North Carolina Newspapers

IMGE TWO " Maroon And Gold Entered *s second tl«s* matter * the Po*t Office it Ron CoHetc, N. C., under the Act ot March 8, 1878, DeUvered by mail, $1.50 tlie college year, 50c the quarter. Kdited «nd printed by s'udents of Elon College, Published bi-weekly duMng the college year under the auspices of the Ba.ird of Publication. EDITORIAL BOARD Walter Edmonds Editor-in-Chicf Dick Lashley Assistant Editor Ann Joyce Assistant Editor H. Reid - - Alumni Editor Robert Danials . Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD James Biggerstaff . - Builncss Manager Phillip Sexton Printing Advisor David Horn Press Operator BEPOKTERS Tommy Andrews Thomas Liverman William Brooks Robert Lowe Judy Burkholder Becky Matthews Morris DeMattco Dick McCarthy Lois Foor Tommy McDonald Katrine Frye John McLauchlin John Frost Wade Montgomery Carl Fuller Marion Oakes Gilbert Gates John Phillips Douglass Ilartseil Paul Radford Arthur Ivey Bob Skinner William Jackson - Leslie Starr I^is Kidd .. Eklmund Thompson Donald Kimrey Elizabeth Updyke Marvin King Patrick Winston THl,’RSDAV, FEBRUARY 26, 1959 BIAROON AND GOLD Thuri(day. rebnia-v a, EXAM TIME A strange atnjospiiere pervades the cam pus during these days just tiefore exams. There is a frightened expression in the eyes of many students as they hurry by, students who have done little studying throughout the quarter and who suddenly are confronted with the necessity ot ac cumulating a quarter's knowledge in a few days. There are many ways and places to study for exams, but Rule One might be cited as "Don’t get panicky.” Devise a system. Study for a few hours, then take a break and go study some more. You’ll find you can absorb more if you'll rest once in a while. Some students may prefer to study in their rooms, hidden behind a stack of books and with a "Busy” sign on the door. Others seek quiet in the library, par ticularly when there is noise in the dorms. Ons suggestion to all is—though you do not wish or need to study yourself—at least keep quiet so others can prepare for exams,—CLIPPED. F.XTRA-CrRRIClLAR BENEFITS While doing research in the Elon arch ives, it is interesting to note how maay timiK one finds the same students partici- paJing in various types of activity. This was true in former years, even as it is today, and one surmises that there has likewise been a great many students in each per iod who never take part in any extra-cur ricular activity. It is regrettable that so many students pass up in their collejk years the great opportunity that is open to them through the medium of campus activities such as dramatics, music, (mblications, debating, student organizations, and sports, all of which offer wonderful chances for improve ment of the individual m leadership and the ability to mingle with others. Not all of a college education is found in books, and students who grasp the op portunities that are theirs fn such extra curricular activities often find in after life that knowledge gained from varied rampus activity i> qultt as valuable as that which was (Mineil from between the fevers «f the textbook*. around with square bj SQUARE EDMONDS Dating Back Forty Years ... Greek Letter Groups Began In 1919 STUDENT COURTESY The following editorial comments were gleaned from an old issue of the Maroon and Gold for November, 1935, pertaining to student chapel behaviar and student courtesy, and portions of the article apply equally as well today, full twenty-four years after the comments were first written. "The student body as a whole is to be commended on its fine courtesy Guests on the cam'pus are usually met with a friendly smile or pleasant kind nesses. and visiting teams and student groups receive this same courteous treat ment at the hands of our students. "Naturally there are some students whose actions are exceptions to the gen erally fine attitude of the student body, and it is unfortunate that some people seem to judge only by the exceptions and not by the whole group. The courtesy of the majority, however, augurs well for the future, for students with such courteous at titudes must eventually make their ideas felt by the unsocial exceptions.’’ (EDITORIAL NO'TE: With the Maroon and Gold staff busily preparing for this week’s exams, excerpts from an M. and G. columnist of earlier years are used as a guest column. Guesting for "Square” is Bob Wrigkt, whu was editor and student body president in his day. Selections are from his column, entitled "The Yankee Peddler,’’) Early A. M. Serenade Let me stay in the arms of Morpheus; Let me keep his sweet repose, Let me revel here in this luxury, I-et me shie from weal and woe, Let me—aw mttz, lemme sleep! 4 * * The other day we heard about a father who claimed that Elon College was the ruination of his child. Taught him to spell "taters" with a “p.” * * * Life's Little Drama Under the Colonnadei Scene 1 Time: At the close of the Winter quar ter. Student: Boy, if I get throu,,h this quar ter I'm gonna really study next quarter. No more sweatin’ it out for me. Scene 2 Time: The start of the Spring quarter. Same Student: What’re all you guys hangin’ around tlie dorm for? C’mon, let’s go to the show. • * » Wonder what sold novels before they put bosoms on the book jackets. * • • Ideas are like the weather, i^ou’ve got to wait and see what comes, and then they’re apt to be all wet. * » a Reflection If we were what we’d like to be, Instead of what we are; Each pebble on the beach of life Would likely be a star. He’d nestle in the firmament. And shine so bright and clear To hide his ache and kingiifrg For the other pebbles dear. • • • SING WHILE YOU DRIVE ... At 45 "Highways Are Happy Ways”—at 55 "I’m But a Stranger Here, Heaven Is My Home” —at C5 "Nearer My God To Thee”—at 75 "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder I’U Be There at 86 - Lord, I’m Coming Home." * * * A Cootribntion There are meters lamic There are meter Triambic. There are meters in musical tone. But the meter that’s sweeter, Completer and neater, Is to meet ’er in the moonlight alone. » » * Then there’s the one about a clergyman who was sent to a church conference with a ten dollar bill and the ten command ments in hi« pocket. On his return he was happy to report that he hadn’t broken either of them. « * * Average Reaction? I’ll read about Russia's atomics, As soon as I finish the comics. » » • Elon Scene A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the Elon College Grill. Not a soul in the crowd bad a nickle; so the music box was still. The Cola Kid sat in tke corner, wrapped up in 0 cokey dream. And the rest of the oampus spendthrifts just sat reading magazines. The place held a deathly silence in spite of the blazing lights, But nothing was expected to happen—it was Elon on Saturday night. ♦ » • Cycle Babies are born witlysut any h*r. Old men’s heads are just as bare. So. twixt the cradle and the grave There lies a haircut and a shave. —Anon. * * * » » CoUeriate Definitions A quiz is a three-hour exam which you are supposed to finish in fifty minutes. A pop quiz is a sneaky device used by a professor to find out if you have done your assignment. Unfortunately he always finds cut. GLOOM CHASERS The ambition of the average girl is to hitcb her wagon to a workhorse. * • • • • ^ If most vmam lud tt to do over, they’d marry men they didn't have to do over. The Greek letter fraternities ■and sororities at Elon College date back almost four decades to the period just after World War I, when a group of the students pe titioned for permission to fora iocial clubs as a means of improv ing the social life ob tlie camptis. The Elon College catalogue for the 1919-1920 term carried a rec ord of the action of the trustees in granting that permission. Tha first act of the trustees carried many of the provisions that con tinue to govern the social organ izations today. TTie catalogue of that day stat- eJ that "for the promotion of brotherhood and good fellowship and the cultivation of social life, the Board of Trustees have pro- ided for the voluntary organiza. Uon of social clubs among the stu dents, with the consent of the fac ulty and under their supervision.’’ The trustees further provided that there should not be more ihan 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 scholarskip 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 of 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 Bot provided until after the new plant was built, when rooms were allot- ed 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 tea 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. Tlie first recogni tion of the various clubs by name EDITOR’S NOTE WHh the annual winter “Bid NigU” and the ensning frater nity and sorority initiations still a recent thins on the Elon cam pus, it is qoite fKting that pres ent day Elon students be in formed concemim the foond- ing and the early years of the tour Greek letter fraternities and four sororities beneath EIoo's classic oaks. The acc»m- panyin,? story of Greek letter origins at EIo» tell* *f the foniiding ef eacb of the present gromts. * « * in the coBege catalogue was in the ^itlon 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 ot the clubs have been placed on the inactive list at various times dur ing the insuing years because of (his membership requirement. First Publicity The first notice of the new clubs appeared in Phi Psi CH 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. Perry, now director of high school athletics tor 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 Clnbs; 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, •. H. Henderson, W, D. Henderson, W. R. 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, later with the United States For eign Service in Uberia; L. B. Ez- zell, now a professor at the Uni versity of Texas; J. W. Fix, later a minister; K. R. McCalman, later superintendent of schools in Ny- ack, N. Y.; J. B. Newman, now a Burlington dentist; L. M. Can non. W. M. Garrison, I. O. Hau ser (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 George D. Col- clough, now secretary of the Burl ington Chamber of Commerce; J. M. McAdams, now of Hon Col lege; W, T. Scott, now superinten dent of the Southern Convention of the Congregational Christian Church; C. W, Gordon, Burling ton maniJJacturer; and J. H. Dol lar, well know* mimister Sf East ern Virginia. First Girls’ CUibs Two ot the girls’ clubs made their appearanee in Phi Psi Cli in 1921. One of these was Beta Omi cron Beta, and its initial list in eluded Della Cotten, now Mrs. W. ■T. Scott, of Elon College; Mar guerite Youmans, now in religious work in Rye, N. Y.; Isabella Wal- '.nn, now Mrs. C. M. Cannon; Pearl Reynolds, Sarah Carter, Mary MiUer, Eunice Rich, Victoria Adams and Kate Wheeler, Among the other early members were Pat tie Lee Coghill, later an educa tional secretary with the Congre gational Christian Church; Maude Kendrick, Helen Cannon and Ef- fie Bowden. The Delta Ujjsilon Kappa group also appeared first in the 1921 is sue of Phi Psi Cli. although 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 Nell Holland, Jennie Fulghum, Nettie Sue Tuck, Delor- is Morrow, now Mrs. J. W. Barn well, of Burlington, Hazel Rose- mond, Essie Mae Truitt and Es ther Farmer. Other early mem bers mentioned for Delta Upsilon included Miss Lila Newman and Mrs. J. M, McAdams. The next club to make its ap pearance in ttie pages of Phi Psi Cli was Tau Zeta Phi. Included 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, Lucille Cardwell, and Mamie Moore. Other early members in eluded Mrs, Jesse H, Dollar, Fan nie Glenn Elder, Annie Lee Floyd, Bessie Martia, Nell Orr, Ruby Rowland and Myrtle Vick ers, all of whose names appeared in the second annual list in 1924, gm-;,,. (Continued on P»se Four) Seen From The West Watchtower By ANN JOYCE Did you know that a special committee of the Student Legis lature is investigating the poss ibilities of installing inter-com munication system in boys’ dor mitories on campus? Did you know that the Student Legisla ture is trying to have the li brary reading room kept open more hours on weekends? Did you know that a secre tary will be hired soon to han dle student government work# Had you heard about the new high fidelity phonograph W'hich is on campus, ready for install ation? (Had you heard. Business Office?) Did you know that Pee Wee Hunt and his orchestra will furnish music for this years May dance? If you know these things and if you are not a representative to the Student Legislature, you are an unusual student. You are definitely in the minority of Elon College students. We don’t in tend to harp on any single sub ject, but we do want to say agaia that we think it is a sad situation that more student* do not take an Interest in student government affairs. Student government attain are tremendously important to all students and it is so easy for us to know what is going on by simply attending Legislature meetings or by simply asking our legislature representative questions about current Issues. Now for personal opinions concerning some of the issues mentioned ’above. We are whole heartedly with the Legislature, which at its last meeting ac cepted unanimously a resolu tion to approach the college ad ministration with a request for more "open hours” in the li brary. We think it is a shame for students to be forced to travel to Burlington or Greensboro on Saturday afternoon to a library. Many are the students who, be cause of heavy daily homework assignments or part time jobs during the week, must depend on weekends for doing parallel reading, term papers, and spe cial assignments. Ftfw of us can deny the fact that dormitories are not the most conducive places to study in the world oh weekends. If it isn’t possible for the main desk to be In operation, we can see no reasw why the reading room at least could not be opem to students desiring a quiet ^lacc far stuly. For those who may be won dering why a student body sec retary is to be hired, we under stand that the new secretary will keep records concerning parking violations and handle correspondence to and from the Student Body officers. The sec- retai-y will be available for the typing of bills and other mat ters aoncerning Legislature. We hear that because of the tremendous number of parking violations that it has been nec essary for the president of the Student Body to spend a great deal of his time keeping records concerning parking violations. We couldn’t be more pleased about the new high-fidelity get which is on campus for install ation on both floors of McEwen Dining Hall. We are looking for ward witi great pleasure to the time when we will enjoy dinner music in the dining hall and when we have a good phono graph for informal campus danc es. Incidentally, approximately one-third of th*> cost of the set came from student body activity fee money and the remainder was paid by the administration. THere will be no excuse for I>oor parliamentary procedure in Student Legislature in the fu ture. Parliamentary procedure (Contintied Or Page pant) here and there Bx DICK LASHLEY (EDITORIAL NOTE; With Dick Last ley absorbed in examinations, there’s i clipped guest colun-.n from the wjitings ol Lynn Cashion, one-Ume Maroon and Golj editor and student body presidpnt. Hij description of dormitory radiators in day appeared in his column, entitled "Cash on the Spot”.) A radiator is a fascinating example o( the Steam Age—at least tie one in my room in the dormitory is, Tou never kno* what to expect from it. I have wat(Jie(l it all year, trying to figure out its 5c^l^ dule, but 1 have yet to see it working con sistently. In fact, it has done very Uttlj work at all. I took it for granted that tt was installed for the purpose of heating the room, but I am now beginning ij wonder if it’s not really just as ornament Back when the weather was really raw my radiator took on the traits of a beu —it hibernated throughout the frosty months! During that time, I slept unda £o many blankets that it took three of tbj dormitory boys to pull the cover back in the mornings so I could get up in time to run outside and thaw out before claa. Of course, it was not really so bad for me physically, for the nightly pressure oi all that cover helped to straighten mj posture. Let the weather turn warm and that'i when my radiator really talks up. I re member one night that was especially com fortable-just like an evening in August at the beach. Closing my eyes, I could lie back in bed and feel the ocean spray cool my face. I came to find later that It wasn’t my ima^ation, but that it wai genuine water splattering around my body. Opening my eyes, I discovered that "old faithless’ had suddenly become industrious and was pouring the room ful lot steam, so full in fact, that ball of water had formed on the ceiling, causing a form of monsoon humidity, which flooded the room like April showers. After that inci dent, I used a war surplus rubber life boat as a bed. I have always had a hor ror of drowning! Although my radiator has its faults, 1 have found it to be very tersatile. For instance, whenever the hill billy programs come over the air, I just turn off my radio and listen to the soothing knocking of the radiator. It’s favorite tune is "cold heart and empty pipes." Sometimes 1 even find the radiator’s music equally at nerve racking as Roy Acuff or the wise cracks of Minnie Pearl. It is not quite s« easy to quieten the radiator down, for 1 have to baby it by administering hot-water bottles so it can stop jumping around to keep warm. My radiator has turned out to be an excellent ice box and keeps meats perfeot- ly. The icicles also come in handy, for I can keep drinks in my room all tie time instead of having to rush down tlie street late at night before the Grill closet That radiator of mine also has a won derful sense of humor. One of its favorite pranks is to let me get all tucked awsj in bed, and then, when it knows that I aiH sleep from my snoring, it throws off more heat than six jet engines. Thais probably one reason why I’m so thin— the heat plus the cover is the same as a» incubator—I sweat it out! When it takes on those devilish ideas, I spend the night pushing the cover down, and then jerii- ing it up. No wonder that I have a cold half the year, with all that fanning about. We are forever having fusses and fights, my radiator and I. Sometimes 1 think that I have been too harsh »iih it, b*' then it acts so downright childish at times, especially when I built a fire in the (ir«- place. Why, it gives me the cold shoulder for days at a time. Isn’t that just liiie s young’n — getting jealous and poutios? And then there are times when 1 hear it struggling lo draw a little steam up i* its pipes to wash away the rust, arid I to help by knocking on Its pipes. Tints when it really blows~us. It .gets so m»l that it shakes all over. It often jars the whole room just for meanness. It toiow that vibration makes me nervoas. But, aU in all, I can't complain ahow my radiator too much, for we have gtflW to be the best of friends through the winter months, suffering together — without heat, and it without steam. CHEERFUL THOUGHTS W’hen success turns a man’s head, it ways leaves him looking in the wrong ^ rection. ♦ ♦ * » • ' She was the type ol irl ® bring home to mothei If you eouW tfi** father. , -ufl