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Ot)£ (Tampus Mtirror Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia mm,, .HUM IIIIIUI hiiiiii •■■■■>'■ Volume IX. January 15, 1933 Number 4 limn, Ill II III ■ mi III III I Mill mill I in mum uiuiuun mm mini 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, (Continued on page 3) 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 (Continued on page 4)