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March, 1948
THE C-T"US MIRROR
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SEVENTH ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION
COMPETITION ANNOUNCED BY
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY
SUSIE
S P E L A N
Atlanta, Georgia - Negro artists and sculp- ,
tors have been invited to participate in
the Seventh Annual Exhibition of Paintings,j
Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists to
open at Atlanta University on Sunday,, A-
pril 4. President Rufus E, Clement has an
nounced. For the best eleven art v:orks
submitted, the University will give $1/00
in cash purchase awards, ranging from $3D
to $10 c Only original paintings, sculp
ture and prints will be eligible for the
exhibition,
The cash purchase awards will be as fol-J
l«?ws: (l) the John Hope Prize for the Best
Landscape, $250; (2) the Edward B. Alford i
Prize for the Best Portrait or Figure'.
Painting, $300; (3) the First Atlanta Uni-!
versity Award, any subject, $150; and (4) ’
thn Second Atlanta University Award, any |
subject, (to be awarded by popular ballet),!
V -U'v t
The Atlanta Annual has come to be re
cognized as the leading show where works
of contemporary Negro artists may be seen,
A prominent New York critic has recently
stated that outside of New York City that
it was the most exciting show of modern
works. The exhibition has been recognizee
by Time Magazine as "one of the South's
outstanding art events."
DR. HARRY JAMES CARMAN
SPELMAN COLLEGE FOUNDERS
DAY SPEAKER
Mamie Thompson, *49
Ch Sunday, April 11, 1948, Dr. Harry James
Carman, dean of Columbia College, New York
will be the Founders Day speaker at Spel-
man College in listers Chapel at 3:00 P.M.
Dr. Carman, a distinguished author, in
cludes among his latest works A History
of the United St-tes, Historic Currents -
in Changing America, American Husbandry,
Lincoln and the Paironage, and Jesse Bue1,
XgriculLural Reformer.
~ A well prepared speaker, Dr. Carman, re
ceived his Ph.B,, the A.M. and the Pd.B,
degrees at Syracuse University. He re
ceived his Fh.D. degree from Columbia Uni
versity, The honorary L.H.D, has been
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Sleep, sleep, sleep was all Susie seemed
to want to do, She had become bored with
college life and the best solution seemed
to be to divorce herself from it somnolent
ly, Through breakfast, between classes, af
ter lunch and through classes, Susie drowsed.
There used to be a time when we would
ask Susie what she planned to do for an eve
ning . . . "Say, Susie, are you going to
the movie tonight?" or "Oh, Sue, aren’t you
coming to class meeting?" But that was long
ago. Then we could at least look for an
answer, negative or positive. Nov/ the cues-
tion borders on a fragmentary sentence . . .
"Hey you Susie*..Ohi", as a head is popped
into Susie’s room and one glimpses Susie's
distorted sleeping position and silently
closes the door. That Susie;
Ir'.hy, she even slept through a discussicr
in Sociology on the practice of incest as a
changing cultural taboo and an examination
in Spanish, not to mention a whole season
or intramural basketball games. She missed
the Civil Rights Conference, although, from
some comments it may be just as well that
she did. She would have missed calling hour,
had she not awakened (probably by psycho
logical instinct) at the exact moment.
Now the only reason we have ever heard
Susie give for her somnolescence is bore
dom. After keeping her awake in vespers
with my left elbow during an unusual talk,
that statement may be ouestioned.
Boredom is an abstraction which has as
one of its significant causes previous know-
ledge, as a person may become bored when he
hears again and in a didactic manner some
thing he already knows. Now Susie, althoug
her reading score is 13+and despite the
fact that she was graduated from high schoc
as salutitorian, had probably nwer heard
of the eclectic theory until it embarrassed
her on an oral exam day. /After hinting tha
Susie’s intelligence is below par (or - to
be kind - that Susie does not apply herself
one could go so far as to say that Susie it
an escapist and that is another story.