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Y. W. C. A. News
Melbaheu Bryant, '34
Sunday night, October 15, in Howe Hall,
the V. W. C. A. held a Recognition Ser
vice. Many of the members of former years
rejoined, and a number of new members
entered the organization.
Lottie Lyons presided, in the absence of
the president who was attending the initial
meeting of the Atlanta Intercollegiate Coun
cil. Candle light helped to add impressive
ness to the service. Juanita Jones, a mem
ber of the program committee, recited Some
body Said, It Couldn’t Be Done, and Clara
Haywood, a. new member, played a very
pleasing violin solo. After the Y. W. C. A.
pledge was repeated by the new members, the
service was completed with “Follow the
Gleam’’.
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An informal meeting of the Y. W. C. A.
was held in the Morgan hall reception room
Sunday evening, October 29. Lottie Lyons,
chairman of the Program Committee, intro
duced Thomasine Duckett, the Y. \V. C. A.
President, who entertained the gathering
with an account of the 1933 King’s Moun
tain “Y” Conference, at which she was the
S pelma n represen t a t i ve.
The convention, she said, centered around
World Consciousness in the field of Eco
nomics and Religion. Seminar groups were
led by Dr. Harry Ward of Union Theolo
gical Seminary, New York, and by Rev. Her
bert King, a Morehouse graduate, of Wash
ington, I). C. Vesper services were con
ducted by Conference leaders with outside
speakers such as Mr. and Mrs. Max Yergen,
and by Herbert Page, editor of the World
Tomorrow. There were Recreation hours and
Sunrise worship services in which the dele
gates participated. There was an Associa
tion hour for discussion of Campus prob
lems.
Following the report, proposer! plans for
the “Y” social were discussed, and the meet
ing adjourned with everyone enthusiastic
over the coming events.
I he Morehouse “Y” Social
The students of Spelman College spent an
enjoyable evening at a Halloween social
sponsored by the Morehouse Y. M. C. A.
The gymnasium, where the guests were en
tertained, was colorfully decorated to sug
gest Hallowe’en and the autumn season.
On their arrival the guests were greeted
with a selection by the band which was fol
lowed by a grand march. The group played
several games and enjoyed a program which
consisted of a solo by Mary Louise Smith,
several selections upon the harmonica by
Messers Bradley and Halloway, and a solo
by Mr. James Adams. Punch was served
after the program, during the social hour.
Spelman Sunday School
In October of 1932 Will Durant, Philoso
pher and Lecturer, mentioned in his lecture,
“Is Progress Real?” the fact that our post
war literature and philosophy is full of de
pression and pessimism and despair, at
tributed in part to a decay in our religious
beliefs. He also stated that our literature
says that it is the “simple and inevitable
fate” of everything to experience glory and
decay.
We do not think that there has been a
marked “decay” in our religious thinking,
but it would seem from the many changes
in the Sunday School on our campus that
our religious thinking may be about to come
into new “glory”.
The student who will assist Mrs. Curry
as student superintendent has not been
elected; but Miss Bernice Smith was elected
treasurer for the organization and has be
gun her service already. Miss Eddye Mae
Money was selected pianist for the year.
The freshmen are studying “The Bible
as Literature” with Miss Folger and Mr.
Jenkins. The sophomores, juniors and seni
ors have open for their election several
courses: “The Bible and Social Living”
with Mrs. Willis. Advanced Bible Study
with Mr. Strong, and Christianizing your
Community with Mr. Bullock. Mrs. Reddick
has taken over the Teacher Training course,
formerly taught by Misses Laura and Louise
Dickinson. Incidentally, the time for the
completion of the course has been lengthened
to three years instead of two. Miss Martin
has the high school students.
Last year the Sunday School choir was
known only to those who attended that ser
vice; but this year it is hoped that the
choir may he used on other occasions and
become better known.
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The Art Appreciation
Class Ends
Clara A. Stanton, ’34 and
Virginia Rose Hannon, ’34
The class in art appreciation, which was
made possible for the students of Morehouse,
Spelman, and Atlanta University through
provisions of the Carnegie Corporation,
ended Friday, November 10. Miss Mabel R.
Brooks, a graduate of the Yale University
School of Fine Arts, who has studied three
years in Europe, was the instructor in the
lecture series.
The key lecture of the whole course was
the one, “The Art of Living,” which was
given publicly in Sisters Chapel. This lec
ture presented the aim of the course which
was designed to teach the art of living
through the medium of fine arts.
The second lecture of the series was “The
American Negro and the Fine Arts”. Here
Miss Brooks stressed the idea that the only
true way in which the Negro can make a
contribution to the fine arts is through per
sonal development and cultivation, and a
spontaneous expression of this development
through the arts.
The third lecture on the “French Cathe
drals of the Thirteenth Century” gave par
ticular attention to the four greatest Gothic
cathedrals, Chartres, Amiens, Notre Dame of
Paris and Rheims. The development was
traced trom the early Romanesque churches
into the complicated structure of the true
Gothic cathedral.
Next came the lecture on “The Art of the
Italian Renaissance”. This period produced
some of the world’s greatest figures in paint
ing, architecture and sculpture. Michelan
gelo, Leonardo da. Vinci, Raphael, the out
standing artists of the Renaissance, were
studied in detail.
“Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century”
followed, emphasizing Rembrandt, represent
ing the universal art of the Dutch school
and \ ermer, the popular phase. Many of
the etchings of Rembrandt were studied and
each student wrote an essay on the etching
she liked best.
The last lecture was on Spanish Art. The
art of the Spanish people is the result of a
mixture of many foreign influences, which
came with the invasion of Spain by the
Visigoths, Moors and French.
All the lectures were supplemented by the
discussion of pictures which were given by
the Carnegie Corporation especially for use
in this course.
It may he truthfully stated that the course
fulfilled one of the most outstanding pur
poses of its designer in affording to all stu
dents a rich cultural background for further
personal development.
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