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MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, Januan' 15 anoj 3DV.1 1058 Alii versa ry ^Messiah’ Is Given Praise IMPHOVEI) PARKING FACILITIES AS VWIT OF LANDSC\P1W PI AN By PROF. CYLDE McCANTS (Guest Critic) The Elon CoUegp Choir present ed Handel s beloved oratorio, “The Messiah,” to a large audience on Sunday, December 15th, It is strlit- ing testimony to the durabibty and timelessPiess of Handel’s immortal setting of the story of Christ that tills work received its 25th annual performance at Elon College tiiis year and that the music =‘.n stan ,|rcsh with inspiration. This music is of a greatness which ever re news itself constantly revealing some unnoticed stroke of genius. The very familiarity of this fam- our scorc makes the ideal per formance a virtual impossibility: everyone has his own conception ol what “The Messiah” should be in performance, and even the ex perts are rarely in total agree- men. The oratorio as given at Elon College, however, brought to gether those elements which seem most satisfying to the greatest number—capable soloists perform ing with a well-balanced chorus beautifully accompanied and the whole expertly directed. The soloists were carefully chos en from the alumni of Elon Col lege. All of the soloist.x acquitted them'clves well in this difficult music, and all sang with fervor and conviction. Those taking solo parts included Annie Laura A1 bright, Roger Gibbs, Dorothy Hil liard. Jeanne Meredith. Dorothy Jones Parker, James Rhodes. Jer- ly Smyre and Judy Ingram. Par ticular mention should be made of Charles Lynam, who sang “Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?” one of the most diffi-lc.lose study has brought for the cult arias in The Messiah,” with ' Top Ten Stories of 1957'’ in the mu'icianchip and agility .«uch as ^ following list, which is presented one rarely encounters in the mod- in the order of their rank in read- ern age, and Patsy Melton, who er interest and importance— UEed her vibrant contralto voice' 1. Change of administration, with the intelligence and mastery I w ith Dr. J. E. Danieley succeeding of a true artist. Dr. Leon E. Smith as Elon's pres- As in any performance of ora-'iden. toria, it was the chorus which 2. Undefeated football season, ■was the mainstay of the after- , with its complications involving noon’s program. The Elon Choir schedule and Conference title, certainly deserves the highest po.“-; 3. Building of anoiher re v boys’ sible praise for its part in "The dorm, with contracts let in Jan- Messiah" This group of young uary and job finished by Decem- people sings with the sort of mu- ber. sicianship which belies the fact 4, Rccord enrcl.nitnt 0; 1.4C9 that many of the members of this students during Fall Quarter and chorus have not had specific mu-, consequent faculty enlargement. Cm\or\TAaC^ 1 n. J f^iao tt H)or»n 00 • A/euJ *5 >> > 3 z V 0 R A. R %) c. 4-i U Ul u— Christians Drop Contest To Belmont Abbey Five Eloii Girl Is 111 Diirliain Hospital Roberta Morrison, IS-year-old Still having difficulty in hitting the basket, the Elon Christians fell victim of the sharp-shooting Bel mont Abbey cagers at Belmont on .Monday night by a 69 to 42 mar gin. It was the Crusaders' ele venth straight collegiate win of •he year, and it marked Elon’s I Elon student and resident of West Dormitory, is in the Watts Ks^pital in Durham, wliere she IF undergoing treatment for a painful knee injur>- sustained while playing in the snow wui, a group of her fellow students Tuesday afternoon of last week The girl, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Morrison, of West Hartford, Conn., fell over another student in the snow. She was first carried to a Burlington hospital, hut she was transferred to Durham when fear of permanent injury indi cated that the knee needed spe cialized treatment. LU Norihcdii Qoar+er CM" Cdmpos —SKowm^ ProjecHeci LaT^d.scape T^lc3n Witk Three NeuJ farktn^ Lo'tis hird straight loss since Christmas. The Christians made a battle of it for the first ten minutes of the game, holding a 10-9 lead at one ooint, but the Crusaders began hitting in the second ten minutes and pulled away from a 16-15 mar gin to a 35-21 spread at the half- time break. They came back to widen the lead in the closing half. Frank DeRlta. who paced the Christian scoring with 15 points, was the only Elon tosser to hit the double figures for the night. Trail ing him with 9 counters was Gil Watts, Christian guard. The line-ups— Pos.—Elon (42) Bel. Abbey (69) F—Bell 7 - . Ross 3 F—DeRita 15 Lenahan 3 C—Carcaterra 5 .... Van Bargen 8 G—Watts 9 G—Bulla 2 Half-time — Belmont Abbye 35, Elon 21. _ Stewart 21 .. Mullen 21 WORTH THINKING (Continued From Page Ona) ,|- TOP TEN STORIES OF 1957 (Continued Trom Page One) sical training. The balance be tween parts, the surety and accu racy of the singing, and the sheer beauty tone achieved by the choir show that they have been trained thoroughly and carefully and that they have grown into the true spirit of the music. Words alone 5. Two commencements in May and August, with largest graduate li'l in years. 6. Choir activities, including an nual tour and special programs, climaxed by 25th annual ‘ Mes siah” in December. 7.. Dramatic activities, includ- Elon Professor If students and faculty wondered what was happening when workers began felUng huge trees ] north of old North Dormitory recently, they will be overjoyed to learn that the oaks were giving , j Mppfilt O' way to one of three new all-weather parking lots that are included in the landscaping plan:> lor , /±l the northeast quarter of the campus adjacent to the various boys’ residence halls. The three P^ing lots will be between North Dorm and the college wall, betwee n Smith Hall and the rear of North and between Smith HaU and Carolina Hall. They will be curbed and gravelled when the grading is complete and will later receive the full hard-surface treatment. These lots are expected to reheve to a great extent the parking problem on the campus^ Exploration Reveals New Curiosities (Continued From Page Three) and the back bone’s connect— get here? It’s a Bausch-Lomb pror- (they hauled him away). jjector—best made. And we have and then came to the physiology j work tables lined fifteen hundred slides tor it. lab. More bottles, more flasks,t^e center one; We subscribe to the National variious philosophies which may ,l3e presented to them most attrac tively, mecause a radical is gen- Ifrally an enthusiast and usually Elon subs Burke 2, Wright 2.!j, present plausibly his Turner. Leonard. Belmont subs .theories, however impractical they Smith 2, Clair 2, Wrenn 1, Lcff-ijjuy be. ler 1. Harding. country needs sound think ing on the part ol the college students, college professors and the wl^ole public. In this time o( Kreat crisis we need to review the fundamentals of our govern ment and to adhere to the true and tried policies which time and experience have proven to be wise. It is a mistake to accept every new proposition and hdM it as 9 panacea for governmental ills, largely because it is something new. It is likewise unwise to re ject constructive suggestions for changes merely because they are new. The college student, as well nore devices and—.\ha I I recog nised something. Nah, couldn't be ust an ordinary refrigerator. But lial's what it was, and was there lo freeze defenseless little bac- 'er'a. Heside it was what looked like a built-in oven and my gues.s were two skulls: a large one and,Weather Map Association; a small one. "Now, see, ” the lab instructor was saying. ‘This large skull is the skull of Abraha.Tfi Lin coln.’’ “Who’s is the smaller skull?” ‘‘Well, that was Abe Lin coln's when he was a little boy.” After showing me more gla.ss have two 3-inch telescopes, that, new aero-pla.stic elevated map you see over there, an astronomical planetarium (shows stars on the ceiling), a collection of state Geo logical Survey maps, and a Trip- penste planetarium . . . This is wasn t far off. It was an incubator 1 of preserved creatures and it here. See. the earth revolves or .rrowing more bacteria after „ther pieces of lab appar- he others froze. iatus, Dr. Haff directed me to the Next to this was an autoclave, qj Mr Dewey M. Stowers. a round, metal thing-a-ma-jig with a drum-like top. used for steriliz ing lab equipment under pres sure. Then, too, at one end of a long table was a coffin with a metal could never express the electric ling no less than three full-length -That’s Professor Reddish’s.” thrill produced by the thoir on , plays and Easter pageant. such phrases as ‘His Name Shall Be Called Wonderful. Counsellor, the Mighty God. the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. ” Considering all of these ele- menle, the overall credit for the success of this performance be longs with John Westmoreland, di rector. and Fletcher Moore, or ganist. Prof. Westmoreland has made a thorough study of this score and understands the traditions of its pre.^ntation: combined with this is his ability at producing the de sired results with his singers and 8. Sports titles in basketball and baseball and trip to National NAl.^ Tournament by cagers. 9. Campus elections in April, with Jerry Loy elected president of student body. 10. Annual May Day weekend, ruled over by Margaret Patillo and Larry Barnes. LENOIR RHYNE (Continued From Page Three) The line-ups- Pos.—Elon (48) Lenoir R. (72) his desire to approach the music jF—Bell 14 Cline 4 in a fresh and original manner. |F—DeRita 10 Prof. Moore is as skilled an organ-1q Burke 8 ist as our area, or any other, has L to offer, and his all important part' ~ in the performance was done with —Bulla 2 Norman 14 . Whitis 13 Reese 20 - Sellari 9 true artistry and accomplishment Half-time — Lenoir Rhyne 39, This was a performance to be! Elon 24. rernem^red for years and, I feel,: Elon subs - Carcaterra 4. The Messiah by which all fv u. ■ u, -> „ ^ Wright 2. Robertson, Hargrove, ture presentations at Elon College will be judged—exciting, inspiring. Leonard. Hall. Lenoir Rhyne subs and truly filled with the spirit of — James 10, D. James 2, Bow- Handel’s great message. man, Goodnight, McCormick. NEW DORM (Continued From Page Oat) a number of other boys from the structures adjacent to the cam- ''®^ated buildings were to move pus; from the Bank Building, across East Dorm today. With mov- the railroad tracks; and from old completed, all campus men North Dorm, which has long been will reside in Carolina, unsatisfactory. Smith and East. Prof. Clyde Mc- TTie new occupants of Carolina Cants continues as counsellor for Hall moved in on Monday, with CaCrolina. and Prof. John Graves Ea.st Dorm being cleared on that will serve as counsellor for Smith date. After a thorough cleaning. Hall. 'He’ll tell you about the geogra phy department, ’ he said. "First about yourself,” I asked my third victim. Well, he was born in Springfield. Illinois, attended Dickiuson Col lege in Carlysle. Pa., where he met his wife, the former Emily Gilbert Mohler. She got her B.A. in biology, >vhile he went on to Vanderbilt Law School. While studying at Vanderbilt, he went to a lecture on geogra phy, came home, threw up his law books, and transferred to Pea body College to take up geogra phy. He got his Masters there in H'story and is now' after his Ph.D.. studying summers at the Univer- ity of North Carolina. The Sto vers’ have a t+iree-.vear-old son ■Skip”, (or Dewey Marion Sto vers nil. A Geographer's Phiicsophy ‘‘What’s my philosophy? he sasped at my next question. ‘'VVel! what was Prof. Haffs? I was go ing to say if his was ‘Flunk a third,’ mine would be ‘Flunk a half. Haff. Haff! Get it?” ‘‘No seriously." . . . and he gavr me an original quote as his phil osophy, "To know the nature of the world is to know yourself.” His hobbies are fishing, shoot ing and music ihe directs the Elon band), he told me. Also that he liked tropical fish. In fact, he Dr. W. W. Sloan, member of the Elon College faculty in the Department of Religion, attend ed the annual meeting of three learned societies in the field of religion and Bible study at Lou isville, Ky., from Friday, De cember 27th, through Tuesday, December 31st. The meetings, all of them held at the Southern Baptist Theo- ' as the average citizen, needs to logical Seminary in Louisville, ! attain a balance in thinliing, as around the sun and the moon re volves around the earth and . No, this one doesn’t feature Sputnik.” Back in the office again. Prof. 1 Stowers pointed to several cages! stacked against the wall. “Make | a note that we're looking tor some animal specimens.” he said. “We'll accept any kind—squirrels, skunks, . . . especially creatures that are thought to have been extinct.” He looked at me, then at the cages, then back .it me. Something told me to “git, " and I got. were of the National Association of Biblical Instructors, the Amer ican Schools of Oriental Research and the Societies sof Biblicnl Literature and Exegesis. Dr. Sloan has belonged to all three groups for many years and has attended many of their meet ings. He has also written a num ber of articles for their publi cations. the salvation of our nation in the future depends on the judgment, wisdom and patriotism of those participating in politics and those voting in elections. Every citizen, as well as every college student, should take a lively interest in politics and a wholesome interest in elections. my guide explained. He opened ;t and inside wasn’t a corpse at all but a miniature greenhouse ■complete with 24-hour flourescent icrhtliig, for germination of seed lings. I didn’t get to ask what the bluish liquid was in an enormous jug nearby, because my tour con ductor was already at the other :nd of the room, rummaging in e cabinet of do-hickeys and assort ed knick-knacks. He pulled out a 'jadgct that didn’t look like any thing to me, but it was a kymo- iraph. it was. It was used for making smoked recordings of heart beats and stuff like that, but how :t worked I didn’t follow. There was a metronome—-for timing piano pupils. I always thought, but here it timed muscle twitches. Then an induction coil Ether U. S. P., batteries, etc.. etc.. and etc. Into the hall again and . . . Swi-ii-ssh! “At ease. It was just a student running up his heart beat to record on the kymograph." .\nd A Skeleton Too In the safety of another room, the invertebrate laboratory. 1 watched as several curiosity’s dis sected cats. Across the table oth ers applied the scalpel to frogs, and nearby several prospective biologists crowded around a hu-|Prof. Stowers holds his geogra- Esther Lee Walker, of Burling- man skeleton. jphy classes. ton, was on the Dean’s List for “No this is the scapula. It isj "We have seventeen all up-to- the Fall Quarter, but her name itiached to this bone, the ster- date maps,” he told me. "Aneroid was omitted through error from num. .and the sternum connects and mercuroid barometers, a map the list of honor students which with the rib bone, and the rib table, up-to-date barograph and was published in the Christmas 'ooce's connected to (he back bone, thermograph . . . See this gad- issue of the Maroon and Gold. D.VNIELEY TRIP (Continued From Page One) While in the Miami area. Dr. Danieely attended a meeting of Elon alumni who reside in and around Miami and also a luncheon meeting of Elon alumni in West Palm Beach. He then went over to St. Peters burg to attend a dinner meeting of Elon alumni from the St. Peters- burg-Tampa area last Friday night, and attended an alumni coffee hour at Florida Southern College in Lakeland on Saturday morn ing, followed by a dinner meet ing of alumni in Orlando last Sat urday night. Other meetings for Dr. Danieley wit^i alumni included a coffee hour session in Deland, Fla., last Sunday afternoon, a dinner meet ing in Jacksonville on Monday night, and a dinner gathering in had an aquarium of them in the CU^arieston, S. C., on Tuesday next room. night of this week. We saw the fish, then went into the zoology lab once more where ON DEAN’S LIST GoCOrGo&L do^ AOwXSuMi yjon, itr. ) new and good—all over—when you pause for Coca-Cola. It’s sparkling with quick refreshment... and it’s so pure and wholesome —naturally friendly to your figure. Let it things—good things—for you. > BURLINGTON COGA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY b 0 ragklcrcd trad^mork. ® THf COCA-COLA COMP^
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