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Published during the College Year by the Students of Spelman College. Atlanta. Georgia
Volume XI December 15, 1934 No. 3
Music'. "Music That Lifts Us
In One Breath to Heaven"
Z. Mawryck Dfff, ’35
The daily routine on a college campus is
strenuous yet some find that even a hard
practice with the glee club or chorus is en-
j< able. It is music! It is recreation! It
makes >omeone else happy!
On Wednesday night, November 28, 1934,
the Spelman College Music department of
fered a program largely of piano numbe s
with several violin and soprano solo num
bers sprinkled in. The glee club sang Done
Paid M >/ Vow to Tlir l.ord. "I he program
was interesting and exalting.
At Vesper services in the Sisters (.’impel,
Sunday. December 2, 1934, the Spelmun-
.\forehou.-e chorus sang a cantata //car Mg
Prm/rr by Mendelssohn. Mrs. Mnise, one of
the “music faculty" carried the solo beauti
fully. Many visitors showed an apprecia
tive and spontaneous reaction. Come to Ves
per at Spelman College every Sunday at
3 p.m. for you never know what pleasure
is in store for you.
The Christmas Carol Concert is our next
special program. Our critics say that it is
our most picturesque presentation of the
year. We are practicing early and late to
please you again. Come to our concert,
Thursday evening, December 20, 1934, and
we will attempt to take you to Germany,
Austria. Mexico, Italy, Normadv, France,
England and other countries. American and
Czech songs are included and Negro songs
from St. Helena Island like Marg Had de
7jittlr Hah>f, Mari/ Had a Hahg and one ar
rangement of It. Nathaniel Dett, II (tsti t
That a Mighty Dag.
We announce with good confidence and
cheer that the Spelman-Morehouse chorus
is taking you to many lands—through
>ong on Thursday evening, Decmeber 20,
Have A New Christmas
As this issue goes to press, Christmas
creeps slowly and stealthily upon us. With
in a few days it will have come and gone—
leaving behind it a peaceful, sweet memory,
carelessly intermingled with discarded
wrappers, cards and the thousand and one
other Christmas accumulations that over
whelm one during this season. It is the one
brief interim in which man forgets for a
moment the burden of living and allows
himself one great, carefree fling. The
whole world becomes one hilarious mass of
giving and receiving—but that is on the
outside. Behind the scenes what is hap
pening? Families are starving. Dingy chil
dren peer out of broken windows with tears
streaming down their cheeks as others race
merrily down the street. Mothers and fath
ers kneel and rend heart-breaking prayer*
to God that, though they suffer, their
children won’t have to know the sorrows
of a giftless Christmas—Yet life goes on
like this.
Unfortunately at that time, the social
breach is greater than ever. True, a few
philanthropic rich try to ease their con
science by distributing useful gifts among
the less fortunate while social organizations
do as much as they can—Yet something
is lacking. We are not fanatics about giv
ing, but we do believe that Christmas is
the season when one should make supreme
sacrifices. Give, give, give until it hurts!
And then see what a pleasant aching that
hurt can be! By giving we do not mean the
exchange of gifts because of friendly or
social relations, but the absolute donation
of toys and necessities where they are
needed. For every cent you spend the genu
ine appreciation that you will receive will
be worth five times that much. Would you
not rather, then, spend five dollars help
fully and receive fifty times that much in
happy hearts, beaming countenances, cheer
ful smiles and deep-seated appreciation
than the same amount in material ex
change. Then help us make this a spiritual
Christmas as well as a material one—For
was it not originally intended so? We leave
this question with you in this, our last
issue of 1934. We hope that throughout
the year we have omitted nothing, for time
once lost can never be regained. Thus we
heartily ask you to make one supreme ef
fort to gladden someone's heart before
1934 fades away—and is gone.
1934. in Sisters Chapel, Spelman College
campus.
The Spelman Music Department and the
Spelman-Morehouse chorus extend to you
A JOYFUL YULETIDK!