Of course, I am glad to see the Juniors and Seniors back on the Hill. And the Sophomores are a perennial source of joy to the heart and of delight to the eye. Mother Elon welcomes them gladly to her heart again.
But I want to speak a word of special greeting to the Freshmen. A most cordial welcome to Elon’s largest Freshman Class and her best prepared! Elon has waiting 35 years for you young people. She has high hopes of your future. Her plant, her teaching and administrative force, her prestige in the world of education and achievement, the good-will and friendship of her alumni and of her constituency, her endowment, all her resources of every character she whole-heartedly and without reserve places at your disposal to be used, but not abused. Elon’s faith in you is unalloyed. She challenges you with our fine physical, mental, social, and spiritual endowments to add to her reputation and embellish her character as an institution of education and religion.
We are glad to welcome all the young life that now graces our campus and makes Elon’s classic halls reverberate once more with the optimism and the altruism and the gladsome good cheer and fellowship so characteristic of our youth.
W.A. HARPER
From the front page of The Maroon and Gold, published weekly by the students of Elon College, Sept. 2, 1925
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