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CAMPUS MIRROR
The Athletic Council
On Graduating from
College
Minnie E. Wood
World, we come to conquer thee!
We will not be as others
Repelled by doubts,
Made bitter by failure,
Crushed by defeat!
We know thy ways,
The rancid hate.
The awful terror of wars and rumors of
wars.
We’ve seen expectant faces
Made bleak by black despair
And utter hopelessness of all thy wicked
ways.
We bring new knowledge
To change thy course,
But. though thou slayest us,
Defeat will not be ours,
If we can ease the pain of fainting hearts
And bring fresh vigor to thee. Sated
World!
Another Spring
Elizabeth Lipford, '41
Each year we look forward with in
creased delight and anticipation to the
coming of another spring. And each one,
as it arrives, seems to he more glorious
than the one that preceded it. Spring
gets inside of us. as no other season does,
perhaps it is the birth of tilings—an oc
casion which is always joyful.
Eor thousands of years nature has been
renewing and recreating itself. Each
epoch has shaped itself in comformity
witli its time. If spring teaches us any
thing at all. it tells us to keep renewing,
changing to conform with newly discover
ed ideas and methods, and to keep on the
alert, not to lag but to work on.
Spring's greatest suggestion to us i-
that we clean out our hearts and let in
the sunshine so that the flowers therein
may become more resplendent, more fra
grant.
Student Appreciations
Vernice Chenault
The influence and effects of two sup
ply teachers on Spelman campus this
year have been such that many students
wish to express their gratitude for the
fine teaching and fine personal influence
of each.
Those connected directly with Miss
Edith Diggs know that in the classroom
her patience is never worn even to those
whose comprehension might seem abso
lutely hopeless. Who remembers the
equilibrium chapter where the instructor
repeatedly made statements more than
five times in one hour without seeming to
he disturbed? The answer is always. ‘‘Yes,
that could be so. hut that takes us right
back to the first statement,” and again it
is repeated.
Those indirectly connected with her
know she is not only a patient, thorough
instructor in the classroom, but also a
lovable companion out-of-doors. There
hasn’t been a day in the year that she was
not willing to take a tennis pupil for a
game. Her time was your time.
Mr. Faust has opened our eyes to the
fact that English literature must reflect
life and by so doing one understands that
life is not a mere existence and we, by
common sense, must tackle the world with
a faith that it can be conquered. Our posi
tion as Spelman Negro youth is to join
the army of other fighting Negro college
youth and face life “squarely, stand up
for a tiling as long as it is right.”
He has taught us an appreciation of
beauty of life that we cannot lose. “Our
main purpose.’ he states, “is to study and
learn more about life and be able to go
into the world to instruct others how to
prepare themselves for usefulness."
To recognize and acknowledge this in
debtedness lifts us. we hope, to a little
worthiness of the gifts of light and
friendship we have received.
Class History
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lowed by Harriet Williams, and in our
Senior year Susie Taylor.
The class realizes and appreciates the
numerous rich experiences it was offered
by the college and which we attempted to
repay in part by our participation and co
operation with the college in its endeav
ors and our loyalty to it.
Our ranks have not remained station
ary. We have lost members to the young
married set. namely Agatha Anderson and
Sybil Carter. Others have left us for oth
er colleges and institutions. Lois Bently
left to pursue nurse training. Some mem
bers have spurted on ahead and left the
class, some have had to interrupt their col
lege careers for a while and some few have
lagged behind. Our class, along with the
Harreld String Quartette, regrets that
Geraldine Ward was unable to finish her
senior year; Geraldine was violoncellist
in the string quartette. We have had some
additions to our ranks; among these were
Frances Mason, Martha Wright. Janice
Davis. Lenore Brooks, Lucile Hall. Mar
tha Mainor, Margaret Creagh. Ida Wood.
Florence Martin and Mrs. Bernice Wal
lace and Mrs. Eula Eagleson.
Not all of our development has been
along cultural lines. Harriet Williams de
veloped from a girl in curls in our fresh
man year to a young lady with a ball by
the end of our senior year. After the in
vasion from Mars on the quiet of a Sun
day evening, the entire class of 1939 re
affirmed their faith in Peace. Although
the young ladies of Spelman are adults or
approximately so, this spring there were
so many victims of mumps on the cam
pus that it practically resulted in an epi
demic. Speaking of epidemics, we did
have an influenza epidemic which caused
us to he quarantined, effective only over
that long anticipated holiday.
The field of English has claimed most
of the members of this year's graduating
class; Home Economics is second; His
tory. third, and French, fourth. The two
chemists, Annie Lowe and Dorothea Bos
ton. along with Dorothy Forde and Sarah
Jones in Biology, form the Science divi
sion of the class. The Williamses, Harriet
and Julia, take over the Mathematics;
Bloneva Pride and Grace Days share the
Music department; Mrs. Eula Eagleson
is alone in the Social Sciences and Susie
Taylor is the sole Economics major.
Out of the number who arrived with us
only 48 remain, hut our conviction to lofty
ideals and our determination to attain
them have not diminished, but have been
concentrated, and we have girded our
selves to the fight for this end.
Doctor: “Let me see your tongue,
please.”
Patient: “It - no use. doctor. No tongue
ran tell how bad I feel.