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MAROON AND GOLD
September 9,
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OUR PRESIDENT
SUE RAINE, B. S., M. A.
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS
THIRTY YEARS HENCE
AN ADDRESS BY PRES. HARPER
It is with great pleasure at this beginning, thirty-eighth year of
our beloved Elon, to make our president the subject of our first
editorial.
This man has been the guiding genius in the making of our
Big'ger and Better Elon. We know of no other man—east, west,
north or south—w'ho could have accomplished what has been done
in so short a length of time. An institution a few years ago not
known beyond the confines of our own denomination is rapidly tak
ing its place as a pioneer in the field of Religious Education and our
president is considered as an authority in this field.
We students are proud to follow his steps and pledge our hearty
co-operation for the continuation of the rapid growth of what we
hope to be our Alma Mater. We recognize that whatever helps
Elon grow stronger gives greater facilities to assist us in making
better preparation for journey along life’s pathway.
We appreciate President Harper as an educator, as a financier,
as a Christian statesman, as a counselor, as an optimist, as a com
rade, as president of Elon College.
—E C—
From all indications this is going to be a banner year for Elon
College. The freshmen are fresh and plentiful. May each one of
them be as foursquare when he goes out in life’s work as he is in
turning the corners on our campus. Freshies, wear your cap with
equal pleasure to yourself and honor to the institution of which you
are now a part.
Sophomores, keep that old ’30 high in honor and loyalty to your
college.
Upperclassmen, all, you have now had one or more years in col
lege. When you entered you probably did not know what you
wanted to do or be. You now “know' the ropes,” so to speak. You
have become acquainted with your professors, with your studies and
with the college life in general. You have the opportunity to make
the coming year the best yet. Let’s look forward to the year 1927-28.
Let us prepare ourselves and determine to make it a better year,
athletically, scholastically and socially, than any that has preceded
it.
—E C—
Freshmen, you have one of your greatest opportunities before
you. This is the opportunity of “making good” in college. You
have now decided to secure a college education before launching out
on life’s broad sea. Enter into your college work with an open mind,
with unprejudiced opinion, with a willingness to learn, and you will
learn many things that will be priceless to you in later life.
—E C—
Fellow students, this is your paper, the voice of Elon College,
your school. Let’s get right behind our athletics, our college pub
lication, our studies. A college is rated and judged by the caliber
of the students it turns out. Each one of us is required to do his
part.
—E C—
The interest and co-operation of every student of Elon College
are needed to secure the success of our college publications. Please
contribute your part, financially, scholastically, and enthusiastically.
—E C—
When going to Burlington to do your shoping, patronize our ad
vertisers. Mention the Maroon and Gold to them. A few kind
words help greatly. Keep that old smile and cheerful disposition
and you will most certainly win out in the end.
Others see us/’ but this would be a
calamity. It would worry the life out
of us if wc could know just what our
neighbors think of us, most of us no
doubt would be driven to' suicide, but
we can determine the kind of men we
will be and that is our chance. We
should begin early iu life to fashion
our environment and to utilize our
heredity to make of ourselves the men
and women we want to be thirty years
hence.
A few years ago when one o'f the
pyramids of Egypt was being explored
in the hand of a mummy that had been
buried for centuries were found some
grains. The archeologist who found
these seeds could have decided to ex
amine them under the microscope to
see what manner of seed they were.
He did not do this, however. He de
cided to plant them and they produced
beautiful plants and yielded an abund
ance of similar seeds. It is possible,
however, that the plants which his care
ful cultivation produced, might have
been slightly different from or better
than the parent plants that originally
produced the seeds.
This instance suggests certain things
about youth and about human nature.
Just as the archeologist had two choices
nient and heredity do not predict for with reference to the seeds he held in his
ua whnt will take place thirty years | hand, just so the older generation has
hence in tlie life of any Freshman who two choices with reference to the youth
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enters tliis institution this fall. The
thing that will determine, in the final
analysis, the status of each one of the
class of 1931 will be personal effort.
We may be possessed of such tremen
dous force of character that despite any
of the generation just behind them.
They can examine carefully the physi
cal, spiritual and other characteristics
that make up the young life of tlie
world. They can place them under tlie
microscope, so to speak, and find oppOT-
handicap of wealth, social position, or j tunities for criticism as well as for
physical deformity, we may react sue- |praise, but the best thing that can bo
cessfully upon environment and heredity Idone with the youth of the world is to
and wrest from them the victory in educate them and see what they will be-
life that we crave for ourselves. On
the other hand, we may be such weak
lings that in spite of magnificent en
dowments in physical, mental, social or
other realms, we shall fail to achieve
any distinction and become miserable
failures. It all depends upon us. '
When Woodrow Wilson was making
his first inaugural address as President
of the United States, he coined a word
which has been an inspiration to our
come. And just as the careful methods
of cultivation employed by the gar
dener may change the plants with
which he works foT the better, just so
through proper methods of education
human nature may be refashioned and
changed for the better. The finest thing
that can be said of human nature is
that it can be changed. It must, how
ever, be changed in youth. Wlvat our
youth are to become is the responsi-
nation and particnlarly to the youth of generation. The
our nation. I am referring to the word
forward-looking,which he used for
the first time at tliat great moment in
his life and in the history of our
government. With no thought of
preaching to the class of '31 at this
time, as I am sure that President Wil
son had no thought of preaching to his
fellow-citizens when he was inaugurated
president, I suggest that the thought
connoted in this word is fraught with
incalculable potentiality for the success
of the young man or the young wo
man who will accept it as a sort of
motto for the ordering of life. TJie
man who looks forward does no't bv
reason of his major interest in that
direction cease also to profit by the
experiences of the race. In fact, he is
unable to look forward successfully
without also' looking backward. That
is really what a college course is for.
to shorten the period of experience, so
to speak, or what is the same thing by
possessing us of the experience of others
to lengthen our lives. That is what
W^oo'drow Wilson had iu mind when he
called upon the American people to be
come forward-looking, and that is what
I have in mind at this time. Do not
betterment of the human race and of
human society becomes primarily the
responsibility of the older generation,
as gardeners, so to speak, of the social
and spiritual realm.
There are a lot of people, however,
who' can not see the advantage of the
method of cultivation and education.
They have noses for investigation.
They have the spirit and attitude of
diagnosis and they are never satisfied
until they have picked to pieces what
ever things come into their hands,
whether it be the seed buried for cen
turies with an Egyptian mummy or a
young life. The human body, these
microscopic individuals have discover
ed, when it has attained maturity and
the weight of 150 pounds, is not only
the marvelous instrument of an im
mortal spirit, but also a machine com-
posed of fifteen chemical elements, with
special emphasis not on the machine,
but on the elements. They can not see
the body in its perfect adaptatio-n to
its various purposes for the elements
that make it up chemically. They say
with scientific do-lefulness that this 150
pound individual, for example, contains
21,000 gallons of hydrogen, 9.000 gallons
be satisfied with tlie day that is, as con- I oxygen, 450 gallons of nitrogen, 9
stituting a special experience, but think I clorine. a total of 30,459
'gallons of gas, sufficient gas to float
an airship around the world. They
have also discovered that this human
body contains 27 pounds of charcoal, 3
Select an ideal and put forth every calcium, 1 1-2 pounds of
of each day in terms of what has been
and in terms of what is to be. Adopt
a goal and strive toward it. Set up a
standard and endeavor to reach it.
fort possible to realize it. Thus through
personal effort our forward-looking
ambition, our impelling aspiration will
use both environment and heredity to
promote our life interests.
It used to be said Wiat in every man
are three men,—the man that really is,
the man each one thinks he is, and the
man his neighbor thinks he is. This is
hardly the whole truth, for there is a
fourth man in every one of us, the man
we can be. It is impossible to separate
a man into these .four individuals, and
it is well that we cannot. Robert
Burns, the poet, wished that we might
have the power to see ourselves
phosphorous. S 1-2 ounces of potassium
G ounces of sulphur, 3 7-10 ounces of
sodium, 1 3-10 ounces of magnesium,
1 ounce of iron, and a trace of iodine,
silicon and fluorine, in all abo-ut 33
pounds of solid substance. They also
have evaluated these chemicals and
found that they are worth 98c. and this
is all they can see to the physical body
of man.
There are other
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thusiasm, energy, consecration, altruisn,
optimism, discontent, restiven ’
rcvercnce. lovableness and leadabil^*’
They can not see the young life
these charactristics and they are
faulty in their judgments of youth as
arc the chemists in their conoeptiong
of the human body.
It is the organization of the cheniieal
elements that constitute the gases aad
the solid substances into the human
body, the most marvelous mechanism
ever conceived. And, while these
chemical elements themselves are agf
worth perhaps more than 98c, in cobj.
bination they are the most valuable
machine of which we have any concep.
tion. Just so the combination of those
splendid spiritual characteristics of
youth in varying degrees and pro-
portions makes human life most engag.
ing and charming. The critic will make
fun and the cynic may sneer, but the
real artist will appreciate man’s bodj
and his spiritual disposition and char-
acter, and in appreciating them will
enco'urage each individual to
his best physically and spiritually.
Robert Browning once said, “It jj
not what man does, but what man would
do, that exalts him.” This is a good
text and might become the basis not
of a sermon simply, but of a life
philosophy. Dwight L. Moody evident
ly felt the foTce of this sentiment of
Browning’s, though he was likely not
aware of the poet’s having said it,
Dwight L. Moody resolved when he was
a clerk in a shoe store that God should
have full control of at least one life,
so that it might be seen what God couM
do w'ith the life that is completely sur
rendered to Him. Moody became a
great evangelist and, though he never
became a minister, as a layman he was
one of the greatest preachers that the
Christian centuries have produced.
In closing I will remind you of
Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln evidently
believed in the philosophy which Brown
ing outlined. Though he was bom
in poverty and had only such oppo^
tunities for education as he could make
for himself by studying at night bv
pine knot . Ughout of_h£*r-ctfD^U
bo'oks, he is reported to have said witli
sublime confidence in the future, with a
genuine belief in the ability of a man
by personal effort to use both heredity
and environment in a forward-looking
way to win success, “I do not have
much chance in life, but I will do my
best to prepare myself and some day
perhaps my time will come.” What
Abraham Lincoln was able to' achieve
is not only a precious heritage, but an
everlasting inspiration as well to the
youth not only of America, but of the
world.
What we will be "Thirty Years
Hence” depends upon what we decide
we want to be on September the 6th.
1927.
BURLINGTON, THE CITY
are other microscopic in
dividuals who have catalogued the
spiritual characteristics of youth and
have discovered that our young people
are composed of certain abiding charms,
such as open-mindedness, broad-
as mindedness, courage, confidence, en-
Why do we love Burlingto'n so well?
It is a progressive and rapid growiDg"
city and offers the opportunities that a
small town or country village doesn^t
have.
There are special advantages found
in Burlington which combined are
found in no other growing city of
North Carolina; namely—Elon College^
a great institution for education; the
city’s school system, one unequaled iff
the state; finally the Burlington
ness College.
Aside from these special advantaged
are the advantages in having the chain
of stores and business firms which have
.0 loyally aided us in putting out the
Maroon and Gold.
Burlington, with its mild average
climate has enticed many people to
move here, and prosper under its thrifty
leaders; but of course, what really
makes a city is the people who live
there, and as the greatest of all reason?
for believing in Burlington, is the citi
zenship of Burlington, the finest people
in the good Old North State.
“Cycles and motor-driven vehicles
must light their lamps 30 minutes h®'
fore sunset, the exact liour of whicfi
will be fixed by the mayor.” So decrees
the mayor of Koege, a small town in
Denmark.—Selected.