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PAQF TWO MAROON AND GOLD Friday. January 18, 1903 Maroon And Gold Emrixd ai lecond clau matifr at the Po«t Office at E!on College, N. C., uodFr tiw Aci of Mirrc-h 8, 1879 Delivered by mall, 11,90 per college year, 75 cent* tli- ■nc ester. i:iMIOKI.\L B0.4RU Don Terrell E'I.i' -I-.. Melvin Shreves A-- larji tl'l.'. MikcU h^utr U»vid .Mtrshbur", ’^por'.- hdr* . Sallie McDuffie GlrU S|iuii M Reid Alumni Luther N U.~d Frttully .Ail\'.*or TM IINIC AI, STAKF P .S', TIi'jrnT-sor LinolMM Operator Kfnnelh Harptr I ;i !s Operator ri:porti.ks Anne ^aron Howard Arn-'r FluL>irt Harham II;i'kt'rv:;!e Nancy Liu Hu'lir Jerrv B>id Oiane Clary Ujrl Clements .^rihur IJ£;‘.IS KoiiaUI Denhart Jsnet Kaulknir Robrrt K-lton William (Jrilfln Uiin'iy Hull Jfino Harper D jnald Hinlon i'.'.':! Huey !' . ii I' isen (‘aiiUTiFii Little .ludy .Manes!) Larry Meisel Kaland .Miller James Moore Bill .'!iiningxtar . Otti. .Mueller Barry upell Richard Tliumpson -\ubrcy Utz Sonnj Wilburn David Winfrey KKIUAV, J.\M AHV 18. 1963 JOB MKI.L DONK Till- efficiency of tfic Student Govern ment orijanization was. never ihown bet ter than the quick and imuoth functioning its elffluin MUHii.ii'iy ; il 1.:. of Klon Collene'% charmlnK glris to serve a« Tournament Queen for the upcoming Carohnas Conference basketball meet in Lexington .Notification that Tlon College had been chosen to furnish the royal ruler for the an nual ca«e tourney came in an utterly un expected telephone call at 4:30 o'clock on Monday afternoon of last week, and the tournament officials in Lexington asked that a complete set of ten or more glossy pictures be In their hands not later than Monday of this week. Administrative officials of the college called in Jim Buie, president of Student Government, as quickly as possible, along with Bob Saunders, chairman of the cam pus elections board and they set the election machinery rolling at once. Notice of the problem reached most of the campus stu dents within only a few hours that night, and the need was relayed to the commut ing students the next morning. No less than seventeen of Klon's girls were nominated for the honor on Tuesday, and a special campus election was held on Wednesday. Everything moved quick ly and smoothly, and by late afternoon on Wednesday it was known that Sue Fergu son. sophomore girl from Durham, had been chosen by the students to represent them and the college as ruler over the Coofervnce'i ,annual basketball extrava- tianza. Within less tlian forty-eight hours, the election was called and completed, and one has only to look at the ten large photo graphs of (jueen Sue to realize that the whole thing, including the choice made by the students, was Indeed a Job well done. SCHOOL SPIRIT No where Is the true spirit of a collegt shown more clearly than at an athlctic event, and true school spirit U not only the degree to which the students support the athletic teams of their achool The real spirit of a school Is shown in the manner as well as In the degree of support ac corded its teams. There are many persons who rega.d the eo-called •Big Four" schools in North Car olina as the peak 0/ excellence in every- Uilag, but It makes one proud ot Eion when the behavior of Elon studenta at ball la compared with actions ot studuui, at certain of the larger schools. Within the past week the sporU editor ol one of the state's larger daily newspap ers commented—and not favorably-con- ceming one of "Big Four" institutions, speaking of how student* of that school persisted in throwing paper, cups and oth er debris onia the playing floor during bas ketball games, thus voicing their displeas ure at the officiating or other events in the game. That same day, a local fan was heard to declare that he never intended to go to another basketball game at another of the Big Four' institutions, simply twcause he did not Uke the yelUng, the Jeering and the beating of drums while visiting players attempted to shoot free throws. Cheering and yelling by the studenU means much to the teams on firid or court, but good school spirit demands that such cheering be within the bounds of «ood sportamanship, and actions such as those cited above displays a spirit which is not good One hopes that the spirit ot Elon may always b« itrong—but gooi. jgt, shades of elon By HIVSON MIKELL M. And G. Press Is Aiieieiit Madiiiie I The pii. vihich rolls the Ma-, ! roon and Gold out with the ne«. “ | i of the Elon College campuf each ] ' fortnight oould well bi clsi-sed as ' I ar antique, but it ; a quii=_ effi-' ; 1 icnt aniique for it !ldom fa;!:, j to .?ome forth with a clear print I! ivEKPS l»KESS R JLLlMr Ii is !:;v 'lope that ■- ryom bit w. h . • : hr: ■ im: tiu new , . .1 r 10" and prof:’able vac tion 1' ;il ''tlin^ down once again to : :■ (l.ily ;,.:i'in! I'l nir collt„iale lives. :t . crta ,ly .- >d to be back again am ; I! ii. old famfflar faces, but there ale iiiany thing, in tl.. ‘post-Christmas, "face”. The month of January brlnt rather tr>- in.: ':ii the young, ubiquitou.'i mind finds u.-. about t" drown in a -ea of te^ts, re ports, and final -xam;- 'What a trite meta- phor''. 1 wonder how many of us kept company »iith our books during the holi- fl.'i,'. ■\.ssuming the percentage is small, if you will, let's conclude that something isn't right about the contrast to leisure of that hardship to which we now find ourselves submitted. Therefore, it seems likely that either Christmas is misplaced or that ex ams are out of place on the calendar. There are loopholes in my reasoning, I fear. Probably Carol will be good enough to point them out. ■ Ifs always fun to ramble at random, i.sn t it. Bill? In fact this column seems to be doing its share). This year. I made it a point not to make any new year's resolutions (disillusion ment is quite a bitter potionl. A friend of mine who resolved never again to borrow money is now selling lottery tickets to avoid bankruptcy. Another friend who promised that she would never again “put her foot in ' is now having to eat her hat (what a diet: leather and felt). Still another friend 'didn't know 1 had that many) who swore to keep a clean dormitory room has not been seen for two days. Reports say that he's in bed but nobody apparently can find it. I, myself, did make one resolution and already I’m re gretting it. I resolved to improve overall and I'm still the same old guy. Nineteen-hundred and sixty-two was a full year in many respecU. On the interna tional scene there was the blockade on Cuba in which, through his handling of the situation. President Kennedy saved face after his costly delay in the Bay of Pigs invasion. On October 28th, the Soviet mis sile bases on Cuba were reportedly dis mantled. Aftierwards, Nikita Khrushchev gained a pledge from the United States not to invade Cuba. However, the Soviet p 11 f.'impu.'- new sheet. I Thi j-.- ;, which ■ a flat-bi-d ] ■ ylinder by R. Hoe and Company. h)f Niv. York ^ity. in 1881, mak- I ing the pn ^ more than four in age. The Hoe company : • iat«d the top pre-; manufac- j turini; lonc rn in the world and ! 11 keep^. a i. c.ird a; all it- productt An inquiry addi. -.-d to R. Hut and C-impany by E. H. Taylor. :-hief pr= ;man for the Burlington Times-News, brought a respons" from the Hoe records service I which disclo.sed that the Maroon j and Gold prt's was produced in 11881 on a special order from I Wright and Potter, of Boston, and was shipped to them on May 1«. 1881. I The press was subsequently. sold by the Wright and Potter firm to E. B. Stillings Co., also of Boston, and after that sale the Hoe company lost track of the press. However, il moved by later sales to a newspaper office in Graham, from which Elon College purchased the press some thirty years ago. Prof. A. L. Hook, well remembers its purchase, but he is unable to set the exact date it was bought and installed on the Elon campus. In filing the inquiry with the Hoe Company, photographs of the Elon press were enclosed, and the press company officials were able ^to identify the machine from the ■photos, which were taken some years ago by a Maroon and Gold photographer. In replying to the inquiry, the Hoe officials enclosed photostatic copies of certain pages in their 1881 catalogue, which shows that the original cost of the machine 76 years ago was $1,250. The cat alogue shows that the press is 7 feet 3 inches in length by 7 feet 7 inches in overall width. Few of the readers of the Ma roon and Gold realize that the col lege newspaper must be run through this press four times for each issue, since the size of the flat bed and rolls enables the Kenneth Harper, student pressoperator for the Maroon and Gold, keeps the ancient press rolling when the time comes around for the college newspaper to come forth once again. Harper, who hails from Henderson, is the latest of a long series of student press men who have fed the Maron andGold sheets into the press, which was produced in 1881 by R. Hoeand Company, long one of the most famous manufacturers of print ing machinery in the United Stat es. The above photo, taken while Harper was printing one of the Maroon and Gold pages, gives a fine view of the machine which' has been rolling efficiently all the way from New England to North Carolina for more than four score years. premier lost prestige In the enture and staff t^ orTn, n. may have some trouble at may have some trouble keeping his en viable position of power in the U.S.S R Castro has been humiliated by the out come. The Cuban dictator, who was first hailed as a revolutionary hero, is now rightly seen as a ". . . puppet of Commun ist Russia, and an expendable puppet at that' (Newsweek, November 12, 1962). A string of last year's national evenU prompts our attention. The first Ameri can orbital space flight of John Glenn marked a time of anxiety for our space competition with Russia. Later, on May 28th (Blue Monday), there was a fall in the stock market comparable to the de pression of the late twenties. Things settled down during the summer. T'len, on September 30th, two important nts took place: the opening of the Lin coln Center for the Performing Arts in New York (in a concert by Leonard Bern stein and the New York Philharmonic in Philharmonic Hall, the first of five build ings proposed for the center) and the en rollment of James H. Meredith at the University of Mississippi, In early Novem ber, Richard Nixon met political destruc tion when he was defeated by Pat Brown in the California gut>ernatorial elections, tit was also about this time that the Red- Chinese invasion of India took place MenUoning only a few of last year's news events, I cannot feel reluctant to include an innovation which we aU enjoyed: "The First Family". This humorous recording about the Kennedy family was certainly well done and well received. Listening to "The Other Family”, a take-off on the Khrushchevs, also ought to be interesting. How many of you are aware of the en thusiasm being directed toward making our 1963 annual a success? For the past couple of years the Phi Psi CU has not been what it should have been. There were times when we doubted that it would come out at all. Tl^ year, ' the yearbook may come out on time-', says Eleanor Smith, the blush- ngly Industrous senior who Is current ed- or. The project will also be well done If it measure, up to the usual quality of Eleanor i work Then there is Stanley One can never forget that Stan SwiUer U in dispensable, especially when he is seen in •ction as busy as a bee flitting from (CantiBMd on Pa*e Foor) a time. Of course, modern presses will print up to 96 pages at a time, or even more, * • The Hoe Company records show that there were 22 roUer presses shipped by that concern in 1881. thirteen of them being of the same size and type as the one now be ing used by the Maroon and Gold. The R. Hoe Company, now 157 years old, still manufactures a big percentage of the printing presses used in the world. Danieleys Hold ^Opeu House^ One of the highly enjoyable so- Guests were greeted by Dr. and cial events of the winter season, Mrs. Danieley, with Miss Edith Brannock, Mrs. Roland Longest, son was the "Open House,” at which Dr. and Mrs. J. E, Danieley entertained members of the Elon faculty and staff on Monday night, also entertained for Elon students that afternoon as pre-holiday fea ture. Special honor was paid at the ■'Open House'’ to a bridal couple Coach and Mrs. George M. Tuck er. who had been married Noem ber, 25th, and a bride-elect. Miss Stuart Richardson, whose mar riage on December 29th was a feature of the holiday social cal endar at Elon College. Mrs. Tully Reed and Mrs. William Council acting as co-hostesses. Coach and Mrs. Tucker invited guests to the dining room, and Miss Richardson received with her parents in the living room. At the student reception in the afternoon the Danieleys were as sisted by officers of the Student Government in receiving the guests. Mrs. Roy Epperson, dean of women, poured punch, assisted by Misses Edith Brannock, Mollie Wilkins and BoBnnie Rutledge. Mrs. James Gerow said the good byes. A View From The Oak By MELVIN SHREVES The other day I was through some Maroon and Gold „ * evemualty bring rum. back issues ,nri r=n However, we do not entertain such back issues and ran across some issues printed during the 1924-25 session. At that time a fellow by the name of W. B. "Bill'' Terrell was the editor. I don’t think he was considered a radical in his college days, but if you want to talk with him about the "Good old days.” drop into the Alumni Office some day and talk with that little white-haired man you will find there. By the way. his name is W. B. "BiU" Terrell too. The editorial, which appeared in the February 4th issue of the Ma roon and Gold during the Terrell reign was quite interesting and is worth passing on to our readers. It is entitled: "The .Modern Woman” We hear a great deal of talk today about the modern girl. Much criticism is hurled at her because of her way of doing things, her manner of dress, the way she wears her hair and so on down the line. There are some people who are | Perhaps some of the things we fearful of the result of modernism have said about the modern girl of our giris of today. They feel ^ have been said lightly, and may- lookine ““fair toward H eventually bring ruin, her critics. But, with all serious ness, We believe she should be de fended against those who would brand her as frivolous and lack ing in serious thought. We believe that the modern girl of today as the hope of American womanhood. Her activities in col lege, in the home, and in the business world will mean that wo men are to have privileges that have been long been denied them. We do not believe that they should be allowed to engage in some of the acUvities that are engaged in by men, but they should be given their chance. fears and feel that the modern woman is able to take care of herself. We believe that she is stronger and far superior to her sister of an earlier day. Of course, the modem girl is not perfect, but we do feel that the torrent of abuse and criticism that is heaped upon the girl of today is unnecessary and unjust to her. Some people have the mis taken idea that because a girl has bobl)ed hair” she must be class ed as a "flapper”. This is indeed an erroneous idea. Just because a girl wears her hair short is no reason that she is not as serious or as efficient as the girl with her hair puffed on all sides of her head and es pecially pulled down over her ears. With the advent of bobbed hair came the revelation to some of us that girls actually had ears. There was a time when it was considered bad for girl to allow her ears to be viewed. Women are making their place alongside men in business. They are dressing the part. No one can deny that bobbed hair and short skiru increase the efficiency of the working girl. We must allow her some freedom. Would we have her go back to piling up switches on her head and put her back in bustles? CONCLUSION: People are the same, no matter what the date. a voice from the corner By DON TERRELL It's all over now except maybe the tu mult and the shouting. Tiny inexperienced brains are diligently grasping for informa tion. old Scripto cartridges are being met iculously refilled, beards are fast growing due to inattention, and the price of all- night candles has risen to twenty-five cents Virginia, West, and New Dorms are sealed tight to ward off non-scholasticly minded lad.' with more exciting ideas. Even Sam Beale and our darling Billy have had to visit the Teen Age club to find feminine companionship on chilly nights. This is really a memorable lime during the school year. Jim Buie’s legs even walk closer to each other as the winter rages on. We can stop and seriously ponder a jolt ing question. How many of our friends and acquaintances will not return after this semester's end? Some of the faces which have been landmarks for us, even in the brevity of this semester, will be departing, maybe never to return. Some come to stay, and others come to play. Only those who can correlate attention, drive, effective study habits, and a seriouj desire to learn will be rewarded with par ticipation and enjoyment ot attendance during the full duration of the college years. To succeed without working certainly requires something much more than the limitations of the average student. I wiU definitely agree that the sUmulation of fered by some ot our teachers leaves much than little to be desired, but it has been pointed out to me that even this is no excuse for a poor scholastic attitude. At college age, an individual needs to decide for himself what things are to him most important. Many students are inter ested in obtaining a degree. Others have a serious and insatible ambition for learn ing. It is very possible to leave college with a degree tucked comfortably in your poc ket without having gained a real under standing of your original intentions. Your half-hearted research will leave you with only the dust of a faintly scratched surface. It is truly hard for me to under stand why I, and many around me, can not understand these things earlier in col lege. This is my fourth and final year at Elon, and it is only now, and most too ate, that I begin to glance back at my ac complishments. It is now much too late to establish blue ribbons m my academic endeavor It al- ways seemed as if 1 had sometohing else when the time came to work in preparation for my classes. The glamour cerfaiZv"' f“’'‘-'‘"•'■icular activities is sta?!,"^^/'™*^ during one’s schnir.V but the glamour of thmg. It begins in school and lasts a Ufe- uJ|v‘^'*^''® ^ should be intellect- s.^1 ‘0 do as- what wp' all the time at , , consider unfairness Very few ^s tra the 7bra:y lowing lnn‘“ like the fol- "If, m ” our Cariton Library. o;/a;“tr,r"'’ -u don't neTd St in.^- " ‘be college, burning sj^rif initially a ned info? , be fan- tereld Tl fervor by an in- teaching fa" It professor. The some i!sLt should be tcg^ether to se7 tion with!fut***h ^^om this institu- asked a “I.,"'"® “"l^^s belp create a discussions can College studenk thinking. ‘be d^sirt^part: ■■'•aise hell” drink, and are to be do • these desires ments « is up to those corplr r president of a groom ‘-■-1' more -bo are llTer *‘’0 “ many of^« ual, wellgroo'^^T already intellect- Polished ulate “ it to guide, stlnt- Somebody lack of an • InltiatiTe. The ‘■ally at fault b«. s‘«lents are par- ‘ake it upo "ot generaUy “Pon ourselves to be interested, C«otinwd O. ,,g,
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