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Vol. XXII March, 1945 No. 6
Editorial
With spring in the air. everything is
beginning to take on a new aspect. All
nature is in tune with the times. Are
you?
One of the best times in the school year
to stop and check up is in the spring of
the year. Many of us have been slackers
in performing certain duties, many of us
have not given our full support to the
organizations to which we belong, and
some of us have not given the attention
to our academic work that we should.
Now that the campus is blooming in all
of its glory, why can t the student body
do the same in the sense that we become
aware of the beauty of all around us, and
try to make our part of the community
attractive too.
The real beauty of a place is reflected
by the inhabitants. It isn't too late to
wake up and live and discover what
you've missed out on all the year.
Spring is the time to strengthen your
self in any way that you see fit.
BUY MORE
WAR BONDS AND
STAMPS
THU W AR IS NOT
OVER YET
Spelman Students Association
The Spelman Students Association at
its last meeting, after the usual business
procedure, heard an informative report
on the outcome of an executive meeting of
the All-Southern Negro Youth Congress,
which convened in Birmingham, Febru
ary 10. The report was made by Miss
Helen Barnett, a member of the Execu
tive Board of the Congress, who had at
tended the session.
Such an interesting account of the pro
ceedings was given that the students eag
erly decided that the association should
become an affiliate member.
It was also decided that we give finan
cial support to the N. A. A. C. P., and all
those who wished to do so were urged to
become members of the organization. The
purpose and importance of each organi
zation were discussed.
Realization of the fact that, if youth
is to take its rightful place in the new
world order, it is necessary to become
more alert and active in its organizations
must be deeply impressed upon the minds
of the college student of today.
Give Books to Students in
Captivity
Books are needed to cure that dread
“barbed wire disease” of thousands of
prisoners of war, in the camps in thirty-
three different countries.
It is not necessary to tell you how con
tributions of books from this campus may
be beneficial to many students in these
camps, who are literally starving for
reading matter.
We of the college community are going
to see what we can do to help those in
distress, so before someone asks you to
give, look and see what books you have
that you are willing to contribute to such
a cause.
Organ Recital
c?
Alexander Schreiner, on February 21,
at 4 p.m., gave an organ recital in Sisters
Chapel. Air. Schreiner’s masterful style
and superb technique brought to the au
dience deep enjoyment of his music. His
program included:
Prelude and Fugue in D major Bach
Sonata for "Cello Bach
(Adapted for organ by Schreiner)
First Sonata in G minor..... Rene Becker
La Piccola _ Leschetizky
Scherzo in D major Schreiner
Mr. Schreiner is the eminent organist
of the Salt Lake City Tabernacle, a mem
ber of the American Guild of Organists,
and the holder of a Phi Beta Kappa key.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick, the apostle and patron
of Ireland, was born in 387 and died in
493. His entire life must have been quite
fascinating, although historians seem not
to have become interested in his story
until he was sixteen, when he was taken
prisoner hy some Irishmen who made a
raid on his home in western Britain and
carried him off into slavery in Ireland.
After six years. Patrick succeeded in es
caping to the Continent where he took
refuge in the Monastery at Lerins. While
in Lerins, Patrick claims he had a vision
in which he saw himself going as a vic
torious apostle of Christianity to the
Irish. He regarded this as a divine call,
and immediately returned to Gaul where
he studied and prepared himself along
with two other prospective missionaries
for Ireland.
Fourteen years after Patrick’s training
began, he was ordained Bishop of Ire
land on the death of Pallodius, the for
mer bishop. As bishop, Patrick had quite
a complex problem to solve — it was his
responsibility to gain the good will of
the local rulers and to minister to and
hold together various Christian communi
ties or districts. Had it not been for Pat
rick’s knowledge of both Latin and Irish,
and the experience that he had gained by
living six years in the country, he prob
ably would never have accomplished the
success that came to him.
It is believed that Patrick’s work had
quite an humble beginning. Upon return
ing to Ireland, he had landed in Wicklow
at a place called Inverdea. and from there
he went into east Ulster and began his
missionary labors on the southwest side
of Strangford Lough. Patrick began his
work in a wooden barn which had been
given to him by an Irish convert; later,
a district ruler declared himself a Chris
tian and presented to Patrick an estate
at Trim on which he was to found his first
church. With this as a beginning, he es
tablished 360 churches, baptized with his
own hands 21.000 people, and ordained a
great many priests. Regardless of the
apparent success of his work, at the time
of his death Ireland was more pagan than
Catholic, but the significant fact is that
through the dynamic work of Patrick the
religion of the Druids — the religious
order of the ancient Celts which is best
characterized as a belief in the super
natural powers of the wizards and divin
ers — had steadily declined.
He is remembered because of the great
influence which he exerted upon Celtic
minds, and because of the scope of his in-
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