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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta. Georgia
VOL. XVII OCTOBER. 1940 No. 1
Clark College
Because we have looked forward to
the Clark College project for some time,
Spelman, Morehouse, and Atlanta Uni
versity students may he seen quite often
watching, with unusual lay-interest, the
various laborers at their work. This
project is distinctly an improvement of
note. Enclosed in the section of the At
lanta University Campus bounded by
Creensferry Avenue, Chestnut, Fair, and
Lawshe Streets, the buildings will at
tract much added attention to the already
world-renowned Atlanta University Cam
pus and System.
The erection of this new school marks
another mile-stone in the development
of the Atlanta University System begun
in 1929 with the conversion of Atlanta
University into a graduate school and
iis affiliation with Morehouse and Spel
man Colleges. Following this affiliation
four new buildings were constructed,
the Administration Building, the Libra
ry. a President’s residence, and the At
lanta University Dormitory. A few years
later the school that we now know as the
Atlanta University School of Social Work
became a part of the University System.
\\ ithout doubt, during the next decade
the Atlanta University System will ex
ceed even its present record and become
the outstanding center for Negro educa
tion in the world.
With the addition of new students,
campus life and activities will lie greatly
enhanced, while the old spirit of friendly
rivalry between Clark and Morehouse
will express a new note. The students
of Spelman sincerely wish to express
their appreciation for the addition of
Clark, with possibly a premature but
most hearty welcome and wish for her
much success among her new friends.
Granddaughters Club Begins
Thirtieth Year At S, xlnian
It was in 1910, under the initiative of
Miss Lucy Houghton Upton, then Gen
eral Secretary of Spelman Seminary,
that the Granddaughters Club was first
organized. Miss Lucy Hale Tapley was
President of the school. Students whose
mothers had graduated from Spelman
automatically became active members of
the Club: students whose mothers had
attended Spelman but did not graduate
were made associate members. The pur-
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Florence M. Rend, President
As we read and we listen these days,
we observe renewed emphasis on certain
fine old words that have not appeared
so frequently in current fiction and cur
rent journalism for the last two decades.
For example,
Hardihood Audacity
Perseverance Endurance
Fortitude Fidelity
Sacrifice Loyalty
In spite of the evil and confusion and
destruction in the world. I believe that
you young people in college today are
fortunate to live when the sturdy virtues
are being applauded. We are all com
ing to see that the purpose of life is not
just to “have a good time.” Let us hear
again the words of Chaucer to young
Richard about 1380—
“Dred God. do law. love trouthe and
worthinesse,
And wed thy folk agein to stedfastnesse.'
We are helped to be strong if we as
sociate. both in our reading and our liv
ing. with men and women who have been
faithful to duty who have triumphed
even though, using phrases of Winston
Churchill, hardship has been their com
panion and constancy and valor their
only shield.
Last summer I saw in Edinburgh the
statue given by friends of Scotland in
America of a Scottish youth in kilts,
looking up to Edinburgh Castle on the
President Mays At Vespers
The Spelman College community was
introduced to Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
newly elected President of Morehouse
College, at its first Vesper service of the
year. Dr. Mays gave a practical discus
sion of the various concepts of freedom
and the resulting attitudes toward life
and its problems.
In his talk, he pointed out that two
people, both forming honest opinions
as the result of logical thinking, can
have two decidedly different ideas con
cerning the same situation. One group
of spies, making a report to Moses on
the land of Canaan prior to the entry
of the Israelites, said that the inhabi
tants of the land were giants, that the
Israelites were, in comparison, grass
hoppers; therefore they felt that it would
be impossible to conquer Canaan. The
other group said that it w r as true that
the Canaanites were a relatively pow
erful people; but that the task of con
quering Canaan should be undertaken.
Both had made accurate reports, but
they differed. Why? The divergence of
opinion lay in the concept of freedom
which each group had. To the first
group, freedom w T as a physical, a visible
thing, independent of the character of
the person concerned. To them, the diffi
culties of life were insurmountable. But
the second group saw' freedom as an in
ward quality of the mind and character
of the person. John Bunyan. Paul. Soc
rates.—all were in prison, yet all were
free, for they made themselves greater
than their difficulties and overcame them.
And so must every student do, if she
is to meet life and its problems suc
cessfully. We may sit in our rooms and
brood over our mothers and fathers and
wish that we were at home, or we may
overcome this feeling of homesickness
and make the proper adjustment to the
college community. The “can" or “can't’
of every task lies within the individual.
After hearing this encouraging talk,
we anxiously await the next engagement
of President Mays on the campus.
hill above and to the sky beyond, and I
rea< I this inscription:
“If it In- life that wait".
1 shall live forever uneonquercd;
If death. 1 shall die at last
Strong in my pride and free.*
— Florence M. Read.