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A New Page
Look at the clean bright leaf that the
New Year has brought you, on which you
may write a record of your life in 1932
What does it look like? Is it clean on both
sides or is it the other side of last year’s
sheet ? Is it an unattached sheet or is it
one in a book ? Is it removable like sheets
from a loose leaf note book or is it bound
fast in a book that contains only one story?
Does this page represent a mechanical or
a logical division in your life?
Is there any error in saying your new
page is in the same book if not the other
side of last year’s page? Nature has a fond
ness for continuity, you know. She likes to
have a new thing grow gradually out of
something older. Your experience in the new
year is linked with that of last year. The
leaves of the book cannot be taken out. It
is not a loose leaf book. Each page remains,
each line and each word, and even each
mistake. The story continues from page to
page.
If this be true, it seems that a year is
just a division in our lives imposed on us
by some exterior force? Is it merely a me
chanical division? Is there no chance to
begin anew at the New Year?
It is safe to say that there may or may
not be any real division in one’s life at the
New Year. In private lives much is left to
the individuals to say whether the year shall
mark any important division in their be
havior, their way of life. In politics, in
governments, legal measures often go in ef
fect at the New Year. The New Year
1863 belonged in the list of years that
have been real divisions. It marked the be
ginning of freedom for three million Negro
slaves in the United States.
A new calendar year, a new scholastic
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year, or a new semester, lias something about
it that makes one want to make it the be
ginning (if a new and different era in one’s
life. We post our good intentions on the
wall, over our beds. We make silent resolves.
We mean to study more effectively, to be
kinder and more punctual. Of course, any
day would have been a good day to begin,
but there is something appealing about a
New Year. Its new page invites you to
renew your life record with fresh courage.
As you think back in history, you may
recall the self-imposed bodily sufferings that
certain religious people endured. They
were executing in their lives what seems to
he an unalterable law of nature, that good
often comes out of discipline. The greatest
joy may follow only after a deep sorrow.
Now-a-davs we recognize this truth, but we
do not seek to inflict hardships upon our
selves. We see the fallacy in the thinking
of the ascetics. We find enough suffering
ready-made for us in the course of our
lives. . . . Thus I mused.
Then semester “exams” approached. I
noticed the worry and anxiety that they
brought to the students. Teachers too ex
perience discomfort, even beforehand—to
say nothing of their discoveries afterward
concerning some students. ... I tried to
reconcile these observations with the
thoughts about our seeing the fallacy in self-
imposed misery—self-imposed because it is
in the power of teachers and students to
abolish it.
Then came this thought, the incarnation
of weakness: “Students will not study with
out them”. Is the kind of studying that
students do for “exams” the kind of study
ing desired? Does the good that comes of
it surpass or equal the cost in anxiety? Is
it really worth it?
Will the students who come after us,
having found better methods of getting a
general review, think we are ascetics?
Those students who studied Economics
with Professor Clark Warburton last year
will be interested in knowing that he is at
present in Washington, II. 0., engaged in
editing some banking studies for the Fed
eral Reserve Board in preparation for con
gressional action on the revision of present
banking laws.
Girls in Morehouse Halls
Await New Year
Johnnie Hollis, ’32
The girls in Morehouse North and South
residence halls spent a very happy and en
thusiastic half hour, Thursday night, from
11:45 to 12:15, in the reception room in
Morehouse South as they watched the old
year out and the new one come in. Prayers
were offered and songs which were best
suitable for the occasion were sung. As the
New Year was coming in, there was an in
expressible feeling of inspiration prevailing
as sentences of determination, encourage
ment, and gratitude were given. No one
could resist being moved by that serene and
rapturous atmosphere.
Lecture by Dr. Lewis Browne
Mamie Alice Hynes, ’33
Dr. Lewis Browne, author of This Be
lieving World, lecturer, artist, and humani
tarian, known both in America and foreign
countries for his work in those fields, made
a convincing speech to a full audience of
Spclman, Morehouse, and Atlanta l diver
sity students, on Monday afternoon at 4:30,
in Howe Memorial Hall, in which hi* pro
posed that a war against ignorance, pitched
by the educated minority, is the only solu
tion for the problem of the conquest of
fear from which the world still suffers.
All fear comes from misapprehension or
ignorance, the speaker said. In primitive
times, for example, man feared the wind
because he had no logical explanation for
its existence as a natural force, not know
ing that it is caused by unequal atmospheric
pressure. He merely heard a sound and at
tributed this sound to some unseen spirit.
The sound of the wind to modern man is
trivial—he has acquired a knowledge of its
causes. Similarly primitive man’s fear of
a rising stream was banished with the intro
duction of theories explaining the sources of
all streams. Plagues are no longer wished off
by prayer. Germs and parasites have been
discovered as the causes of many diseases
and man has learned to destroy them. The
plague of malaria is a well-known example.
In the same manner, Mr. Browne said, all
the perplexities and fears of our so-called
civilization may be eliminated if ignorance of
these situations be wiped out. He further
stated concerning the superstitious person
that the more he is influenced by belief in
magic, which works only by coincidence, and
the more he waits for miracles to happen
instead of creating them, the more primitive
this man is. On the other hand, the less these
elements are found in a man the nearer he
is to what we call culture.
In conclusion, the speaker reminded his
audience that the world, after all, is a very
small sphere and that vertical divisions of
race, creed or color must give place to hori
zontal divisions of ignorance and culture
which must be approached by battle after
battle against ignorance by men of cul
ture—college people leading. IVe must not
expect a moratorium in education.
As an author, Dr. Browne stands among
the brilliant young writers of the time. Some
of his books are Stranger Than Fiction, This
Believing World, That Man Heine, The
Graphic, All Things Are Possible, The Ad
ventures of Ancient Israel, The Final Stanza,
and Why Are Jeivs Like That?
The Christmas Vacation
Ercell Powell, ’33
There was great rejoicing when it was
announced that the Christmas and New Year
had been merged, making a ten-dav vaca
tion period. This interval from December
24th to January 4th held delightful experi
ences for everyone. Many remained here in
the hul) of the wheel grinding out festivities,
many others moved along the spokes to vari
ous parts of the country. Some went South
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