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MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday. May 20, 1953 PAQE TWO Moroon And Gold Mlted »nd printed by stixlenU of Elon CoUege. Published bl-wt,«kly during the toUege year under the iusplcei of the Board of Publication. Entered ai second class matter at the Post Office at Elon College. N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. D.Urered by mall. J1 50 the college yrar. 50c the quarter. H)ITOKI.\I BOAUl) M.,tt Ci'-rin Edltor-In-Chlcf I.yiin Cishion Associate Eilitor James Khodes Assistant Kditor Palsy Mel''in .Mu'^ic Kdilor Cooper Walker ^*'t Kdiloi Reubvn Askew . . Staff Photographer Luther N Byrd K.icdUy Advisor BI'SINKSS BOAKI) Bushi.-- .a.'.nai>cr Circulation Manager Printing Advisor Prc s Operator .spoKTS Si Air Gary Sr.irs ^ i’ '‘ tt Kditor Mikf HdUs«'i) Afst. Spcvtr Kilitor IJon Mcrninon Sportn A.'distant RKPORTKKS J.'inic? Rhodes Joe liranklty Call K. Clwt-n Lynn Cashion Darviin Bailey l.uther Barnes Kunnie Black Doris Chrismon David Crdwle Ann Harris Krvin Durham Curtis Ann Kearns Alfred Male S..mmy Nelson Caroll Heid Richard Smith Jcbsc Taylor Charlie Swicegood Welborne HKDNESDAV. MAY 20, 1953 THE MV.STEKIES OF LIFE This is truly an ago of mysteries, and the Mvsteiics of life are many and pei- plexinR They c.iti-c fear, mrrv, di'.-il- lusionment, and wonder to rci^'n in many a heart. The heartaches and problems of our civilization are hard to bear. We sec our friends die on the bloody field of battle in war-torn Korea. We feel the pangs of disease and death all about us Perhap' wc even at times try out as Chriit did upon the cross, "My God, My nod, v^hy hast Thou forsaken me." When these thInKs occur, and occur they will in the future as they have in the past, wc must look beyond the pre.sent and into the Kternal and realize, perhaps more significantly than anything else, that God sovereign .and supreme, and that even lliouKh ihin^is .M'om h.ird to bear the light will break through. For after all, is it n:t true that "after the rain comes sunshine.” This fundamental truth, which is chal lenged by Mime liberals even on cur own campus, goes back to the beginning of time “In the beginning there was noth ing but God. He created all things, and in so doing is sovereign and supieme, com plete in power and holincts. As we thumb through our Old Testa ment, »e see time and time aKain where God drew the veil aside between the In finite and the earthly.. We actually see Ciod, then as now, operating m the his torical pr(.ciss, using humin life in Ilis ftcinal purpose tor life. Our hearts beat fast with joy when we realize that there i.s an eternal purpose foi evfry human life and c\or> event, even th-jugh our tear- filled eyes may not see it at tim«. Perhaps in this stage of the geme when we seniors leave Klon to take our place in the affairs of men. wc may ask our selves if God actually cares for us The an.swer is ■ Yes." We see the supreme revelaUon of when God actually drew the veil aside and steppod out onto the stage of life in the form of his only begctton Son. who came to Iree man from the sins of Adam and teach the Truth of life, death, and of the mysteries of life, hew to trust in God and wait patiently icr Him. Now, today in our civilization we are, 1 think, f«ce to face with the most serious problem ever to thieaten the American nation. This Wireat is not Communism, rather it 13 the growing malignancy of wretched Liberalism, which will, if not defeated, wreck the world and destroy all that we ire and ever hope to be, Liberal- sm dares to defy the sovereignity of God he holmes, of the Christian religion, and lum It into merely an ethical way of life. We need the strength of fundamental reI gion and the return to the unbending faith of the Calvinists who settled our nation Therefore, when the questions of life he Mysteries of life, become so great hat we feel the burdens too hard to w I ** *'■ for.saken and iH war-tom world are shaking the very foundations of an that i, decent and good: let us re member that no matter where we may wander in the years to come, we are after all in the protecting hands Almighty--CURRIN. bullets in the bull's-eye By TO.M TARGI.TT WORKING DKPARTMENT: Bobby Stew art, Jimmy Dalton. Charlie Swicegood. and Sherrill Hall have offers to play ball Nova Scotia . . (Icorge Bairon we are of the I II Nice summer work . . transfeis to Duke tiiis summer . . . There's talk abc.iit nev drapes for Whitley Auditorium ruiimn .MaO- ron elected president of the Ministerial Association . . . Phil Mann in putting lights on cupola crossed wires, resulting in a short circuit for the siion . . Some profs used this as excuse to incicase tiie time exposure of their subject on their sterling studious students who clock classes . . . Basketball tiyouts under way . . . Jimmy Rhodes to wed this sum mer , , , Tau Zetas to spend week at Ocean Diive Beach, S. C. after commencement. .. Dr. Smith traveled 30.000 miles since Sept. collecting $300,000 in cash and pledges for Klon . . ■ Jimmy Luke to woik in bookstore next year . . California to be popular summer retreat for Elonites . . . Dean Black, Hazel Walker. Luuk Groot to spend vacation there . . . Mai Bennett looked like a ‘‘Jim Thorpe" at the Nortt State Conference tiack meet . . . Inter national flavor to spice incoming fresh man class . . . Applications From: Violet Zarou and Leila Khoury in Ramallah. Jor dan . , , Yang Ki Seuck, Koiea . . . Ata- lita Chegwin, Barranquilla, Colombia, South America , . . Sorry to hear that Luuk Groot is returning home in August . ., . Paul and Dot Shepherd anounce birth of baby boy, 7 lbs. 12 oz. in weight. Dot worked in bookstore part of the year . . . Jimmy Rhodes to be soloist in the choir s prci'ontation of Brahms' “Requiem" at commencement . . . Having heard a request for an editorial on the Honor System. 1 ieel that the following quotation is ample . . , “Under the Honor System you are on your honor not to cheat, steal or lie; and If you see another student doing so, you are on your honor to report him to the Honor Council" . . , ‘Nut said! Now, we need a little action. . , Roger Phelps to be editor of the Phi Psi Cli . . . Y'ork Brannock to be his business manager , . , The choir had a “Roarin’ Twenties" party . . . Gad what taste they had in clothes back then. . , . After reading the Colon nades, Who is Janet Forester Welch',’'.'? , . , The initials JFW look familiar!!! . , . Clubhouse mascot: Mevrage "Meb" Jerni- gan . The boys are looking for a home for this peppy pup , , , Hats off to Mrs. McDonald and her French students for the painting of their classroom . . , Plac ers to have banquet . . . their last official function under their director, Elizabeth R, Smith, . Hers has been a job well done ... A small but appreciative audience at tended the "Meb" Jernigan concert ... I was disappointed that “Meb" wasn’t there, hut thankful that Joe Baige and Judy Chad wick substituted in the clinch ... Jr. Class had a picnic at Moonelon . . , Building up some class spirit , , . Jack James caught a -> lb. 2 oz. bass at the college pond last week. Need a few more fish that size and have them served on Fiii'ay nithl ■leiry Loj painting the Alpha Psi Omega room . . . Clean-up Day work is still going on . . . Clubhouse in process of painting roof ... A ir. Patterson elected president of Day Students . , Couldn't have picked a better man. Borrowed Item.s Thumbnail definitions of political phi- losophy. SOCIALISM^ You have (wo eows--.vou i:ive one to youi neighbor.' COMMUNISM--You have tvio cows tho government takes both and giyes you the milk. lASClSM—You have two cows—the gov- «rnment takes both and sells you the milk. NAZISM—You have two cows—the gov- crrment takes both and shoots you. NEW DEALISM-You have two cows- the government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away. CAPITALISM—You have two cows—you ‘■ell one and buy a bull.. (From the Maroon and Gold '49). PKEDICTIOftS: That the rising Soph class will fall into line with the classes past and have the usual unorganized "Rat Week ‘ next fall . . TTlat frats and soror ities will consider getting big name band for a Pan Hellenic dance , , . Godwin will not run for pres, next year . , At the request of the VP, Prof, Danleley briefed the legislatuer of the ways of parliamentary procedure . . , After which, they then dispensed with parliamentary rules Happy summer to all! SEVEN OUTSTANDING MEN TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES AT COMMENCEMENT REV, CHESTER ALEXANDER i .-ir . REV. WILLIAM L. CLEGG REV. HENRY E. ROBINSON Seven eminent men in the fields of theoloffy, music and business will reccive honoraiT degrrees from Elon College at t'c fortl'ccming 1953 com mencement, one of the seven degrees being deferred from last >ear due to the inability of the recipient to attend the com mencement last spring. Five of this group are ministers, three e,f them bein? pastors of church es in Burlington. Those to be honored follow: REV. CHESTER ALEXANDER (top left), pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bur lington, a native of South Caro lina and a graduate of The Citadel and the Union Theo logical Seminai-y. He has held several pastorates in North Car olina and numerous church of fices. REV. WILLIAM L. CLEGG (center left), paster of the Front Street Methodist Church in Bur lington, a native of North Caro lina and a -graduate of Duka University. He has'held pastor ates and figured prominently in Methodist activities in the state since 1924. REV. HENRY E. ROBINSON (bottom left), pastor of the Con gregational Christian ChurcH of Burlington, a itative of Texas and graduate of Rice Institute and Hartford Seminary. He held pastorates in New England be fore coming to Burlington In 1950. REV. EDWARD W. W. LEWIS (lop righO, pastor of United Con gregational Church in Norw'ich, Conn., a graduate of Ohio Uni versity and Harvard. He has held several pastorates in New England. He is to preach the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday. REV. GEORGE G. PARKER (third right), member of faculty of New England Conservatory of 'Vlusie, graduate of Columbia and of music schools in Amer ica and abroad, who is well known as both a teacher and composer of music. HON. HARRY L. OLDEN (bottom light), of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been highly suc cessful in business and a leader in the civic life of his city for Mny years. His degree was carried over from last year. REV. EDWARD W. W. LEWIS REV. GEORGE G. PARKER PROF. DAVID B.ARNETT HON. HARKY L. OLDEN Line 0’ Type Or Two -By PATSY MELTON- Decayed Hibiscus Leaves It was a (lu.irter past pigeon and Jepson Gorkie knew that it was too early to shave cats. He hung quietly fiom the grape vine and meditated. Darn those mcths aryvvay. Once upon a time Jepson had wondered why everybody was crying over their long lost un derwear, but orange was only leal answer and one insisted on Thursd.iy. Mr, Gcikle just loved the letter "X", He liked to say it eleven times. It sounded like a little color'd boy scratching be hind with a coconut shell. the every- What "X"? Whose Gorkie? Time hung heavy on the roses and the nun’s sobs sounded like elephants snuffling peanuts up their trunks. The whole day was purple. Have you ever? What trunks? Whose nuns? The cats walked by two by four and Jepson picked up his razor. Shaving cats is such a waste. What eats? Whose shave? * ♦ ♦ Owed To A Dying Belt Buckle The days have skirts and who are we to say if fleas wear shirts and sidewalks run away? Our time is nearly up, O. gray and wooly beast Don't spit in the silver cup. wait for the train at least. We sicken on comsilks, our palm branches miscon strue the fact that a cow milks her own Pettigrew. The End (The author, Murgatrude Mo zart, was forced to omit three stanzas because she could not spell the word “Jumbo”.) * ♦ * A horse screa.-ned, “Rope”. * * » Written On A Rotten Grapefruit Veel Gather ye eyeballs while ye may. Tin roofs won’t last. And yellow Mondays soon will lay Green Plymouths from the past. the moving finger writes By MATT CURRIX WHISPERS OF THE SOUL XL is a difficult job to write "30” to tliij column. There are so many things tiat T have wanted to say ever the past two- years, rnd suddenly I realize that this is it. And then, too, it is difficult not ti sound sentimental. Writing should be the expressions of one’s heart, the innermost r;ait of a man, and perhaps even the whis pers of his scul. Over the years the lectures, classes, books have all meant a great deal to all ot us; but, more than these, the influence of people about us who actually live their faith, people like Prof. Hook who preach the most powerful sermons oi all , . , sermons without words. These are Whis pers of the Soul. We walk through the halls and out past the ivy-covered colonnades, and now we realize that in a little while we shall be scattered over the land as autumn lesves are blown about by the winds. These yofirs have been formative years, and yet what years are not? Measured in terms of chronology, four years is not so very long. But measured In terms of development , and pleasure, these years for us have been a lifetime. ' Many things will live in our memory I forever. Many things here at Elon have changed the entire course of human life, it did mine and perhaps many others. Most cf us will not realize until many years later how much an imprint Elon has made on cur lives and on the Whispers of cur Souls. V/hat wijl live in our dreams about Elon? Well, the ivy hanging lazily from the colonnades, the broken light at the entrance to Alamance, the soimd of the siren at 8:00 or 12:20, the last minute cancellation of a Student Legislature meeting, the awe-inspiring Christmas ren dition of “The Messiah,” committee meet ings of all shapes and sizes at all times of the day and night, John V/estmore!and parading through the halls of Alamance in a trail of smoke, the leak in Whitley, the ppund of the gavel in student chapel, spaghetti in the dining hall, a casual drick from the fountain after retreating fr;m the library, the warm and understanding manner of Professor Barney, the “fish stories” of Dr, Reynolds, Prof. Hook wcrit- ing with some strange contraption, Dr, Smith’s greetings to the student body in the fall. Dr. Howell checking on books in the bookstore, coffee between classes . . all these things are everyday now, but in the years to come they will spell Elon. We are all indebted to those here at Elon and to all those who have gone be fore us. To Dr. Will Long, who dreamed of Elon in 1888; to Dr. William Allan Har per, who built the five main buildings; to Dr, Smith, who paid for them and lias led Elon for over twenty years; to Dr, Brannock, Prof. Hook, Prof. Barney, Miss Lila Newman, and Mrs. Oma Johnson, who have long been here at Elon. giving ol their lives for Christian educatiun-ilo."gst than most of us are old. The Ini^piratipn of seeing about w those magnificent souls, who dedic:/.ed their lives to Christian education ss many years ago and who have stuck with Kl® through thick and thin, we say “Thank you.” When we think of these five faculty members, who in the dark days of the li.te ’Twenties artd early ’Thirties loved 121on and were so dedicated to the priii- ciples on which she was founded that they were willing to work without pay in order to help keep her doors open, we lay ‘'Thank you” If all of us could only be as sincere, as dedicated, as unselfish as Prof. Hook. Prof Barney, Dr. Brannock, Miss Lila NewfflM and Mrs. Oma Johnson. And at this Com mencement Of 1953. as we of the senior class leave Elon, we shall never forget these people, who, together with Dr, Smith, have made the dream of Elon our dream and a part of us. These are all sermons without vards, and they are preached by so many so often that seldom do we realize that we h2ve been listening all along, v- And for the future . . . Elon will never die, she will live in our hearts and it* Our deeds forever. And so, goodbye; iu* first let the words of William CuU«® Bryant declare our hope for the future; “He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sfey thy certain flight, In the long way that I mu.st tread alone, , j Will lead my steps aright.” And therefore, for the last and fin^ time; The Moving Finger Writes, -And having writ, moves on.’’
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