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VOLUME V.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C„ OCTOBER 17, 1923
NUMBER 13
Eloii Buried Under Heaviest
Score Of Season By The King
:e Mountain Tornado
College
thrilling game
55 to 6 Tells Story of Overwhelm
ing Victory of King College;
Elon Fights Manfully.
five elon players star
Local Paper Praises Christian Machine;
Smith, Kirkland, Sides, and Brown
Brothers Are Mentioned.
In one of the hardest fought games
of the seasoiij the Elou football team
lost to King College Saturday by the
score of 55 to 6. It was a glorious
defeat. King College received the big
end* of the score, but the Elon warriors
came out of the game knowing that
they had put their best into the fight.
This game was witnessed by the larg
est crowd of the season, who were treat
ed to thrills time and again.
The game started about 4:30 and con
tinued until the moon had risen and it
was hard to distinguish the players on
the field. It opened with Allston kick
ing off to Osbnrn, who returned it 10
yards. Osburn carried the ball outside
on the first play and they failed tc
gain on line plays. Orr kicked 50 yards
to Hainer, who fumbled on his 20-yard
Mne and Bhoades, left end for King,
recovered. This fumble gave King the
opportunity and Sharpe gained nine
yards on a crossbuck and Osburn made
it a first down by sneaking through
center for two yards. Allen gained six
yards on a crossbuck and Orr failed to
gain. Here Elon held for a down and
on the next play Sharpe slipped off
tackle for the first touchdown, Hainer
missing him in open field. Five min
utes after play was opened.* Osburn
failed to kick goal.
Allston kicked off to Sharpe and he
returned the ball seven yards. A series
of line plays netted a first down, but
here the Elon line broke through and
forced Orr to punt. He kicked 30 yards
to Kirkland and on Elon’s first offen
sive play a bad pass lost 10 yards. All
ston kicked to Osburnj who returned it
to the 30-yard line. A five-yard penalty
for offside playing was assessed King
and Orr broke loose through tackle for
35 yards and a touchdown. Osburn
kicked goal.
The game at this point became an
open passing game. Allston kicked off
for the third time and King was pen
alized 15 yards for holding, putting the
ball on the 15-yard line. Orr kicked
35 yards to Kirkland, who returned it
five yards. At tliis stage of the game
Elon, finding a weak spot in the King
line against Smith’s opponent and open
ing up a brand of passing that was ex
tremely saccessfnl, with the Brown boys
doing most of the receiving, opened up
an offensive that forced the King team
to backwater and ultimately scored
their lone touchdown.
Thompson was tossed over the back’s
head and Elon recovered the ball two
feet from the goal line. Kirkland car
ried the ball over the line on the next
play. Richardson was substituted for
Brown to kick goal and missed, the
ball going wide of the posts.
King received the ball, and before
the end of the half, by pretty playing
had added two more touchdowns. The
fact that McAdams elected to kick off
rather than receive gave King these
two touchdowns.
In the second half of the game the
defense of the Maroon and Gold team
stiffened, and for a time they threat-
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PROFESSOR GREENWOOD
ORGANIZES GLEE CLUB
Under the direction of Prof. W.
F. Greenwood a Girls Glee Club has
been organized herg. The club in
cludes 22 voices and will be trained
by Prof. Greenwood. They are now
arranging for some important en
gagements at various points in the
state.
The club is expected to be a dis
tinct contribution to the music de
partment of the College and will be
a means of valuable advertising.
The girls are enthusiastic over the
bright prospects for the club’s suc
cess.
EN-SIDNEY TO
PUT HERE smuoDiiy
Hard Game Is Expected—Will Be the
First Game of the Season on
the Home Gridiron.
PROF. JOHNSON SPEiS
Toy.
Discusses “Socialized Religion”—Tal%
Is Followed hy Informal Dis
cussion of Topic.
DR. HARPER GOES
TO DAYTON MEETING
NEW MEMBERS APPEAR
Those who attended the Y. M. C, A.
at its regular meeting Sunday night
heard a very interesting talk by Prof.
0. W. Johnson. He spoke of the sub
ject of “Socialized Heligiou, or Eelig-
ion Socialized.”
Prof. Johnson pointed out that a per
son’s religion didn^t amount to mucli
if it was only a Sunday religion. He
said tliat if our religion was to be the
religion of the Master we must have
it every day as well as Sunday, and
that whatever there was in this world
that did not measure up to the stand
ards of religion would either have to
be brought up to this standard or else
it would pass out of existence, even
though it might take a long time to
do so.
After Prof. Johnson’s talk the meet
ing was thrown open for general dis
cission. Dr. Lawrence led a very in
teresting discussion and many helpful
thoughts were brought out.
The Y. M. C. A. is just beginning to
get down to work, and it is planned to
have some interesting subject discussed
by a capable speaker each Sunday eve
ning at its regular meeting. The at
tendance is very good and much inter
est is being shown in the meetings.
The football team came through their
game at Bristol with the King College
team without any serious injuries, and
have started getting in shape for the
Hampden-Sidney game at home this
week.
While the team faced perhaps the
b^st team they have, or ever will play,
Coach Corboy says there was no reason
for them having been beaten by the
score they were. Poor headwork at
critical times was the prime factor in
the score being so great. The one bright
feature was the fact that the team show
ed the punch against a far superior team,
and was able to gain consistently. The
team showed a better running attack
than at any time this season. The for
ward pass also showed improvement.
The defense of the back-field was not
up to expectations and will be worked
upon with the view of improving it for
the game this week.
Hampden-Sidney is coming to Elon
with perhaps the best small College team
in the State of Virginia, and with the
return of Smith, their star halfback,
makes them a very formidable opponent
for any team. Also the fact that they
have Chas. A. Bernier as Coach is a
real factor in their success, as he is
considered as one of the best in the
South.
Starting the season with perhaps the
greenest material that he has ever had
Coach Corboy has put his charges
through three grueling games in order
that they might gain some of that very
necessary experience which it takes for
a team to make any headway in this
day and time. The team has undoubted
ly made progress, but not to the extent
that he expected, and while they held
Davidson to 19 points and beat Lynch
burg 3 to 0, they seemed to be worse in
the King game than in any other game
this season. ^Yith the games that really
count just coming on the team must show
more than it did n its last start to get
anywhere with the remaining games.
A hard game is expected Saturday, and
one replete with great individual work,
for Smith of Hampden-Sidney is con-
; sidered as one of the really great backs
of Virginia.
The game will start at 3 :00 p. m.
Dr. W. A. Harper is now in Day
ton attending the General Board
Meeting of the General Christian
Convention. He will meet Mr, M.
Orban, Jr., there and hopes to bring
him to Elon with him.
Many matters of great interest to
college students will come before
the General Board at this meeting.
Dr. Harper expects to be back at
Elon on next Saturday.
PRESIDENT HARPER IS
CONIRIBOIOR TO BOOK
Writes Articles Concerning Elon Organ
ization—Dr. Shaver Is Pleased
With This Work.
In response to a request by Dr. Erwin
L. Shaver^ Dr. W. A. Harper has con
tributed two articles concerning the Re-
ligious Activities Organization to his
book. Dr. Shaver is preparing a book
on the project method, and was inter-
csted in the organization at Elon. Ac
cording to Dr. Shaver it is the only
organization of the kind in the w’orld,
and is deserving of the highest com
mendation.
Dr. Shaver is a member of the Congre
gational Church. His book falls into
two parts. The first part has been com
pleted, and the second will be a com
pilation of articles similar to those sub
mitted by Dr. Harper.
In a letter to Dr. Harper recently.
Dr. Shaver spoke in complimentary
terms of the articles submitted, and as
sured Dr. Harper that they would be
used in his book. Credit will be given
to Dr. Harper for the work.
Misses Sockwell, Durant and Carter
Beceive Special Mention by
Decision Committee.
The Psiphellan society met in regular
session Monday night in the reception
room. This was the first meeting in
which the new members took an active
part on the program. By their excellent
work they made the old members feel
especially fortunate to have such splen
did co-operation.
Bacon’s ‘‘Essay on Truth” by Miss
Margaret Rowland was read in her own
pleasing manner.
An original story, “An Exciting
Time,’^ by Miss Ruby Rowland, was
well organized, interesting and enjoy
able.
Miss Annie Lee Floyd, in “My First
Impression of Elon,” showed that she
had gained a very good impression of
Elon.
Local Events, by Miss Lyde Bing
ham, were very interesting. Current
events were furnished by Miss Sarah
Carter. She had a large range of events
which were very interesting and help
ful.
An essay on “The Habit of Inspira*
tion,” by Miss Winnie Durant, was in
teresting and helpful.
Miss Mamie Sockwell told a very in
teresting love story entitled, “A Pound
of Cure.” The story was interesting
and humorous.
Humor by Miss Kathleen Paschal wag
very good. The local touch in her jokea
added much to their interest.
Those receiving special mention were
Misses Carter, Durant and Sockwell.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
ARE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
MISS ALDRIDGE READS
PAPER TO Y. W. GIRLS
Prayer is Theme of Meeting—Many
Girls Participate in Service.
Philologians Render
Interesting Program
EECEIVE ANOTHEK NEW MEMBER
Negative Wins Debate—Allston, Crutch
field and Denton Are Mentioned
by Decision Committee.
A program of unusual interest was
reudered in the Masonic hall last Mon
day evening at the regular meeting of
the Phiiologian Literary Society.
Before the program the members of
the society received J. E. Walker into
active membership.
The program was opened by a very
interesting review of the Southern Col
legiate Sports Magazine by Frank All
ston. He declared that it was a maga
zine worth reading by every college stu
dent, and especially by all members of
the football team. However, he did not
fail to point out some of its defects
in literary form.
E. W. Anman next discussed earth-
quakes of Japan. He stated that there
had been 27,561 earthquakes in that
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Y. W. Picnic Social
Event of Week Here
OUTING A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS
Dean Savage, Dr. Helfenstein and Mrs.
Kirkland Attend Picnic in the
Great Out-of-Doors.
The sight of a crowd of girls hasten
ing across a field toward a wood last
Friday afternoon attracted much atten
tion. A desirable spot on the edge of
a cleai-ing was reached, and the woods
soon appeared to be full of girls, who
romped and played in joyous abandon.
As pangs of hunger began to be felt,
girls were seen to silently leave the crowd
and busy themselves with cutting long
sticks for the toasting o£ wienners. More
and more girls left the original group
until finally all the girls were either cut
ting wienner sticks or gathering brush
for the fires.
Dean Savage superintended the mak
ing of the fires and in a short time hun
gry girls were eagerly crowding around
and toasting wienners and browning
bacon on long sticks. One pan after
another of bacon and eggs vanished with
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Prayer, a subject that is always in
teresting and helpful, was discussed at
the Y. W. C. A. meeting on Sunday
evening, at which Miss Nannie Aldridge
was leader.
The meeting was opened with the
song, “Come Thou Almighty King,”
which was followed by a prayer led by
Miss Euby Howlaud. Following the
prayer, “The Way of the Cross” was
sung.
Miss Aldridge then read a paper on
“How to Pray.” During the general
discussion of the topic a large number
of the girls present expressed them
selves in regard to the importance of
prayer.
Another attractive feature of the
program was a duet, “Ivory Palaces,'
sung by Misses Margaret L. Corbitt
and Adelia Jones. The meeting was
closed with sentence prayers.
Drs. Walter S. Athearn, Alvin M.
Kerr and H. Shelton Smith to
Appear on the Program.
MAY DEDICATE BUILDING
Graduating Exercises to Be Held in
New Auditoritun—President Harper
Will Speak to Seniors.
Among the visitors on the hill Sunday
were Messrs. “Bill” Stoner, ’23;
“Cam” Morris, ’23; H. E. White, ’22;
“Slats” Walker, ’22; L. J. Bray, ’23;
Dave Miller, ’22, and Watson Garri
son, ’22.
Misses Frankye Marshall and Zondal
Meyers were the guests of Miss Frances
Turner at her home in Eeidsville, N. C.,
for the week-end.
Misses Bose Howell and Mabel
Wright spent the week-end with Miss
Lela Johnson at her home in Eeidsville.
Miss Annie Simpson spent the week
end at her home in Greensboro, N. C
Commencement for the current school
year, May 25-27 inclusive, shows a pro
gram of more than usual interest. An
nouncement has just been made of the
roster of speakers for this occasion,
which list includes the names of Drs.
Walter S. Athearn, II. Shelton Smith,
Alva M. Kerr, and President W. A.
Harper.
Dr. Athearn, who is Dean of the
School of Religious Education and So
cial Service of Boston University, has
made for himself a name in the work
of Religious Education, and is without
doubt the most eminent authority in the
world today on this subject. His life
service as college professor and author
especially fits him to bring a message
to students on such occasion. He will
give the Literary Address on the final
day of commencement.
Dr. Kerr will open the commence
ment season on Sunday morning with
the Baccalaureate Sermon. Dr. Kerr is
editor of the oldest religious periodical
in the world, The Herald of Gospel
Liberty, and those of the Elon students
who have had opportunity to hear him
on former occasions know something of
the good things that are in store for
them at commencement. He has a way
of winning young people and holding
them with the interesting messages he
brings.
Dr. Smith, o£ the Class of 1917, will
give the Alumni Oration. He is now
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