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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Students' Own Publication
"Service in Unity”
THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Alma Stone
Associate Editors-in-Chief Isolyn Comer
Penelope L. Bullock
Editors of News Elizabeth Lipford
Maude J. Gray
Special Features Marjorie Greene
Asso. Ed. of Special Features. Minnie Wood
Sports and Jokes Genevieve Parks
Exchange Editor Beverly Washington
Social Editor Gladys Forde
Music Editor Ollie Franklin
Art Editor Jennelsie Walden
Business Staff
Business Manager Georgia Oswell
Secretary Zenobia White
Treasurer Gladys Holloway
Advertising Manager Alfred Taylor
Circulation Manager Ella Tyree
Faculty Advisor Miss M. Mae Neptune
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Vol. XVI. October. 1 939 No. 1
Editorial
If it were possible to find a hill high
enough that we might survey the entire
world from its pinnacle, we should see
human beings scurrying to and fro seek
ing a thing that they never completely
find. We should see one with his micro
scope, one with a telescope, another
with a magistrate’s cap and gavel, one
with theories, formulae, or prehistoric
fossils, and one gazing deeply into a
child’s clear eyes, and we should know
that all of them with their many voices
are crying. “What, where, how is truth?”
There is a legend that Gabriel sent
Ithuriel to earth armed with a magic
spear wfith which he had only to touch
an object to learn its true identity. The
first thing that he uncovered was Satan
in the form of a toad whispering in the
ear of Eve.
Truth in its largest sense is universal
truth, the thing for which the mathe
matician. the philosopher, and the scien
tist are seeking. This includes the laws
that began to operate at the creation of
the world and have only to be discov
ered and harnessed, and it includes the
beginning and purpose of the universal
scheme of things.
Another aspect of truth is concerned
with interpretations and significances of
past events. In this group the historian
seeks such things as the true begin
nings of language, the true causes of the
Peasant Revolt, and the many causes
and significances of the Great World
War. Men discover most of these, in
fact at least, when the lapse of time
gives their view perspective. But the
truth is there. It remains only to be
realized.
The most important of these aspects
of truth to the man in the street is the
truth about himself—the truth he must
say or leave unsaid: the facts that he
tells others about himself and his rela-
CAMPUS MIRROR
Mr. Philip M. Davis Dies
in Atlanta
Following an extended illness of sev
eral months, Mr. Philip MacDonald Da
vis, Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds for Spelman College since 1924,
died at his home on September 12. Mr.
Davis was born in Faunsdale, Alabama,
and graduated from Morehouse College
in 1911, in the same college class with
President Mordecai Johnson, and Presi
dent John W. Davis of West Virginia
State College. After his graduation he
became principal of the Slater Public
School in Birmingham, Alabama, and
held this position until 1920, when he
was invited by Dr. John Hope to be
come business manager at Morehouse
College. In 1924 Mr. Davis resigned this
position to become superintendent of
Grounds and Buildings at Spelman. In
1922 Mr. Davis was elected president of
the National Morehouse Alumni Asso
ciation. He was the founder and one time
editor of the Morehouse Alumni Quar
terly, forerunner of the Morehouse Alurn-
tions with other men; the truth that he
tells his conscience when he does a little
self-survey; the truth that he must face
or turn from when some one stimulus
says “Tell me the truth.” A loyalty to
this type of truth is the thing that makes
men of human beings and makes the
world a more liveable place.
Men who discover great truths and use
them for the good of humanity become
the tall sons of history that men revere
and admire. And those who refuse to
face truth when a mighty decision must
be made are the Judases and Pilates of
mankind.
In spite of those who discourage all
longing for knowledge, the search for
truth continues to hold its fascination.
Those who discover a part of it lose their
narrow conceit and walk with full hu
mility upon that hill where the air is
clear and their view unclouded.
Dr. Kirhard Hurst Mill
Passes Away
Spelman College lost one of its most
loyal friends when Dr. Richard Hurst
Hill, secretary to the president of How
ard University, passed away this sum
mer. Dr. Hill was a frequent guest at
Spelman, his annual visits each being an
occasion that the students looked forward
to with pleasure. His last visit to the
campus in the spring of this year lasted
from March 23 through March 26. Dur
ing this time he spoke in four chapel
services and at prayer meeting. One of
his most stirring messages was woven
around the words, “And to you, Aaron.
Moses shall be God.” His wealth of ex
perience and the vast amount of infor
mation at his command made him al
ways in demand for conferences and
talks to organizations and small groups.
The ease with which he could be ap
proached and his smiling, friendly man
ner won him more friends each time
that he visited the campus.
His death was, indeed, a blow to mem
bers of the Spelman community who had
come to know and admire him greatly.
Coming
The Senior Class will present a movie
on Thanksgiving Eve. Watch the bulle
tin boards for further notices and look
forward to an evening of highly delight
ful entertainment.
nus. During the Morehouse Endowment
Campaign which began in 1928. Mr.
Davis travelled widely in the interest of
the school and his efforts were very suc
cessful in helping Morehouse to obtain
its goal of $300,000.
In spite of his many duties to Spelman
and Morehouse College, Mr. Davis found
time to serve Friendship Baptist Church
as one of its most conscientious mem
bers. Among his survivors are Mrs.
Madeleine Smith Davis, his wife; three
children, Philip MacDonald, Jr., a sen
ior at Morehouse, Griffith and Dovie
Madeleine, students at the Laboratory
School.
Hosts of friends of Mr. Davis with
his co-workers attest his ability to plan
work and different enterprises wisely and
bring them to completion in good time;
and any of these friends and co-workers
could tell of the delightful human side
of this man who could see at a flash an
important situation which required some
special turn of schedule or change of ar
rangement and could put this thing
through too without upsetting any settled
order of business or veering from the
straight line of order or good business.
The Staff of the Campus Mirror with
past staff members w r ish to pay especial
honor to Mr. Davis as one of their most
loyal supporters and helpers in solving
their numerous problems.