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The Campus Mirror
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A Hairbrush Speaks
Jewel Crawford, ’35
“Little Master, have you ever wondered
from whence I came;”
“You are American, of course, as all
other brushes are, I guess,” was the sharp
reply.
“You are just a little wrong; I am not
like other brushes you have used. I am
not even American. I am French Indo
china. You can’t even make brushes in
America like me. I am made from pig
bristles.
“ Why can’t brushes be made from Amer
ican pigs’?” the master asked.
“Oh well, it is this way; the bristles of
American pig's are not good. The pigs must
be wild to produce bristles like these of
which 1 am made. ’ ’
“ Well, since you seem to be such a unique
little article who has traveled a long dis
tance to be at my service, explain the de
tails of how you were brought to me in
the form of a brush.”
“Well, it is like this: If you should visit
a French Indo-Chinese village early some
morning you would see all the inhabitants
out, messing around. The men will vanish
into the jungle around the village, while
the women, children and men, too old to
hunt, prepare earthenware and iron ves
sels, filling them with chunks of pitch and
building fires under them, while the men
form an immense semi-circle in order to
drive the wild pigs into the village. In this
village is a large corral that will hold
several hundred wild pigs. Tt is into this
place that the men drive the pig's with
the assistance of the women and children
waving sticks.
“The pigs are astonished when they find
themselves locked within tin* gates of the
corral and being doused with hot pitch.
To rid themselves of this pitch they scratch
themselves violently, thus tearing out their
bristles.
“Then women and children pick up the
bristles, return them to the pots to be
melted where they soon come to the sur
face and are skimmed off to be manufac
tured into brushes.
“Such brushes enable every village
woman to buy a calico dress and the men
a derby hat.”
“Well,” the little master returned, af
ter listening attentively for some time to
the brush, “you mean more to me than you
formerly meant. You are a unique article
after all, and it gives me great consolation
to know that you will be with me always.”
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Fisk-Morehouse Game
William Hamilton, '34
Dame Bad Luck overtook the Maroon
Tigers on their last lap. The Fisk boys
defeated Morehouse two to nothing (2-0).
It seemed as if Morehouse had lost a bit
of co-ordination that they had in the Clark
and Talladega games. For time after time
they had the ball in the Fisk touchdown
territory, but they could not carry it over.
Morehouse outstripped Fisk in all de
partments of the game. But a very good
kick on the part of Fisk which placed the
ball on the Morehouse one yard line, and
the failure of a Morehouse man to get the
ball from the goal line on a kick, gave
Fisk a safety which won the game.
Intramural Football
With the end of the varsity football sea
son intramural football has started. This
is to promote a better interclass spirit,
better sportsmanship, and to discover some
hidden material for the varsity of next
year.
The dignified Seniors surrendered some
of their dignity and went out on the foot
ball field and wallowed the Sophomores
from goal to goal, to the tune of 25-0.
The Freshmen won a moral victory from
the Juniors Tuesday by tying them. The
spirit of the game was that Florida flash,
Martin Graham, who gave all he had, but
could not tally, so the game goes down in
history as 0-0.
Guilds in 1933
Edwina Westmorland, ’37
The institution of guilds comes from the
Middle Ages and takes an important part
in modern life.
The essential principle of the guild was
the banding together of people 1 for mutual
help, enjoyment and encouragement. Today
we also form guilds for the aid of others,
as the Needle Work Guild of America, of
which the New York Branch is gathering
and making garments for the .300 charitable
organizations that they have been aiding.
Perhaps the more important guilds that
we hear of now, are the Trade Guilds, of
which there arc two orders—Merchant
guilds and Craft guilds. Then* are also In
dustrial guilds. These guilds take care of
the workers, that is, the members or guild-
brothers. They see that the members have
their due lights, correct wages, and work
ing hours, that they work under good con
ditions and that the people who are over
them treat them with fairness and kindness.
In fact the many different kinds of guilds
play an important part in the life of the
world today as they did in the life of the
Medieval world.
Dictionary Dyspepsia
Would that I were a man! 1 would set
about renovating this grand old world in a
most noble way. 1 would aspire to the Presi
dency and immediately upon entering office
win the favor of the people by issuing a ban
on the dictionary. Every person caught pos
sessing such a slave-driver would be immedi
ately and most assuredv beheaded.
Of all the parapheranalia going to make
up institutions of higher learning it is the
most demanding. You become attached to it,
and soon you become a dictionary addict.
You consult Webster about even the smallest
matters (knowing in the beginning that he
is going to disagree with you), and soon his
opinion becomes known to you. You dare not
even think, without consulting him first.
As likely as not you are struggling with
some word like “vallisneriaeerous” (which
you can’t pronounce to say nothing of spell
ing) and you make a grand rush for the
dictionary. Of course, you cannot find the
book anywhere and lose much time searching
vainly for it until you suddenly remember
having thrown it on top of the bookshelf in
your last resolve to have unmolested opin
ions of your own. You build a somewhat un
steady parapet to stand on and after many
trials succeed in maintaining your balance
long enough to spy the book—way up high—
encrusted in dust! There’s nothing to do
but get a duster and get busy. When you
are finally able to distinguish the book from
the dust, you have choked several times and
your hands have probably become so en
crusted that you dare not touch the book
before they are washed and some of the
dust encircling the room has cleared away.
Well, aren’t you thoroughly disgusted by
now? More than likely after you have
dragged your precious oracle of knowledge
down you will have forgotten what you were
going to look up anyway. If you are lucky
enough to recall the word, you are never
able to find at what end of the alphabet
“v” comes—and then the word more than
likely isn’t even in the dictionary!
It is upon this encroaching parasite that
I, in my administration, would first wage
war! I would—if necessary- write a dic
tionary of my own—a huge, magnificent one,
entirely disagreeing with Webster and
place it by his side to see him wither and
wilt as I have done under his contemptous
stare—-that mocker of men!
Negro Achievement Week
It has become a tradition for the Omega
fraternity to observe Negro Achievement
Week. The Spelnian Community is grate
ful to tin 1 Morehouse chapter for the pro
gram rendered. The speaker, Mr. Hurley,
of Warren Memorial, struck a note of
challenge when lie expressed the opinion
that too much emphasis on what has al
ready been accomplished may act like
poison to the blood; a long way lies be
fore us still, and what our fathers have
wrought is only a foundation on which
we must lay our contribution to the race.