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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
December 15, 193 5
The Campus Mirror
The Students’ Oivn Publication
“Service In Unity"
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Volume XII December 1 5. 1 93 5 No. 3
Editorial
To friends, readers, and subscribers,
The Campus Mirror wishes a
Merry, Merry Christmas;
With the Christmas Carols
May your hearts be lifted too,
May the love that brought the Christ-
child down
He very real each day to you.
Many people seek, in many ways, to
be happy at Christmas time, but the
one underlying principle which em
bodies the secret of the true Christmas
spirit is this: “Forget yourself and
find happiness in others’ joys,” In
all our thinking let us remember Him
through whom it has all come about.
Let us not forget what He has done
for the world; neither let us forget the
meaning of His coming.
It matters not in how many differing
ways we think of the Birth of Jesus,
there are still some fundamental truths
upon which we all agree. Christmas
means a festival of joy—“ Joy to the
world the Lord is come.” We shall
enter whole-heartedly into the joyful
spirit of the day and carry it- forth
with us in our daily lives.
Christmas is a celebration of peace—
“Peace on earth, goodwill to all men.”
It comes in the spirit of unselfishness,
forgiveness, and good will. Cannot this
spirit be perpetuated in the life of each
individual? Only the united follow
ers of the Prince of Peace can out
law war, strife, and envy. Will they
never unite?
The coming of the Christ-child has
been the greatest event in the history
of the world. His lowly birth in a man
ger in Bethlehem has made more dif
ference in the world than all the other
things which have happened since the
beginning of time.
Christ’s coming means love—“God
so loved I he world.” It is His love-
gift to the world. In the words of
Henry Van Dyke, “Are you willing
to stoop down and consider the needs
and desires of little children; to re
member the weakness and loneliness of
people who are growing old; to stop
asking how much your friends love
you, and ask yourself whether you love
them enough; to bear in mind the
things that your people have to bear
in their hearts; to try to understand
what those who live in the same house
with you really want, without waiting
for them to tell you; to make a grave
for your ugly thoughts, and a garden
for your kindly feelings, with the gate
ojien—are you willing to do these
things even for a day? Are you wil
ling to believe that love is the strong
est thing in the world—stronger than
hate, stronger than evil, stronger than
death—and that the blessed life which
began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred
years ago is the image and brightness
of eternal love? Then you can keep
Christmas.”
Friendship
Helen Smith, ’39
College life is a life of close famili
arity. Fellowship is forced upon every
student, but it is left to the student
to decide how his fellowship shall de
velop. Immediately, there falls upon
the student the duty of understanding
the values and dangers of real friend
ship.
One might ask himself, who can be
my friend ? How does one recognize a
friend? What is the feeling between
true fi’iends? Friends are discovered
rather than made; there are people
who are in their own nature friends;
only they do not know each other, but
certain things like common suffering
or hardship, poetry, music and paint
ing are like the Freemason’s sign-—•
they reveal the initiated to each other.
The truest friendship expresses it
self persistently in daily life. Real
friends find millions of ways of ex
pressing their affection or regard. The
greatest gift a true friend can give
cannot be purchased at any store—
It is loyalty, which does not seek to
dominate his friends but to help them
grow,—that loyalty which rejoices at
the success and growth of his friend,
and that knows the meaning of speech
and silence.
The price of getting and keeping
friendship is always great. Over the
door is written, “Xo Niggardly Soul
Need Apply.” Many friends risk their
lives for each other to prove the worth
one finds in the other. “Greater love
Christmas Spirit
J. L. Wilkins
“Christ, our Lord, is risen today, let
every man praise His name.”
Xo one ever regarded the twenty-
fifth of December with indifference.
It is the nativity of our Lord. Despite
the curse of wars and the carelessness
of the majority of the people, the song
of the herald angels, “Glory to God
in the highest and on earth peace,
good will toward men,” will not, shall
not, cannot die.”
Christmas is not to lx* taken light
ly and carelessly with drunkeness and
disgraceful merry making. Peace and
music, quiet calmness, joy and giving:
these are the glorious motives of the
Christmas festal time. I am sure that
there is deep significance in the fact
that music is far more closely allied
with Christianity than with any other
faith. When I say music I am refer
ring to the lovely carols sung by sweet,
solemn, hushed voices and not the loud,
rowdy jazz of today.
Who can imagine Christmas without
music—music from the choirs of hu
man toilers chanting their faith in the
best in man, and from the forests of
spires throughout the world, spires
with their lovely bells ringing—ringing
—ringing the magnificat from heav
en. May we understand from this na
tivity, that each day our world is born
again. Shall we strive to make it a day
of joy, or gloom; of love, or hate; of
peace or war?
May Christmas live today and every
day in our hearts, with an exalted
music that comes from nobler, kindlier,
thoughts, higher in love for our fellow
men and a richer joy in the realization
of our endless blessings.
Essay in Imitation of Charles Lamb.
An Exhibition of Paintings
By Hale Woodruff
From Sunday, December S, 1935,
through Monday, December 23, an ex
hibition of paintings in oil and water
color, the recent forks of Mr. Hale
Woodruff, is opened to the public in
the Exhibition Room of the Atlanta
University Library.
These paintings, about thirty-five in
number, and produced for the most
part during the last six months, treat
Georgia scenes and comprise land
scapes, figures and still life.
All are invited to attend this exhibi
tion. It is open on Sundays from
4:00 to 0:00 P.M., and on week days
from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M.
has no man than this, that he lay down
his life for his friends.” Those who
have faith enough to undertake the
adventure of friendship will find in
the end the meaning of life.