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CAMP U S M I IM{ O R
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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Vol. XXII February, 1946 No. 5
Editorial
CITIZENSHIP
The Spelman woman after living in
her college community for four years,
four months, four weeks, or even four
days realizes that her responsibilities as
a citizen are not only her responsibilities
at Spelman but that they are also her
responsibilities as a citizen of the world.
The Spelman woman who regards the
lilies and regulations of the school com
munity as being beneficial to the welfare
of all the members, undoubtedly will be
as equally aware of the effectiveness of
the laws in her local community. The
Spelmanite who believes in and executes
the high ideals of honesty, trustworth
iness, cooperation, punctuality and de
pendability d uring her college days will
be just as efficient and dependable in
her own community. Thus, in the same
manner in which a student has borne
her duty work responsibilities in the
dormitory will she assume her duties in
her home.
The successful citizen of the home
community will be the woman who as a
student has undertaken the role of a good
citizen in her school community rather
than the student who has striven for good
scholarship only. Spelman looks forward
with great anticipation toward having
her good citizens take their places among
the good citizens of the world.
—Amanda Keith, ’47.
An Academic Dilemma
Sei.oma Smith, '46
At last it's all past
The study and fast,
The desire to stay up nights and cram.
The prayers for more knowledge
To get you through college.
Or please, Lord, to pass one exam!
You’ve probably said it.
1 11 give you the credit
That next year you'll study, and how!
To ease the suspense
Of fears all intense
Makes you feel like beginning right now.
But. then, there’s a chance
To go to a dance,
Or to loll unrushed, the day through.
And what of the vow
To study right now?
1 know . . . because I pledged, too.
Art Department
This year the art department of Spel
man college is anticipating an interesting
and representative spring showing in
the annual Atlanta University art exhibit.
The Atlanta University community is
very happy to have Mr. Hale Woodruff,
well known and acclaimed artist, who
has been away on leave for two years.
This year Mr. Woodruff is the instruc
tor in drawing and painting, and history
of art and appreciation.
The sculpture and ceramics classes are
fortunate in having Miss Alyce Dunbar,
a product of the Boston Museum of Art,
as the instructor. Miss Dunbar recently
had a piece of her work chosen as one
of the recognized collections of art on
exhibit at the Boston Museum of art,
which is always an honor to its students
and artists in general.
Veterans Come Home
This semester at Morehouse College-
a great number of veterans have returned
to continue their academic education,
which was interrupted by the war.
The Campus Mirror Staff would like
to take this opportunity to welcome the
returned veterans, who have realized the
importance of further education.
It is our sincere hope that your ad
justment to civilian life and its environ
ments will be a speedy one and your aims
he accomplished with much success.
Peace and rest at length have come,
all the day's toil is past,
and each heart is whispering;
“Home,
Home at last!”
Dr. Tillman Speaks in Chapel
Pinkie Gordon. ’49
“A good education is within your grasp
if you want it. " This is what Dr. Na
thaniel Tillman, head of the English de
partment at Atlanta University said in
our chapel one morning. Dr. Tillman
emphasized the importance of choosing
cour.es in college not so much for the
acquiring of certain credits as for the
filling of certain gaps in our lives.
“Choose those courses that will help you
to grow as individuals,’’ he said.
It is surprising how many of us lose
sight of this purpose of our college. I
shall never forget the time I heard an
educator give a baccalaureate sermon to
a high school group in which he advised
the young graduates to go through col
lege even if it meant going in the front
door and through the back. The gist of
the speech was that a person should get,
or make some attempt to get a college
degree at any costs. I was pleased when
the following speaker reversed the senti
ment by saying that an education isn’t
something one gets; it is something that
one develops. If there is nothing there
to develop, then there is nothing there
to get.
The aim of coming to college not only
determines the choice of courses that will
help us to grow but it also will stim
ulate us to make every effort to apply
ourselves, for in this way only can we
develop.
I witnessed a scene one day in which
one girl charged another with doing
more studying than anyone else in the
dormitory. “With all the studying you do,”
she remarked “you should make all A’s.”
I sincerely believe that she felt that the
other girl would and should do this. She
was not taking into consideration that
there are different levels of intelligence
and that different persons will master a
given subject with varying degrees of
home preparation. I think too that this
first girl failed to realize that the other
student may have been conscientously
preparing her work without too much
regard to resulting grades. Class marks
are not to be thought of as rewards. They
are merely means of measuring develop
ment.
“Choose courses that will make you
grow in your thinking. Choose courses
that will help you to project your lives
into the future.” says Dr. Tillman. “This
type of education is within your grasp
if you want it.”