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MAROON AND GOLD
December i,
1922
Sparoon and (^olD
Member of the North Carolina Colle
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Published Weekly by the Students of
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THIS WEEK'S POEM
By Sion M. Lynam
S !S
THE SEEKEE’S CERTAINTY
wander tlirough the Jiight,
At‘rai«l of dnrkuess,
Not knowing wliither straying steps
May bear them.
The hills oil which they stray
Are strewn with jjitfalls.
They know blnck precipices wait
To hold them.
They hear the gargle there
Within the chasm,
And know that death lurks near, and
yet
Go onward.
Go onward, for they must;
The (lawn must waken
Anew the world to joy and soug—
God %vills it.
Through midnight’s shades they seek
The dawn of goodness.
’Twill f^me. They’ll find it, and their
God
Shall rest them.
FOOTBALL
There seems to be little in the
old saying, “A good beginning
makes a bad ending, and vice
versa,'' if we are to accept the
record of our football team as a
concrete example of the truth—
or in this case, the falsehood—of
this statement. We began with
defeats and ended the same way.
But the part of the season of
which we are proud, and which
outbalances that feeling of defeat,
is the season of victories that was
sandwiched in betw’een the de
feats.
\A'e opened the season with
teams that were really out of our
class, and held them to small
scores. Those teams that were in
our class have in each case been
downed before the onslaught of
the Maroon and Gold warriors.
The team has been the subject of
praise by many sport writers and
unprejudiced newspapers. Dur
ing the past few years Elon has
steadily come into the limelight
of the football arena because of
its hard fightinq', consistent play
ing, and good sportsmanship. It
has well upheld the prestige of
the institution in athletic circles.
I'he playing of individuals has
been ])raiseworthy. The line has
been practically a new one, but
has played like veterans.
Players, fans and coach are to
be commetided for the fine spirit,
good sportsmanship and attitude
of copoeration that has permeated
the football season.
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« SIMMON SEEDS *'5
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FAREWELL, FOOTBALL
Smeared with the grime of a uozen
fields,
I hang the old suit out to air.
The sciison to other sport now yields,
But I ’ll be gladly missing there.
I’ve been wed to the game these short,
short years,
Till it’s i>art of the marrow of me;
Have plnyed it not for the glory and
cheers,
But for the game as it happened to
be.
Have played in rain and clinging mud,
And as the autumn sun swung low;
I’ve tasted the thrill of “Come on, bud,
Twenti' yards and three minutes to
go!"
I’ve fouglit when the chances were less
than slim,
Welded in a chain they could not
break,
Iloldii!'’: oft’ defeat, sipped at victory’s
brim,
AVith a right good will, learned to
give and take.
Old suit, now’ you fall to another;
Another fighting heart enfold:
Pass my spirit on to that brother.
In the game for Maroon and Gold.
—K. A. D. A,
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BUS SCPIEDULE
The new Packard motor busses have
arrived and will be put on the campus
circuit starting Tuesday. The schedule:
Leave:
East Dormitory 8:00 A.!M.
North Dormitory 8:00% A.M.
Administration Bldg 8:0] A.M.
West Dormitory 8:01% A.!M.
Ladies’ Hall .' 8:02 A.M.
Arrive:
Elon Post-office 8:02% A.M.
The students can figure the schedule
for the rest of the day and night by
being informed that the busses run con
tinuously. Regular fare Ic; faculty
and chaperons 25c.
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ROMANCIA’S ROUNDELAY
(A Short Short Story)
Synopsis Continued
Two gents enter and grab her hand.
••For twenty years we’ve sought you,”
says the guy with the walrus mous
tache. ‘Can it be really you?" nair-
7iiurs the stogie in the pjug
Chapter 2
Romancia is more bew’ildered than
ever.*
pulled the belts very tight and let
it go at that.
At 2:30 we starts a football game
with Randolf Maken and at 2:30 & %
it promised a freefor players only fight.
Randolf Maken' is a school up in^ our
state what come down in state in a
pullman which graced our community
sidetrack for the whole day and looked
better than coal cars.
Being only bear cats’ scrimmage cub
they did not let us in cause w^e tears up
other teams and this is impoli^ on the
home field. Howsoever I wore my suit
and between the halfs and quarters
everyone thought I was a player and
I strutted according.
The game was ]nnde .up of fighting
and playing and them being visitors
caused us to allow them advantages
which they took as they knew it w'as
the last game and we wouldn’t get no
return slap at them up at their home
town.
One time though we almost forgets
ourselfs and would of licked em if the
referee had reminded us to be gents
and quit pounding on invited guests.
We lets them off at 12 two 0 to their
favors so they could telegraf home and
cheer up Randolf IMaken what mebbe
didn’t have turkey and was in Tow
spirits.
Next we had a glorious feed. There
w’as turkey meet and seedless cram-
berries, stuffin and lettuce, peas and
grapes, gravv and apples followed in
due coarses with a slice of cake and a
jits worth of ice cream. It was what
w'o’d been a long time longing for.
Then we rushes to a play what was
given bv one of the literairy societies
ami was imnience. Tt Tvas all about
life as it is lived out where the west
begun.' There was prety girls and a
villun with a big mustash pinned on
and he was fit to be screemed at. And
an irishman almost bald in spots who
talked the funny lingo which almost
made the people fall out of the boxes
when they was attacked with laughing.
I recognized some of the fellers acrost
the footlites but dident let on to no
one as it might of interrupted the fat
lady next to me who was having sun
strokes and hystericals.
The play unwound 2 acts-and then
wound up 2 acts and there was only
one casualty which was caused by a
guy getting shot in the riat and nobody
wept as he was despisable. It was
splendid and you should of been here.
Its only 25 days till Xmas. Did you
read that Billy?
Yours for hollydays,
Dumbell Smith.
PEOTEGTION
DR. J. H. BROOKS
Surgeon Dentist
Foster Building
Burlington, Nortli Carolina
After an outbreak of disease in a
small Southern town, the officers were
taking down the cards when an old
negress protested vigorously.
‘‘Why, Auntie” exclaimed the officer,
“why don’t you want me to take it
down?"
‘‘Well, sah,” she answered, “dey
ain’ be’n a bill collectah neah dis
house sense dat sign went up. You all
let it alone.”—Keystone.
The College Store has fresh
fruits, candy, cold drinks, etc.
A nice variety of “Durable Dur
ham” Hose for both men and
women at the College Store.
Why worry with the old style
pencil when you can buy a “PaV’
at the College Store for 50 cents?
*The gents, can be none other 'Wian
Mike Jackson and Larty Simonson,
both of whom fly high in the social
whirlwind of politics in Possumonia.
Mike started life as an infant and only
recently overcame the handicap. The
Hon. Larty started ditto but has pro
gressed more rapidly on Melon Food.
Sent by the king before his decease to
find the lost Romancia, they have en
dured the hardships of pullnians and
t\v(Mvty-dollar-a-day hotels all the way
from their tiny kingdom. The prof in
charge of Romancia’s class, which our
issue of November 24 says they were
interrupting, advances unawares upon
the little group clustered at the black
board looking mean and tightly grasp
ing a three-foot piece of vardstick—
(TO BE CONTINUED)
What for? See our next issue.
Listen Billy |i
PROGRAM
SCHOOL MASTERS’ CLUB
Saturday Evening, December 9, 1922
7 O’clock
At the Burlington Graded School
Tall to order by the president.
Song.
Invocation.
Banquet nnd Social Hour, Dr. W. P.
Lawrence. Toastmaster.
Business Meeting
Roll Call.
Minutes of last meeting.
Report of Committee on Constitution
and By-Laws.
Report of Committee on Athletics.
Report of Committee on School Pub
lications. .
Other business.
Adjournment.
W. P. LAWRENCE.
W. C. KING,
J. L. DUNCAN,
Program Committee.
ON 24 HR. LEAVE
Dear Billy:
Well this is the day after Thanksgiv
ing day and we had a grand glorious
free for all. Somebody haiided me a
hea{ache and so far they has not called
for it and I’m writing this on classes
wliich has started again too soon.
In trying to go back over it again I
thinks Thanksgiving started yesterday
morning when I got up. Had’breckfast
as per usual and then we stretched and
voweil we would get the most out of
the hollyday and the dean’s records
says we did.
A1 Ithe old timers what was here dur
ing civils war and thereafter come back
and shook hands with everybody and
tried to make we students feel at home.
They is a nice crowd, Billy, and lives
out in the world where there is money
and they brq^ught some along to show
us. Tliey give me three dopes, a milk
shake and a hum cigar anI from now
on I roots for them.
Soshell hr. didnt mean nothing to
me as all four of my sweeties had dat»‘S
and I didn^t butt in as I didn’t like
any of the guys.
At last it came time for dinner and
we was only sandw'iched and turned
loose again. As consolation they prom
ised us heavy grub at 5:30 and w'e
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Ipse Dixit
and Galileo
There was much learning but little real knowledge
in Galileo’s time (1564-1642). Aristotle was swal
lowed in bad Latin translations. Ipse dixit. No
one checked him by what seemed vulgar, coarse
experiment.
Galileo fought against the dead hand of tradition.
He did not argue about Aristotle, but put him to
the test. Aristotle led his readers to believe that of
two bodies the heavier will- fall the faster. ' Galileo
simply climbed to the top of the Leaning Tower of
Pisa and dropped two unequal weights. The “best
people” were horrified; they even refused to believe
the result—that the weights reached the ground in
equal tijnes. /
“Look at the world, and experiment, experiment,”
cried Galileo.
The biggest man in the i6th century was not Gal
ileo in popular estimation, but Suleiman the Magni
ficent, the Ottoman Emperor, who swept through
Eastern Europe with fire and sword and almost cap
tured Vienna. Where is his magnificence now?
Galileo gave us science—estabHshed the paramount
right of experimental evidence. Suleiman did little
to help the world.
Hardly p.n experiment is made in modern science
which does not apply Galileo’s results. When, for
instance, the physicists in the Research Laboratories
of the General Electric Company study the motions
of electrons in rarified atmospheres, or experiment
to heighten the efficiency of generators and motors,
they follow Galileo’s example and substitute facts
for beliefs.
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