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History of Elon College Dr. Durvvard T. Stokes, retired history professor and current college historian, is writing a book on the history of Elon College. In 1889, the Christian Church, (known today as the United Church of Christ), decided to build a liberal arts college. Dr. William Samuel Long, an educator and minister, suggested a co-educational college. The sight chosen was Mill Point (currently known as Elon College), a railroad stop for the mill located at Altamahaw-Ossipee. The sight was located in a dense grove of oak trees; thus the name Elon was chosen, since it is Hebrew for oak. The first building stood where Alamance stands now. The men were housed on one of the floors of the building and the women had to stay in the town of Company Shops (currently known as Burlington). Later, East building was built as a women ' s dor- mitory. The school opened in Septem- ber, 1890, and the enrollment was seventy-six. The school was first organized to be a preparatory school and a four year liberal arts college. It was also one of the earliest colleges in the state to be co- educational. Dr. Stokes feels that Elon College has an excellent future. The college shows a personal interest in its students. Also, the college has managed to main- tain financial stability.
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I do wish that our academic program could become so stimuiiting that a great number of students would study on weekends, and that was the case just a few decades ago. I think that would be a more productive use of weekend time, but I see no more reason why a student should stay on campus and party than party at home. Now, we have offered a wide variety of activities on the weekend. The Stu- dent Government has tried and tried to have weekend activities, and I think that is all that can be done to make a reasonable number of activities available for those students who are interested. YEARBOOK. Do you see visitation as a good thing? PRES. YOUNG. I think it was time to make the step. I think many of us have reservations about it, but 1 think it was time and I recommended it. It will be good for the college. Visitation will be controlled and limited to certain hours of the weekends. I think it will encourage more students to stay on weekends. It will need to be closely managed because it could have some ill effects. We don ' t want some of the negative results that I have seen on other campuses where there is a great deal of irresponsibility. But, considering the age and maturity of most of our students, it was a proper thing to do. Visitation will be good for the future, and I don ' t see any changes in it in the future.
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