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CAMPUS MIRROR
8
Simple Things
The longer some of us live, the more
do the simple things of life grow upon
us, interest, and absorb all our love.
A child at play, a dog on a mat, a
flower poking its nose out for its first
visit in the world, a sudden summer
shower, a worker in the fields, a singing
bird on a branch in some deserted coun
try lane—what is more restful or more
inspired than these simple things?
Alexander Smith, in his essay, “A
Shelf in My Bookcase” says of Haw
thorne: “He does not require to go far
for a subject; he will stare on a puddle
in the street of a New England village,
and immediately it becomes a Mediter
ranean Sea with empires lying on its
muddy shores.”
Many people dislike hotel eating
places, where display and glamour, and
artificiality are so supreme, yet purpose
less. These same people would rather
eat in a humble farmhouse, with the
roosters crowing outside, and the horses
neighing in the stalls.
Once in a while many people are com
pelled, for some reason or other, to get
into dress clothes and parade off to some
affair—usually a boring experience. At
such times, most people never feel them
selves. But at a little rough camp by the
side of a creek, they can be 100 per cent
in feeling natural. The people we meet
there are real and genuine lovers of na
ture’s ornaments which are all simple
though magnificent.
Basketball
Finally, after many months of hopeful
waiting, the intra-mural basketball games
have begun.
So far, there have been many, many
games played. Why not show your class
spirit and hasten down for an hour and
help cheer your class to victory.
This year there has been inaugurated
a system of coaching. Each class has one
or two members from the Athletic Coun
cil aiding in the task of preparing for
the games.
Coaches are:
Seniors—Evelyn Seace, Edith Arnold,
and Mildred Cuthbert.
Juniors—Ernestince Strickland.
Freshmen—Eddie Bush and Penelope
Bullock.
The basketball season will officially
end on March 1, with a big game be
tween the Blues and Whites in the More
house gym. “We hope, we hope, we
hope.”
Come down and watch the games even
though you do not play!
On College Dining Halls
From a class report and suggestions
made in class discussions, Personal Serv
ice Class 102—Section 1 submits the fol
lowing article to the Spelman students:
Table manners? Yes, good table man
ners, a very common every day practice;
that is, table manners should lie a com
mon every day practice. But how many
college students really practice good ta
ble manners?
Oh, it’s not because we don’t know bet
ter that we rest our elbows on the table
or do other little things that etiquette out
laws for dining rooms. No, it’s not that
at all. Rather, we have formed a unique
idea in our mind’s eye of the sort of place
that a college dining room really is. We
do not think that the rules which we
ordinarily follow at the dinner table at
home should hold for college dining
rooms.
Aside from table etiquette, there are
several other things going on in college
dining halls that might well be abolished.
However, perhaps a few suggestions as
to what to do, rather than a long list of
things not to do, would be most bene
ficial. so here follows such a list:
1. If we feel that we need something
with which to amuse ourselves while
we are waiting to be served, then
let’s bring along a small toy or game,
and leave our silver in place.
2. Let’s place our books on the floor or
leave them outside. They’re not good
to eat.
3. Let’s find a new place for elbows,
one below the level of the table.
4. Let’s keep our feet on the floor in
front of us.
5. Let’s ask our neighbor to pass us
the bread, instead of reaching for it.
6. Let’s open our mouths only when
there’s nothing in them except the
necessary tongue and teeth.
7. Let’s show our appreciation for our
backbones by using them to sit up
straight.
8. Let’s make our conversation general
and pleasant.
9. Let’s save our remarks about the
food; perhaps someone is hungry.
10. Let’s pass the salt and pepper, not
slide them.
11. Let’s be quiet when announcements
are being made.
12. Let’s d ress to go to our meals, which
are after all semi-social occasions.
13. Let’s treat our waitresses more like
people, and they’ll be kinder to us.
14. Let’s take more time to say grace at
dinner, and perhaps even sing it oc
casionally.
These are the points, which, the Per
sonal Service class thinks, should be
practiced in any and every college din
ing hall.
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