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Volume X November 15, 1935 No. 2
A Rare Experience
To have as quests on our campus during
the week of Oetober29-November 4th, mem
bers of the Green Pastures cast, was an un
usual and delightful experience.
On Thursday morning, Atlanta colleges
weie invited to an assembly in Sisters
Chapel to hear Richard B. Harrison, who
gave an account of the experiences that led
to bis career on the stage. In a very effective
way, Mr. Harrison told the story of his birth
in Canada of run-away slave parents, his
brief schooling, years of small jobs and
early diamatic training. It was interesting
to watch the artist grow; to see that in
spite of obstacles, be found almost uninter
rupted opportunity for dramatic training.
In conclusion Mr. Harrison gave a sin
cere and dramatic defense of Green Pastures
in which he depicted his own struggle with
audiences that expected the Negro to make
a jest of his own religion instead of making
a sincere interpretation of the struggle of
a race toward a pure faith. This expression
will 1m- remembered as a part of our apprecia
tion ot Green Pastiires.
Sisters chapel wa> crowded almost bevond
capacity with students from the three in-ti-
tntions, from Atlanta University Laboratory
School, elementary pupils from Oglethorpe
school and numbers from Morris Brown and
Clark and citizens from the city of Atlanta,
who came to hear Mr. Harrison and tin*
other members of the cast, who either gave
delightful numbers on the program or were
merely introduced. The call of the Im-II for
The Century of Progress
Statue
Ruth Ferguson, '37
The theme of the great Fair of 1933 is
expressed in its name, a Century of Prog
ress, because the fair shows the general
progress of the world for the last 100 years.
The theme of the Exhibition of Fine Arts is
also a Century of Progress, because this ex
hibit shows not only famous and character
istic works of the last 100 years, but also a
century of progress in American art collect
ing. Among the great works of art at the
fair a most fascinating one is the statue
which stands outside the Science Building
facing all who approach the Fair through
the Avenue of Flags. This statue symbolizes
the predominance of man’s thorough knowl
edge, over the forces of nature which would
degrade man. It is not Greek or Roman art
as some have supposed but purely American.
Greek statues possess the curved effect, but
this statue is of a straight and stately form
which depicts modern man. The statue is
typically modern and was designed by the
Fournier studio in Chicago, Illinois.
lunch was unheeded as long as another artist
was to be heard.
During their stay in Atlanta, the Green
Pastures cast was very generous in making
visits to many school assemblies, and stu
dents of these schools were fortunate to be
able to hear, in their own schools, so many
distinguished artists.
To The Memory of
Lucy Hale Tapley
Memorial exercises commemorating the
life and services to education of Lucy Hale
Tapley, president-emeritus of Spelman Col
lege, who died last year, will be held on the
morning of Thanksgiving day in Sisters
Chapel on the college campus.
In the spirit of the holiday the service
will be one of thanksgiving for the life or
Miss Tapley who was associated with Spel
man College for 37 years, the last eighteen
of which she was president. Alumnae of the
college and her many friends in Atlanta and
elsewhere in the South will participate in the
services.
Coming to the pioneer school for Negro
women in 1890, nine years after its found
ing, she served in turn as teacher of English
and of mathematics, as matron, organizer
and director of the teacher training depart
ment, and dean of the seminary. In 1909 at
the death of President Harriet E. Giles,
she became third president of the institution.
During her administration more than a
thousand women received degrees or diplo
mas. Through her influence Spelman was
raised from the status of a seminary to that
of a Class A college. In recognition of her
services tin* science hall of Spelman College,
a gift of John I). Rockefeller, Jr., was named
Tapley Hall in her honor. At her resignation
in 1927 she returned to her brother’s liume
in McKinley, Maine, her native state, where
she died on June 6, 1932, in her seventy-
sixth year.