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CAMPUS MIRROR
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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“Service in Unity”
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Vol. XV. December, 1938 No. 3
EDITORIAL
To the subscribers, readers and friends
of the Campus Mirror we wish a merry,
merry Christmas. Realizing the wide dif
ferences of your individual wishes, we
doubt if we could tell in the entire space
of the Mirror everything that we must
necessarily mean when we wish you a
merry Christmas. However, whatever is
needed to make your Christmas merry,
we wish all that and even more.
Christmas is the festival of Christ’s
nativity. Many people’s conception of
Christmas is that it is a day set apart in
every year for pleasure—giving and re
ceiving gifts, and for all kinds of frivolity.
All their thoughts are centered upon self
and self-enjoyment. These people should
stop to realize that the real meaning of
Christmas is a time of pleasure, not ex
treme, but more of a sacred festival. It
is really a time of great joy—a time for
people to think more of giving and not so
much of receiving. It is always more
blessed to give than to receive. Give to
those whose need is greater than yours,
and help them in the way that they need
to be helped. Render some service that
will do some one some good.
The secret of the true Christmas spirit
is forgetting self and finding happiness
in others’ joy. In all our thinking about
Christmas we must not forget to think of
Him through whom it has all come. We
must not fail to remember what He has
done for, and been to, the world. It is
His birthday we celebrate. Christmas is
a celebration of peace. It is the birthday
of the Prince of Peace observed in His
honor. Its spirit is that of kindness, good
will, forgiveness, unselfishness, brother
hood. Why cannot this spirit also be
lived through the year? It is better to
live peace than talk it, no matter how
eloquent the talk may be. War will be
outlawed when all the followers of the
Prince of Peace resolve upon it, and act
upon it consistently—not before.
Christmas represents Love—the Fath
er’s love-gift to the world of His only
begotten Son, that the world through Him
might be saved from wrongdoing. If love
comes not, there will he a barren life. The
Christmas spirit of love, joy, and peace
should be perpetual in each individual
life.
Christ’s coming has been the great
event in the history of the world and has
made more difference than all the things
that have happened since the beginning
of time.
To me Christmas is certainly a time of
merriment and good will, a happy season
which not only children enjoy, but which
holds for all of us a glorious message in
that old greeting, “A Merry, Merry Christ
mas..”
Fear Versus Love
Elizabeth Lipford ’41
“Fear is the greatest destroying factor
in all life,” said one author. It is as
evident in civilized countries as it is in
the jungle. Hatred, jealousy, war—each
is a child of fear. All Europe is in a
state of fear—the type of fear that re
sults in war. Since war is cruel, foolish,
and demoting, the fear that causes war
is indicative of a savage state of exist
ence. Fear is an insult to both liberty
and patriotism when it causes humanity
to sacrifice the best blood of the race
upon the altar of selfish interests.
Fear of the advancement of orfe na
tion over other nations has given' rise
to a great rivalry business. Is there any
reason in the world why or why not one
nation should be bigger than another?
Does the fact that one man has a mil
lion dollars, while his neighbor has but
a thousand, make that first man abler,
nobler, or more respected than the latter?
Why should not all live in peace and co
operate toward universal happiness and
well-being? Fear that causes a group of
people to murder, plunder, and to de
stroy each other, accomplishes nothing
hut chaos and destruction all around.
The Christian teaching is love for all
—and, as far as I know, no set of hu
man brains has ever been able to form
ulate a greater one. Civilization can
never amount to anything unless it is
saturated with a consideration for others.
Cooperation for the welfare of all must
be the watchword for the preservation
of humanity.
He who fears, spreads poison and
death. He who loves, spreads peace and
opens the gates to light.
Dr. Kilpatrick at Atlanta
University
In spite of the careful planning of a
number of Spelman teachers to have their
students hear Dr. William Herd Kilpa
trick, retired professor of Education at
Columbia University, both students and
teachers were disappointed. The change
of program for Saturday afternoon was
not sufficiently announced to prevent a
considerable number of people from the
campus and from the city and other cam
puses coming for the meeting Saturday
afternoon, only to find it postponed.
The audience that heard Dr. Kilpatrick
on Saturday evening, December 3, were
well repaid, but many others are left
with the hope that Dr. Kilpatrick will
come again and that all students may
have a chance to hear him.
Dr. Rollin H. Walker
The Spelman College student body al
ways welcomes such visits as the one made
by Dr. Rollin H. Walker, retired instruc
tor in Bible at Ohio Wesleyan University,
on Monday morning, November 21, 1938.
Each time that he has been here he has
shared with students his many and varied
experiences and much sound advice. His
deep understanding of human nature, and
particularly of young people, backed by
his experiences, has successfully arrested
the attention of all the students each time
that he has talked to them. His keen wit
and sense of humor have always made him
an enjoyable person to listen to. May
we receive many more visits from Dr.
Walker.
Intercollegiate Student
Peace Council
Harold Chance, the director of the
Student Peace Service was the guest of
the Atlanta Unit of the “Intercollegiate
Student Peace Council.” Tuesday and
Wednesday, December 6-7.
He spoke in Spelman chapel in the
morning and at the Atlanta University
Exhibition room. Tuesday. December 6,
at 7:30 P.M.
Christmas Carol Concert
The annual Morehouse-Spelman Christ
mas carol concert will be given on Friday
evening, December 16, 1938. at 8 o’clock,
in Sisters Chapel. This is the twelfth year
that well-trained choruses from these in
stitutions have given this fine perform
ance under the direction of Professor
Kemper Harreld. It is hoped that a large
number of Atlantans will welcome the
opportunity of attending the concert.