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VOLUME XIII
ELON COLLEGE. N. C. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1938
Z 530
NUMBER SEVEN
Kappa Psi Nu Sponsors Christmas
Party Tonight In Gymnasium
Banquet Starts
Evening’s Frolic
^ARLIEjHA^ICK_AND HIS
BAND TO BE boWN-BE/rTING"]
Home Economics Club
Represented At State
Home Ec Convention
Well, Seniors, and Juniors, don’t
^et discouraged because the ban
quet is off until after Christmas
because it will be made up for;
in fact, there is going to be a
double-header. Since the Senior- i
Junior banquet comes off the I
first week after Christmas there I
IS going to be a swell turn-out!
tonight, so start getting prepared.'
There is going to be a Christmas!
supper tonight that will come off
just like a banquet. The dining
hall will be beautifully decorated
and the girls dressed up formally
and looking their best. On top
of all that. Kappa Psi Nu is spon
soring a party in honor of the
■whole student body. The Kappa
.Psi’s are aiming to have that old
Bvm dressed up like a flash in
Esquire, and the music is going
to be furnished by the “Swing
Eloriians”,and they are going to be
tootin’ as well as ever, so start
diking out, Elonites. and let’s be
gin a great Christmas. The ban
quet will begin at 6:00, and the
partv begins at 8:00, lasts until
11:00.
S. C. A. To Present
Christmas Pageant
Tomorrow Night
Tomorrow night, the Student
Christian Association will spon
sor a special Christmas Vesper
service. Under the direction of
June Leath and Ruth Page Clark,
the Association will present a pa
geant of the Nativity with choral
singing, organ music, and special
lighting effects provided by stu
dent members. Dr. Bowden will
read the pageant, and Frances Lee
•will be at the organ.
In connection with the Vesper
program, the group is arranging
for a white Christmas.
As announced in chapel last
week, this special program will be
at 7:30 o’clock, instead of at 6:30.
Everyone is cordially invited and
urged to attend.
Last Friday and Saturday a
group of delegates from the Home
Economics Club attended the an
nual meeting of the North Caro
lina Home Economics Club Asso
ciation held at the Woman’s Col
lege in Grpensboro. The group
'n^luded Melvin James, Ida Mae
Piland, Lucy Mae Wright, and
Edith Brannock, accompanied by
Miss Lida Muse.
The convention opened on Fri
day morning, and in the afternoon
met in general session with rep
resentatives presenting ideas for
better home economics activities.
A banquet was held Friday even
ing, with Dr. Frank Graham, presi-1
dent of Greater University of
North Carolina, giving the princi- j
pal address on the subject, “Lead
ers of Tomorrow”.
Saturday morning, after the sec
ond eeneral group session, the
dpleeates heard an address by
Harriet Elliott, Dean of Women,
Woman’s College, discussing
“What the College Woman Can
Contribute to the South.” and an
other by Mrs. Bess N. Rosa, Field
Worker in Homemaking and
Parent Education, Woman’s Col
lege, on “Growing Up”.
The theme of the meeting was
“Knowing the South,” with all of
the discussions and speeches be
ing relevant to this subject.
Dramatic Club To
Produce Series
Of One-Act Plays
The reading committee of the
Dramatic Club met last Tuesday
and reported their recommenda
tions of one-act plays which are
to be produced by the club after
Christmas.
The students who are on the
committee are as follows: Angie
Henry, Jack May, and Virginia
Neal.
Ballatd-Singers To
Present Dramas
Based on Songs
Dean Messick Speaks
To P. T. A. Groups
Throughout Section
Dean Messick stays busy all the
time. In addition to being Dean
of Administration, he is continual
ly being asked to speak before va
rious P. T. A. groups and other
educational organizations through
out the state. !
Last Monday the Dean was
jguest speaker at a meeting of the
Ministerial Association in Wins-'
ton-Salem, and on Tuesday even-
Tig he spoke at a P. T. A. meeting
in Dunn, N. C. Next week he
will deliver an address at a simi
lar meeting in Hillsboro.
The college is proud of its Dean,
and feels that it is being well rep
resented in the field of education
in North Carolina.
Visual Aid Education
Helping Science and t
Psychology Students
Not long ago, several motion
pictures were presented here, re
lating to the world’s formation.
They were concerned with erosion,
glaciers, etc., and their influence
on the world’s formation. In ad
dition to these geographical mo-
Most of the members of Dr. Col
lins’ Freshman English Class are
having their first taste of drama
tizing plays. Having sung old
ballads for several months, they
have now turned to writing plays
of these ballads for presentation.
Practice is going on in various
places, the Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C.
A., the Little Chapel and one of
the second floor class rooms.
Some of the students are showing
themselves proficient at this type
of work and are taking the lead
in writing the plays.
The five ballads chosen were
“The Charleston Merchant”, "Bar
bara Allen,” “The Jealous Lover”,
“Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor”
and -“The Mermaid”. Presenta
tion of these plays will take place
sometime in the near future.
vies, other pictures were prrsent-
ed, which were of especial inlerest
to the sociology and education
classes.
Prof. Hook has presented sev
eral movies to his science students;
Dean Oxford’s p^dhology class
recently viewed a picture op he
eye and ear.
As part of the current 2n.i^hasis
on Visual Education, motion pic
tures of this kmd are doubly in
structive, since they bring infor
mation through sight as well as
hearing.
Student Teachers And
Geography Class Go
On Instructive Tours
A group of thirty student teach
ers went to Greensboro on Wed
nesday, November 30, to observe
methods and procedures of teach
ing in the Greensboro Senior High
School and the Curry School. Ac
companied by Dean Messick and
Prof. Beecher, the group spent the
day discovering new methods of
teaching carried out by the
Greensboro city schools.
On the same bay, Dean Oxford’s
Geography class went on a tour
of inspection of the Lucky Strike
factory in Reidsville. Both trips
proved highly beneficial as well
as thoroughly interesting.
Senior-Junior Dinner
Postponed Until
After Christmas
At a special meeting held last
week, the Senior class voted to
postpone the annual Senior-Junior
banquet which was scheduled to
be held last Saturday.
The reason for changing the
date was because many of the
Seniors and Juniors work in Bur
lington on Saturdays, and it was
decided that there would be a bet
ter representation at some later
date.
The Senior-Junior banquet will
be given soon after Christmas
holidays. Further announcements
concerning the affair will be made
in the near future.
Elon College Gains National
Renown By Visit Of Dr. Ryan
Dr. W. Carson Ryan, national
president of the Progressive Edu
cation Association, member of the
Carnegie Foundation, and a mem
ber of the Commission on Teach-
er-Education of the American
Council on Education, arrived on
the campus last Thursday. An
other guest of the college was
Dr. Elsie R. Clapp, editor of the
magazine, “Progressive Educa
tion”.
Dr. Ryan spoke at a special
chapel to the entire student body.
After chapel Dr. Ryan visited a
Freshman English class in the Lit
tle Chapel, and was then taken by
Prof. Beecher to the Altamahaw-
Ossipee school where they saw
how the classes in the school are
making use of local Science ma
terial under Prof. Beecher’s di
rection.
He returned to the campus be
fore lunch and talked with a num
ber of students in the printing
room. Lunch was served in the
Home Economics room for the
guests and officials of the college.
During lunch the college’s pro
gram in relation to Alannance
County was discussed, and was
enthusiastically approved by Dr.
Ryan and Dr. Clapp. ’They were
later taken through the Elon high
school and then returned to the
college to talk with other mem
bers of the college faculty. Afterr
w'ards the two guests went to Bur
lington and proceeded to the din
ner meeting of the Alamance
County Teachers Association at
which abo^t two hundred teach
ers were present as well as some
members of the college faculty.
Dr. Ryan gave a stimulating ad
dress which did much to encour
age and enlighten those present.
He returned with Dr. Collins to
Greensboro that night.
On Friday and Saturday Presi
dent Smith, Prof. Beecher and
Dr. Collins attended the Regional
meetings of the Progressive Edu
cation Association in Greensboro,
where they had further contact
with Dr. Ryan and other progres
sive educators in the south.
Dr. Ryan’s visit to the college
m^gns national recognition of
work being done at Elon. Dr.
Ryan expressed himself as being
greatly impressed with the Elon
i program.
"Muc/i Ado About Nothing” To Be
Presented Tuesday Night
Elon Debaters Attend
Forensic Tournament
At Winthrop College
Two Performances
Are Scheduled
FLORINE RAY AND WALTER
FONVILLE TO HAVE LEADS
The Elon Debate team opened
its year’s activities last week at
the Strawberry Leaf Forensic
Tournament at Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, S. C. The Shakespeare play “Much
Winthrop sponsors this tourney About Nothing’ will be pro-
annually, and each year sees an the Little Chapel next
increase in interest and attend- ^'^^sday and Wednesday, Decem-
ance. This year there were in o’clock,
attendance some 385 contestants -Admission is only one dime.
from over 35 colleges. Dartmouth, The play is one of Shakespeare’s
and Stetson are examples of the jjght and modern comedies involv-
wide-spread mterest this affair i„g two love affairs. One of the
commands. affairs is portrayed by Walter
Elon took part in debates only. Fonville as Benedick and Florine
The Phi Delta Kappa question, as Beatrice, each saying they
“Resolved: That the U. S. Gov- stay unmarried. The other
ernment should cease to use pub- Pa>r of unwilling lovers is Kay
lie funds for the purpose of stimu- James as Hero and Bruce Thor-
lating business” was upheld on burn as Claudio.
the affirmative side by Emmanuel! t . tt
j nr -r 11 j Leonato, the father of Hero and
Hedgebeth and W. T. Walker and Beatrice, is played by
Richard Divers. Archie Israel
takes the role of Don Pedro, who
Shepherd and E. J. Sanderson.
Among Elon's opponents were
teams from Mars Hill, Stetson,
is mainly responsible for the love/
T • TJU nr- iv. 17. m affairs turning out all right. Other
Lenoir-Rhyne, Winthrop, E. C. T. u f t i_T
^ J f; rni comic characters are J. C. Coble
as Dogberry, a country constable,
and Wesley Holland, as Verges.
These
C., and Western Carolina
were non-decision debates.
No ratings are available as
yet, but the group at the “Straw
_ _ The costumes are being arrang-
berry Leaf” certainly knew that ^ committee of which June
Elon was there. , Leath is chairman.
The South Atlantic tournament is being produced two
will be held next March at Salis- ‘^e entire stu-
bury, and the Grand Eastern in body may have the chance
April at Winthrop.
Get Your Pictures
From Phipsicli
Office This Week
to attend. And 10 cents to say
the least is cheap enough for any
body’s Shakespeare.
Practically all of the. pic
tures ordered through the
PhiPsiCli are now in their of
fice. Since there is only one
week before the beginning of
Christmas holidays, you
should get your pictures as
soon as possible.
Announcements will b •
taade by the staff as to what
hours the office will be open
this final week.
College Auditorium
Used By Students
For Physics Lab
Hendricks, Holmes, McCauley,
and Penn Conduct Experi
ments
Handel’s “Messiah” Is
Acclaimed By Capacity
Audience In Whitley
Some of you may have been
wondering just why the long
string hung from the dome of
Whitley Memorial Auditorium,
for a few days. Well, while the
athletic, romantic, swing fans, and
others were following their lines,
a few of our boys were still
scientifically-minded; and it was
on their account that the string
was hanging from the dome of our
chapel.
Two experiments were tried
Handel’s immortal o r a t o r i o,' while the string was there, but
“The Messiah”, was given its an- ^'^st it might be mentioned that
nual presentation in Whitley Au- reason for hanging the string
ditorium last Sunday night to a chapel was that wind and
capacity audience of nearly a thou- nature s other works would not
sand. The Auditorium, lit by interfere there.
candlelight, was a fitting setting
for the glories of Handel’s Christ
mas gift
Hendricks and Holmes used the
string to determine just how fast
the earth is revolving on its axis.
Altogether the performance was'^^^^y string swmging
a complete success. The choir and
ed seven and one-haii
th*ir director had worked long , n • ^ j
and late, they were ably augment-
ed by additional singers from Ala
mance
degrees
In
other words, if it had been left
........ County, and the four solo- for l^enty-four hours, it
ists were more than adequate. The ''^"^'^ have been swmging north
entire group, especially assembled a"d south, just as they had^ left
it, having made a complete turn,
or in six hours it would be swing
ing east and west. See?
Mr. McCauley and Mr. Penn
used the string as a pendulum to
find out how fast an object would
fall at this particular point of the
earth; in other words, the accele
ration of gravity. They started
(ACP) “Education is a prepara-' pendulum swinging and meas-
tion that helps man to understand ured the time it took to swing 100
his environment and to live there times, then squared it, and divid-
happily and usefully,” William | ed the length of the pendulum in-
for the performance, is known as
the Elon Festival Chorus.
The familiar strains of the music
brought a strong response from an
audience, many of which had
heard the composition in other
years.
Allen White, sage of Emporia,
Kansas, stated at K. U.’s 75th an
niversary.
to this, thus finding the accelera
tion of gravity at this point of
the earth.