SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1945
MAROON AND GOLD
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Maroon and Gold
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THOUGHTS
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends.—John 15:13.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am en-
volved in mankind.—John Donne.
A Silent Editorial
Twenty-three Elon men have given their lives to
the cause of freedom. No words can express the rever
ence we feel in our hearts toward them and toward all
who have made the supreme sacrifice. Wednesday, May
30, is Memorial Day. Lest we forget:
Joe Bagley
Frank Bernard Bragg
Jourdan Bivins
Sam Friedman
H. S. Garrison
Joe Hardison
Keith Harris
Vernon Hayden
Adrian Hoffman
Dewey Hooper ^ ^
Joe Howard Hopkins
Vincent Kazlow
Van Kennedy
Jack May
Harold McCom
Millard Hugo Pilberg
T. J. Pickett ^ ^ _
John Puglisi
Preston Townes
Douglas Tucker
Lloyd Whitley ^ »
Stanley Yonkoski
“It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus for so nobly advanced. It is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining be
fore us, that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause for which they gave their last
lull measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain: that this
nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people, by the people, . . .
shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln.
CLAIM
I stooped and drank at a clear, cool spring
That ran beside a traveled road;
And knowing others stopped there too
Made it nc^t Ifess good.
I saw a sunset pink and gold
And thrilled as though ’twere mine alone,
Not mindful of the millions
Who claimed it Jor their own.
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I watched a rainbow form and fade
And felt that Sil was well with me e
Nor deemed it as a symbol
For all eternally.
And so it is with you. Dear Friend,
incredulous though it be;
Because you made life richer far
A part of you belongs to me.
Fresmen gaze curiously at a college commencement
for the first time . . . Sophomores come down from
their lofty pedestals and begin to take things seriously
. . . Juniors contemplate their senior year . . . while
Seniors, with a lump in the throat and sometimes a
tear in the eye, reminice their four years on campus
commencement! And the year s over.
It has been another war year. It has been the year
of the greatest strain of the war in Europe. And it
has been the year of victory in Europe. But the heighth
of the pressure of the Pacific war has not yet come.
Many have been pulled out of college to fight for world
democracy. Many are yet to go. But for those of us
who remain there is much to do. The Seventh War
Loan Drive is now on and the goal is $15,000,000,000
. . . there is employment available for the summer . . .
the War Relief Campaign is coming up next fall ... a
prayer or two wouldn’t hurt.
But there is something more—and that is to try to
carry on here, in our small college south, in the way
that they would, were they here. Yes, we are a small
college, a small friendly college, and that’s what they
are coming back to. Mary Coxe and Eliza Boyd have
got that soft Southern drawl, and that’s what they will
want to hear . . . our buildings are Georgian, and that’s
what they will want to see, in contrast to the bleak
ancient edifices of Europe . . . our campus is cool and
clean, and that what they will want to walk on, in
stead of battlefields.
A number of the boys who have gone out from us
have laid down their lives on the altar of freedom and
will never return. Some students who are in college
this year will not return for varlo.fi reasons. The Sen
iors who have received their degrees will return only
for Alumni meetings and the like. But to those under
graduates who are parting for the summer, to those
boys who will someday return, and to those Fresh
men who have not yet come, we do not say, “Farewell!”
but “Welcome back to small college South!”
Science In The News
By J. W, CLAPP
Physicians of the year 1910, according to the
Journal of the American,Medical Association, listed
the ten most important drugs used in medicine In the
following order: ether, morphine, digitalis, diptheria
anitoxin, smallpox vaccine, iron, quinine, iodine, alco
hol, and mercury.
Today, the journal says, a list of the most im
portant remedies might be: penicillin and the sulfa
drugs and antibodie?; whole blood, blood plasma, and
blood derivatives; quinine and quinacrine, ether and
other anesthetics such as morphine, cocaine and the
barbituric acid derj/atiyes which are more commonly
known as sleeping tablets; digitalis; arsphenamines;
immunizing agents and specific anitoxins and vaccins;
insulin and lives extracts; other harmones and vitamins.
This list is not necesarily the order of importance to
every physician.and certainly not in every case, how
ever, if the patient just happened to have postprandial
indigestion, the most important drug for the present
might be baking soda.
One of the devices that will be on the market after
the war is the “Precipitron,” a device develtyed by
Westinghouse research for keeping the air of homes
free from dust and smoke. City smoke alone is respon
sible for the necessity of spending millions each year in
cleaning, and by removing ninety per cent of the dirt
in air circulated through the house, the device will have
a large part of the cleaning bill.
In order for the system to be effective, windows
must be kept closed and all circulation be accomplished
through air ducts by mechanical means. The mechan
ical operation of the system involves the use of elec
trically charged plates. The first section of the sys
tem gives the particles of dirt a positive charge; the
second section, negatively charged, attracts the pos
itively charged particles and they stick to the metal
plates. Periodic flushing of the plates with a hose gets
rid of the dust by washing down the drain.
Plexiglass, the transparent material used for
domes, turrets, noses, and cockpit enclosures for com
bat planes, has some interesting properties. When it
is heated it becomes as pliable as putty and is made into
spherical shapes by blowing, much as glass is shaped by
blowing.
• “Plastic memory” is the name for a striking prop
erty of this synthetic that is not shown by glass or most
other super-cooled liquids. If a cube of manufactured
plexiglass is heated to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, pressed
into a disk, and then kept at a high temperature so as
to be semi-fluid, it will return to its original shape in
a few minutes. If the disk pressed from the cube were
cooled, it would retain the disk shape, unless heated
nearly to melting, when it would return to its original
cube shape.
COLLEGE HUMOR
Chaperon: “Girls, I have a man outside whom I
want you to meet.”
Athletic girl; “What can he do?”
Religious girl: “What church does he attend?”
Literary girl: “What does he read?”
Chorus girl: ‘How much money does he make?”
Colleye girl: “Where is he?”'
Draft Board
Dear Sir;
Received your order for my seduction. Will be
there at said time.
John Smith.
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Draft Board
Dear Sir:
I can no longer remain in the army. My wife is ill
and the doctor is doing his best to build up her exist
ence. Please accept this as my resignation from, the
armed forces. Thank you.
Bill Smith.
A CHARTER was granted by the North Carolina
State Assembly on March 11, 1889, and the first brick
of the college was laid by the daughter of the first pres
ident two months later. The college was opened offici
ally on September 2, 1890.
ELON COLLEGE IS FI]/rY-*FIVE YEARS OLD
this year. In mid-September of 1888, a general convo
cation of the Christian church in the South met at
Graham, North Carolina, to draw up plans for an estab
lishment of a college suited especially for its needs.
The provisional board of the lifeeting negotiated a 48
acre tr£f t of land in the western part of Alamance coun
ty, North Carolina, on December 20, 1888. The site
was bounded on one side by the now long defunct North
Carolina Railroad. The grounds were abundant with
stalwart oak trees giving the apeparance of strength
and beauty of the worthy project. The Hebrew name,
Elon, was affixed, meaning “oak.”
THE ADMINISTRATION HALL was the first
building erected on the campus, and, says the 1893 cata
log, was “intended for college purposes, society hall
meetings, the museum, the library, etc.. It was said to
be “a splendid structure, 129 feet long, 57 feet wide,
three stories high, with an octagon front 25 feet in dia
meter with an observatory on top.” A 1912 catalog
states that several laboratories were installed, the
y MCA met there, a college auditorium was constructed,
and the president had his office therein. This Admin
istration Building was burned level January 18, 1923.
EAST DORMITORY, the only remaining original
building, was completed in 1889, and was intended for
“the comfortable housing of young ladies.” When West
Dormitory was rebuilt. East was used ®)r a men’s dwell
ing, and was used thus until recently, when women were
once again returned. The three story building is 40
feet wide, and 60 feet high.
IT WAS IN EAST THAT THE FIRST STUDENT
SELF GOVERNING body was formed in the fall of 1909.
The preamble of the constitution of the first Student
Senate read: “In order to obtain decency, behavior
sanitation, and pleasure of all concerned, the following
constitution and by-laws have been formulated.” Two
main sections and a set of by-laws comprised the rest
of the document. Among the early cases, was the trial
of one indivdual who threw a hickory nut down the
steps, and was fined twenty-five cents for making un-
necesary noise. The next week, the same person was
brought up again bfore the senate, being charged with
throwing a bed out of his window. His sentence ‘.as
the same as for his previous offense. Some while later,
the senate handed him another summons, this time for
throwing a broom down the steps. He was fined twenty-
five cents for misusing college property (throwing the
broom down the steps), and an additional quarter for
the broom’s making unnecessary noise. He was later
acquitted of the latter charge on the grounds that the
broom was the agent involved in the making of the
noise. Senate trials of the college have not ceased to
be humorous throughout the years.
TITE MINISXtRIAL ASSOCIATION was organized
in 1910, with a charter membership of eighteen mem
bers. “It promotes brotherhood among students choos
ing ministery as a life work, spiritual development of
each member, and aids public speaking,” were the
provisions of the original group. The association is still
in existence.
ELON’S YEARBOOK, THE PHI PSI CLI, first left
the press on May 1, 1913, and was dedicated to Walter
P. Lawrence. There were thirteen members of the
senior class, of which A. L. Hook was the president.
The book derives its name from the three literary socie
ties that were instrumental in founding it, the Philo-
logian, Psiphelian, and the Clio organizations. Pro
fessor Hook figured prominently elswhere in the first
Annual, holding the president’s chair in the 1913 YMCA
group, and having a like position on the senate. A long
epicwas devoted to the present popular registrar of
the college, having as its poetic theme, zoot suits and
a lovely female named “Irene.” A following issue of
the PHI PSI CLI was devoted to the stuaent's moin-
er and father, who “sacrificed so that the student could
be afforded the opportunity of education. ’
THE POWER PLANT is a two-story brick structure,
built in a very modulated Dutch style in 1905. It is
not quite forty-five feet square, and was to have fur
nished all the colleeg buildings, the campus, and the vil
lage with electric xfgii,s, and s^^im. In the back of the
plant, was a large well, with which the college was fur
nished pure water for its bath systems. The plant,
today, is intended to provide the college with light
and steam.
WEST, built in 1905, also, was “a beautiful three
story, pressed brick structure, 158 feet wide, and 80
feet long. The annex of the dormitory was a two story
80 by 40 feet combination dining hall, ladies gymnas
ium, kitchen, storage room, and servant’s room.” The
annex was destroyed a few years ago by fire, ai»l the
rest of the building is still used.
LADIES’ HALL was finished in the summer of
1913, and was, at one time, maintained on a co-op
erative basis.
THE ALUMNI BUILDING, unofficially dubbed
North by many, is a four story brick, men's dormitory,
measuring 125 feet long by 65 feet wide. The main ex
penses of the construction were born by the alumni,
from whom it derives its name. As built, a race track
extended all the way around the second floor, and it
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They tell us that along here in the last issue of
the year we can say just about anything we want to-
cuz we'll be gone and you nice, kind people can’t catch,
but with all the wet weather we’ve been having lately,
our rheumatiism has been getting the best of us and.
consequently, we can’t run very fast. But, that’s not
“appliqua^le” to everyone around here. Take, for in
stance, tMsse gals and guys out in front of East about
10:00 and 10:30 P. M. each night. Boy! How they f\^,
especially these nights when some nosy souls, like us,
possibly, start snooping.
People like Frances Pegram can’t cause much gos
sip, not as long as they keep receiving telegrams from
Ensigns telling them what nice, nice girls they are.
Nice, though, isn’t it?
Rachel Gomer, they tell us, is a "goner.” But for
whom she’s gone we can’t quite say. There’s always
the little question of whether it’s one or the other,
namely, P. Jackson or B. Andrews.
By George, we. bet that Margaret Rawls is just
about the happiest girl at Elon.
Somebody somewhere is probably BATTON his
brains out about Fran’s _CHUCKING away a diamond.
While, on the other hand, someone elese is just WALK-
ERING away victorious.
It has been reported that Don Hfiller has Had sev
eral secret love affairs as of late, one of which is al
leged to have been with Sarah Manus, and the other,
which is said to have lasted for five years, is with Lib-
Holland.
Somebody in Ladies’ Hall certainly has missed a
certain Wolfe—and it isn’t Mtss Bowmer.
P. Reid is in the clutches of Uncle ifam. H. Reid
is in the same predicament, only with Virginia Ezell.
More powerful than a Shakespearean tragedy—more-
gripping than the newspaper accounts of the European
downfall— a short, short, short, short story: “And let
there be light on the subject.
Watch it, Mary Baxley, you’re likely to get your
nicely developed southern line all "HOOKED” up when
Sgt. Brevitt arrives.
There’s one thingwe here at Elon can boast of now
- we’ve the best lighted campus in the South!
Eddie’s coming back next year cuz Sara is, and
Sara s coming back cuz Eddie is, so I reckon that means,
they’ll get together.
And we hope something will cook up during sum
mer school and nothing will bust up . .‘And with these
words, we must bid “Adieu” for a few months
... Be good folks, if you must be, but hav» fun! We
hate these farewells but that’s the way it must be . . .
Any way, we’ve got to run now. . . gotta’ see Mr. Apel
about ickel ... By the way, has anybody seen Mr. Apel?
No—we’ve come back.
Too bad, Tom, it happens to the best of us.
So Mary Oakley is going to work in Greensboro
this surAm^? Lots of luck Mary; we know you and Vir
ginia will have fun.
Benton has been accused of being a gold digger
since Burch has been bringing her such hard-to-get
items as toothpaste.
Dynamite, alias DannyMac, How River, or what
have you, is really putting on “the dog.” Just the other
day Dot commented on his growth. Which Dot?
We all wonder why Agnes and Wallace have broken
up.
Ginny Powell seemed to be the most popular girl
on campus about two weeks ago with two of her former
flames here.
From now on there are going to be some fond and
fast farewells unless certain people stay over for sum
mer school. And we hope something will cook up
during summer school and that nothing will burst up
. . . and with thees word we must bid you adieu for a
few months. . . be good and all that sort of stuff.
Poet’s Corner
CAROLINA STORM
Dis chile bettah move. Dat wuz lightnin’.
Passed mighty close an’ set me jumpin’.
Redbird scootin’ to de grapevine nest;
Black clouds ridin’ fum de west.
Big drops cornin’ down de road—
Splash de vest of old travelah toad.
Rumblin’ thundah makes de be crawl undah.
Dis ain’ no place fo’ a h’l black sinnah.
Low in de wildahness.
Lawd you knows Satan had he dinnah.
If hit s a race, let me be de winnah
Hyah in de wildahness.
Down dere where de jackplnes run,
Keepin’ low till de thundah done,
Li’l Judah tree in he red-bell robe.
Thinks of sompin’ once he said,
Mebbe wishes him were dead—
For he hands an’ bow he haid
Low in de wildahness.
Sweet clay spring do de bubble dance.
Rooster climbin’ dat ol’ rail fence
Squawk when he feddahs rise an’ flop.
A li’l wind low in de berry bush,
A big wind high in de sycamo’ top.
Moanin’ togeddah lak a sawmill’s shush
Down in de wildahness.
No place hyah fo’ dis pickaninny!
Hides me close to de cabin chimney.
Says mah prayers till Mom come home
Hyah in de wildahness.