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PACE TWO MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, September 24 1952 Maroon And Gold Edited and printed by rtudenti of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the college year under the auspice* 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. D«li»ercd by mall, $1.50 the college year, 50c the quarter. EDITORIAL BOARD Matt Currln Lynn Cashlon James Rhodes I’atsy Melton Cooper Walker Luther N, Byrd Editor-In-Chief Associate Editor Assistant Editor Muilc Editor Art Editor Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD James Rhodes Business Manager Joe Brankley Circulation Manager B. G, Frick . . . Printing Advisor Lynn Cashion Press Operator SPORTS STAFF Gary Sears Sports Editor Mike Rauseo Asst. Sport* Editor Don Merrimon Sports Assistant REPORTERS Ronnie Black Joann Newman e Doris Chrismon Page Painter David Crowle Bill Renn Ervin Durham Max Vestal WEDNENSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1902 Y EDUCATION, 1952 This year has found America with more students In tchools and colleges than at any time in the history of American Edu cation. The public schools of our nation are filled to capacity as well as most of the colleges and universities. With our expanding educational pro gram. our educational system Is not keep ing step In progress with the growth in size. Somewhere along the way we have failed. Just where that place Is we are not sure. Our schools were designed to provide EDUCATION, but in many cases schools have turned Into country clubs rather than educational instUutions. It altogether de pends on what we want for an education and what we mean by education. In a recent article in "Look Magazine," Colgate Darden. honorary alumnus of Elon College, former Governor of Virginia, and now president of the University of Virginia, stated his opinion about educa tion at the present time. This article is very significant and worth commenting on. Dr. Darden takes the point of view lhat we are ruining our educational system by gearing study for the masses rather than for the student. He holds that there are two classes of studenU. those who use their hands and those who use their brains. That is certainly true. He points out that in high schools (and colleges, too?) Only too often the^ hSTHi students" monopolize the class and the teacher spends most of the time trying to present studies to reach them, thereby Ignoring and boring the “book students." Now we may well ask, "Why are we go ing to school?" Are we going to school for culture and book learning, or are we going to school Just to pass time or to learn to u.se our hands. Dr. Darden feels that we should divide our educational sys tem into two separate groups . . . those planning "book learning" and those plan ning "hand education.” There Is no need to waste "book learn ing" on students who don't want it and who never pUn to use It. And it is sUIl worse to hold back the "book students" because of the other group. Could It possibly be that Dr. Darden also was speaking of college? He did not mention "college" In his article But It appears It should apply just as well. Why are we here? Elon College was established to provide a Christian educa tion for young men and young women, with emphasis on cultural attainment, lit erature, religion, history, the arts and sciences. Is that not the real purpose of Elon College?— M, C. cash on the spot By LYNN CASHION Boy, it’s good to be home again! \ou can t beat this college life, no sir'. Especial ly at Elon: The old campus has taken on a new look with all the freshmen that joined the bandwagon this year. In fact, the or place looks darn good anyway you look at her. From the way things are shaping up so far, this will be the biggest year the cl' Alma Mater has seen in years. The Student Christian Association, Stu dent Government Association, and the Fightin' Christians' football team, to say nothing of all the other organizations on campus, have really been in there pitch ing from the start. Unlike the old days, the place is just jumping and running over with spirit—the kind of spirit we've been wanting so long. You know the kind . . . that ol' ti'me school spirit. Yes sir. we're really going to step out in style this year, especially when OUR BAND struts out on the field with the new white uniforms that were ordered the beginning of the year. And wait until we register 100 per cent on the cheering meter at the games, yelling out the new cV.'ers and putting a new lile into the old ones! What a cheering sec tion we'll turn out this season, with all those new and vigorous cheerleaders. That's right. Lenoir Rhyne, you've got a right to look a little (did 1 say Lttle?) worried. Were pushing and pullin' for dear ol' Elon. and I mean hard, hard enough to roll a long way. We've had a transfusion, brother, and we're back on cur feet, raring to go. And while we’re thinking about sports, let's give a thought to the games away as well as the home games. We have a good number of games away this year, and as you know, school spirit and stu dent support goes a long ways toward winning scores. There are a lot of cars on campus this year. However, there are still not enough to provide rides for all the students who would like to attend these off games! How about chartering a bus lor these games, and then we could really turn out the support needed for our team in mass production. A bus seats about forty-two, and that's a pretty good cheer ing section when you think about it. If those of us who don't have cars or rides would chip in together and charter a bus for the away games, we could really have some fun. It wouldn’t be expensive for any of us, fcnd yet, we could see the games and have a big time going to and from the games together on the bus. Brother, a decorated bus carrying forty cheering stu dents would really add something to the game and the score. Ask any of the play ers. they’ll tell you. Give it a thought, and if there are enough wanting to see these games, and you know there are, there’s no reason why the Student Govern ment couldn't take care of transportation arrangements, if we all chip in for our rides. Let's hear from you! We really want and need a bigtime cheering section, for all the games this year. There's no reason why we can't have some of that high-stepping collegiate cheering like one sees and hears at Caro lina. You know what we mean . . . some thing like those card tricks that U.N.C. has become famous for. We don't have to copy them, but we can have something on that order with the fine group of cheerleaders we have this year. And pep rallies and bonfires! That's where the fun really starts. That's where we can hear from our potential All-Americans before the games—A chance to give our boys an opportunity to let off some of that win- nmg steam before going out to bring home the bacon. And then, when we all come back from the game, we ought to have a get-together to celebrate our victory. We could have a thirty-mlnute dance in the Student Union and let loose with the last of that fightin' spirit and gloat over the score. This of course, will bring the Student Entertain ment Committee into the plot, and this committee has already gotten off to a tremendous start with a full-time program for the whole year, but it would be more than anxious to work on events of this na ture. Phil Mann and the committee have the spirit and the drive, but they’ll need you In there pitching too. Yes sir, that’s the way we are going to have our biggest year ... all of us working together in hav ing the most outstanding college year of our history. That’s what we will have to do to hold true to our slogan, none other than . . "We’re just one big HAPPY family!" Thirty Nations In One Summer by MATT CL’RRIN Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan, Elon College faculty members, staked a new claim to the title of "World Travelers" this summer as tiiey ridded numerous nations to the list of foreign countries they have vis ited. During the vacation they toured seventeen countries In Af rica and the Near East, including' tours of strife-ridden Egypt and Palestine, and swelled the list of nations they have visited to the ninety mark. Dr. and Mrs. Sloan left Ne^^ York via airplane on the evening of May 27th and awoke the next morning to find themselves flying over London. That afternoon their plane landed in Paris, where they stayed one day while await ing a plane to carry them to Lis bon and on to French West Africa and Liberia. One of the highlights of the en tire trip was a visit with Presi dent Tubman of Liberia, which impressed Dr. Sloan to say that "on former trips we have visited ] Asia and felt with many that the luture of the world lies in Asia, but now we wonder if the future inay not lie in Africa. Africa has iewer traditions to throw off. few- r drastic changes to make to fit into the family of nations. Africa' las the room for an expanding population, but India, China, lapan and Southeastern Asia are ■0 thickly crowded that securing 'Ufficient food will be always a pressing problem.” The Sloans visited the famous Gold Coast, and while there both of them addressed a rally of 4,000 Africans. They were the only "pale faces" there, and they de clare that "‘it was a wonderful ex perience to stand before this crowd .is its members raised their hands in unison and shouted for freedom and self-government.” Perhaps the most interesting part of Dr. and Mrs. Sloan’s trip was a visit with Dr. Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest men of modern civilization. But let Dr. Sloan tell you In his own words: "Our second mountain- top experience was our visit with the world's best-known physician, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, at his hos pital 18 miles south of the equa tor. This man, who has been given the world's highest honors in music, pholosophy and theool- ogy. as well as tropical medicine, has been listed as one of the greatest men of the Twentieth Century. Of the four men who commonly head this list, Gandhi, Kagawa, Schweitzer and Einstein, we have now been guests of all except the last in their homes. WORLD TRAVELERS DK. W. W. SLOAN MRS. BESSIE P. SLOAN new building. We had lunch ant dinner and spent the evening with him. After he had played Bach (about whom he is a world-knowr authority) and Mendelssohn on his famous moisture-proof piano with organ pedals, we bade the 77- year-old genius goodnight and goodbye in our best French and German.” “To our surprise, as we were eating breakfast, Dr. Schweitzer walked into the room. He wanted to see us off safely and went with us to the river bank, where we boarded a dugout canoe, whose three paddlers took us to town to meet the airlines motor launch. That again Is Africa — the air plane and the -dugout canoe, the witch-doctor and Dr. Schweitzer." There were three governments the first three days the Sloans "We first met Dr. Schweitzer on I were in Egypt, and a fourth be - path, where, m mason's apron, fore they left kept America's !^toneff 1!’^ breaking of Democratic Convention off the s^for use in the footings of a I front pages. Dr. Sloan says that while strolling down an ancient street in Alexandria one after- jnoon he noticed in the harbor a yacht, above which towered on the shore the palace of the king. Little did he know then that King ; Farouk would flee Egypt within two days aboard that same yacht that was anchored in front of the palace. Dr. Sloan recalls that “the king and we left Egypt the same hour, but we had an advantage. He was forced to flee, and we were not. However, we did travel withi royalty, for the only other pas sengers on the little plane that carried us to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan were a Jordan prince and his friend.” Leaving Cairo, the capital of Egypt, with its streets filled with tanks, military trucks, soldiers and guns, the Sloans flew over Ihe Red Sea at the entrance of the Suez Canal, possibly within -ight of the spot where Moses led he Israelites out of Egypt. To avoid flying over the Jewish state jf Israel, the Sloans crossed the 5inai Desert to the northeast tip if the Red Sea, where Solomon mce had his harbors and refin eries. They then turned north to the northern end of the Dead Sea and then west to Jerusalem. VIoses took forty years to go from he Red Sea to the Dead Sea. The Sloans did it in one hour. Asked about the Russian situ- ition, Dr. Sloan answered. “The political upheaval in which we ived while in Egypt is typical of ill Africa. People are sure they do not want what they have, but "hey do not know what they do want. The finger of Russia can oe noted at all times, but all Rus sia can do now is speed the revo lution, making it come sooner with dangerously indefinite aims.” British control seemed to be declining. Dr. Sloan declared, saying that both he and Mrs. Sloan noticed it in India, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya in the past fifteen years and that now they found it so in Africa. Dr. Sloan says that “we in America could have taken Britain's place in lead ership, but we have lost it. The void is an open invitation to Rus sia. While worrying about Rus sia in the Far East and Europe, we are inviting her into the Mid dle East.” He noted the growing need for missionaries to carry Christianity to the people of Africa and Asia. He says, “We have failed to be Christian in the very part of the world in which Christianity was born. This is one of history's tragedies. The Sloans returned to Elon College August 29th. after spend ing ninety-four days in travel, of (Continued On Page Four) yju i-age lour) Fieslinian Impression?... Third Generation By JOANN NEWMAN Unlike I a dance in So- Unlike many freshmen, my; first impressions of Elon College! were made many years ago. Both' of my parents and both of my ma ternal grand-parents were gradu ated from Elon, and my paternal grand-father taught here for half; a century. Having thus been born ' into a family of Elon graduates Elon College has always meant a i great deal to me. However, en tering Elon as a freshman and be coming a part of her has been an ‘ entirely new and thrilling experi-^ ence. ‘ On Tuesday, September 2, when' I came to Elon, many of the fresh men had already arrived, so 11 immediately proceeded to West' Dormitory. Between Alamance i Building and West Dorm at least ‘en people greeted me with a warm "hello.” It was then that JOANN NEWMAN “ ‘hen that a friendlier I deeded I would always love, Wends were made s„obh I'PPer-clas^ Elen and be proud of her. Wednesday and Thursday were freshmen quite . .. 'filled With registration. geS L ‘he up^e;-"^! das.sps men trv tn . t’l'er ciass- was followed by a dance in oo- ciety Hall, with a wonderful or- cestra playing as we were whirled onto the dance floor. That lovelv , evening ended all too soon. Walk ing home under the ivy-covered colonnades and stopping at the :Old well for a drink of water end ed a perfect evening. 'thf.'T"! Friday of that first week, and what impress- erest that my professors showed nr !, Each one im- wnstudents that he -ould do everything he would help them, a personal interest that ™- ^eeP'y is the ^■endly atmosphere found every life llr an Z ipiacJ.''%rr: ;:To ^ ,7 ! I'PPer-class At 2 o’clock that afternoon all! getting men Try^To'^h “PPer-class- ■ ■ . “P' during that.t7» I . freshmen off ‘ ^ in 100 as w.?i° „ 1" «=‘‘''a-eurricular the moving finger writes By MATT CURRIN aiternoon all freshmen had to take placement examinations in both English and MathemaUcs. thus launching Freshman orientation That night a program of welcome was held in Whitley Auditorium, and the ■ rochmnn t.... a .• 4,'w,^ •* 'juiiiig mat time It seemed that 1 stood in loo hnes and wrote my name 100 times, Thursday night brought the an nual FacuUy Reception i„ West freshmen heard their'fir"; Id 'Dorm'r dress by Dr. L. E. Smith. After Lp . that program there was a "get-La and hus- ho.,- th.t I '-1 „r ss well a; 7.’T ""^' “-'“wicular academic activities .My final and greatest im '‘O'l of Elon CcLTS th ■ Portunitv it o), ® °P- excel in an/StV‘“"""‘ or extra-curricular VI as 1 did from the very b?'" that I made a wise d coming to Elon, because es to dear old Elon! This column, of course, has to be writie^ as all releases in our paper, several days prior to actual publication of the lijai edition. Therefore, as we take a few mij. utes out of the day in order to write a col- umn, we realize that much of what we wisii to say may seem “cold” by the time ca paper reaches the student’s hands. Ney. ertheless, I am glad to be back with you for another year. This year will be the last year “The Moving Finger” will wntj Yes, the last, and we hope—the best! This column, I might add. Was written the day upperclassmen returned to tlie campus to join the already present fresli. man class. Once again we are returning to our citadel. We are away from the rest of the world. We are apart from lush, confusion, and turmoil of our con- temporary civilization. From our cit; we can watch Man in his never-ceasing effort to create a Utopia, we can observe the changing tide of human events as It breaks upon the shores of time. If we but realized it, we could leam the greatest lesson of all by watching from here as life moves on and on and on. We might even ask the simple ques tion, “Where are we going?” Once again we are isolated from t!ie “outer world.” A college campus well be described as a peaceful island w'ithin a troubled world, separated froa the cares, heartaches and turmoil of thit century which is ours. It is only througli the grace of God that we are able to i tend college when our nation is in tta midst of war, a war which may well evolve into World War III. Here in America we are free—physical ly, mentally, and spiritually. We freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors have a great opportunity in attending col lege, an opportunity to learn how to lin a full and abundant life. Here at Elon we will live for the nest nine months. What we do with our ti® will be pretty much up to us. Whellier our life here will be happy, successfal, beneficial, and progressive will be, in) large part, up to us, the individual student Yes, we have one of the greatest oppor tunities known to Man: the pursuit i education and human knowledge. Wien we consider how little we know and to* much there is to know, how many fieli there are to conquer, and how little *t can comprehend, we then, and only tben can make the most of this great oppo^ tunity that is ours. Let us be thankful that we can stui! as we please, what we please, and wtien we please. Let us be thankful that « are free, and let us pray that when tlif class of 1956 passes out of the doors i this institution that this world will I free once more from war. Let us top* that some day and some v/ay we may rfr move the shackles of oppression, fear war from all the world. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The following paragraph was in t!'* "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin’’ recently “We can do anything for one day. So just for today let us be unafraid of lif*' unafraid of death which is the shadow of life; unafraid to be happy, to enjoy tl* beautiful, to believe the best. Just for today let us live one only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow. °nd not trying to solve the whole proble® of life at once. Lincoln said lhat a niafl is just as happy as he makes up his mis’! to be. Suppose w'e make up our BUi'l to be happy just for today, to adjust ou^ selves to what is ... To try to make world over to suit us is a large order. "e cannot have what we like, maybe can like what we have. So, just for today, let us be agreeable responsive, cheerful, charitable, be *>est, praise people for what they do, criticize them for what they cannot And if we find fault, let us forgive anil ftrget.” Ilie 11 out , not do.
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