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THE ELON COL LEGE WEEKLY. THE ELON COLLEGE W EEKLY. Published every Wediwsday during the College year by The Weekly Publishing Company. W. P. Lawrence, Editor. E. T. Hiaes, R. A. Campbell, Affie Griffin, Associate Editors. W. C. Wicker, Circulation Manager. T. C. Amick, Business Manager. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT. Cash Subscriptions (40 weeks), 30 Cents. Time Subscriptions (40 weeks), 75 cents. All matter pertaining to subscriptions should -be addressed to W. C. icker, Elon College, N.C. importaiJt. The office of publication is Greens boro, N. C. The officce of the Editor is Elon College, N. C., when-e all com munications relative to the Weekly should be sent. Entered at the postoffice at Greensboro, N. C., under application for admission as second-class matter. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1910. Prof. Brannock’s article on Chemistiy will be of interest to those looking for a popular discussion of the histoi-y of this important science. His paper was read before the C-osmoi>olitan Club Tuesday evening,' Oct. 25. We do not see so much evidence of our track team’s practice as we would like. Cannot ten men be found who will prac- tio« daily in track athleticsT' To devel op Uie puwer of puysieai tjudurauoe is nothing, short of common seuse philoso phy for him who would become superior in mental j>en«tration and mind endur ance. The debate committee of the College has been nnable to arrange an inteicol- legiate debate, schedule. The older col leges, as a lUle, claim that to be defeated by as younig a college as Elon would be painful humility, and to defeat us would not bring much honor. We venture the suggestion that some of the older colleg- •es have well-founded fears of the conse quences in case of a joint debate, for Elon has centered her interest in club and fraternity life in the literary socie ties where a very high standard in dis cipline* and work is exacted and main tained. The effectiveness of young America’s navy in the Spanish-Ameri- can War twelve years ago, left an im pression on some of the stronger nations of the world that America was a more respectable antagonist on the high seas than they had hitherto suspected. And it is our opinion that, a joint debate be tween Elon and some one of the older colleges of the State would be a convinc ing ai^ument to any intelliisent audience that it is no disgiace for an older col lege to be defeated by Elon, and that there is a fair share of honor in defeat ing us. For if we can show real merit in debate, as has often been the case at home, then there is some honor in de feating real merit. We should like to see the real love and ambition for scholarship in the College, organized. Each such ambitious student plodding alone, has many discourage ments which an orgafiization of like toilers and ambitions ones would greatly lessen through sympathy. It need not be what we would call a close-organiza- tion, but a sort of federation for co^in- sel and advice, suggestiveness and inspi ration. Such a fed»ration could unite and make effectual the dislike on the part of the strivSng students for the re ally worthless fellow,—the man who is neither a reader nor a student. If an in stitution gets the reputation for studi- ousnes.s and severity in its ideals, for strenuousness and tension in its habits of .study and scholarship, it must get this reputation from the life of the students. As Elon grows' older and larger, its life becomes more and more democratic, and there is less of statute, or faculty- legislative government, just as is the case in other colleges. Now, as this increas ing latitude to the individual student life is realized, there oujght to be an equally stiong and rapid increase in the luiwritten laws of the student body mak ing the veo’ college atmosphere undesir- abla for the aimless, idleminded, and purposeless student. Push Elon to the front by organizing all the genius of scholarship and the arduousness of study into an effectual unwritten law; not seen yet felt to be irresistibly present, and urging every member of the College to his best effort in the development of his mind and personality. The best way to court favor is not to shrink from duty, when you accept any position of honor or tliust, especially when that honor or trus^t lays a disagree able task upon yon. It has been intinaat- ed that some men on th - Board of Con trol at East Dormitory have t1»e wi-oik: idea of what aie the real means of ob taining favor. If a man yields to the in clination to “cut” a recitation on which he is not prepared rather than be ex posed before the class, he would likely feel much more like cutting the regular session of the tribunal of his Board of Control, and epecially if his Board w'ere likely to have some disagreeable cases of violation to deal with. In such matters be able to give a reasonable reason for your position and have the courage to stand on that reason. SOME NEW BOOKS. In The Impostor, by John Reed Scott (J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, $1.50) the author has chosen as his time and place the ancient capital of Maryland at the middle of the eighteenth century, and his introduction of the notable char acters of Maryland colonial history is given with a sure touch. Mr. Scott spent two winters in Annapolis, and there is no inacetiracy about his “local color.” The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt (B. W. Dodge & Co., New York, buckram cloth, .$5.00; full leather. $10.00). If Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, made three English kin«s, Thomas Collier Platt made four Presidents of the United States and four Governors of New York. How Platt did it is revealed in memoirs, which upon his death on March 6th last he bequeathed to his “Old Guard.” He frankly and boldly discloses National and State secrets hitherto only dreamed of. except by those in the immediate confl- dence. The book contains twenty por traits in, sepia. The story .of the siege and fsH of Je rusalem and the burning of the Temple in A. D. 70 is vividly told in The Doomed City, by John R. Carling (Edward J. Clode, New York). This is a powerful story, and gives expression to that vast ly significant period of Jewish decadence and dispersion which followed within for ty years the crucifixion of Jesus—a time that was full of incident and color, dra matic and passionate to an unusual degree but of which little has been popularly known. The Rose in the Ring, by George Barr McCutcheon (Dodd, Mead & Co.. New York, $l.p0). If you liked “Graustark,” “Brewster’s Millions,” “Truxton King,” or others of this author’s ten successful novels in the last ten years, you will like this new work fiom his pen. It is the story of a pair of lovers; the uneven course of true love; lascals and in- tiigues; liard blows given and taken; dan- geis escaped; and a final triumphant end- imaall }>ermeatod with the author’s characteristic humor, sentiment and breathless nish of story telling. Of interest to the after-dinner speaker, the public man and the general reader is Four Hundred Good Stories, by Robert Rudd Whiting, which the Baker & Taylor Co. (New York) are publishing. This comprises a selection from the material published in the department of Every body’s Magazine, “Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree.” If it is true, as has been remarked, ihat evei-y good story ever printed was sent to Mr. Whiting, the editor of this department, from which to make his selection, there is some ground for the claim of the publisheis that the book contains the quintessence of the anecdotal literature of the world. Burning Daylight, by Jack London (The Macmillan Co.. New York, $1.50). This new novel by the popular author is de scribed by the New York Herald as “a blaze from the Y'ukon. ” Its author has traveled much, thought much, come through a period of restlessness into full control of an amazingly powerful and original imagination. Out of the frozen- jigid forest, he brings this story with a vividness and sureness of touch which makes the man live—a wonder of wild power and exhaustless energy. D. Appleton k Co. (New Y’ork) an nounce the publication of David Gra ham Piiillip’s latest novel, Thf Husbands Story ($1.50). It is described as a story “so condemnatoiy that it should be sup pressed or so true that everybody should be forced to read it.” It gives not only a faithfully true picture of the social climber in American womanhood—the Passaic undertaker’s daughter who climbs into English society and European cha teau life—but also the most cold-blooded, accurate presentation of a certain type of moneymaking, hardworking, commer cial man. Pan’s Mountain, by Amelia Rives (Har per & Brothers, New Y'ork, $1.50), is the story of an English poet and a girl whol ly pagan—a worshiper of Pan and of the other woodland deities—who live out to * ' November 2, 1910. an unforgetable ending their great drama of love amid the beautiful Italian Lakes. THE WINNING OF WINONA. CHAPTER V. It was the work of several hours to bring the young chief bacjc to his usual fiame of mind. At first his senses seemed stunned and vague. Those three days in the tree might have been years so far as he knew. There was one thing, however, of which he was very certain: he had seen Winona. He did not care now. The days of hardship were over and he had been fonoiven by his fellow tribesmen. Occonough tried hard to tell his stoiy to the young braves, but he was helpless and quite unequal to the task. A few more feeble attempts and he had fallen asleep. The merry ripple of a nearby brooklet lent a charming bit of music to the savage ear, as the evening scenes began to reap pear, and the owls hooted, and the crick ets chirped just as they did about the wiiswams at home. Occonough continued to sleep, and his braves remained on watch. Just what the night held in store for them, they had but little idea, they were just waiting for something to hap- pen. A timid doe just then ventured to come from the thicket on the hillside, and cau tiously came down to the brooklet, and stood drinking a thirst-quenching draught from the gurgling brook, below the sav ages. In some inexplicable way the sav ages escaped the notice of their wary prey; and while she stood there yet drink ing a swift missile struck its mark, and the doe swooned and fell. , 5>ume of the red-skins began at Offee to prepare the Ifesh for eating. The sup ply which they had brought with them, was consumed, at the morning meal, and . they were now very hungry. In a few moments, by a rapid boring process with a stick they had succeeded in starting a fire. After they had had a share each of broiled venison, all save the sentinel, stretched their lithe limbs upon their na tive element, and passed into the land of dreams. It was late next morning when the red men waked, in fact the space between the sun and the horizon must have measured at least an hour.. In a few moments the improvised camp was in a stir, and the first thing to sug gest itself, was the question—“How can we get some food?” They had eaten It’s good Work that Coxints. See if the SANITARY BARBER. RHOP Can Please You. BRANNOCK & MATKINS, Prop’s. G. E. Jordan. M. D, Office Gibsonville Drug Co., GIBSONVILLE, N. C. CALL ON Burlington Ha.rdware Company For First Class Plumbing, Builders’ Hardware, Farm, Implements, Paints, Etc., Etc. BURLINGTON, N. C.
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