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

 - Class of 1915

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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

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The brightest, and withal the most inviting coloring is that of moral tint and hue. The highest and best morals are in no wise unfriendly to liberality in opinion, freedom in conduct, and progressiveness in attitude, but on the contrary foster and give impetus to all three. The Elon spirit is and ever has been highly and intensely moral, with all the hope, buoyancy, and bounty that the word implies. This morality is the outcome of the broadest and most liberal spirit of Christianity, because of which the institution was founded, and by which, from the beginning, it has been fostered. Christian Educa- tion ' is the ideal ever sought after here; that culture, that refinement, and that scholar- ship which seek to make men and women unselfish in their plans, benevolent in their pur- suits, and grateful in their possessions. No one has ever felt or interpreted aright the Elon spirit who has not realized in it a power that seeketh not for her own, but compels one to look to the honor, the integrity, the valor, and the victory of another. This is the high unselfishness that the Carpenter of Nazareth wrought and taught, and which is giving Elon men and women places of usefulness, influence, and efficiency wherever they go, and in whatever station they are found. A spirit which makes for freedom born of friendship, for a loyalty born of sacrifice and merited of virtue, a morality inherent in and reflecting the life of the Nazarene; broad, liberal, sweet, and profound, this is the Elon spirit which so many have felt and none who have come within its scope can escape. — J. O. Atkinson

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