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THE t’LON COLLF. GE WEEKLY
August 23, 1912.
THE ELON COLLEGE WEEK
LY.
Published every Friday during the
('(iliege year by
The Weekly Publishing CoDipaoy.
U. A. Campbell, Editor.
J. C. Stuart, Business Manager.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT,
^ash Subscrii)tions (40 weeks), 50 Cents,
lime Subscriptions (40 -weeks), 75 cents.
All matter pertaining to subscriptions
should be addressed to J. C. Stuart,
Elon College, N.C.
IMPORTANT.' “
The offices of publication are Greens
boro, N. C., South Elm St., and Elon
College, N. C., wliere all commjinica-
tions relative to the editorial work of
the Weekly should be sent. Matter
I reiatiiig to the mailing of the Weekly
I should be sent to the Grceasboro office. )
Entered aa second-clasa matter at (h#
post-office at Greensboro, N. C.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1912.
Kl). NOTES P2 begin col 1
—The College opens September 4. Be
on the Hill in good time.
—11' you are an Elon friend, speak lo
that wavering young man or young wom
an, a word to help him to decide for a
college caieer here.
—Watch Elou grow. Its rajiid strides
have attracted everybody’s attention. If,
as a young man or a young woman, you
wish to helj) niaUe it still greater and
grander, l)e here September 4.
—Is it hard for you to decide whetlier
it pays to ico to college? That depends
^iipon whetl^er you will |,»ut good effort in-
l. i-.illege liif. il \oii |ini-pose being an
idler, a loafer, a “dead-beat”, don’t come
to Klon. Tl:e only way it can grow is
through its constituency. So a constitu
ent. a student that adds nothing, is most
likely to subtract from the sum total of
college life.
—The office force has been e.'cceediugly
busy all summer with corespondence and
adverti.siiig, sending out literature and the
like. The results are already apparent.
The attendance will continue .to climb. The
spirit of unity of effort grows, and a feel
ing of greater Elon is everywhere in the
atmosphere.
—This summer issue of the Weekly will
reach old students just before time to re
turn, and it carries the hope that every
one of you has enjoyed his vacation and
is getting more an.xious each day to get
l)ack and take up your College course
airain. Let your copy be an invitation in
your hands to the young man and young
woman whom you might yet influence to
come with you.
—Marked improvements have been made
during the summer in the various College
buildings and much new building is go
ing on about the College and in the vil
lage. New families are moving into the
town and others are wanting to come un
til e\'ery available house is taken.
—Will it pay to decide for Rlon? Hun
dreds have found it pays, and hundreds
of others will find it pays. Yon can well
afford to be one of them. Don t let an
offer of fair salary or the earning of a
few hundred dollars cheat you out of a
college course. Many a young person has
allowed an op])ortunity to earn money
to rob him of educataion in the opportune
years for school life.
—Axoid short cuts to mind culture. The
four years’ literary course in college can
not be substituted for by a get-quick
tempting educational offer. If you mean
to develop j'our mind, take time, spend
four years in college and do it right. A
botch job of so important a matter as
mind development and character devel
opment is j)oor economy and poor judg
ment in the serious matter of living a ser
ious life.
—The Elon way is the way to Chris
tian culture. Its way is the way of char
acter development. It wages a constant
fight with the evil tendencies that con
stantly strive to drag many young peo
ple to lower levels of life. The Elon way
is “Now! all together! Upwards!’’ A
cultured mind, sound wholesome ideals, a
living belief in Christian character, is the
Elon way. Education in order that we
may serve our fellows better, and not that
we may escai)e service, is the Elon belief,
for the greatest life is that of greatest ser
vice.
—The Elon belief is a vigorous health
ful body directed and controlled by a
highly cultured mind, energized by a well-
tenipered religiously inclined spirit. Elon
believes in clean vigorous manhood and
womanhood such as makes the race bet
ter. Elon believes in sports for physical
development, but not in athletics as a ma
jor in college, neither does it believe in
growing book-worms. Elon believes in
physical as well as intellectual—clean
thorough intellectual culture as a means
to the deveJopment of the liighest type of
( hristiau character.,. , (
VACATION NUMBER.
As is the custom of the Weekly Pub
lishing Company a vacation number is
issued just before the opening. W'e hojie
that all tnembers of the faculty and all
old students have had a delightful vaca
tion and that the Weekly may shake
hands with a very large number of these
old friends Sept. 4, and also a large num
ber of new acquaintances.
They tell us about the President’s office
that Elon will be full and maybe overrun
the coming session. There is certainly
genuine belief there that we are to see
the largest enrollment in the history of
the College. Well, the Weekly likes to
see the College grow, and it pats the
boys on the back and bids them God
speed in this great work of building
Christian character. Bring your neighbor
boys and girls along with you and help
make this a great year in a greater Elou.
BE ON TIME.
Plan to arrive at Elon the day before
the opening. Notify President Harper
and ask him to have your room and
boarding place all arranged, if you have
not already done so. If you are going
to liave a good year at College, be on
time. Get an even start with the begin
ning of tlie session.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU ARRIVE.
A committee from the Christian organ
izations will meet the trains Sept. 3rd
and 4th. T^ok for their badge when you
get off the train. They will give you
any information you need about finding
your room and boarding place, or they
will take you straight to the President’s
office in the Administration Building, if
you have not already got your room and
board arranged. If you room in one of
the dormitories, you will want to get your
trunk brought up from the station as
soon as possible and get unpacked and
fixed up ready to begin to get acquainted
and settled in your new environment. You
want to be at Chapel when the second
signal bell stops ringing for the first
chapel ser\ ice Sept. 4th. \ ou will need
here a pencil and Jiote-book to get an
nouncements. Everybody looks alike and
\ou cannot distinguish some of the in
structors from some of the students and
you will not know in every case which
name belongs to which professor, so a
note book will now be of service if it
ever is.
After chaj)el service you will go to the
President's otiice for registration, where
you will need $ti.00 in order to get through
this bit of red tape. Next you want
to visit the library and tind out about
your books, unless you have not already
l)een classified, in which instance you will
have to have a little conference with some
of the professors known as a Committee
on Standing. But get your work ar
ranged and purchase your books Sept.
4th, and get down to study for your first
recitations next day.
WHAT NEXT.
After you have got your course ar
ranged and settled, tliere will come the
([ucstion of becoming a member of the
various College organizations. You will
be wanted to join the Y, M. C. A. or
Y. W. C. A., the Christian Endeavor, and
a literary society. Then you will be of
fered membershii) in tlie Athletic Asso
ciation, (,'ollege life means a good deal
more than the study of te.xt-books, and
your attitude towards these College or
ganizations in the beginning will have a
far reaching effect on all your future life.
You have a certain rating socially and
otherwise in your community, but you
will receive a new rating when you enter
College, and this rating is based upon
evidence of character and a genuine de
sire for all-round culture; therefore join
the religious organizations at your first
opportunity, also enlist in the Athletic As
sociation to assume regular, systematic
physical exercise under the best instruc
tions the Association can give. Y^ou will
have pressing invitations to join one of
the literary societies. This choice may
best be delayed a fortnight, but it j)ays
to be a member of a literary society, for
liere is the best drill in public speaking
and in parliamentary practice, and to the
members of the literary societies come
the honors of appearing before the public
in debates, literary entertainments, and
representing the societies at commence
ment, Thanksgiving, Washington’s Birth
day, and at Easter.
DON’T
Don't be a “smart aleck.”
Don’t be too eager to form new friend
ships. An undesirable confidant is hard
to uproot without damage to your own
life.
Don’t leave money or other valuables
DR. J.H. BROOKS,
DENTAL.SURGEON
Offict Over Foster’s Shoe Store
BURLINGTON, N. &
n. M. JMOKKOW,
Dentist,
MORROW BUILDING,
Corner Front and Main Streets,
BURLINGTON, - N. C.
SEE
Morrow, Bason and
Green. Inc.,
BURLINGTON, N. C,
When Needing Hats, Muslin Underwear
And Royal Society Embroidery.
SHOES, HATS .\2^D TAILORING
That Satisfy
— Alt
llOLT-CATES COMPANY
.Main Street. Burlington.
B. .GOODMAN
The Home of
GOOD CLOTHING
Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats and Ladies’ Goodj
Burlington, North Carolina.
303 Main Street.
lying around in your rgom or in your
trunk, unless it is iept lock-ed. There
lia\e always been, now and then, mys
terious disapi>earance.s of money in col
leges.
Don’t lend money to your fellow stud
ents, if you expect to keep their friend
ship. Neither be a borrower from them.
Don't fail to get system and order into
your college life from the beginning.
Don’t let loafers rob you of your time.
Don’t be too popular. It is dangerous.
Don't subtract from, but rather add to
the sum total of college life.
FINANCIAL ITEMS FROM THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
The Gymnasium Fee.
The Board of Trustees have decided
to collect a Gymnasium Fee of two dol
lars each term. This fee is payable, as
will be noticed below, on the opening
days in the Fall and Winter Terms. This
means that all student will pay sixteen
ilollars in fees from now on instead of
t..’clve dollars as heretofore. Even this
is far less tlian the fees charged by
Elon’s sister institutions. This fee, two
dollars each term, will be i>aid when the
student matriculates.
Text-Books and Sheet Music and Art
Material.
The Trustees voted to sell texl-books
for cash only from now on. The College
sells the text-books for just what they
cost witha very narrow margin for car
riage and cannot afford to sell on any
other terms than cash.
Sheet music will also be sold for cash
only, but the jirice will be reduced con-