Newspaper Page Text
2
Qamp us -jYCirror
“Service in Unity”
Editor-in-Chief AUGUSTA J. JOHNSON
Associate Editor-in-Chief MAMIE A. BYNES
Editor of News Alpha 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
Advertising Manager INEZ GAY
Faculty Adviser..... M. MAE NEPTUNE
Subscription Rates
10 Cents a Copy
75 Cents a Year 40 Cents a Semester
Postage 2 Cents a Copy
Fifty-First Mile Post
Mamie Bynes, ’33
And then there are those things which
start small and grow big—colleges.
Spelman College has more than proved
this to be true. Fifty-one years in her sight
are but as yesterday when passed—so far
as waning of ambition is concerned. And
the same fifty-one years might easily be
mistaken for one hundred fifty-one years
if measured by actual progress. She has
grown by leaps and bounds and the great
joy comes when we realize that she has
passed that age when children die from
growing too fast.
Now, as she continues her journey toward
the fifty-second year, her horizon becomes
broad, her banner higher, her challenge is
sterner, her virtues stronger.
If that is the outlined program, why can’t
we help to carry it on?
Who has a greater chance for develop
ment—the person who has something to ex
press, but lacks powers, or the person who
powerfully expresses nothing continually?
Something tells me that this three cents
a letter business is going to do more than
anything else to let. us know who our real
friends are.
It’s too bad that some people don't real
ize that they are “peterers" because they
never made any start at all.
Voices have a tendency to rise as the
mercury rises. We can't stop the mercury,
but can’t we control the voices?
The Campus Mirror
Chinese Kidnappers
Sophia Sullivan, ’35
American kidnappers invariably demand
money as ransom, but in the Orient kid
napping isn’t operated on a commercial
basis at all; instead Chinese bandits hold
missionaries in captivity to demand that
they teach them English or forfeit their
lives. Often as a ransom, western articles,
such as pianos, organs, and fountain pens
have been demanded. It seems that the
Chinese are desirous of westernizing them
selves because they think that a knowledge
of the western world will enable them to
elevate their position in international com
merce. Although this might prove bene
ficial to the Chinese, the missionaries dis
approve of such a drastic method of dis
seminating culture.
If you associate American gangsters with
cleverness, associate Chinese bandits with
culture.
The Shakespeare Memorial
Theater
An announcement has been received of
the opening of the Shakespeare Memorial
Theater at Stratford-on-the-Avon, Eng
land, on April 23rd, the anniversary day
of the poet’s birth. The formal opening of
the theater, which will be conducted by the
Prince of Wales, will be followed by a per
formance of King Henry the Fourth, Part
One in the afternoon and Part Two in the
evening. Of the 1,000 seats it is estimated
that at the matinee between 400 and 500
will be required to provide seats for “the
Ambassadors and [Ministers representing
the nations, and for the world’s press”;
therefore these performances will take place
in front of the theater so that 2,000 instead
of 1,000 people may be accommodated on
the opening day. The prices of seats are
two pounds, two shillings, and for the gal
lery one pound, one shilling.
Comfort rather than seating capacity has
been emphasized in the new building. There
is only one gallery, in front of which is
the Royal box. From each seat one has a
clear view of the stage. Prices of seats for
the regular performances range from ten
shillings, six pence, to one pound, one shil
ling and two pounds, two shillings.
The stage is divided into three compart
ments, the center being the acting area.
On one of the sides which is separated! by
sound-proof curtains, a scene is laid and
remains until needed; then, by use of rails,
it is rolled into the center. The previous
stage is thus transferred to the other side
to be reset. This device is the rolling stage.
The theatre just completed was con
structed by the subscriptions of people
everywhere. It supplies the place of the
old theatre which was destroyed by fire
and stands as a tribute of Shakespeare
lovers to the bard of Stratford-on-the-
Avon.
A great college needs a great student
body.
Founders Day at Spelman
(Continued from Page 1)
Negroes only, but for service to mankind
in general.
What the students think about Spelman
College today will be determined by what
they do about it in the future. Whether the
students become millionaires or persons of
fame does not matter greatly. The thing
that does matter is that they draw water
and drink deeply from this well of learning
which this foundation provides.
What students today are going to do with
their education—students of Spelman and
everywhere—depends upon how they are
able to answer these questions proposed to
students by Owen 1). Young.
1. Have you enlarged your knowledge of
your obligations and increased your
capacity to perform them?
2. Have you developed your intuitions
and made more sensitive your emo
tions?
3. Have you discovered your mental ap
titudes?
4. Have you learned enough about the
machinery of society and its history to
enable you to apply your gifts effec
tively?
5. Have you acquired adequate skill in
communication with others?
Using Milton’s definition of education,
“That which fits a man to perform justly,
skilfully and magnanimously all the offices,
both private and public, of peace and war,”
Dr. Jack said in closing: “Are you pre
paring to face society with a feeling that
you have not failed, not omitted anything,
but have taken advantage of every op
portunity presented to you to carry out the
aims of the college? Your education will
do you no good unless you pass on the
benefits of it to those who are coining
afterwards.
At eight o’clock the celebration Avas
brought to a close with a concert given by
the Spelman Glee Club and Orchestra which
was creditably directed by Professor Kem
per Harreld.
Catch This Chance
Those letters that you have been owing
ever since Christmas have only two weeks
now in which to be written and then the
chance of writing them at all is gone for
ever, or at least gone until 1934.
“Why?” you ask.
Because, if you are one of those who have
been complaining that they do not have
enough money for postage, what will you do
when the three-cent postage bill goes into
effect?
Perhaps many more pennies will find
their way into circulation in a hurry to
send three letters for six cents instead of
two and this will mean—well, we shall not
discuss the depression now.
Anyway, let 's not whine; Congress could
have made it much worse. For instance
postal cards might have been included;
this would have meant that the other
seventy-five per cent of our correspondence
would have been affected too.