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One More Step Toward Championship Jflairoon flurb \'OLUME III ELON COLLEGE, N. C., FEBRUARY 10, 1922 NUMBER 22 GOLD l]yiNT DOWNS WDffDDO, TDINITK GOILFORO IN BRILLlTLr FODGDT CONTESTS Elon Manages to Gain Deciding Point From Wofford—Score 35-34—Brown Makes Sensational Toss That Defeats Trinity 30-29—Guilford Loses In Last Half—39-34 Tlie past week has been one of bril liant success for the Maroon and Gold basket tossers. Wofford, Trinity and Guilford have been defeated by the on- slauglit of the Corboy machine in bril liantly played games. Each game was featured by clean playing and was hotly contested. Wofford With Wofford College leading in the ecoring until the latter part of the sec ond half, Elon came from behind and defeated them here Saturday night by tlie score of 35 to 34. Doped to lose heavily after their de cisive defeats at the hands of Wake Forest, Davidson and Carolina, the South Carolinians threw a scare into camp on the Maroon and Gold court, and not until the final whistle blew was the game safely on the Elon side. Wof ford’s coach said his boys struck their stride Saturday night and played in better form than they had shown on tins trip. It must be handed to the Wofford team, they were a snappy l)uneh on the floor, clearly outputting the Maroon and Gold quintet in the first half. With Fix out of the Elon line-up on account of sickness, Elon was playing iu exceedingly poor form. Taking the lead from the first Wof ford held an advantage throughout the first period, the half closing 19 to 15 in favor of Wofford. Toward the mid- (ile of the latter period Elon rallied and came back strong. Brown secured a couple of goals that tied the score, and Mark McAdams came in with a field goal that gave Elon tlie lead. Perry led in the scoring with six field goals to his credit. Lindsey, of Wof ford, did stellar work for Wofford in shooting foul goals, caging 14 out of 18 tries, and keeping his team in the running. Tillinghast also did good work for Wofford, securing five field goals. Line-up and summary: Elon (35) Wofford (34) Position Newman Collins Left forward Barker Lindsey Right forward Brown Tillinghast (Capt.) Center L. Perry (Capt.) Williams Left guard McAdams Stokes Eight guard Substitutions: Wofford—Rogers for Stokes; Elon—L. Perry for Barker, Mar- lette for L. Perry, Walker for Brown, Brown for L. Perry. Scoriiig: Field goals—Elon, Newman 2, Brown 3, McAdams 1, L. Perry 6, Marlette 1; Wofford—Collins 1, Lind sey 5, Tillinghast 3; Foul goals—Elon, L. Perry 8 out of 19, Brown 1 out of 3; Wofford—Lindsey 14 aut of 18. Referee—Steiner, of Trinity. (Continued on Page 3) OLIVER’S TRAVELS IS FEATDRE DF PROGRAM Austin Entertains Psi- phelians With Synopsis Of Swift’s Great Work T^e Psiphelian program was an in teresting one this week. The numbers ''■ere varied and very entertaining. The jirst number was a reading by Miss Berta Crutclifield. She read in very good style, ‘^A Ballad of Crossing the Brook. ’ ’ A dainty, dainty maid goes fi-Maying in the morn anfl meets a young man—in the usual way. He falls III love with her but she regards him— the usual way! Miss Crutchfield’s iinpersonation was good. ■Miss Lucy Austin gave an interest- and very minute synopsis of Gulli- 'er’s Travels by Jonathan Swdft. Evi- (lently Miss Austin has a remarkable Kiemory, as was shown by the way she delivered this work; it was good in ^'•^ry way, from the actual accounts 3iid her delivery. J^dgar A. Guest’s “Different” was read by Miss Ora Pace. Hearing this ' ^'ttle selection read brought back mem ories—sweet memories of home, with a gfeat open fire, the family assembled found it; and as Guest has pictured this poem^ one sees the children, all 'different—there’s the biggest boy and ^'ttle sister. Humor for the evening was furnished Miss Louise Homewood. Hers was ^ good paper, full of '‘pep.” The local J'^^es added much to the humor, “Current Events,” by Miss Annie Laurie Phillips, was both instructive a^d entertaining. Events from Europe Elon College was the theme of her (Continued on page 4) OlVISIDNSOFr.W.IIOLD JOINT MEETING SDNDAY Misses Adams and West Lead ers— Discuss **Dependabil- ity”—Interesting Meeting The two divisions of Y. W. C. A. held a joint meeting Sunday evening, February 5. The leaders for the eve ning were Misses Grace West and Vic toria Adams, and the topic for discus sion was ‘Dependability.” The meeting was opened with a song, which was followed by a chain of sen tence prayers. After the reading of the Scripture lesson by Miss West, the girls sang the Y. W. song, “Follow, Fol low the Gleam,” then entered uj^on an interesting and helpful discussion of the evening’s topic. Miss Adams gave a very entertaining and helpful talk, in which she stated that students need to have more dependability in religious work—that they should give to their Y. W. C. A. work some of the “pep” and bacldng-up which they seem to give so readily and so gladly to their ath letic teams. Miss Wheeler, the president of the Y. W. C. A., gave an excellent talk on dependability of Elon girls as Y. W. C. A. members. The chief theme of her discussion was the responsibility as active members of Y. W. C. A. and of making Y. W. C. A. mean more, to all the girls on the campus. This meeting was one of the best of the year. All the girls present seemed to be really interested in Y. W. C. A., and it is hoped that a greater number of girls will take an active part in the work during the spring than did during the fall term. JDNIOR CLASS PRESENTS SKETCH ON STONT NIGDT Precedent Broken When One Act Play Is Presented— Thoroughly Enjoyed The Junior Class gripped and held the attention of a good audience at their stunt last Tuesday night. In spite of the fact that there had been a misun derstanding and the stunt was not well announced, there was a large crowd to witness the presentation of “Borrow ers’ Day.” The Juniors decided to vary the usual routine stunt and gave a short sketch in one act. From start to finish the play was filled with fun and incident, and the characters fitted into their parts admir ably. L. J. Bray, who played the leading man, worked in “That Old Sweetheart of Mine” as a musical reading with touching effect. Mr. Bray gave the reading rather softly to the beautiful piano accompaniment just preceding a thrilling love scene in which he won back the heart of his old sweetheart. Among those deserving special com mendation are L. J. Bray and Misses Margaret Moring, Irene Goff, and Ber ta Crutchfield. Mrs. L. M. Cannon was delightful in the role of pacifying Mrs. Dodge, at whose home the play oc curs. The presentation of a play was a new venture in the stunt way at Elon, but since it met with such marked suc cess, there is little doubt but that oth ers will follow the lead of the Junior Class. (Continued on Page 3) DR. HARPER TO OUTLINE PLAN FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Will Also Speak in Greensboro to the Y. M. 0. A. Secretaries at an Early Date Dr. Harper is to speak before the ministerial association of Burlington at an early date. He is to outline in this speech a definite plan for week-day religious education in the town of Bur lington. Dr. iHarper has made a careful study of this work, and is abundantly able to undertake such work. On the fourteenth of February 'Dr. Harper will speak before the Y. M. C. A. Secretaries of the state at their banquet in Greensboro. His theme will be religious education, and he will un dertake to show just how a practical program of religious education may be inaugurated by the Y. M. C. A. in the various towns and cities that will be represented. He has been asked to speak before the college Y. M. C. A. Secretaries on the Elon plan of the Re ligious Activities Organization, but as yet he has not accepted this invitation, as his pressure for time will hardly per mit him to do so. Y. C. C. HOLDS MEETING On account of the severe weather for the last couple of weeks, work on the new building now being erected as per manent headquarters for the Y. C. C. Club of the town boyS, has been sus pended. The Club held its regular bi monthly session in the college adminis tration building last night, with Rob ert Brown, vice-president, presiding. After the business meeting the mem bers of the club enjoyed a “feed” pre pared by Messrs. Jasper Apple, James Caddell, Gordon Kirkland and V. M. Rivera. The treat consisted of ice-cream, cakes and ale. ELON AODIENCES HEAR SHAKESPEARE DRAMAS By ONE OF AMERICA’S CELEBRATED READERS C. E. W. Griffith reads “Hamlet” and “As You Like It” To De light Of Auditors—Interpretation Of Characters Minute— Discusses Other Dramas Elon audiences we-re delightfully en tertained Wednesday, February 8, by Mr. C. E. W. Griffith, the celebrated Shakespearian reader of the Chicago Shakespeare Club. In the afternoon Mr. Griffith read Hamlet, Shakespeare’s greatest trag edy, and in the evening As You Like It, one of the poet’s greatest pastoral comedies. Mr. Griffith, who has performed the wonderful feat of committing all of Shakespeare’s plays to memory, is one of America’s foremost readers of clas sical literature. He has a marvelous voice and facial expression, w^hich, with the skillful interpretation and magnetic personality which he possesses, produce a combination that charms an audience beyond expression. He presents each character in such a way that the audi ence forgets but that it is listening to and gazing upon the real character which he is at that time presenting. Mr. Griffith’s reading of “Hamlet” in the afternoon was masterful. His in terpretation of the character of Ham let, the King, Polonius, and the other characters, was such as to hold the en tire audience spellbound throughout the whole reading. The play was some what abbreviated, but everything which was necessary to the preservation of the plot was kept. The scene of Ham let’s famous solilioquy was vividly por trayed, as was also the scepe of Ham let’s death. Especially realistic also were the scene of Hamlet and his fath- er’s ghost, the scene of the “mouse trap’' iJlay, and the scene between Hamlet and his mother. A rather amusing scene was finely portrayed w'hen Polonius assured the king that he knew the cause of Hamlet’s trouble. Mr. Griffith’s interpretation of Poloiii- us ’ self-satisfied character was inimit able. When he finished the reading there was a volume of applause such as has seldom resounded the Audi torium at Elon. In the evening the reading of “As You Like It” was a repetition of the same masterly genius displayed in the afternoon performance. The charac ters Boaalind, Orlando, Phoebe, Audrey, Silvius and Touclistone were brought out strongly. The love affairs of Rosa lind and Orlando, Phoebe and Silvius, I’ouchstoue and Audrey, were portrayed in such a manner as to recall to the minds of the older members of the audi ence the days of theii youth. This play of lighter vein served to show the marvelous flexibility of the reader’s personality and genius. After the reading was finished, Mr. Griffith gave an interesting discussion on several of the plays of Shakespeare, among which w'ere “The Merchant of Venice,” and “Eomeo and Juliet.” Mr. Griffith struck a humorous blow at the feminine part of the audience by saying that Portia did not win her suit by reading the law books which were (Continued on page 4) A LIVELY CLASH OF WITS FEATDRE OF PHI PROGRAM Papers by Clements and Cam eron Hold The Society’s Attention. The program that was rendered in the Phi hall last Monday evening was one of particular interest, since it show ed up the work of Freshmen to good advantage. It was one which held the interest of the Society throughout. W. J. Apple opened the program of the evening with a discussion of the United States postal service. He men tioned the various branches of the ser vice and showed how they were related to each other to make up the efficient service which the public enjoys. M. L. Patrick was on the program for a talk, and he discussed the taxa tion ])roblein with reference to the school system of North Carolina. The speaker brought out some interesting facts and quoted a number of illuminat ing statistics on that subject. He said that this state had reached almost the maximum tax for schools, and he also brought forward facts which proved that a considerable sum was wasted on needless employes. “My Trip to Richmond” was the subject of a short talk by York Bran- nock. He was one of the Elon track men who went to Richmond for the track meet there last fall. A paper on the Japanese question was read by J. L. Cameron. It threw light on the relationship of the United States to Japan. He discussed at some length the Jap problem as it now con fronts California. J. Newman Denton delivered a rath er humorous and interesting declama- (Continued on Page 3) MARI GRAY MEMRER DF GOWDR’S STAFF Former Elon Student Is Honor ed By Virginia Governor— Member Class ’20 (By E. C. White, Correspondent) An appointment of special interest to friends and students of Elon was recently made by Governor Trinkle of Virginia w-lien Marvin L. Gray, of Wa verly, Va., a former Elon student, was appointed a member of the Governor’s staff and received the title of Colonel. Colonel Gray, better known as “Gray” by his fellow studeuts, entered the Freshman class at Elon in the fall of 191fi, and in the next two years made many warm friends among his college mates and won distinction in all the college activities in which he took part. In the summer of 1918 Gray en listed in the officers ’ training camp at Plattsburg and there attained the rank of first lieutenant. In the fall of 1918 he entered Amherst College, Mass., be came connected with the> athletic de partment as coach of basketball, and proved a successful athletic director. In the fall of 1919 he returned to his old Alma Mater, Elon, and graduated with his class in 1920. Soon after his graduation he entered the business and political world with the same “pep” and vigor that had characterized his college career. Early in the political game Gray showed the progressive spir it by joining the forces of Senator Trin kle in the gubernatorial campaign, and as one of Trinkle’s .political managers in the primary election, wielded much influence in his home district for Trin kle, and was rew'arded by seeing his choice elected chief of the executive (Continued on page 4)
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