leading past tin 1 plant to the
Greensferry gate. It not only makes walking
better, but also improves the appearance ol
the campus.
The most inspiring feature to the college
community is the progress that is being made
in tbe erection of the new library on Chest
nut Street.
A. U. Library
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full depth of the building. Opening from
this on the right will be the reserve book
room, on the left the periodical room,
and beyond that the browsing room. Five
seminar rooms, a check room, and additional
tiers of book-stacks complete the details of
this floor.
“A great reading room, two stories in
height and extending the entire length of
the building will comprise the greater part
of the second and third floors. On the second
floor, also, will be the librarian’s offices, a
library work room, and the upper tier of
book-stacks.”
In the four tiers of book-stacks will be
space for 118,400 volumes. The total seating
capacity will be about 500. It is the aim of
Atlanta University to make the library serve
not only the graduates and undergraduates
of Atlanta University and the affiliated col
leges, Spelman and Morehouse, but also Mor
ris Brown University, Clark University, and
Gammon Theological Seminary. It is hoped
that with the new library, some work may
be done in extension service and in adult
education for Negroes of Atlanta.
Summer Activities at Spelman
While the students and faculty were tak
ing’ their vacations from the campus, vari
ous other groups came to make use of the
place for different activities.
The college crowd had scarcely departed,
when delegates began to arrive for the
Eleventh Annual Conference for Negro
Women which is conducted by the Women’s
Auxiliary of the Synod of Georgia Pres
byterian Church. It continued June 5 to 12.
The purpose of this conference is, “To give
information and inspiration to Negro
Women with leadership qualifications,
thereby helping them to render a greater
service to their race.”
The program included daily Bible classes
with discussion, handicraft, lectures and
open forum on a number of subjects. The
delegates were treated to a concert by the
choir of Big Bethel Church; they visited
churches and Sunday schools in Atlanta and
at the close of the conference diplomas
were granted to the delegates who had at
tended the conference and met the require
ments for three years.
No sooner had these guests of the campus
departed than the Morehouse-Spelman
Summer School students came on to use
the accommodations of class rooms, dor
mitories, dining halls and the shady campus
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