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The Campus Mirror
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Enchantment, Mystery
Come to the Enchanted House and see
What tlie Mirror will reflect!
You may win the Lucky Looking Glass.
Who knows!
Valuable prizes for the best impersonations
Of literary characters.
From the house of your dreams,
From the golden streams
From story-land that flow
The guests will come,
And you among them must be.
Be who you will or who you like,
From the worst to the best
From the present or past:
Boy Blue, Goldie Locks or a King,
Uncle Remus, Roosevelt, anything.
Ministers Institute
A four weeks’ Ministers Institute held on
the campus of Morehouse College from dune
IS to July 7 was a feature of the Summer
School of Atlanta University and affiliated
colleges. The Institute was the first com
bined effort of this character in Georgia,
and offered, in addition to regular classroom
work, opportunities for general development
in the form of lectures and entertainments.
Ministers’ conferences, games and athletic
contests, community work, health and sani
tation, and physical education were some of
the features of the school not strictly relat
ing to the demand on the pastor and the
religious worker.
The Institute is to he held annually in co
operation, and there is to be rotation in the
place of holding it. The faculty included
instructors of social work from the Atlanta
School of Social Work, of health from More
house and Spelman Colleges, of Church His
tory and Organization from Gammon Theo
logical Seminary. Dr. Ashby M. Jones, re
tired minister with over thirty-five years’
experience in the pastorate, was one of the
faculty.
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Recreation School at Spelman
Among the different summer activities on
Spelman Campus was a session of the Recre
ation School which brought to the campus
young people from various parts of the
United States, including a number from
New York City. The sessions were held in
Giles Hall and many of the students resided
on the campus.
Copies of the magazine of the National
Recreation Association are to be found in
the Magazine Room of Atlanta University
Library. The following account of the na
ture and origin of this association may be
of interest:
The National Recreational Association was
established in 1906 in Washington, D. C., by
Dr. Gulic of Boston, Massachusetts, for the
purpose of securing adequate play and rec
reational facilities for communities, and of
providing them with yearly programs, and
trained leadership.
The Association is supported by private
subscriptions which run into millions of
dollars annually. A spirit of good will
seems to be the largest factor prompting
these tremendous gifts. Play activities are
stimulated by the members, among the people
of the United States, without regard to
race, age or sex. The membership fee is
$5.00 per year.
During the world war the “War Camp
Community Service” rendered an untold
amount of service to the Negroes in war
camps. As a result of this splendid co
operation the Bureau of Colored Work was
established about 1018. This Bureau is rap
idly increasing the number of Negroes who
are actually qualified for this professional
service, as recreational directors, and ad
ministrators. These workers are trained in
the National Recreational Institute, which
is under the immediate supervision of Mr.
E. T. Atwell, Field Director of the Bureau
of Colored Work. This Institute is held
annually for the purpose of training work
ers among colored people. Its chief object
is to prepare persons to meet the problems
peculiar to Negro communities. Mr. Atwell
is assisted by experts in the field of recrea
tion.
Atlanta was fortunate in having a session
of the National Recreation Association in
the summer of 1933.
Progressive Education
In the Progressive Education School,
which was a feature of Atlanta University
Summer School, several things were em
phasized in every activity of the children;
that is things in their experiences that inter
ested and concerned them. There was real
democracy in the classroom; everybody’s
opinion was respected; criticisms were im
personal but made one think before he spoke.
Unselfishness was one of the qualities that
was taught and practiced. Time was too
valuable to waste; the care of materials was
significant, also the cost of materials.
The school included kindergarten, first,
fourth, and sixth grades. The children did
Four H Club of Eulton
County
Another of the summer activities was the
Short Session for the 4 IT Club Girls of
Fulton County under the direction of Miss
Camilla Weems, a former student at Spel
man. Miss Weems is Assistant State Agent
of Negro Work in Co-operative Extension
Work in Agriculture and Home Economics
in the State of Georgia. There were in at
tendance about one hundred fifteen girls
ranging in age from ten to twenty years.
They were a business-like group engaged in
sewing, cooking, hiking, singing and in learn
ing to live up to the standards of the club.
A few girls finished the course, some with
distinction. Two rooms of Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Memorial Building were used
as laboratory space by the group and More
house South Hall as dormitory. Closing
exercises were held on June 23 in Howe
Memorial Hall with President Read as
speaker, and many parents and friends and
members of the Home Demonstration Club
Avere present.
shop Avork, painting, and cooking; there
Avere trips to the airport, the roundhouse,
the markets, and to other places related to
community life. There Avere food sales Avhere
the things they had cooked Avere sold, and
they had a cashier and learned to make
change. They played games out of doors,
and made stories.
There Avere about 30 in the Summer School
who took Progressive Education. The plan
of the school children groups in dif
ferent activities and in such activities as hold
their interest. Money came up as a diffi
culty, but teachers suggested Parents and
Parent-Teacher Associations as persons to
appeal to in securing money for such a
school.
The newness of the school lies in the fact
that the schedule is built around the child.
He is educated through his own experience,
through his doing for himself Avith help and
encouragement.
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