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

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DR. ATKINSON S RESIDENCE

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The Portsmouth (Va.) Convention, 1914, increased this annual call to $2,250, and authorized a note drawing four per cent, interest to be given the College, the interest on vvhich shall be paid by this fund. This convention also provided for Elon College Rally Days in all the Churches, at which voluntary offerings shall be taken for the establishment of a Department of Theology in the College. In 1911, a Special Fund of fifty thousand dollars was completed, which placed the College on its feet financially as it had never been before. In 1913, the Alumni set about raising a fund of $26,600 to pay for the Alumni Building, so named because of their generous response to .Alma Mater ' s needs. The physical equipment of the College consists now of seven buildings. The build- ings are valued, with the grounds and their equipment, by expert assessors, at three hundred thousand dollars, and consist of the Administration Building (1890); the East Dormitory (1890); the West Dormitory (1907); the Central Power Station (1907); the Young Men ' s Cooperative Hall (1912); the Alumm Building (1913); and the Young Lad ' es ' Cooperative Hall (1913). Elon has had four presidents. The first was Dr. W. S. Long (1890-94), the founder, the man of large faith and indomitable energy. Dr. W. W. Staley ( 1 894- 1905), succeeded him. For eleven years he served as non-resident president, w!th Dr. J. U. Newman as dean for nine years, and Dr. J. O. Atkinson for two, directing the institution ' s development along the steady Imes of financial integrity and solid scholarship. He left the College with a substantial student-body, a capable faculty, free from debt, and with a considerable endowment — days they of sending the roots deep into the soil preparatory to more rapid progress soon to follow. Those days of larger outlook came under the third president. Dr. E. L. Moffitt (1905-11), and have continued unabated up to this present time. Dr. Moffitt ' s efforts gave the College an increased student- body and two additional buildings, w th many minor improvements. During his term of office, steam heating, electric lighting, sewer, and bath facilities were prov ' ded. The most recent items of special noteworthiness, aside from the erection of new buildings, have been the improvements in the library, the laboratories, the departmental studios, including thirteen piano? for practice and a concert grand piano for the Music Department, and the facilit ' es for physical culture and exercise. The College has two gymnasia, and its recognition in athletic events has been startlingly gratifying. Increased enrollment has naturally come, and this year the four hundred mark has been reached, which is the College ' s capacty. The most gratifying item, however, has been the develop- ment along religious lines. The College pastorship is largely responsible for this, though the various voluntary associat ' ons have had a large place in the generation of the splendid spiritual tone that characterizes the institution throughout. A great compliment was paid our College at Chicago, the fourteenth of January this year, when Elon was admitted as a standard College to membership in the Association of American Colleges. Dean W. P. Lawrence represented the College on this auspicious occasion. I think I may confidently state, with the facts of her glorious quarter-century achieve- ments before me, that the future was never brighter for Elon, because her friends were never so true and numerous nor her faculty and Alumni and students more devoted, loyal, and sympathetic. — President W. A. Harper

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DR. WICKER S RESIDENCE PROFESSOR BRANNOCK S RESIDENCE