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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta. Georgia
VOL. XVI NOVEMBER, 1939 No. 2
K<*v«*ri«*s for Thanksgiving
Lynette Saine. '40
Place: The Inner-self of a Spelman
College young lady.
lime: Thanksgiving Day. November
23. 1939.
[Fond Memory of Thanksgiving en
ters.]
First Reverie
Fond M emory: I am happy today be
cause your college life has not blotted
out the Thanksgivings of yesteryears,
grandly simple and impressive. Yes. that
i- just tin- way that you looked, rosy
faced, rapt in expression, hearing from
the lips of your mother the story of the
Pilgrims, and looking at pictures of
them, their quaint dres-. Bibles under
the ir arms, beating a path through the
snow to the near-by church, to give
thanks to a God who had dealt bounti
fully with them. Quickly you shifted
your attention to the delicious dinner -
steaming baked turkey buried in rich
dressing, cakes, pies, and nuts. That
night, exhausted, but happy, you fell
asleep, protected and in an attitude of
simple Thanksgiving.
Second Reverie
[Fond Memory discovers other
thoughts.]
Fond Memory: What did I see there
as my reverie ended? Little forms, that
represent phases of experiences through
the years, draw near. A* they pa" I
diall challenge them in the spirit of
Thanksgiving.
Exhibit on “The Negro in
American Life** at Library
An exhibit of library material on the
“Negro in American Life” was shown
in the foyer of the Atlanta University Li
brary from October 28 through Novem
ber 13. The exhibit, which covered the
period from the Civil W ar to 1900. in
cluded books and manuscripts on slavery,
the place of Negro soldiers in the North
ern armies, the reconstruction era, and
the development of Negro schools and
colleges. Photographs and writings of
some of the leaders of the period were
also displayed. Among these were “Flet
cher's Studies in Slavery” written in de
fense of slaveholding; Siebert’s "The Un
derground Railroad;” and 'Walker's ap
peal.”—the first work of a Negro ad
vocating rebellion. The exhibit includes
some of the history written during the
Reconstruction Era. and some of the life
and works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar
and Booker T. Washington.
The exhibit was assembled by the case
Extension Circuit Cooperative of New
York City, from the Schomberg Collec
tion of the 135th Street Branch of the
New York Public Library.
Ah! Adventure, the spirit of youth,
you tinge her being with enthusiasm.
Let her always be thankful for your
daring in those things that are uplifting.
Mistakes and rash decisions, you are
not demons, but danger signs. Make her
thankful for your warnings that guard
her and create in her tolerant attitudes
toward others.
There is one that will not move, but
it draws me toward it. It is self con
trol; this force that tempers extremes,
that urges, motivates, and guides be
comes the heritage of all who would
rise. Then, the beauty of love too great
for a meager form, too radiant for a
simple space, crowns my message of
Thank sgiving to you.
Third Reverie
Fond Memory: Farewell, my lady fair,
until Thanksgiving Day. nineteen-forty.
I must leave to the wide world my
refrain:
“Be thankful unto Him and bless His
Name.
For His Mercy i- everlasting.
\nd Hi- Truth endureth to all gen
erations.”