THE ELON COLLEGE WEEKLY.
Vol. IIL New Series. Greensboro^ N. C., Friday, October 18, 1912 No 22
and Elou College, N. 0.
Three Hundred Mark Reached!
ON OCTOBER 14, 1912, ELON’S EEG-
ISTRATION BOOKS SHOWED
THE ABOVE TOTAL;
Miss Thelma Lee Thurston of Burlington
Completes the Third Hundred.
Another and one of the most striking
evidences of Eh)n’s i>rosperity and ad
vancement in every department is notice
able in the above statement. This fact
ivill come as joyful news to all alumnae,
friends and patrons of Elon College. It
will be welcomed by the hundreds of those
who have labored here but who were provi
dentially hindered from tlieir desired con
summation and those who were, from rea
sons beyond their own control, kept from
the goal of their early ambitions. It will
be welcome to tlie thousands of patrons
and friends who have give of their time,
money and prayers for thei success of
this institution. And, too, it will be wel
come by all who are interested in higher
education., and who respect those who
labor therefor and all who look upon the
ihcQica[ic)n oi" liigi! molai’ jn'iiieipits eiim’
sound religions doctrine into the youth of
our land as vital and fundamental. For,
’tis for such as this tliat this institution
was founded and stands, thus any ad
vancement made by her is but one more
mite added to the forces of righteousness
and right and one more blow in the face
of ignorance and wrong.
Elon College is today standing as she
never has stood before. She has already
passed marks set by the most sanguine
and indeed Hie fondest dream of her most
optimistic founder has, ’twould seem, been
set at naught by recent developments and
improvements all along the line. The
Weekly has from time to time re])orted
these improvements both iu the ^ illage,
in academic etjuipment and in teaching
facilities, hence, ’twould be useless to re
peat, but suffice it to say that the Col
lege, here, is enjoying an era of unpre
cedented prosperity due wholly to a most
manifest spirit of loyalty throughout the
constituency, both on the part of students,
patrons, alumnae and friends, and all here
rejoice that ’tis so. Cooperation between
the administration and the College has
been the heartiest at all, hence with such
loyalty and such cooperation and such
mutual confidence and good will through
out the college mechanism, the announce
ment that the contested goal of three hun
dred has been reached and doubtless pass
ed ere these lines are read will come not
so much as a surprise, but as a happy
fulfillment of fond hopes and the cherish
ed ambition of all who are interested in
any way whatsoever and who have labor
ed either by thought, word or deed to
make these things so.
We have nothing but the heartiest con
gratulations and sincere thanks for the
numerous friends and supporters through
out this and adjoining states who have
assisted the President and his faithful
followers iu an effort to push the cause
of education and enlightenment into corn
ers hitherto not visited and to plant the
banner of the maroon and gold where
formerly it was unknown.
We take this means to thank any and
e\ery one who has in any way whatsoever
helped the cause of Elon and beg that
you will let past rewards be but an in
centive to greater and grander things in
the years to come.
LOCALS Ay I) PERSONALS.
Miss Elhie Weeden was a pleasant visi
tor at the home of Mrs. Dr. Morrow Sat
urday and Sunday, last.
Miss Blanclie Simmons was glad to wel
come Misses Thompsie Holland and
Blanche Newman into her home at Gra
ham Saturday and Sunday, last.
.Mr. Allen Dickey of near Burlington
died at two o’clo-k Monday morning as
a result of protracted illnnss. Prof. and
Jiiis. \\ ^ F. r^awrence are attenuiilg uie
funeral services today.
■‘Uncle” Wellons was in Wake county
from Saturday to Monday last in the in
terest of one of the churches started by
him in the early days of his ministry.
Misses May Williams and Kathleen
Brothers of the College accompanied \liss
May Hobby to her home in Raleigh, N. C.
where they will be week end guests.
Visitors at Burlington Saturday were
Misses Pearl Tuck and Nellie Fleming at
the home of Miss Sallie iV)ster. Was
glad also to have Misses Pitt, Barnes and
Clements with her for a Sunday visit.
Miss Ruth Johnson took a happy party
of girls from the College to her home near
Raleigh for a brief sojourn. Among them
were Misses Bittie Ellis, Jennie Willis At
kinson and Oma Utley.
?!rs. W. J. Lee from Bennett’s Creek,
Virginia is being entertained at the home
i)f Dr. and Mrs. J. 0. Atkinson during
this week. She will return to Virginia at
'the beginning of next week.
Mr. W. W. Dalrymple of Broadway, N.
C., visited his sister Miss Lillie at West
Dormitory Sunday, October thirteenth.
Rowland, N. C., was represented in our
village recently in the person if Mr. J.
B. Smith. Mr. Smith who is a prosper
ous farmer of Roberson county antici
pates locating here in the near future in
order that he may enjoy the educational
advantages of our town. W e shall be
glad to welcome him among us and hope
arrangements to that end may be perfect
ed. •
Word has just been received that Mr.
J. F. Earp of Milton, N. C., father of Mr.
B. J. Earp of the College has been taken
with appendicitis to the Mercy Hospital
at Danvnlle, Va. Mr Earp’s many^
friends in the College wish for his parent
a successful operation and speedy recov
ery.
A sample copy of the Weekly invites
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Fifty cents per year.
\;'essrs. Revell, P. I), and 0. .1. Tillet,
Eugene Wood, R. S. Doak, Zeno Dixon,
J D. Murray were among those who at
tended the State Fair at Raleigh from
here.
SHAKESPEARE CLUB.
Met with Miss Alma Wilson on Satur
day October twelfth. Study of the Mer
chant of Venice occupied the time, but
owing to the grandeur of the production
and intense interest in this particular
play on the part of those present it was
decided to continue the study of it itito'
the next meeting. Many beautiful traits
of character were pointed ii both in
Portia and Bassanio. 'Also a n ubei 'of
striking quotations' «rre ma '»eii discus
sed and memorized, t . .-lakng i.ie meet
ing highly entertai: mg. interef^ting ajj )
proiuatiie. ^
PRESIUEyrS LETTER.
Colleges should do four thngs for their
students: teach them to be gentlemen and
gentlewomen; create in them the taste for
truth through scholarship; qualify them
for superior usefulsess as citizens; and
supply their religious nature motives for
action. The college which achieves these
four great desiderata has justified the
faith of its founders and is etitled to the
respect and confidence and patronage of
serious-minded persons.
It hardly seems that it would be neces
sary to speak of the first of these ob
jects and yet there is need. It is fre
quently charged by sympathetic observers
that present-day College students are
lacking in gentility. They are boisterous,
loud, arrogating to themselves rights that
they would readily deny others. This, if
true, means that our Colleges are failing
to do their duty. Higher ideals should
be inculcated and the essential qualities of
gentility presented in theory and lived in
practice by the teachers and officers, and
these evils will disappear.
Certainly our Colleges should create a
love for truth and scholarship. ■ Elective
courses have made college life in many
places largely sport and only incidentally
study. Woodrow Wilson resigned from
the presidency of Princeton because the
class room had become the side-show and
social and athletic interests of the students
the main text. College men should ac
quire the taste for scholarship which is
another name for love of the truth and
disposition to seek it, in serious study and
not in constructing skylights, minarets,
and fancy gables in the intellectual realm.
If college men do not develoji into
superior citizens, they are gross sinners;
for what else can a man be but a sinner,
when he has squandered great advantages
and refused to meet the obligations those
advantages have created? They should
obey the laws of the land as much so
during their college days as other yoimg
men do, not so highly |)rivileged as they
are, and they should bring their superior
training and wide mental grasp to bear
upon the formation of healthful and
wholesome public opinion and in the so
lution of the vexing and ever recurring
problems of our industrial, social, and
political life.
But the greatest end, the highest aim,
the crowning glory of college education
is found in the altruistic realm, the realm
of the spirit. The college which does not
set the heart of its students a-tune to the
roKgious life and a-thrill for conscienti
ous .ervice in it, has failed signally. Neith
er of the other aims can be ideally at
tained unless this fourth and all-inclusive,
; ecause all-iu'ii'oialiuir ai all-iiisi'ir'"’,
lim is also atlaiuea. Ai. J is disivp-uish-
ed as the rfligious an'iuial. In this does
he differ rr ist of all from .he animal crea
tion below j 'rm. He is lot a complete
man till his religiims naturt is inspired
and so supplied with motives for action.
Intellectual power without soul-power is
a condition much to be dreaded in every
avenue of life, and where such a condition
to become universal or even gradually pre
valent, the State would be in jeopardy and
the Church of God go into aclipse.
THE HU aOROUS SIDE OF LIFE.
A dentist was filling a lady patron’s
back teeth. When he had finished the
first tooth he handed the lady a hand
mirror that she might see the result for
herself. Then he went on with his task,
peating his performance v ith thy mirror
after each tooth filled. Finally, when
the job was completed and she had
handed back the mirror with thanks, ho
said:
“Well, madam, how do they look to
you ?’ ’
“How do what look to me?” she re
turned.
“The teeth I just filled.”
“Oh, I forgot about the teeth,” she
exclaimed, reaching for the hand glass.
“WJiat did you look at each time I
gave you the mirror?”
“My hair.”—Pittsburg Press.
Child'—“What’s a stag party, mam
ma?”
Merry widow—“A party where there
are only gentlemen, dear.”
Child—“And what do you call a party
where there’s only ladies?”
Merry widow—“I should call it a stag
nation party ”—Judge.