Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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to the ministry his graceful and easy bearing are especially adapted to the art of danc- ing. In short, he is going to be much sought after in social circles. Banks is to become a professional dancing master. When I ]iicked up the sixth stone, a funny object dolefully uttered. There is a young lady in your class who wants to love and be loved. Kindly tell her, please, that she will realize sooner or later, to her chagrin, that her love is wasted on Jabez. His is only a school flirtation, a passing fancy, and his true love will prove to he a lovely Monde, his own age. Instead of being happily mated, as her fond dreams suggest, Nellie Fleming will one day he walking the streets, earnestly pleading with the people to help the poor by buying some of her extracts and perfumes. The seventh slowly got to his feet and drily drawled. Shortly, Surratl will have found his ideal ' Suavis, ' who will he delighted with her ' Shine on, Suavis. ' As you know, his best days have already been spent in preparing for life. So even ten years from graduation he will have retired from his professional field, ' Anio-chology ' . Then up stepped another little fairy from underneath a stone, merrily singing out, that Pearl Tuck will marry a farmer and live happily, her husband dying one month afterwards. Do not think that her young life will be blighted. To the con- trary, she will undertake her old trade — flirting, becoming a young, merry widow of forty-five. I picked up yet another stone. A peculiar being whispered, Although Hen Joe Ear]) has been awarded no certificate in Expression, yet his hours spent in studying Elocution have been by no means a loss, for instead of becoming a gallant society dude, as one would imagine him callable of, lie is to become a famous theatrical manager. For instance, his troupe will be presenting some of Shakespeare ' s most popular pro- duction- a- early as the season 1920, at the largest, most up to date playhouse in America. Still another elf was found under an oddly shaped rock. It said. Virgie Real, the runt of the class, will become still runtier with years. If followed in her career she will be found to ripen into a sweet old lady, who spent her early life among her rela- tives, teaching their young daughters how to bewitch the fellow-. A few steps from the stone upturned last was another. 1 peeped under it and these words came from a tiny withered mouth. Elon ' s best known athlete, Staley Wicker, champion in basketball and baseball, after -living as coach at F. X. ( ' . will leave for New York. There he will he manager of the New York National League, composed of such fellows a- Willie Cotton. Hobbs, Marmaduke Woodward, and Stirling Love, loyal Elonites. The last and nio-t weird in appearance of all the dozen elves kindly told me that I was doomed to be a spinster. My life would be devoted to downtrodden womanhood, and all efforts of mine would he crowned at last with victory for the suffragettes. Unreasonable, do you say? h can be easily accounted for. Since I was supposed to he the prophet, my mind was naturally burdened with the future of the illustrious dozen of the Class of 1913. All thoughts wen closely riveted upon that one great theme. So was it remarkable that such abnormal impressions should occur to mi ' ? Tin-: Prophet.

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Licentiate of Instruction Class Color: White Motto: Onward, I ' pivard Flower: Lilac fia! Ra! Rah ' Rah! We ' re L. I. ' s Ra! Ra! Rah ' Rah! Lilac! Lilac! Ra! Ra! Rah! Rah! We ' re 1. I ' s Officers Myrtie Lawrence - ... President Pearl Jones . . .Secretary [saac .1 K1.1.1.CM Historian Lillian Johnson I ' m 1 How sweet to think of bygone days. ( )f childhood in its beauty, To steal away and live again The life without a duty. There were no sorrows, neither care-. Our sky was all sunny. There came to us no serious thought Rut everything was funny. How sweet the memory of those days That passed as does the morning, And left us noaring noontide of life Without the proper ' doming. The adorning of the mind we mean. Which should be clothed with knowledge, And the proper way to tit the cloak Is by going off to college. But any college would not do — The best we wisely sought. So Myrtle, Pearl. Ike, and I ( ' ame to Klon to lie taught . We ' re only three years old. you see, You ' ll understand this when I tell you we entered here In nineteen hundre d and ten. And since that day we ' ve begun to live ' I he life that ' s really new . We ' ve thrown away our ignorance For knowledge real and true. We look our work in the L. I. course Of which we ' re not ashamed, It ' s what you put into your work There ' s nothing in a name ! Tin- course makes us true pedagogues And that ' s what we ' ve been seeking, W ' e want to get out in the world And raise the standard, teaching. ' Tis not the filthy lucre, friends, That we came here pursuing; ( ileal gr 1 lo gain the silver coin Would be for our undoing. True, we must live by honest sweat, For that was ordained of old, Hut to live and help another live [s better than all the gold. This is the standard we have raised And it must ne ' er be lower We ' ll hold it there and gain the prize. e ' ll make our home run score. And those who ' ve helped us there to look Upon the life worth living, We would restore an hundredfold If we but had the giving. Tin- college course ha- cosl us much ( )f anxious toil and care, But only those who climb the hill ( ' an the summit ' s blessing share. Anil if SUCCeSE Should come to 11- A- we climb round by round. We ' ll humbly turn to dear Klon nd lay our trophies down. Poet.