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Campus* Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOL. XVII 7 ^i[!i/i APRIL, 15, 1937 No. 6 ? 7
The Founders Day
Exercises
Leolive Watts, ’37
The Founders Day exercises began on
April 10, this year, because April 11
came on Sunday. Both April 10 and
April 11 dawned clear and beautiful
despite the fear of rain.
At twelve o’clock on Saturday, April
10, students, faculty members, the Col
lege Trustees, and friends gathered in
llowe Hall to witness the decoration of
the plaques in memory of the founders
of Spelman College, Miss Sophia B.
Packard and Miss Harriet E. Giles, by
four of the Spelman granddaughters—
students whose mothers or other close
relatives in an older generation attended
Spelman. After this very impressive
ceremony, the gifts were reported from
friends of Spelman, including the pres
ent student body, former students,
graduates, and interested persons, both
Northern and Southern, and the various
organizations.
At two o’clock on Saturday afternoon
the demonstrations of the Physical Edu
cation Department were held on the cen
ter campus. The mimetic exercises, di
rected by Miss Edna B. Callahan, Physi
cal Education Instructor of Spelman
College, formed a colorful spectacle as
the classes, in their suits of blue, yellow,
brown, and green, formed various figures
and went through the exercises.
The chorographic group, under Miss
Florence Warwick’s direction, also
teacher of Physical Education at Spel
man College, gave an interpretative
spring dance.
Both performances were well done and
left those present eagerly looking for
ward to the remainder of the Founders
Da\ program on Sunday.
At three p.m. on April 11 the aca
demic procession began in front of
Rockefeller Hall and was quite impres
sive as it passed through the green
budding aisles of the campus and into
Sisters Chapel. When all were seated,
the Glee Club gave a beautiful rendition
of “0 Lord, most Holy" which was
followed by the Scripture Heading by
Kev. E. M. Hurley. With sweet har
mony. th»* College (Quartet sang “The
King of Love My Shepherd Is.” Then
prayer by Hev. A. B. McCoy, a Spiritual
and Hymn by the audience, and Presi
dent Head rose to introduce the Rever
end Vaughan Dabney, Dean and Martlet
Professor at Andover Newton Then
Coquetry
Leolive Watts, ’37
The old, sown willow
Is flirting with the Spring—
Flinging before her blackness
A liquid veil of green,
And smiling coquettishly,
She wafts her greeness gently at
the innocence of Spring.
logical School, who was speaker for the
occasion.
Dean Dabney, a learned New Eng
lander with a twinkle in his eye, got
off to a lively start, and soon had the
audience keenly considering “The Phi
losophy of Progress.”
The first philosophy was symbolized
in the gasoline engine, which causes
progression by a series of explosions.
“Those who wish to believe in this may
do so, said Dean Dabney, “but as
for me and my house we will choose
another philosophy." This other phi
losophy our speaker presented pictori-
a.lly. First in a painting which por
trayed a tree “rooted and grounded"
and, secondly, in the Florida trees
“killed from the top" by Spanish moss.
The founders and traditions of an
institution are its roots, while the crop
ot graduates put forth everv year are
its leaves. Both are necessary to the
organism; both must he kept alive. To
those who are inclined toward the first
philosophy it was pointed out that the
organism has its combustions. Who has
not marvelled that a dogwood which
Central Power Plant to be
At Atlanta University
Helen Clendenon, ’40
The construction of a central power
plant which will serve Atlanta Univer
sity and colleges affiliated with it has
been begun and will be completed by
next fall at the cost of $300,000. The
new plant will stand at the corner of
Greensferry Avenue and Lee Street.
The Barge- Thompson Construction
Company of Atlanta, under supervision
of Lackwood-Green Engineers, Inc., has
been employed and at present is work
ing on the tunnel, which in connection
with the plant, will serve as the trans
porter of heat and light. When com
pleted it will be 1000 feet in length,
10 feet in width, 12 feet in height and
enclosed in a wall of cement 12 inches
thick to insure its protection against
water.
The new heating plant will be a one-
story brick structure with a 150 foot
chimney, three 200 horsepower boilers
will be installed, and space will be pro
vided for a fourth boiler for future use.
In connection with the electrical system
of the plant there will be a central
switch board and two master clocks
which will serve to keep the telechron
clocks throughout the entire University
System operating in unison and correct
time in every building.
was blackened sticks last night can be
in full bloom the following morning?
But as explosive and alive as are the
leaves and flowers, they must fight to
keep from being killed by the mosses
of pessimism, fatalism and other “isms.”
The chemists and phychologists are for
ever furnishing fabric for these beauti
ful if somewhat melancholic banners.
But whenever the chemist says, “chemi
cally speaking, man is insignificant,” we
must remember that “chemically speak
ing, man is the chemist.”
Dean Dabney ended by charging
us to send the branches of Spelman
throughout the world so that “that which
God has planted may come to fruition.”
The speech was very fittingly followed
bv the Spiritual “I’ll Never Give My
Journey Over" and the Negro National
Anthem.
Prayer and Benediction was offered
by Reverend E. R. Carter, and the
recession passed reverently from the
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