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VOLUME V.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., AUGUST i. 1923
NUMBER 5
NEW BUILDING PROGRAM
IS GREAT FORWARD STEP
Sis Hundred Thousand Dollars to 1)6
Added to Ectuipment and
Endowment.
SOUTH FACADE OF THE GREATER ELON PROGRAJV|
This year marks the beginning of an
era of expansion and enlargement for
Elon College, a long felt need on the
campus because of the crowded condi
tions of the work of administration
during the past several years. The goal
of $300,000.00 for new buildings and
equipment, campaign for which was be
gun in January following the destruc
tion by fire of the Administration
building, has been practically reached
and the result is that four new fire
proof buildings of modern design are
now under construction.
With the completion of this rebuild
ing program, including four large build
ings in all, Elon will be amply housed
and equipped to render the best pos
sible service to her students, and
through them to the State. Two of
these buildings, the administration and
auditorium buildings, will be opened
for the reception of students at the
beginning of the fall term, September
5th, and the other two will be finished
by the later fall.
The Administration building, to be
known as Alamance Hall, the money for
the erection of which was given by the
citizens of Alamance county, will house
all offices and class rooms of the liter
ary and special departments. The corn
erstone of this building was laid at
commencement the last of May. The
Whitley Memorial building, the money
for the erection of which was donated
by J. M. Darden of Suffolk, Va., will
be occupied by the college auditorium
and the Music Department of the col
lege, with ample space for all music
practice rooms. The completion of this
building, which is to be opened on Sep
tember 5th, registration day for the fall
term, will give Elon one of the most
attractive auditoriums on the campus
of any North Carolina college. Corner
stone for this building was laid on)
May 23rd. The Science Hall will pro
vide ample space for all the laboratories
and shops of the Science and Engineer
ing Departments, and the Library build
ing will have space for the accommoda
tion of 100,000 volumes.
While no new dormitories are being
built this year, the removal of the
Music Department and practice rooms
from the West Dormitory, and class
rooms and laboratories and work shops
from the other buildings now in use,
will give considerably more dormitory
space to be occiixjieil by students as
rooming quarters. This expansion has
long been needed in the work of Elon
College, and with the four new build
ings to be erected tliis year and the
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Whitley Memorial Building
(Giveu by J. M. Darden)
Library Buildiug
Back
Alamance Hall
(Giveu by the Citizens of Alamance County)
Scieuoe Hall
(Given by Many Friends)
Religious Activities Building
Back
MANY NEW MEMBERS
ARE ADDED TO FACULTY
DEATR CLAIMS DEVOTED
SUPPORTER OF COLLEGE
Col. J. D. Gray, Many Years Member
of Board of Trustees, Passes
to His Eeward.
It is hard to realize that so forceful
and consecrated man as J. D. Gray has
fallen in the very bloom of efficient
manhood. Brother Gray was but fifty-
three, yet in that brief span of years
he did more constructive work than
most men of equal ability can do in a
life time. He was a splendid executive.
Organization and co-operation were na
tive to his life. He also had the rare
faculty of concentration, not the con*
LOSING OF STUDENTS IS
PROBLEM OF COLLEGES
Harper Gives Reasons After
Twelve Years Experience as
College President.
The record shows that about one-
third of a Freshman Class will gradu
ate from college. Why do the two-
thirds fall by the way?
Financial reasons immediately sug
gest themselves, because it costs money
to go to college. My observation, how
ever, inclines me to the conviction that
lack of money is oftentimes a help
rather than a hindrance in securing
a college education. In some cases
TWO FRIENDS OF ELON
ARE CLAIIiED BY DEATH
John A. Mills and R. L. Holt Pass
Away—Elon Mourns Loss
of Friends.
Brother John A. Mills^ Raleigh, N. C.^
for many years treasurer of the South
ern Christian Convention and Elon
trustee, fell sick on May 21. He went
to John Hopkins Hospital and was re
ported as doing well, when just as he
was about to gladden the hearts of his
friends by a return to his home, he
was taken suddenly ill again and pass
ed away on July 13 in Baltimore.
Brother Mills was a splendid type of
THE MUSIC CLASS.
PROF. O. W. JOHNSON,
Who will bead Departmeut of Education
ceutration of narrowness, but concen
tration of broad-guaged efficiency. 1
have known no business man who could
see dearer into a proposition than he,
low wlio could see into it so well. Life
is poorer by reason of his translation.
And I say translation advisedly, for
Brother Gray was a Christian first and
a business man second. He had no dif
ficulty in squaring his religion with his
business. He worked hard and prosper
ed, but he would not prosper by dubious
methods. ‘‘Value received” was his
motto In every deal. He always want
ed to pay for an article what it was
worth and he never wanted more for an
article than it was worth. Business to
him was not a game of chance in which
one loses while another wins, but a
method of mutual exchange of service
by which both parties profited. He had
no sympathy with get-rich quick
schemes. He did not want something
for nothing. Straight, honest business
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where the labor of a son or daughter is
rciiuired to support the home, this
reason holds, but for the aspiring, hard
working student straitened circum
stances do not bar the way to the com-
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Departments Are Strengthened—^Few
Changes Made in Teaching Force
of College.
Elon begins her thirty-fourth fall
term on September fifth. The prospect
is that we shall have an excellent ses
sion. Faithful and efficient service has
been rendered on the part of the office
force. Their work should be rewarded
with a splendid opening.
There are a few changes and addi
tions to the Faculty and Administrai^ive
Force, though the great majority of
those who served Elon last year will
serve her again. It takes a continuing
personnel to make a really great col
lege. In this respect Elon is fortunate.
She is fortunate, too, |n the class of
added officers of instruction and ad
ministration listed below.
Prof. H. Babcock, M. A., becomes
head of the new -department of Eng
lish Language. Dr. Lawrence has for
a long time needed an all-time professor
to handle this work. Prof. Babcock
is a born teacher, graduate and former
instructor in Elon, graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia and comes back to
Alma Mater from William and Mary
College.
Prof. 0. W. Johnson, M. A., Elon and
the University of Virginia, succeeds Dr,
Wicker as head of the Department of
Education and Philosophy. He has had
twenty years experience as a teacher
and is highly recomjnended by the Uni
versity of Virginia for this position.
Miss Lydia A. Berkley, graduate of
the Music Department of Hiram^ Ober-
lin and the Cincinnati College of Pine
Arts, becomes head of the Piano and
Organ Departments here. She has fill
ed many college positions and is
eminently qualified for her work.
Miss May L. Stanley, graduate of
Yale University, special student of
Violin in Berlin and Austria, who has
had several years experience in College
teaching and is excellently qualified for
her w’ork, becomes head of the Violin
Department and assistant in Piano.
Miss Deloris Morrow, A. B., Elon and
special student of Columbia, become!
head of the Domestic Science and Physi
cal Culture Departments.
Senor Manuel Rodriguez, of our
Porto Rican Church, becomes instructor
in his native tongue, the Spanish, suc
ceeding Victor M. Rivera who returns
to Porto Rico as a missionary to his
own people.
Mrs. Mary B. Runge becomes resi
dent nurse and matron. She is a form
er student, knows Elon, and loves it.
Miss Louise Savage becomes Dean
of Women and Head Librarian. Dr.
Helfenstein's w’ork in Latin and Ex
pression grew to such proportions last
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PROF. H. BABCOCK,
Who joins Faculty as Head of Depart
ment of EngUsh Composition.
business man. He never got angry.
No provocation seemed to disturb his
smile. He was a real captain of in
dustry, suececding in various lines of
endeavor. His most notable industrial
achievement was the building of the
Raleigh and Southport Railroad, now
the Norfolk & Southern. In many ways
Brother Mills showed his deep interest
in Elon and the last time I saw him
lie made a substantial donation to the
Emergency Fund. The reality of the
spiritual world was a vital conviction
of Brother Mills. He believed in it
with all his exuberant enthusiasm. To
him the doctrine of immortality was
more than a hope; it was a practice as
well.
Our third friend to pass away was
Col. Robert L. Holt, who in his 57th
year, passed to his reward on July
15th. I was returning from Brother
Gray’s funeral when word reached me
of Col. Holt’s sudden decease. In this
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MISS DELORIS MORROW,
Now Head oi Domestic Science Dept.