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

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M m nait®f w E LEAVE ihee. Alma Mater, dear, But take with us your love; Your parting smile gives old lime cheer. Like sunshine from above. Our hearts beat true, because we ' ve been Led on by your strong hand; Our thoughts are new because we ' ve seen Labor of loving hands. We say good bye, but not from choice — Quite sad it is to part; But duty calls in noble voice. And so ' Fifteen must start. When, Alma Mater, all the days Of your good life you ' ve seen, You ' ll then realize love ' s brightest rays Shone forth from your ' Fifteen. Then, Alma Mater, fare you well, Your choice of all that ' s good In actions we will strive (o tell — In words, we never could.

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)glJ rfe n A Tiii ■!©« SpiPlI fc HERE is an Elon spirit. Its interpretation may vary according to the tongue A and timbre of the indixiduah But differences of interpretation only argue the persistency, not the lack, of the prevailing spirit. It may not be defined, because it is without Hmitations in power, in resources, and in activity. It may m a measure be described, as the artist with brush and color brings out the figures, fancies, and forms of his own mind and soul. The first definite coloring is that of a certain fellowship born of freedom. The atmosphere of the forest, fields, and hills is more wholesome and fragrant than that of a cell or cloister or convent. The former is nature ' s free and abundant gift. The latter is stifled, hindered, unnatural. Is it because boys and girls, men and women, are perm tted to meet and mingle here in pursuit of truth and the noble arts, according to the most sen- sible and natural manner in all the world, that such fellowship and freedom pervade the atmosphere at Elon? The Father of all wisdom gave sons and daughters to the same home — to live, to labor, and to learn. There, in the same home, as in no other atmosphere, is born and is nurtured the spirit of real liberty, the feeling of real friend- ship, that shapes the destinies of great states and molds the character of men and measures which really count in the world. The Elon spirit, as all well know, and as many have so often observed, is that of the family, the fireside, with all the treasured freedom, fragrance, and fondness that the term implies. The family feeling obtains in a most marked measure — that wherein each seeks the comfort and rejoices in the triumph of the other. The second coloring is that of loyalty, born not of l arge prom se and gliltermg reward, but of sacrifice, service, and unselfish endeavor. Elon was never a rich man ' s college. So it is not equipped with habiliments of ease, luxury, and indulgence. There are such comforts and conveniences as the rich may require, and the poor use to advan- tage in making character; but merit alone is that which counts — in curriculum, com- munity, and conduct. Loyalty — born of sacrifice, nurtured of individual endeavor, wherein great and small are on equal but none too lavish a footing, is an obvious, vigorous, and vital part of the Elon spirit. Twenty-Seven