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AMP US UMIRROR^ Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia IIII11 • M 111 M 111 • 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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, (Continued on Page 6) 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.