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FOREN ORD To you, the reader of this, the eleventh volume of the Phipsici.i, we hand the 1925 copy. We have striven to make this edition a faithful record of one college year. We have tried to make this a useful and economical, as well as attractive, book. We have en- deavored to make this a wholly representative book by incorporating abasement and arrogance, athletics and apathy, dodgers and doctors, flunkers and flyers, humility and haughtiness, prudes and professors, prowlers and preachers, silliness and sacredness. If life be the enjoyment of recalling the pleasant experiences of the past, or the happy anticipation of the future, we hope that this effort of ours may bear fruit to former and future students. Sacred, we hope, will be the memories retouched by this book. May it be read by others with justice seasoned with mercy. Students of the college who are not members of the staff have (lone much to make this book a success. Friends, who had no other obligation than that of friendship, have used their talents to help us through the toiling hours. To each we mention a gratitude which will forever have to go untold. iiiiinaavs tsgsiBieuaifammmmi
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wo ears Aft er TR Alma Mater was chartered on March ii, 18S9. Thirty-six years from that day the student hody met for the first chapel service in the fifth and final hnildinp; of the Greater Elon Program. It was a red-letter day for Elon when, on [anuarv 18, 1923, the sacred old administration building which, for a generation, had housed the general activities of the campus, went up in smoke. Those who witnessed the smouldering embers of that disastrous fire thought of it as a red-letter day that had buried the hopes of a generation of striving and sacrifice, but a kindly Providence and generous-hearted friends overruled, and that which portended to be the destruction of the finest and best in Elon ' s equipment became the beginning of a new and larger plant, not only more commodious, but like- wise more efficient. So has Elon arisen, sphinx-like, out of her ashes to what promises to be a larger and a brighter future. Between the ashes of January 18, 1923, and the finished new plant upon which our eyes look in gladness today, there is written a chapter of brilliant achievement, not only in the annals of our own institution, but of higher education in our state and nation. No college has ever arisen more triumphantly out of disaster than has our mother, Elon, thanks to the generosity of the citizens of Alamance County and of the generous friends elsewhere, who have made the Greater Elon Program not merely a dream, but a true and vital reality. In place of the hallowed old administration building with its octagonal tower, we have today, crowning the very heart of our campus, a splendid administrative group of five buildings arranged in the form of an H. The middle portion of this H, very properly, is the Alamance build- ing. The southwest corner of the H is the Whitley Auditorium, made possible by the generous kindness of J. M. Darden, of Suffolk, Va. The southeast corner of the H is the Mooney Christian Education building, the gift of Mr. M. Orban, Jr., of Whittier, Calif. The Carlton Library building, the gift of Messrs. P. J., L. E., and H. A. Carlton, and Mrs. Thomas S. Parrott, occupies the northwest corner of the H, while the northeast corner is rounded out by the Duke Science building, made possible by an initial gift of $50,000.00 for that purpose by Messrs. B. N. and J. B. Duke, who made this donation in memory of their mother, Mrs. Artelia Roney Duke, a native of Alamance County, and whose last renting place is at Haw River in a cemetery lot adjoining the grave of Mr. V. H. Trollinger, who donated the land comprising the present campus of the college. All five of these buildings are fireproof and equipped with very latest furniture. As a recent college president said upon visiting Elon: No small college in the I ' nited States has a finer plant than Elon. We students cannot forget, either, that Josephus Daniels recently wrote in the News and Ohsrrver that, after an automobile trip throughout the length and breadth of the state, he considered the development at Elon the most outstanding accomplishment of the past decade in North Carolina. In addition to these five buildings and their furnishings the campus has been graded, laid out in walks and driveways, and a beautiful brick wall has been built around it with appropriate entrances and iron gateways, both for pedestrians and vehicles. We, who issue this Annual, have seen these transformations take place, and their achieve- ments have been to us an inspiration to undertake great enterprises in the days that lie ahead and a challenge to us to prove ourselves worthy of the intellectual mother at whose rebuilding we have been privileged during these past two fateful years to be present.
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