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a IHE ELON COLLEQB WEEKLY. January 5, 1912. THE f'LON 001.1-KliK W ICKk \ Pablislieil e»ory WtdiKsdiy dnring Hit College jear by Tin Weekly Piiblialiing Cumiiaiiy K. A. Campbell, Editoi. J. C. Stuart, Business Manager. CIRrm.ATION DEPARTMENT. Cash Subsciiptions (40 weeks), 50 Cents. Time Subscriptions (40 weeks), 75 cents. All matter pertaining to subscriptions should be addressed to J. C. Stuart, Elon College. N.C. IMPORTANT. The offices of publication are Greens boro. N. South Elm St., and Elon College, N. C., where all communica tions relatiTe to the editorial work of the Weekly should be sent. Matter relating lo the mailing of the Weekly should be sent to the Greensboro office. Entered as second-clasa matter at the post-otBc# at Greensboro, N. C. FRIDAY. JANUARY f). 1!I12. Now we’re off. Next stop. February twenty-second. Still they come. Subset i! e for the Weekly, either by re- renewing or joininfi the list of readers for the first time. If you have ever been to Elon (\ille?e, you need the paper. Where are Elon’s Alumni? The col- >imns of the W»ekly are open to them. Now for a track team. Speaking .if. or rather to. the alumni, what’s the reason we don’t get better support for o;ir paper than we do. Is it because it is not worth lifty cents per year? Is it lecause the columns are not expressive and e.xponential of college life? Is it because the matter is not pi’t to you in a business-like way. or is it just because you simply d n't oare anything about your alma mater and the doings of your foster brothers and sisters. Evidently there is something wrong, not only with tie alumni, but the student body as well. Only a very small per centage of tl’e trraduates and only twen ty-eight students out of a total enrollment of about two hundred forty students, have their names im the mailing list of the pa per. Now the question is what is the trouble? Is it the fault of the students and alumni or is it because of the un- attractiveness of the j aper? If our ideas are not like yours, if our methods of doing business do not corres pond to those followed by yourself, or if you don’t like our ])aper. why, tell us so. All suggestions are welcomed and all crit icisms are received in the most friendly manner. W'e want the name of every student in college on our mailing list and we want every graduate and former student of Elon to be regular readers of our paper. Then we want a paper worthy of the money and attention of such. Now if our paper in its present condition is worth fifty cents per year for its forty issues, and is an all around representative me dium for college students and friends, why then, let’s have your name, address and incidentally your fifty cents. If it is not so, tell us why. We are indeed thinkful for the excel lent support of those who have already subscribed and are paying reglarly and realize too that one reason why it seems so few students are interested in our pa- ])er to the extent of a regular paid up suhsciiption is because many of them have tlieir pajiers sent to home addresses and paients.. Now this is perfectly all right, commendable and incidentally makes the mangement feel good that you are willing to trust the columns of the Weekly to. in a measure at least, keep friends pos ted as to doings around the college. But we would like you to and feel sure you would like to if only the matter was brought to your attention, have your own paper delivered with your private mail each Saturday morning and not have to borrow someone else’s or read oxer the shoulders of another to get the College news. We appeal not to your sense of phil anthropy for we are not mendicant, but to your good judgment, patriotism and loyalty. A larger subscription list means a better paper. A better paper means a better appearance for Elon. By nothing more than by its publicati^ms is a town or college judged. A better appearance before the world means a larger student body. A larger student body means bet ter equipment. Better equipment means greater and better schoolarship. Better scholarship and advantages mean more demand for Elon’s gradrates. This makes your diploma more valrable and this di rectly helps you. Surely no man liveth to himself alone. It is simply a case of )asting I read upon the water which w ill inevitably return. We propose for e\erv graduate, every old student and every undergraduate to to be visited either in person or by let ter regarding his or her subscription and please give the matter your favorable at tention. We can double our subscription list if our readers and friends will help rs. “Come, go with us and we will do thee good’’ and incidentally our college will be greatly strengthened and advertis ed. The business manager or his assistant will be glad to receive and answer any inquiries, etc.. regarding advertising, sub scriptions, etc. If you like the paper, kindly drop I'S a card .saying so. If you don’t let us know why. We face the new year with the best prospects, by far. ever known. But we want more. Our paper may be passinir good hut we want it better. Our sub scriptions number nearly two thousands hut why not four? That's the point. Those of you who are reading our col umns, talk it among yo'ir friends. “Go ye therefore into all the world” where Elon is known and better where she is not known and preaih the gospel of Elon- ism to those who know it not. even to the ends of the earth. hej fi>:g the devil. Some indrstrious generous heai’ted fel low has been'so kind as to favor a large whiskey establishment with the names of our student body, faculty, and good citi zens of our town. Who this generous fel- l )w is we do not know. But surely he did not think to whom he was giving his assistance, or else he would have thought upoi his ways. Evidently, he manifests a spirit of antagonism towards the in fluences that give to our students the mor al and Christian force that they are so often praised for. W^hat remuneration he received for the malevolence we do not know, but he must have said with Judas: “What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?” His con science must say now: “It it not lawful t oput them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.” The students are united with the ^ood people of our state against the evil of intemperance. They show no gratitude to anyone who favors such a house with their names ,and have no sympathy for the business that defiles their mail with such literature. The best news-papers of our state will not give their space for li- ((uor advertisements. We as individuals .should not give our assistance to the dis- tiibution of the stuff. While none of our st.'dcnts will accept the glowing offers that the numerous circulars contained, yet the person that furnishes that liquor house with their names may be indirectly selling that which is forbidden to he sold in our ■slate. AUTMNI NOTES. Mr. S. C. Harrell, of the class ’09, is Instructor in Mathematics in Defiance Col lege. Defiance, Ohio. Before going to De fiance Mr. Harrell was Superintendent of the Holland (Va) schools. The ministerial representation has been materially strengthened in the Valley of Virginia since Rev. H. E. Truitt, ’11, has located at Elkton, Rockingliam County. Virginia, and is an active pastor for sev eral churches adjacent to that city. Palmer College, of La Grange, Iowa, has recently elected a new administrative ttaff and Rev. Edward French, class ’0.5. 1 as been chosen Dean of the College. This is a high honor to Mr. French and also reflects much credit on his Alma Mater, (specially since be is a comparatively young alumnus of this institution. Another alumnus who has recently come into college work is Prof. S. E. Denton, '02. In September, last year. Prof. Den ton actively assumed the duties of the Professor of History and Natui’al Sci ence in Southern Georgia College, McRae, Ga. Mrs. .1. K. Ruebush (nee Nan Byrd Rhodes, class, '01), Dayton. Va., is of ficially connected with the W. C. T. U. of Rockingham County and also holds an official position in the State Union. She is a strenuous temperance worker a id her work in this cajiacity is not with out results. One of the leading physicians in Vir ginia is Dr. J. E. Rawles. class '9(i. of Suffolk, Va. Dr. Rawles after graduating l ere went to the University of New York where he received the deirrce of I)oct"v of Medicine. He is President of the Med ical Society of his District and has also written a treatise on Tuberculosis whicii has been adopted as a text book in the Public St hools of Virginia. Mr. Percy G. Gunter graduated at Elyn ('ollcge with the class of ’Ofl. The fol lowing year he pursued graduate work at the Univeisity of North Carolina, re ceiving his degree in 1910. Last year he was elected Professor of English in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of DR. J. H. BROO KS, DENTAL .SURGEON Office Over Fn*ler'i Shoe Slore BUULlNG'l'ON, N C. n. M. III «•('() 11 MORROW BUILDING, (/orner Front and Main Streets, BURLINGTON, N. C SEE Worrcw, Bascn and Grecff. inc., BURLINGTON, N. C. W hen Needing Hats, Muslin Underwear And Royal Society Embroidery. SHOEH, EATS AiSl> TAlLOKIi'tG That Satisfy —at— • HOLT-CATES COMPANY Main Street. Burlington. Texas and he is making good. We pre dict a bright future for him. A FALSE CLAIM. It is often claimed by students as welt as by others, that special mental quali fications, possessed by few, are requisite for the .successful study of mathematics. Those who are working in this field, who have had much experience in teaching mathematics to all cla.sses of students, have generally abandoned this opinion, especially with respect to the high school and requisite college branches of mathe matics. The simple reasoning of these branches of mathematics can be under stood by any normal mind with diligent, c(mtinuous application. It is difficult to see how any one really lacking such ca pacity could prove equal to the far more difficult reas(ming demanded of him in any ordinary walk in life. Is he to become a lawyer? Then, how can he learn . to analyse a complicated le>;al case, if he cannot analyse a simple proposition in geometry ? Is he to become a student of history? How can he de termine the influence of the great politi cal and historical characters on the world's development, if he is incapable of determining the influence of a co-efficient in a simple relation in algebra? Is he to be a linguist? How can he translate the masterpieces of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and the other grea' masters, with their myriad shades of meaning, from one lan guage into another, if he cannot learn to translate a trifling “reading problem” in to the correspon(’.ing mathematical sym bols? Is he to he come a physician? How will he diagnose and eliminate a disease, with its complicated, ambiguous, abstruse, obscure sv-mptoms. if he lacks the facul ties nccessary to diasuose and eliminate the unknown quantity from an elementary equation? Is he to become a minister of the Gospel? How can he develop the men tal. moral, and spiritval powers of an im mortal soul, with its infinite possibilities and boundless potentialities, if he can-
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