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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
The Students' Own Publication
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THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF
Edilor-in-Chiof Nina Charlton
Associate Editors-in-Chief Catherine Acklin
Charlie W. McNeill
News Editor . . Gwendolyn Harrison
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Marguerite Pearson
Sports and Jokes Carolyn Taylor
Music Editor Dora Kennedy
Social Editor Madeline Patterson
Art Editors Geneva Higgins
Mary Parks
Ethel Boykin
Lois Blayton
Special Features Ida Kilpatrick
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Business Manager Ella Lett
Circulation Manager Del Alexa Eagan
Treasurer..... Charlotte Linder
Secretaries ...Marie Lauray
Marion Edwards
Advertising Manager Eleanor Milton
Exchange Editor Lelabelle Freeman
Faculty Advisor Claudia White Harreld
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Vol. XX December, 1943 No. 3
Editorial
To you, dear readers, the Campus
Mirror staff extends wishes for a Merry
Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous
New Year. We hope that 1944 will hold
for you the fulfillment of your every high
desire and ambition, that peace and hap
piness may be a part of your innermost
life in an even more abundant measure
than in 1943.
As the old year passes out and the
New Year comes in to take its place, we
pause to look back, to count our bless
ings in the twelve months past and to
make preparations to build on the foun
dations we have laid in the last 365 days.
In January, 1943, we formed resolutions
that we intended to keep, we made plans
we intended to carry out, and we even
dreamed of doing all those things that
we had put off doing for so long. Condi
tions, over some of which we may have
had no immediate control, caused us to
break some of our resolutions, to change
our plans, and even to continue to pro
crastinate about doing those tilings that
had accumulated over the years. How
ever, many of our actions were guided
by our inner selves rather than by ex
ternal circumstances, and many of us
allowed our feet to stray from the path
we had set for ourselves. As a result we
are unhappy and our unhappiness has
affected the lives of those near to us.
The development of self-control is es
sential in every man’s successful living.
The ability to say to yourself. “I can
do it.*’ and then do it is one of the great
est assets necessary in climbing to the
goals you set for yourself before you
found the going tough. There are stu
dents who want a college degree but are
CAMPUS MI It R 0 It
Spelman Student Wins
Contest
Each year the Georgia Tuberculosis
Association sponsors an essay contest
that is open to college students, in which
young people from all over the state of
Georgia participate. The subject of the
essay deals with some phase of the fight
against the dread disease. The interest
in this fight is shown by the large num
ber of essays that were submitted.
For the year 1943 Dora Kennedy, a
sophomore, was the winner of the twenty-
five dollar first prize for her entry en
titled, “Community Control of Tubercu
losis.” The award was made by Mrs.
Ludie Andrews.
Spelman is proud of Dora Kennedy
who has so admirably carried on the
Spelman tradition of doing one’s bit in
a worthy cause.
unwilling to settle down and work for it.
\ou will get out of a course just what
you put into it. If you put nothing into
it, nothing will be gained and time is lost.
It seems that few students have the in
clination to search for the facts behind
a statement but rather are satisfied with
the superficial knowledge gleaned from
rapidly scanning the assignment before
going to class.
What has happened to the high ideals
and aspirations we had when we finished
high school and made our plans to come
to college? Have we become absorbed
by the shallow offerings of the world or
have we decided that it just isn’t worth
while to strive? Have we allowed our
selves to be engulfed by those around us
so that we have lost whatever ambitions
we had?
If we have become attracted by the
superficialities of the world it is time we
woke up and took hold of ourselves. It
is time we began to listen to the voice
within us and change our way of living.
The realm of accomplishment offers no
bed of roses nor does it offer a crystal
stair, except to those who work hard and
make for themselves a place that will be
theirs and theirs alone. We cannot go
through life taking the easy road because,
without the putting forth of effort, we
shall find when we need security, that
there will be none.
When we make our resolutions for the
year 1944, it might be well to sit awhile
and meditate on ourselves and try
through reflection and self-examination
to see just what we are doing with our
lives. We are given but one life and the
way that life is lived is our problem. Are
we burdens or do we make ourselves
worthy of the love and care that our
parents have bestowed upon us for so
many years? Now is the time to develop
self-control. “Never put off until tomor
row what you can do today.”
What the Campus Is Reading
ORDEAL, by NEVIL SHUTE
Ordeal is the story of Peter Corbett
and his family at the outbreak of World
War II. It could, however, lie the story
of almost any family living in England
at that time. Peter’s trials anti hardships
were the same dilemmas confronting
countless thousands, so that while we
read with our eyes the fast moving story
of Peter Corbett, we can see in our minds
a nation of Peter Corbetts, confused, un
settled, bewildered, but eventually ad
justing and readjusting their lives to the
changes imposed upon them.
Prior to the war Peter Corbett was a
substantial, middle-class property own
er. He was the junior partner of a firm
in Southampton, living there in a com
fortable home in the suburbs with bis
wife, Joan, and their three children,
Phyllis, 6, John, 3, and the infant Joan.
Like most men of his class, he owned “a
car, second hand, and a yacht, sixteenth
hand.” These luxuries and his family ab
sorbed his entire income. His life was
well-ordered and moved along uneventful
ly from day to day.
One night, unexpectedly, the sleeping
countryside was rudely awakened. The
phones went dead, electricity was cut off
and slowly to their dulled minds came
the realization that “this must be an air
raid.” Once aware of the existing dan
ger, the alarmed community sought safe
shelter.
The following morning Southampton
resumed business and went about the task
of repairing the damage inflicted during
that first horrible night. Communication
was still dead, there was no gas, elec
tricity, or milk for the children. There
had been a break in the sewerage sys
tem so that water was scarce. All of the
former conveniences that had before been
taken for granted were now desirable
luxuries.
But that was only the beginning. The
novelty and the tingle of excitement that
had been induced by that first air raid
was lost as night after night, under cover
of darkness and fog the stealthy marau
ders returned. They had no objective;
they merely “dumped their loads” and
left. Despite the nightly terror that those
peace-loving people endured, they con
tinued to rebuild, repair and replace.
It required a great deal more suffering
than that already endured before the
Corbetts and their kind would even con
sider uprooting their well-planned and
well-ordered lives. Their decision to
move, their calm acceptance of this new
kind of living, the growing desire of
Peter Corbett to help in the fight, his
reluctance to leave his wife and family
until certain of their safety, are develop
ments interestingly narrated by Nevil
Shute.
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