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la* lien wiBKtT. ■rm Mjaroh 8, 1912. THE ELON COLLEGE WEEK LY. P.ibliihe.1 e^crj WtUntid^y during tli« College year by Tb« Weekly Publiihing CiniiHiiiy E. A. Campbell, Editor. J. C. Stuart, Busiuess Manager. CIRCUI-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 oflices of publication ar« Greens boro, N. C.. South Elm St., and Elon College, N. C., where all communica tions relative to the editorial work of the Weekly should be sent. Matter relating lo the mailing of the Weekly should be sent to the Greensboro olBc^ Entered as second-class matter at the post-offii-6 at Greensboro, N. C. FRIDAY. MARCH S. liH'i. Everv little co-ed has a way that s all her own. Wontiert’ul how much sentiment can be comprefcseil into a thiui; as small as a snow l.all. One touch of winter makes the whole world shiver. The So])hi>more class have liad a meet- in};. Hurrah! With the recent live inches of snow. baseh1B*pWtitice lias been slistitly inter rupted. Before these lines are read by a frood many (»f us. examinations will be on in full force. How shall ye spend the ]>eriod ? Flee from the disappointment to come. All things work tosether for the good of those who love their text-bookg. Aiilam started the fall and we’ve been falling ever since. Will we continue dur ing the coming week? The teacher loveth a willing pupil. T have learned that whatsoever grade T get, therewith to be content. Choose ye this day which ye shall stu dy. text-books. base ball, or co-education in practice. T know not what course others may choose, but as for me. srive me co-educa tion in both home and school. So easy is it to do wron" an,1 cause some one pain. Ah! better to sro slow and think and think and think aeain. It makes no difference what we are. Infant, child or man— To do our best is the only test The world would have us stand. “Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,” But tlie (}. 0. P. surely has two this year. Which shall it be? Wliich shall it be? “T” looked at “T,’’ And “T” looked at “T.” EDUCATION OF EDWIN TALMAGE HARVEY. By Wright Angle. W lien Edwin Talyiage Harvey jiassed from the |)erio(l of infancy into that blissful, in([uisiti\e and important knee- pants era, lie was by far the most impor tant personage in the A. Rudy Harvey liousehold. and as fair a child as one would care to see. 1 would not have you think that Fj.lwin Talmage was a precocious child, nor that he was extraordinary in any sense, save that of his cliildish beau ty, so that any one would be likely to no tice it. except his fond parents. He was just! a lusty, healthy, friendly cherub whose interest changed direction as of ten as does the j)erimeter of a circle, ju.st as is the case with any normal young ster of the same age. He saw the liorses. trains, boats and other things such as de light the youth, and enjoyed them with the same childish hajipiness that you and I did when we passed that way. Boyhood is always pregnant with these charming discoveries, but for the most part they are unstable am-l elusive. The world to the child is all newness, and just as the bee flits here and tliere to gather nec tar, so does the child gather the material for adjusting itself to the conditions of life. All of tlie experience of youthful ima jiiiation and the appurtenances there to fed the intellect of young Edwin, and m:"le him feel wise, just as you and 1 did when we were passing that way. 1 le- member distincting how eloque.itly happy he looked when he had donned his tirst trousers; he was a man. or at least he had made himself think so. Mrs. Harvey was happy too; airi slie would draw him up to her aii'l call him her “preacher man’’ or some other pet expression, while E. T. gloated over his new acquirement and ]>restige. Edwin Talmage could not know how full of tenderness was tho heart of M rs. Harvey, and that she enjoyed his satisfaction even more than any pleasure that she could not share with him. EI- win T. enjoyed a larger latitude in his mother’s affection than most boys do. any way, and that is j>erhaps the chief rea son why }\is name appears in this story. Mrs. Harvey was a motherly optimistic soul, and found ample satisfaction in at tending to her household duties and in keeping a careful account of the activi ties of her so.i. She did not care what others thought of her sacrifices for F'. T.. if she could only pre.sent him spotless, at the brink of his manhood, her hopes would be sati. tied. Mrs. IT'arvey could easily have been a social leailcr in her community; she had often declined invitations tendered by the suffragettes and various clubs. She always said, “I can’t leave EdwiT.’’ Mr. Harvey, like many other men. was en- gros.sed in the problem of providing for present want and future needs, and as a matter of course, was away from home practically all of the time, except that which he needed for rest; so the matter of rearing Edwin Talmage was of necess ity the charge of Mrs. Harvey; and 1 really believe that she was glad of it. it must be a great comfort to a noble mother to see her soon succeed; for satis faction in most cases must be the reward of her toil. It was so in the case of Mrs. Har\ey, though in many instances that satisfaction was interrupted. Edwin Talmage Harvey was not long reaching and entering the period of youth, that is. the time seeme/.l short to all of us who could look back on as much as twenty summers, but to Edwin the years were cruelly long. He yearned to be a mail, so lie could, as he imagined, meet folks on an equal footing. He felt that it was a dreadful handicap not to be able to do things just as the men had .lone, and were doing, it was simply aw ful to liave to wait to reach the period of manhood. But Edwin waited. Some times 1 think that it takes a great deal of the Jileasure out of a thing if we are so long in obtaining it; and I think I'm of tlie opinion that that reasoning will obtain when applied lo the question of be coming i>Town. If Edwin had come to be a man as early as he wished—oh, well, let’s ilon’t anticipate. Those long years nere [lart of natural curriculum and were exceedingly necessary to the preparation of Edwin for a proper reception into the realm of manhood. One of the primal ele ments in young Harvey's education then w'as ex[)erience. Same here, and same there, if you are a normal man or wo man. The preparatory school work of t^dwin Talmage was mediocre only. Tliose pesky letters and figures were hard to 2ret as sociated with anything that would carry anything to his brain except confusion. He could learn easily, the difference be tween a cat and a dog. but it was not easy lo distinauish betweeii B and 1) because B and I) were not active enough to lie in teresting, 1 have often wished that the alpha' et and the multiplication table were jiersonilled—they'd be easy to learn in that event. The process of learning, though, is not synonymous with gravita tion, and wishing get nothing for any body. Absorption, 1 think, is the word which names the method of Edwin Tal- niase's early schooling. Fortunate, E. T. was not so dense as some and readily suc- ceedel in advancing with those of his age and class. Thus passed the boyhood of Edwin Talmage Harvey. At fourteen Edwin entered an academy in order to fit himself for the Freshman class at college. It was here that he felt the first influence of competition. New ideals loomol up before. It felt good to le antagonized, to match units and re sources with his class mates. Success was sweot; failure was galling and despi cable. yet each of them furnished stim uli for future (onlests and opposition. Finding the effo was a great departure for Edwin, ami it will be interesting to know tl e effect which it had upon him, it 1 can n.nriate my recollectons of him dur ing I’is life, at the academy and college in their due sequence and proportion. (To be continued.) DS. .7. H. BROOKS, DENTAL .SURGEON Offic* Over Fneler's Shoe Store BllRLlNOTON, N. I?. M. MORROW, MORROW BUILDING, * ('orner Front and Main Streets, BURLINGTON, N, C. SEE >Sorrow, Bason an Green. Inc.. BURLINGTON, N. C. When Needing Hats, Muslin Underwear And Royal Society Embroidery. SHOES, HATS AND TAILORING That Satisfy iit HOLT-CATES COMI'ANY Main Sti'eet. BurlHigton. B. .GOODMAN The Home of GOOD CLOTHING Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Ladies^ Good* Burlington, North Carolina. 303 Main Stteet. HOW MARBLES ARE MADE. All boys likt» but wh(» knows how they are innde or when* t!iey *onie from? “M.irl>les.” ssiys tin* ('himjro Her ald.'* are niaih* in jjn*at (inuntities in Sax ony for export to India. China, and tlie I’nltel States. A hard, calcareons stone is nstMl. This is broken lntos(inare blocks, and about one linndred and tifty of these blK*ks are thrown into a mill, in whi*!i is a Hat slab of stone with numerous concentric fur rows on its face. A block of oak of the same diamet(‘r as the stone, is made to revolve on the slab, while water flows upon it. 1'he whole process requires but a quarter of an hour, and one mill can turn out twentj’ thousand marbles a week. The mills at Oberstein, on the Naht*. in fiermauy, man ufacture marbles and apites es|>eclally for the American market.” Fo marbles are made by ^'oln^ thru the mill and jrettlnjr the rou^h corners rubb(‘i off, the edges sni(X)th(‘d down, and tlie mass ground into a jrlobular form. .\nd boys are made info men in much the same way, by bein'4 run throut^h life’s school, which is their ‘‘mill until their r(ur-ch corners and edROM disappear and tlu'y be*ome rounded and smootl er and fit for n^-e In the world. I’overty adversity, hard tin\es. and h\rd fare—all have their uses in this world to round men and smooth them and polish them and fit tnem for us*fnlness here and for glory hereafter.—New York Observ‘r. —ConGTess is investifjatinp the strike at I.awrencc, Mass. —The Methodist Episcopal rhurch. South, is moving micrbtily to build a house of worship in V’ashin^on. D. C. Gen. J. S. Carr of Durbam has given $5,000 an1 rontrihutions are being made from many directions.
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