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PAGE TWO THE CAMPUS ECHO SEPTEMBER—1948 Glad To Have You Frosh The time has now arrived for you to forget the things you did last summer.” Vacation is over now for you in every sensj of the word. You have now emerged from the “crazy” stage or the adolescent period and are now standing on the threshold of manhood. You must put away all childish things because when you entered this campus’ gates you automatically divorced your self from all semblances of an adolescant aiad accepted the chal lenge and the accompanying re.sponsibility of a college student. You must gird yourself for the inevitable hurdles and the difficul ties you will have to face. You must prepare yourself to meet the challenge you have accepted. Like all Freshmen you have developed an outstanding and singular personality during your high school days. You have the type of personality that sticks out and you have subsequently rarely en.ioyed taking a back seat in any affair. Since that is the case you may find it a bit hard at first to weather the well-mean ing pranks and the embarrasing predicaments you may find yourself in on your first encounter with some of the uppercla-ss- men vho would have you realize that yoia are a Freshman. It may be hard at first for you to understand that you have decend- ed (in a manner of speaking descended, but you have actually ascended) from the important individual that you W'ere in your high school days when nothing important could go on without your'presence to just another Preshma,n at North Carolina Col lege. All of this you must get OA'er quickly unless you develop a compex which'could impair your ability to do your best work. After you have recuperated from the orientations.. encount ers with the upperclassmen, and the routine of registration, which it is imiperativc that j"Ou do over the weekend, you must be rendv to begin three quarters of hard work. Thino's are happenina: thick and fast in the outside world and there is little time for waitinsr around for you to get yourself adjusited. Too, yon cannot afford to take the “I’ll play my first years and settle down later” .at titude. Tn order to get the entitled benefits of your college educa tion you must betrin to work hard the first davVou start to cIrss and not let up until you have earnerl that coveted “sheepskin.” North Carolina College and the Cammis Echo welcome ^you lieartedly and hope that you will be able to make a laudible con tribution to the college and to the world community. New Students Inherit Great Tradition Thirty seven years ago, 130 students stood on the threshold of knowledge, when the National Religious Training School and Ohautauqa opened its doors. Only a few frame structures dotted the hilly campus. Several faithful teachers heartily welcomed tlie students to this institution. This marked the beginning of what eventually came to be the North. Carolina College at Durham, which today is one of the four Negro College members in the Amerieaja Association of Colleges and Universities. Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and first President of this institution, must have realized the need for well trained leaders, and the role the college must play in training youth for servdce. With this philosophy, Dr. Shepard established the first and only state supported Liberal Arts College for Negroes in America. His jiassionate devotion and keen interest helped to build this great institution which hundreds of students now have as the ideal place to continue thier education. Perseverance and faith in God enabled Dr. Shepard to press forward in the dark days of the school’s beginning \vhen financial difiiculties and hardships tried to block his path. He saw the school auctioned. He saw fire dc.stroy several buildings, but he knew someday this institution would be the Mecca of educational opportunities. The indomit able spirit that enabled Dr. Shepard to press forward provides a challenging le.sson for new students. As new students of North Carolina College, you no doubt are mindful of what will be expected of you. Campus life is four fold: intellectual, cultural, religious and social. Certain stand ards regarding scholarship must be maintained. As a new stu- dfent, you will find that hard w^ork and study will be necessary to achieve this goal. Various concerts and recitals are presented for the interest and entertainment of the students. An important part of the religious side of campus life is the Vesper Hour held each Sunday afternoon. At these services stu dents have the opportunity to listen to noted speakers who bring challenging messages. The social life needs no comments. Usuaflly college students take care of that. Wliat about you? The light of culture, intellect and good citizenship burns bright ^nd is ever held high under the leadership of our Presi dent, Dr. Alfonso Elder. It is yours to follow him and his corps of teachers who will be your instructors, counselors and friends. They, too, inherit the tradition of a glorious past. As you walk the si op ins hills and the verdant green, may you ever be mindful of the tradition vou and other students now inherit. R. NATHANIEL NILES The Campus Echo PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE STUDENTS AT NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM. C!-ATHAN ROSS AND LIBSON BERRY — CO-EDITORS PERRY GILLIARD ASSOCIATE EDITOR ELANE MOORE SPORTS EDITOR LOUISE JACKSON GEORGE THORNE WILLIAM THOMAS JAMES ANDERSON ^ W. A TUCK FEATURE EDITOR ART EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER _ ADVERTISING MANAGER ADVISOR rCEPING UP -- - With Louise Jackson Welcome Freshmen! “Keep ing Up” greets you with en couragement for the school year. First “Keeping Up” is a column designed to be a medium for students on various issues of campus or outside life. Your scribe wishes to help present the “lighter” side of college events in a more interesting vein. After walking over the cam pus, you have probably found many points of interest, and to fully learn to love your school it will be necessary to find out all you can about its campus and about it. All around you will find the bonds of joviality and friendliness which bind us all into a common brotherhood of uiuierstanding and fellow ship as students. One of the main elements you’ll have to contend with is homesickness. You’ll miss the drug store or the “joint” where the gang used to hangout, and if this is your first trip away from home you’ll miss mom and dad so very much, but gradual ly you’ll even slip out of the habit of continually longing for home. Time, then is the essential element to your rate of progress here at school. However you must not while away a whole quarter trs’ing to get in the “swing of things.” Ijost time at school is not easily made up. "■ And finally, freshmen usual ly bear the brunt of many practical jokes and blunt re marks by uppercla-ssmen. This practice of molestinsr freshmen is however, outmodetl and sure ly you ’11 hear fiothing more than a few blunt but well mean ing remarks. Overall you will like the air of familiarity among students and you must make your place se cure in the “student brother hood of North Carolina College. The Quixzer By Louise Jackson The Quizzer is the organ of expressed opinion of the stu dents of North Carolina Col lege. In this column each mon th, we choose a question of lo cal or national interest and con duct interviews with various .students from different classes to observe the student reactions to current happenings. Ye Olde Quizzer was unable to contact the students for this issue but will be on hand nex! month with a question and an swers on some current event. So watch for the Quizzer! 1 Greetings From Senior Class It is a happy privilege of the members of the Senior Class to welcome the Freshn|an Class of 1948 to the campus of North Carolina College at Durham. We hope that here you may find ample opportunities for the de velopment of your various tal ents, capacities, personalities, to the fulle.st degree possible; that you may live richer lives through your contact wath an institution of higher learning; and that you may make life long friends as a result of your stay here. We, the members of the sen ior class, stand ready at all This Should Be Best Year For N. C. C. As this school year begins we want to extend greetings and a most hearty welcome to the Freshmen and all other new" comers to our college community. We are sure that the old students join us in assuring you that you will enjoy your college life here. We think of North Carolina College as one of the finest institutions in the nation for the youth to continue their education. We would like to extend best wishes t‘o the new Student Council for a most successful year. It is up to you to prove your ability and your necessity to the student body. It is also up to you to>make the Democratic student government a tremendous success or a disatrous failure! To our college mates old and new, it is up to us to give the Student Council our complete physical and moral support. We can do this by attending all of their meetings and assemblies and bv taking active parts in those meetina's and as.semblies. If we do these things the Student Council will be the .success we all have hoped for. We w^ant to assure our readers that we, the staff of the Cam pus Echo expects this year’s Echo to be the best paper ever pub- lislied on our campus. We are sure that with your cooperation the entire staff has promised that it will be the best year yet for the Echo. Let us all make this the best year of our school career in every field, scholastic, social, and in the field of sports. It can be our most succassful year if M'e each do our very best. At least that’s the way it seems to me. Juniors Extend Welcome On behalf of the members of the Class of ’50, I wish to wel come you to North. Carolina College. It has been traditional for the Jvmior Class to orient ate the freshman class to the modes of college life. This year being no exception, we hope that freshman week will be most helpful in your attempt to l)ridge the gap between high school and college. We invite you to study with us, laugh with us, cry with us, and work with us. There will be times when each one of us will be di.shartened and discouraged. Sometimes we will disaffree violently. However, this is wehere our strength as a body M'ill be envolved. Our in- ?.titution is not designed to bring nbout uniformity of opinion: if it was, we might well abandon hope. The essential characteris tic of true intelecectual free- times to make you welcome and to lend any assistance possible in helping you become adjusted to your new environment. We (Pleaae turn to Page Three) tic of true intellectual free dom IS that under its shelter many different schools of tliought and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed. You are here at a time when this institution is undergoing a ■hange in philosophy. We might well say that we are in the transitional period of North Carolina College, where, student initiative is stimulated to the utmost. A great deal of faith and trust has been placed in our h,anda The decisdons we make in the next few years will determine whether we will con tinue to hold this place in the College’s program. Self-discipline, devotion to duty, schola.stie achievement and wholehearted cooperation on the part of all will keep U5? in the roles we now occujpy. Whether we thrust back into the positions of obscurity that we occupied during the pre-transitional per iod will depend on us. Hererin lies our challenge. I am sure we can meet this chal lenge and not betrav the trust that has been placed in us. William Randolph Jbhaison, President, Class of 1950. MUCH— I'UL CO M'f ^ I HOMEWORK. —1 tONTJNeNTAt? pgATtfites I DO IT NOW.
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