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CAMPUS AM I PROP
Published during the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOLUME XI MARCH 15, 1935
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The World We Live In
Wynelle Hannon, ’38
People have thought for many thousands
of years that the planet on which we live
was the only inhabitated planet in the
whole universe. Today we know little more
about the planets being 1 inhabited, but we
do know that our earth is tiny compared
with the other planets in the universe; it
is more like a mere nucleus in an atom.
The universe consists of thousands of
millions of galaxies. Each galaxy is a
swarm of thousands of millions of stars.
And each star is in a frenzy of motion like
the stupendous whirl of stampeding atoms.
The earth is very sensitive to the stars,
if they ever happen to come near enough
for gravitation to take place. The crust
of the earth is only a few miles thick, the
molten rocks beneath it are prevented from
bursting into flames only by the enclos
ing shell of granite. The atmosphere, the
rocks, the soil, all the growing things that
come from tin 1 soil arc products of solar
radiation. A slight change in the sun's
energy could alter the surface conditions
so that this life would rapidly disappear
from the earth. The earth’s weight has
been determined to it- exact limit. It was
balanced by Dr. Paul R. Ileyle recently
at the Bureau of Standards in Washington,
I). <’. Imagine such a vast mass of life,
plants and animals weighed on a balance
scale. Incredulous!
The Anglo-Saxons, the Assyrians, the
Polynesians and the (Jreeks who named
Castor and Pollux have always thought
that they were twin orbs. So closely to
gether in the sky did they seem, so near
the same brilliancy, and so unchanging in
their attendance to one another, they looked
a- if they were twins. The record of sci
ence shows that these two stars are of dif
ferent classes, and are unrelated in every
way. Pollux is situated some ISO million
March Wind
F. E. B.
March wind,
the last deep sigh
of winter,
breaks
into a thousand
bird songs—
scatters
dry leaves
into the hedge
and beckons
timorous grasses,
while
raindrops
gather into a pool
of sun,
heralding
March wind,
the last deep sigh
of winter.
Spring Dawn
Dawn has come to Spelman campus.
There is an atmosphere of tranquility
broken only by the chirping of the birds.
Tall trees as erect as soldiers, silhouetted
against fluffy clouds drifting by, are scat
tered about the campus in perfect design.
Warm winds moving among the budding
and some perenially green branches sway
them rhythmically. Winding paths sepa
rate the even green carpet, silver-tipped
with dew. Buildings in almost parallel for
mation complete the landscape. Clusters
of shrubbery shroud the entrances. One
bush near the center campus is bright with
swelling buds that give promise of frag
rant, yellow flowers. Eastward, a golden
sun is peeping above the roofs of the city.
million miles from the earth, and is speed
ing outward at 1(5 1-8 miles a second, while
Castor is nearly one-half again farther
awav and is whirling a separate course at
about nine miles a second. They are two
strange utterly different stars in every
respect that just happen to be near the
same lines of sight when viewed from our
present position in space. Perhaps we
would have thought of them as twins ten
million years ago, and perhaps in another
ten million years hence, they will appear
so far apart that the name will seem a
queer misnomer. So near but yet so far
apart is the case of most of the planets
in the universe. The placid sky is revealed
by modern astrophysics as a vast hetero
geneity in which innumerable suns, singly
or in multiples, are darting about in al-
Charlotte Wallace Murray
Spelman College presented Charlotte Wal
lace Murray, mezzo soprano in a recital Fri
day evening, March 13, with Miss Ruth
Wheeler of Atlanta as accompanist.
Mrs. Murray has done solo work in the
choir of the Riverside Church of New York
City along with such artists as Dan Fridley,
Dorthea Flexer and John Anderson, both of
the Metropolitan Opera. She has also ap
peared in recital in New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, St. Louis, Denver,
and Los Angeles. In the South she has ap
peared in North Carolina, Georgia, and Ala
bama.
The evening will long be remembered as
one of the most enjoyable events of the
season. Mrs. Murray displayed not only an
exceptionally beautiful voice handled with
fine technical finish but won the audience
with the natural charm of her personality.
It is difficult to point out high spots in
a program so richly varied and thoroughly
enjoyable as a whole. One felt at the end
of the first group that “Here is an artist
whose fort lies chiefly in the classic realm.”
But as the program progressed this must
have given sway to a genuine delight in each
succeeding interpretation.
Further evidence of Mrs. Murrays splen
did musicianship was manifested when upon
being enthusiastically recalled she went to
the piano and played her own accompani
ments to a group of Negro spirituals.
most all directions like the excited mole
cules of a gas.
Our star: the sun is spinning a dizzy
course toward tin* outer rim of the Milky
Way at twelve miles a second, trailing the
earth and all its other planets with it;
the solar system at tin* same time i- being
swung in a gigantic arc at 200 miles a
second as the Galaxy itself rotates like
some colossal stellar pinwheel.