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maroon and gold flj^atoon anD d5olD Meml)er of the North CaroUna CoUe glate Press Association Published Weekly by the Students of ELON COLLEGE Entered at the Post-Office at BIob Col lege, N. C., as second-class matter. Two Dollars Per College Year Sion M. Lynam Edito W. B. Terrell Managing Ji.dit _ W. C. Elder Business Manager B. W. Utley Ass’t Business Mgr. OnrtiB Price Advertising Manager /. O. Atkinson, Jr. .. Ass’t Adv. Mgr. W. J. Hooks ..... Circulation Manager 8. L. Williams ... Ass’t Cir. Manager Kate Strader .... Ass’t Cir. Manager B. D. Clements Publicity Editor 0. W. Hook .... Editor for the Alumni Advertising Kates Upon Req.ue8t BRAIN AND BRAWN From his necl^ down a man is worth about three dollars a day. From his neck up he is invaluable. Anybody who , thinks knows this, and knows too that it is the man who i;ses his brain most wisely that achieves most. AN ARTICLE AND A LETTER OF INTEREST BASKETBALL TEAM Brawn is cheap. It rises and falls with the tide of business. Brain has alwaj's gone at a pre mium, and it always will be in de mand. The more elBciently your mind is trained the larger will be the opportunity. It is true thai. there is a crowd about the foot of the ladder of success, but there are very few on the top rung. Then, too' new rungs may be added, but never at the bottom. You are go ing to decide this vacation which place you shall occupy. You are going to east your lot with the crowd at the bottom or with the few at the top. You are going to ■ give yourself to brain or brawn. Whether or not you go to college will in a large measure make this decision permanent. You will have given yourself all but irrevocably to one or the other or these forces. We can not believe that any boy or girl who holds a fresh new high sehool diploma wants to stop,^ and be forever one of the multitude who press together for only a job which uses the man from his neck down and pays accordingly. We have a larger faith in our young people, and we believe that they wish to go on with their prepara tion, and that they wish to go on in order that they may become cre ators of new work for those who have failed in the crucial choice of life or those to whom the choice has never come and can never come. You stand face to face with one of the most vital choices of your life. You will price yourself from the neck down or from the neck up, and stamp that price upon your self. During this vacation you are going to choose brain or brawn, and we ask, “Which!” the race, he would be at the mercy of faddists and reformers. Now it is pitiful that these two gen iuses do not recognize tbeir limitations, or rather, that others do not. It is hardly to be expected that they would. They are doing the aspiring youth of our day more irreparable injury than their inventional and organizational abilities can ever compensate. One Shakespeare with his idealism is worth more to humanity than a Western range crowded with Edisons and Fords. It is ideals that make men and women, that make life worth while. One single soul even undeveloped is of more worth than all the material substance of the world, declared the Man Who knew. A developed, educated sonl, who can es timate its worth? Let those who will elect to do so take the advice of Ford and Edison and de vote themselves to the material things of life. They will later on, when it is too late, regret it w'ith abiding sor row. Let all who aspire to the endur ing service of our race follow the Naz- arene in the fine estimate He placed on the soul and its developed capacity. Education is soul enlargement—that is all and that makes it a priceless, an enduring possession. Is college education worth while? It is if manhood outw^eighs materialism. It is if men are living spirits rather than pha,ntoms of clay. It is it we have in God a Father. the road to sleep as a part of the body is relaxed.” ■■Don’t preachers take expression?” ■■1-am sorrv to say that only a few do. It is too bad they don’t, for I think that they ought to know how to give the gospel in a pleasing and eCfec- tive manner.” ■‘Our preacher doesn’t have many gestures. Ought he to have many?” “That depends. Some need them and others use so many that they remind us of a windmill.” ‘■Well. 1 am going to take expres sion and I am going to do just as ymi want me to and do just like you.” “No, no, I don’t want you to imi tate me. I want you to develop your self and be a natural speaker and not an imitator or copyist. Come, let us go to the office to register.” The Article (Burlnigton Daily News, July 5, 1923) We are glad to note that a large num ber of Alamance county boys and girls are making reservations for the fall term of Elon College and the prospects are that the enrollment from this coun ty will be much larger this year than ever before. Our people are realizing that we have right in our midst a Grade “A” col lege, with all the advantages, and yet near enough home to save the expenses of travel, and near enough to permit the stiulent to visit home often without added expenses of travel. By the time that the college opens for the fall term they are going to have a good looking place with new buildings completed and with others nearing com pletion, and we are all going to be proud of our college. There is no college in the South that has such a program of building and" improvement mapped out as has Elon College. She is going to stand out in all her glory with hand some, modern buildings, beautiful sur roundings, and will attract the atten tion of the whole state. We have always been proud of Elon College and the great work that she has been doing, but it will be with in creased pride that we can point to her in the future. With her program of building and enlargement, with all the new and modern conveniences she will offer to the hoys and girls inducements that she has never been able to offer before. We are glad to knpw that there is such a demand for room from our boys and girls and we would like to see an enrollment this year of 100 from Ala mance county, and ,we believe that this number will not be missed very far when the fall term opens for business July l6, iQj, character is the guarantee of politic^ liberty. Ever since Ned Parker’s great on tion at the cornerstone laying of tl, Alamance Building I have been think ing along that line. You will reealU, said the people of Alamance had give; this building because they regardei Elon as true to the faith and ready ^ ways to train young people to walk ii Christian paths. This wise Chriatiai layman has correctly diagnosed the n piration that nerves the Elofa facult; in their work. If we know our hearts we crave to teach the Chriatiaj way in its beauty, its simplicity, aj, its finality. Ed Tate told me Cyclone Mack iuj sermop at Mebane said Elon waa oin of two colleges in North Carolina -woi thy to send a boy or girl to. I thiai “Cyclone” was mistaken about ti number, but we are glad he include Elon in his list. We hope always t kep it there and to deserve to be kej there. Brother Editor, we are grateful shall endeavor to prove ourselves woi thy of your confidence and highest ei peetation. W. A. HARPER. THREE GREAT COURSES TO be given AT CHAUTAUQUA (CoDtinued from Page One) served with the A. E. F. in France. He is Secretary of the Sunday School Con vention of the Eastern Tirginia Con- ] ference. and also eliairmaii of the Chris tian Education Coniinittee of that Con ference. Best of all he is a ‘‘\oiing Folks Man” and the young people at the Chautauqua are going to be glad for this coure=e on the program. AN EXPRESSION TEACHER DISCUSSES HER SUBJECT (Continued from Page One) DR. HARPER POINTS OUT TWO LIVING MISTAKES (Continued from Page One) ment rooted in the past experiences of War. A man with any knowledge of history and uny understanding of hu man passions under tense excitement could not have dreamed such a falla cious undertaking. But Ford has a con tempt for history. He declares it is ^‘all bunk.” His lack of the knowl edge of it made him act “punk” in 1915. Ford says college graduates also are bunk. He advises that a man learn a trade as he did and let college alone. And now this same Henry aspires to be President. There is no questioning his patriotism. There is no questioning Ms business acumen and organizational ability. But how could he handle the astute statesmen of Europe? He would be like a candle-fly before a blazing torch, the easy prey and victim of every designing politician of pleasing mien the world over. With no basis of judg ment roote din the past experiences of spent your time and money in vain. You will be able to help others as well as being helped yourself in many dif ferent ways. ’ ’ “I don’t see what they could be. t thought you learned not to be scared before a crowd.” “That isn’t all. You’ll be given voice exercises so that your tone will have more volume, duration, intensity and carrying power. “I was in « contest once and earned the medal. Do you want me to speak for you?” “I should be delighted but I fear that would not settle the question at issue. You have several attributes that would be very effective for you as a speaker.” “Oh, what are they?” “Your voice isn’t harsh or rasping. I am glad you can open your mouth when you talk, for it is so annoying to ^ try to understand a mumbler or a droner. ” “Say, our preacher is like that. My father says it is time wasted to go and look at him, for he mumbles along and puts most of the old folks to sleep. Not very many of us young folks go but when we do we just get restless or visit.” “Unless the speaker is master of the situation, has a splendid voice, a thrill ing message, an animated body, his audience will go to sleep. The speaker has a right to expect his audience to ^ sleep, for when one is seated he is on A CYNIC’S PHILOSOPHY When a man is young, the old girls kiss him, and when he is old, the young girls kiss him. Tf he is poor, he is a bad manager. If he is rich, he is dishonest. If he needs credit, he cannot get it. If he is prosperous, everyone wants to do him a favor. If he is in politics, he is in for graft If he is not in politics, he is no good to his country. If he does not give to charity, he mean and a tight wad. If he does give to charity, it is for show.—Exchange. A monkey belonging to a family liv ing in the fashionable Quai D^Orsay, Paris, trapped a burglar. When the burglar entered a clothes closet the monkey locked the door and when the owner returned home the monkey proud ly turned the prisoner over to him. The Letter Elon College, N. C., July 7, 1923. Mr. O. F. Crowson, Editor, Burlington, N. C. Dear Brother Crowson:— I liave returned to the office to see vour fine news item relative to Elon in your issue of July 5. Permit me to express to you my grateful apprecia tion for the spirit that prompted this statement on your part and my heart felt thanks to my fellow-citizens of Ala mance for their liberal and loyal sup- j.ort of their college. This is a time when I long for eloquence and for an exuberant vocabulary. I would spread it on thick. I am absolutely sure that no college anywhere ever had a more unalloyed support than Elon has from onr AlamancerS. Permit me, too, to say that Elon feels under lasting obligation to do full duty by the county that has done so much for her. The records show that about 60 per cent of a student body came from/within a radius of 50 miles from a college. This means that Elon is in a peculiar sense the bounden servant of tlie boys and girls of our county. She will never say “No” to any Alamance boy or girl of character that knocks at her doors for entrance. We want tc instill in all who come here for lif»> preparation the spirit of the early Reg ulators, which united a fervent religious zeal with ardent love of freedom. A democracy cannot subsist save on a basis of spiritual citizenry. Christian HOW TO KNOW YOU ARE EDUCATED When is one educated in the bei sense of the word? A professor in tin University of Chicago is said to Ui told his pupils that he should conside them truly educated when they cooli answer affirmatively these fourtee questions: 1. Has your education given syi pathy with all good causes and you espouse them? 2. Has it made you public-spirited! 3. Has it made you a brother to tii weak? 4. Have you learned how to mal friends and keep them! 5. Do you know what it is to bei friend yourself? 6. Can you look an honest man or pure woman straight in the eye? 7. Do you see anything to love in little child? 8. Will a lonely dog follow you I; the street? 9. Can you be high-minded and happ in the meaner drudgeries of life! 10. Do you think washing dishes fti hoeing corn just as compatible wit high thinking as piano playing or goll 11. Are you good for anything 4 yourself? Can you be happy alone? 12. Can you look »ut on the world fli see anything except dollars and cent 13. Can you look into a mud pudfi by the wayside and see anything i the mud puddle except mud? 14. Can you look into the sky at nigi and see beyond the stars? Can yw soul claim relationship with the Cj ator?”—Selected. ANOTHER SUNSET The curtains of the world were draw And wild enchantment thralled; I stood a worshipper forlorn While beauty lured and called. The folding billows of the sky Aflame with wild desire,— A luscious oriental eye Caught with hesperian fire. Ah, I shall never see again Such majesty of art, And may I never feel sure pais And poverty of heart! For all the languages of earth Approach in mute despair, And every word that leaps to birth But dies in worship there! I yearned to plimge my inner sonl Into that vmi expanse Where ever-^fdening glories roll And myst^y enchants. Well might !t\e day to evening turn Its gathcired wealth and power, There in tile glory-west to burn And die/in such an hour! —Dallas Walton Newaoffl. Durhart. N. C. TENNIS TEAM Immijyrants from eastern and ern Europe to the United States in « last 2:0 years have been nearly W those fjpni northern Europe a® Britis ij jaies.
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