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PA^S TWO MAROON AND GOLD Thursday, Febniarj 12, 1959 Maroon And Gold Entered as second class matter at the Tost Office at Elon College, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by mail, $1.50 the college year, 50c the quarter. Edited and printed by students of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the college year under the auspiccs of the Board of Publication F.DITORIAL BO.MID Walter Edmonds Editor-in-Chief Dick Lashley Assistant Editor Ann Joyce Assistant Editor H Reid Alumni Editor Robert Danials . Staff Photographer Luther N. Byrd .... Faculty Advisor BTSINESS BOAKD James BIggerstaff . Business Manager Phillip Sexton . Printing Advisor David Horn Press Operator REPORTERS Tommy Andrews Thomas Liverman William Brooks Robert Lowe Judy Burkholder Becky .Matthews Morris DeMattco Dick McCarthy Lois Foor Tommy McDonald Katrine Frye John McLauchlin John Frost Wade Montgomery Carl Fuller Marion Oakes Gilbert Gates John PhiUips Douglass Hartsell Paul Radford Arthur Ivey ■ Bob Skinner William Jackson - Leslie Starr Lois Kidd .. Edmund Thompiion Donald Kimrey Elizabeth Updykc Marvin King Patrick Winston THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 around with square by SQUARE EDMONDS READING ROADBLOCKS Most faculty members would say, and many students would admit that one of the most frequent reasons for poor grades and often-times failure in college courses is the fact that so many people have diffi culty in reading and comprehending fully what IS read. This situation arises not only in such courses as English, history or philosophy, which require a great deal of reading. It also occurs and presents a difficulty in courses such as mathematics and science, in which the student often finds it hard to solve problems because they have not quickly and fully comprehended the text of the problem itself, A recent issue of the Reader’s Digest included an interesting and informative ar ticle concerning the problem of improved reading. The article, which was a conden sation of one published earlier in Mayfair magazine concerning the reading road blocks over which so many students stum ble. The interesting discussion is quoted below: Almost every student has suffered through this experience: you begin to read a text with enthusiasm, hungry for en lightenment; after a few paragraphs you stop to look up an unfamiliar word in the dictionary; then you check a footnote re ference; then back to the dictionary. After reading several pages in this manner, you suddenly realize that you have no idea of the ground you've covered. This, says a noted scholar, is exactly the wrong way to enjoy—or understand— reading. Says Dr. Mortimer Atjler: almost any book intended for the general reader can be understood if you approach it in the right way. And the right way, he in sists. is to read a book through superficially before you try to master it. Skip over the difficult parts; read only what you can grasp right away. Ev«b M it’s only 50 percent, chances are the light thrown on the subject will lead you back for a closer look. In the article, "Hard Reading Made Ea.sy,” Dr. Adler says that most of us mis.sed the joys of Shakespeare's plays in high school because we approached them in too reverent a manner. Teacher made us look up every footnote, every arachaic word. As a result we struggled through scene after scene of Macbeth, Hamlet or Julius Caesar and never realized what rat tling good melodramas they are. Before you read any book. Dr. Adler says, give it a fast once-over.' Look over the title page and preface to learn the author's approach and angle. Study the table of contents, just as you would a road map before taking a trip. Check the in dex for the range of subjects covered. Look up the phrases or chapters that seem cru cial. This may give you the key to the entire book. Then when you do read the book through, chances are you'll find that the subject wasn't so difficult after all. READ BULLETIN BOARD There are several bulletin boards on*^the Elon College campus, and each of them carries valuable and often very timely in formation. but it would be interesting to know just what per cent of the Elon stu dent body ever pauses to read the an nouncements and other information which the hoards carry. Chances are the per- Only Seven In Number... Original Elon Faculty Was Versatile The hushed whispered voices, through the corridors of Alamance hummed as the umpteenth edition of the Maroon and Gold caaie cff the archaic press, which now occupies space in the now defunct ciio,*' hall. Eveo’one knew it was time to open the p'jper and see who was doing what to whom and how. As the school year slips by, we find oursehes • confronted with another happy holiday. When I say it conies as a holiday, 1 mean it falls on Saturday, and that day is tru'y a holiday to me. Saturday is one of the two reasons I go to college, the ether reason is Sunday. They are the days we break our weekly trend and escape frcm the corny prof’s jokes and wait with much anxiety, the presentation of our “bag lunchcs”. Saturday, February 14th, holds more than just another Saturday; it is the day of St. Valentine, the time when hearts are young and susceptible to the prick of Cupid’s arrow. Of course the meaning of Valentine Day means something else to me. It means an appropriate time to turn expositor and ex pose the buffoons and Eton's own Funny Valentines in my own atrocious way. As follows: ARTHUR PITTS: The escape from obe sity is rough and rocky. This ex-gourmet is currently on a low caloric diet, which is due to the labors of love. Remember Pilts, she loves you for what you are, and the L.ord only knows how, not for your phy sical value . . . JOE E. LEWIS: This fellow makes Me- thusaleh look like one of the members of "Our Gang Comedy." Joe has the sole distinction of insulting more women than any other student at Elon College, which may explain why he is never seen with a date, or at least, seldom seen with his No. 1 date from Charleston, W. Va. Will some one please kick away the crutch of sym pathy he leans on so heavily, and let him thrive still on the Epicurean way of life . . . WAYNE TAYLOR: I’m writing this chiefly for the new freshmen from Tide water, Va. I can't talk to them personally because I'm really a journalistic recluse. This is just between me and them. Let’s call it a fearful warning pertaining to the amount of money you pay, when you ride home in JUNE'S car. Even charges his own flesh and blood, Earl Griffin . . . UNKNOWN: There's a guy here at Elon, who has spent $200 on a cure for hali tosis, such as doctor's prescribed mouth washes, all brands of tooth paste and his monthly bill for the visit to his dentist, and much to his dismay he discovered that no one liked him anyway. He knows to whom I'm referring, friends . . . NEWS FLASH: It could be a new fad, or it could be Fidel Castro's supporters. Either way, warnings have been posted to all departments, and the "award win ning beard growing contest” has been won by Kappa Psi Nu . . . LOOSE ENDS: Jerry Loy recently paid the campus a visit. Jerry is currently en rolled in Wake Forest Law School . . . Larry Barnes and the former Evelyn Fritts are "storking." Ditto for the Wayne Tay lors . . . Buhber Barnes recently tied the nuptial knot with Joan Belch, of Ports mouth . . . STUDENT UPRISING: This is a progress plea report well in advance. Let's call it the proverbial would-be effort to stir some enthusiasm within the student body and the dance committee. Shortly the hues of the season will change, and the coming of spring will prevail through our little campus cosmos. This is the time, fellbw student, that our attentions turn in favor of the annual spring dances.. To whom it may concern, please acquire a renowned band. We want a choice not a chance, for these dances go to make up those magic moments to remember. POST SCRIPT: It's time to rest upon my journalistic laurels for another two weeks. See you in the next thrill-packed issue .... The modern Elon College is proud of its faculty, a group ol educational specialists, more than 80 in number, but that pride in Us instructional corps is nothing new at the college. Elon has al ways been proud of its faculty from that day back in 1890 when the college first opened its doors The modem faculty certainly surpasses that faculty group of 1890 in numbers, but the present- day group can hardly surpass in quality the sage seven who were on hand to impart wisdom to the pioneer Elon students of almost seven dacades ago. It requires only a few words to list them: Dr. W. S. Long, presi dent; Dr. J. U. Newman, Dr. J. O. Atkinson, Dr. E. L. Moffitt, Prof. S. A. Holleman, Miss Berli Moring (later Mrs. J. M. Roberts) and Miss Lena Beal (later Mrs. W. J. Farrar). More spSce, however, is needed to tell of their consecration to their tasks and of their versatile abilities, and in addition it requires one who knew them all to tell to the fullest the story of their ser vice. First Faculty Described Perhaps the story was never better told than by Ur. E. L. Mol- fitt, one of the original seven and third in line of Elon’s president, who spoke on the subject of Elon's Original Faculty ’ at the college's Golden Anniversary ob- ■servance, which was held on the campus in September, 1939. Speaking on the Golden Anni versary occasion. Dr. Moffitt re called the meager physical facili ties which he and his fellow facul ty members had to work with back in 1890, but he also recalled the I vision which that firSt faculty had and the mental and spiritual 'equipment of the seven members, and he declared to the profes sors of 1939, "I don’t know that you have much on us.” Asking his hearers to look at the pages of the first Elon Col- FIRST PRESIDENT DR. WILLIAM S. LONG Dr. William S. Long, who was one of the founders and first pres ident of Elon College, also served a' one of the seven members ol the oiiginal Elon faculty when the institution opened its doors al most seven decades aRo. t » » ful to the college through trials and tribulations, days of doubt and sometimes almost despair, but who has always kept his forehead lift ed to the future and eyes set on the visition that he had in 1890 of what Elon College might be, and he has never been disobe dient to that heavenly vision.” Fifty Years Later It is interesting to note that Dr Newman, like Dr. Moffitt, was still living and present fifty years la ter at Elon's Golden Anniversary celebration in 1939, and Dr. New man was the one chosen to move the first shovel of dirt when memorial magnolia tree was plant ed on the campus on that occa sion as tribute to the first facul- ,ty. Dr. Newman was the father lege catalogue for a listmg of thel ^ g Newman, Burl original faculty, he said, "There’s I j^ila Rev. William S._Long, A.M., D.D., professor of art President and Professor of Bibli-1 centage would be quite small. Certainly it would be well, and often individually profitable for more students to pause briefly in their hurried travels through the halls to read the bulletins. Many times they carry information con cerning job opportunities, either of the career or vacation variety, and there’s al most always something of importance con cerning campus happenings. INFLATION Roses are red Violets ate blue, Orchids cost $10.95. Will dandelions do? cal Instruction and Natural Science,” whom he praised fur-! on the present Elon faculty. Still enumerating that first fac . , ulty. Dr. Moffitt said, "There's ther for his indefatigable belief ^ Atkinson, A.B., A.M.. in the great future of Elon Col lege. (later D.D.), Professor of Latin, M,ental and Moral Science; and Going further. Dr. Moffitt said, j Emmet L. Moffitt, A.B., A.M. (he “And then there’s Rev. J. U. New-igiso omitted his own doctor’s de man, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., D.D., that gree). Professor of English, Ger- wonderful member of the first fac-1 man and Political Science (at that ulty, who was professor of Greek point he interpolated the state- and Mathematics, and who all ment that he "even taught these years had remained faith-! French.”): and Prof. S. A. Holle man, Principal of the Academic Department — and he taught ev erything, Reading, 'Riting, 'Rith- metic, SpelUng, Geography, Etc., Etc.” Enumerating still further, Dr. Moffitt said, "And then there's the ladies — Miss Berta Moring, later Mre. J. M. Roberts, who was listed as Principal of the Art De partment, and who was in reality the whole department; and fin ally, Miss Lena Beal, later Mrs W. G. Farrar, who was head of the Music Department, and did all the teaching" At that point. Dr. Moffitt paused to announce reception of the news of the death and burial of Mrs. Farrar, which had oc curred just one week prior to the Golden Anniversary observance news which had come as a shock to the old-timers, who had looked forward to having 'Mrs. Farrar present for the 50-year celebra tion. To Modem Faculty T-here. the speaker addressed his remarks to the 1939 members of the Elon faculty, saying that You new Elonites haven't got much on us old-timers. First — •lentally; How many of you could teach Bible and all the Natural Sciences, like Dr. Long did; or Math, Latin, German, French, inglish. Chemistry, Hebrew, Psy-! chology. Astronomy, Greek and Bible, as did Dr. Newman at some ime during those years; or La tin, Greek, Mental and Moral Sciences, as Dr. Atkiknson did: or even all the English, French, Ger man and Political Science, as I did — and still get away with it.” “The second part of my allega tion is that you don’t have much on us spiritually. I touch lightly, but if any ftiember of the faculty of the 1890’s failed to go to Sun day School or church every Sun day morning. Dr. Long wanted to know why, and he did not mean ‘maybe.’ And if we got to tinker ing too much with the modem trends of thought in the theologi cal world, why the whole church I would be on our necks.” It is interesting to note the lon gevity of life for those original faculty members at Elon. Dr. William S. Long, first president, was killed in an automobile acci dent in 1924, and Mrs. Lena Beale Farrar had died barely a week before the Golden Anniversary, but all others of the 1890 instruc tional corps were still living to see tor themselves the half-century culmination of the dreams that impelled them at the 1890 open ing. here and there By DICK LASIELEY Elon Player Show .Very Successful (Continued From Page On»> and conflict of the two main char acters. Throughout the entire per formance, one was always aware that the director has nevrf been satisfied with the surface tension of the exciting story. With true discernment, he dip ped into the darker waters be neath to find and draw forth the underlying causes "which express the true meaning of experience, and Rudisill managed what many directors fail to achieve, a uni fied and consistent approach, no small accomplishment when work ing with twenty or more actors of assorted personalties and talents. What is more, he accomplished with the generous assistance o£ the authors, something which many difectors would find impossible, an exciting and suspenseful even ing of theatre in the midst of in tellectual stimulation. In many ways the production of “Inherit the Wind” is a personal triumph for the director, who is still a stu dent. It is the first full-length play he has directed, and it is observed that he has learned his dramatic lessons well from an obviously sound tutor. Outstanding Aetine Many of the performance* in the play were outstanding, and there was hardly a moment when any of the actors failed to per form competently. Among the out standing supporting players was Roy Epperson in the role of E. K. Horabeck( a vitriolic newspaper correspondent. The authors sup- the wistful, cunning, casual lawyer plied Hornbeck with vivid and who spends as much time ques- biting lines, and Epperson made tioning himself as he does the wit- the most of everj’one of them. ness on the stand. Drummond is No less satisfying was John the focal point of the play, which Graves as Rev. Jeremiah Brown, triumphs or fails on the skill and He was forceful and convincing understanding of the actor in this in the difficult prayer meeting role. "Inherit the Wind” triumph- scene which could otherwise have led. just as Joe Medlock did. His degenerated into slap-stick. Peggy was a virtuoso performance, sub- Roach as Rachel Brown and Ikey tie, sensitive, thoughtful and mag- Tarleton as Mrs. Brady perform- nificent. One should be thankful ed the littlp assigned to them in the "men’s" play with feeling and true professionalism. A special word of praise is also due to the chorus of towns-people, although ;hey might have reacted with less exuberance in some courtroom scenes. John Meadows as Matthew Har rison Brady was sensitive and con vincing. His interpretation of the role has a world-weary eloquence which is not out of character. It was obvious that he believed in his role, at least enough to reveal a man so ever-endulged by an en thusiastic public by an enthus iastic public that his bigotry and pose have become unquestionably sincere. He was particularly ef fective in his closing scene, the tragic moment when, by their in difference. the citizens of "hea venly Hillsboro” had made Brady their personal hero. Joe Medlock starred in the role that there are actors of this cali bre and even more thankful that there is one close at hand. The complete cast for the play, as listed in the program, included Millie Fletcher, as Melinda. Mar gie Marshman. as Mary; Peggy Roach, as Rachel Brown; Bobby Bennett, as Meeker; Dale Shep herd, as Bertram Cates; James Jones, as Mr. Goodfellow; Chris Fayle. as Mrs. Krebs; 'Prof. John Graves, as Rev. Jeremiah Brown; •Mary Ann Hartwell, as Mrs. Mc- Loomis; Victor Hoffman, as Tom Davenport; Jeanie Pinkston, as Mrs. McLain; Dianne Harris, as Mrs. Blair; William Bane, as Elijah Dunlap; Prof. Roy Epperson, as E. K. Hom- beck; Johnny Meadows, as Mat thew Harrison Brady; Douglass Scott, as Ted Fii;iley; Prof. Pat Johnson, as George Siler; Ikey Tarleton, as Mrs. Brady; Joe Med lock. as Henry Drummond; John Here we go again, here ’n there arouod the campus, gathering bits of news and gossip and gripes to try and please our literary palates. Suppose we start with the most recent event on our campus—Bid Weekend. Around 12:30 Sunday morning, Febru- ary 8th, a terrible sound was heard rumb ling across our oak-splattered campus. It was the dissonant, unharmonic, off-keyed voices of the fraternities as they made a “dizzy” effort to serenade the sororities. Of course, as the proverbial saying goes “there is a silver lining to every cloud”, or, in this case, some prettiness among all the discord. Naturally, Here ’N There is referring to the singing of the sororities. After a sleepless night the sororities and fraternities gathered together to attend church services in Whitley Memorial Au ditorium. Usually a minister finds it very difficult to speak to a sleeping audience, but Here 'N There believes Rev. Andes understood the circumstances Sunday morning. Next event—Hell Night. More about that next issue. The Gripe Department Here 'Nn There is certainly glad we didn’t have any visitors at chapel assembly Fri day morning, February 6. If there had been, there would have probably been several red faces among both the administration and the student body—red from embar- assment that it. Here 'N There is referring to the char acter who uttered the wolf whistle at the young lady who was assisting in the cha pel program. Friend, there is a time tor puckering up and there is a time for not puckering up. Friday morning was a time for not puckering up. Yours truly enjoys having a good time as much as the next guy and usually con siders what other people do is their own business. But the incident Friday morning is every student's business. A college is known by its students. How about restrict ing the wolf calls to the street corner and keeping them out of chapel. Student Government Friends. Elon College has ceased to be a campus restricted to several acres, it has become a nation in itself, at least that’s the way it sounds when our vice-president Linwood Hurd, talks. In fact, the other day he was heard to say, and I quote, “I think it's time w’e held a meeting of the heads of state around here!” See ya at th’ pentagon! The Colonnades From the rumor department we hear that the school’s annual magazine is to be no more. To wit: The Colonnades. The old college publication is’ to be replaced by some sort of literary magazine with Jimmy Elder as the editor. The rumor didn’t in clude who the writers will be. Guess we’ll just have to wait and find out. Elon Community Church The Elon community church is nearing completion. Rev. Andes said in church Sunday morning that he hoped the soror ities and fraternities would be able to meet in the new church for services next year. This new addition to our campus area is not only a welcome addition but also serves as a reminder. Our school is growing! .^11 of us have good reason to be proud of dear 'ole Elon. Here ’N There could get a little sentimen tal about it here, but let’s just say that as time for graduation draws near, the thoughts of what our school has meant and means becomes ever clearer. Now To Garrison’s Many thanks to Mr. Garrison for the cake and cup of coffee. Here 'N There doesn't usually receive such pleasing com pliments for its contents—usually it’s cusi- es and cuffs. Finis Gossip is all gone, but before Here N There puts the writing machine on its dusty shelf until time for the next issue, may leave you with this thought: "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, than 1 can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. W me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again..” Stephen Grellet- In other words let’s be more mindful ol other people and consider their feelings at well as our own. See you next issue. of Henry Drummond. He is an ac- W'illiams, as Judge: Tommie Cald- tor, and once that has been said j well, as Mr. Bannister; Pat Fayle, there is little left to say of his^ as Mrs. Siller; and Chuck Oakley, portrayal of Henry Drummond, [ as Harry Y. Esterbrook. CHEERFin. THOUGHTS It’s too late to read the handwritii'S the wall when your back is up against it » * ♦ ♦ » Explaining the difference between primi tive man and modern man is simple. When his wife talks too much modern man goes to his club. Primitive mao reached lor it J \
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