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Campus Mirror Published During the 1 College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia VOL. XIII JANUARY 15, 1937 Brave New Year New years have a way of crashing in upon world events with such alarming rapidity that one often has to pause for a brief moment to wonder where the last one went. And even while one pauses another year is well on its way. As 1936 takes its place among the many, many yesteryears, another year slips quietly but boldly in t<> take its place. As 1937 opens its eyes upon the series of world acts which seem about to reach a tragic climax, what must its first impressions be? It sees the past like a terrible, re lentless monster rearing its uglv head above the dreams and hopes of the bet ter half (or fifth, or tenth) of the world, strangling in a death-dealing clutch the love and confidence which philosophers strive to inspire in the souls and minds of stupid mankind—souls and minds which are too possessed with hatred, greed, prejudice and fear to lie taught by words and too insensitive to pain, hurt and bloodshed to learn by experi ence. Majorities frantically herding minorities into second-rank citizenship; strange and ominous rumors being waft ed about concerning Germany’s ultimate intentions in the already blood-sodden Iberian Peninsula; Japan’s absorbing “chess game” with China, for the free northern provinces of Hopei; the world spending more for armaments today than it was in 1914; and the major nations scrambling confusedly for first place in the fray that will bring utter destruc tion to peoples (themselves included) who are now only partially regenerated and restored physically and morally— this is a part, and only a part of the disharmony which greets 1937. “What fools we mortals be!” And yet men go on hoping—we can’t explain just why. We wonder if, when the new year looked into the crystal for the forecast of 1937 events, it shudder- inglv whimpered, “Bring back the crys tal, let me look again and prove the former vision a poor fake!” We could understand it if it did, but we somehow keep hoping that “things can’t be that bad.” It came unhesitatingly to give the world its choice between solution and catastrophe—this brave New Year! No. 4 N. A. A. C. P. Activities The National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People had its twenty-eighth annual meeting January 4 in New York City. A revival of the pressure on Congress to pass a Federal anti-lynching law was made in a reso lution adopted. Walter White, secretary of the association, declared in his ad dress to the association that prospects for the passage of such a bill are more promising than at any previous time. In connection with this, youth coun cils and college chapters of N. A. A. C. P. are making preparation for the national youth demonstration against lynching on February 12. Members of the youth councils and college chapters are asked to wear black armbands as a sign of mourning for all those who have been lynched. The Spelman College Chapter is in the midst of a membership drive begun on January 9 and scheduled to con tinue through January 23. If you have not joined you are given an in centive to do so in order to take a part in this mass demonstration on February 12. You will feel that you are an im portant unit of that courageous band of young men and women all over America who are massing themselves together for a “Lynchless America.” Dr. Norwood Attends the Modern Language Association An interesting discussion with Miss Norwood, who attended the recent con vention of the Modem Language Asso ciation of America, held in Richmond, Virginia, afforded some highlights on the achievements of the association. As pointed out by Miss Norwood, tlit* pur pose of the association is to promote research and scholarship among teach ers, scholars, and other students in the Modern Languages in America. The membership of about one thousand in number consists of the above named groups. During the convention the pro grams consisted mainly of papers in scholarship completed or in progress. Some of the more interesting accom plishments were as follows: a paper on ( haucer’s Trolius and ('ressida, by Pro fessor Karl Young of Yale University, in which he emphasized the elements of romance in Chaucer's story; a paper by Professor Tucker Brook, also of Yale, (Continued on Page 4)