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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
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Volume IX. January 15, 1933 Number 4
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Flag At Flalf Mast
M. F. C.
Suggested by the flag at half-mast
for Calvin Coolidge
Flag at half mast, why are you so?
What, in the breeze as your colors blow,
Do you mean to tell, at this lower height
That you could not tell in higher light!
Do the people mourn a good great man?
A man who did what the honest can,
A man who was ready to meet high need,
Whose life all through met noblest creed?
Of the common people this one came.
Hut ages of heroes had born his name;
And the courage of heroes gone to rest
Made him, of citizens, one of the best.
Dr. DuBois to be Guest
Professor
Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, who is the editor of
The Crisis, has consented to be a guest pro-
fessor of Atlanta University for the second
semester of this year, 1932-1933. It is pos
sible that a senior-graduate course will be
offered by Doctor DuBois and, in that case,
Spelman students who are eligible will be
admitted to the course.
Spelman students will recall the excellent
course of lectures which Doctor DuBois gave
here last March on the subject, The Negro
aud Industry, under the auspices of Atlanta
University.
Doctor DuBois is a graduate of Fisk Uni
versity. From the latter institution he re
ceived the degrees of A.B., A.M., and Pli.D.
After receiving his doctorate in 1865, hi* did
further study at the University of Berlin.
For fourteen years (1896-1910) he was pro
fessor of economics and history at Atlanta
University, and during this time edited a
series of twenty studies on the Negro. These
studies, known as the Atlanta University
Stmlies of Seym Problems, are still a source
of valuable information to students and so
cial investigators.
Since 1910, Doctor DuBois has been tin*
director of publications of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of Colored
People and the able editor of tin* well-known
monthly magazine. The Crisis. Doctor Du-
Bois has obtained a leave of absence to
serve at Atlanta University for approxi
mately five months, but will even during
this period have oversight of The Crisis.
President Hope considers Atlanta 1 niver-
sity most fortunate in securing th(> services
of such a well-informed and capable man as
Doctor DuBois.
Dr. Suhrie Speaks at A. U.
At the invitation of President Hope, the
Spelman faculty had the privilege of hearing
Dr. Ambrose Leo Suhrie, professor of edu
cation at New York University and one of
the outstanding figures in education today,
who spoke in the Conference Room of At
lanta University, Tuesday evening, January
10.
Dr. Sulme’s talk was inspirational, inter
spersed with practical suggestions and hu
morous illustrations. “I like to think of
teaching as a ministry”, he said, “and I of
ten refer to what is inherent in education
as the ministry of teaching. If that isn't
the ministry, I do not know anything that
is. These young people, taken by and large,
hold the very best that the country has to
offer for the beautification of our public
life.”
He referred to his own adolescent years
when school was a hated place, and then to
what he termed his “conversion". After be
ing shut in for three months as the result of
an accident, he was sent off one morning
to hobble on his crutches the three miles
down the mountain to the school he hated,
and a teacher he expected to dislike. “But
this time”, said Dr. Suhrie, “by some provi
dential dispensation 1 found a young man
with a different kind of countenance than 1
had ever seen. And he wasn’t sick. He was
well physically and spiritually; he had a fine
outlook on life and on folks. And he spoke
so kindly that I thought, ‘Wouldn't 1 like
to he a teacher like that!’ And before many
days the boy whose previous years of school
had been so unpleasant was whispering ferv
ently to himself, “I'm going to be a teacher
like that!"
“There isn’t a day", continued Dr. Suhrie,
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Naturalist-Author-Explorer
to Pay Second Visit to
Spelman
Mr. William L. Finley, producer of Finley
Nature Motion Picture Films, will appear
at Spelman on January 28th in a lecture and
motion picture on “Alaska Wild Life and
the Kodiak Bear".
Mr. Finley is known as Oregon’s own
nature man. He has caught the spirit of
Alaskan wild life in his pictures, which were
shown for the first time to Portland, Ore.,
audiences. Armed with cameras, with gun—
for protection only—Mr. Finley and his
party cruised the Alaskan shoreline, pene
trated into long inlets left by old glaciers,
landed on Admiralty island, Kodiak island
and craggy bird shelters in the sea, lay off
the shore of the rocky cliffs at Ford's Ter
ror and entered Glacier bay. Mr. Finley Ini'
sensed the spirit between man and beast,
fish and fowl, that makes for understanding
when evil is not present and God’s language
is the universal tongue. He has done as
much, if not more, than any one individual
toward the conservation and protection of
wild life.
Those who were at Spelman in 1930 will
remember Mr. Finley’s visit in February
when he showed his motion pictures of
“Camera Hunting on the Continental Di
vide".
Mr. Finley is widely known as lecturer
and author. He was a lecturer for tin* Na
tional Association of Audubon Societies in
New York from 1906-1925. He was a mem
ber of the Board of Fish and Game Com
missioners of Oregon in 1911, state game
warden 1911-1915 and state biologist 1915-
1920. He is a member of the Advisory Board
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