TH^^jELON COLLEGE WEEKLY
V f’. V. New
i I ties.
Greensboro, N. C., Friday, May 9, 1913,
and B’ou Collage, N. C
No. n
Notes and Personals. ,
Three of Miss Lila Newma^\ij .pupils
frum Burlington spent the a£ter»»rti with
her Sunday.
Miss Barnes spent the week end at her
home in Greensboro.
Rev. P. H. Flemming stopped over with
his daughter Nellie on his way home
Tuesday night.
We were glad to have Mr. N. H. Grif
fin’s mother with us for a few days visit.
Miss Clements spent the weak end in
Burliii2:toi! and attended the play vvii'ieh
she trained.
Miss Margaret Seism of (Greensboro
was a peafnnt \isitor ;»t West 'Dormitory
Tuesday and Wednesday visiting Mjss
Jessie Dawson.
Miss Grace Rollings spent several days
at Kei;'y visiting her sister who is in
school there.
“Pjof. Doak was a very pleasant call
er at West Dormitory Sund;;y afternoon
from three until five.”
Mr. 0. E. Cnller, a student at Trinity
College, sjient Sunday with Mr. W. L.
iKimry; he also called at the Ladies’ Hall
in the afternoon.
3* Mr. E. R. Warren, formerly student
htre and member of our baseball club,
' visited friends in college for a few days
recently.
M . . 'i. Lewis spent Saturday and
[ii‘'unday with his parents near Eagle
'rnngs.
‘Berger' ii ^j:limond, Va.,
■Sited ' i,-'''''r';iher.‘f''‘". li. ergeron,
'jf the (,'olU ;e Frida>, Sati,rda^ and Sun
day.
Miss Emma Andrews spent Saturday
and Sunday with her people in tlie Pleas-
aAt Hope section ifi the®southern part of
Alamance.
Miss Eula Hobbs of Greensboro, who
has just returned from an extended tour
of the western United States, is now em
ployed in the President’s office, due to
the spring rush of work.
Rand have done their work well consider
ing the fact that this is the first venture
of its kind to be put through.
Succeeding editions may and doubtless
will ajipear to better advantage than this,
but all honor to those who started it.
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Our publication year is drawing to a
close and we ar;* an.xious to have on hand
sufficient money to ]iay off all indebted-
ne.^s the fii’st week in June. If you are
due us for your subscription, send it
along. Thanks.
Bus. Manager.
A REAL SCUOLAR
Dr. W. G. Su.;;.'nt. who is S])ending the
while in the J>outh and fortunately for us,
hrre Hi Klon ('ii!le",i' wilb his one lef-'
lure on Weiliie.'-'diiy evening made a deep
and profound impression upon all who
I’.eard him. The lecture in (juestiou touched
on Tennyson's interpretation of the spiri
tual life iind proved two things; viz., that
Ibis I oet realty thought and reasoned along
the line of the supernatural and that Dr.
Sargent was a man and scholar who could
pre.seiit the same in a dignified and learned
manner.
Of the many good tl'.ings heard from the
rostrum in receni ye;\rs his was one of Ihe
most engaging. Our community is proud
to welcome this distinguished scholar and
di\ine on this, his first journey to Ihe
soiilhern 'and o!' Di.xie >;r,d it will be our
]>leasure and etforl to make this visit re
flect b.nck to him some of the delight at
least which we ex])erience to the end that
we may be thus favored again- wlienover
he, onr schol.irly guest, may see fit to do so.
PH I PS IC LI OUT
FIRST ANNUAL MAKES ITS APl'EAKANCE IN'
NEAT FOKII
At last the much-talked-of, long-dreamed-
of, much-sought-after, greatly-advertised
Phipsicli has appeared and while having
its imperfections as do all products of hum
an hands is really a credit to the class who
brought it out and a prize for those who
made it possible. Modest in appearance
and make-up it endeavsrs to portray, as
all such publications, college life as it real
ly is and not as we would like it to be.
Manager A. L. Hook and Editor-in-chief
THU EBA.SON WHY.
Tie man w.;s a c?rpenter. Kis head
was white. His hammer made a merry
tune as it pniinded the nails, and 1 saw
from the expression of his face that some
thing was '.’iving him jinspiration and
courage. “Are you a student?” asked
the old man, as he reached for another
nail, and to my “Yes, sir,” he paused and
wiped the perspiration from his face and
asked, “What are you going to do when
you get through colleget” “Preach,” I
replied. The old gentleman rjuickly said,
“ I bo\e three boys preaching the gospel,”
and lifted his hammer and continued his
work. Then I knew why his hammer gave
music to the air and why his face was all
aglow.—r. B. Riddle.
Dr. Sargent Lectures.
NEW ENGLAlii'DER DISCUSSES TENNYSON,
SAFE SPIRITUAL GUIDE.
SHOWS THAT HE IS NOT
“Teunyson as an Interpreter of the Spir
itual Life” was the theme discu.ssed by Dr.
W. G. Sargent, Providence, K. 1., Secre
tary for Education of the American Chris
tian Convention, at the first of his series
of lectures to be delivered here this week.
Dr. Sargent in the beginning gave it as
his opinion tliat “the only just estimate of
'li iiiiysou's position i>- tlnl uliioh -leflares
Cl to be, by uninf.nce, (le r.'pr'sen:. •
five poet of the Victoria Eni.’’ He shoved
that his positi. n was unique, l)e;'aus ■ y.1-
the stiiring tim.^i in which he lived, limes
of the contlict between science and reli T^ju.
times of the breaking up of the old c:teds,
the sj an of his li*^e covering practicidlv (iie
entire l!Hh centvry.
Tennyson, the sjieaker declared and
proved by citation from his writings, exem
plified in hi.; ex])erience all the conflict and
tumult and uncertainty religiously of his
age. “Doubt which lie refused to believe
devil-born came to him to be the mother ot
faith, and faith the key to the spiritual
life." “Tennyson,” he continued, “was the
first great thinker to discover that the ini-
nmrence of God is not inconsistent with his
] ersonality, and st» rode safely at anchor
between I'nitarianism on Ihe one hand and
Pantheism on the other.”
“Tile romanticism of his youth, roman
ticism being a characteristic of youth ba]>-
f)ily born aiitl situated as he was, became a
steady hope in the sunset of his life, and
this was as far as he could go in religious
creel. It is in the Idyls of the King, to
which we go to discover this, the real po
sition of the poet—for this work was for
ty-three years in the writing and reflects
as a mirror the poet’s spiritual struggle
and aspiration, liuleed while one hesitates
to say so, it is doubtful if Tennyson ever
rose higher in his Christian faith than the
region of strong hope. He desired to be
lieve, if ever man did, but the natural
inclination of a man. not of the pre-emi-
nent range, to doubt, and the turmoil of
j.hilosophic and religious thought of his
time, in which he w'as caught, made his
faith a constant Hux and flow, now moving
strong, now receding and settling down at
last into this—we cannot prove; we can
but hope. And so this great poet is not
a safe interpreter of the spiritual life,
though an inspiring instance of victory
over doubt in an age of skepticism.”
Six lectures on the Revelation, in which
Dr. Sargent is a specialist, and two ser
mons on Sunday, especially designed for
students, will constitute the entire series
for this year of these lectures, known as
the American Christian Convention Lec
tures. '
ROSTER OF THE LECTURES
May 7, College Auditorium
7:.30 P.M. Tennyson as an Interpreter of
The Spiritual Life.
Iilay S, Y. M. C. A. Hall
i):00 A.M. The Apocalypse as Religiont
Literature.
2:00 P.M. The Purpose and Meihod of
the Writer.
7 :;iO P. M. The Messages to tlie Churches.
May t), Y. M. C. A. Hall
9:00 A. i.. The Chief Actors in thf
Drama.
2:00 P.M. Revelation and Judgment.
7:3() P. M. The Perfected Kingdom of
God.
May 31, College Auditorium
11:00 A.M. The Culiure of the Spirit.
8:00 P.M. The New Vision.
roWX OFFICERS ELECTED
MOKE .SIDEWALK.S OF THE SOLID KIND VOXBD
At the recent election, on Tuesday, sixth
instant, two matters of local intere.st were
disposed of; viz., election of town.officers
and the matter of more granolithic side
walks was settled in the atfirmative.
The election returns showed the officei*
lo Iw' I'loi. W. i'. L.iWience, Mayor ^oro
term) ; W. B. Fuller, ('hief of Police,
term: Couimissifiners, Messrs. H. D. Lam
beth, Dr. W. Brown, W. C. Michael, C. A.
Hughes and Dr. J. U. Newman.
As for the d^walk proposition it passed
with but th..ie dissenting votes, showing
the progres.sj. ouess of oui community. Thif
action will provide several miles of walking:
space in addition to that being laid now,
so those who have to tread the streets of
this pueblo next and the following years
will not need to worry about their shot#
and there will lie far less of those wee ia-
|»rinls in “the sands oi' time ' here made iiy
loc:d Ciiuieriiias.
MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION.
Offxcrs for Ccmins Year Elected. ^
After -the scripture lesson and a short
talk by .Mr. K. P. Merritt, the leader, on
the im|,>ortanf subject,Fo! saking all for
( hrist." taken from St. Luke 14:10, the
meeting was called to order by tlie Pi-ee.
for transaction of business.
Tiie tollowirg officers were elected: Mr.
S. S. M,yrick, president: Mr. W. D. IjOJ,
\ ii e president; Mr. H.- S. Smith, Seci»-
I a-y—Treasurer.
^[r. R. P. Merritt who has been in cor
midst for several weeks was elected a»t-
tive member of our association. We are
very "lad indeed to have Mr. Merritt in
our as o iation and from the interest be
has taken in the meetings we are sure be
niill be a faithful worker.
Prof. Amick is to lead for us next meet-
ing.
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