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CAMPUS MIRROR
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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“Service in Unity”
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Vol. XVI March, 1940 No. 6
We must feel and experience them.
On Founder’s Day we pause to pay
tribute to those Christian souls who have
given their lives in the founding ami up
building of Spelman College. We also
pause now' to rekindle or to feed the
flame of our school spirit. We review the
work of our founders, our friends, our
presidents, and our graduates; and
through all this history we find the per
vading and guiding ideals of the school.
At this time we rededicate ourselves to a
life infused with and guided by these
fine ideals.
We must not only sing the words from
our songs
“Spelman, thy name we praise,
Standards and honor raise,
We'll ever faithful be
Throughout eternity.”
and
“From your ideals we'll ne’er depart;
You will live in every heart.”
We must also live them joyously.
Editorial
Penelope Buli.ock ’41
Any institution that has lived as long
as Spelman has, that has done as great
a work, and that has such a hopeful fu
ture as Spelman, that institution has
been able to live, to prosper, and to hope
just because it has certain high and
noble ideals. These ideals are the core
of its existence; around them is built
everything else that the institution is
and does. These ideals are the life-blood
of the institution. They provide a goal to
which the work of the institution is dedi
cated. As long as the institution carries
on the work for which it was founded,
its ideals cannot die; they become
strengthened, more real, and more vital.
Spelman College has such ideals and it
is these which constitute the school spirit.
It is these ideals which serve as a bond
drawing us into closer communion and
fellowship with our school. Only when
we have recognized these ideals and
made them a part of us, are we “true
Spelman girls.” Only then have we
caught the school spirit, and can live it
joyously. So we must examine ourselves
and at the same time find whether or
not the ideals of our school do live in
us. The school spirit is highly valuable,
and it is within the reach of all of us
to cultivate it in the way we think and
live. Thus the complaint of some of us
should not be that there is no school
spirit; it should be that we ourselves
have not yet found interest in this spirit,
for so dear and vital a thing cannot be
acquired by a mere process of injection
performed by some one else, while we
put forth no effort and feel no interest.
First, there must be that something in
us which reaches out to these ideals, un
derstands and appreciates them. Then
we must make them a part of ourselves.
Seventy-Third Anniversary
Observed by Morehouse
College
The seventy-third anniversary of the
founding of Morehouse College was
marked by a series of programs present
ed by Morehouse Alumni at many places
throughout the United States during the
week of February 18.
In keeping with its tradition of pre
senting an outstanding Morehouse grad
uate as the Founders’ Day speaker, the
institution selected for this year the Rev.
Samuel A. Owens, 1911, pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, Memphis,
Tennessee. In Sale Hall, Sunday after
noon. February 18. Mr. Owens rededi
cated Morehouse College to the original
mission for which it was founded, the
mission of training Christian leaders.
“Morehouse first started out to develop
safe and sympathetic leaders.’ he said,
“and we need like characters today if
the college is not to depart from the
principle of faith, and if it is to keep
alive in the spirit in which it was born.
Dean B. R. Brazeal. ’27, presided and
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Mrs. Walter Ruth Madison
Webster
Spelman Class of 37, with a host of
college friends and others, were recently
saddened by the announcement of the
death of Walter Ruth Madison, ’37. of
appendicitis. Since her marriage to Mr.
Charles Webster, Morehouse alumnus,
shortly after her graduation, they have
resided in Nashville, where her death oc
curred. The body was brought to At
lanta and the funeral held at the First
Congregational Church.
The John Hope Memorial
Service
Kathryn Brown, ’41
On February 22, 1940, in Sale Hall
Chapel, the senior class of Morehouse
College sponsored the fifth annual John
Hope Memorial Exercises. The speaker
for the occasion was Charles F. Ander
son, who urged his classmates to accept
the challenge that lies in the life of such
a man as Dr. John Hope, whose life and
deeds form a source of inspiration not
equalled by many. The recipient of many
honors, Dr. Hope accepted them all in
the calm manner characteristic of him,
for his nature was never spoiled.
Possessed of keen insight and sound
judgment. Mr. Hope placed constant
stress upon the development of the in
tellect, recognizing the dire necessity of
the Negro race for inspired intellectual
leadership. One of his favorite sayings
used to be “Loose the man and let him
go.” Let him go, and get free from all
the things that tend to hold him down.
By patient and enduring labor, let him
go. During his lifetime, Dr. Hope did a
great deal to “Loose the man and let him
go.” He has been likened unto a tree
that does not wither, and whose roots
spread far beneath the ground. That the
tree was good can be seen by its fruits.
“Examine the fruits, and you cannot
doubt the worth of the tree.”
Dr. Hope has not lived in vain, for his
good works live after him. He had a
great capacity for leadership, and used it
to help all those with whom he came in
to contact. The members of the Atlanta
University System will never forget the
extent to which it owes its present state
of development to its first president, John
Hope. It is for us to accept the challenge
that he has left behind him—to he “up
and doing” in the betterment of our race.
Immediately after the address, Jerry
Moore sang a beautiful arrangement of
the Negro Spiritual, Let My People Go!
Following, the services in the chapel
came the ceremonial of placing a wreath
on Dr. Hope’s grave. A holy sort of still
ness seemed to prevade the air as tribute
was paid to one who had devoted his
life to the development of Negro educa
tion. It seemed as if the spirit of the
great leader himself hovered over the
crowd as the men of Morehouse solemnly
pledged to hold dear and sacred the
ideals of their institution as conceived
and taught by Dr. John Hope. The pro
gram was ended with the singing of
“Dear Old Morehouse."
Frankie L. Coles
Miss Frankie Coles passed on Feb
ruary 18. 1940. She entered Spelman
with the present Junior Class, but was
forced to withdraw during her sopho
more year because of ill health.