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CAMPUS MIRROR
The Campus Mirror
The Students' Ou.'n Publication
‘ Service In Unity’’
THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF
F.ditor-in-Chief Beulah Johnson
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You XITI February 15, 1937 No. 5
Editorial
War, famine, disease and other such
calamities that befall the human family
tend always to have as aftermath a let
down in the general morale. The people
of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,
having just experienced the most de
structive Hood in the histoi'y of the
country, have before them this problem
of not giving away to the force that
is now driving against them. Each time
men face adversity, there are numbers
who accept the situation as such with
out question but who study the natural
causes; then there are others who ask
among themselves the reason for ad
versity in this world over which they
think there exists an impartial control
which should be partial—should shelter
them, if not others, from every evil.
Undoubtedly many of these wretched
people made homeless by the flood
were already recipients of government
relief. Now the federal relief set-up has
its responsibility increased enormously.
Strong minded men will survive these
adversities, and will come back with a
new determination and challenge fate
with a new hope. The weaker men, who
are often blown away by the least gust
of ill wind, will crumple up under loss,
curse their fate, or turn into criminals
and cynics.
In spite of the untold suffering that
has been experienced during the recent
flood, there has been one aspect which
we may tend to overlook and that is
the commendable response to the suf
ferers, not only from the organized Red
Cross Society, but from millions of in
dividuals in local organizations. This
type of response that came whole-heart
edly revealed the fact that many people
are willing to share what they have,
although they live in a capitalistic age.
The World War worked havoc with
our general morale, the effects of which
can still be seen. The recent flood has
caused more than ninety-five thousand
people to be destitute, a large enough
group to have considerable effect posi
tively or negatively on our country. It
is hoped that the effect will be a posi
tive, a constructive one; for an expres
sion of world unity was revealed in the
gifts and telegrams of sympathy from
many millions of friends at home and
from foreign countries, including far
away China. To all who have suffered
loss, sorrow, or shock we beg of you
to be of good courage, to be stronger
than the weights that tend to pull you
down, and to remember that America
is a land where every life should be
precious and where hearts go with the
helping hands.
On Carlyle’s Philosophy
Leoline Watts, ’37
In times of stress, it is wise to turn to great men
of the past, to study their reaction to similar situa
tions. Truly to appreciate and understand these men,
we must not only know what they thought, but we
must also know how they expressed it. In such a
light one should aproach the philosophy of Carlyle.
Carlyle in his Sartor Besartus reveals
his spiritual struggle. It is the spiritual
struggle that every thinking man of the
past and present has had and every
thinking man of the future will have to
pass through. Carlyle knew his to be
a universal struggle of the ages for he
said, “The most, in our time, have to
go content with a simple, incomplete
enough Suppression of this controversy;
to a few some Solution of the last era
has become obsolete, and is found un
serviceable. For it is man’s nature to
change his dialect from century to cen
tury; he cannot help it though he
would.”
What keen insight this shows, for is
there not the same problem today? And
man still struggles with his problem.
When a child, he thinks the world is
made for him, but when he becomes a
man he thinks himself unimportant.
Today the problem is more keenly felt,
because we realize more thoroughly the
magnanimity of the cosmos. We know
of the millions of sounds man cannot
hear, and the millions of sights man
cannot see, and we decide that the
world would have gone on the same,
without change of event, if we had nev
er been. Our dialect has changed, be
cause our knowledge has increased. But
the question remains the same, am I
part of the eternal reality?
To Carlyle the assurance came that
he was a part of the eternal reality.
That assurance comes today to many
men. To still others it does not come,
because they are too impatient to wait
for it. And the unanswered minds be
come warped and distorted and give ex
pression to a bitter and cynical philos
ophy of life that is abroad today.
With the assurance that he was a part
of the divine plan, Carlyle was moved
to go to work and he began to preach
the gospel of work, lie said, “Do the
Duty which lies nearest thee . . . Thy
second Duty will already have become
clearer. . . . an endless significance lies
in work . . . doubt of whatever kind may
be ended by action alone. . . .”
For his philosophy, Carlyle uses
clothes as a symbol of institutions and
organizations that are the coverings of
reality, while space, time and matter
are shown as obseurers of spiritual real
ity.
According to Carlyle human affairs
should be led by great men. He felt the
misery of the masses and the inade
quateness of the government. He be
lieved that a nation must have faith to
work and a strong government. These
things need a hearing today. The evils
of his day are the evils of ours.
Memorial Service to
Mrs. Coleman
A memorial service in honor of the
late Mrs. Alice B. Coleman was held
in Howe Hall on the evening of Feb
ruary 4, 1937. Mrs. Coleman, who for
nearly fifty years was a trustee and
friend of Spelman College, passed in
October of 1936. Mrs. Claudia White
Harreld, a life long friend of Mrs.
Coleman, presided over the service.
Stirring remarks were given by Presi
dent Florence M. Read, following which
tributes from two Spelman graduates
and an associate of Mrs. Coleman were
given: one by Mrs. Hattie Rutherford
Watson, ’07, was read by Jeannette
Hubert; one by Miss Josephine Har
reld, ’33, was read by Mayme Martin;
and a third by Mrs. Orrin R. Judd,
vice-president of the Women’s American
Baptist Home Mission Society, was read
by Beulah Johnson. Then Miss Ethel
W. Wagg of the Spelman faculty and
staff gave several interesting accounts
of her personal acquaintance with Mrs.
Coleman. Although the present-day stu
dents of Spelman had not the privilege
of knowing Mrs. Coleman, as a result
of the Memorial Service held in her
honor she became a living personality
whose life was a personification of good
ness. The deep impressions made by
her beautiful life will serve as an in
spiration to all Spelman students.
Thanks
The staff appreciates the efforts of
the Associate Editor-in-Chief which re
sulted in this issue of the Campus
Mirror.