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VOLUME V.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C, AUGUST 15, 1923
NUMBER 6
CHmSTimi EDUCATIOII
IS URGED BY PRESIDENT
Dr. Harper Speaks His Mind Eegardlng
TU3 Great Modem Issue in
Educntion.
Knowledge will not saye the world,
alse Greece would never have descended
from her pinnacle of fame. Belief will
Bot lave the world, else there would be
no hell, because the Scriptures tell us
the devils believe and tremble, but they
are devils still.
And so the extreme modernists and
tha extreme fundamentalists are both
wrong. The modernist or the higher
eritic or the scientist or whatever you
wish to call the man who assumes that
le»rning, knowing, accurate scholarship
will save, is ignorant of the racial ex
perience with sin. Knowledge has its
place, but it is in itself powerless as a
regenerative force. The fundamentalist
or authoritarian or whatever you call
him who assumes that the acceptance
of certain revealed truths will save is
Ignorant of the Scriptures from which
hi« truths are taken and also of the
racial experience with sin. Belief has
its function, but it in itself is .powerless
a« a regenerative force.
Wherein then is our hope?
It is in a personal experience with
God, using both knowledge and belief
as paths of approach to and understand
ing of Him. How are we to secure such
a co-ordination of the essential forces
that make for Christian character? The
an«wer is easy and based on the racial
judgment—it is through Christian edu
cation, whose foundational purpose is to
unite experience of God, knowledge and
revelation into a beautiful and sym
metrical character. Out of institutions
dedicated to this ideal have arisen the
ministers and the lay leaders of the
Kingdom of God. It can not continue
to be otherwise. Christian education is
the hope of the world. It is the fate
of Christianity. As goes Christian edu
cation, so goes the Church of the living
God, and as goes the Church, goes the
nation. Education other than that of
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COKTMEBCIAL CLASS
CDADTIIUpil IS LARGEir
mENDED BY WORKERS
Many Prominent Sp«alter« Pre»«iit—18f
Certificate* Are Avardad
For Wort.
FOOIBAtL SCHEDULE IS
PROMW FOR ELON
Some Very Important Games Scheduled
For Approaching Season—Will
Play Trinity Twice.
iniitH OF
BULLETIN IS NOW READY
DB. J. XJ. NEWMAN
Professor of Greek and Bible
With the advent of the football sea
son just around the corner and the
training season w'ithin sight, the lovers
of this greatest of collegiate sports are
looking forward to the greatest season
the Old North State has ever enjoyed.
Along with* the other colleges, Elon in
sliaping up for the coming gridiron bat
tlei.
The prospects at Elon are not as
bright perhaps as at some of the other
colleges from the point of material
available, but Coach Corboy seems to
have the habit of putting out winning
combinations regardless of the lack of
experienced material with which to
work.
Dr. Newman is the senior professor
of the College. He is the only member
of the faculty who has been with the
College as a tea.cher since its organiza
tion. He came to the College while it
was still the Graham school in 1888,
and moved to Elon with the College.
He served for many years as Dean^ of
the College and acting' president during
the administration of Dr. W. W. Staley.
He has taught almost every subjert dur
ing his connection with the institution,
but is now settled in the department of
Greek and Bible.
He is a graduate of the University
of North Carolina, and has studied in
many of the leading universities all
over the United States, including Tale
and Chicago.
Dr. Newman is an ordained minister
nnder the Christian Conference, but his
life has been largely given to the work
of teaching. In this way he has touch
ed the life of practically every minis
ter in the'Christian Church in the South
and has done more than any other liv
ing man to shape the thought of the
Church. He stands for the important
essentials of Christianity, aad his life
hjLS been given to the teaehing of these
Grady Brown, Fix, and Captain Perry,
of last year’s team have graduated.
Hal Clark and Gantz left college be
fore the end of the college year and
are not eligible for competition this
year. The first three mentioned have
another year of college football to play,
but they are not expected to return.
The loss of Perry will be felt keenly,
as he was regarded by many as the
best field general in the State last fall.
There is still some hope of his return
ing. The rest of last year’s squad are
expected to return and among the
scrubs of last year are several good
prospects for this year.
The schedule as arranged is perhaps
the hardest ever attempted by any
small college in the South. The season
opens September 22 with Davidson at
Davidson, and following this game
Lynchburg at Lynchburg October 20,
Emory and Henry at Elon October 27,
then the big game of the season with
Trinity at Cone Park, Greensboro, No
vember 3. This game is looked forward
to by every student, alumnus, and
friend of Elon as the big game of the
season, and much of the success of the
season rests upon the result of this af
fray. It will undoubtedly draw the
largest crowd of any that has ever at
tended a football game in Greensboro,
for both teams will be primed for the
event. Trinity would perhaps rather
be beaten by any other team in the
country than Elon, and Elon would
rather win from Trinity than any other
on the schedule. A real battle can bo
expected. On the occasion of the two
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TeUs of Changes in Faculty—College
Handbook Also to Come From
the Press Soon.
The opening number of the College
Bulletin has just come from the press
and is now being malied out. The Bul
letin makes note of a number of fac
ulty changes, of new courses added,
and gives other information of inter
est to both old and new students.
The ■ Handbook of the College will
also go to press at an early date. The
dean of the College, Prof. A. L. Hook,
is now at work revising the Handbook
and preparing it for the printer. The
Handbook last year was very popular,
and it will be even better this year.
The book is planned for the infor
mation and convenience of the students,
and will contain mucli that is import-
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DR. LAWRENCE GOES ON
BIG BOOK-BUYING TRIP
The Old Library is Bapidly Being Re
placed With Thousands of
New Volumes.
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Dr. W. P. Lawrence, head of the de
partment of English Literature, having
for some time been engaged in the task
of selecting books for the new library,
writes very interestingly of his impres
sions, as follows:
PROF. A. L. HOOK
Professor of Physics and Dean of the
College
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Professor Hook is the successor of
Dr. W. P. Lawrence as Dean of the
College, and in that position has made
many friends among the students. Dean
Hook is one of the most popular mem
bers of the faculty, and he has well
retained his popularity during his dean-
ship.
Dean Hook is in charg^ of the phys
ics department of the College^ and has
well prepared himself for this work by
study in a number of the leading Uni
versities of the country, including Cor
nell and Johns Hopkins.
He was graduated from Elon in 1913,
and began his work of teaching in the
College in the same year. He is now
entering on his teatk yatir of this work.
Even since I read, some years *go,
Dean Swift's delightful book bearing
the title, ‘‘The Battle of the Books,'"
in which volume he moat delightfully
endows books on the shelves of a li
brary with human faculties, — I My>
ever since first reading that volume, the
rows on rows of books in a library have
assumed a livelier interest for me
Books now, standing on library shelves,
are to me when I come into their pres
ence with uncovered head and silent
foot-fall, as so many citizens of more
or less intellectual renown gravely look
ing at me and deftly beckoning me to
join them in converse. And some books
are highly entertaining and instructive
talkers, while now and then you will
find one that is an insufferable bore
or, perhaps, it may possess such mor-
phic charm as to put you to sleep before
you have waded through a dozen lines
With this feeling about books, it was
my pleasure recently to visit some of
our large American cities to select an
installment of books for the Elon Li
brary. I was to seek first, books of
general reference, and secondly, general
literature and the more technical books
for the various departments. There
were to be bought dictionaries in the
various languages from Greek to Span
ish, and encyclopaedias, and an infinite
variety of complete technical treatises.
Books were to be found on the English
language and literature, the German
the Greek, the Latin, the French, and
the Spanish languages. Books were
wanted on fiction, on history, on biogra
phy, books of travel, of essays, of let-
tQj'S, of sermons, of Biblical treatises,
Biblical commentaries, books on sociol
ogy, education, and a variety of other
subjects that would make the list too
long for this place. But it may inter
est some to add that many books were
found on geology, zoology, mineralogy,
botany, biology, music, the useful arts,
domestic science, and commercial art.
Of all book stores visited, the Leary
Book Store at Philadelphia was the
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The Chautauqua asid School of
i ods of the Southern Chrietian Cobt^-
tion began its sessions here on July 8%
and continued through Auguat 5. Tk«
Chautauqua was the beit in the histoiy
of the movement in the Chriitift*
Church, and brought to the College som*
I of the most eminent leaden of
i church.
During the morning iesiioni elasM*
for definite study were offered, and cmx-
tificates awarded. There wer« 120 reg
istrations, and at the morning gerric^
on Sunday, August 5, 138 certiflcatM
were awarded.
Nine courses were offered, any tlir«a
of which one person might take. CourB«*
in Young People’* Work, Elementarj
and Children's Work, Organzation
Administration, were offered during tid
first hour under Mr. Hermon Eldredge,
Field Secretary of Toung Peopl«'»
Work; Miss Emma G. Lemen, a mem
ber of the Sunday School staff of tk«
State of Pennsylvania, and Eev. Edwim
B. Flory, pastor of the First Christiaa.
church of Norfolk.
During the second hour Dr. W. If.
Staley taught a course for pastors, B«t.
J. H. Lightbourne a course for youmg
people in the state, and Dr. H. Sheltoa
Smith gave a course in Graded Social
Service for the Sunday school. Tk«
third period was the lecture hour, and
at the first three meetings Dr. Eoy G.
Helfenstein gave three lecture*
Evangelism, his themes being,
tor»l Evangelism," ‘*A Church. Pro
gram of Evangelism,'’ and “Educa
tional Evangelism." Mr. Hermon Ild-
redge spoke at the fourth meeting, aad
Dr. J. O. Atkinson at the fifth. At tk*
fourth hour in the morning other classM
were offered: Christian Endeavor under
Rev. J. P. Morgan, pastor of the Wia-
chester, Va., Christian Church; Missioai
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DB. W. P. LAWRENCE
Professor of English
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Dr. W. P. Lawrence has been a meM-
ber of the Elon College faculty for 29
years. He began his work in the Eng
lish department in the fall following
his graduation, and has been with the
College since that time.
Dr. Lawrence was graduslted frost
Elon with the Ph. B. degree in 18&4.
He has since studied at the University
of North Carolina, the University of
Chicago, and Yale and Oxford, England.
He holds the M. A. degree from Yale
University, having received it in 1906.
Defiance College conferred the Lit. D.
degree on him in 1911.
Dr. Lawrence has been closely associ
ated with the work of the Christiam
Church, of which he is a member, and
with the affairs of the county and state
in which he lives. He has served ai
president of the North Carolina-Vir-
ginia Christian Conference, and as «.
member of the Mission Board of tkd
same conference and of the Soutkera
Christian Convention.
He has held the office of county com
missioner, and represented Alamance ia
the General Assembly in 1921. Ha kas
served his towa as mayor, and has b»«B
active ia erery forward-lookiag eadeav-
or of the cematy.