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MAROON AND GOLB
Wednesday, May 5, 1954
Maroon And Gold
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F.OITORI \L BOARD
Lsvcrne Brat!/ J' n* \ ’Der
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Tom Taii;''t .. Af"rcls’c Editor
Curt Wflt)')., A; • " Kditor
C'ljiipii V..ilkr-r Ait Editor
Keuh- ; A-k. A . ritafi Photographer
Luther N Iiyvd . . Faculty Advisor
BISINESS BOAKI)
Jack Linclii'v . Buiints* Manager
Bill Burke • Cir*. j4ation Mrnagt-r
Carl E )*pn Printlnj' Advisor
DoukI ’ . . Prer Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Mike H i ■ ! Spo: ., Ediior
Carltoa Langston . . Intrsn^ural Sport!-
RtPORTEKS
Doris Chrismon Charlie '.Jates
Douglas Edwards Woody Stoffel
Sherrill Hall Joann Tucker
Wayne Testal
WEDNESDAY. MAY 5, 1954
OF MEN AND DRESS
Why Is it that on almost every campus
the women students must wear rain coats
over thfir i=iiorts and jeana '.vhcn they
cross the campus? The ones who know
might answer that appearances tniut
maintained, and no one should receive
the impression that the students are re-
turnmg. en mas.se, to a primitive-like
aociety In which no one wears more than
leaves.
The girls have taught themselves to
grab a raincoat when preparing to go to
Miss Lila's to sunbathe or when going
to gym classes. Okay! Then why don’t you
fellows follow suit and put on trousers
and a shirt before venturing out on the
campus? You see, there are people who
don't like to .:ec you dressed in only a
pair of shorts.
For the lake of a suntan, some of you
have made a miniature Coney Island out
of the fronts of North and of Club House.
You go to ball games wearing nothing but
short.1. Perhap:-^ you stop in at the drug
store to get a coke. There seems to be
no limit as to where you go and what you
do in this abbreviated ' attire.
You may be thinking—"Gosh, what a
prude she is! " Or—"She's jealous because
the KlrU are not allowed to dress that
way." I've never been accused of being
prudi.sh. 1 think .shorts are fine in the
ri>;’it places, but nut in town md on the
campus.
Are the KirU Jealous? I don't think 30.
I'ut mu-1 'if us leel that ti e ttandard.s for
the Ml :i and tlie women students are
separated too far.
This division U also evident on Sundays
in the dining hall. The girls take pains with
what they are wearing and put on their
best Then the boy.-, come ini Lots of you
have on no tit-, no suck-s. and perhaps
you are wearing a loud sport -shirt!
Last fall I was surprised to see one
of the athletes dressed in a suit. This
didn't ha.ijien on a Sunday, but on a Satur
day when the team was leaving for a
game aw.iy from the campus. I was glad
he dre'^ed when ho left the campus as
our representative. evi?n though he think-.
It i» wasted effort to dress for the "home
folks."
I am not suggesting that you dress up
ell the time. Just (^ner up during (;iO
week and wear a tie on Sunday.—BRADY.
NOT BI I.I.F.TS IN THE Bl'I.LS-EYE
BI T SHOTS IN THE DARK
Iliivr .«U • ■, r jQoticed how littered the
Day Student room ' It !( ks as if noili-
Ing i.- i-viT put in fue tr;i-h ... 1 have
askt'd fnr mur»* ti.i^h canf- for the campus,
but the F -.vi i els that students
can r.nr.\ h uniil ihey reach the four
contain. 1^ which are round. I do hope
that by i!u‘ time \ -iu f.i^lmien are seniors
there will h,- inr or two mure . . , Many
cf thf ,tudcni. f.el that Elon is ai-.juirins
*00 many imporiil footballers Snnic of
us think (uir ;wn Sout't-'rners can do
Jiut as well if n t'lo .' in»^ that in.
if you disroj.K-d t.'iose W’ho can't learn
the pla>- . HdW many of vou thought
the Hpi-k rnd plans for May Day fistivlties
were worth your slaying at school? Some
of you just can't stick around, can yoti?
... Do you ever want to choke pest who
clipa his nails in religious chapel’
—BRADY
jottings
from here
and there
%r JAMES WAGGONER
‘l.lFi; miJ, GIVE IN RETURN
WIIAT VOU OFFER TO LIFE"
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale is^the pastor
' ble "olli "ate Church in'New York
; cr- the eldest evangelical Christian
' r'ourch In .-\merica. It is said of Dr, Peale
! th i he brinj;' to human problems the
i V. ;), Me esources and tschniqucs of re-
i li’--i; faitb.
In one of hi? article' he told a story
t: at illu>.tratt= the above quote. One day,
v.hile pli- ing a game of gi^f, he met a
boy who was raking leave? on the golf
course. The boy, recognizing Peale, came
over and asked the doctor If he might
speak with him, and hia request was
granted. The boy told him that he was
not satisfied with himself. He said that he
vas in a very ordinary job, and that he
felt that there was more in himself than
he had ever shown on the surface. He also
ttld Dr. Peale that he had confidence
in the minister and he felt that Dr. Peale
could help him make something of him
self.
"Well," said Dr. Peale, "I’m not an ex
pert, but I'll be glad to try. Where do
you want to go7"
The boy thought for a moment and then
replied. "I don't know."
Dr. Peale was a bit surprised. "I thought
you 3aid you wanted to go somewhere.”
"Well, I do."
"But where do you want to get?”
"I just don't know.”
Peale then asked, "What do you do the
best?”
"I don't know," he said again. "Not
anything, I suppose.”
"But, what would you like to do?" he
asked.
The boy thought again, "Well, I don't
know. I never gave it any thought."
"This is a queer thing.” Dr. Peale told
him. “You want to go somewhere, but
you don"t know where you want to go.
You want to do something better, but
you don't know what you can do the
best, and you don"t even know what you
like to do. Son, those indecisions and lack
of objective are the very things tliat are
ho'lding you back.""
Strange as it may seem, there is not one
person who reads this article who can
truthfully say, "'I have no opportunity to
do something, get something, achieve
.something.” Every reader possesses possi-
■ilities which are often greater than he
realizps. Each day is filled with hundreds
of opportunities, and our task is to make
the best out of each.
W-> mu‘t be determined that we are
to find our place and work in life and strive
for definite decisions that ultimately bring
one to definite conclusions. Each of us
has Mme talent that we can do better than
•iny thing" else, a job that we can do
better than anything else, and a job that
we can do better than anybody else. Re
member that "the usefulness of a postage
stamp lies In its ability to stick to one
thing till it gets there. " We must likewise
realize that the usefulness of our lives
Jies in our ability to stick to one thing
till we get results.
It not only necessary to find our
j>laf-.-s in the plan for our lives, but also
find our place in the plan of God. Since
We are created by God and for God, it
seems logical that we as intelligent stud
ents find our respective places.
Somecne has sa)d that God has a
man for every emergency and an emer-
fconcy for every man. Let us strive to find
our place; let us force ourselves to “keep
on keeping on;' let us keep to our ap
pointed work.
We nil have a goal to reach, and we
have to labor to reach it. Success doesn't
come o us—It si up to us to go to it.
J. Wefley Dickson once said. "The fellow
who wants to get on easy street seldom,
if ever, does, but many who forget them-
[ selves in favor of their work, get there
I w ithout kndwing it.”
PROFESSOR BARNEY IN TYPICAL CLASSR0031 POSE
I
bullets
in the
bull's-eye
By TOM TARGETT
Familiar indeed to many Elon students will be the above snap-'hot of Professor J. W. Bainey,
=rtapped in >r.c of his classes as he points out to struggling members of a freshman English class
the mysteries of the diagrammed ‘cn'ence. Already during his thirty years as a member of the
K|;,n ;.;cuity, he has taught stud’nVs of two generations, and ma iy former EIoi:.tes speak up to
say how well Professor Barney '-Ivpd for them the mysteries cf grammar.
TO WH03! HONOR IS DUE
By JAMES WAGGONER I
A man who has earned a repu-
ation as a thorough teacher, a,
ciiolar and an authority on the!
ilnglish language, ;.nd, most of all, j
I gentleman and a '^square j
hooter,” is Prof. John Willis
iarney, member of the Elon Col-l
ege Engjiah depar.ment for the I
>ait thirty years. !
Professor Barney has been in |
the teaching profession for over
ifty years, and his methods of
caching sneak for themselves.
President William B. Terrell. '25,
lead of the General Aumni Associ-
jtion, in a recent Interview, said
■oncerning Barney, "I consider
Professor Barney one of the out-
tanding instructors, under whom
it was my privilege to study. His
.nethods make students think, and
person gets out of one of his
,Ias>es in the form of a grade
just what he or she puts in.”
Barney was horn at Port Re-
.JUblic, Va., in 1881. the son of
lohn H. Barney, a minister in the
Christian Church. After securing
,iis preliminary education in gram
mar school and Ji.verett Normal
School, he taught in rural schools
in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Entering Elon College in 1906,
he majored English, Latin,
Greek, and French, He was grad
uated from Elon in 1910, (class
mate of President Leon E, Smith)
and soon began his wc-ic as princ-
ple cf Board Top Township High
.School, also of Bediuid Coanty.
!>a.
In 1914 and liU5 he was a
graduate student at Columbia Uni-
• c'slly, ai;.l since then has done
'.raciuate work at the University
f Virginia, the University of Wi--
consin. and the University of
North Carolina. In 1920 he was
named teacher of .Mathematics in
Calumet High School. Calumet
Mich., where he also coached
cotball
1-ater (hat same year he servec
s |I| inc ip;:l of Viunising llig,
-I liool. also of Michiciin, where h'
■cnviined until his coming to Elr?
a member of the faculty ii.
lt'24. For 30 years since that time
he has been using the time-hon-
oK’d disciplin^ and drill method
in the teaching of composition anci
grammar to hundreds of students
v.lio have taken English course;'
f.t the College,
Tolstoy, in Anna Karenina, re
lates "All happy families resemble
',ne another; every unhappy famil\
is imhappy in its own way." Each
of the members of the Barnej
family speaks for the happiness
of tiie home, and each is success
ful in his or her field. A top
reason for this happy and suc
cessful family is found in Mrs
Barney, who formerly Elva Gract
Suyder, of Clearville, Pa. She and
Professor Barney were married ii
1905 after meeting at a summei
-chool for teachers, Mrs, Barney
i,- a composer of many hymns anc
anthems, and at one time she re
ceived the State Award from the
North Carolina Federation oi
Music Clubs for hym writing. The
•Uusic Club of Elon College also
devoted ai. entire meeting to Mrs
i!arncy"s compositions. The Barn
eys have six children, four girls
r.nd two boys.
Harold Lament, oldest of the
Barney f.ons, was graduated from
iCIon in 1928, and received hit
iiaster.s degree in engineering at
C. State, He is in the research
'epnrtment at Bell Telephone
i,,:;lioratory, which has just recent
ly moved to Murray Hill, N, J„
,nd ills work includes travels to
I.r.vaii, Bermuda, England, Scot
land, Ireland. France. Germany
laly. ar.-d the Bahama Islands. He
has just returned from Hawaii and
!s to return to Europe this com
ing July. Sarah Johnston. Harold"s
ife. was the daughter of Charle.
Johnston, former Superintendent
jf the Christian Orphanage, and
hey have four children, John C„
larold L.. ;.nd Richard.
i-^lizabeth E . Professor Barney’s
■Idest daughter, was graduated
'om Elon in 1933, and was the
'n-s valedictorian. She is married
EN(;LISH PROFESSOR AS GRID COACH
Presei
- '-arney's love
fullback cn Elon's
of golft and me i ■ them knowi ,■ , y - fniih,.,.!,
first football t..am, but very few know that he Is onrt"
high school football coach. Howe er. .he above pTcture is pToof
CaTumi -
"0 Hamilton Gray, and they are
■ esiding in Orangeburg, S.C. They
lave five children. Barbara Elva.
Eleanor, Carolyn, Janis and Hamil-
on, Jr.
Helen Louise, the second daugh-
er, was graduated frcm Elon in
1936, and received her M.A. de
cree at Columbia. She is married
to E. Leonidas Smith and they are
now residitTg in Elon College.
They have two children, Eleanor
Jonn and Edward Leonidas, Jr.
lelen is presently organist and
Jirccf.oi of the cliolr at Webb
Avenue Methodist Church and
also director of the Western Elec-
:iic Choir of Burlington. She also
teaches private music at Elon Col-
.ege Public School.
Winifred, the third daughter,
•vas graduated from Elon in 1941.
jnd has done graduate work at
the University of North Carolina.
She is now teaching music in Bur
lington at Southern Music Studio.
John W. Barney, Jr., tlie younger
son, was graduated from Elon in
1942, and is presently engaged in
the work of the Bell Telephone
system of Western Electric in
Burlington. During the Second
World War, he was a navigator in
the Air Force. He was awarded
the Air Medal, the Distinguished
Flying Cross, and was promoted
lo the rank of Captain while in
.he Mediterranean Theatre of Op
iTation, He is married to Gertrude
Todd, of Maplewood, N, J,
Elva Grace, the youngest daugh
:er, took a Commercial Course
Jurii;g 1940 and 1941, which lasted
approximately one year and a half,
after which she gave up college
to accept a position. She is mar
ried to James F. Lovette, who is
a pharmacist, and they reside in
Liberty, N, C,
It is interesting to note that
three members of the Barney fam
ily achieved the honor of being
valedictorian of their classes in
cluding Prof, J. w, Barney him
self, All other members of the
family, including Mrs. Barney,
have made outstanding records.
It is true, in Bible language,
to "Tram up a child in the way
he should go: and when he is old
he will not depart from it.”
In addition to his achievements
m family life and the English
language. Prof. Barney holds the
honor of being Eloh's first full-
oack and a driving fullback at
tliat . He played on Elon's first
fcotball team, which took the field
in 1909. The squad won
three of its scheduled five games.
His other interests are wide and
varied, including football as one of
favorite sports, and golf as his
specialty. He says that he feels
-atisfied with a score under fifty
• nd he can often be found on the
golf course when he is not busy
preparing for his classes
Speaking on English, he once
>"Many teachers of modern
grammar have turned to the use
'f the basic principles and meth
ods of instruction eitjployed by
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TARGETT ' A
The biggest fish caught so far this season
in the college pond was by Norman Rin.
aldi ... A 3-pomid 1-ounce bass ... The
Tau Zeta’s new blazers are quite attrac
tive . . . The organ in Whitley has been
reconditioned . . . Lois Scott has beea
elected president of the Pilgrim Fellow
ship in NortfT Carolina and Virginia , , .
Sigma Mu Sigma is moving to their new
fraternity room on the third floor of the
:\Ioohey building in the near future . . .
Tiie Alpha Pi Deltas are planning lo change
their frat room to the basement of Moonov
. , . The new trophy case In the Studen'i.
Union is a good addition to tke campus ...
Johnny Hunter, who left school last yeiir
for the Army, was on campus for a few
days before leaving for Germany . . ,
The student government and SCA offices
have received a new coat of paint . . . The
Sigma Phis are repainting their frat room
. . . Bob Vernon is planning to attend the
Southern School of Optometry in the fall
. . . Vocalist Sliirley Cox did a good job
in introducing Fred Prior’s original song
. . . Congratulations to Mr. Gilliam ia
opening the grill > . . Players are plan
ning to get together after the last produc
tion of the year, “As You Like It " . , . Curt
W'elbourne has received an $850 fellowship
at Dulce University School of Philosophy
. . . The Home Ec Club, meeting with Lil>
Ward Stevens, heard Mrs. Hess tell of
' home life iu India . . . Hope there will be
someone to take Phil Man’s place in giving
out sample cigarettes next year . . , Judy
Ingram s senior recital to be on May 7th
, , . Those who went on the skating party
given by the PE Dept, surely did enjoy
themselves . . . There are definite plans
underway for the establishment of a radio
station on campus next year.
*
The booing of the dean during the in.-
stallation of the student officers was an
action of low taste. The position of dean
certainly commands some respect, and
ccmmon couAesy is the least of the obli
gations we have during our chapel pro
grams.
* * * *
The new officers of the student body
have been elected. They all inherit jobs
which will require time and energy to
execute. New student committees will have
to be formed. New policies for the coming
year will need to be' formulated. Plans
v.'ill have to be made for Homecoming, the
Winter Dance, the Spring Dance and May
Dance. New legislative problems will be
brought up Our Officers, many of them
being unfamiliar with the workings of the
government, will need your help. If and
when they ask you to serve on a committee,
do your best to cooperate with them. It is
cniy through complete cooperation, that
an effective program can be worked.
* * * *
Seniors where are you going to look
for a job? This question arises after you
have spent four years of your money, time
and energy preparing for your life’s voca
tion. After ycu have specialized in a field,
how are you to know where to find the
best opportunities in your field. A help
to both the college and to the students
would be the establishment of a Placement
Bureau on our campus to aid students to
Sfcure employment.
* * * *
IT S YOU
You say the world looks gloomy.
The skies- are grim and gray;
The night has lost its quiet—
You fear the coming day.
The world is what you make it.
The sky is gray or blue
Just as your soul may paint it;
It ain t the world . . . it’s you.
Clear up the clouded vision.
Clear out the foggy mind;
The clouds are always passing.
And each is silver lined.
The world is what we make it—
Then make it bright and true
And when you think it’s gloomy.
It ain’t the world . . . it’s you,
—Exchange
WOMEN
You may call a weinan a kitten, but you
niay not call her a cat.
You may call her a mouse, but must not
not call her a rat,
You may call her a chicken, but" you'
must not call her a hen.
You may call her a duck, but you must
not call her a £oose.
You may call her a vision, but you most
not call her a sight.
—Clipped.