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STUDENT ACTIVITY COMMITTEE PRESENTS
HAZEL HARRISON IN RECITAL
The Student Activity Committee presented as its first
attraction of the year. Hazel Harrison, pianist, in re
cital, at Sisters Chapel, Spelman College, on December
19, 1932. This was the first of four attractions that the
Committee is to present during the year. Miss Harrison
is a noted pianist, and has won the admiration of music
lovers in many cities of America and other countries.
Many leading newspapers of great cities along with
famous musicians have hailed her as an excellent pian
ist with a marked individuality and the composure of
an artist.
None of these qualities of Miss Harrison were in any
way betrayed in her recent concert. Her smoothness
and case with which she presented each number por
trayed very definitely her ability as an artist.
The program was divided into four groups consisting
of compositions of the classic school. The numbers of
interest in this group were the Organ Prelude in E Minor,
by Bach—and transcribed by Siloti, a student of Liszt;
and the Chaconne from the Fourth Violin Sonata by Bach.
The later is a transcription by Feruccio Bisoni. Its
original as written by Bach is considered by all violin
ists as a masterpiece.
The second group was composed of selections from
the Romantic School. Bussleid (Confessional Song) was
the first number of this group. This composition was
originally written by Beethoven, but was rendered in
the concert as arranged by Franz Liszt. The second
number of this group, Sonale After Lecture in Dante,
was written by Liszt. This is interesting for the ac-
casion of its writing which is suggested by the title.
It is a critical test to a pianist’s technique, and was un
questionably the outstanding number of the recital.
The numbers of the third group were two very beau
tiful Preludes by Chopin, and Godowsky’s arrangement
of the Butterfly Elude. In the latter composition the
melody is played by the left hand, and is a very difficult
Cut very brilliant slow piece. The numbers of this
group received great enthusiasm from the audience.
The fourth group began with Etude, a composition by
the Russian, Stravinsky. Other numbers of this group were
Jeux D'eau (Frolick of the Waters) and Toccata by
Ravel.
All who attended the recital reported having spent
an evening of inspirational entertainment. Miss Har
rison was assisted by the Morehouse College Glee Club
which sang Passing By by Purcell, and Barter by Mac-
Farland.
MOREHOUSE AND SPELMAN STUDENTS
PRESENT ANNUAL CHRISTMAS
CAROL CONCERT
Students of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges gave
their annual Christmas Carol Concert, in Sisters Chapel,
December 21, 1932. Being just a few days before
Christmas, naturally the spirit of the season was begin
ning to permeate, and the beauliiul singing of the chorus
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NATURALIST, AUTHOR. EXPLORER TO PAY
SECOND VISIT TO SPELMAN
Mr. William L. Finley, producer of Finley Nature
Motion Picture Films, will appear at Spelman on Janu
ary 28, in a lecture and motion picture on Alaska Wild
Life and Kodiak Bear.”
Mr. Finley is known as Oregon’s own nature man. He
has caught the spirit of Alaskan wild life in his pictures
which were shown for the first time in Portland, Oregon,
audiences. Armed with cameras, with gun—for protec
tion only—Mr. Finley and his party cruised the Alas
kan shore line, penetrating into long inlets left by old
glaciers, landed on Admirality Island, Kodiak Island and
craggy bird shelts in the sea, lay of the shore of the
rocky cliffs at Ford’s Terror and entered Glacier Bay.
Mr. Finley has sensed the spirit between man and beast,
fish and fowl, that makes for understanding when evil
is not present and God’s language is the universal
tongue. He has done as much as any one individual
toward the conservation of wild life.
Those who were at Spelman in 1930 will remember
Mr. Finley’s visit in February when he showed his mo
tion pictures of Camera Hunting on the Continental Di
vide.
Mr. Finley is widely known as lecturer and author.
He was a lecturer for the National Association of Audu
bon Societies in New York from 1906-1925. He was a
member of the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners
in Oregon in 1911, state game warden 1911-1915 and
state biologist 1915-1920. He is a member of the Ad
visory Board of the United States Department of Agri
culture, Migratory Bird Treaty Act; honorary Presi
dent of the Oregon Audubon Society, charter member
of the Oregon Academy of Science; on the editorial
staff of Nature Magazine since 1923; member of Edi
torial Board of Outdoor America; and National direct-
tor of the Isaac Walton League of America. He is
author of American Birds and co-author with Mrs. Fin
ley of Bird Blue and Wild Animal Pets.
—The Campus Mirror.
DEPRIEST FIGHTS FOR HOWARD FUND
Representative Oscar DePriest of Illinois spoke at a
meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club in Washington recently
at which he outlined the steps leading to the passage
by the H ouse of a bill including an appropriation of
$460,000 for erection of a heating plant at Howard
University.
Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, President of Howard,
praised Mr. DePriest’s efforts in securing the passage
of the bill, and he predicts a similar passage by the
Senate.
Other speakers at the meeting were Dean Kelly Mil
ler of Howard, President John Hope of Atlanta Univer
sity, President John W. Davis of West Virginia State
College, Dr. Ambrose Caliver of the office of Education,
Interior Department, Dean Benjamin G. Brawley and
Dean Numa P. G. Adams of Howard, George H. Mur
ray and Robert A. Pelman.
—The Campus Mirror.