Newspapers / Elon University Student Newspaper / Jan. 27, 1922, edition 1 / Page 2
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
Two MAROON AND GOLD January 27, 1922 flparoon anti (Boih Member of The Nortli Carolina Collegiate Press Association Published Weekly by the Students of ELON COLLEGE Entered at the Post Office at Elon College, N. C., as second class matter Two Dollars Per College Year Ralph S. Rain€y Editor Lloyd J. Bray Managing Editor David Miller Business Manager T. H. Andreisrs Asst. Bus. Mgr, Wm. G. Stoner Circulation Mgr. Wm. T. Scott Asst. Cir. Mgr. Margaret Moring Asst. Cir. Mgr. John Brooks Adv. Mgr Worth Wicker Asst. Adv. Mgr. S. M. Lynam Editor for Alumni E. C. White Publicity Editor Advertising Bates Upon Request Never is a long, long day. When a fellow gets mad he shuts his ej’es and opens his mouth. How often we wish we had held our tongues when we had spoken! Some people use themselves as models. That is why they never improve. There are exceptions to all rules. Therefore there is an exception to the rule that there are exceptions to all rules. If the dead could rise from tlieir graves and read their own epitaphs most of them \('ould think they had got into the wrong graves. Some people have two reasons for not minding their own busi ness. One is that they haven’t any business and the other is that they haven’t any mind. AN OPINION CORROBORATED The election of Professor A. L. Hook to the vice-presideney of the North Carolina-Virginia Athletic Assocation at the recent meeting for organization gives us a sense of comfort around the heart. It is one of the most delightful things in the world to have your own opin ion corroborated. We have long felt that Professor Hook was a real man in the management of ath letics, and now the new bi-state as sociation has recognized that fact. This association is something that the smaller colleges have long need ed, and it means a real growth in athletics for all the members of the association. Maroon and Gold extends its heart.y congratulations. Professor Hook, and we wish for the new as sociation a long and prosperous career. ON FOOTBALL We have read two excellent edi torials on the subject of football— one in The Gnilfordian, of Guil ford, and tlie other in Old Gold and Black, of Wake Forest. The Guilford editor pleads that we keep football free from professionalism and preserve it, as it now is, strict- l}’ a collegiate sport. We heartily agree with him, for if football ever gets into the hands of men who run it from a purely business stand point—that is, for what money can be made out of it—college football will lose much of the blessed tradi tions and romance which are now thrown around it. We may not doubt this, for the professional game will overshadow the amateur as has liappened in the case of base ball. Fortunately for the king of college sports, football, it is very hard to place on a professional ba- •sis. Thus the very nature of the thing helps.us keep it what we want it. The Baptist editor of Wake For est laments the poor type of foot ball that the average Tar Heel col lege is able to produce. According to this scribe, this inferior football is not due to any physical defects of the sturdy Carolina sons who at tend our educational institutions— for be it known that our purely American, stock take second place to none physically—but the trouble may be traced primarily and di rectly to a lack of training. He says that if you go out among the hedges and stick and by-ways of our Carolina hills, you will find that tlie avei'age school boy knows nothing whatever of football, while in the North and West every cross roads school has its football team— and thereby hangs the tale. We agreed with the Quaker and we agree with the Baptist. The man who has the training from the ground up, so to speak, will always have the advantage when he goes to college over the fellow who knows nothing of the w’iles of a pigskin game. Potential strength undeveloped is of little value and a great muscle, untrained, goes down before the smaller muscle well trained. But what is the remedy for this lack of training? Get the train ing, of course. But how? Put football into the list of sports iji every secondary school of the state. And, pray, how manage that ? Well, well, have we got to answer again? Thei'e are many men now attend ing the different North Carolina colleges who will soon be scattered over the state as teachers. Since the teaching profession is being made more remunerative and is re quiring scientific training in order to become a teacher, it is attract ing to its ranks men who are real men. Wake Forest turns out such men each year, and so does Caro lina, Trinity, Davidson, and all the rest of us Tar Heel colleges. Many of these men are athletes, and all of them are interested in athletics. Now, the plan we have in mind, or rather, the notion that has crept into .our cranium, is that all these teachera be urged to introduce foot ball in the high and “prep” schools wherever they teach. Since many of our one-room rural schools are being consolidated into big, up- to-date high schools, enough young ster's will soon be attending any public school in the state so that it can have a football squad. We may be able to interest other men connected with education in this idea. When an idea is spread and urged it has power, and when these men realize that they can make stronger men out of our boys and at the same time help uphold the “athletic’ ’honor of the state, they will help in an undertaking that will give every little he-devil a chance to become a great athlete. How about it, pedagogues? EMULATION Wliat is originality? Why do men so blindly follow their fellownien? Why is it tliat this supposedly sensible crea ture envies his more fortunate friend, copies his works and then apes his ec centricities? Why does not a man— a real man—think for himself and do something, or ref]‘ain from encroachiiijj upon the properties and patent rights of the rest of the human race since time immemorial'? Are all men born so nearly equal that they must everlast ingly dig back into the past—into the mistakes and blunders left in the shales of time—to find an exemplary man by which they may compare themselves and by w^hich they may formulate their ow’n plans of lif?? These are some of tiie questions that storm at the door of our mental chamber and assail our con- ceiDtion of the eternal fitness of things when we are visited and plagued by such an epidemic—(what else may we call it?) as stalks abroad at Elon at the present time and infects contami nates and otherw’ise debases the inept, silly, unoriginal male students here. And these are the questions that we have to leave unanswered. There is possibly one plausible expla nation to this malady—it is a universal and not -a sporadic trouble. But then this does not excuse the Elon students for contracting this disgusting habit, custom or disease. We sat calmly by with equanimity undisturbed when the rage of bobbing hair first broke out among the co-eds. When we realize that the head is the noblest member of the human Toeing, containing the brain which controls his actions we do not bewail the reasonable adornment and beautifying thereof, such as the fair sex practiced in bobbing their hair. But w^hen w^e see the upper lip of the simple, unpleasant, homely face of a man further marred by a repulsive, in artistic moustache, we grow inarticu late wdth indignation, and proceed to dint the asmosphere with all kinds of gestures. We know that Adam -was endowed in the beginning w^ith a luxuriant crop of upper lip foliage. And we even ride in our imagination with Chaucer, a beard ed j)oet, to Canterbury, and note the merchant’s ‘‘forked beard,’’ “the white beard of Franklin,’^ and “the red beard of the Miller’s”; but the reeve’s beard is “shave as ny as ever he can.” This shows that even in the time of Chaucer, they w’ere discarding, to some extent, this useless and noxious facial growth. And if we of the twen tieth century have no more respect for ourselves or for the tasteful and tender hearted girls than to besmear our face with this frouzy grow’th on the upper lip, then all the nobles that w^ere ever buried in Westminster Abbey ought to rise up in their righteous indignation— for I know that they do not approve of this present custom, which does no thing more than ape their former van ity—and declare their everlasting dis inheritance of tlie twentieth century milksop who persists in wearing a mous tache. No, apostle of frouzy lip, if you tliink that you are improving your ap pearance by developing this lip-coating you are sadly mistaken. And finally, be warned, young man, you may get much excitement out of this'foolish cus tom, but the tickle is too much for the co-ed. SCOFF, '24. (Editor’s Note.—This bird tried to grow a moustache and found himself too much of a milksop to sprout one— hence the tirade.) DR. LAIIKFOIID CLOSES EVANGELISTIC SERVICES TWO DIVISIONS OF Y. W. C. A. HOLD JOINT MEETING IN CHAPEL The two divisions of Y, W. C. A. held a joint meeting in the chapel Sun day evening, January 22. The topic for the evening was “Some Faithful Sayings.” With this topic for discus sion, and with Misses Bessie Holmes and Annie Mae Lackey leading, the program was made one of the best of the year. After the reading of the Bible lesson by Miss Holmes, there fol- low^ed an interesting discussion of some of the sayings of Christ and His dis ciples, and of some of God’s precious promises to men. Almost every girl present took part in this discussion, either by quoting from the Bible some saying or promise «or by quoting some beautiful thought from a well known poet, or by commenting on those al ready quoted. One of the most pleasing features of the evening’s program was a vocal duet. “Drifting,by Misses Della Cotten and Alice Barrett. These young ladies rendered the music with their usual charm and power, and everyone i)res- ent w’as ready to say w’hen they had finished, “It was good.” The entire program w^as an entertain ing and helpful one. The Y. W. C. A. meetings this year have been of especial interest and help fulness. All the “Y. W. ” girls seem to be ready and willing to contribute all they can tow’ards making our Y. W. C. A. at Elon a success. The crown of Hungary consists of two diadems, one dating back to 1000 and the other to 1072. The robin and the \#i-en are the only birds that sing all the year round. All other birds have periodical fits of si lence. Chapel Talks Feature Campaign —Consultation Hours Held Each Day England uses nearly twice as much coal per head of the population as any otlier country. Dr. G. 0. Lankford closed his series of evangelistic services here last Fri day night. The meeting was notable because of the absence of the u:sua' emotionalism aiul high pressure meth ods w’hich are generally attendant on revival services. Dr. Lankford was true throughout to his first purpose to be simple and clear in his messages. Thursday Night On Thursday 'ight he spoke on the riclj young ruler, and declared that a mail with every advantage might still be lost. He pointed out that this young man had everything that could be de sired, julging from a man’s point of view. He was interested, intensely so, and Jesus w'as interested in him. He had knowledge, and of the best kind, and yet he went away sorrowfully from the Master. Friday Night Dr. Lankford’s last sermon of the series concerned itself with the great est thing in the world, and he declared that he based what he had to say on the greatest text in the Bible. He call ed John 3:16 the golden text of the Bible. The sermon took the form of inquiries, of w'hich there were four: First, what is the extent of God’s love? Second, what is the object of God’s love? Third, how' much did God love, and fourth, how may we inherit God’s love? The minister answered each of tliese questions in a clear, concice way, and made it very appealing. After Thursday night’s sermon, while talking w'ith some of the students, Dr. Lankford said that he realized his lim itations as a preachcr, but he added that he believed that he could love his fellowman just as much as anybody; and every sermon and chapel talk prov ed this to the student body. Dr. Lankford’s chapel talks were very interesting features of the revival, and his periods for daily consultation with students added much to the effective ness of the meeting. Throughout it was the services of a pastor instead of an evangelist, just as Dr. Lankford said it w’ould be. The Eeligious Activities Organizations are now setting themselves to work to carry on the work of Dr. Lankford. This w’ork will also offer excellent train ing for lay evangelism, and the organ ization wishes to give the students every opportunity for progressive w^ork and training for efficient service in the church. Dr. Lankford left a host of friends behind him in the student body. It was the first time that he had had an opportunity to spend any length of time on the college campus since his gradua tion in 1907, and the entire student body had changed since his day, and many of the members of the faculty have come to the college in recent vears. AS EDITORS EXPRESS IT To print a kiss upon her lips He thought the time was ripe; But w'hen he went to press she said: “I do not like your type.” —Boston Transcript. A kiss he printed on her lips. And slie made this oration: “Please, please continue doing that— It boosts my circulation.” — New York Sun. A kiss h6 printed on her lips — A soft, a sweet caress; And this is what she w’hispered low: “Don’t let them stop the press.” —Brookfield Gazette May I print a kiss upon your lips? Then she nodded her sweet permission. So they went to press and, may 1 guess. They printed a whole edition. —Judge. INTERROGATORY *.* «> *.• V# Send all inquiries to The Interrogatory Care Maroon and Gold. The answers ■will appear in this column. Question.—What kind of fuel is used by the people on Mars? L. R. P. Answer.—The people who inhabit Mars do not use fuel. Their planet is warmed by the hot air that arises from the eartli. Q.—Who said, “All that glisters is \ not gold”? K. M. H. A.—Eomeo, in Riley’s “Last of the Mohicans,” is credited with this state ment. Q.—Of all Darwdn’s theories, which is considered the most practical? J. H. A.—His theory of “evolution” prob ably has more living examples than any other. Q.—What is the most appropriate color for a June bride? M. L. K. A.—This all depends upon the color of the groom. Q.—What did Grey mean when he wrote, “born to blush unseen”? U. M. G. A.—He was probably referring to colored women. Q.—How’ can I go about getting my absences marked off at the office? J. G. D. A.—Absences are considered a rather serious offense and should be avoided, if possible. In case, however, an ab sence does occur, the best way to have it removed is to chloroform the DeaD. An abundance of berried holly is a sign of a long and hard w'inter. KNOCKS AND NOTIONS Dear Editor: In one of the fall numbers of your paper I noticed the institution of a col umn for “Knocks and Knotions.” I have been thinking over the matter, and have arrived at the conclusion that this’ column is a place for getting dis agreeable things before the public; in other words, that it was the place to kick and to suggest. I have something of that nature in mind, and here goes! There is something radically wrong somewhere, and I can’t understand where. It is considered a disgrace for a Harvard man to pass the Styx with out giving something to Alma Mater. Why is this not true at Elon? It is true that now and then an Elon student makes a gift to his college, but it ought to be a rule rather than an exception. The spirit of loyalty ought to pervade the whole of the body of the alumni as well as the body of stu dents. In the past the college has grad uated class after class of young men and women, and they have passed out into life without again thinking of tiioir Alma Mater, apparently. My dear Editor, I don’t believe th.it this is actually the ease. I don’t be lieve that they really forget Elon, but T can but attribute it to thoughtless ness or lack of understanding of the needs of the college. I believe that the Elon alumni are just as loyal as any body of alumni, but I believe, too. that some movement ought to be set on foot to give them a cliance to prove this to be true. Some one has aptly said that love is that w’hich gives itself, and none of us can have a greater joy than to gi'^ to those we love. It ought not to be that the alumni and students of forme’’ days are denied this joy. As I starte'l out by saying, something is wrong. us find where the mistake is and cor rect it. Let us create that spirit which lives at Harvard and makes Harvar'l live. Let us set ourselves to the task of giving that spirit to Elon. This is thrown out in the hope that someone else will speak on the subject and something really progressive be started. Sincerely yours, SION M. LYNAM. Elon College, January 26, 1922, Every cent of profit The College Store goes ^ athletics.
Elon University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Jan. 27, 1922, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75