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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOL. XX APRIL, 1914 NO. 7
United Negro College Fund
After months of deliberation by lead
ing educators and trustees of education
al institutions, twenty-seven outstanding
Negro colleges and universities have
joined in promoting a movement called
the United Negro College Fund.
The organization of this combined ef
fort is in keeping with modern trends in
money-raising for the support of philan
thropic enterprises, and for the Negro in
stitutions it appears to be a sound solu
tion of the financial difficulties that the
war has brought to all private educa
tional organizations. Since the problems
of each unit are the problems of all, a
single campaign, replacing twenty-seven
separate and distinct money-raising ef
forts, will reduce campaigning costs,
conserve manpower among the volun
teer leadership, eliminate duplication of
effort, and result in a sounder fiscal
policy. Hence, in the month of May of
this year. $1,500,000 will he sought from
alumni and persons interested in the pro
gram.
The opportunity is presented for loyal
friends, alumni and present members of
tin* student body to make their contribu
tion toward further development of our
people. Though the Negro has made a
tremendous rise since 1866. the service
of the private educational institution is
still necessary in developing sound Negro
leadership, in broadening their concepts
of social responsibility, in building char
acter essential to leadership.
Now is the time that you, you and you
may share in the propagation of con
tinued educational facilities for mem
bers of your race. Now is the time when
you may affiliate your name and your
money to the most progressive movement
in the recent history of education.
The participating institutions of the
( nited Negro College Fund campaign
are: Howard. Fisk. Atlanta. Dillard. Lin
coln. Virginia Union and Shaw Universi
ties; Bennett. Bethune-Cookman, Clark,
Samuel Huston, Knoxville. Lane. Le-
Moyne. Livingstone. Morehouse. Morris
Brown. Philander Smith, Spelman. Texas,
Tillotson. Tougaloo and Wiley Colleges;
Atlanta University School of Social
Work, Gammon theological Seminary.
Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes.
Dig down deep and help twenty-seven
Negro colleges meet current need". Four-
Spelman Observes 63 rd
Anniversary
Spelman College, pioneer institution
for young Negro women, observed her
63rd anniversary on Tuesday, April 11.
Founded in 1881 as a seminary by two
New England school teachers, Spelman
from time to time has altered its cur
riculum to meet changing conditions, and
today stands as one of the leading lib
eral arts colleges of the South. It, with
Morehouse, is affiliated with Atlanta Uni
versity in a University plan, yet retains
all the advantages of a separate college
for women.
The events of this momentous celebra
tion began on April 4. when the Atlanta
Spelman Club sponsored a broadcast
over WGST, the CBS station in Atlanta,
to launch the anniversary observances.
On the eve of Founders Day the an
nual concert by the 100-voice Glee Club
under the direction of Professor Willis
Laurence James, was held in Sisters
Chapel.
The activities of April 11 included
exercises by the students on the open
campus, the rally in Howe Memorial
Hall, memorial exercises to the founders,
Miss Sophia B. Packard and Miss Har
riet E. Giles, and the Founders Day
address delivered by President Albert W.
Dent, of Dillard University.
The observance of Founders Day at
Spelman College is noteworthy, inasmuch
as it represents the attaining of another
milestone in the progress of educational
opportunities for hundreds of Negro
women. Spelman can point proudly to
many of her graduates who have achieved
distinction as teachers, doctors, nurses,
missionaries, concert artists, business
women, social workers and home makers.
Alumnae are also doing their part in
World War II through participation in
the W'AC. USO. Civilian Defense and
other organizations. A number of nurses
now giving service in the Army Nurse
Corps received their training at Spel
man College.
teen cities have been selected for in
tensive campaigning during the month of
May: New York. Boston, Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh, Richmond, Atlanta. Cleve
land. Chicago, Memphis. Houston. Dallas.
Rochester, Detroit, and Washington.
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John Hope Lecture
Edward Clark Carter, secretary-general
of the Institute of Pacific Relations and
president of Russian War Relief, deliv
ered the fourth annual John Hope Lec
ture on March 23, in Sisters Chapel,
Spelman College. Mr. Carter has re
cently returned from an extended visit
to Russia, including Siberia. Listed
among Mr. Carter's wide experiences
are twelve years in Calcutta, India, as
secretary of the National Y. M. C.
A.; two years with the A. E. F. in Paris
as chief secretary of the Y. M. C. A;
eight years as secretary of the In
quiry in New York; and two years as
foreign secretary of the British Y. M.
C. A. in London. Mr. Carter also has
served as director of the Chinese Insti
tute of America, as director of the Com
mission on Japanese Studies, and as di
rector of the American Russian Institute.
The John Hope Lectures were inaugu
rated in 1938 as a memorial to Atlanta
University’s fifth president, who died on
February 20, 1936. after a distinguished
educational career of more than four
decades. For twenty-three years prior to
becoming president of Atlanta Univer
sity, and two years’ concurrently, Dr.
Hope was president of Morehouse Col
lege. He was posthumously awarded
the Spingarn Medal in recognition of his
services as an educator and a champion
of the rights of Negroes; and only a few
months ago a Liberty Shop launched in
Richmond, California, was named in his
honor.
Mr. Carter spoke on the subject So
viet Russia Today. Significant are
the past events of the last twenty-five
years in the history of Russia. A study
of this period will reveal why and how
Russia has become one of the leading
nations of the world today. A country
that experimented in all fields of gov
ernment. music, art. literature, and so
cial relations has become strong enough
to ward off successfully the counter at
tacks of a strong nation like Germany
and eventually push her troops on to
German soil. Yet until the last five
years Russia has been ignored by Ameri
ca. Why has this been true? The answer
is that the fundamental beliefs of the
two countries have been different. The
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