July i6, 1923
MAROON AND GOLD
Page Three
THE EFIRD CHAIN
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Concord, N. 0.
Gastonia, N. 0.
Winston-Salea. N. 0.
Boot ma s. 0;
Durham, K. C.:
Colam'bia, S. C.
Bocky Mount, N. 0.
Sallsl3ur7, N. G.
High Point, N. 0.
Andersen, S. 0.
Baleigh, N. C.
Greenville, S. C.
Monroe, K. C.
Greer, S. 0.
Spartanburg, S. C.
Laurtnburg. N. C.
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BFIBD CHAIN STOBES AT
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Greenwood, S. C.
Burlington, N. C.
Lomberton, N. C.
Lincolnton, N. 0.
Slielby, K. C.
Cherryvllle, N. 0.
Forest City, N. 0.
Lenoir, N. C.
Wilson, N. 0.
StatesTlUe, N. 0.
Danville. Va.
Sumter, S. 0.
Wlimington, N. C.
Goldsboro, N. C.
Albemarle, K. C.
EFIRD’S
NEAR POSTOFFICE
BURLINGTON, N. C.
Ten Elon Alumni Are
Given Higher Degrees
Five Universities Confer Honors—Two
Ph. D/s Are Received
and One M. D.
Ten Elon alumni received higher de
grees at recent university commence
ments. During the past year many
Elon alumni were taking graduate
work. Two of the ten degrees award
ed to Elon alumni were Ph. D.'s. Such
a record bespeaks for the college a
high order of training.
Among those receiving degrees were
D. r. Parsons, Ph. D., University of
Chicago; H. Shelton Smithy Ph. D., Yale
University; E. H. Rainey, B. D., Yale
Universityj J. G. Truitt, B. D., Prince
ton University; C. P. McNally, M. S.,
University of Virginia. The University
also awarded the M. A. degree to the
following: H. Babcock, Miss Hattie E.
Brown, and O. W. Johnson.
H. T. Floyd received the M. D. de
gree from Johns-Hopkins University,
and H. C. Amick was awarded an M. A.
by the University of North Carolina.
During the pasct year Elon had elev
en men studying in theological semi
naries, according to an investigation
of the American Association of Colleges.
This number was larger than any other
North Carolina college excepting David
son. Besides these men in theological
seminaries Jill over the country, there
were a number' of other Elon alumni
taking graduate work.
A college which can give to its stu
dents a taste for knowledge and send
them on to other universities has cer
tainly achieved a real service for the
country.
Elon graduates have always proved
very efficient in university work, and
have made for the college a fine repu
tation. They have- held some of the
highest honors in scholarship, and have
received words of highest praise from
various university authorities. All these
things reflect credit on the institution
from which they hold their first degree.
WHO AND WHERE
W. G. Stoner was a recent visitor on
the hill. Mr. Stoner was graduated with
the class of ’23, and is now associated
with the Wear-Ever Aluminum Com
pany. He is meeting with much suc
cess in his work.
O. B. Gorman, ’22, visited the hill re
cently. Mr. Gorman is also with the
Wear-Ever Aluminum people, and has
been since his graduation.
R. O. Smith, ’22, left on July 5 to
attend the Columbia University Sum
mer School.
Mr, and Mrs. R. S. Rainey, ’22 and
’23, respectively, have finished their
work at the Burlington summer school,
and have returned to their home at
Gprdonsville, Ta.
Miss Hattie E. Brown, '19, was a re
cent visitor on the hill.
Miss Deloris Morrow, ’22, is attend
ing’summer school at Columbia Univer
sity. Miss Morrow will join the fac
ulty here during the coming year as
head of the domestic science depart
ment. She is well qualified for the
position.
Dr. H. T. Floyd, ’19, is now stationed
with a government hospital in Panama.
He was graduated from the Johns-Hop
kins University medical college at the
last commencement.
M. J. W. White, Jr., ’23, is now at
Johns-Hopkins University doing work
on his M. D.
Dr. J. Pressley Barrett for many
years a member of the Board of Trus
tees of the college, is going to makc-
his home here. Dr. Barrett has given
up his active pastorate, and will devote
his time entirely to the editing of the
Christian Sun.
The following Elon students and
alumni are attending the summer school
at the University of North Carolina;
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Powell, J. S. Tru
itt, B. F. Cozart, L. D. Martin, R. K.
Hancock, Jaunita Pinnix, H. L. Thomas,
J. S. Fleming, Mabel Farmer, Frances
Hales, Louise Alcorn, C. L. Walker, J.
D. Barber, G. D. Colclough, Marjorie
Perry, Etheleen Eure, Ola Wise Everett,
Bess Nicholson, L. R. Sides, T. S, Cheek.
Thelma Parvin, William Poe, J. D. Mes-
sick, Vada McMurray, Nina Graham,
Kara Graham, Irene Stephens, Drucill:i
Dofflemy^r, P. P. Hatly, C. R. Hutchin
son, W. R. Hardesty, Nell Fisher, E. B.
Page, Irene Pritchett, E. 0. Randolph,
O. C. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Des
kins, I. O. Hauser, L. B. Ezell.
Among the one-time Elonites are T.
G. Henderson, W. D. Henderson, Gar
land Henderson, R. A. Davis, Jr.
The following former Elon students
are making Chapel Hill their headquar
ters at the present time: R. J. Morton,
F. M. Cheek, Frank Cheek, and Rev.
B. J. Howard.
Coach P. B. Corboy
ENCOURAGING TAIjENTED
CHILDREN
One more thing that I should try to
do if I were a country teacher is this:
I should try to keep on the lookout
for talented children. “I never go into
a country graveyard,” says a great
Southern orator I know, “without
thinking of the possibilities of leader
ship in art, science, literature, music,
and statesmanship forever lost to our
section through the failure to educate
our people.” The same thought comes
out in Gray’s immortal “Elegy in a
Country Churchyard.” As the poet
Vachel Lindsay has so beautifully said:
“Because of their closeness to the
earth, the men on the farms increase
in stature and strength. And for this
very reason a certain proportion of their
children are being born with a finer
strength.
“The land is being jewelled with tal
ented children, from Maine to Califor
nia: souls dewy as the grass, eyes won
dering and passionate, lips that trem
ble. Though they be born in hovels,
they have slender hands, seemingly lost
amid the heavy hands. They have hands
that give way too soon amid the bitter
days of labor, but are everlastingly
patient with the violin, or chisel, or
brush, or pen.
“Yea, in almost every ranch-house
is born one flower-like girl or boy,
stranger among the brothers and sis
ters. Welcome, and a thousand wel
comes, to these fairy changelings! They
will make our land lovely. Let all of
us who love God give our hearts to
these His servant. They are born with
eyes that weep themselves blind, un
less there is beauty to look upon. They
are endowed with souls that are self-
devouring, unless they be permitted to
make music, each establishing his own
dream visibly in the world.”
There are many such things that I
should like to do if I were a country
teacher. I shoul try to encourage boys
and girls, “to burgeon out all there is
within them.” I should encourage them
to choose occupations for service and
usefulness rather than money or ease.
I should encourage them to make and
save money not in order to be hoarders
but in order to become home-owners,
free from the actual menace of want in
middle life and old age. And I should
try especially to nurture and encourage
talented boys and girls of tender prom
ise.
I should try to inspire many with a
desire for college training. I should
seek to let no child leave my training
without having developed a love of
reading. I should encourage every boy
and girls to enroll in corn club, pig
club, canning club, etc. I should try
to have reproductions of some of the
world’s most beautiful pictures hung
the walls of each schoolroom. I
should try to get medical inspection of
all school children.—The Progressive
Farmer.
HIS ESTIMATE OF THE JURY
A certain lawyer had found the wit
ness difficult to manage, and finally ask
ed whether he was acquainted with any
of the men on the jury.
“Yes, sir,” replied the witness,
“more than half of them.”
“Are you willing to swear that you
know more than half of them?” de
manded the lawyer.
“Why,” retorted the witness, “if it
comes to that, I’m willing to swear that
I know more than all of them put to
gether. ’ ’—Harper’s.
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