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Page Two MAROON AND GOLD December 8, 1922 £^aroon and (^olD Member of the North Carolina Colle giate Press Association Published Weekly by the Students of ELON COLLEGE Enterecl at tho Post-Office at Elon Col lege, N. C-, as second-class matter. Two Dollars Per College Year Lloyd J. Bray Sion M. Lynam R. H- Gunn . . . P. D. Rudd . . . . W. L. Woody . . 0. H. Thomae . . Freda Dimmick , J. D. Barber . . A. H. Hook . . . Herbert Scholz M. Z. Rhodes . Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Ass’t Business Manager . . . Circulation Manager . Ass’t Circulation Mgr. . . Ass’t Circulation Mgr. . . . Advertising Manager . Ass’t Advertising Mgr. Editor for Alumni Publicity Editor Advertising Eates Upon Eeauest THIS WEEK’S POEM By Sion M. Lynam lS ® ® KINDLE YOUR FIRES Kincllc your fires, Beloved, The world is cold; Shadows have fallen about it, So gray and bid; Shadows through w'hich men stumble And learn to fear Corpses of dead things and dripping Tears that they hear. Kindle your fires, Beloved, Out on the plains; Kindle them high on the mountains In winter rains. Wandering eliildren will welcome Your points of fire, Lighting the long trail upward Toward man’s desire. Kindle your fires, Beloved, Dark is the way. Signals of hope are needed Until the day Gloriously breaks on the hilltops. Ending the night. Kindle your fires, Beloved, All through the night. Let US take as a concrete exam ple a young man who desires to be a journalist. He enters a col lege in which he is required to pursue a course in Latin, a course in Greek, a course in Bible, and a course in English, with the choice of electing between church his tory and government history. When this j^oung man completes his college course he is about as well prepared to be a journalist as a hermit is to entertain in hon or of some of New York’s four hundred.” Had he been permit-1 ted to elect courses leading, to journalism he would have been, at least, in a position to have be gun a career as cub reporter on a newspaper. When colleges arrange curri cula that more nearly fill the needs of the students there will be fewer “square pegs in round holes.” Listen Billy Sling—SLANG—Slung Dearest Billy: This week "VPe -wears our Ps & Qs. Our speach is at the bar of justice and for 7 days we is supposed by vote not to use the gutter gramnier. I votes too thinking there was no dangling parti ciples in my neighborhood, but alas I too use slang. Billy, here somethings you dident know. I am going -to write you most everday so yuo will get educatejl more quicker. You already owes me fore $ tewition and you ought not to keep your fackulty waiting. More tomorrow. COLLEGE CURRICULA To criticize is easy; to offer a solution to the subject is difficult. It seems that the present-day col lege curricula are faulty. They too closely confine the tastes of the student. There are those who continue to insist that the proper training for a person is to have him study those subjects which present the most difficulty for him. If this theory be true, the logical course for a man to pursue in life would be to engage in that occupation or profession that would be the hardest for him and would cause him to expend more time and en ergy to do poorly the same thing that the man who has an aptitude for it would do well. We have read in history and in litejature of men who refused to concur with the opinion of the school authorities in the matter of a prescribed course. In most cases these men were branded as incorrigible and dismissed from the school. It is disappointing, however, to those who advocate the limitations in curricula that these men developed into the greatest men in history instead of the ne’er-do-wells that they would have 'had them develop into. When a student confines him self to the college curriculum he is allowing someone else to think and plan for him. When a stu dent reaches the age at which he is permitted to enter a college or university he has reached the age at which he should be able to think for himself. If a man has time and mone tary wealth he may indulge in the luxury of taking soine “cut and dried” college curriculum as his guide in the pursuit of studies, and when his course is completed he may then go to a university and engage in the work of prepar ing himself for his profession or business. BIBLE HEALTH VERSES By Anna I. Helfenstein, M. D. Dean of Women, Elon College I Psalm 67: 2: That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations. Psalm 42:11: - Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance, and my God. Jer. 8:22: Is there no balm in Gile ad? is there no physician there? "Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered! Jer. 8:15; We looked for peace, (but no good came,) and for a time of health aud behold trouble. Prov. 16:24: Pleasant words are as an honey comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Isaiah 58:8: T^hen shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily. Ill John 2: Behold, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prosper- eth. Tomorrow, In my budwoir. Dear Bill: This slang problem is aging me daily. The more I tries to talk correct the more I deviates. Three of my best' pnrases has gone overboard, namely '^Tt aint nothing diffrent,^^ “Aint that frog feet’’ & ^‘Do you get me Steve.’’ Instead now I has got say, “It is not nothing diffrent,” “Aint that an am- phib’s foot” & “Can you reach to where Im at Stevea?’^ You uses slang also Billy and when it slips up on you there is only one way around him. Insted of talking nat ural, use bigger words and say ’em fast. If you talk slang continuously then you cant talk English and the only place they will understand you is in a chi- neese laundry. Sighing off at 10:49 Elon Time. SIMMON SEEDS H ® THE OIL CAN BLUES Each year we swear, and mean it well, That all next term we’ll study through. Good intentions pave the city of sham, Now lamplight flickers'while we cram. Cram, cram, pack the knowledge in,— Bits of facts of this and that; Eest of the time wo spend our tin, •Empty the spot beneath our hat. Tonight we’re on the other road; The freighter is talcing aboard a load Of chemios, latin, origin of peat. Colog}’, ology, tout de sweet. Cram, cram, tamp the lessons down; Bits of books, not bits of the town. What’s going on ’neath every frown? Not sport prospects nor a Lucile gown. DR. J. H. BROOKS Surgeon Dentist Foster BuUding Burlington, North Carolina WM. C. JEFFCOAT, D.C., Ph.C. CHIROPRACTOR Palmer School Graduate HOURS: Day. 10-12, 2-4; Nights, Tues., Thurg, 7-8 PHONES: Office, 680; Residence, 7602 4th Floor, First National Bank Bldg» Burlington, North Carolina GOODMAN’S THE HOME OF GOOD CLOTHES The little restles facts dart about and grin, Heady to come out faster than ever they went in. Good intentions waned again, now we face defeat; These night the profs meet us not sing ing in the street. Cram, cram, choked on a thousand I ALAMANCE LAUNDRY | I I I “ We Do H Better ” | Two dusky small boys were q*uarrcl- ing. One w'as pouring forth a volume of vituperous epithets, while the other leaned against a fence and calmly con templated him. When the flow of lan guage w’as exhausted, he said; Are, you troof ” ''Yes.” “You ain’t got nuffin more to say?” “No.” “Well, all dem, t’ings what.you call ed me, you is.” ^ A group of workmen were talking politics, when one of the disputants turned to a friend who remained silent. “I ain’t a-going to say,” said Bill doggedly. “Me aud Henry Green thrashed it once before.” “What did you arrive at?” asked the first. “.Well,” said Bill, “Hennery, he ar rived at the hospital, and I arrived at the police station.” After Supper, Dec. 5 or 6th. Dear Billy: Boy theyre on my trail now. Next week exams starts. An exam is a dress parade of all you ought to know and we in general is not ready, I guess tliey run the dates up on us. I have never been througli one of these exams before but they says it is mustard gass, heavy artillery, a machine gun storm and bay onet stabs throwed in for lokal color. This battle starts about the 15th in clusive and casualties and a list of wounded is published shortly. Look for me amidst the wounded. Dumbell. Captain (sharply)—“Button up that coat.'” Married Eecruit (absently)—“Yes, my dear.”—The Alleghany Campus. To write a column is a disease That keeps one from a week of ease. To write this punk is just a fright; It keeps one up most every night. If you don’t fill up ten inches or more. The editor-in-chief—well she gets sore. Yet if you think that it’s such a cinch, Please send in about an inch. —Selected. JAKE BLAKE SAYS: Las’ week dey crowds me out kase at Thanks- gibin’ nobody wants de dark meat. Getting sleepy, Dec. 7enth. Friend Wm.: We had a music recital which was Art. Art with a eappital R. The fel lows I nose and young ladies met at 4 O’clock in the P. M. in the chappel and we was entertained with singing to music, playing on a piano and fid dling on a violun. I liked it just as well as the big operas singer what came some time ago and warbled in Dutch and a evenin dress. Mebbe I will take up music: One guy says I have got a ear for it. I belieeve it for ouct in a circus I saw a elefant beat a drum with his ear and what any elefant can do is not above my ambition. Yours in a new overcoat, Dumbell. On class. Dear Paddcrrooskie’s playmate: Last night I didn’t write cause I was in Burlington and you cant write while standing on no St. corner. We went to the movies but Scads lost his money so w'e couldent get in and I was hungrier than a bear and we had a rough time trying to entertain each •other in a strange place when we dont see each other but 42 times per diem. Had to w^alk home and everything. I’m never going off the campus again un lesson there is a bank cashier in the crowd. Xmas will soon be here but w'hen it gets here I’m going to be at home. Yours forgifts, Dumbell. Facts quite old and theory bold snapped up from the sages. It’s the last time ever that this terror falls on me. Next term I study every night—not on in ninety-three. K. A. D. A. El E IS] ROMAN CIA’S ROUNDELAY (A Short Story, Growing Shorter) Synopsis Continued —a three-foot piece of yardstick which he drops when seized with amaze ment on recognizing the sideburns of Larty Simonson, whom he met at the jungle fair in Wenobpenowisa on the seacoast of the great African interior. The prof and Larty shake hands while Bomancia and Mike shake their heads. “To*whom it may concern, Grretings,” says the prof. “It must be me, chimes in Larty. Chapter 3 Bewilderment spreads over Homan- cia’s brow there at the bonny black board. Chapter i “Pieces of Ate,” says old Polly, Atop the mizzen mast. Sunken Sandbag. The buzzer buzzes the % hour un heard.* Burlington, North Carolina Phone 560 BURLINGTON, N. C. H GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS FIRST among North Carolina dailies in promoting the cause of higher education. FIRST in laying the ground work for assimilation of world-wide information. ADVANCES HAND-rW-HAND WITH OUR EDUCATIONAL PROOKESS ' SHOES AND HOSIERY For the Well-Dressed Student Mebane Shoe Company Burlington, N. C. With a cold. Dear Snoots: Billy you wont get mkd with me (Continued on page four.) B.—Just here the' great guns in Fort Cheesebox are trained on our lit tle group. For twenty years the Chees- onians have awaited the chance of get ting the crown princess and political elite of Possumonia together so they might take a snapshot. The silence is shattered by the command to fire— To be continued. Thrills galore! See the next install ment. gi u la EXTRA SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Simmon Seeds will carry a complete list of questions that 'vvill be asked on examinations, with correct answers. Why flunk or cram when the subscrip tion price of Simmon Seeds is so low? gi SI m How do tlie boys win laurels at pub lic speaking when the girls are as flu ent and have ten times more endurance. m m M Two weeks from today do you know w'here I will be? H ® g! We’ve heard it often. We hope you’re on the Christmas tree. (S !S1 i§] The local market quotes pocket knowledge scarce with a great demand ahead. m M M Slang Week brought us two good ones—Bully Boy and Hainer’s Chariot. US® Little timid freshmen, From chewing on the stubbles, Now catch a train for tome To air most of their troubles. DR. L. M. FOUSHEE DENTIST Office Near Freeman Drug Co. Phone 856 BURLINGTON, N. C. Jos. J. Stone & Co. Engraved Calling Cards and Wedding Invitations . GREENSBORO, N. C. J. K. OZMENT Fancy Groceries, Fine Candies and Smokes “The Corner Store” BOSTON TAILORING CO. Cleaning and Pressing All Kinds of Alterations WORK GUARANTEED Davis Street Burlington, N. 0, SCHIFFMAN JEWELRY CO. Leading Jewelers .COLLEGE JEWELRY Greensboro, N. C. DR. R. M. MORROW Dentist BURLINGTON, N. C. Phone 65, Over City Drug Store “SAY IT WITH FLOWERS” VAN LINDLEY COMPANY Greensboro, N. C. College Store, Agents
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