November 28, 19,3
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MAROON AND GOLD
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JAKE BLAKE v
SAYS:
De bes’ way to cut
’spenses am to make yo'
dollahs liab mo’ cents.
“Too much attejitioii to the pig
skin is mighty liard 011 the sheep
skin” remarks the Detroit News,
but everybody knows that the col
lege whieti supports the pig-skin
chasers distribute a healthy look
ing lot of sheep-skins in the spring.
The college and state should
play hands off while the sopho
mores even the score with those
freshmen wlio mai'red the fresh
cement.
College students are declaring
their independence of everything,
if they aren’t careful everything
is going to declare its independ
ence of them.
If some people ever get aaiough
in their heads to graduate, they’ll
have a college course in a nut shell.
“The time is coming when there
will be no room in the world for
critics,” declares an orator. If he
is right, some of our friends are
going to have to emigrate.
Forty-seven women are candi
dates for the new English parlia
ment. Cheer up. The worst is yet
to come.
“Do you remember away back
yonder when girls used to blush?”
asks a writer in the Polytechnic
Reporter, Brooklyn, X. Y. We
wonder how old he thinks we are.
“A new day is dawning,” shouts
the orator. That’s awful. We are
going to have to wake up before
long.
THANKSGIVING
DAY AT ELON
• Thanksgiving day at Elon is
one of the great days of the college
year. It, perhaps, brings more
alumni back to the college thaii
any other time during the college
year. It stands for something vital
in the life of the college, and about
it has grown up many traditions.
It is the day of the Philologian
entertainment, and it is the day
of the greatest dinner of the year.
Thanksgiving day at Elon has,
we believe, large possibilities if the
college will attempt to utilize them.
It is, as we have said, a time when
many alumni return to the hill, and
it is a time when every effort
should be made to make them feel
at home. The alumni are worthy
of our best, and the college is
worthy of their best. Thanksgiv
ing day should be a day for really
bringing this relationship to the
front. The hospitality of Elon
should be extended to her sons and
daughters at this time of the year,
and they should rally to her sup
port witli an ever-growing love for
the college which has done so much
to fit them for life.
Thanksgiving is an apt word for
the relationship which should exist
between the college and its alumni.
The alumni should be grateful for
what they have received, and in
every way possible should show
their appreciation and gratitude.
A college can give, and does give
that for which money can never
pay. Each institution has indi
vidual gifts and individual methods
of giving, but all of them give, and
all of them are worthy of the best
which their sons and daughters
can give.
The faculty and students who
make the college at this present
hour should be grateful for the
things which the alumni have left
as a heritage to them. That heri
tage is a very real thing here at
Elon, and Thanksgiving day is a
time to ponder it. They have left
in their passing things which we
prize, and by tlieir living and
working liere have made it easier
for us who follow them.
The college and its alumni should
feel their inter-dependence. Neith
er should be expected to do all the
giving. There are alumni M-ho
feel that they should be privileged
to return to tlie college and be
guests of the college continually
through the year, and who feel
that they have no obligation what
ever to the college. They feel that
the college is a place to get recom
mendations, and to call upon for
all manner of services. It is, but
it is due the support and loyalty
of all its former students.
The college on the other hand
should not believe that all its alura
ni are for is to collect money for
endowment. Its alumni are its
sons and daughters and should be
treated as such. They belong to
it as its children and it is a high
privilege of the college to have
them back and to welcome them
with open arms. They are its
children to help and to whom it
should end its strength, and from
whom in the early years it should
not expect too much. This family
relationship is beautifully begun
in our undergraduate days. The
college and alumni should unite in
carrying it out into life with them.
This, we think, is a fitting thought
for our Thanksgiving day at Elon,
foi- gratitude within manifests it
self in action without, and for this
we earnestly hope.
MAKE INSPIRATION A HABIT
By Winnie DuRant
(Rend before tlie Psix>liclian Society)
“Inspiration a liabit! ” you e.xclaim.
' ‘ Impossible! ” And yet it is, or rather
it can be, if you so will.
The word inspire means to draw in
by breathing; to infuse into the mind;
to fill with that wliieli animates or
exalts. Inspiration thus defined loses
the elusive quality w^hich is generally
attributed to it, and practice alone is
needed in order to develop the habit
and obtain gratifying results.
Do you constantly hold your nrind
open to inspiration? Ho you persist
ently banish ali depressing negative
thoughts and cultivate invigorating, vi
talizing thoughts? Do these positive
thoughts form a force powerful enough
to stiimilatc you to do every duty iii
the daily routine, however small, whole
heartedly and nobly?
You cannot inhale until yon first ex
hale. There is not space enough in
your lungs. Neither is there room in
your mind for positive constructive
thoughts while enervating negative
thoughts clutter it up, perverting your
logic and paralyzing your w-ill. I)o you
not take the life, vigor and stimulus
out of each breath and then exhale the
stale, poisonous air? You willingly let
it go. Y^ou know' that you can take
another breath just as deep as the first
one and still the supply of oxygen w'ill
be in no wise diminished. The air is
all about you; in front of you, behind
you, on the right of you, on the left
of you, beneath you—everywhere. Just
so surely is your inexhaustible supply
of good pressing in upon you on all
sides.
You do not know from just what
part of the atmosphere your next
breath will be taken. You cannot, see
the air coming to you which you will
breathe the next second. Neither can
you always see your good coming to
you. Oftentimes you do not know the
channel through which it will come,
and you have no right to say that it
must come to you in this certain w^ay
or in that certain way.
The things wliich are of real and
lasting value are not defiled by the
channels through w’hich they come. It
is possible for you to learn some of
the most sublime truths from the hum
blest individuals and lessons in kind
ness from persons of base and low de
sign in rare unguarded moments of ten
derness. It -would be absurd to say;
“I won’t breathe any air except from
these few cubic feet of atmosphere just
in front of me—if it comes from any
place outside of this area then it is
not air, but something else.” That in
deed ■would be ridiculous. But it would
be just as ridiculous to limit your chan
nels of good to those that have already
served you as to say this, for there are
many, many channels of which j^ou are
ignorant.
Emerson says: ‘‘The things that are
really for thee, gravitate to thee. 0
believe, as thou livest, that every sound
that is spoken over the round world,
wliicli thou oughtost to hear, will vi
brate on thine car. Every proverb
every book, every by-word that belongs
to thee for aid or comfort shall surely
come home through open or winding
passages.’’ Tlien it rests with you alone
as to whether or not you have the de
sire, determination and perseverance
to make positive thinking a habit which
will act as a channel through which
every experience of life necessary to
vour physical, mental and spiritual well-
being, happiness and progress can come.
Give your soul the square deal that
you have unthinkingly afforded your
lungs! Cultivate the habit of holding
your mind open to positive thoughts
and watch for results! The shackles
of fear, ignorance and negation will be
broken and your true self will shine
forth radiantly and joyously in a new
confidence and expectation. Every
phase of your life will be flooded with
this divine illumination until the di
mensions of your aspirations, sympa
thies and thoughts will become immeas
urable and you will be forced to ex
claim with the poet: “T am but a shad
ow of myself; for wliat you see is but
the smallest part and least proportion
of humanity: . . . were the whole
frame here, it is of such spacious, lofty
pitch, your roof were not sufBcient to
contain it.”
THE STUDENT AT THE
THANKSGIVING GAME
Though he's weak in mathematics,
Though he trails in the parade,
I'hoii^di it's really far from certain
That he'll make the in’oper arade.
Though trig is a maze of riddles
Tlirough which he is made to hunt,
He's a demon with the pigskin—
You should see the bimbo punt!
Though his logic has him baffled,
Though his science has his goat,
Though psychology is something
That he thinks a madman wTote,
Though you’ll always find this fellow
At the tail-end of each class,
lie's a wizard on the gridiron—
You should see him forward-i>ass I
Though he murders the king's English
ICvery time he uses it,
Though his French enunciation
-Makes his poor prof throw a fit,
Though to him there’s no distinction
Between com])lex. graph or sine,
lie’s a lulu with a football—
You should see him buck the line !
—Edgar Daniel Kramer.
The following persons from Elon at
tended the Christian Conference at Wake
Chapel, Fuquay Springs, X. C.. last
week : Drs. \Y. A. Harper, X. G. Xe\v-
man, J. P. Barrett, Rev. S. M. Lynam,
A. II. Hook, T. F. Wright, G. C. and
FI. E. Crutchfield, and Mrs. X. G. Xew-
man.
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Last Saturday Wake Forest defeated
State College 14 to 0. This was an un
expected victory for the Demon Deacons,
and earns for them undisputed possession
as winner-up in the State championship.
\A’ake Forest has a very good football
team and one which always uses the
best of sportsmanship tactics to win.
Elon can feel proud that the "Fighting
Cliristians" held the Demon Deacons to a
much lower score than did State College.
Coach Garrity of W^ike Forest says that
for a small college Elon sure has the
fighting spirit, and it was one of the
toughest games his team played in tliis
season. We appreciate these kind words
froni Coach Garrity. He is the only
Coach in the State who has openly given
Elon credit for what she has accompli.sh-
ed in the world of sports.
Thanksgiving day is a day for which
we all have something in general to give
thanks. We all are thankful that we
have the privilege of attending the finest
school in the South. We are thankful
that our football team enjoyed a very
successful season.
A few clays remain before the call is
sounded for practice of the varsity basket
ball team. Xow would be a good time
for the different classes to meet, and
elect their captains so that practice could
be held. I’liere is a lot of rivalry be
tween the different classes and this year
a special attraction is offered, as the
faculty has challenged the winners. The
faculty is using most of its spare time
in getting into condition. I-iet’s go,
fellows, or we may find it difficult to de
feat those chesty professors.
Xotice to the alumni: Elon is fast
taking her place along with the leading
colleges of the State in athletics. Coach
Corboy has done exceptionally well with
the material at his disposal, but we must
have better material. Every time you
s“e a promising athlete, convince him to
matriculate at Elon. We have a won
derful school. Five of the most modern
fire-proof up-to-date buildings in the
country are now under construction. The
school spirit is wonderful. The thing
\^e need is athletes. Hear our cry. Send
us a few athletes, and we will make you
proud of our athletic teams. Our teams
in the past have earned the named of
“Fighling Chrislians.” We have fought
the larger institutions to a standstill.
Xow. we want to put team.s on the field
who can win the State championship.
Are you with us? If so, let’s put old
IClon on the to]> rung of the ladder in
the athletic world.
Clyde Ilainey. a very prominent mem
ber of the Freslimen class, w’as recently
iniatiated into the mystic order, or bet
ter known the birthday club. Mr. Kainey
received his initiation with a smile, but
some one took advantage of Rainey’s
perilious position and almost drowned him
with a perfect shot, which was in the
form of a bag of w^ater. Xow. fellows,
if you want to throw water, please don't
use such lowly tactics. I don’t know
who threw that bag, but I would sug
gest that in the future, it would be a
wise thing for said person to use some
judgment. Remember that if the Stu
dent Senate catches you. Daddy will just
bo out ten dollars.
Pat was sent to work with the circular
saw during his first days at the saw'
mill. The foreman gave careful in
structions how to guard against injury,
but no sooner was his back turned than
he heard a howl from the novice, and,
on touring, he saw that Pat had already
lost a finger.
“X"ow, how did that happen?” the
foreman demanded.
“Sure,” was the explanation, “I was
jist doin’ like this when,— be-
jabbers, there's another gone!”— Sel.
“Do it today” is a good motto,
but the chap who can say “I did
it yesterday” has' a still better
one.
NOVEMBER
By Alice Cary
The leaves are fading and falling
The winds are rough and wild
The birds have ceased their calling
But let me tell you, niy child
But day by day, as it closes,
Doth darker and colder grow
The roots of the bright red roses
Will keep alive in the snow,
And w^hen the winter is over
The boughs will get new leaves
The quail will come back to the clover
And the swallow back to the eavcj.
There must be cold, rough weather
And winds and rains so wildj
Not all good things together
Come to us here, ray child.
So when some dear joV loses
. Its beauteous summer glow,
Think how the roots of the roses
Are kept alive in the snow.
WeU, Wliat Is It?
In the motion picture “Robin Hood,’'
Lady ^larian desires to send a messagp
to the Earl of Huntington and chooscj j
Little John to act as her messenger, j
She presents .Tohn with a scroll which
is protected by what seems to be a
black case or tube.
As she handed it over, a small boy
in the audience asked his mother what
it was.
■‘That's a flashlight,” she answered ia
a loud voice.
“Don’t show your ignorance, Mary,” j
snapped her husband. “They didn’t have '
flashlights in those days. That’s %
thermos bottle.”—A merican Legion Week'
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A handsome display of Parker
and Waterman Foimtain Pens for
both boys and girls at the College
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