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MAROON AND GOLD
February 25.
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JAKE BLAKE
X SAYS:
Who stop dat chicken
fight?
Maroon & Gold Rooster
won.
ELON ATHLETIC ASSO
CIATION.
In the columns of this week's
paper you will find a letter ad
dressed to the Alumni, former
students, and friends of Elon.
This letter is written by the treas
urer of the Elon Athletic Associa
tion, and in it he is making an ap
peal for help. This organization
was formed on Thanksgiving' Day
of last year, when that day was
knownlas Home Coming day for
all Elonites.
We do not know how far this
organization has proceeded in its
plans nor just what those plans
are. However, we do feel that if
its purpose is to promote better
athletics at Elon that purpose is a
good one. We all realize that
Elon has been going backwards
during the past few years in ath
letics. Xo one person is to blame
for this condition. We know that
we have one of the best coaches in
the ,‘>tate and that he has done re
markably well with the material
at his command
are many ways you can help, so
let’s line up behind this organiza
tion and gi\ e them our support.
Keep in touch with those who are
promoting this program. We are
not going to buy athletes. Elon
doesn't want to do that. But we
do want to encourage anything
that will help us to a "Bigger,
Better Elon.” In an issue of our
paper a few weeks ago we carried
an address of Dean Hook’s, de
livered at a teachers’ meeting at
Raleigh. In this he set forth the
relation of the Alumni to their
Alma Mater. This was a splendid
message and if you have it, it will
be worth reading again.
Alumni, students and friends,
let’s go for better athletics at
Elon.
NOTICE STUDENTS
There has been considerable said
about tlie paper, some of it has been
o.f the nature that encourages those on
the staff to try to do their best for the
publication and tlie inajoTity of it has
been rather the type tliat wGuld dis
courage most any one. Now what we
need most of all, in our estimation, is
more co-operation from everyone on the
Hill.
We know that our paper is not the
best in the state but it can be made
the best. The life of the paper is
through advertising and this being the
way that the paper is supported natur
ally we have got to look up to’ our ad
vertisers and give tliem somotliing for
their money. Our paper carries ads. from
the leading stores in both Greensboro
and Burlington that are carrying a
complete line of ladies’ and gents’
furnishings. Now we do not ask you
to go out of your way to patronize our
advertisers or to' boycott those that do
not, but we do ask you to give these
people a fair chance, or the first chance
at your business, then if they cannot
compete with their competitors that is
their hard luck and we .are not to
blame.
TO W. D. B.
He has had paths we trod together, dear,
take inexperienced material and
build practically all his teams.
The trouble is that we are not
getting the material here. Elon
is now known as a college weak
in athletics. We must do some
thing to remedy this weakness
and we believe this organization
of which we are speaking is mak
ing- a start in the right direction
and we should co-operate in ever\
wav possible.
^^'e arc proud of Elon and he"
standing in scholarship. We have
no criticism to make of the em
phasis placed on scholarship here
because we feel that it is rightly
placed. If a school is known onlv
because of the athletic teams it
builds we do not believe that
school is contributing the best
that it has. Rut on the other
hand, if .a school is neglecting its
athletic program it is making a
serious mistake. If a student is
choosing an institution in wh’ch
to enter he usually considers the
standing of that institution In the
athletic world, whether he is es-
peciallv interested in athletics or
not. He wants to be a student
in a school where he is not
ashamed of its athletic teams.
We. want Elon to go forward in
all resnects. We want her to
have the same respectful standine
in athletics that she has in other
thin''s. In ordei' to put ath'et'cs
at Elon on a higher plane we mu^t
work. We riust interest students
who are athletes and want to
conie to college, not for athletics
alone, nor we don’t want that
kind, ^^'e want those who are
athletes and will be students too.
Xow, Alumni and friends, vou
.\.re choked with weeds and grass;
The days so bright and happy.
Are golden dreams Ihat pass.
Tlie promises all are broken,
Love’s labors were in vain;
Blit none can say what I would give,
To live and love again.
To live the same days over;
To love the same old girl;
To kiss iliose lips that were so true—
’Twouhl be a perfect world.
Blit now you love another,
Why do I long for you?
.T cannot say unless it is
Bccause true love is true.
THE BOY.
Elon College, N. C.
“SOM STU”
by
Som Stude i
After all “Pussyfoot’^ and his
JunioTS ]'nn off with the championship.
C5—
Congratulations, Juniors!
—0—
•Vow is the time for all good Pads to
come to the aid of their sons and
daughters—Banquet time, yon know.
—M—
Say fellows, did you see the old boys
stage their great come back Clio day?
That was great. It only goes to show
that once a man gets out and fights for
his team he will always have a tender
spot for that team, and for the institu
tion for which it stands. After all, isn’t
this one of the greatest things to be
gained from college and fro'm athletics?
That is the fact that in later years we
c-ati still feel the (dd team spirit and
can fit into the team of'life as well as
the team of good fellows which gathers
back on the hill.
—S—
The Alumni-Varsity game was a
thriller. The old boys looked good in
action, but Chesterfields seemed to have
played an important part in the con
test.
—T—
While we arc on the subject, did you
notice that Captain ‘‘Johni\,v” John
son refrained from using his famous
pair of forwards. We wondered why
he kept this pair of cage artists on the
bench for the entire game, but we sup
pose the fact that he wanted the Var
sity ta win accounts for the fact that
“Foots’^ Fesmire and Lonny Ezell did
not appear on the playing floor.
—U—
Spring has given evidence of itself
on our campus in many ways. It de
monstrates itself on Sunday morning at
church, and Sunday afternoon the in
creased social activity speaks success
for this romantic season. In the week,
we see signs of spring in the new plowed
nrid planted campus and on the athletic
field we see that base ball is making its
debut.
—BY—
Professor Tlook warns us not to cut
corners on the campus which we ex
poet to be green,” and suggests that
many students make a practice of cut
ting corners in all their college work.
We heartily agree with him in both in
stances, but we would like to suggest
that neither of these a])ply to students
wlio never get near enough to a corner
to cut it short. In other words, some
seem to be circling, because they start
to college and stop college with the
same ecjuipntent with wliich they start
ed.
—S—
and eradicate it. Jii fact, the Sophs seem
so desirous of keeping t]ieir numeral
up there tliat they stay up at night and
watch it. Well such a thing has been
done before, but we really do sympa-
tliize with the Sophs wlio have to' do
tiieir trick.
It is unfortunate tliat the ’28 will
not stay put vei’y long, but it seems
that that has always been a common
trait of Freshman numerals. Hence it
behooves the freshmen to bide their
time, as they will be upper classmen by
and by. Yet they will not believe it
when they are told that they are hav
ing a better time now than they will
have next year.
—STUDE—
Jake Blake!!!!
Don’t trample on the grass-
_0—
-seed!
The basketball season is nearly over
and let it be said, for the benefit of the
v/orld that Elon is j'jroud of its Fresh
man Varsity team. It is more than
safe to say that we look back on the
entire season with satisfaction. ^Ve
have lost games that we would liked to
have won, but at the same time we
realize that if this team coTnes back
for a couple more years that its record
will stream across the athletic horizon
of the state and we will all pat our
selves on the back with a long string
of victories.
—M—
That old landmark, the tank, has
again been the scene of the action of
some migiity industrious painters. This
is nothing new, only the result of years
of traditions. Of cmjrse the tank is
conceded to be the place for the Sopho
mores to hang their dignity. It does,
however, create some class spirit and
helps keep things alive. But it does
seem hard to- go to the trouble to 'put
up a pretty number and then to have
the Sophs parade out the next morning] Bull Dog.
A MUSICAL LETTER
(By ‘‘Galloping Jazz.”)
“Dear One”:
I have been “All Alone” since that
“ June Night“In a Rendezvous With
You,” 'when you made me “Jealous”
talking about your “New Kind of
>Ian,” but “Wait Until You See My
Gal!’^ She is in “Copenhagen” getting
“Red Hot” for her “Wild Papa.” I
cannot find “Words” to describe ‘‘My
Best Girl,” but can tell you that she is
a “Red Hot Mama.” I know you hate
“Me and My Boy Friend,” but “How
Come You Do Me Like You Do?” Every
time I go down “ilemory Lane” I hear
the “Nightingale” sing “Dreams of
Yon.’^ In “Savannah” they call me
“Big Boy,” and I “Keep on Dancing”
until “It’s Three O’clock in the Morn
ing,’^ when I take my “Blue-Eyed Sal
ly” home. I know “Somebody Loves
me,” ’cause every time I tell her “I
Love you,” she says, “Oh, Peter!”
“Show Me the Way.”
T have got the “Traveling Blues,”
sft, like “Driftwood,’^ I am going to
“^landalay” to find out “Where Is
My Sweetie Hiding.” Although the
“Pal That I Loved” “Stole the Gal
That I Lov^” in the “Maytime,” I
am going to “Get Lucky” and buy a
“Doo Wacka Boo” and start “Run
ning Wild” with “Eliza.” “Do Yon
Remember” when we had “Tea for
Two” in a “Charleston Cabin,” and
when you said, “You May Be a Cross
eyed Papa, But You Are Going to Look
Straight At I\[e”? That gave me the
“^Meanest Blues” and made me so'
“Worried” that I ask, “Please” tell
me “Honestly and Truly” why you
won’t “Doodle-de-Doo” with me “On
the Blue Lagoon”? I am so “TJnfor
tunate,” but “Who Wants a Bad Lit
tle Boy?” If you ever get “Too Tired”
of being “Everybody’s Sweetheart and
Nobody’s Gal,” “Follow the Swallow”
to an “Old-Fashioned Love” and “Let
Me Be the First to Kiss You in the
Morning. ’ ’
“Let’s Have a Little Fun” “In the
Evening,” for, “After All, I Adore
You.”
“Just a Man That Girls Forget,”
“O. H. Peter.”
P. S.—“Charlie, My Boy,” sends
greetings to “Sweet Little You,” and
says “They 11 Be Some Changes Made”
with “Hard-hearted Hannah,” but af
ter all “It Had To Be You.”—The
Voice on telephone: “Fire depart
ment?”
Fireman: “Yes.”
V. 0. P.: “Well, send down one of
your nicest looking firemen and the big
red auto truck. Little Willie dropped
a match in the closet, and my niece is
up from New York, sc I thought she
might as well see what a fine depart
ment we have.”
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NEWS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
One of the nio«t interesting tours to
Europe tliis coming summer for college
nien and women is being handled by
the Students’ Co-operative Society of
Fifth Avenue and Forty-sixth Street,
New York City. An opportunity is of
fered a limited number of students to
obtain the ocean trip, fre'e of expense,
by acting as representative.
Any student desiring to take advan
tage of the opportunity may secure in
formation regarding couditions by cor
responding with the editor of the Col
lege Magazine, 565 Fifth Avenue, New
York, or by writing to the Students’
Co-operative Society.
Buy your Kodak supplies at the
College Store.
New line of fancy wool and silk
hose at the College Store for both
nen and women.
See our Pennants and Pillow
Tops at the College Store,
An assortment of Society, Fra
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