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CAMPUS MIRROR
Condition of Harlem School
Children To Be Studied
Jennelsie Walden ’41
Harlem, that well-known Negro sec
tion of New York City, includes a con
glomeration of many different charac
ters and personalities, and of social and
economic situations. Harlem consists of
slums and boulevards, of criminals and
respectable people, the illiterates and
the intelligentsia, poverty and prosperity,
immorality and morality—each extreme
is represented. Problems arising as a
result of this mixed-up state are many.
How can Harlem’s various elements and
aspects be combined into one consolidat
ed, cooperative unit of social, economic,
and political success?
Harlem's destiny lies in the hands of
her younger generation—the school chil
dren, for, after all, they are her future
leaders. If this generation is aided to
attain high social, economic, and politi
cal ideals, the future Harlem will be a
much happier and more successful one
than the present.
For the first time, an attempt will be
made to study these problems. The
school teachers and educators of New
\ork City will meet with the well-known
social, religious, and welfare leaders to
discuss the problems peculiar to Harlem
and to analyze the needs of the district
as a whole. The purpose is to develop
a better understanding between the
schools and the various agencies in the
community.
The group will discuss questions per
taining to housing, recreation, juvenile
delinquency, economic conditions, and
racial prejudice. Every attempt will be
made to acquaint the teachers with those
problems facing the child and the parent.
Besides lectures, classroom conferences
will be held in which certain situations
may be examined in greater detail.
The whole idea has its origin with
James Marshall, president of the Board
of Education of New York City. He
states that this course is only the begin
ning in a series of studies to be made.
Dr. Jacob Greenberg, associate superin
tendent of schools, states, in addition,
that Harlem is not the only section to
be considered, but that similar courses
will be organized in other parts of New
York.
If the venture is successful, it will be
a great help. Harlem is a section hadly
in need of help along these lines, and if
the educator understands the problems
facing the community, he can become a
useful factor in remedying them.
Dulcy
Ida B. Wood ’39
On Friday night, November 18. 1938,
the first production of the University
Players for the year 1938-39 was given.
"Dulcy,” the play, and Dulcy, the char
acter were indeed enjoyable and enter
taining.
Edna Kyle as Dulcy was always the
dumb, over-zealous character that she
was portraying. The tenseness and high
pitch of her voice at times did not serve,
as it might have in any other characteri
zation, to detract from the character but
rather added to the picture of the kind
of woman Dulcy really was; but the high
thin voice that Mrs. Forbes used at times
did nothing to add to the interpretation
of her character; it left a rather grating
feeling on the ears of the listener. Also
Mrs. Forbes, played by Emma Clement,
was a bit too naive and young at times;
her part could have been a little more
adult.
James Nance as Mr. Forbes left us in
considerable doubt as to his exact char
acter. One minute he would rant and
lose his temper and the next he would
sit quietly by with the most docile and
contented look on his face and watch
the action of the other characters, and
then when his cue came he immediately
began to rant again. The actor could
have let the audience have a better un
derstanding of him if his facial expres
sions had carried out the thought of his
speeches.
The facial contortions of Angela,
played by Claretta Scott, especially in
her conversation with Tom, as played by
James Carr, detracted from what she
said; otherwise, however, her part was
well played. Mr. Smith and Mr. Van
Dyke, too, were well portrayed by Ra
phael Mclver and Samuel Thorpe, but
top honors for the performance should
probably go to Willie and Vincent Leach
as portrayed by Mayo Partee and Mr.
John M. Ross. Their speeches, as far as
expression, voice, and understanding are
concerned, were well given, and they put
themselves into the part so that Mayo
Partee and Mr. Ross were quite for
gotten. even after the last curtain was
drawn.
The costumes, sets, and lighting all
did credit to the University Players as
an organization as well as to the class
in Play Production. "Dulcy” has given
the succeeding plays a good stiff reputa
tion to live up to in spite of some state-
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A woman’s vision was responsible for
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the United States, and women all over the
world have been giving it help ever since.
“How far that little candle throws its
beams” . . . This well known speech of
Portia’s in The Merchant of Venice ap
plies to the theme on the 1938 Christmas
Seal. And the second line may be
changed to read—“So shines this little
symbol for a healthier world.”
The peasant custom of lighting a can
dle in the window on Christmas Eve has
come down through the ages and the
mother with her two children on this
year’s Seal links the seasonal ritual with
the ideal of family and home. The mes
sage of the Seal is “Protect your Home
from Tuberculosis.” To carry out the
suggestion of earlier days, the three char
acters are costumed in the formal style
of the Victorian Era, the period when
“Home” was idealized and holiday cus
toms meant much to old and young alike.
But little or nothing was known about
how to protect it from the arch-killer,
tuberculosis. Homes are safer today.
There is on hand sufficient knowledge to
control this disease. But we must not be
too complacent over the results. Day af
ter day, tuberculosis takes its toll to the
extent of one life every seven and one-
third minutes. It ranks first as a killer
in the important years from 15 to 45.
It is time to revitalize our efforts and
for all to unite in renewed determination
to conquer this enemy. Remember, “No
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