Newspapers / Elon University Student Newspaper / Oct. 25, 1912, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Elon University Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE ELON COLLEGE WE^EKLY VoL IIL New Series. Greensboro, N. C., Friday, October 25, 1912 No 23 and Elon College, N. 0. LOCALS A^iU FEUSONALS. Mrs. T. A. Moffitt of Kainseur visited her daughter, Miss Madge, froiu Friday morning until Saturday of last week. Miss Nellie Fleming spent the week end with her j>arents, Dr. and Mrs. P. 11. Fleming at High I’oint. Miss Joe.x Amic'k visited lier parents in Liberty from Friday nnlil Monday. Miss Ktliel Clements, instructor of K.x- pression, gave a most delightful recital at Liberty, X. last Friday night. A large crowd was present and re|>eated encores showed the a[ipreciatioii of her respect ful hearers. Miss Madge MoflitI entertained, for a few days, Miss Mary Parks from Hani- seur who has been visiting her uncle Mr. Greene of this [dace. Miss Annie Bagwell returned last Sun day night after a much enjoyed visit to her home in Durliam. Miss Kulah Long, instructor in Art, spest tile 'veek end at lier home in Gra ham. Misses Mary Williams and Kathleen Brotliers returned Sunday after spending a delightfid week with Miss Mary Hobby, at Kaleigh, X. Miss Virgie Beale was the guest of Mrs. Cooke at Greensl>oro last Sunday. Dr. W. A. Harper left Tuesday for a week's business trip in Georgm. Misses Betty Kllis and .lennie Willis Atkinson S]>ent several days with Miss Ruth .Johnson in Kaleigh during the Fair. N;iss Oma Utley visited her j)arents at McOullers from Wednesday until Sun day of last week. Miss Kssie Hauchins and Mrs. Battle were shoppers in Burlington Monday. Mrs. A. M. Johnson from Norfolk visit ed Miss Essie Haucliins for a few days last week. Mrs. Grillin from S])ring Hope spent last Monday and Tuesday with her son, W. H. GriHin. Miss Susie Brooks of West Dormitory left on Wedsesday for her home at Jonesboro, N. C., for a few days’ rest. She expects to and her friends here hope she can return in a short while. Miss Vivian Huffman of the village sjient the week end with her grand pa rents and was present at the special ser- vires at Brick Church. Misses Blanclie Teague and Myrtle Mose are spending the while with rela tives at Liberty, N. C. They will return to the College Sunday, coming. Miss Lois Baird Davidson of Greens boro, member of the graduating class of 1911, is visiting at West Dormitory for awhile, incidentally making final arrange ments through Miss Wilson of tlie Music Faculty for a period of advanced study in the New England Conservatory of Bos ton. The only available air from dark till sunrise is night air. Breathe it. Air your home thoroughly daily. —Renew your subscription today. PRETTY DOUBLE ilAHUlAGE. On Wednesday, last, at liign noon in tlie Forest Avenue Baptist ehurcli of Greensboro was the scene of an unusual ly pretty double wedding when Dr. Charles William McPherson to iliss Carra Patterson and Mr. George 0. Fowler to Miss May Patterson were united. For tliirty minutes before the ceremony a l)rief musicale was gi\en by Prof. Rob erson ot Greensboro, and R. A. Cami)bell of tlie College. Prof. Roberson at the j)iano and Mr. Cam()bell with_voice and cornet Among the selceitons were “A Love Song,'* “l)rink to me Only \\ itli Thine Eyes,” “Belie\'e Me If all Those En dearing VouTig ('harms" and “My Ideal,” (Folsti.) The party entered while Prof. Rober son played the Wedding March from Lo hengrin and during the ceremony “An gel's Serenade” was to be heard softly emanating from the fern covered loft. Rev. R. G. Kendrick performed the serxice which united Miss May Patterson and Dr. McPherson while the Rev. Clyde Turner uttered tiie sacred \ows which made Mr. Fowler and Miss Carra Patter son man and wife. Misses Jlarion For ney of Greensboro and Miss Nannie Hol loway of Wythe\ille served as l)rides- maids, gowned in beautiful creations of satin covered with yellow ciiitTon. Each H tond^ome bo((uet of yellow chry santhemums. ^I’he maids of honor were Misses Nellie Patterson of Greensboro and Miss Clara Patterson of Wytheville. Dr. McPherson was attended by his bro ther, Dr. Doce, of Durham as best man while Mr. Fowler chose as such Mr. \an- der Liles of Greensboro. Following the ceremonies the happy couples boarded train No. 3G for A\ ash- ington and other points of interest in tlie East. The ^Misses Patterson enjoy a wide cir cle of w’arm and cordial friends who will miss them now, but yet will live in their Iiappiness. Dr. ilcT’herson is a practicing physi cian of Burlington, enjoying a lucrative (iractice as well as the confidence and re- s])ect of all who know him. Formerly a student here, he stands out among the numerous graduates of the College as an example of the possibilities of youth, ilr. F'owler is connected with the firm of Pat terson Bros, of Greensboro, and is a gen tleman of sterling worth as well as busi ness integrity. After November fifteenth . Dr. and Mrs. McPherson will he at home in Burlington while Mr. and Mrs. Fowler will be glad to welcome friends after the same date in Greensboro. IIAZiyCr. Perhaps no time in the history of the public press has the subject of hazing been discussed so thoroughly as for the last few months. From the small county paper to the large daily, articles have been contributed and editorials extensively writ ten. What does it meant We believe it means this: the showing of a Christian spirit and a love for morality aud decency in our institutions of learning. President Harper wrote an article re cently in regard to hazing and of the spirit that prevailed against it at Elon, which was printed by a number ot the leading secular and religious ]iapers of the country. An old man, 80 years of age, a deacon in a certain city church, in writing the president in regard to the arti cle said: ‘‘I am proud of the stand you take against hazing and indecency in our Colleges, and my prayer is that others will join you in the work so that this harmful and hurtful practice will soon be abolished.” R. .l.V IM POUT ANT SCIEXCE. Twenty-five years ago, or thereabouts, a new science was brought into the curricu lum of our Colleges. It has grown to such imi>ortance now that every respec table College maintains its Department of Pedogogy or Education. And the text books de\eloping the scienie constitute a large and increasing library, under such headingis as the Science of Teaching, The art of Teaching, Principles of Education, Principles of Teaching, Princi|)les _of School Management, Psychology of Teach ing, etc., etc. This s-ience has wrought wonders in giving dignity to the teacher's function and act. The pedagogue has risen from being I tie oitjecl oi ridicule lo .. position o'l' leadership in his j)rofessional standing. Children can talk more learn edly and jirofoundly now of the laws of the mind governing teaching and its as sociated arts than Plato or Socrates could, and for this good result our science of Pedagogy is entitled to he praised. There are three weaknesses howe\er in the application of this science and in the standards it upholds and the ideals it de fends. It lays entirely too much stress on method, calling old processes by new higher sounding names, and does not gi\'e ■ utlicient promisence to the personality ot the teacher. Teachers, like poets, are born, not made, and no amount of pedagi>- gical principles or methods will make him a teacher who is not born so. This is sim ply saying that men are called to teach by their Creator, just as surely as men are called to merchandise or practice med icine or preach the Gospel. It is not saying that Pedagogy will not make a called teacher a better one. 1 am positive that it will, but Pedagogy nor any other science can make him a teacher who is not naturally endowed for that func tion. This the writers on Pedagogy need to recognize and emphasize. A second fault of Pedagogy, found in its adulterated form in the Normal schools, is that correct methods in the hands of a called or naturally disposed teacher will make him a successful in structor. These schools construct their curricula in such a way that their pupils review carefully all they have gone over in the high school, while they study Ped agogy in its many branches, and do ex- ]>erimental teaching in the practice school, but make no advances in general know ledge or culture. This is a serioiKS fault, and one of these days our people will realize the folly of fastening upon them selves a perpetual burden to support in stitutions that give their pupils only methods of work and do not add to their scholarship, and when they do realize it, as they surely will, there will be a rattling of dried bones and a newne.ss of life in the educational world. These Normal •schools need to get out of the business of education or lo get into it. They need to realize that breadth of scholarship is the only thing that can make a teacher of power, that lack of method can be com- pen.sated for by ex|ierience, but lack of scholarship is a fatal defect in ay teach er. And the writers on Peda^'ogy need to see this and, seeing it, to insist on it. The third fault of Pedagogy is its fail ure to demand spiritual training for teachers and for pupils. One of the most jiopular among recent Jreatises on this science sees no jilace for Christian schools at all. It sees no need for the Sunday school for the present, but when “science has fully rationalized religion” there will be no real necessity for it as an educa tional force, but it will become an agency for “worship and the development of the social nature" as the same writer so au thoritatively states that the church has already become. These writers forget tliiit tl’. "Tcr.tci't c"' ■ ('lifir-MPtor and that the highest type of charact»i- is the Christian, and that without Chris tian schools to de\elop, foster, nourish to fruitage the Christian character of our youth this land would soon cease to be Christian and become tlie land of infidels, agnostics, deists, theists, to the eternal undermiiii;ig of the rational character and the povmane::t impoverishment of the irdi . idnal sou!. Lc>t tlie Christian world see that Ch;-’-li.in Education is giv en due recognition by the writers on Ped- agog>'. or let them expect the loss of the (lower of the church over the generations to come. W. A. Harper. KINDLY MAIL CHECK. How dear to our heart is the steady sub. criber Who pays in advance at the birth of each year, Who lays down the money and does it Huite gladly. And casts ’round the office a halo of cheer. He never says “Stop it; I can not afford it, T'm getting more papers than now I can read.” But always says, ‘ ‘ Send it, our people all like it—■ In fact we all think it a help and a need.” How welcome his check wheen it reaches our sanctum. How it makes our pulse throb; how it makes our heart dance. We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in ad vance.—Inland Printer.
Elon University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 25, 1912, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75