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I he Basketball Tournament
Students, teachers, athletes and other
enthusiasts showed by their fervent
(•heel's, beaming countenances and hearty
cooperation that they enjoyed immensely
the Girls’ Basketball Tournament, played
in the Morehouse gymnasium Saturday,
March 5.
The opposing teams were the Fresh
men vs. Sophomores, Juniors vs. Seniors
of Spelman College. Having had more
than two months of successful training
in basketball (rules, technique, etc.) all
four teams were fitly qualified for the
clash.
The games were divided so that one-
half of the underclass game was played
first and then one-half of the upper
class game, etc. The Freshman-Sopho
more game revealed talent that has been
developed by our competent physical
education instructor, Miss Edna B. Cal
lahan, not to mention the uncovering
of high school “champs” whose technique
has been improved by contact with the
college teams. Belonging to the latter
category were Julia Allen, Doretha Wil
liams, and Bertha Wallace, representing
the Freshmen (clad in the traditional
green, of course). Minnie Wood, Ruth
Watson, Genevieve Parks, Mary E. Ca
ter, and Katheryn Toomer from the
Sophomore class proved that coolness,
accurateness, and a “knack” for the game
are the keys to victory. Due to their
capabilities the final score was 11-19.
For the Seniors, the outstanding play
ers were the ever-dependable Minnie
Head, as a guard; Eloise Usher, also
skilled along this line; Alice Cary
Holmes, who showed that size is no ques
tion, and last but not least, the adept
Jessie Hubbard, who pivots and aims for
goals and “finesses” with no small amount
of adroitness. Those most worthy of
mention among the Juniors were Ida
Wood, Margaret Creagh and Georgia
Oswell who handled the ball with an
expert ness that only Juniors have. The
dexterity of these players made their
class the glorified victors with a score,
10-19.
Both games were fast moving, fairly
played and were quite entertaining. The
games were sponsored by the Sopho
more class.
Klks Leaders \ isiI Spelman
Spelman students were honored by a
visit from prominent Elks at the chapel
service March 9. Mr. J. W. Dobbs, out
standing Atlanta citizen, introduced the
visitors: Mr. J. Finley Wilson, Exalted
Ruler of the National Order of Elks, and
Mr. U. E. Pharrow, regional director of
the Elks’ educational program. Both of
them gave interesting remarks.
CAMPUS MIRROR
Shall We Have A Noil-
Credit Speech Course?
Many of the Spelman upperclassmen
have become aware of their inability to
speak before an audience or even before
the administration, and realize what this
handicap will mean in the future. Since
they are cognizant of the fact that they
are to be “the leaders of tomorrow” it
is very essential for them to be able to
express clearly their ideas and opinions.
After a discussion of this matter with
the administration, a non-credit speech
course was suggested which may prove
beneficial to the students. Upon the bul
letin boards in each building a list has
been posted to see how many students
would like to enter such a course. The
prompt registration shows enough names
to justify fully the immediate organiza
tion of the course.
Seniors are particularly interested in
the course because they feel that some
training in speech, other than that which
they received the first year at Spelman
College, will be needed when they take
positions in the different fields after
graduation.
It is hoped that the procedure of this
class will be such as to give the students
actual practice in public speaking, which
will include introduction of speakers,
extempore speeches, debates, panel and
forum discussions, thus educating the
student for a more effective as well as a
more efficient participation in communi
ty life.
12,000 Miles in a Caravan
in South Africa
Alma Stone, ’40
Those students who have thought of
Africa as a desolate, impenetrable wild
erness peopled only by savage human
beings, beasts, and mosquitoes, received
a pleasant surprise at the illustrated
lecture, “12,000 Miles in a Caravan in
South Africa,” given by Lionel E. Tay
lor in Howe Hall, March 7, at 8:00 P.M.
The lecture assumed the form of a
travelogue showing between sixty and
seventy slides of less known features of
South Africa. These pictures included
fine cape scenery, mountain passes, sea
scapes, beautiful flowers, and native life.
The slides of the Kruger National game
preserve with its magnificent wild life,
and of the mountain scenery of the Natal
National Park were hardly surpassable.
These photographs of the South African
country and its interesting people and
plants were in natural color.
Mr. Taylor was assisted by Lieutenant
Colonel G. A. Duncan, an expert pho
tographer, who accompanied him on a
botanical expedition to South Africa in
3935, where they spent fourteen months
traveling in a caravan and taking the
Ten Commandments for
Students
H. 1). Bollinger
1. Keep your personality in the social
group. Do not let yourself be crushed in
the crowd. Practically every campus is
overorganized, and in the crowd mind
of the organized group you can easily
crush your chance to be that which you
ought to become.
2. Exercise precaution in the selection
of the residence group in which you live.
Be as careful in the selection of a resi
dence group as you would if you were
selecting a family with which to live dur
ing the four most crucial years of your
life.
3. Seek to distinguish in your college
life the cheap, the transient, and the cas
ual from the significant, the permanent,
and the valuable. Select and seek only
the best in your curriculum, your asso
ciations, and your extra-curricular ac
tivities.
4. Avoid the enslavement of an over
crowded schedule. Practically every col
lege student in America is “too busy.”
For what? Have an organized program
and try to live while in college.
5. Seek to see your college course in
terms of its practical value to human
society here and now.
6. Seek to know the truth, the whole
truth, and the truth in relation to human
personality.
7. Take the long look with reference
to all you are doing. If possible see your
self and what you are doing in a total
historical perspective.
8. Evaluate every personality with
whom you come in contact in terms of
the best. Make comparisons with Jesus
and know how lives may be improved to
be more nearly like His.
9. Give yourself unreservedly to some
great social cause dedicated to the sal
vation and betterment of the human race.
Every college student should feel him
self not only under the moral obligation
to be his best self, but to build a better
society. Our civilization knows how to
do many things hut we do not know how
to live together as human beings. If ever
there was a time in the history of civiliza
tion when humanity needs social en
gineers it is now.
10. Practice the presence of God. It
you do not know Him, act as if He is.
Mother (discovering her little daugh
ter washing the kitten with soap and
water)—“Oh, Joan, dear, I don’t think
the mother cat would like her little one
washed like that.”
Joan—“Well, I can’t help it. 1 can’t
lick it the way she does.”
photographs of which those that were
shown to the Spelman audience were a
small part.