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MAROON AND GOLD
December j
sparoon and ^5old
Published Weekly by the Students of
Elon College
Member of the North Carolina Colle
giate Press Association
Entered at the Post-Office at Elon Col
lege, X. C., as second-class matter.
Two Dollars Per College Year
W. B. Terrell Editor
M. G. Wicker Managing Editor
C. W. Gordon Business Manager
Dan Wicker Ass't Bus. Manager
G. L. Holland ...Advertising Manager
D. L. Harrell Ass’t Adv. Manager
G. C. White Circulation Manager
T. V. Hue}"... .Ass’t Cir’tion Manager
Mary Price Ass’t Cir. Manager
Arline Lindsay, Ass’t Cir’tion Manager
W. J. Cotton Faculty Advisor
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JAKE BLAKE
SAYS:
Monkeyshines and Moon
shines go together.
HOME COMING DA.Y
It was announced in the cohuiius of
this paper that Thanksgiving Day
would be observed iiere as HOME
COMING DAY this year. We want
to congratulate those who planned
this idea. It was indeed Home Coming
Day for a great number of Elon Alum
ni. There were some wlio came who
had not been back since their grad
uation, which had been a long time.
We are glad they came. Their presence
here sliowed us that they are still in
terested-in their Alma Mater and what
she is doing. Of course they were
amazed to see the progress that has
been made in the last few years
in the building program.
We understand that plans are being
laid to make this an annual event.
This matter should receive the support
of all who are interested in Elon and
her progress. If the Alumni never
como back we believe they lose inter
est in the college, and naturally so.
If they come back often they keep
that personal touch with what the
college is doing. We hope tliat there
■will be a Home Coming Day and that
more will come back from year to year.
The Alumni make the College. This
statement may be challenged but we
believe it is true. Just the kind of
students that a college sends out is
the thing by which people judge tlie
kiul of collego from which they came.
The college needs the Alumni, and the
Alumni needs the college. There should
be that ever binding spirit of love that
binds them close. One should not for
get the other. We hope that the Home
Coming idea will be kei)t alive and
that next year many more of the
Alumni will try to visit tlieir Alma
Mater.
the fault of the team, it has not been
the fault of the coach, certainly. The
trouble is that we did not have the
men. To build up a football team a
coach must have material, and he
must have it for several years. He
cannot take green material and build
up a team in one season, and then take
green material the next season ni’.d
build up another team. No, he must
have his material from year to y.’ar.
Elon does not have many boys, we re
gret to say. If there are enough cat
to make one team the coach is indeed
fortunate. What we need is to ;>et
men here who are football men luid
students also. ^len who come
because they are interested in getting
a college education nnd are going to
stay. We can’t build up teams ouc
of ytudents wlio come here only for
football, or some other sport and then
fail on their work and cant come
back. This is a waste of time for the
coach. If he works with green mater
ial one year he hopes to hav'.' the samo
fellows back to work with again
year. If they don’t come be mnsi
start with green material a^ain. It is
up to us to try to get student=? who
are coming because they mean fo stu k
and have some real purpose in coming.
Let’s look out for real studen(-s for
Elon.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The 1925 Phipsicli Staff plans to run
an attractive page in the 1925 Phipsicli
featuring six “superlative” students,
hi order to determine who these six are
the Staff asks that each student vote
by filling out the attached coupon and
turning it in to the Phipsicli office. This
contest is open from November 26 to
December 6. The results of the prog
ress of the contest will be announced
dailj’’ by posters in the College Store
Vote for your choice.
has been known to leave the water
running so as to get the babbling
brook effect and other countrified tricks
but only recently we discovered that he
has “capped tlie climax.” He is try
ing to catch rabbits on Comer liL’ld
with the old-fashioned rabbit gum.
Napoleon had his day, and so foot
ball has had its day, but in order to
make things ititcresting we learn that
“Archie” Farmer and “Johnnie”
Lankford are going to lave a talk
ing contcst. The winner will un
questionably be champion of Elon.
“Slim” Kimball vras added to the
nuniber of those wearing “loud”
sweaters. It is truly a very ]iictures-
que costume that this young gentleman
exposes to the view of the ever-wary
sophs. In fact some of these second
year gentlemen have suffered from
soreness of the eyes until it is
thought that it nuist be some kind of
a plague.
Such costumes as this have been
5;een, before, in two places, at mas
querades and ;tt county fairs. And
be it known that sophomores were not
present .at cither.
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The dime is better that the nickel,
but the nickel goes ao church oftener.
We had heard this before, but since
this go esto sl'.ow how cheaj) church
seats are we v.'onder why Elon boys
want tlio front scats in the sliow and
the rer.r ones in cliurcli.
The rumor tliat a great liiking club
ivas to bo formed on the Hill has
cfteu been heard of late. There seem
ed to be one condition, however, that
made many me)i scratch their heads.
Tliat is it seemed from this rumor
that a student had to be an accoui-
plished hiker before he would be
eligible. Now it sc«ms that the proper
tiling for one to have done would be
to get out some afternoon and practice.
But no, sonr; few of our student body
got it into their he.ids that they could
become proficient hikers and nobody
■vould know when they acquired tlieir
proficiency. Hence we see them start
out ir the dead hours of the night
;';nd hike acro.ss the C(''untry on un
frequented roads.
On the surface this theory secniR
foolish, and it may be. But perhaps
they were trying to pro\e the ol-l
s-.ving that ■■There is one born every
r.iiiuuc.’ ’
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The battle's Iust has settled and the
howling mobs have dispersed but there
remains im]>rinted on the field of glory
another A'ictory to the “Old Boys’ .
Elon is proud of the “!i[en ar.d wome^^
who’ve come and gone” and the stu
dents are glad that the Alumni staged
comeback.
The game })roved to be a thriller
!»ut we fear that coach is slightly off
Ids old ‘-Pitt” form. But anyway
have always heard that marblea jj
the child's game, football the yoQH[
mail’s game, and golf the old man',
game. This is not a hint but we hav(
heard that coach is perfecting
shooting and putting in order that
he might be in form when he
the young man stage.
A DRAMATIC CONTEST
For the first time “Cumnock Silvn
Cup” and a prize of $250 are offered
to the group of American undergiai
uate students who most effectively pro.
duce and act a one-act drama at Nortt
western University on January 1, 1905,
The regulations controlling the Cas
nock dramatic contest provide for prj.
liminary competitions Tuesday evewi^
and Wednesday afternoon and eveninj
December 30 and 31, at the School t!
Speech theatre. The final contest igt
be he-ld Thursday night, January 1, am
at this time the three leading comprt
ing companies will act their plays aii
the judges will make their decisa
upon the closing of the last perfom
ance. The de-cision of the judges tHI
be based upon three considerations:
1. Choice of play; 2. Direction; aa
3. Acting. The play, however, may \
any one-act comedy or heavy dran
that can be preSente-d in a maxinmmr
40 minutes.
Leave your films here—CoUeji
Store.
Now that the Elon football season
is over for this year we are to turn
our attention to basketball. We want
to urge all those who can play at all
to go out and try for the team. This
especially applies to the first year men.
If you ever want to play basketball
now is the time to try for the team.
Teams arc built up from first year men.
If a coacli can get first year men for
teams he can build up teams. We
have lost a great many athletes and
had no one to take their place just
because we felt like they would be
with us all the time. But we must
have me)i who are willing to play
second string a year, or mayb^ two
5'ears before their chance comes. The
idea is to start now and not wait
until all the varsity is gone before
we go out for any sport.
POPULARITY BALLOT
Most Popular Girl:
Most Popular Boy:
Most Original: (boy or girl)
Most Stylish: (boyor girl)
Brainest: (boy or girl)
Biggest Nut: (boy or girl)
(Signed)
While we are thinking of athletics
we hope that w’C' will not lo^^e sight
of the fact that we nmst keep on the
aj^ert for material for our football
team next year. Elon has just closed
one of the most disastrous sc-asons of
her football career. This has not been
“SOM STU”
by
Som Stude
All of the great revolutions and
social upsets of history have been
accompanied by some amount of
punishment or cevcre trials. When
America arose from the bondage of
Kings there was nmch suffering that
had to be undergone by the people
before they could be recognized by
the world at large as Americans.
W''hen France came from under the
unwise direction of Kings there was
also much suffering. The great prisons
of France were packed with the then
unfortunate nobility, hundreds of these
went to the guillotine before
could be recognized by the world at
large as a frej people.
This is all very well, but what we
want to know ,is \vhether or not
“’Berta” Atkinson, “Bunny” Hart
man, “Dinkey” Kernodle, “Jimmie”
Newman, “Little Sister” Summers,
“M” Morgan, “Pussy-foot” Phillips
and “Red” Patterson who spent a
cold night in “Morgan’s” prison
were serving their class in the same
way tlie French nobles were serving
their country. If so v.’c await the
guillotine.
Certainly there are other “fresh”
freshmen who should spend a night
or two in one of these prisons in
order that they might help their class
to establish itself in the eyes of the
world as a typical freshman class.
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We have alvv-ays tliought thct
“Pussy-foot” was a countryman, he
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Artificial lightning was first publicly demonstrated
on June 5, 192S, in the laboratory of the General
Electric Company at Pittsfield, Mass., when a two-
million-volt spark crashcd into this miniature village
What’s the use of
artificial lightning?
It is mainly experimental, aiding
General Electric scientists to solve
high power transmission problems.
Many such experiments yield no
immediate return.
But in the long run this work is
practical and important. It is part
of the study which must go on
unceasingly if this powerful force,
Electricity, is to be fully tamed
and enlisted in your service.
Experiments like these are
particularly thrilling and
important to young men and
women, who will live in an age
when electricity will perform
most of life’s hardest tasks.
Know what the research lab
oratories of the General Elec
tric Company are doing; they
are a telescope through which
you can see the future!
If you are interested to learn
more about what electricity is
doing, write for Reprint No.
AR391 containing a complete
set of these advertisements.
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