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PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, February 8, 1950 Maroon and Gold Edited and printed by students of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the college year under the auspices of the Board of Publication. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Elon College, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. DeUvered by mail. $1.50 the college year, $.50 the quarter, editorial boabd Bob Wright Editor-In-Chief William Sinclair Managing Editor Walter Graham Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor SPORTS STAFF Rocco Sileo Sports Editor George Stanley Assistant Sports Editor Joe Spivey Assistant Sports Editor Jean Pittman Girls’ Sports Joe Bryson Boys’ Sports Freddie Williamson Staff Cartoonist Alvin Pate Staff Cartoonist George Seay Boys' Sports BUSINESS BOARD Evelyn M. Graham Business Manager Wynona Womack Circulation Manager B. G. Frick Printer Jaak Steele Press Man REPOR1XRS jpnntjgfl Berry Gray Hackney Jane Boone Robert Jones Waldfc Dickens Maynard Miles Hal Foster Bill Williams WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1950 WHAT’S THE ANSWER? For some time now a question has been vexing a number of pe®ple in this locality and on the campus. We now give voice to this question in the hope that some answer might be forthcoming. One of the most active groups on the campus is the Elon Players. They work arduously and conscientiously on their productions, and these productions always draw favorable critical comment. The ques tion is this: Wliy do the students of this College stay away in droves when a Play ers’ production is staged? Every effort is made to acquaint the students with the performance dates, and two performances are given so that every one may have the chance to see the shows. In spite of this neither perform ance has a really large audience out front. The enrollment shows that there are ever 700 students attending Elon College. This should be a guarantee of at least one capacity audience, but such is not the case. What’s the answer? It is less trouble to walk from a dormi tory to Whitley Auditorium than it is to go to Burlington, but a performance night finds many students at the movies. The difference in the ticket prices is not enough to make a person hitch-liike four miles for entertainment. What’s the ans-, wer? The productions are of a high calibre, the dates are publicized, the tickets are reasonably priced, but the Players’ offer ings do not draw the audiences they should. What’s the answer? The Elon Players would like to know. CHEERING The new gymnasium is ideally arranged for organized cheering from the student body, but thus far there has been little organized cheering at our basketball games. True, the spontaneous cheering has been vociferous, but it doesji’t convey the same impression of united support to our team. Perhaps the past procedure of arbitrar ily seating students in the balcony is re- .sponsible for the situation. The cheer leaders certainly could not lead cheers when they had an expanse of outsiders be tween them and the students. If a student section in the center of the West side of the gym were reserved at each game so that there would be a solid bank of Elonites from the - floor to the ceiling, there would be a compact cheer ing section which would be in a position to respond to the efforts of the cheerlead ers. Student seating is not confined to the balcony now, so we suggest that Elon root ers sit together in the center of the West bleachers and balcony in order to facili tate the leading of organized cheers at the basketball games. It certainly deserves to be mentioned in passing that the concentrated and contin ued booing at the second Western Caro- the yankee peddler By BOB WRIGHT Headline in E.C.T.C.’s TECO ECHO: “Music Dept Plans Production Of Two Operettas In March.” Sure wish that we could print a headline like that in the M&G! * ♦ * A Contribntion There are meters lamic. There are meters Triambic. There are meters in musical tone. But the meter that’s sweeter. Completer and neater. Is to meet ’er in the moonlight alone] * ♦ ♦ Overheard during the mingling of the Barter Players and the Elon Players over coffee and sandwiches after ‘‘Dangerous Comer.’* Roger Wilson: What do you think of the English situation? Peter Pagan (the Australian): Do they have one? If you’re trying to make con versation, you don’t have to; I can always eat. • • ♦ You too can make people laugh as did our chapel speaker during the Conference last week. The source of most of his stories is 1000 BEST JOICES FOR ALL OC* CASIONS on sale at the local GrilL * * • The following item iS an Englishman’s explanation of American football. It was used on the program of an exliibition game played in London. Rudiments of the Game of Football Reduced to its fundamentals, American football is one of the simplest games yet devised by man in his eternal quest for a way to have fun with his enighbor. Here’s why. Before you is a rectangular field, 100 yards from goal to goal, Vkdth white lines crossing it at five-yard intervals. The ob jective of either 11-man team is to ad vance the ball over its opponent’s goal for a “touchdown,” a feat worth six points, highest scoring play in this game. Chief obstacle in this team’s path, of course, is the quite uninhibited defensive play of its opiponents, who try to tackle, block, or knock down the player running with the ball. As the ball-carrier tries to pick his way through the opposition, his teammates resort to the same quasi-brutal methods to clear his path. Rules, too var ied to discuss, limit these defensive and offensive gestures, but essentially, the team in possession may knock down a man, but not hold him, and the defensive team must eschew mayhem in getting its man. He must only be knocked to the ground to be stopped. Wben the “carrier'’ is stopped, it is a “dnwn,” and in each series of four “downs” the team in possession must gain 10 yards or give up the ball. If straight running fails, a team can employ foot ball’s most exciting and graceful play, the forward pass, whereby the man receiving the ball throws it to a mate, who carries from the spot he receives the ball. When all plays fail to gain the necessary yardage, the offensive team wiU usually kick deep into opposing territory to keep the opposition as far away from the goal as possible. If near enough to the goal, it can try to kick the ball over the crossbar of the goal posts, worth three points if suc cessful — but the ball must always have touched the ground in the process of kick ing for a “field goal.” After each touchdown^ the scoring team tries for an extra point, by kicking a goal or by rushing or passing the ball over the goal. One other play has scoring value. When a ball-carrier is downed behind his own goal the opposing team receives two points. The team earning the most points after four periods of 15 minutes each is, of course, the winning combination. (Pip pip, chappies, paste this in your helmets and have a bit of a go these after noons; we want our combination to win the bloomin’ championship next year.) lina game was a monument to the poor sportsmanship and bad taste of the Elon rooters at that game. A commendation for good spectator sportsmanship is more to be desired than a conference champion ship. We would do well to follow the ex ample set by the team that represents our school. Their conduct on the court was far above that in the stands. browsing around with BILL SINCLAIR Greek Letter Origins At Elon The Greek letter fraternities with the United States For- and sororities at Elon College date eign Service in Liberia; L. B. Ez- back more than three decades to tt^^ni- versity of Texas; J. W. FiXTnow George Seay from South Dormitory had a run in with a large rat the other night. It seems that the rat was hungry and could find no meat; reports the rat was about George. From reports the rat was about the size of a small cat. George woke up to find the rat sitting on his chest and nib bling on his ear. The question is, why doesn’t the administration do something about it? One may well say that the dor mitories were fumigated during the Christmas holidays, but does the evidence point toward 'a completed job? Perhaps the administration is not to blame; it could be that the matter hasn’t been re ported to the proper authorities. But whatever the fact, something should be done immediately to rid the dorms of rats. Doctor Martin Goslin from Evanston, H- linois, has been chapel speaker for three days. His messages covered three quali ties of a Christian, hope, faith and love. A spiritual awakening is the result. ♦ * ♦ Don’t miss TAR HEEL WOMEN, the new book by Lou Rogers. This book is all about the famous North Carolina wo men (might be interesting, men). One lady mentioned is Donie Rich Patton. Here’s an excerpt from her chapter, “Her parents saw fit to it that Donie received a good education. After finishing at Elon College, she went to Kinley Seminary, now Atlantic Christian College at Wilson, North Carolina.” Reverend House,. editor of the Christian Sun, was a recent visitor to Elon College. He expressed the desire to receive short articles from the members of the Minis terial Association. Did you see the Barter Players produc tion? My opinion is that it wasn’t every thing it was advertised to be. Of course it was plenty sexy. * * * A recent speaker at Elon was Doctor Carlton Prickett from the First Baptist Church of Burlington, North Carolina. * * * Spies! Intrigue! MHirders! ■ Read all about it in NAZI-SOVIET RELATIONS. Documents from the archives of the Ger man Foreign Office as released by the Department of State. ♦ ♦ ♦ The other day Bobbie asked Doctor Sloan when the first deviled ham was made. Doctor Sloan said h was when Jesus cast the devils out of the man of Gerasene into the swine. ♦ ♦ ♦ The question is, have you received a bid into a fraternity or sorority? * ♦ * The Student Christian Association is putting on a membership campaign. The Association has many fine things to offer a student. Among the activities sponsored by the SCA is a boys’ club for the boys of Elon College. Don’t miss out on the ad vantages offered by the SCA, join today! * * m Why do medical students have so much difficulty getting into medical shool? 1 know a person who has been trying for some time to be admitted. This student has an average of 90 per cent on all his studies here at Elon. There are not many students who get more of an average than this, yet this person is kept out of school. He has the determination to win through. Good luck to him and to all pre-medical students here at Elon. May you see your way to medical school. A salesman had been assigned territory in India. His friends were bidding him farewell. “It gets very hot in India at times,” sug gested one man. “Aren’t you afraid the climate might disagree with your wife?” The man looked at him reproachfully. "It wouldn’t dare,” he said. * * * Hurrah! Elon has won a basketball game! Congratulations to the players! the period just after World War I, when a group of the students petitioned for permission to form social clubs as a means of improv ing the social ilfe on the campus. The Elon College catalogue for the 1919-1920 term carried a rec ord of the action of the trustee in granting that permission. The first act of the trustees carried many of the provisions that con tinue to govern the social organ izations today. The catalogue of that day start ed that “for the promotion of brotherhoodand good fellowship and the cultivation of social life, the Board of Trustees have pro vided for the voluntary organiza tion of social clubs among the stu dents, with the consent of the fac ulty and under their supervis ion.” The trustees further provided that there should not be more than four such clubs for each sex, reserved to the faculty the right to disband the groups, that meet ings should be held monthly (not weekly as they are today), and that there should be some type of award to the group which main tained the highest standard of scholarship and campus activity. Meeting Rooms At that time there were no special club rooms, all meetings being held in the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. rooms. The Y.M.C.A. room was then located on the first floor of North Dormitory, while the Y.W.C.A. held its meetings on the third floor ef the West Dor mitory. The meetings were later held on the upper floors of the old Alamance Building, which was destroyed by fire in 1923. The individual club rooms were aot provided until after the new plant was built, when rooms were allot ted in their present location on the first floor of the Religious Education Building. These early regulations also provided for the maximum initia- )tion fees, yearly dues and addi tional assessments. Maximum cost for a pin was first set at $10, but ten years later the little “Red Book” had advanced the maxi mum allowance for a pin to 12.50, in recognition, perhaps, of the ad' vancing costs. Provision was made that any club, to remain active, must keep a minimum of nine members, and when membership fell below that level the club was placed on in active status. The first recogni. tion of the various clubs by name in the college catalogue was in the edition for 1923-1924, when Sigma Phi Beta, Kappa Psi Nu and Iota Tau Kappa were listed for boys and Delta Upsilon Kappa, Tau Zeta Phi and Beta Omicron Beta were listed for girls. Several of the clubs have been placed on the inactive list at various times dur ing the ensuing years because of this membership requirement. First Publicity The first notice of the new clubs appeared in Phi Psi Cli in 1920, when the Sigma Phi Beta pictures and list appeared. That initial list of Sigma Phi Beta members, which is said to have dated its organization back to 1918, included L. J. Perfy, now director of high school athletics for the state of North Carolina; W. G. Stoner, now a prominent sporting goods dealer in Greens boro; E. E. Sechrist, now a school administrator in Birmingham, Ala.; F. K. Garvey, now a physici an and surgeon in Winston-Salem; M. L. Gray, now executive secre tary for the National Ruritan Clubs; O. T. Roberson, S. R. Mof- fit, J. W. Simpson, E. G. Purcell, G. R. Reavis, H. E. White, C. P. McNally, E. S.. Johnson, T. G. Henderson, David Miller, O. H. Henderson, W. D. Henderson, W. R. Thomas, Thomas, C. M. Milley, W. F. Godwin, H. W. Johnson and B. B. Johnson. The Kappa Psi Nu group made its appearance in Phi Psi Cli in 1921, although its organization date is set for 1920. Included in the first list were C. M. Cannon, a minister in Newport, Ky.; K. R. McCalman, now superintendent of schools in Nyack, N. Y.; J. B. Newman, now a Burlington den tist; L. M. Cannon, W. M. Garri son, I. O. Hauser (now deceased), F. H. Hunter, L. I. Ingle (who died on January 13, 1921, before his graduation), O. C. Johnson, W. D. Lambeth, J. E. McCauley, W. E. Moon, R. S. Rainey, H. L. Scott, H. G. Self, C. L. Waljer and E. C. White. Other Kappa Psis of the early years included Goerge D. Colclough, now secretary of the Burlington Chamber of Com merce; J. M. McAdams, now mayor of Elon College; W. T. Scott, now superintendent of the Southern Convention of the Con gregational Christian Church; C. W. Gordon, Bulrington manufac turer; and J. .H Dollar, just re signed as local pastor. First Girls’ Clubs Two of the girls’ clubs made their appearance in Plii Psi Cli in 1921. One of these was Beta Omi cron Beta, and its initial list in clude Della C^tten, now Mrs. W, T. Scott, of Elon College; Mar guerite Youmans, now in religious work in Rye, N. Y.; Isabella Wal ton, now Mrs. C. M. Cannon, with her husband on foreign service in Liberia; Pearl Reynolds, SaraJh Carter,Mary Miller, Eunice Rich, Victoria Adams and Kate Wheel er. Among the other early mem bers were Pattie Lee Coghill, now an educational secretary with the Congregational Cliristian Church; Maude Kendrick, Heleft Cannon and Effie Bowden. The Delta Upsilon Kappa group also appeared first in the 1921 is sue of Phi Psi Cli, altohugh its or ganization date was probably a couple of years earlier. The first list for the Delta U’s included Jennie Gunter (now deceased), Margaret Corbitt, Florine Farm er, Mary NeU Holland, Jennie Fulghum, Nettie Sue Tuck, Delor- is Morrow, now Mrs. J. W. Barn well, of Burlington, Hazel Rose- mond, Essie Ma^e Truitt and Es ther Farmer. Other early mem bers mentioned for Delta Upsilon incluedd Miss Lila Newman and Mrs. J. M. McAdams. The next club to make its ap pearance in the pages of Phi Psi Cli was Tau Zeta Phi. Inclul- ed on that first list were Minnie Edge, now Mrs. M. W. Hook, of Elon College; Lucy Austin, Nan nie Aldridge, Marjorie Bruton, Nonnie Bailey, Annie Bell Card en, LucUle Cardwell, and Mamie Moore. Other early members in cluded Mrs. Jesse H. Dollar, Fan- Floyd, Bessie Martin, NeU Orr, Ruby Rowland and Myrtle Vick ers, all of whose names appeared in the second annual ilst in 1924. Others In 1924 { Two additional groups, one for boys and the other for girls, pub lished their first groups of mem bers in the 1924 issue of the Phi Psi Cli. One of these was the Iota Tau Kappa group, with an* initial list that included G. A,.- “Chubby'’ Kirkland, now director" of athletics at Catawba College^ Wv J. Apple, W. C. Elder, W. W, Woody, G. L. Miller, E. P. Mc Leod, E. E. Snotherly, C. E. Sides. F. J. Alston, J. P. Rogers, E. H. Gilliam, J. R. Barker and R. L. Hill. Another early member was Darden W. Jones, now an out standing dentist in Holland, Va. The 1927 Phi Cli listed as honor ary members four of the Elon fac ulty, three of whom are still here. Those honorary faculty members were Dr. W. A. Harper, then pres ident of Elon, Dr. N. F. Brannock, Prof. J. W. Barney and Prof. A. Li. Hook. The Pi Kappa Tau group also appeared in the annual that same year, its initial list including Lou ise Homewood, now Home Dem onstration Agent for Caswell County; Sallie Mae Oliver, now Mrs. L. A. Ligon, of the Oxford Orphanage faculty; Julia Yarbor ough; Mable Cheek, Alice Weber, Beulah Hammer, Lyde Bingham; Jewell Hughes, and Elsie Teague. The final one of the present eight Greek letter groups to ap pear on the scene was the Alpha Pi Delta, its first list being pub lished in Phi Psi Cli for 1927, al though its organization dated back to 1926. Its first group in cluded Frank Alexander, James B.Brown, HiE. Crutchfield, Romie Davis, J. M. Green, B. L. Green. F. L. Gibbs, P. G. Hook, T. V. Huey, M. M. Johnson, W. L. Mc Leod, E. M. Qualls and J. F. Qualls. One other club had appeared very briefly in the 1923 and 1924 annuals, but it disappeared from the scene after that time. This was the Tau Theta group for girls. Its membership included Adelia Jones, now Mrs. John G. Truitt; Josephine Alford, Lena Jackson, Eunice Morrow and Mildred Kirk land. A quick perusal of the succeed ing volumes of Phi Psi Cli re veals that the Greek letter groups continued to function as clubs un til about 1940, when they first be gan to be designated as fraterni ties and sororities. Hundreds of porminent Elon alumni held mem bership in the various organiza tions, all worthy predecessors to the brothers and sisters who now nie Glenn Elder, Annie Lee wear the jewelled pins. Ilf froM Joiwory 1950 hsve d Copyright 1950 by liK. *Did you ringy Sir?*
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