5 MAROON AND GOLD
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HOPPING DII^Dr.W A Hme,
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SEPTEMBER 19
ON TO
DAVIDSON!
LUME VII.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925
NUMBER r
aroon and Gold Squadron
Puts In Early Appearance
On College Athletic^ield
Prospects Good
-/'^nny Ex-High School Athletes
\ Make Good Appearance
With Old Men.
KIRKLAND, HALF BACK
Nucleus of Old Men to Build
Team On.
Coach Corboy’s call for football can-
•ates brought back to the campus a
C^rmined bunch of men. They came
wij^ the determination to' make this a
red letter year in Elon’s athletic
;ory. It is a bit early in the season
ize the team up with any amount
iertainty. It is, however, easy to
that the j^rospeets are very much
cr than they were last year, when
Coach started off with a mere
idful of old men to make a team.
*’raetiee began in real earnest last
iday and up to tlie day of matricula;
n practice was held twice daily. By
'»aturday afternoon there were about
venty men on the field. Others came
Monday and by Tuesday football
■itice had taken on a real business-
; aspect.
t is with regret that we report that
I itain-elect Braxton has chosen the
certain path of matrimony and can
. be back to lead the team on to
victories that we surely expect to
His abnciicc «tt die pivot pusl
tioTi will be keenly felt. Likewise, we
FMffer by not having John Smith on
• line.
/ Of the letter men who are back we
T d: Kirkland, Hiatt, McNeil, Har-
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iRGE WELl PREPSRED
GLASS ENTERS SCHOOL
g:gest and Best Prepared Class
Ever Entered In The
Institution.
Elon College opened her 36th annual
ssion Wednesday with a record-
feaking matriculation for the first
ly. 165 Freshmen, according to Dean
ook, all o'f them with at least fifteen
lifts graduated from accredited high
■'hools or else having passed the en*
anc0 examinations, entered the Fresh-
■ari^ Class on the first day. It is ex
pected that the total numtier of Fresh
men within a week will reach 200. Ac
cording to Dean Hook, this is not only
the largest Freshman Class in the his-
*-ory of the College but the best pre-
i^red.
Dean Savage met the Freshman girls
n a special session Wednesday eve-
ling, and at the same hour Dean Hook
net the Freshman men, and plans were
• aid whereby all Freshmen once a
eek for several months to come are
o meet with their respective Dean for
hour’s conference and special in*
truction. The Fi-eshmen highly ap-
>roved this, and the Deans feel that
ost excellent results fill be had.
President Harper announced that
uring the summer donations to the
liege onl its Emergency Building Pro-
am amounting to $90,000.00, have
feen received in addition to several
iousand dollars of remittajices on
iedges. The special donations he list-
4 as follows:
A gift of $50,000.00 from Mr. P. J.
rlton and family of Richmond, Va.,
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CORBOY, COACH
T. L. Kirkland, known as “Chubby,
is back on the squad, with his same
fighting spirit. He is a welcome asset
to the squad this year and if his play
ing has suffered no set-back from his
year’s absence, he is assured of his
old berth on tlie team.
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
September 19—Davidson at David-
soft.
September 25—King at Elon.
Octobcr 3—Guilford at Guilford,
October 17—Duke University at
Elon.
October 24—Concord State Normal
at Beckley, W.
October 31—Hampden-Sydney at
Hampden-Sydney.
November 14—Lynchburg at Lynch-
bm-g.
Noveni'ber 21—Emory & Henry at
Elon.
November 26—Wake Forest at Elon,
(Thanksgiving).
The above schedule is one of the best
to have been arranged for a Maroon
and Gold football team in recent years.
It is not only a rather stiff schedule,
but it is one that will mean a lot to
tlie students. Four games are to be
played on Coiner field. This is three
more than were played last year. This
is the. first time the record-breaking
King College team has played in North
Carolina. It is remembered that they
have the distinction of having scored
over two hundred points in one game.
Thanksgiving is one of Elon’s home
coming days and with the Wake Forest
game this year for a drawing card it
should be one of the biggest days ever
held on the campus.
F. B. Corboy, known to the students
as “Coach/’ is the man tliat makes a
machine from a set of individuals. A
victor in victory and a gentleman in
defeat, he has -won a high place in the
esteem of those whom he has coached
and those teams with which his teams
have matched strength.
VESPER SERVICES ARE
TO CONTINUE -THIS YEAR
J. E. Watts, ’27, was a visitor on
the Hill Monday.
P. D. Kudd and Alice Barrett, both
popular members of the class of ’24,
were married this summer.
‘‘Jo'hnnie’’ Johnson visited the Hill
Tuesday.
Prof. Velie will give vespers on the
Skinner Organ the second Sunday after
noons. The custom of giving organ
A^esper services on the second Sunday
afternoon of each month is to be con
tinued this year. Prof. Velie will pre
side at the organ for these recitals.
He will be assisted in these recitals
by the other members of the music
faculty. It w’ill be his purpose to make
these vesx)ers a unity in sentiment and
conception. The College is fortunate in
having as the director of its Music
Department and as associates with him
Elon’s Thirty-Sixth Session
Opens With Large Gathering
Students and Friends Here
HARRELL, HALF BACK
D. L. Harrell, Jr., popularly known
as is just beginning his third
year with the team, and if he proves
true to his past record he will make
himself well known to our opponents.
Last year, very unfortunately, Lem
suffered a dis located elbow which put
him out of the game for half of the
season, but he is back as well and sound
as ever now.
in the woTk, a man who is willing to
present such, programs free of cost for
the benefit of the students. These
vespers will mean' much for the musical
culture and growth of the College com
niunity.
GREETINGS !
Of course, I am giad to see the Juniors and Seniors back
on the Hill. And the Sophomores are a perennial source
of joy to the heart and of delight to the eye. Mother Elon
welcomes them gladly to her heart again.
But I want to speak a word of special gxeeting to the
Freshmen. A most cordial welcome to Elon’s largest
Freshman Class and her best prepared! Elon has waited
thirty-five years for you young people. She has high hopes
of your future. Her plant, her teaching and administrative
force, her prestige in the world of education and achieve
ment, the good-will and friendship of her alumni and of her
constituency, Jier endowment, all her resources of every
character she whole-heartedly and without reservation
places at your disposal to be used, but not abused. Elon’s
faith in you is unalloyed. She challenges you with your
fine physical, mental, social, and spiritual endowments to
add to her reputation and embellish her character as an
institution of education and religion.
We are glad to welcome all the young life that now
graces our campus and makes Elon’s classic halls rever
berate once more with the optimism and the altruism and
the gladsome good cheer and fellowship so characteristic
of our youth.
W. A. HARPER.
Dr. Harper Spoke
Many Friends of The College Are
Here For The Opening; Good
Spirit Prevailed.
Professor Velie Talked On Place of
Music In Life.
On Wednesday morning at nine
o’clock Elon College opened its thirty-
sixth annual session. The first official
act of the opening was the chapel ser
vice held in the Mooney Building of
Christian Education. The student
body was called to meet there and take
part in tlie opening chapel exercise.
President W. A. Harper presided at
the service and made a few remarks
of welcome to both old and new stu
dents. He then continued with a few
very timely remarks on the purpose
of a college, laying particular stress
on ftve points which go to make up
this purpose. He told the new students
that they were to look for these five
things here at this college and if they
did not find them that it was their
duty to themselves and to their Alma
Mater to help develop them and to see
that they became a part of the college
life. The first of these was scholarship
and development of the mind. It being
the most obvious thing toward whim’ll
a college should strive, takes first place,
but in so placing it first Dr. Harper
inferred that it was not to' be put so
far ahead that we would lose sight of
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r flEW ADDITIONS TO
FSCOLTr THIS yEllB
Additions to Faculty Keep Pace With
Progress In Building.
Prof. C. James Velie becomes head
of tlie Department of Music. Mrs.
Velie is also a member of the Music
Department, teaching voice, piano and
public school music.
Miss Pauline Shoope becomes the
head of the Violin Department and
assistant in piano.
Prof. Marshall W. Hook becomes as
sistant professor of Mathematics and
Engineering. He is an alumnus of Elon
and Yale and was formerly President
of Bethlehem College in Alabama.
Miss Helen R. Stearns, graduate of
Wellesley College and of the Boston
University, becomes professor of Re
ligions Education in the Children's
Division. She will offer courses quali
fying tho'se who wish to be directors
of Religious Education, with special
emphasis on the Children’s Division
work.
Mr. A. K. Moore 'becomes director
of Physical Education. He has served
in the army and has had charge of
this work in the Appalachian Train
ing School for two years.
Mrs. Alvina Underhill is added to
the administrative force as assistant
to Mrs. Ring.
Mr. and Mrs. James Brown become
managers of the Young Men’s Co
operative Boarding Department.
Maroon and Gold welcomes these
additional members of the faculty most
cordially to tlie College and pledges
them thorough co operation of the stu
dent body.