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CAMPUS MIRROR 5 Lucy Hale Tapley President of Spelman Seminary and Spelman College, 1910-1927 Why Not Better English? Anatol Reeves ’39 A few days ago three Spelman students were awarded ribbons for having very good posture, as a result of the good pos ture campaign sponsored by the Athletic Council. Good posture is one thing that helps give us charm. Another thing of great importance is our ability to express ourselves well in our own language. to society, to our schools, and to our selves we owe a debt that of being able to express ourselves in our own language. .Should we not. therefore, strive for better English. Spelman students? Perhaps we wonder in what way we owe this debt. When people meet us and con verse with us they usually ask what school or schools we attended. Our being able to express ourselves well is one way in which we can hold up the standard of our col lege. 1 nless we are born dumb, we communi cate with each other by means of spoken language. Society expects a Spelman stu dent to be able to articulate, enunciate, and pronounce properly. We are ex pected to have command of the funda mentals of English grammar, to refrain from mumbling, and to be able to express ourselves in a manner that can be under stood. Therefore let us strive not only to speak clearly and. according to certain conventional standards, to speak “cor rectly. but also to express ourselves with force and with grace. After all we help to Spelman College Glee Club and Orchestra Concert Martha Wright '39 The Spelman College Glee Club and Orchestra Concert under the direction of Mr. Willis Laurence James was witnessed by a large and appreciative audience in Howe Hall. Monday evening. April 10. The program opened with a group of selections by the Spelman Orchestra. This group included “Russian Airs” arranged by Delamater and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms-Delamater. These numbers were brilliantly rendered and were fol lowed by an encore “Intermezzo Russe” arranged by Delamater. The second group of selections, given by the Spelman Glee Club, included Come Unto the Yellow Sands by Purcell. Country Gardens (an English folk song) by Riegger. Ave Maria by Schubert-Rieg- ger. Ave Maria was sung wdth impressive effectiveness. The Soprano Solo, Dream Dawn by Weaver, which was sung by Mil dred Saffold, exhibited excellent training and unusual talent. Two very delightful features of the pro gram w'ere piano selections by Helen Stoddard and Bloneva Pride; Helen Stod dard played Nocturne by Grieg. Bloneva Pride played the Prelude in G Minor by Rachmaninoff. The Spelman Quartet sang Shepherd Maid, U hy Tarry arranged by Taylor. Franzetta Williams, who never fails to please her audience with the rare and fascinating beauty of her voice, sang a se lection from the opera Carmen—Je dis que rien ne rn epouvante by Bizet. This selection was followed by a group of selections by the Glee Club. This group consisted of Sweet and Low by Barnby- Williams. The Lamb by Dett and The Sleigh by Kountz-Baldwin. The program was appropriately con cluded with a group of Negro Jubilees and Spirituals which included / Know de Lord, II ade in de Water and See Fo’ an Twenty Elders. (Continued on Page 7) make the customs of our society. Our in fluence can be sometimes detrimental and at other times beneficial. Let us. Spelman students, strive to make our influence through language always beneficial. What debt do we owe ourselves? Don’t we desire self confidence? Don’t we want to be able to write and speak our lan guage in a manner pleasing to ourselves? Don’t we owe ourselves the best of every thing that is worth while? Then why not strive to speak and write better English? Let us not be ashamed or too proud to ad mit our limitations and let others help us. Our ability to express ourselves well in our own language depends upon our own taste and our observation of and sensi tiveness to good practice. Let us. there fore. pledge ourselves to use better Eng lish. Who accepts this challenge? Florence Matilda Read President of Spelman College, 1927—. Morehouse Glee Club and Orchestra in Concert Friday evening, March 31. at eight o clock a large and appreciative audience heard the Morehouse Glee Club and Or chestra in their annual concert in Sale Hall Chapel. The program was opened with a group of three selections by the Glee Club. Brothers, Sing On! by Grieg and ar ranged by Howard D. McKinney; Dreams by Beschnitt with the baritone solo inter preted by Jack Moses; and Reapers Song. a Bohemian folk song. For the second group Jerry Moore then sang the well loved baritone aria Even Bravest Heart. Tales from the Vienna Woods, a beauti ful \ iennese wmltz by Johann Strauss, wa • the selection chosen by the orchestra, after which the glee club returned with a group of four numbers including the beautiful Spirit Flower by Campbell-Tip- tnn; 7 he Star by Rogers; Just You by 11. I. Burleigh with the tenor solo beauti fully and convincingly interpreted by Charles C Iemmons. I he second half of the program was ini tiated by a brilliant and sympathetic in terpretation of the second and third move ments Romance and Allegro Moderato (Allar Zingara ) of the Wieniawski Con certo in I) Minor for violin by Richard Durant, \rnid enthusiastic applause Mr. Durant returned to the platform to play Korn Sasser Tod by Bach. I he Morehouse quartet composed of Charles Houston and Walter Harley, first and second tenors, and Jack Moses and Benjamin \nderson. first and second basses, then sang The Little Hills Ire Calling and }V Gain! (,it ) Lodgin' Here both b\ Edward Morris. Benjamin \nderson then gave a sympathetic and ((Continued on I’age 7 )