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The Elon College Weekly. THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY Published every Tuesday during the College year by this question, ” balance of power," thrusts upon them. Watch the "float ing votes" and keep the " boxes of The Weekly Publishing Company. | ballast " in the right place all through the W. P. LAWRENCE. J. W. BARNEY. J A. C. HALL. AFFIE GRIFFIN,) W. C. WICKER. T. C. AMICK. ! gale. Associate Editors. ! Circulation Manag;er. Business Manaj^er. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT. Cash Subscriptions Time Subscriptions (40 Weeks) 140 Weeks) 50 Cents. 75 Cents. All matters pertaining: to subscriptions should be addressed to W. C. Wicker. Elon College, E. C. IMPORTANT. The office of publication is Burlington. N. C. The office of the Editor is Elon College. N. C., where all communications relative to the Weekly should be sent. “The American Woman to the Front.” [An Essay read by Miss Sadie Virginia Fonville, at the Annual Entertainment of fhe Psiphelian Society, College Audi torium, March 25, 1910.—Ed.] Just what the social rank of woman was a hundred years ago none of us know exactly, but we know enough from the books and periodicals of the time to be educational advantages than to any other able to contrast the relative rank of Amer- ; one thing. Instead of no college doors idea said that it would make the men effeminate. I went down to Oberlin to note the effects there. The moment 1 learned that Oberlin had sent a greater proportion of its students to the Civil War than had any other college, 1 was in favor of co-education. " I believe that the women are partly Application for entry as second-class mail mat ter at the postoffice at Burlington. N. C.. pending. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1910 The Balance of Power. In a community where the voting strength of two political parties is pretty nearly equal, the balance of power is in the " floating vote," —in those voters who have no strictly partisan feeling and are subject to every tide, or changing wind of sentiment, and subject even to the market of vote selling. In a boat at sea the balance of power is in the boxes of ballast, which in time of rolled from side to side to aid open to her, as a hundred years ago, there are now in the United States one hundred and thirty-nine colleges for the women alone and there are five hundred and fifteen co-educalional and male colleges and universities, nearly all the last named being open to of lean womanhood then and now. In making this contrast we may prof itably keep in mind these two general facts: fiirst, that a person Improves in personal acquirements in accordance with the opportunities that come to him and the use that he makes of these opportunl- of ties; and the second truth is, that a per- { women. son, as a rule, rises In his general social The president of the University standing in proportion to the develop-' Virginia Is reported to have said re- ment and refinement of his being. This cently in an address in Norfolk, that he is illustrated in the life of a young woman was glad the University of Virginia, the named Margaret Burns, who, although of only one of the larger and more Im- humble birth and limited opportunities, ^ portant universities, had not yielded to the went to college and worked her way fad of co-education. President Alder- through. While there she came in con- man is, perhaps, justly regarded as one of tact with girls of a higher social standing, the leading educational spirits in Ameri- and under the influence and the culture can academic life today, and his opinions and refinement of her surroundings, she became a highly cultured and noble She started to school with the j in a country where they have been in ex istence for centuries, j Education is the basis of social develop- , ment. It is the medium by which woman has been lifted up to a higher plane of j social distinction. A hundred years ago j there were no colleges for women, and all the education she received was in her own home under a private tutor, which 'responsible for the growth of the univer- I only the wealthy or well-to-do could af- i sity and am heartily glad that Mr. Cor- ford. There was no place for the woman ' nell and 1 got together on co-education, in the business world. But now not only I shall always stand firm in the belief that ! the avenues of business are open to her, {the ideal college is one that admits both but, as we have already said, she tanks, men and women." well with her brothers in the professions, I According to Mr. White, the opening also. This wonderful improvement in ! of colleges to women has been beneficial, woman’s position in the general social not only to women, but to men as well, order is due, perhaps, more to increased ! There are other sources than educa tion that have aided in the bettering of woman's social place, but I shall not take time to discuss them here. The superior intelligence that general educational ad vantages have given to American women, has put them more neatly on a level in tellectually with their brothers, and, so far as we can learn, this superior intelligence has emphasized rather than detracted from the force of character in women. Thus in this democratic America, where intelligence and character take the place of caste and heredity, in the Orient, the Influence of education on woman's social position during the last hundred years has been to raise her from a place of servile effeminacy, weak in her in fluence on the general currents of social life, to an exalted place of intelligence, intellectual power and moral influence, (torm are woiii g purpose in view of one day being on a , , , I , , social level with her classmates, and when serving the buoyancy of the ve^el. In left college she had so risen in In- ^ most charming and popular an individual life, the balance of power' fluence as to be thought of highly is in prejudice. The reason we ate not cultured woman. capsized by a storm of superior argument' What is true of Margaret Burns is true is that we throw the weight of our ""“"kind generally. American ... L I women ror the past century, like Mar- ptejud.ce at the point where most needed g„et Burns during her college course, to prevent our overthrow. But preju- have been striving for higher rank in the dice, like ballast, may be the means of social order, and now with the beginning sinking us in time of a gale, if not skilfully twentieth century, we find them handled standing almost on a social level with Now, in college life, one finds a min- Jhe American woman has made rapid latufe republic, and the balance of power progress along almost all professional lines, there, with reference to the standard of such as law, medicine^ journalism, music. usually carry weight, but in this opinion! and now she wields a tremendous com- he has pitted his own mind against the bined influence on the moral and social well-nigh universal success of the co- life of a great and free country, education of men and women, and nd popular p oet"of"the It’S Good Work That Counts! nineteenth century, Alfred Tennyson, in "The Princess," age of See if the Sanitary' Barber Can Please You. BRANNOCK & MATKINS, Prop's. Shop scholarship, the social life, the moral life, and the general trend of affairs, is not in the faculty nor in the leaders among the students, but it is in the listless, wavering, unstable, part of the student body. Some men in college are to college life what the " floating voter" is to political parties, or the boxes of ballast are to the boat. Such students cannot be neglected with impunity to the student body nor to the institution itself. Their weight has to be reckoned with, although that weight may be esteemed as only avoirdupois. They are human beings and count mightily In reckoning public sentiment. It is with these listless, opinionless students that the alert leader in the college community has his greatest opportunity of impressing himself upon the college life at large. No man liveth to himself, and cer tainly not in the college. Hence the natural leaders in college life should feel art and authorship. She has shown that she possesses remarkable talent. She is the queen of' her sex. She is looked upon by her sistgrs across the sea as a leader in all that tends to lift woman up from the lowest depths of slavery to the loftiest heights of uttalnment. She possesses some qualities that the European women do not have and which make her envied by them, for she is in dependent, business like, and possessed with an abundance of energy and per severance, so that when she undertakes anything, she does not give up until she has accomplished her purpose. Thus, by many hard struggles, the American woman, having raised her self to the equal of her brothers, she has to pul forth greater effort than ever, in order to hold her exalted place. She has the advantage, however, of being in a country where, not royalty nor aristocracy, but where freedom is the basis of social life. Her European sisters, on the other hand, have to follow, in a greater or less degree, the beaten paths of their ancestors, for the traditions and his world famous poem, wherein he hints the coming woman's collegiate training. Dr. Alderman, however, may yet have , an experience similar to that of Andrew ! D. White, the builder, and for twenty years the president of Cornell University, R, M. MORROW, SUrgOOIl DeOtiSl one ot the largest and most influential co- I ’ o educational universities of America. Mr White, in an address at a dinner of the | women graduates of this university, at the Hotel Manhattan, in New York City, March 3, 1906, expressed gratification ^ over the " preternatural foresight of Ezra G. E..JORDAN, IVl D- Cornell, which led him to found a co-; r^a: n l n educational institution." " Much of Cor- I “ Oibsonville Drug Co.. nell's success," continued President | GIBSONVILLE, White, " has been due to cTMORROW BUILDING, Cor. bront CSt, Main Streets, BURLINGTON, N. C. N. C. Its women students. The presence of women in a university benefits it vastly in many ways. In the beginning," he continues, " I was not so sanguine as Mr. Cornell concern ing the advisability of establishing a co educational institution. Opponents of the ELON Bit^KlNb Sc TRUST CO, c>lUTHORIZED CAPITAL $25,000 We are prepared to do a general banking busi* ness. We solicit the patronage of the people Elon College and the surrounding country. and should accept the responsibility that social customs are not easily broken down DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK Of the many cases where DISEASE has been contracted by hav ing your LAUNDRY WORK done in the same room that is used for eating, sleeping, and the using of Opium ? Sanitary' Methods Used in Burlington Steam Laundry RALPH POINTER, Agent, - Elon College, N. C.
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