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Maroon And Gold
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College. Published bi-weekly during the
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EDITORIAL BOARD
James Waggoner Editor-in-Chief
Ann Stoddard Assistant Editor
Charlie Oates Feature Editor
Judith Chadwick Music Editor
Neil Johnson Art Editor
Reuben Askew . .. Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
Bt'SINESS BOARD
Jack Lindley Business Manager
Carl E. Owen Printing Advisor
Worden Updyke . . Press Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Joel Bailey Sports Editor
REPORTERS
Lonnie Campbell William Frederick
Doris Chrismon Margaret Stafford
Anita Cleapor Gary Thompson
Sylvia Eaton Lewis Winston
MAROON ANI? GOLD
Wednesday, Februar
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1955 '
SPEKDY RECOVERY TO KOPKO
There’s one big wish that prompts this
editorial, and it’s recorded in each
line:
•’Hope you'll soon be out again—feeling
simply finel”
Just "one of many wishing you better
every day;
Hoping that a speedy recovery is now upon
the way!
On behalf of the student body, we extend
a friendly "Hello There" to keep on
your shelf.
And with it all of our best wishes that
you’ll soon be yourself!
—STUDENT BODY
lfl(;ii SCHOOL DAY
No day in all the college year is more
Important to Elon College than "High
School Day,’’ which is to be observed on
the campus next Wednesday for the sixth
aucce.ssive year, and it behooves both stud
ents and faculty to exert every effort to
make -the day a success.
The importance of the day for the col
lege lies in the great opportunity which
it offers in the field of public relations,
an opportunity for Elon to really show
herself to the very best advantage to the
hundreds of visitors who will be on the
campus that day.
It is more impArtant for these high
sfhool viiutors to gel a good impression of
Elon than for any oTher group of visitors
rf the entire year, because these soon-to-
be-graduated high school seniors will be
Khe college students of next year, and in
most ca.ses the seniors themselves will
make their own choice of college.
Already Elon’s field secretary and his
committee of faculty members has put
forth much thought and effort, but they
need full cooperation from all the rest of
us in carrying out their plans for next
Wednesday. — WAGGONER
NEW ,^ND SircCKSSKl'L
Elon College adopted a new system of
class tickets and grade cards with the in
auguration of her 1954-.55 school year, and
■this system has proven itself to be a suc
cessful One.
This record sysstem is called the Keysort
System, a product of the McBee Company.
The class ticket and grade card is com
bined. with information concerning the
giade. student’s number, class, hours
ciedit. denomination, address and instruct
or. all of which is Important.
Such information is recorded by punches
on the border of the respective cards, and
the cards are alphabetized by numbers for
fast results. Over 2.500 cards were handled
iind .sorted in approximately two hours, ac
cording to a report from our registrar Miss
Hazel Walker.
Miss Walker stated that the four dupli
cate cards include one class card and three
grade cards. One card goes o the parent,
one to the dean (and later to the student),
ind the final card to the registrar’s office
for permanent filing. The registrar s card
U later posted to the permanent record
card Another interesting phase is the in
structor’s comment, which is designed to
give the parent an idea of the student’s
progress.
It has been recommendel. that students
Use ball point pens when filling out the
rards for the spring quarter.
—WAGGONER
jottings
from here
and there
By JAMES WAGGONER
KIND WORD FROM ENGLAND
Wonders never cease! When so many
foreign writers speak adversely of America
and Americans, we find with interest
where a columnist for the London Daily
Mirror, whose weekday circulation is the
world’s biggest, declared recently the
American worker makes his British count
erpart look like Rip Van Winkle.
"The British workman—long lauded as
the finest in the world—is no longer the
finest,’’ said William Neil Connor, who re
cently returned from a tour of the United
States. Still speaking of the British worker,
he wrote, “He is often one of the laziest. He
is also inefficient and opposed to change."
The American works harder. He is more
interested in the job. He is more adapt
able. These are sweeping assertions—but
they are true,” said Connor. “The Amer
ican working man has a vast desire to
get on—and getting on in America means
earning more money and owning more
ithings. He delights in inventiveness, takes
£n almost childish glee in any machine
from a ,50-ton press to any cute little
gadget that will save human toil.”
Connor, whose pen name is "Cassandra,”
said that the American worker produces
two to five times as much as a Briton. He
gave pant of the credit to superior pro
duction methods and wide use of machine
tools.
A.MERICAN BOSSES BETTER
American bosses, too, he asserted, are
fare more efficient than those in Britain.
They talk a lot of rubbish at times," he
said, "but when it comes to getting on
v/ith the job there is nobody to touch
him.”
Connor complained that in America
"hospitals are appalling, illness is often a
financial disaster, care of the old is a joke,
and there is an air of indifference to suf
fering thart we would not tolerate,” but he
concluded, "Whether it is bulldozing roads
in Korea (what a job they did there!) Or
breeding hogs in Illinois or making gadgets
for removing ice cubes from refrigerators,
these people are alive, alert, curious, com
bative and rarin’ to go."
Perhaps the American worker’s secret
lies in the fact that he takes pride in his
work, and that he certainly has love for
his job. Robert (Bob) Moses, the great
planner and builder, is an excellent ex
ample. for Moses is said to be responsible
for the miracle which is today’s New York.
In an article, which I read recently, I
found ,wme of the qualities that he pos-
se.ssed to make him the great man that he
is. The article stated that "Bob is 65, but
he is just as full of steam as ever. He sees
woik ahead that cannot be completed in
less than ,50 years; but when you meet him
find hear him talk you feel sure that he
will complete it.”
It was said al Bob that he made Central
Park a thing of beauty. He was the inspir
ation behind the Tri-Borough Bridge,
Jones Beach, and a magnificent network
of parks and parkways.
THEY TEACH BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL COLRSES
’y 9. iqJ
■4
PROF. JOHN L. BASS PROF.- WILLIAM T. REECE PROF. THOMAS R. FOX
Diversifyiiipi^ To Meet A iSeed...
Elon Began Business Training Early
By JAMES WAGGONER
That the readiness of Elon Col
lege to adapt its curriculum to
■hanging need, which is indicated
in so many ways in her current
program, has always been char
acteristic indefinitely emphasized
in a historical study of the Busi
ness Administration Department,
which includes the program of
commercial ■itudies.
A look into the old college bul
letins shows that as early as 1893,
three years following the found
ing of the college, courses in book
keeping, stenography, typing, pen
manship, and telegraphy were be
dng offered. The.se subjects were
even then set up in a special de
partment.
This was a daring experiment in
those days for a liberal arts insti
tution, inasmuch as classical ideas
still dominated in the building and
setting of standards for college
curricula.
This was ju.>5t twenty-four years
pfter Lee had made the first defi
nite proposal in the United States
for a university school of business.
Lee had proposed thai Washing
ton College (now Washington and
Lee University) offer, in addition
(o bookkeeping, courses in “the
principles of commerce economy,
itrade and mercantile law.”
In the beginning the commercial
lubjects at Elon were taught by
professors from other departments
and by students. In 1913 the name
of Essie Mae Houchins appears in
the college bulletin as a regular
teacher of shorthand and type
writing. and the following year the
name of H. E. Jorgensen appears
as the teacher of other commercial
branches, including an additional
course, Commercial Law.
In 1924 the Department of Busi
ness Administration was organ
ized with full academic standing
funder the direction of L. M. Can
non. The courses offered first in
this department were accounting,
management, cost accounting, and
auditing. This was only five years
after the establishment of the
School of Commerce at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and, ac
cording to Matherly in his book,
"Business Education in the Chang
ing South,” there were only about
six collegiate schools of business
in the Southeast prior to 1919.
The earliest enrollment figures
obtainable show that in 1911 nine
students ere enrolled in the Com
mercial Department. By 1940 this
department had an enrollment of
sixty with two teachers and three
student assistants. The Business
Administration Department had
two teachers and an enrollment of
approximately fifty majors. Mrs.
Sue Craft Howell, who had come
to Elon during the 1934-35 ses
sion, and Miss Leonora Davis were
instructors in the Commercial De
partment, while Prof. James H.
Stewart, who had become a mem
ber of the Elon faculty during
the 1936-37 session, was an in
structor in Business Administra
tion, along with Prof. Waitus W
Howell, who had joined the facul
ty in 1937.
The Department of Business
Administration by alternating ad
vanced courses from one academic
year to the next offered a wide
selection of courses, and attempted
at that time to keep the offeringf
adapted to the needs and desires
of the students.
The present enrollment figures
reveal that thirty-five students are
enrolled in the Commercial De
partment. The Business Admini
stration Department has an en
rollment df approximately 100
students, with two teachers at
present and one on leave of ab
sence. Prof. John H. Barshear,
who is Chairman of the depart
ment and professor of Business
Administration, is on leave at the
University of North Carolina,
where he is working on his doc
tor’s degree.
Prof. John L. Bass is a hew
member this year of the faculty
in the Department of Business Ad
ministration and Prof. William T.
Reece is now in his second year
of service in the departmerrt.
In the Commercial Department
Prof. Thomas Fox instructs in
commercial subjects. According to
the latest catalogue, the demand
of highly trained secretaries has
been growing steadily, and the
secretarial science program is
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AGE NOT MEASl'RED IN YEARS
Bruce Barton .says of Bob. "He is one of
the legion of fortunate folks whose lives
are proof that age is not measured in
years; that even the eyes of the very old
tan glow with the warmth of an inner
faith, while some of the very young have
"Iready forgotten how to dream or hope.
And just here we touch another out
standing quality which makes the Ameri
can worker a comparative success—that of
faith. Faith is perhaps the greatest qualitv
«h.ch he posses. This faith gives man a
changed mental attitude toward his work
and life.
William James, the father of American
psychology, said, "Human beings can alter
Iheir lives by altering their attitude of
™nd ■ Therefore, the American worker
fakes the attitude of belief in himself.
' ch gives himself wholesome self-re-
^Pect. courage and attainment, all of which
''ill make him Mr. Working Man of
America.*’
It I* evident that our job as students
« new pride in our work
a new love for our job. and a new attitude
beginning of real self-improvement
The Quid mine
By GARY TFIO.MPSON
COULD BE JUST TALK basketball squad . . . ,„ pondering
Jerry (Kamerad) Moize and Ash- Prof. John West’s book
burn Kirby to carry Elo’s forensic Po^ms. "Up Ego!" I found this
banners to Lenoir Rhyne this outstanding
month. Subject: Should the United
try SOMEWHERE ELSE
oiluulu me United
Here’s greetings to the Maroon States intercede at Formosa? Sin-
.md Gold readers from their new- cerely hope Kamerad doesn't get
f.'t columnist, and also thanks to censored ... The Elon eleven is
the staff of ,the Maroon and Gold °Pen its 1935 grid season at
for inviting yours truly to join in Mississippi Southern. Rumore have
the preparation of the bi-weekly ' they may travel by kite
campus journal. Elon Players soon to present Hen-
NAMES MAKE THE NEWS I^en s drama. "An Enemy of
e People. Lt will be one of the siows. and grows-
George Barron, of Duke, and fo*" Director Charles galaxies wax swiftly
Phil .Mann, of Clemson. were on , ■ Our sixth annual view,
campus recently. Both are former ' School Day" set for Febru- Immense beyond the
Elon students . . Sylvia Eaton 16th. Student volunteers still measuring rod- ^ ”
1 t*.it —am. . nPoHoH 1^ •• • ’
New eyes that proble into etern
ity
To deep imagination scarcely
knows.
Reveal that things are bigge
than we thought
That morbid distance grows, and
grows, and grows
into
and Holland Taylor, who head the If interested, see Dr. windows on more
Dance Committee, are thinking ““^ell . . , Ei^ise Hughes, twin and still appears
about a "Shipwreck Dance" for Louise, tried to pass off face of God!
the spring. Anchors Aweigh! . . . S'^ter in an 8 o'clock class
Met Elon's Korean summer school foiled the plan. A boo- CLIPPED
student. Soo Kim. in Greensboro . . JTK and the Day Good Lawd sends mo t u,
la.'^t week, She'.s nnw a cinHant Students appear to hauo 1 . . troubles
jiccuj»uoio Qt . • • aiiu me Day
la.-^t week. She’s now a student at students appear to have the best
Greensboro College. Here’s hoping ” intramural basketball
Miss Kim will be a chapel speaker ’ ' ^ddie Bridges injured
here soon . . Congrats to Queen '’®'®"tly at football practice, but
Mary Sue and King Charlie, who °n eampus
will rule over the 1955 May Day Ph' Beta appearing in new
festival . . UNC cage mentor ’’^^I'^tball jerseys.
Frank McGuire was in the stands SUM-UPS
for the Elon-High Point contest “ —x mui
last week. Purpose? To see' his ® Peso or two to see And there is th.
former protege. High Point’s Jack ^7'®' 'The Silver Chalice.” Jack ^^st summer at ^bout-
rowell in action . . . Enrolling balance reaches a new peak in “Square ” Edmund,
here for the spring quarter will . . . Have vnn'^tt^,"' weLh,n„
And I got to wuk ’em out,
But I look aroun’ an’ see
There’s troubles all about.
An’ when 1 see my troubles,
I jes’ look up an’ grin.
To think of de troubles
Dat I ain’t in!_ANONYMOUS
your
vi^Ltines "teak^ with^Z^ sign
. . Chapeau speak your weight” Ho
here for the spring qu^arter will
be Lee Suk-C^o, who comes all -unes yet” . . . chapeau * ^P^ak your weight” h '
the way from South Korea. Might «« to Doc Mathis and his dribhl. « the slot ^
be a new candidate for the foot- boys. They have nm h j *be platform A v
ball squad. student. ■.? P'^°''ided the "One Tup.
students w.th an outstanding sS • 'Nuf
Curley's
campus
chatter
By CHARLIE OATES
WHAT IT WUZ,
WUZ HIGH SCHOOL DAV
It wus back last February when we « >
to this little college town for this
(together we were going to. What it v...
\vuz high school day. I remember tiiat o'
high school got a letter that said *■
should come to the college, cause we woi;^
git to see the college an a ball game i
the college woud give away free schola-
ships an don’t know what all.
It WUZ shortly after ten o’clock when »
came in Monday an saw all these pe&,;
coming out of this building. 1 never seei
a place Uke this before, cause a man
standing at the door an gibUn a ticket frui,
everybody before he let them come oy
When I seen this swarm of people come on
of this building an race toward a larg
building that a lot of noise wuz comi.
from, I follered them.
When I walked in, I saw more penr,
there than I thought existed. I never woii!
have got in close enough to git a drink,
it had not been for a si-reen I heard ou(
side an everbody rushed out to see wh
it wuz. Well. I made use of this an orden
some coffee. When the boy set it doa
in front of me, I didn’t understand an
asked him what it wuz. He told me that
shouldn’t complain bout the coffee, causi
I might be old and weak someday. So
said, all right.
The next day we took all kinds of erazj
tests. We had to take some kind of gram
mar thing that wuz the hardest. We tiad
to tear sentences up and put them on
lines that run all kinds of directions. The
man kept asking me why I didn’t use up
all the sentence when I diagrammed, an
1 tried to tell him I ran out of lines. Tiien
he asked why 1 did not learn in high school,
an I asked who wen to high school.
The next day I went to chapel an some
man got up and welcomed us and said
this is a co-ed school for boys an girls.
There wuz also a man there from North
Wilksboro who told us how his college edu
cation had helped him in his profession.
After chapel, I happened to think that it
wuz time to go out an I didn’t have a
ticket. I noticed everyone else had one. If
I didn’t think of somethin in a hurry, I
wuz in a bind, so 1 went upstairs until
the men who were taking up tickets had
gone, then I went out. 1 did.
I noticed a raft of people dressed funny
and wearing ribbons on the front of their
coats, so I figured it wuz some kind of a
political campaign that wuz going on. What
I could not understand wuz who wuz demo
crats and who wuz republicans, so I asked
one fellow what his ribbon wuz for an he
said apple pie ’ or something that sound-
,ed like that.
Since this didn't make sense to me, I
a.^ked several other people so I could find
out what party they were in. but the an
swers they gave me sounded like Greek.
I didn t find a democrat or a republican
in the whole crowd! Some of them wuz
wearing their clothes with the wrong side
cut, and some had paper bags on their
heads, an makeup all over their faces an
I don t know what all. I saw one boy with
0 paddle with a long list of names on it
^n I heard another boy say "he’s so popu
lar it hurts”.
They told me that I wuz to stay at a
place that night called north something. I
did not know what fer kind of place it wuz,
but maybe it wuz not like this other one.
The other one wuz so close to the railroad
■that when the train come through, I woke
up *n the whole room wuz shaking an
everything wuz falling off the dresser an
the loom wuz full of black smoke an I
don't know what all.
That night we all went to a basketball
game at a place they call Jim, but I never
did find Jim. Instid I seen a whole passel
of half dressed boys that run like rabbits
an jump like grass-hoppers, an a whole
raft of students wuz hollering like fox
hounds. Every now an then them boys in
e red and yeller colored shirts without
s eeves and pants without legs would fail
out for a while. When they would stop for
a few minutes, a short, stout feller who
ooked like a wrestler would talk to them.
en he talked to them, they would go
ac out on the floor an move faster
than ever before.
About this time, I asked the girl next
o me how much longer the game would
ast and she said second quorter, an I said
just paid one to git in, what kind of
ixed-up affair is this. Then the game wwc
ver an I asked this girl who won tht?
ame, an she whopped me on the back an
sai . Grand Tie!" I kind of blushed cause
- wuz wearing a new neck tie but I stili
on t know who won the basketball game,