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THE EVON COLLEj^E WEEKLY Vol. IV- New Series. Greensboro, N. C., FridayMarch 28, 1913. and Elon College, N. C. No* LOCAL 'ASD FEIiSONAL. Among tlie visitors on the Hill during the Easter holidays, class ^12 was well represented by iliss Mabel ■’^armer, of Ramseur, N. C., Mr. W. L. Anderson, of Sumineriield, N. C., and Mr. J. A. Dickey of Burlington. Misses Helen Weaver and Pearl Cooper, of Gt. '■, visited friends at West Dormitory, during the holi days. i\irs. Samuel \V. Johnson, of Car denas, 1\’. C., has been the guest of her daughter, i\-iss Lillian, for the past several days. Miss Bessie Gilliam, of Burling ton, spent the week end at West Dormitory, with her sister. Miss Jes- Dr. P. H. Fleming, of High Point, was the guest of Ins daughter. Miss Nellie, Monday night. M_isrs. Joe P. Farmer, of News Ferry and John Woods of Danville, both of whom are former students \here, W(!re pleasant visitors on the Hill during the holidays. Miss Sudie McCauley, of Gibsonville, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Anm^- u)!(i L^. 1^. Li^- iiaiwboij, v>r Deiiuluii, V a., spent the Easter holidays '(uite pleasant ly, on tihe Hill, visiting his cousin Miss Viola Rollings. Misses Thelma Clymer and Ethel Bar rett were entertained in the home of Miss Clymer's parents, in Greensboro, Sunday. Misses Fannie and Kathleen Brothers, were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. H. E. Rountree of Greensboro, Monday night. a PSiPHELIAN HALL Psiphelians Entertain. EVENING GIVEN BY THE LADIES OF HIGHEST TYPE The annual entertainment of the Psiphelian Society for this session was in keeping with the general spirit of tJie Easter season just passed, a distinct success. Each member on the proi,i’am deserves '“special mention,” and did her full part to portray to the public the literary j)ossibilities of her society as well as her sex. From beginning to end there was n.-' hint of drag nor cheajiness, but each indixid- »•>! • ' With ovon t.h*. ian society h:',s set a new mark of excellence, not only for tlieir own jirogram, but for those of the male societies as well, if the writer has seen or heard a more excellenl literary progran: o’- a more interesting and intellectual debate from any male society on any date, he does not remember it. ~~Prinnptly~aF8 P.''jTr'Miss Thompsie Holland, chief marshal, escorted the de cision committee to their places before the rostrum, and then with the band jjagt; Durham, N. C. playing a stately march the white columns of representatives filed majestically into .Subject: The Centralization the chapel from the rear entrance to take their seats upon the rostrum. Miss Vi ola Rollings, president of the occasion,' with characteristic dignity and poise, wel TIJIHD AXXUAL IXTEH-SCHO- LA S ri C DEC 'LA IMEHS’ COXl'ESr Fine Skt of Deulaiiiers Large Audiexce Elon College was hai)py on Fri day evening last, to entertain some twenty promising young men from as many forward-looking High Schools in the State in the third an nual inter-scholastic declaimers’ con test. The preliminary contest was held at 1 o’clock this afternoon and each of the contestants spoke before a commiltee consisting of Rev. E. M. Carter, Rev. W. S. Hales, and Prof. Liggett Lincoln. A large number of auditors heard the preliminary con test in wliich were the following con testants : Program op tub Preliminary Contest Jamestown High School, David Coletrain, Jamestown, N. C. Subject: John Adams on the Declara tion. Hawfields High School, Albert Gibson, Mebane, N. C. Subject: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death. Hikeville High School, t'iiarles 1. Tay lor, Pikeville, N. C. Subject: The New South. Churchland High School, Clarence F. Spaugh, Linwood, N. C. Subject: Mother, Home, and Heaven. East Durham High School, Earnest S. the United States. ( oncord Public Miss Eula Long spent the week-end coined the visitors with a few well spoken words, following which the program Concord, N. C. School, Joseph Haw- witih her brother at Graham. Subject: The Grave of My Country. Fremont High School, Leland Aycoek, began with a piano duet V)y the Misses Mason. These two ladies played with a Misses Linda Barnes and Bettie Ellis vis- charm and grace that gave the i>rogram an excellent opening. ited Miss Barnes’ parents in Greensboro Miss~Pattie Preston’s essay, "Beneath the Billows,” a sort of an applied re- Fremont, N. C. Tuesday and Wednesday. sume of Enoch Arden, was well written, read and received, and contained some Subject: The Lance of Kanana. Misses Ida Carver, Ora Brower. Grace thought worth remembering. Then the joke, “Watermelon Pickles,” by Yadkin College High School, C. R. McCuller and Myrtle Moser spent the hoi- Miss Mvrtle McLeary as grand daughter and Miss Annie Laurie Wicker as grand- Leonard, Yadkin College, N. C. idays at their respective homes. mother. -Miss Wicker’s impersonation of the aged lady was good, and Miss Mc- Miss Maud Cullers, of Guilford, vis- Learv, with her winsome skip as she left the rostrum, was a temptation to any ited friends at the Ladies’ Hall Monday youthful Romeo to institute pursuit. “The Loneliness of Genius” formed a theme around which Miss Lillian John- Rsther ijones left Tuesday to uni(iue yet interesting essay. The discourse was true to the title night. Miss spend some time with relatives at Fiiqiiay, N. C. Rev. W. G. Clements, is sjiending a few days /with his daughter. Miss Ethel. Mr. W. F Warren T^. N. C. was » pleasant visitor on the Hill Sunday and Monday. The entire College community will re- Subject: Our Country’s Call for Men. Aycoc'k Gradel School, Miss Nellie Brooks, Haw River, N. C. Subject: Asleep at the Switch. Mebane High School, J, Frank Warren, and both bv example and illustration did the writer prove the correctness of same. Mebane, N. C. Subject: Wlien the Evening Shadows Lengthen. Monroe High School,, Ware Pointer, Monroe, N. C. Subject; The American Flag. Durham Higli School, Victor S. Bryant, But of course the real event and surprise of the evening was the debate; Query: Durham, N. C. Subject: The Old North State. Miss Johnson showed it to be true that a ^^enius in any field either lives ahead of or away from his generation, Tliis w'as a fi'cod number. Then ^'iss Grace RoUingSj mezzo-soprano, and Miss Annie Bagwell, soprano. sani(, “Dusky Night Now Spreads Her Pinions/' by L. Densa, which, with Miss Flor ence Wilson as accompanist, made an attractive addition to the program. joice to hear that Mrs. Amick, wife of “Kesolved, That woman’s education is a greater factor in society than man’s legisla- Prof. T. C. Amick, of the College, is rap- tion.” The query, which at first reading may seem commonplace, was discussed on idly 'convalescent, and barring"complica- « high plane and principles, and revealed to the audience the fact that there must ^ ^ tions, will soon be able to be removed to be something in this new doctrine of woman’s rights and that they as well as men Subject: The Pe High Point High School, S. A. Perry, her home from St. Leo’s Hospital at have powers of oratory and debate which need only the chance for cultivation and Cxreensboro, where she was recently taken opportunity to manifest themselves. The ladies, both attirmative and negative,^ ana- for operation. Perils of the Nation. Roberson ville Hig'h School, William Gray, Robersonville, N. C. Subject: Uncle Peter and the Gray lyzed the query ii) an intelligent sort of way and proceeded by keen logic and fault The condition of Miss Esther Fuller, less discourse to weave an argument, each for her own side, that would have been ^ule. who has been confined to her room for difficult of refutation even for those who boast of their stronger sex. Madison Graded School, Gordon D. several days, has materially improved and Candidly, if these men, glorious creations of an all-wise Creator, would main- Gibson, Madison, N. C. she is now on the road to recovery, which tain their much-vaunted superiority in this field they will have to j>roduce some- Subject: Universal Education, fact will be greeted with pleasure by all. thing better than the average of public debate seen here, else their “weaker” and Continued on t«,ge 2, column 4
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