The Campus mirror. (Atlanta, Georgia) 1924-19??, April 01, 1943, Image 1
Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
Vol. XIX
APRIL, 1943
No. 7
HIGH CROSS OF MO.N ASTERBOICE This Irish Celtic Cross is a shape and design built by
the Iri**h from the 8th to the 12th centuries; 55 of these still remain in Ireland. Besides the
ornamentation most of these crosses have groups of figures representing various subjects of
sacred historv such as the crucifixion.
Special Meditations Mark
Observance of Holy Week
SUN.—The Triumphal Entry—Dr. A. W.
Loos, Spelman College.
MON.—The Cleansing of the Temple—Rev.
Phillip M. Widenhouse, Central Congre
gational Church, Atlanta.
TUES.—The Warning Against the Pharisees
—Verse-speaking choruses from Freshman
English classes.
WED.—The Promise of Transubstantiation—
Rev. John C. Wright, First Congregational
Church, Atlanta.
THURS.—The Intercessory Prayer for Man
■—Rev. D. Talmadge Murray, Radcliffe
Memorial Presbyterian Church, Atlanta.
THURS. - Special Prayer Service — The
Cricifixion — Verse-chorus rendition of
James Weldon Johnson's dramatic sermon
from God's Trombones, adapted for verse-
speaking groups by Dr. Ira de A. Reid;
directed and staged by Balwin W. Bur
roughs.
FRI.—The Mystery of The Cross—Dr. A. W.
Loos.
Founders Day Exercise
The world has had the wrong kind of
progress, Dr. Everett C. Herrick, president of
Andover-Newton Theological School, told
students, alumni, faculty, and friends on Sun
day, April 11, in Sisters Chapel at the Foun
ders Day exercises commemorating the 62nd
anniversary of Spelman College. The time
has come, he said, when attitudes must be
revamped and the world made humble if the
right sort of progress is to come about. Dr.
Herrick based his address on John Bunyan’s
famous allegory “The Pilgrim’s Progress.”
The trouble with the world today, pointed
out the speaker, is that there has been too
much concentration on getting ahead without
the proper attention given to what goes along
with progress. Challenging his listeners to
become pilgrims, he stated that although
there were many difficulties along the way
a true pilgrim would build and not destroy
the ideals which are the sweet humanities of
life. The right sort of progress would not be
on any royal road but on a hard road that
ultimately would lead to God. Pilgrims are
the freest of God s children when they are
free. Dr. Herrick emphasized. He urged
those present to search night and day for
the vision living in the heart of humanity
which is waiting to be captured.
The speaker paid tribute to Miss Harriet
E. Giles and Miss Sophia B. Packard, foun
ders of Spelman, whom he described a« pi!
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