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4 THE WEAVER PEP December 15, 1924 ■ ■ ' K ' THE WEAVER PEP AN APPRECIATION It was a source of great pleas ure to the faculty and student ;body of Weaver College to ob- ‘ seiye the splendid support given .' the Weaver football team by the ; people of Weaverville during the . past football season, especially Subscription 50 Cents Per School Year at the Thanksgiving game. staff ^ ~ There is a warm spot in the LotJiSE MEDLEY - Bditor-iu-Chief heart of each football man for this manifested loyalty, and par ticularly do the team feel in grated to those who were re sponsible for spreading the sumptuous and delightful ban quet for the team at the conclu sion of the season. Such sup- Publlshed Monthly BY THE STUDEISTT BODY OF WEAVER COLLEGE Editorial and Business Offices Room 25, Administration Bldg. LEON WARLICK - Athletic Editor PROP. W. E. POWELL - - Pac. Advisor ASSOCLATE EDITORS Hoyle Broome Elizabeth Bell Howard Wells • REPORTERS FROM LITERARY SOCIETIES Otho Jones - - - - Cllosophic John Mayo Delphian port Consistently given by local caiiie Lee - - - Mnenosynean citizens is 6f Inestimable value i-deline Kirkpatrick - - Euterpean RAY CARPENTER ... - Bus. Mgr. WILLIAM HART - AssL Bus. Mgr. December 15, 1924 PARAGRAPHICS For quite some time past most of the students, especially the “rats” and “rattees,” have been checking off the time before to the college and it is through such support that the greatest success of the college is attain ed. We thank you, people of Weaverville! more than nierely an exchange of gifts. True happiness comes only through serving others. Of times we give, expecting something in return. What an un-Christ-like spirit. It is not so much the gift but the love that is in our hearts that makes the gift so ^eatly appreciated. When people have sacrificed things that they really need, in order to give to their friends, or perhaps spent many hours of time and labor trsdng to create with their own hands some gift for a loved one; this is the real spirit that brings joy to the heart. Our gifts should be last ing; or, in other words, bring happiness throughout the entire year. We might give some needy one a Christmas dinner; but if we stop there, with out looking into conditions that bring about want and hunger. HOW TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS Christmas comes but once a year, Christmas, and many have al- Let us then be bright and glad, ready doped out just what - classes they will cut and what as befitting their relative stand ing on the campus. This custom of setting off the freshmen or ne\^ men from the balance of the student-body is becoming the thing in all. the colleges and uni- veisities of the country. The .plirpose in thus drawing a “line of demarcation” is not to show any kind of superiority or bulli- ness of upper-classmen over new men but, to quote the Trinity Chronicle, it is a “plan that has gone a long way toward an agreeable adjustment of the Jreshmen in relation to the up per-classmen.” In the schools where this sort of dead line has been established it has been proven that the dis graceful hazing parties of for mer years have been done away with because a better and more pleasant way of making the new man feel that he is a new man train they catch and just exact ly what time they will get home. What they will do when they get there is another question, but it would be safe to bet most of them will be longing for old Weaver campus ere the holidays shall have been spent. However, just the thought of getting back 7 iiOuK'^r^tinsmc lOufTicighu for the present. and trying to alleviate spring, [ ^ ^een adopted. It is true that we have done oiJy half the work ^he new men are made to ac- that Christ would have us do. knowledge the fact that they are ouppose that God should “new” by wearing some sort of come to our large cities, and walk through the streets for the Send forth sunshine hope and i purpose of seeing how man cele- cheer, ■ brated the season when He gave Never think of being sad. ' His only Son. He would be very Christmas, the greatest sea-' much grieved as He gazed into son of the whole year, with all the shop windows at the giitter- its cheer and happiness. Yet how ing lisplay of vanities such as often we misinterpret the real snow covered houses, sleighs meaning! This is the season and reindeer, and the figure of We wonder how many of the “rata” will be absent-minded enough to come down to break fast the first morning after they get home, with their green caps new;' insignia, badge, cap or some thing, but likewise they have been made to feel that they were a vital part of the college as an integral unit. They have been appealed to as “rats” and they have at all times counted as an active group in the college life. When the system of green caps with a red F was first put into force at Weaver, there were some who predicted utter fail- ilTe'df the movement and a re-» Santa Claus conspicuously be decked with tinsel and bright flowing^ ribbons. “What do the^^strange things meanr He,^ ^ the new might ask,_ “I no sign of the,°f™ when we celebrate the advent- of our blessed Lord and Savior. I wonder how, „many childrein in the homes of America are taught the real significance of j . this day. Too often their pa-, Christ child. What has man rents are filling their young I done with My great gift ? Cast ^^“^' „ , , together minds with fairy tales of Santa it aside and put m its stead 4.„ men. But such has not been the On the other hand, the imiiQS wim lairy uiies oi iua oucau in pvprv Claus who comes with his sleigh; these iMs ” heawer wodd harmony of action toewthespiritTf the^anwho »een almost perfect. The owned these stores was not to serve or help others at this sea- ,, , son but to gain riches for K.em- “ °'i f S?''f and reindeer to see all the good ilittle boys and girls; yet there on. We 11 venture to say no, not. are some little girls and boys one; no, not one. | who are very good that Santa —0— Glaus passes by. Their childish The football season has come hearts ache, while their play- and gone and although we did mates across the street have all not win all the games on the the goodies that any child could schedule—we did not expect to wish for. This is a mystery that, the windows of heaven He views do that—it was great while it I is seldom revealed, to the child-! the vain idols of men with a sad lasted. Now, let’s all together. ish mind. Christ was once a and pitying eye. for a successful basketball sea-: child himself, and no doubt He | Give us again the spirit that son during the next two months is glad when we give the chil- was present on the night long dren such playthings as they | years ago, when lowly shephei’ds love, and simple, wholesome watched their flocks on the viands that children relish. But plains of Judea, when a Savior’s upper - classmepi feel proud of the “rats,” and there is not selves. Our Lord does not have to come to earth in order to learn these things, for through and for baseball in the spring. There is a movement in some of the larger institutions of the country to abolish compulsory class attendance. This question was discussed in the literary so cieties at Carolina recently and it was unanimously agreed that whatever good arguments there might be in favor of it, these were more than offset by the fact that few Freshmen and Sophomores are capable of being their own judge regarding class attendance. Since Weaver does not go any further than the completion of the Sophomore year in a standard four year A grade college, this question is not likely to be an issue here. Certainly it is not wise to foster the growth of a bunch of loaf ers! in our plans for Christmas, the great principle that Christ taught should be foremost in our minds, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Christmas can be made a blessing or curse; when plans for the holiday celebration en courages selfishness, then it is a curse. Oftimes at community Christmas trees friends give ex pensive presents to each other, and parents to their children; in the meantime they fail to re member the less fortunate. This brings sadness and unhappiness to many, and Christ may say in the judgment, “In as much as ye did it not unto the least of these, ye did it unto Me. birth was proclaimed by angels from above. How the sound of redemption burst forth on that clear night, filling the hearts of men with a hope that they had never before experienced. “Glory to God in the highest. Peace on earth, good will toward men.” And on that night a dying world was saved. pus who would not do a favor for a new man just as quickly and just as cheerfully as for a fellow old man. Indeed, if it were not for the green caps, no one could tell the difference be tween an old man and a new man—that is the I chief reason some “marker” was decided upon for the “rats.” The skep tical had only to see how every student yelled our team to vic tory against Mars Hill on Thanksgiving and what a cordial relationship existed between old men and new men in uniform on the field to be convinced that these so-called “rats” do not re sent in the least their position as to seniority standing on the campus. The “rat” system has many and things in its favor and some things in its disfavor, but the “RATS” “pros” so far out-strip the For some time the subject of i “cons” that there is no use ar- “to be or not to be” was quite a | guing the matter. There need lively issue on the campus, but . be no “cons” if the system is finally all the new students handled in the right way, and agre^ to accept certain rules' we have heard no kick from ^y laid down by the old students. quarter of the way it is handled Let us make Christmas mean and to wear distinctive insignias at Weaver College.
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