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i/iicii iijiiilia uj ail aiLeiiipL to Qiscovei' a piausiDle| i Aviu&ic uepariment is one ot reason for the limited student attendance at | an=ed“schol)“is^of ^ the south. In the audroriurr' there is a Four Mannual Skinner hand-picked lyceum pi'osranis. For years their primarj' aim was to bring to our campus only o,,an. wh.ch .s on« ot the .arg. performers displaying the highest the world of est in the state, in the way ot arts had to offer, but consideration of the quality i of the performers themselves was lost in 'the l^^UrG^ni T"! t^e^ilher'. quest for the former. ; , It took a long while to realize that first at tention should be given to the type gf'"ai't-ist and leave tie program to his discretfon. feelin? as-, sm-ed that his selection of material would be most f ■» i*n • JVienjonal Auditorium. A much Cnt'^rt>3,iniri^ snci SlIII possess the QUSllti€S GX” 'bigger■ajid better series, is on siaie pected by even the fussiest of critics. The Bon Cossacks, the first of a series of lyceuTO programs for the current season, are, conceded top position in the male choir world and most certainly lived up to that distinction on the 2:, tVarn/Sprcu/rnora.; Stage cf our auditorium. The student attendance; twelve hundred lor the whole au- was nothing short of amazing, and all went away > feeling welTpl^ even at the expense of having{coutge^f a to sit for two nours m the world’s Triost UTlCOm-l^^tw^e on;- you Joe CoUege an^ fortable seats. With a program of this caliberot our Mason and L.t.-mond Grant^ Added to uiis uiere are four studios and twenty-two practice rooms eacn with .piano. Each year the Cooperativ?- Con SOr this season than ever betore. The house was sold out for the lirst time at the last concert. Since the seats in the balcony wings on loo many in one day. A1 Progar: I do like the short tests and I like to have them more often like we have them bccause you doft’t have to cram and you get more out of them. Margaret Carroll: Yes, Because there wasn't so much crammmg ^OiHg on and you loam more when ,) uu don t cram. Howard Brown: I - like this year s a whole lot better, because! vancement of individuals and the you don t have to study as hard t propagation of death. another day so let's make the best of it. tike the deacon's one horse shay, the vintaged gas buggy of Saecker gave a relapsed breath and stopped dead in front to the Elon gates — oh yes, the bo3’S were enroute to Virginia. It is a nice thought to know that' our prospective wings are being trained for the advancc.*..eni of aviation and the propagation of .its future rather than the ad ior one-hour exams as three-hour exams and you get them over with quicker. Helen Long: I like the one-hour exam better oecause it doesn i give so mucn leisure xime. If you tvnow tne maienal you nave cov ered it will not matter • whether it IS a one-hour or a three-hour exam. W. O. Maynor:.. Seems like the According to news reports that have come in, Sing Sing prison’s crack quintet took the Army in to camp last week in a basketball iiacass — all of which substan tiates the old adage, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” A little spring plowing gets underway next week when our respective matti'ess hounds will be up-rooted to start their spring for a starter we find oGrselves tugging at reins in anticipation of others as entertainini! a change; they deserve sludent:i were more confused this • football training — Someone got year over tne new plan. I ground hog mixed up with Alberi Cobie: Fine. I haven’t ^^lother kind of pig-skin. had much work to do. Much - know; that Elon Col LEST WE FORGET REELING ALONG Each senior is required to write an essay before graduation from Elon, and it has to be di- rected by the head of the department in which the student is majoring or someone in the de- partrnent appointed by the head. The professor who directs the papers serves as chairman of the committee and passes on the paper after it has By Beverly Conglelon ■WtTTEERING HEIGHTS (SamucJ Goldwyn-U. A.) So£3,al Drama V&le: February 2 and 3 iJireciox: WiiJxam Wyler Casi; Laurance Onvier, easiei': Dwighl Genlry; It's a mess, better like it was. I like to take exams and have them over witn. ilais thing of stringing it out over I a week is no good. -i——Well,”! guess itH I do. Haybe less work. isj.igntv j jdiiglea up tiiough. I Jimmie MDade: The new plan ^ j is not as good as the three-hour! : method- When 1 take the tnree- j hour examination, I feel that | j something has been accomplished I jand completed. That feeling of| Merle; ®®l^'Satis/action is lost to a great i lege was the first coed school in North Carolina; that it was also headway Elon’s day student girls are making. Lucille, it looks as though the sun shines brighter in so lar as your ‘‘Day’’ is concerned . . . Pete did you finally get over to Os- sipee? . . . And by the w^ay, how was that, candy that a certain gang made, or maybe they didn't niake, the other nightT'V . . Some one wants to know if Marjorie , j Hunter is going Garbo? . . . Don ald, of course its all right, but wo already know about all your girls . . . Elizabeth Brannock, we’d like to know more about that soda jerker over in Gibsonville . . . Can it be that a Mr. Ludei is beating Progar’s time? . . . Mar garet, we understand that you especially like to ride in green Plymouths . . . We’re aiwavs glad to welcome all the old Elonites to our day student parlor. We saw Sara Trollinger, a last year’s day student, at the Don Cossack choi: presentation the other night . . . And whose autograph have you. got on your coat. Holt? . . . Fred, we think she's real cute . . . Vir ginia Crawford has finally found the pioneer in music and religious | certain fellow by the name education in this part of the coun-1 Jack . . . Mary Hiate is go- try; that until Duke hit the jack-j^^S to be back with us again this pot Elon had the largest organ | semester, but hereabouts; -that if--the- rest of-i the country reproduced as rapidly ^ as North Carolina there would be I 100,000 more babies born yearly in the United States. where has Jake- spirits — the revengeful gypsy boy and the manor-born girl of the moors. The musical motifs lend a haunting beauty to this grim, fas cinating tale. The acting by Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier is Don’t like it. Hey, Toots, a period. Slsfford Peebles: Why? Just don't, wait! Worlh Coble: Like it better than the three-hour type. Not so straining. Less work and more time to do that work. -I J T 1 /» ^ t I Oberon, David Niven, i-iora tiiese hour examinations, oeen SUDmittea m imal torm. ine professor who Ison, Donaid Crisp. From work is drawn over too lonr directs the paner was supposed to have turned in B'ome. j the subjects of the essays to the dean by Nov. 15 , cf this year. The draft of the essay is to be sub-1 iiant picdu°ticn and ^ real mitted to the professor who is directing the work aohievement in transposing to on or before March 1. Three typev^Titten copies I t^^to^' of the paper are submitted to the reading com- the tortured love of two wiw mittee on or before April 15. Students may be examined orally on the essay by the committee which reads his work. Each professor in the major is permitted, at his discretion, to offer to the student the option of a comprehensive examination in the student’s i ““p‘‘onaiiy fine with the good n\'ijcr field as an alternative for the senior essav. Geraldine Fitj;',erain pecomprehensi^j examination is to be held be-1 The pTctureTha, was to be tiveen April 15 and May 1 for the students, and is shown this week-end nar> been not to e^tceed two hours if oral or three hours if because of the basket- written. rSt*"™' j PAY “THE PLACE” A VISIT L. J. Whitesell Elon College, N. C. See T. N. BOONE for THAT NEW OUTFIT MADE TO MEASURE Barlinglcn. N. C. I Meet j'our friends at.. : SHAW'S SODA GRILL j Here you can enjoy a tasty luncfi or a crisp butter toasted s s n d- wich with 5’our favor- THE WELL DRESSED MAN jte drink, DEMANDS CLOTHES TAILORED; TO MEASURE BLALOCK’S Tailoring Shop Opposite Paramount Theatre NexJ To ParErr.cunl Theatre Phone 1588 ! DROP IN AT j TOWN TAVERN West Front Sireet Burlington. N. C. THE BE3T JN DRUGS PLUS SNEAD AT THE FOUNTAIN MitcheH’s Drug Store BURLINGTON, N. C.
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