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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. (Continued on page 6) 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 (Continued on page 6)