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Vol. XXIV October. 1947 No. 1
YOUR COLLEGE SPIRIT
This will not be a lengthy dissertation
on the ideals of our college, nor of what
you are expected to become by the
end of the school year. Each one of
us knows why she came to Spelman
and it will not be a bad surmise to
make in saying that it was a worth
while reason. We knew from our fam
ilies. friends, or perhaps only from the
college handbook, that Spelman has
standards to which each of us must
oomph if we wished to matriculate here.
Since you have been warned from the
beginning that this was not to be the
usual stuffy editorial, I will refrain
from saying more on a matter which
is already trite. What I really want
each student to think sincerely about
is what our college means to her—your
college spirit. Every individual, no mat
ter how narrow or small he is, wants
to believe that what he represents is
just a little hit better than that of the
next person. We are this way about
our family and friends, and so it should
he with our college. This fact is noth
ing new; you have known it all your
life, perhaps without being aware of it.
This is self respect, an inner pride in
what you have selected.
It all lies within the individual student.
You can get no more out of your college
than you put into it. Do not be de
ceived. you can never get something
for nothing. It all boils down to this
expression which most of us have heard
at one time or another, “Are you a
Spelman Woman or a woman who goes
to Spelman?” A cliche perhaps, hut it
holds a pertinent truth for us.
The sooner each of us realizes that
the individuals we now are are the ones
we will probably he for the rest of
our lives, the sooner the trace-; of
infidelity will vanish. Fellow students,
you are now living the best part of
your life and the loyalty you show your
college now—TODAY—becomes a part
of your personality in later years.—
S. L. G.
CHAPEL NOTES
Outlining two important characteristics
for college students to acquire, Miss
Head began the chapel talks for the
college year 1947-48. From the hook
Now to Live Again, written by a young
woman who when sixteen years of age
suffered from a smashed spine, causing
great limitations to a normal life, Miss
Read took her text. The author of the
hook achieved self-realization later in
life by ceasing to pity herself and by
exercising physical organs that remained
functional. Applying this generally to
average persons, especially Spelman
students, Miss Read listed attitude of
mind and the initiative to act when
action is possible as two important quali
ties of good living. In addition, she
stated that directed purpose must ac
company the attitude and the action.
The following chapel talk was hv
Miss Dorothy Haight, member of the
National Board of the YWCA. Like
Miss Read, she gave suggestions for
achieving self-realization, broadening it
to include “race-realization.” Concluding,
she stated that renewal of faith in God
is necessary for unblurred purposes.
Friday, September 26, Miss Bowers
gave interesting highlights of her trip
to Haiti during the past summer. She
opened her talk by presenting a de
pressing picture of the human misery
in Haiti created by exploitation and
mass poverty. After relating numerous
interesting and amusing personal epi
sodes, she concluded with the observa
tion that despite their outward poverty,
the Haitians are happy because they
do not seek happiness in material things.
The inevitable oneness of a common
destiny was the concluding note of the
chapel talk by Rev. Tobin on Monday,
September 29. In prefacing this state
ment he spoke of the role of education
in enlarging and purifying hopes and
wants to include everyone.
One week of chapel services ended
the following morning when Dean B. R.
Brazeal of Morehouse College presented
four suggestions to Spelman students
based on a conversation with Dr. John
Hope years ago. They were that attend
ing college provides an opportunity
(1) to develop fine friendships; (2)
to develop mental perspective; (3) to
develop intellectual and emotional sta
bility; and (4) to develop a “deep-
seated concern” for human beings.
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Quality by Cid Ricketts Sumner,
Bobbs-Merrill, 1946.
Once again a white author belonging
to the group which believes that the
mulatto provides the only source of
Negro tragedy, has penned a racial
novel. The “tragic mulatto” this time
is Pinkey Johnson, who having passed
as white in eastern schools, is seized
with fear that her portion of “black”
blood will become known, and returns
home to' Mississippi and her Negro
grandmother, Aunt Dicey. In Mississ
ippi, Pinkie encounters all the discrimi
nations and humiliations of a full-blood
Negro. But having had “a taste of free
dom” she cannot forget; she becomes a
fighter for the rights of the Negro race.
Mrs. Sumner has written as though
the Negro was on her conscience and
in writing Quality she sought to vindi
cate and relieve her mind in one sweep.
She attempts to solve every existing
racial problem. Aunt Dicey being one
of her main instruments. The thorough
ness of her effort to be all-inclusive is
one of the book’s main weaknesses,
writes Nathan Robinson in the Saturday
Review of Literature. “Too often,” he
says, “her characters are heard present
ing every aspect of a debate and too
seldom are lliey seen in the “full, pas
sionate, unpredictable, solidity of men
and women.”
Belonging to the group of southern
liberals who might exclaim, “Would you
want your daughter to marry a colored
man!” Mrs. Sumner lets Pinkey send
her not-too-reluctant-to-go white lover
away and steers her politely toward
the “high-minded” Dr. Canady.
At the end of the book, Mrs. Sumner
feigns a happy ending, and the Negro
remains “in his place.”