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VOLUME V.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., JULY 2, 1923
NUMBER 3
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[LEAD FOOTBALL SpAO
P#pulax Atlilete Chosen Captain—Coach
Corboy Again to Train Poot-
"ball Team.
J. Mark McAdams will lead the 1923
football team. Mr. McAdams is an ath-
Ute of exceptional ability and person-
*lity. He has b'feen with the Elon Col
lege football team for the past three
jears, and the captaincy of the team
eame to him as a regard for his fine
work on the team. He will be a mem
ber of the senior class.
Mark, as the students know him, is
oae of the most likeable men on the
Hill, and he has the art of handling
aaen. He understands the game, and
will put into every contest the very ■
best that is in him.
Football under such a leader as Me-1
Adams and with Coach F. B. Corboy to ^
train the team ought to mean a great
year for Elon in this field of sport.
Coach Corboy is especially fitted for the
teaching of football, and is one of the
authorities of the state on football. He
is a member of the national association
of football coaches, being with the
Petzer brothers
of the Univer-
eity of North
Odirolina, the
tkree N. C.
eoaches now
holding mem-
bership in this
asBOciation.
Captain Mc
Adams and Mr.
. Corboy are men
with whom
every high
ichool boy with
athletic aspira
tions and a
love for clean,
manly sports
manship, will
bo proud to be
AMOciated.
HEHN ELOREDGE TO
TEACH IN CHAyTAOQUA
Young Peoples’ Specialist to Conduct
Classes—“Youth of the Church’*
Is Subject.
FOOTBALL SQUAD
MISSIONS STRESSED ON
it
Dr. Atkinson and Mrs. Morrill to Con
duct Classes—Every Need
to Be Studied.
J. MABK McADAMS
DR. HARPED DISCUSSES
VITAL CDISIS IN STATE
Points Out Danger of Education With
out Eellgion and Urges Reme
dial Measures.
PENNSYLVANIA WODKER
TO ATTEND CHAUTADIjUA
Miss Emma G. Lemen to Instruct in
Children’s Work During
the Week.
PHYSICAL EDDCAIION TO '
RE STRESSED NEXT YEAR
Program Now Being Worked Out by
Coach Corboy—Interesting
Features.
Athletics and physical education play
A great and important part in the pro
gram here, and one that is given great
stress. Every student entering the in
stitution must take part in some sort of
physical work.
Intercollegiate athletics have always
played an important part at Elon and
in the past three years under the tute
lage of Coach Corboy our teams, have
ranked favorably with the other col
leges of the state. Our football team
of last year was one of the wonders of
the sport-loving followers, and although
handicapped by an exceptionally small
squad and injuries to members of it,
it acquitted itself in such a manner that
it was the joy of the student body and
friends of Elon, and feared by all who
met it.
The basketball team started like a
whirlwind, but here again disaster in
the way of sickness overtook us and we
had to be content with a little better
than an even break in games won and
lost, but it demonstrated that it was
all that its followers claimed for it
when it gave the Davidson Wildcats a
trimming on their floor in the closing
game of the season.
Baseball was at the lowest ebb this
year due to the fact that practically -a
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There will be two classes from 12 to 1
o’clock each day which' will be distinc
tively missionary in their teaching.
Rev, J. 0. Atkinson, D. D., of Elon
College, Field Secretary of Missions of
the Southern Christian Convention, will
lead the group which chooses the great
subject of “Stewardship,’' using Ralph
Cushman’s book, “The Message of
Stewardship,” as textbook for the
course. Dr. Atkinson is well known in
every part of the Christian Church, and
those who have heard him will look
forward to this week spent with him in
consideration of ‘‘Stewardship.’'
Mrs. M. T. Morrill, of Defiance, Ohio,
Field Worker of the Woman’s Mission
Board of the Christian Church, will
teach a class which -will especially at
tract the interest of women and young
people eager to conduct ^lission Study
Classes in their own communities next
year. Mrs. Morrill will take up the
books for next winter’s study, and dis
cussing them in her own helpful way,
prepare leaders to carry them back to
larger groups at home. She will use
“Creative Forces in Japan” by Galen
Fisher a book especially suited for
adult study classes, and “The Woman
and the Leaven in Japan,” by Char
lotte Deforest, especially for program
meetings. One session will be given to
the junior books, “The Honorable Jap
anese Fan,” and a Handbook on Japan
which contains stories, suggestions for
worship, dramatization, class projects,
service, activities, etc. Another day
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MRS. ALICE V. MORRILL
We have a situation in North Caro
lina that needs moat careful considera
tion and that demands remedial meas
ures forthwith. I refer to provision
for religious instruction at our tax-sup
ported institutions of higher learning.
We are all gratified at the growth and
progress of our three state institutions
of standard grade—the University,
State College, and the Normal College.
The prospec is that the attendance on
these institutions will continue to grow.
The day is not far distant when these
schools will enroll more pupils than the
Christian colleges of the State. The
most impressive fact about higher edu
cation the nation over is the phenome
nal growth of State institutions of high
er education. It will continue so in
North Carolina, as in other states.
But there is one thing we must keep
steadily in mind—that education with
out religion is a dangerous experiment.
And our State institutions cannot teach
religion. The doctrine of the separa
tion of Church and State makes that
impossible in North Carolina. The solu
tion of this problem calls for tlie wis
est statesmanship we can bring to bear
upon any educational problem. A de
mocracy, which I define as the princi
ples of the Christian religion applied to
the political problem, cannot continue
with a people one-half Cliristian and
the other half pagan. This is particu
larly true of the leadership of a demo
cracy, which leadership' experience
shows must come from those with col
lege and university training. For the
Church therefore to lose contact with
thousands of the future leaders of the
State during the four years of their
training in our State institutions is to
invite disaster. The rocks'lie aliead,
immediately ahead, unless we can keep
the 1‘ontact clear at this point and bring
religion as a constructive force to bear
on the life of those young men and
young women who elect to go to the
State schools rather than to our Chris
tian schools.
What are we going to do about it?
It is useless to criticize our State
schools. They cannot remedy the situ
ation. It is the duty of the churches
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From 9 o’clock to 10 each morning,
beginning July 31, Miss Emma G. Le-
men. Children’s Division Superintendent
of the Pennsylv.ania State Sabbath
School Association, will conduct a class
especially planned for workers with
children under 12 years of age.
Miss Lemen is well qualified for this
work. She is a graduate of Shortridge,
and Indianapolis Normal Training
School, and of the Geneva International
Training School. For seven years she
was Superintendent of Children’s Work
in the Indiana State Association, and
for three years she has been connected
with the Pennsylvania work. Her rec
ord in both states for constructive work
has been splendid. She has spent much
time in summer schools both as instruc-
, tor and scholar.
Mr. Walter E. Myers, Pennsylvania’s
State Secretary, speaks very highly of
Miss Lemen’s work, and her work will
doubtless be a very great contribution
to the Chautauqua program.
Ever since the beginning of the Chau
tauqua and School of Methods, Mr. Her-
mon Eldredge has been interested in
its work and progress, serving as vieo-
president for a number of years, a>4
appearing on the program at several
sessions. Mr. Eldredge is a leading lay
man in the Christian Church of thi
United States, and has long been iden
tified with her work. For two years
he served as Field Worker of the Poan-
sylvania State Sabbath School Associa
tion, and then entered the Erie, Penn
sylvania Young Men’s Christian Asso
ciation as Religious Work Director and
■Executive Secretary of the Erie Men^s
Inter-Church Federation. During tho
war he served as Y. M. C. A. Secretary
at the Officers’ Training Camp at Fort
Niagara, N. Y., at the regular army
camp at Syracuse, N. Y., and as Gen
eral Secretary of the work at Camp Up
ton, Long Island. On January 1 of this
year, Mr. Eldredge began work for tho
Christian Church as Field Secretary of
Young People’s Work of the Board of
Christian Education, and Editor of
Young People’s literature. He comes
to the Chautauqua at Elon after visit
ing and teaching in summer schools in
Palmer College, Mo., and Union Chris*
tian College, Indiana, and with a knowl
edge of the work of the Christiam
Church gained from his extensive trar-
els.
“Youth and the Church” by Cynthia
Maus will be the textbook which Mr.
Eldredge will used in his class at Eloa,
a class in which young people and lead
ers of young people will be especially
interested.
HERMON ELDREDGE
MISS EMMA G. LEMEN
America has always preferred to take
her great men from the soil. Rarely
has she bestowed her choice on those
nourished where city pavements sepa
rate them from the mother of us all.—
Calvin Coolidge.
DR.RDWLANO TO CONDUCT
CHADTADIjUA SERVICES
Franldin Pastor to Be in Cliarge of
Morning Worship and Churcli
Services.
There are mighty few “easy marks^
living in ‘ ‘ Easy Street. ’ ’
Your friends come in without knock
ing; your enemies knock without com
ing in.
“The Church” will be the general
theme of the periods of morning wor
ship which will open the Chautauqua
day under the leadership of Eev. G. H.
Eowland, D. D., of Franklin, Virginia,
former President of the Chautauqua.
The five themes chosen are as follows;
(1) Tha Living Church, (2) The Work
ing Church, (3) The Power of the
Church, (4) The Vision of the Churck,
and (5) The Hope of the Church.
These will be times of rich spiritual
meditation and worship. Very fitting
is it to open the day with the thought
of the Church, whose program the whole
gathering is met to further.
Dr. Eowland will preach at the Sa«-
day morning service on ‘ ‘ ChautauqBA
Sunday,” August 5,