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MAROON AND G OLD
August
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TWO WORLDS
THE COLLEGE BAND.
'9JJ /
NEW BUILDING PEOGEAM
IS GREAT FORWARD STEj
(Coutinued from
One)
Everybody lives in two worlds.
These worlds are very real and
afe distinct. Each of them has
its environment, and each of them
makes demands upon us who live
in them. There is a world of
things and a world of thought,
and we must, whether we will or
not, make provision for the needs
of these two worlds or be poverty
stricken.
There are men and women who
have given much attention to the
world of things, and have gather
ed about them many of the com
forts and luxuries of life, but who
have left all unmet the needs of
the other world in which they live.
These men and women are poor
indeed. It is bad to be poor in
things, but it is worse to be poor
in thought.
A college education pays fi
nancially, if we wish to place it
on purely a dollar and cent basis
which is the wrong basis. A col
lege education aids in getting; but
it is meant to aid in giving. It
gives a fuller meaning to life, and
makes living a better business.
It enriches the world of thought,
and that, after all, is the world
with which men and women must
reckon most.
There have been many measure
ments for- greatness. Most of
them fall into one of these three
classes. There was a time when
courage and prowess in war was
the test of greatness, again, and
that is all but true today, the
amount of money amassed was
the test, and the third is but com
ing into its own. The true test
of greatness is not found in the
fight, nor in the market place, but
the trus test is measured in the
service rendered mankind. Thai
test belongs to the world of
thought, and that world is slow
ly coming to predominate in the
lives of men and women today.
There are two worlds in which
we live, a world of things, and
a world of thought. During the
next few days you are going to
choose, as a high school graduate,
which of these worlds you will
make yours. You may be a busi
ness success without a college
education, but you can’t live the
largest life possible for you, and
you can’t give the most to the
world.
There are hewers of wood and
drawers of water who are rich in
the world of thought. They are
big men, and they live. They
are the men who give the world
its worth-while things, and enrich
the places in which they live.
They sing the songs of the world,
and all men echo them and are
glad. Those thinkers play the
music of the world and it rests.
They write the books ef the world
and help others to live as they
live, and see as they see the beau
tiful things of life. Their world is
a boundless world, and th«re is
mo arid desert there.
The werld of things ie a small
world bound by walls. There is
little beauty and no music. There
are few books, and much luxury
that isn’t restful. The souls of
those who live there are small
like the world in which they live,
and are branded with dollar
marks.
The world of things is a small
world, but the world of thought
is infinite. The Christian college
will open the gates of gladness
to you ; the gates to poetry, music,
and beauty. The Christian col
lege will make you fit for the gar
dens of God, and give you a place
therein. (
MANY NEW MEMBERS
ARE ADDED TO FACULTY.
(Continued from
One)
LOSING OF STUDENTS IS
PROBLEM OF COLLEGES
year with promise of still larger growth
for this session that she did not feel
she could’care for her teaching work
and deanship at the same time. Dr.
Helfensteiu will also teach Public
Speaking. Miss Savage accordingly be
comes Dean of Women. She is a de
vout member of the Liberty Spring
Christian Church and loves young peo
ple. She has had several years ex-
jerience as dean of the Fort Loudon
Seminary, Winchester, Va. She comes
to Elon aflame with enthusiasm for
her work and determined to meet every
requirement. She is fully qualified to
do so. Miss Savage was trained in
Randolph-Macon and the University of
Virginia.
Prof. Paul S. Kennett becomes pro
fessor of Social Science' in addition to
his regular former work in History.
Pr. N. G. Newman is to give a course
in the History, PriucipleSj and Polity
of the Christian Church. All minis
terial students will be required to take
this course before graduation. Any
others who desire may clect it.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dollar become
the managers of the Men’s Co-operative
Club.-
(Continued from Page One)
pletion of a college course. Fwlly one-
third of those who hold Elon diplomas
have in one way or another contributed
toward paying their own expenses.
Colleges offer variouei means of self-
help and also have loan funds for de
serving students. To borrow money to
meet expenses, later paying it back, is
a most satisfactory way to earn one’s
^■av through college, because it enables
one to have time for the campus activi
ties and at the same time teaches the
sterling virtue of rigid economy. Not
how much earning power we have, but
liow we spend our earnings is the
determining factor between financial
success and failure in life.
Too much money will oftener pre
vent a student from graduating than
too little. The student whose parents
out of misjdaced affection supply him
with too Targe an outlay of money be
comes oftentimes flabby. Because
money comes easy to him, he is likely
to conclude that passing marks will
also come easy. He fails to apply him
self properly and is caught to his
chagrin by the gixty per cent rule,
which means that unless he passes at
least sixty per cent of his work he is
excluded from college. An allowance
is the best plan for parents able to
defray their son’s or daughter’s ex
penses, an allowance to which by
mutual agreement the son or daughter
Mull rigidly adjust expenditures. It is
not the charges for room, board, fees,
and tuition that make college education
expensive, but the incidental items,
which many a student cannot indulge,
that undermine health and character
and make graduation doubtful for tiiost
of the students in a modern college.
These are matters which manifestly no
college can control. There are few ex
cuses here at Elon for the needless ex
penditure of money, but even liero
parents at times complain that they do
not mind the necessary expenses. What
they cannot afford is the incidentals,
the non-essentials. Firmness at this
point on the part of parents will save
many a son or daughter to a college
degree. Indulgence will mean failure.
The policy along this line should be
determined in advance of entrance to
college.
Some, too, are eliminated from col
lege because of low mentality. Here
again the number is small. Failure to
apply one’s self diligently rather than
low mentality accounts for most fail
ures to pass college courses. The plod
ding student with good habits of study
is welcome to any college. Such a
student oftentimes distinguishes him
self and his Alma Mater during his
work years. Witness Senator Vance in
North Carolina.
Most of the two- thirds who drop
out without graduation come to college
from improper motives. They have ob
served that college graduates move in
the best social circles, and they have
social ambition. They have heard about
the big athletic events of the college
campus, and they want excitement.
They have heard that college graduates
supply the bulk of the nation’s leader-
sliip, and they want to be leaders, the
unwilling to pay the cost of leadership
Some few are morally unfit to remain
on a college campus.
The world needs trained men and wo
men of Christian character. College
administrators and parents must co
operate with our youth that more of
them may be enabled to complete the
arduous task of college graduation.
Human experience has found no dis
cipline so able to knit character for
the strain of leadership and service
through leadership comparable to the
four grilling years of the college cur^
riculum. I trust that Elon’s incoming
Freshman Class may come with high
purpose and noble consecration. The
j college can and will give itself unre-
. servedly to the life interest of such
promising leaders of human progress.
six others now in use Elon will been
of the best equipped schools of tl«
state to handle the enrollment, whijj
is limited to 400 students.
After completion of the program noi
under construction, the following ygj,
a Eeligious Activities building is to In
erected. The religious life and aetivj,
ties of the students demand such i
building on the campus of any Chriit
ian college. This need has been anti
cipated by Elon and plans are now lu
der way for the erection of suet i
building for next year.
Experience has shown that a soul
student body receives better attentioi,
more personal instruction, and prodncn
the best rfesults. By limiting the ®
rollment to 400 students, whether k
be Freshman or Senior, a student cii
get all, or practically all, of his couim
under the heads of departments. Tia
is not true where the student bodieisti
larger. Where the professors can gi?{
personal attention and individual
struction to students the resultB an
always found to be best.
In addition to the $300,000.00 prw
tically raised for buildings and equij
ment, a campaign for $300,000.00 addi
tional endowment is now under way,
which will take care of the inereani
cost of operating expenses incurred bj
the building program. This will relien
the necessity of increasing the expewe^
no increase of cost in any item of tii
college expenses having been made foi
the students this year.
DEATH CLAIMS DEVOTED
SUPPORTER OF COLLEQE
(Continued from Page One)
was his rule. T think he exemplified ii
his remarkably successful businw
career that the ‘‘golden rule’’ applid
in business as in morals. The woiK
needs more such men.
He recognized, too, the stewardibi}
of money. He delighted to give. Ti«
last time I talked with him, a mntnd
friend was mentionel. Quickly he »
plied that he did not look on giviij
as this friend did. “I think I ODgit
to give,” he continued, “and I enjoj
doing it.” A princely giver haa goni
out from our midst, whose future wodIJ
have meant larger things for the Kin}
dom of Christ. And so his taking awaj
is all the more a mystery and a sorroi
Some day we shall understand.
But I like to think of J. D. Gray i
his home, the gracious host, the lovin|
companion, the devoted father: in lu
Church, the deacon always at his po»
of duty and the Sunday school teacha
of a class of teen aged boys, every o»
of them heart broken over the death d
their tried friend and trusted leadei;
in his trusteeship of our College, tli
wise counsellor and liberal supporter,!
man of few words, but weighty in ^
judgments, judicious, and sane.
Brother Gray was also a member
the Emergency Fund Committee andtlii
last public meeting of any Church bodj
he attended away from hU home ttW
the meeting of this committee in 9'^'
folk in March. He left home sick in
order to attend. Here as always,
listened attentively to the plans
made the motion to undertake the
sent building program, saying “wenni*
go forward, not hesitate to go
ward.”
I knew that he was physically
ing, but I was not prepared for P
death. The telegram from his faithfiil
companion announcing his passage
the future life wounded me to the heart
I could not realize his death till by
,her aide in the stricken home I looifi^
into the lifeless face that had so oftflu
greeted me with smiles. Then I 1^°®’^
nay friend would be a memory and W
inspiration only for the years to com®.
THE COLLE&E OBCHESTRA.
©r. H. Shelton Smith will have ^
headquarters at Defiance, Ohio, in**®
of at Elon as announced in this colons
He will serve as Field Secretary
ganization and AdministratioB
the Board of Christian Education
fke American Christiican Conventien*
and®*
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