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Page Two MAROON AND GOLD flparoon and d5oll3 Published Weekly by the Students of Elon College Member of the North CaroUna Colle giate Press Association Entered at the Post-Office at Elon Col lege, N. 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 Wiclier Ass’t Bus. Manager G. L. Holland ...Advertising Manager D. h. Harrell Ass’t Adv. Manager G. C. White Circulation Manager T. V. Huey Ass’t Cir’tion Manager Mary Price Ass’t Cir. Manager Arline Lindsay, Ass’t Cir’tion Manager W. J. Cotton Faculty Advisor Advertising Rates Upon Request JAKE BLAKE SAYS: Even a hoss doctor gits to ride in a auto after while. THE NEW YEAR. Maroon and Gold welcomes the students back to the campus af ter the holidays and trusts that the vacation at ho'ne was indeed pleasant. \\’e a)sc '.velcome the new students who are coming to Elon for the first time. We are glad to have them come to our college and trust that they will feel at home here. But to old students and new students alike we hope that you are here with a new determina tion to make this semester’s work the best in the history of the col lege. And not only this semes ter’s college work, but we hope that you wall make this the best j'ear of your life. That you will accomplish more w’orth while things than you ever have before. There are some of us who did not make last year’s work what we wanted it to be. We failed in many things that w^e hoped to ac complish. Our record is not w'hat w'e would like it to be in college work and other things. But we must forget our mistakes of the past year, except those that may help us to do better in the coming year. W^e are now beyond the threshold of a New \ ear. The old year is past and the record is written, it cannot be changed. However, we are at the top Ime of a new page. We have a clean sheet before us. How' are w'e go ing to write? Will our record of this 3'ear be better than the rec ord of last year? This is a ques tion for each individual to decide. If we want to do better during the coming year, then now is the time to resoh e with a strong de termination and launch out. Don't be discouraged if you fail to keep all the resolutions that you make. You will no doubt fail in many things, but keep try ing. Never give up and say that it is useless, but fight right on. May each of us determine to make this the best year of our lives and for our college. MEMORY GEMS Cursed nvc the impure in heart for they can see only evil. Complete eacli task -vvliether great or small. Pride is a hard master. The hypocrite is a person -^'hose heart is creamed and powdered. It is only the rogue who feels the res traint of the law. The patliway to high achievement is jiarrow and rugged. Promptness of decision is a secret of success. One’s eharactcr will never rise higher than his aims. The pupil who is content to get by will never rise high. “SOM STU” by Som Stude V; >'>1 >1 Well, liere we have a new year, 1925. We are glad that the calendar has turn ed over and graciously presented us with twelve new njonths. We all have nianv things to look forward to, in this new year. Most of us will make new year resolutions, founded, on good intentions. But right at the beginning of this new year we should all pause and look, back on the old and see wliat there is in it for us to be glad of, and what there is foT us to regret. The most outstanding thing about the old year was that it was leap year. Now that is something that many of our co-eds and faculty members bad been looking forward to a lo'ng time. As we know, there liave been no leap year weddings among us, and as to leap year dates we leave that to your own judg ment, based on your ow'n observations. The fact remains, however, that any girl who is still dateless has her own self to blame. —SS— Aiiother angle to this leap year busi ness is that whereas a woman is given only one year to work in, a man is al- lo-TV’ed three. Hence we are led to the conclusion that a woman is a faster worker than a man is. —SS— Speaking of new year’s resolutions; how many have made resolves to study more in the next five months than they did in the past four? About one hun dred per cent of the students have done this, it is supposed, but the trouble with these resolutions is that they were prompted by reports that came in dur ing the holidays. Here it is very doubtful if resolutions, with no moxe foundation than this, will stand the test. —SS— Speaking of report cards. Xow wasn’t that a shameV —SS— The basketball squad seems to be out in dead earnest for scalps this year. Which reminds us of the trite saying, “The early worm is caught by the bird,” which leads us to’ liope that some other teams were at it earlier than we. —SS— Hunting proved to be the favorite sport or pastime during the holiday season. Some of these young hunters were successful in bagging game, wiiile others were less fortunate. Accoxints of these hunts have been numerous, some of which sounded more like fish stories. However from other sources we discovered the truth of some of these wild and wooley hunts. Truthful stories of the capture of big game such as lions, bears and deer are few. The most interesting of these big game expeditions came from the true account of the hunting of one John Newman* Benton. Without going into the details of the hunt, it will siiflice to enumerate the game which he brought liome, and leave the thrills sur rounding their capture. He brought home six English sparrows, one buz zard, four field mice and the rabbit foot that he wears aroT-ind his neck on such expeditions. We look for the Legislature to put a ban on student hunting, if this same TTenton goes hunting very often. —SS— Speaking of “dear-hunting,” had you heard that Reidsville was a regular stamping ground for this animal. —SS— “W’’ait bro'ke tlie wagon.” This little quotation has been in (drculatlon a good many years, but here's a new one: “Weight broke the bus.” To those who wonder how this expression came into use we might add a woTd of explanation. Just before the Christmas holidays some Elon students took the bus for Raleigh. Everything was going fine until just before arriving in Ral eigh. Then the bus broke down. When asked why, the driver said that there was too' much weight. That is unfor tunate, but is easily explained—Rose bud Kimbal was on board. FOURTEEN QUESTIONS TO INDICATE IF YOU ARE REALLY EDUCATED When is one educated in tlie best sense of the word? A professor in the University of Cliicago is said to have told his pupils tliat he should consider tliem tnily educated when they could answer affirmatively these 14 questions; *"l. Has your education given sympa thy with-all good causes and made you esi^ouse them? 2. Has it made you public-spirited? 3. Has it made you a brother to the weak? 4. Have you learned how to jnake friends and keep them? 5. Do you know what it is to be a friend yourself? 6. Can you look an honest man or pure woman straight in the eye? 7. Do you see anything to love in a little child? 8. Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? 9. Can you be high-minded and happy in the meaner drudgeries of life? 10. Do you think washing dishes and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or gilf? 11. Are you good for anything to yourself? Can you be happy alone? 12. 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It remains only for men of ab:.,ty to find new thinrs to do tomorrow.- Thus does Cpportunity of 1C 25 beclion collere men and women tov/ard greaterthings as yet undreamed, and to a better world to'livs in. The General E'ectric Com pany indue es many special ists—engineers viho knov/ about ti nne’3; engineers who know about street light ing; c-'gineers v.ho know about the eleztrification of factorie.'i. These men are helping to buiid the better and happier America in which you will live. If you are interested in learning more about what electricity is doing, write for Reprint No. AR391 con taining a complete set of these advertisements. GENERAL electric COMPANY. SCHENECiADY, NEW
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