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VOLUME V.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C, FEBRUARY 13, 1924
NUMBER 28
TiRSDAY INTERESTING
Blany Sutjects Are Discussed During
the Evening’s Work—Gunn, Gibbs
and Denton Mentioned.
The Philologiaii Literary Society met
Thursday uight and gave one of the
tjest progrrms of the year. Those ap
pearing on tlie cvL'ning’s program show-
cd themselves well prepared.
R. H. Gunn, speaking on the
“Christian Endeavor convention at
Greensboro, N. C.,’‘ which was held
recently in that city. Mr. Gunn was
elected vice-president of the State
Christian Endeavor at tliis convention.
Ho told: of some of the great plans
made at this convention.
‘‘North Carolina’s progress in the
educational field,'’ wus discus.scti by
Jack Corbitt. Mr. Corbitt traced the
progress for a number of years aud
brought out some interesting facts re
garding the educational work of the
“The World's Attitudi' Toward ^Vood-
fow Wilson,” was J. H. Dollar’s sub
ject. Mr. Dollar reviewed some of tlie
great thi-ngs iu Mr. Wilson’s life and
told of what other nations thought of
this great leader.
G. C. Crutchfield furnished humor
for the society in what he called
spices of life.”
The society got a good idea of some
of the important things taking place
in the world from “Current Events,”
ffliieh were well selected by E. W. Au-
Tnaii.
Y. D. Brannock told “Why people
Tim away.” This w’as very interest
ing. Mr. Brannock had his reasons
arranged in alphabetically order and
they were good.
“My favorite author,” was the sub
ject discussed by Lacey Ezell.
J. F. Voliva brought out some en
lightening information in his discus-
fiion of “Natural Resources of Xorth
Carolina.” He pointed out that North
Carolina has great power in her water
resources and minerals.
The debate, “Resolved, that pen
sions or allowances should be paid for
from public funds to tlie mothers of
dependent children,” was next on the
program. The aflirmative was cham
pioned by F. L. Gibbs and Gordon
Crymes, while J. R. Barker and J. N.
Denton spoke on the negative side.
The decision was rendered in favor
of the affirmative. R. H. Gunn was de
clared best oratorically, with Gibbs and
Dt-nton lx*st speakers on tlunr respec
tive sides of the debate.
miCE BSRRETT IS
SPONSOR OF PHIPSICLI
Popular Member of Senior Class is
Honored by Staff of College
Annual.
During the ))ast few days many
sponsors hav‘ hecMi (•hos('n. '^I’Jie
I’l'ipsicli. now facinjf some of its hardest
tfials. felt that it neech'd a sponsor to
JJUide it safoiy in these last months of
routjh sailiuii. 'I’he staff electod ifiss
Alicf* Baj‘ri‘(-.t. of I’onee. Torto Kico. as
its sponsor.
Miss Barrett is a very poi)uiar mem-
l>er of the Senior t-lasM and will be jirad-
"atpfl from Elon this year. She. with
other members of her class, has been
'vorkin;; linnl to i)iit out an annual this
-Vear that will equal, if not surpass, any
5f previous years. She will no doubt
feel honored to have her i)ieture api>ear
the book of which she is si)onsor.
-nie staff i.s honored to have her as its
£uide.
ELINOR DORIS BROWN CHOSEN BY
BROTHER AS BASKETBALL SPONSOR
Little Miss Elinor Doris Brown, the daughter of D. W. Brown
of Elon Colleg^e, has been elected sponsor of the Elon basketball
team for 1924. Her broth
er, “Bob,” is captain of
this year’s team.
Usually the sponsor of
a team is the captain’s best
girl friend. It was not a
lack of best girl friends,
but so many of them that
it was hard for Captain
Brown to decide which was
the best, that caused him
to bestow this honor on his
little sister.
Miss Brown is only six
years old, yet she shows a
great interest in the team
of which her brother is
leader. She attends the
games that are played here.
She also has another broth
er, Alph. on the team.
The team is proud of its
little sponsor and she will
no doubt realize some day
what an honor she has had
in sponsoring such a team
as this year’s team is prov
ing to be. Her brothers
are playing well on this
year's team.
Little Elinor’s picture
will be in the Phipsicli, the
annual year book, of the
college. This section is al
ways a beautiful part of the
book and her picture will
add greatly to this section.
IS MOVED TO
NEW ALAmCE RAIL
Facilities Are Greatly Increased—Only
One Day Lost in Transfer of
Books—Gift Received.
'fhe library- has been mo\ed from the
old locailon ,y:ives the students access to
mance Hall. The library now occupies
the room on the west end of the second
floor of the buildiuK orlfrinally desi.jrn-
ed as a lecture roofn. 'i’he library will
remain in tiiis location until the com
pletion of the new rnrlton Library
Buildins:.
The remo\nl of the library from the
old locntion s've the students access to
thirty-three hundred volumes. T'nder the
old arrangement but one thousand of
these could be used. This new location
of the library increnses its etficdency
three times.
The present room is equipped with
desks, tabk's {uul cliairs for rendinjj: and
work by the students. This was form
erly impossible.
A number of bound volumes of mas-
azines will now be available for reference
work, and mnny more are ready for the
bindery. These will be bound and placed
at the disposal of the students at an
early date.
During the movinj? of the library the
students were deprived of its use only
one da\'. Dean Louise Savase. libiviian,
feels sratified that the present arrange
ment has been so easily effected.
A j^ift of one hundred and eighty-
seven volumes of colonial records have
just been j-eceived from .Tud{?c ^^'alter
i’lark. This is a valuable addition to
the reference material of the department
of history. Other departments have
larjre increased facilities, and many gen
eral reference works are made available
by the new arrangement.
Miss Bessie Martin spent the week
end with Miss Berta Crutchfield, at
Mebane, N. C.
STOOENTS AND fACOLTy
ATTEND C. E. INSTITOTE
Held at First Presbyterian Church in
Burlington Monday—Speakers
Address Gathering.
'■J'hirty members of the Elon faculty
and student body registered at the C. E.
Institute in Buriinjrton ^londay. It was
a very instructi\’e program, and a
luncheon was served at the llut of the
First Presbyterian church at six o’clock.
At this huu’lieon the P]lon delegation
made things interesting with their songs
and yells. The discussion of problems
were left in the church, and the young
|)eople attending the institute gave tliem-
.selves over to pure enjoyment.
Mr. Charles F. I‘j\’ans, all-South sec
retary of Christian Endeavor. Ted the
discussion groups on the various local
problems of (’hristian Endeavor. In the
evening l>i'. ('orey addressed the meet
ing on the youtli mo\-(‘ment ond its ef
fects.
The institute is one of a series of
such now being held throughout the
State. Many of the societies of the
local churches were represented at the
institute. The meeting wns not. how
ever, so well attended as the officers of
the society had hoped.
D. W. BROWN VICTIM
OF PAINFUL ACCIDENT
Air. D. W. F>rown. father of Uobert
nnd Alph. who nre students here, had
the misfortune to lose all the fingers on
his left hand Friday afternoon. Mr.
Brown w;is at work, at his saw mill
iK'ar the town and he was sawing the
last piece for the day when his hand
\\as caught in the saw.
He has suffered greatly from this acci
dent. but at the present time he is get
ting along nicely.
DR. L. E. SMITH SPEAKS
TO STOOENTS TOESDAH
Address Delivered at Chapel Service;
Dr. Corey is Present and
Speaks Also.
At the regular chapel service last
Tuesday, the students heard with much
interest Dr. L. E. Smith, pastor of the
Christian Temple, Norfolk. Va.. and Dr.
Corey, of Kinston, N. C.
Dr. Smith dealth with tlie problems
of the young people of today. He de
clared that he did not believe that they
were worse thnn they had been before,
and that the oldest known complaint of
the older people was the degeneracy of
the youth of the age. He cited the dress
of the modern girl, aud compared it with
her dress of other generations. ITe
pointed out that the w'orld had fallen
into the hands of such successive genera
tion of young peo])le with all their fads
and fashions, and had stendily improv
ed. and intimat‘d that he believed that
it would so continue.
Dr. Smith is an alumnus of Elon, and
is at present j)resident of the Southern
Christian convention.
Dr. Corey, pastor of tJie Disciples
church, Kinston, N. C., and a prominent
worker in Christian Endeavor, spake
bi’iefly.
He followed wiiat Dr. Smith had said
regarding the youth of today with a
few telling i)hrases describing the youth
movement of the world at the ]»resent
time. Dr. Corey closed his address with
an eloquent appeal that the students of
the world unite themselves definitely
against war. He declared that he be
lieved htat the sacred task of changing
tiie whole current history rested in the
hands of the stuflents of today, and that
they had the power to destroy war. “It
has never settled anything, and it never
will,” Dr. Corey declared in speaking of
war. Ho urged the students to exer
cise their i>ower in its destruction.
Dr. Corey visited Elon from Burling
ton. where he had just been enga.tred in
Christian Endeavor Institute work.
NEVELE CLOD ROLDS AN
NTERESIINO MEETING
Misses Morrow and Stanley Entertain
Club Thursday Evening—
Study Webster.
Miss Jewell Hughes visited relatives
at Haw River the past week-end.
Complete in every detail was the
(‘iitertainment given the Neveles Tliurs-
(Iny evening by Mtss Deloris Jilorrow
and Miss I\rae Stanley at West Dormi
tory.
A study of the English language
with Webster for a guide, formed the
feature of tlie entertainment for the
evening. Miss Stanley presented the
distinctive [ualities of a good ICnglish
teacher, and with a freak drop of the
lower jaw was able to pronounce the
most difficult words with ease and
grace.
At nine-thirty when refreshments ap
peared, it was evident to all that a
domestic science teacher had had her
finger in the pie. The course consist
ed of pineapple flip w’ith whipped
cream, fniit cake, wafers, hot cholo-
ciale and mints.
Those enjoying the gracious hos
pitality of the hostesses were: Mes-
dames H. Babcock, W. F. Greenwood,
W. A. Harper, F. B. Corboy, Alice Cor-
boy, Janet Kirkland, Mary B. Runge;
Misses Madge Moffitt, Ethel Hill, Flor
ence Fisher, Louise Savage, Lydia
Berkley, aud Anna Helenstein.
Mrs. H. Babcock invited Nevele for
the next regular meeting.
ELON QUINT VICTORIOOS
IN TWO GAMES PLAYED
Defeat Stetson University and States
ville “Y” in Gaines of Past Week;
Scores 25 to 20 and 37 to 26.
The Elon basketball team has been
showing good form in the last few games
played.
Last Wednesday night John B. Stetson
University, of Deland, Fla., went down
before the Elon quint.
This was the first time this team had
ever appeared at Elon. However, the
student body and si)ectators were unani
mous in their praise of the showing this
team nmde. They played a good, clean
game throughout. The game itself was
slow at times and both sides missed many
good shots. There were many fouls
called on both teams.
Volivia was the outstanding star in
this contest for the Christians. The
game ended by a score of 25 to 20.
The refereeing of Stines, of Trinity,
was good. He called a good game and
both sides were ])leased.
On Friday night Elon went to States
ville and defeated the Y. M. C. A. team
of that place by the score of 37 to 26.
The Brown brothers for Elon scored
K) points each for their team. Voliva
was out of the game because of illness.
DR. HARPER BACK FROM
IMPORTANT MEETING
Board of Christian Education Meets in
Dayton, OMo—Important Matters
Discussed and Work Assigned.
Dr. W. A. Harper returned Monday
from a meeting of the Board of Christian
Education and its field secretaries in
Dayton, Ohio. The meeting was a very
practical meeting, and many matters of
importance to the church and to i-eligious
education were discussed. It w’as voted
to make this meeting an annual event
to be held in February of each year.
Special work was assigned to various
members of the field force, aud the time
of the secretaries was apportioned equit
ably among the five regional conven
tions. Miss Helen Stearns and Miss
Lucy M. Eldredge are to formulate a
system of g)-aded lessons for the primary
years. A system of points is to be made
for the guidance of the more progressive
schools, and a survey of the entire Sun
day school work of the Christian church
is to be made from tlie officc of Miss
Eldi-edge. Mr. Hermon Eldredge is to
be in charge of the institute work and
the arranging with the help of the direc
tors of Christian Education of the
itineraries of the officers conducting the
institutes.
Mrs. F. E. Bullock was made superin
tendent of the Daily Vacation Bible
Schools, in which field Mrs. Bullock is
an experi. T'he summer schools of
(,'hristian Education are to be in charge
of Miss Lucy M. Eldredge. In this
coiiueetion each college is urged to give
the use of its ])lant and faculty and to
donate one hundred dollars.
Itev. W. 1*. Fletcher, who is a sppeci-
alist in rural church problems, is to
work in that particular field. It is ex-
pected that in that department Mr.
Fletcher will accomplish much good.
A number of other things were done
at the Dayton meeting, and it is hoped
that the results will be far-reaching and
gratifying. All boards are asked to make
their posters and leaflets available for
the use of the secretaries of Christian
Education in order that they may more
perfectly correlate the program of the
' church.