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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1946
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE TWO
Maroon and Gold
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I believe in the ultimate decency of all
things—and if I awoke in hell tomorrow I
would still believe it.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for
the evidence of things not seen.
—Hebrews 11:1.
To The Glory That
Was Greece
SGA
SGA—three letters. Many students do not even
know what they stand for. Yet the real meaning oE
these letters is one of the most important things in the
world—the freedom of choosing one’s own governors.
The right to attend a free assembly and to make
nominations for our own officers, the right to campaign
for the candidate of our choice, the right to vote for
the man or woman who we think is most capable of
handling the job; and then the right of that elected
officer to carry out his duties as he or she sees fit,
keeping in mind always, the good of the masses—all
this and the four freedoms too.
Your Student Government Association had an im
portant meeting on Monday morning before the spring
holidays. And the men’s and women’s branches of
that association had important meetings the following
day also. These meetings were important because
in thi|-n nominations were made for next year’s stu
dent officers. Many students failed to attend these
assemblies. Approximately a dozen students left the
auditorium during Monday’s assembly. Dean Bowden,
who after their leaving, emphasized the importance of
the meeting also expressed his disappointment that
some students were not interested in their student gov
ernment.
There is a fine slate of candidates on the ballot
for the final election next Thursday week. Surely
there are no two finer men in the student body than
Register and Castura, who are in the race for top
campus position. May the best man win! But it is up
to every student to go to the Dean’s Office on election
day and vote. And be thankful that he has that priv
ilege!
The dean of a noted university has referred to fra
ternities as “the last stronghold of humanism in the
college world.” Will educators ever take unified ac.tion
to -eliminate the conceded follies of the fraternity and
s.orority system, and to bolster its undeniable virtues?
Greek-letter sororities are in for hard sledding. Cur
rent magazine and newspaper articles and symposiums
commend and condemn them. Many colleges have
outlawed them. They are so numerous, however, that
they constitute today the most widespread and influ
ential extra-curricular organization in the entire Amer
ican educational system. (The Supreme Court has de
creed that they are law-abiding bodies entitle3 to all
the riglits and privileges that come from due process
of law.)
Opponents of the system argue that the original
intent which was to channel the human group instinct
hito useful purposes has been forgotten. They com
plain that such societies are not democratic, since
every person may not “make” the organization of
his choice. They should remember that the same
principle holds in love and politics. Defenders say
tliat this system encourages good scholastic standing
,and that without it college students would gather in
Vnore exclusive and uncontrollable groups. It has been
pointed out by the defenders, moreover, that snobbish
cliques exist in colleges where the system has been
barred.
But while victory is still to come, and as sure
to follow the fighting as day to follow night, steps
should be taken to systematize a complicated but not
hopeless situation. Since these organizations have
reached the point of no return and are here to stay,
they must progress. Too much is involved in their
W’elfare to allow stagnancy. The service they render
education is unmistakable. Total membership is in
credibly large and of extremely high quality. A re
cent meeting oj; the National Interfraternity Conference
—a body organized to criticize and not to boost—found
that it is usually the fraternity men who start and
carry through the movements of enduring value on the
campus.
Limitation of membership is the chief cause of
dissatisfaction and heartbreak. The best solution of
the problem seems to lie in the multiplication of Greek-
letter societies to the point where, collectively,'they
can provide membership for all students. To insure
harmony, the responsibiliy of selection should still lie
with society members. These organizations could then
compete on a campus-wide or nation-wide scale for
academic disinctions—scholastic, athletic, social, or
what not—and thus serve a most desirable educational
end by substitution of group rivalry for individual riv
alry as a stimulus to effortful learning—C. C.
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College Humor
Did you hear about the absent-minded office man
ager who pulled the typewriter down over his knee
and began to unfasten the ribbon?
* * * ♦
Tramp: Has the doctor any old pants that I could
have?
Lady: Yes, but you couldn't wear ’em.
Tramp: Well, I wonder why? '
Lady: I'm the doctor.
•* » * »
They’re picking up the pieces
With a dustpan and a rake;
He clutched a silken knee.
When he should have grabbed the brake.
* * * *
First Woman: Your husband looks like a perfect
fool.
Second: Don’t be silly. No man is perfect.
* * * *
Virginia had a little quart
Of cider hard as steel:
And everywhere she went, folks laughed—
To see Virginia reel.
* * * *
“Pardon me, Mrs. Astor, but that wouldn’t have
happened if you hadn’t stepped between me and the
spittoon.”
* ♦ * *
The doctor was examining school children. One
youngster was underweiglit.
“You don’t drink milk.”
“Nope.”
“You live on a farm and don’t drink milk.”
“Nope, we ain’t hardly got enough for the hogs.”
* * * ♦
I had a girl.
Her name was Nellie;
She fell in the ocean
Up to her knees.
* ♦ ♦ *
He: Please!
She: No.
He: Just this once!
She: No, I said.
He: Aw shucks, Ma! All the other fellas are going
barefoot!
* * * *
Heard in a fraternity)house: “Is this dance formal,
or can I wear my own clothes?”
♦ * * *
Teacher: “Johnny, what does the buffalo on the
nickel stand for?”
Johnny: “Because there isn’t room for him to sit
down.”
♦ * * * .
An inmate in an insane asylum was trying to con
vince the attendant that he was Napoleon.
“But how do you know you’re Napoleon?” asked
the attendant.
“God told me,” he replied.
“I did not,” came a reply from the next bunk.
* * * +
I see no evil.
I hear no evil.
I speak no evil.
Boy, am I a sissy!
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5N00fe
■ -the QccouMt
of campus everrts...
Well, the last lap of the race has begun, but it
certainly is nice to have so many male rats in the
chase . . . Richard and Robert, “More and More’ . . .
It seems that Fleeta Moffitt prefers Max to Edgar and
his nylons. Foolish girl! . . . Sunday night saw lots of
the campus Romeos and Juilets reunited. Bill and
Sara, Margaret and George, Jo and Bill, Genell and
Bob, Lib and Fred. Pep and Dot, and on and on and
on . . . We’ve decided to take Bill Anderson’s title
away and give it to Tommy Foust,'who in our opinion
deserves it more; therefore, henceforth, ye will be
known as Sir “Wolf” Foust ... All these new boys
. . . It’s good to see Paige up and around, and especially
to see her around with Dick ... The Dean and Miss
Honeck MUST have had a time in Washington . . . Reid
is expected down some time soon, nice for Ginny . . .
All these men, hmmmmmmmm . . . Benton says she is
willing to bet Dr. French a dime that she’s right . . .
Be sure to listen to the Elon Players radio shows at
5:30 every Sunday over WBBB. A1 Burlingame made
a romantic David Garrick last Sunday . . . Millions and
Millions and Millions of them . . . Dr. Johnson’s initia
tion started Wednesday . . . Poor Pep, Poor Dot . . .
The Veterans Came
Like the rain
And Elon’s the same
As it usta’ be—
Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.
Over The Shoulder
Poet’s Column
DISCOVERY
I think that I shall never glimpse
Any crustaciea as queer as shrimp(s)
It seems that their digestive track
Is found imbedded in their back!
—E. R. S.
THE SPOILER
Always the part, never the whole;
Bits of bare beauty flashing, unfinished
Sharp, sliining edges cruelly cutting
Into a soul by sorrow diminished.
Love without words, grief without tears;
Sweet dusty dreams lie spoiled and spent
Sterile and still, never awakened,
While a heart that’s afraid cries “I am content.’'
E. R. S.
TRUE FRIEND
little un.
I,ITTLS BIW
Culled from the scrap book of Karl Zomar
An artist was employed to renovate and 'retouch
some oil paintings in an old church, and when he sent
his bill of $31.99, was informed that an itemized bill
was required. Whereupon the following was duly
presented:
For correcting the Ten Commandments $ 5.12
F'or renewing heaven and adjusting the stars 7.12
For touching up purgatory and restoring lost
souls 3.06
For brightning up the flames of hell, putting a
new tail on the devil and doing odd jobs for
the damned 7.17
For putting a new stone in David’s sling and ar
ranging Goliath’s head 6.13
For mending shirt of Prodigal Son 3.39
$31.99
Few things are more exasperating to a woman than
to “make up” with her husband and then discover that
he has forgotten what they got mad about . . . College
education for women is futile. If they’re pretty it’s un
necessary; if they’re not, it’s inadequate.
The husband who talks in his sleep may easily
ruin his wife’s nerves, declares a specialist. Espec
ially if he doesn’t talk distinctly .... A wife remarks:
“The husband who talks in his sleep is not half as
exasperating as the one who only smiles.”
A man never falls in love with the woman he
understands, but with the woman who understands
him . . . The absent-minded professor drove up to the
door of his garage, looked inside, blinked, and then
leaped back into his car, drove to the police station
and reported that his car had been stolen. . . A man
never knows that a woman is loaded with TNT, until
he drops her.
No truer measure of a friend than this:
He stands beside you in your darkest hour,
Remains to guide you thru both sun and shower
When others leave you, whom you do not miss;
Nor yet betrays you with a traitor’s kiss
For all your rivals’ tainted silver dower;
His presence with you is your very power—
Without it, you are lost in your abyss.
* ♦ ♦ *
What words can recompense the debt you owe
To him who shares your ev'ry care and mood?
What honor, gift, can you on him bestow,
Who in return asks only love’s rich food?
No, naught but grateful heart, and God on high,
Can pay the blind man’s faithful “seeing-eye!”
—A. W. Burlingame.
Roney “Trouble” Cates and Calvin “The Pass-
maker” Milam promised to write this column this week
but their promises proved to be as empty as their
heads and I am so tlabbergagsted at the sight of such a
huge number of men that my writing powers have com
pletely vanished. With all these older men around
Little Wun is really going to grow up.
It should be interesting to note the changes around
here now that reconversion has actually begun. Already
niore girls with more lipstick have been at breakfast-
What the presence of a man can do!
Definition of eternity: The period of time that-
elapses from the time your date was supposed to come
and the time he came.
Edna “The Ice-berg” House has a new little broth
er. His name is Jan and we hope he grows up to be
as nice as his big sis. Incidentally, Edna says that
a boy can never surprise a girl wilh a kiss . . . The
nearest he can come to it is to kiss her sooner than
she expected him to.
Bobby “Hubba-Hu'oba” Harris really has a sense
of humor—the more I humor him the better he likes
it. Ida-clare!
This week we give Virginia “Letter-a-day” Ezell
a box of stationery for being so true to her man at
William and Mary and for all these new people we dust
off our WELCOME mat that has been in storage all
tlirough the war years.
Song of the Torch-bearer:
Love is like an onion
You taste it with delight.
And when it’s gone you wonder
Whatever made you bite.
Watch the steady couples going down the walk.
Whichever is two or three steps in front of the other Is
the one who is the angrier.
Song of the week (For Ruse “It’s-Snow-Use” Ev-
erette): “Let It Snow, Let It Snow.”
Pep, “How’s-the-weather-down-there” Watkins says
tliat it is better to have loved a short girl than never
to have loved a tall.
Sounds in the night: But, darling, that wouldn’t
have happened if you had waited until after I sneezed
to kiss me!
I wonder if that new ministerial student, Baxter
Twiddy, has thought of how his name is going to sound
when he becomes Twiddy, D.D. There is a poem about
another young man with a similar name, Tweedle.
A divinity student named Tweedle
Refused to accept his degree;
He didn’t object to the Tweedle
But he hated to be Tweedle, D. D.
Words of comfort to be referred to when grades
are given out (Will Rogers said it). Everybody is.
ignorant, only on different subjects.
Science In The News
By BILL CLAPP
Just how red-headed is a red head? This question;
is now answered by science. A new pigment, not be
fore discovered, has been found in red hair. The pig
ment, as might be expected, contains iron. The
amount of this pigment determines in a quantitave way
the extent of “red-headedness” of a red-head. The
pigment in itself does not seem to cause the red color,
because the color remains if the pigment is removed.
It seems more to cause the materials which ordinarily
produce black pigment in hair (melanin) to be altered
so that a red devivative is produced. This does not
apply to red hair produc.)! by the bleach and dye
method. The red pigment has not been discovered in
tlie red hair of animals.
In Texas, a 165-ton 'device officially known as a
Tournaslayer has been building houses sinit)ly like cast
ing steel, only the houses are cast of concrete. The
machine, also called "Bungalow Biddy” sets up an outer
and inner form and then workmen pour in the con
crete. The concrete dries in a day ond then the ma
chine hydraueally lifts off the forms and the house
stands ready for the interior decorators. One of the-
improvements is the use of radiant heating. Pipes are'
laid in the flooijs for steam.
One of the developments in radio that made the
proximity fuse possible is the printing of radio circuits
The circuits were printed by lithographing process and
fine silver dust is used in the ink for the conducting
wires instead of the conventional copper wires. Tliis
makes possible a complicated circuit in a very small
space.
Another application of the method, other than for
the proximity fuse, in the building of match-box size
radio receivers. Midget tubes are fastened onto the
printed circuit. Condensers are added. Resistors are
printed on with carbon ink in much the same manner
as the wiring circuit. The applications in hearing aids
and small receivers and transmitters are too numerous
to comprehend at present.
The real advantage of this method, however, is the
speed of pi*oduction. Radio sets built by hand wiring
take many hours of labor, but this method reduces the
hand labor to a minimum. The circuits are turned out
on a mass production basis. The circuits are usually
correct and the number of “rejects” is reduced.