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Page Two THE HIGHLANDER, BILTMORE COLLEGE, AiSHEVILLE, N. C. April, 1935 ^igljlan&er Published Monthly by the Students of Bdtmore College Staff Editor-in-Chief Business Manager^ Assistant Business Managers Managing Editor Circulation Manager Associate Editors— Jennte Mae Himes Dorothy Post Ntna Williams Faculty Advisers 'I'oMMY Moore -- Porter Garland ^ Bill Rarxard [ Curtis Sorrells Tommy Moore Della Izen 1 Miss Bryan JMr. Roberts Vol. I. APRIL, 1935 No. 4 A thletics Our College in the past could never be accused of beini; dominated by athletip, for that was the outstanding point of weakness. With the prospect of having a coach whose past record has proved an able one, we should have that weak point adequately repaired. In spite of criticism of athletic systems in schools, it is only just to say m their defense that the advantages may be kept and the faults discarded. There is no reason to believe that our school will ever be dominated by a policy that places athletic attainments above those of scholarship. The happy medium—and the one that we confidently expect for Biltmore—is one in which athletics will provide an opportunity for the development of a sound body and provide an outlet for pride in our school. I he presence of Bilt- more athletic teams in competition next year vv'ill provide a common point of interest upon which all the members of the school may fasten their pride. In our opinion, the aggressive athletic policy planned for next year is the most important move for the well-being of the college that has occurred in several years. Loyalty Mass production has been the great American contribution to industry, and through the influence of mass production the American people have been led to think in terms of enormous figures. Our minds dwell so constantly in the thin atmosphere of millions and billions that we have almost accepted as a truth that the larger a thing is the better it is. W^e judge worth by number. When a building is erected its makers attempt to make it higher than any other building. Bridges are build which exceed in length any pre vious bridge. Huge dams are built, and the government, in harmony with the times, hoists its expenditures higher each year. Even literature follows the general trend, for now the more words a book has, the greater the like lihood of it becoming a best-seller. If huge numbers can be attached to any- *^hen considered of great merit. Quantity has become synonomous with worth. ~ ' ' ' * * So it is with schools. Alany people now look disdainfully upon small institutions and, entering large ones they are immediately lost in the great swarm of human beings. To them a small school is—well—to be viewed condescendingly. They see only the disadvantages and fail wholly to see the advantages. Biltmore is a small school. We have no illusions about that. That it is a small school we should be neither proud of nor ashamed of. Rather, we should accept it as a fact and draw some conclusions from that fact. The consensus of opinions is that we need more students, not that w'e may enter the realm of great numbers, but that we may have a student body which can give us the advantages of a large school while still maintaining those of a small one. To get those added students is where the element of loyalty enters. We judge a man by the quality of his work. In that way, then, each of us is a personal testimony for or against our college, with the emphasis in the past lying on for. Personal contacts influence the decisions of one enormous ly. Each of us has many personal contacts with those who must choose a college next year or the year after or sometime in the future. Let us then present the facts to those persons. Show them what we have done in the past and what we hope to do in the future. 'Fhe graduates who go forth this year can exert an invaluable influence if they will only tell others of the college. Our memory for historic details fails us, but we feel sure that the en rollment at Harvard was not five thousand the first year. We do not ex pect nor desire that Biltmore grow into an institution the size of Harvard, but we do hope that the loyalty of our students and alumni will guide more students to this college for the next year. DID YOU KNOW?! JENME MAE HIMES Dizzy Dictionary Who’s Who At Biltmore Noose—What this paper needs. Mist—What happens when you try to catch the bus. Meter—What boys do as often as possible. Escalator—^0. K. You can ask her later. Etch—Some people have a nicer name for it. Datum—^Masculine profession. Cress—Where the masculine pro fession is practiced. Daunt—You shouldn’t never do that. Lapse—^They are rather comfort able. Attest—^We all dread them. Askew"—•! ask you, is this column terrible? Julian Brookshire, well known member of the freshman class at Biltmore, was born in Asheville, N. C., in 1916. He attended Hall Fletcher High School and was vice-president of the Senior Class there. He likes music very much and at present is taking vocal lessons from Mr. Burnham and piano instruction from Mrs. Davis. Music is his chief hobby and he plans to be an oper atic singer. Mr. Brookshire also is talented as an actor, and has taken part in pro ductions of both The Biltmore Dra matic Club and 'The Student Thea tre. That interest in Biltmore’s future athletic program is spreading •■hroughout the city and county . . . Ed Duckett’s play, “Freedom,” was considered by several critics to hav'3 more dramatic appeal than any other play presented in the recent Chapel Hill contests . . . Ted Gores has trav elled through five states on a bicycle. He even started to the World Far on a bike, but his vehicle collapsed in Lexington, Kentucky ... of the sen ior class in a certain college that had twenty-five superlatives out of a class of twenty-eight members . . . that Mr. Roberts was voted the “best ex ecutive” in his graduating class at N. C. State . . . that according to the college catalogue: “'Programs of in terest, varying in nature, are pre sented from time to time at the weekly chapel meetings” . . . the lat est student problem is to calculate how long “from time to time” is . . . that one-seventh of the sophomore class is married . . . our efficient li brarian is taking a stenographic course at night . . . according to the third vote—in as many weeks—the sophomores will not wear caps and gov/ns at graduation ... what the intri cate designs a certain professor makes on the blackboard during lectures are . . . Bill Odum and Oliver Garner are the two best dressed men in the freshman class. Garner is the best dancer . . . Donald Williams will probably succeed Graham Ponder as the outstanding Sociology student in school . . . among the faculty, Miss Bryan seems to be most interested in her work . . . William Elijah Odom is the seventh generation of his family to bear the name Elijah . . . THE -SATUSDAX J&ilfiNJMG:- POi^ T andJ TIME seem to be the favorite peri odicals of the faculty . . . Mr. Thomas won the coveted Millikan scholarship and studied for a year at the Cali fornia Institute of Technology under Dr. Millikan. He was also valedic torian of his class at State College . . Mr. Murphy was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity at Carolina and was a roommate of Erskine Caldwell, author of the famous play, “To bacco Road.” CHATTER DQIROTHY POST M'y dear Publik. Oh yeah! Well, you hard-boiled readers, it’s no new's, but: That bleerj'- eyed crowd that came struggling into school a few Mondays back was ab solutely not the remnants of Mc- Duff’s Last Stand, but the sad, sad remains of a busfull of dog-tired Biltmore 'Players just home from dear old Chapel Hill. And when I say dog-tired, I mean dog-tired! My feet haven’t hui-t so bad since I was born. Well, anyway, we went, we walked, and we won! EPIGRAPHIGS If you read editorials, do not be ashamed—it is your business if you wish to be different. From the expression on their faces each morning, some of our students are taking courses in How To Be An Expert Night-Watchman. We are still thinking of our stu dent who decided he did not want his Bachelor’s degree in anything, but took the Master’s degree instead. English students please note: Members of the casts of the recent Shakespearean plays passed their spare moments back stage by reading a dime Detective Weekly ^Perhaps they were just getting infonnation on how- to commit all the murders in the play. The Biltmoron brawl at the Van derbilt (Graduate Ball, to you, Frosh,) on the 17th was a success, no end. More peepul. Everybody and everything was just perfect. The Collegians really played up a storm and did the deah, old Biltmoron Club put on the dog. I ask you? A great deal of distinction is re flecting upon “Our Tomater” lately. Another Demolay Senior Councilor selected from Biltmore’s bouquet of Southern chivalry .... With the lat est message from La Carpenter comes the crack concerning last month’s Chatter that so far as she knew Bilt- more Romeos were not elusive. Wow! If she only know! .... Did you know that the best looking men in Chapel Hill are ole Biltmore Grads? How we doin’? .... One of the loveliest ladies being escorted hither and yon by a Biltmore swain is 'Miss Mary Lib Manley, Boyce Hoffmann’s reason for living . . . . Raymond Meyers has joined the -ranks of 'iAie tired business i;^n. Ford V-8’s are his commodity . . .K Roy McClintock will probably give Ga. Tech a fling next fall . . . . There’s mutiny in the ranks! Prof. Stevenson declares that there are some things that science cannot ex plain. For instance, why thei’e are so many proposals on a moonlight night. What say, Prof. Murphy? . . . . Speaking of crooners, and who did? School is over run with ’em. Berry, Richardson, Murphy, Cawood — and you should hear Baker hit the bottom on those smoky blues songs . . . . Mclntire will take off for Chapel Hill next fall. The lucky stiff ! ! . . . . Budding romance: M. Vaughan and a laddie named Love. Well, well, well, What’s in a name? .... Shelby Horton’s bright crack that he wished it would turn w'armer so his fancies could turn lightly to love! Who would have dreamed it? workers that we think they might make relief maps for our history de partment where they are so badily needed. It is not that you are lazy—^there is just something else you would rather do at the moment. Take all the knocks. One of them might be opportunity. If the proceeds from the Shake spearean plays are to equip the ath letic teams next year, Biltmore will startle its opponents with a nudist team. That might bring more stu dents over. W^e hear so much about relief Pull might get you there, but you have to hang on yourself. To the majority of students col lege means: “A way to prepare my self to make the best possible living with the smallest amount of work.” A sign has been posted in the li brary over many college catalogues which says, “Are you going to col lege?” Is the joke on the librarian or the school? Editor of Highlander: Now that tests are over, the gi’ades have been made known, and report cards will soon be sent out, it seems rather disheartening to note the great number of failures and low grades being made. In all my classes the grades on the mid-term exams proved very disappointing to profes sors as well as discouraging to stu dents. One member of the faculty said that of all the students she teaches, only one made A on the course. Yet students seem to have time for all types of outside activities and en tertainments. Even in the building the spirit of conscientious study does not prevail, and those rooms, includ ing the library and the study-hall, which should be for study are in reality centers for social gatherings. Although it is necessary to have some play along with work, let us try to make Biltmore’s Honor Roll grow. — STUDENT. Editor of Highlander: The lot of a college professor is a hard one. And it’s little compen sation he receives for trying to grind some knowledge into the heads of adolescents who don’t care anyvifay. He has to read and study to keep ahead of those few students who are always springing catch questions to try to trip him up instead of study ing the lesson he assigned them. Then he has to stand up in front of a bunch of smart alecky freshmen and try to impress a few facts on thedr smoothly polished brairts. (As if col lege freshmen didn’t know everything already). After he has talked him self hoarse and worn out his feet pacing the floor for emphasis, he asks a sTmple question aiid realizes"”' that those brilliant, knowledge-hun gry students have been paying about as much attention to him as an ele phant does to the buzzing of a mo squito. Some are gazing out the win dow, some illustrating their note books, and the remainder seem to be in a sort of stupor, utterly oblivious of their surroundings. Three times in fifteen minutes has our teacher repeated the answer to the aforementioned query. But when he asks the class to explain it—^si- lence reigns supreme. Again he goes over it, point by point. And when he asks the same question five minutes later the response is the same—^they don’t know. It’s no wonder some college profes sors wear a perpetual expression of disgust. —A STUDEINT. International Relations Glub Meets The International Relations Club met Tuesday night, April 16, at the home of Joel Olinger, 37 Robindale avenue. Much interest in the present Euro pean crisis was displayed, and the members gave their opinions on dif ferent phases of the situation. The discussion was limited to no topic, but there was a general survey of present day international problems. Those members present were Graham Ponder, chairman; Mary Anne Heyward, Porter Garland, Nina Williams, Peggy Current, Tommy Moore, Joel Olinger, and the faculty adviser, Mr. Thomas. Miss Cleo In gle was a visitor. After the discussions the enjoy able evening was ended when re freshments were served by the host.
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