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The Campus Mirror
I he Annual College Social
The students and faculty of Spelnmn Col
lege, with their invited quests from More
house College, Atlanta University, and other
colleges of Atlanta, enjoyed a pleasant social
evening Friday, January 29th, ;it the invi
tation of President Florence M. Read and
Ethel E. McGhee, Dean of Women, in the
social rooms, Morgan Hall.
The guests, as they began to arrive at
8:00 o’clock, found the social rooms trans
formed into a great castle hall hung with
semblances of tapestry which were painted
pictuies done by the art classes, suggest
ing subjects varying from a choice col
lection of campus jokes and of knights of
old romance to a large variety of Valentine
subjects. The high ceiling seemed to be low
ered, for dainty heart-shaped figures in red
or white fluttered about gaily as if flying
free in the air and were not too far above
the heads of the guests. The north room
with the doors thrown open made a typical
alcove with its cushioned chairs, oriental
rugs, potted flowers effectively arranged,
and all lighted up with the warm red glow
of colored lights.
An enjoyable program, which was charm
ingly directed by Clara Stanton, added
much to the entertainment. The program
consisted of selections by the Spelman quar
tet; a Pierot dance by Frances Johnson,
Inez Dumas, and Edith Moore; vocal solos
by Mary Louise Smith, and the crowning
of the King and Queen of Hearts, which
was the special feature of the program. Six
couples had been nominated and the ballots
used were hearts. Naomah Williams and
Fred Maise were duly elected, and Miss
Read, who entered heartily into the spirit
and fun of the occasion with her “corona
tion speech” on kings and queens of nursery
rhymes, crowned them King and Queen of
Hearts.
The company were invited to pass behind
a pretty screen decorated in valentine colors,
from which they came forth, each carrying
a plate of dainty refreshments.
Miss Cooke and her committee of girls,
Oteele and Onnie Nichols, Erostine Coles,
Sylvia McMillan, Maenelle Dixon, and Eve
lyn Pittman, assisted by Miss Arduser and
Edvthe Tate, Miss Dobbs and Clara Stanton,
deserve much praise for their planning and
execution in making the social one of the
most delightful occasions of the college year.
The National Association of Collegiate
Deans and Registrars in Negro Schools meets
at Alcorn A. and M. College, Alcorn, Miss.,
March 9-12, 1932. Miss McGhee and Mr.
Thurman have been asked to appear on the
program.
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Ayr and Abbotsford
Velma Collier, ’33
Lovers of poetry had it delightful expe
rience in Tapley Hall, Tuesday afternoon,
February 2nd, as they traveled with Miss
Neptune through the medium of lantern and
screen to places in Scotland made famous
through poems and novels of Robert Burns
and of Sir Walter Scott. The approach to
Scotland by means of maps showing the
location of Kirk Alloway and Ayr, of the
River Doone, of the cities of Edinburgh and
Glasgow, of Dryburgh and Melrose Abbeys,
and of Abbotsford, helped the pictures of
places shown later to seem real.
An introduction to the Scotch Highlander
was made through a picture of Burns which
revealed such characteristic features as the
head high above the ears, large beautiful
eyes showing great depth of feeling, grace
ful bow-knot lips, oval face with shapely,
dignified nose. The picture of Scott also
showed the features of the Highlander.
Burns’ Cotter’s Saturday Night became a
real experience through a series of pictures
showing the long, low cottage plastered with
mud, the sloping thatched roof which shel
tered the family, the cattle, and their sup
plies. The floor of large rough stones, the
oven built in the wall beside the fireplace,
the dishes in the rack on the Avail, and the
bed built in the Avail revealed the meager
living quarters of an average Scotch peas
ant, Avhich fitted the imagery of The Cotter’s
Saturday Night.
In the midst of a beautiful flower garden
along the River Doone and topping the high
bank is a lovely monument erected to the
memory of Bums.
After having seen this AA’itli pictures of
the River Doone and its quaint, substantial
brig, Ave Avere better able to appreciate Miss
Harrington’s beautiful singing of The Banks
and Braes of Bonny Doone.
We Aisited the ruins of Melrose and Dry
burgh Abbeys, from which Scott secured
ideas for the construction and beautifying
of Abbotsford. Also, Ave visited Kenihvorth
Castle in Wanvickshire, England, behind
which spread a lake in the time of Queen
Elizabeth and in front of which pageants
Avere performed—perhaps some of Shake
speare’s plays. We stopped at “Scott’s
VieAv” along the TAveed, Avhere Scott’s riding
horse, accustomed to stopping with his mas
ter, had paused, thus halting the funerla pro
cession, while drawing the body of the dead
master to its resting place at Dryburgh
Abbey. When Ave looked at Scott’s monu
ment at Edinburgh, Avhich resembles a cathe
dral because it is adorned with statues of
the characters of his novels, it made us feel
that Ave had knoA\ r n Scott in his lifetime.
At Abbotsford the case of curios collected
by Scott consisted of A’arious things which
had been properties of great people. Among
the pictures on the Avails avc shall ahvays
remember tAvo: Muckle-Mouthed Meg and
The Dish of Spurs.
After seeing Scott of Harden’s introduc
tion to Muckle-Mouthed Meg Ave do not
Avonder that the young squire refused at
first to marry Meg. The dish of spurs set
Recreation Among Negroes
Johnnie M. Hollis, ’32
“Recreation,” says one author, “should
function as a sort of voluntary training for
physical, social, and educational activity,
should provide freedom or relaxation, and
should act as a developer of personality both
in the individual and in society.” In study
ing the social life of the Negro we find that
in many communities the forms of recrea
tion now available for Negroes fail to ac
complish their purposes. This is due to the
fact that Negroes really lack sufficient op
portunities for Avholesome recreation.
Supervised recreation is one advantage
which Negro children lack. While the grown
up Negroes find an outlet for their social
cravings in the great variety of secret so
cieties and clubs, the majority of children,
either because of ignorance or indifference
on the part of the grown-ups, do not have
the proper guidance and supervision for
their social acth'ities. Since there must be
some outlet for the healthy emotions of the
child, the children of Negroes often become
Auctims of social maladjustment. Such vic
tims are sometimes placed under the care of
courts for juvenile training. As a Avay of
reducing this disadvantage, and since it is
necessary that children in the formative
period should be given special care for all
round development, it is very urgent that
the grown-ups should become so interested
in the Avelfare of the younger ones that they
shall aid in organizing and help in directing
social groups of children. As a suggestion,
more organizations of the Y. W. C. A. and
Y. M. C. A. might be helpful. Boy Scout
troops have been organized in several
Southern cities, including Atlanta. In
places where Boy Scout organizations
have been blocked by local scoutmasters, it
might be Avell to organize other recreational
groups.
Another advantage lacking among Negroes,
besides supervised recreation, is the use of
facilities affording Avholesome recreation.
Since it is true that the libraries, parks, ball-
grounds, SAvimming pools, concert facilities,
playgrounds, and golf links provided in the
Southern cities are feAV in number and are
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on the dining table Avas a housewife’s clever
Avay of reminding her husband that the meat
supply Avas exhausted.
We Avent through the private door be
tween Scott’s bedroom and his study through
Avhich he went early in the morning to work
on his Waverly Novels before his guests
Avere awake, which partly explains how he
kept the secret of his authorship so long.
Of all the rooms at Abbotsford the library
seemed most popular Avitli the members of
our party. Books lined the Avail as high
as one could reach above Avhich height Avas
a balcony where other books lined the walls
to the very ceiling.
Every one of us enjoyed the trip and Ave
are looking forward to another one with
the same guide—perhaps to Doa’c Cottage, to
Tintern Abbey, and to all of Wordsworth’s
favorite haunts.