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Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
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Volume IX March 1 5, 1933 Number 6
BRILLIANT ORGANIST TO PLAY AT SPELMAN
Tuesday Evening, March list.
A Program of Education
Mr. Robert Hutchins, one of the best
known educators of the United States and
president of Chicago University, while mak
ing a lecture tour through Georgia, spoke
on Friday, February 16th, to the students
of Spelman and Morehouse Colleges and
Atlanta University on the present problems
of education.
The greatest problem now, he said, is that
of adjusting education to the individual.
Il<* holds the view that no one is ineducable.
Although some may not be so apt as
others, anyone who is not a moron has the
capacity to he educated. If one who has
been able to go through Grammar School
and High School cannot be educated in
college, the fault may be in the college or
closer still in the teachers. Young people
today go to college and they should go, be
cause they have nowhere else to go and be
cause so many jobs require college training.
The problem is: What is to be done
with two million children? There are only
two things to do, send them to school, or
let them stay out of school. In the latter
case more jails would have to he furnished
on account of tin* increased criminal con
ditions and it takes six times as much to
keep a boy in jail as it does to send him
to school.
The reasons for going to college should
he: first, because it is the only good place
to go; it should keep students until they
can find their way into the economic order;
and another reason is, it may prevent their
having too much leisure.
Another pressing problem is tin* problem
of adult education. What is to he done
about the large number of grown-ups seek
ing higher education? The old system in
college, and in some colleges today, is the
requirement of a passing grade in a certain
number of studies. Upon fulfilling the re
quirements a student was educated, hut be
ing minus one point he was not educated.
I nder the old system the aim was acquisi
tion of credit, not knowledge; and the con
trol objectives were teaching, not learning.
Chicago University, a few years ago, de
cided to institute a new plan. It decided
to aladish the credit system and examina
tions by teachers who taught the course.
Thus students' education was not based on
the number of hours nor grades, but on
what he was able to do in a general com
prehensive examination. So far, this method
has been a success. List year thirty-nine
freshmen presented themselves on subjects
they had studied alone, and they passed with
an average higher than those who had l>eon
under the direction of faculty.
This program, he stated, is not radical
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Leslie P. Spelman, for two years organist
and director of music of the American
Church of Paris, will give an organ recital
in Sisters Chapel, Spelman College, Tues
day evening, March 21st. Mr. Spelman
studied organ in Paris under Joseph Bonnet
and studied composition with Nadia Boul
anger. He holds the degrees of A.M. and
B. Mus. from Oberlin College and Oberlin
Conservatory of Music, and is an Associate
of the American Guild of Organists. He
has given a number of recitals in America
and abroad, and in 1931 he played in a
recital which was broadcast from Paris to
Pierre De Lanux on
World Peace
The address on World Peace by Pierre de
Lanux at Vesper hour on Sunday, March
5th, added one more to the group of speak
ers of exceptional ability that we have had
this year. As director of the Paris Office
of the League of Nations and with a varied
career—as war correspondent in the Bal
kans, with the French Ambulance Corps, as
an official to tho United States in charge
of liaison with Czechs, Poles, Jugo-Slavs,
and Roumanians, on the staff of Andre Tar-
dieu during the Paris Peace Conference,
and as the author of several books this
man is bringing to American audiences, in
this lecture tour under the auspices of the
League of Nations Association, much clear
knowledge and understanding of the actual
work that is being done for the cause of
world peace.
In the beginning he stated that there are
many who think that the battle for world
peace is a losing one, because it creates no
great sensation or carries with it no great
excitement. But if the League of Nations
is able to promote world peace, it will
have achieved a great work, because war
and depression are two of the greatest dis
asters that may come upon a country.
The aim of the League of Nations is,
first of all, to prevent war and, secondly,
to promote every country economically as
far as possible. The League of Nations has
been able to promote peace by allowing the
nations to come together and talk freely and
openly about their problems and their pos
sible controversies.
Although the years 1930, '31 and '32 have
been bad years for international ethics, 1m*-
cause of existing conditions in Manchuria,
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all parts of America. He returned to Amer
ica in 1932 as director of music at Meredith
College, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Mr. Spelman is a grandson of Rev. Levi
Spelman, a member of the family for which
Spelman College was named. He studied
composition under Dr. G. W. Andrews, the
teacher of Nathaniel Dett, and is including
one of Lett’s compositions in his program
Tuesday night. His program will include
selections from Schumann, Bach, Gluck,
Padre Martini, Nevin, Clokey, Dett, Caesar
Franck, and Joseph Bonnet. The public is
cordially invited to the recital.
President Elope Visits Provi-
Dence, R. E, and Other
New England Cities
On Saturday, February IStli, President
John Hope addressed the Rhode Island
branch of the American Association of Uni
versity W omen, which is tin* principal or
ganization of college women in America.
On Sunday, February 19th, lie preached in
the First Baptist Church of Providence,
which was the first church built in the
colony of Rhode Island and is the oldest
American Baptist church. It was founded
by Roger \\ illiams and his group when
thrown out of Massachusetts Bay colony.
Mr. Hope met in an informal gathering
about thirty young people on the same
Sunday night discussing race relations. On
Monday lie met with a group of clergymen.
From Providence President Hope went
to Hartford, Connecticut where he visited
Mrs. Gertrude Ware Bunce. Mrs. Bunco
is the daughter of the late President Ware,
first president of Atlanta University.
Miss Anna G. Graves
Campus Visitor
Miss Anna Graves, lover of world peace,
who has visited many countries of the world,
including England, France, Italy, Russia,
West Coast of Africa and Damascus, and
who is particularly interested at present in
the subject of world relations, is visiting
with us for a few days. Already she has
spent several days on other Negro campuses,
including Howard University, and Hampton
and Tuskegee. Chapel talks made by Miss
Graves concerning her interests in other
countries are very appealing.