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Page 2 The Hilltop, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C LOST! THE SPIRIT Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hills, N. C., as second class Matter, February 20, 1926. Member North Carolina College Press Association STAFF Faculty Director Editor’ J- GLENN TRAVIS Associat*;i:dit;r ::: MARY HAMBY MANAGERIAL Business Manager CARL HEARS Advertising Manager EDWIN HAYNh,S Circulation Manager LLOYD CAIRNES Stenographer BESSIE LIEBY DEPARTMENT EDITORS Religious - RELA LOWE Athletics SAM MILLER, DEAN PLEMMONS esxaecy ED HARRELL Alumni I'l” WADE BROWN BARBARA FREEMAN Jokes 0. JACK MURPHY* Poetry RAYMONIA GILLESPIE Exchange ZELMA BENNETT Community GLENN WHITT -TBAM- Miss Kelly, it seems good to see you on the campus again. ^DO The team was defeated, but it was not whipped. Rah team! Rah team! fight, fight, fight! We’re with you this afteraoon. YOUR Study-course teachers, we hope you have enjoyed your stay; come back again sometime. BEST Plan to attend the state-wide B. S. U. meeting at Raleigh, it will be worth while. THIS MORE WORK TO BE DONE It is not yet time for the different organizations on tlie campus to sit down and to 'be satisfied witli tbe work that has been accomplished. There is always a lull after every storm; and a period of iertion follows great activity, but the action should be kept up as long as: Only 95 of the 487 students have connected themselves with the Col- . lege Chm-ch. ' ' : i > There are 180 unenlisted in B. Y. B. U. Seventy-five are not on the roll in any of the Sunday School Classes. Evei-y union in 'B. Y. P. U. and every class in Sunday School are not one-hundred per-cent in service. The Y. W. A. membership does not include each one of the almost two hundred young w'omen. The Baptist Student is not in every room. There are others who should be at work in one of the literai'y societies. AFTERNOON PRESIDENT MOORE CELEBRATED HIS 57TH BIRTHDAY QUIETLY On Sept. 8, 1927, Mr. R. L. Moore, for 30 years President of Mars Hill College, celebrated his 57th 'birthday. But let no one think that because the years of time are rolling on our beloved President is getting old, for he is not. He lives in too intimate touch with vigorous young men and women—five hundred of them—to have a thought to give to the passing Something is wrong with our ath letic spirit. There is a general un rest among the student.s, and there i.s very little cooperation coming from some members of the faculty. The athletic spirit is given no chance. Let even the tinie.st spark be kindled before a deluge falls to extinguish it, and a new spirit will dawn upon the campus. Athletics, is the one unifying force in which all have a common interest. It is perfectly human to be enthusiastic about a. hard-earned victory over a traditional rival; likewise it is 'natu ral to be downcast when the rival is victor, but the proper spirit is one which comes back fighting. The athletes furnish more free advertis ing and work harder for the school than does any other group on the campus. They deserve better support. When a man makes a team and feels no power from his college to drive him on, a poor day it is. When the feeling, “that I must play to .stay on the team”, rather than a feeling, “that I must do or die for my college and my student body,” permeates a player, a poor state of affairs it is. PHILOMATHIANS CELEBRATE 37TH ANNIVERSARY Continued from Page 1 dividual Citizen in the America of Today,” by Charles A. Maddry, Dur ham County; Declamation — “The Homes of the People,” Harry Isen- burg. South Carolina; Piano Solo, Crawford Poplin; Oratoin—“On the Borderland of Progress,” Edward T. Harrell, Halifax County; Declama tion—“The New South,” S. Gale Morse, Buncombe County; Volcal solo—“In the Garden of My Heart,” Albert Kiser, Mecklenburg County; Debate—Resolved, That the United States should cancel the debts of her former allies incurred dur ing her participation in the world War — Affirmative, Raymond Long, Gaston County and E. L. Bradley, Buncombe County; negative, Edwin Haynes, Hajwvood County and E. F. Baker, Wake County. The last num ber on the program, after the de bate had been conducted on the Oxford union plan, was a reading given by W. W. Worley, Buncombe County. Wm. Dockery was chief marshal of the occasion wdtJi Misses Louise Griffin and Emma Hartsell and Mr. Lloyd Cairnes assisting. In The Quiet of the Even w'hei In the ouiet of the even, day is old, ; In the sunset hour when the'p is still, ir And the “King of Day” illume*, throne with gold jy As he sets in his place bebin farthest hill— g: In the quiet of the even, whei: wandering sheep, e Safe home in the fold, see the i night appear. And lie down in content for the I night’s sleep—■ ic Why, knowing that the day bir anon, should they fear? it In the quiet of the even, w'hei weary rest. When the toil is over and| strife has ceased. And the day fades away in tlie en west, And the long dark night c soft from the east— The spirit of co-operation of the ri- When the wise house-mothers de- societies was greatly appreci ated and proves the good will they bear to all contestants. They help ed. make the Philomathian program a success. The Philomathians will not forget thier generous spirit. After the concluding number, ali the society officers and anniversary representatives, to'gether with for mer Philomathians and Clios found termine that it would kill their poor little feminine charges to stand in the rain to watch the team play; yet it does no damage for them to put on their .slickers and parade the campus, a poor piece of logic has been applied. When a pep-meeting has been call ed and thirty-one out of four hundred respond .when a game that means as ^ much as any on the schedule, against j ^ ,-eception. years. Dr. Walter N. Johnson says that power is silent. If this be tree of men as it is of machines, and we think it is, then Mr. Moore is a man of umisual power, for he lives and works so silently one would hardly sus pect his presence in the midst of the great activity of the college. He has left the impress of his own life on the lives of hundreds of men and women who, since their college days here, have gone out into the four corners of the earth to do their bit in all walks of life. MARS HILL SHARES IN THE CENTENNIAL FUND The la.st session of the N. C. Baptist State Convention authorized the launching, by its General Board, of a Centennial Campaign to secure one million five hundred thousand dollars by 1930 with which to pay all present indebtedness on our North Carolina Baptist schools. The campaign was launched by the General Board on September 15th at a banquet held at Meredith College. Six hundred, sixty five men and women were present. This money is to be divided among our seven schools; .Mars Hill College is to receive $85,000. Every Baptist in North Carolina ought to have part in this great enterprise. These seven schools are the power of the denomination. The rank and file of Baptists do not proper ly appraise the value of Christian education. To be an asset to the king dom of God, education must be Christian. Roger Babson says, “The call of Christian education is today of even greater importance than was ever the call of the army or the navy. The safety of our nation, including all groups, depends on Christian education. The need of tlie hour is for more education based on the plain teaching of Jesus.” We hope the Centennial Campaign will be more than a success, more than a mere debt-paying experiment. May it not only break the fetters of debt but also lead to the proper estimate of their worth and to an am ple endowment of every one of them. a traditional rival, is played twenty miles away, and about one hundred attend, the college spirit is indeed low. When Mars Hill goes on winning games and hanging up records, is it possible that the above statements are true? It is. The teams win •because-they arO Well ’ coached and well equipped and because they work and work hard. They win and do Mars Hill credit by clean sportsman ship; but how much haixier they could play! how much more the add ed extra ounce would mean! were the compelling powei- of the five- hundred-strong college backing them to the limit! When the student body and fac ulty fail to support a team, the same principle has been violated as the one when a man deserts a team. When a man deserts a team, he is forever marked—the code of an ath lete—and he is usually rode off the campus on a rail. It is about time for that rail to be used and—not in connection with any man on our team either. Oh, the beauty, and the spR' and the glory , Of a sunset and a twilight as this! And the vision that it brings and the story j Shall the .sweet dirine imprc go amiss' THE CITY UNION IS NOT DRIFTING “H” Union is still in the race for efficiency, and not only is .she racing for efficiency as records show it, but also toward a higher standard in the programs rendered which will inspire someone to a deed neglected or a favor unperformed, nor is .she as a ship without a rudder because there is a duty to be done; that is the goal. It is a debt owed to the ones who are to follow the present members. All are looking to Miss Mary Pool and her co-workers to see that the service banner bearing a big '“H” floats above the throng. AT THE .MISSION Two miles up the Gabriel Creek road is found the Mission Sunday School. Mr. Luther Roberts as .su perintendent is accomplishing great things. At three o’clock on Sunday afternoon the mission has its .session of Sunday School, and after that an old-time singing class. Among the other efficient officers, the names of Fred Anderson and Frank Clark might be mentioned. Both are teach ing in the adult classes. Six Clio girls, appearing in pretty aprons upon which was written “Phi” and “Clio,” served dainty re- fre.shments. Many little expressive speeches were uttered by old lovers of the society. The feeling of joy bubbled up in every heart at the thought of Mar.s Hill and especially of the societies they love. Two society ai\niversaries have been reached this year, the Eutha- lian Anniversary preceding the Phi lomathian by one week. Upon con sideration of the treatment given •.anniversary programs at Mars Hill, one is doubtless struck with the thought that competition i.= a good thing. The history, even, of the two boys societies would be impos sible were it not for the spirit of friendly rivalry between them. In the year 1890 the existence of the two famed societies became kno-WTi. Following a rede mountain eer sport one night, the table in the hall in which the boys met was tom into pieces. No further calam ities befell the room that eventful night. But peace was not to be had without a divi.sion of the house. Tills di'vdsion became the Euthalian and Philomathian societies which have continued with their glonous histoiy on to the present. Profes sors White and Huffman, first col lege graduate teachers of Mars Hill, were responsible for leading the two societies. Prof. White clung to the Euthalian and was probably respon sible for naming it thus. Proi. Huff man, fellow workman of Prof. White, led the Philomathian Society which was called “The Kid Society” in its early years. Rivalry was keen in those days, brothers sometimes be ing arrayed against each other, and room mates unwilling to take up again their abode togetlier because one was a Philomathian and one a Euthalian. Out of the spirit of those days has grown a more lovely, cul tured spirit, which has for its end a nearer-to-pei"fection of all that is fine and true in the hearts of men and women. On and on the Philomathian Lit erary Society has .struggled for 37 years, filling its world with deeds of glory made 'bright by the love of its fellows. From fifteen in num ber to over a hundred; from even Continued on Page 4 In life’s sunset, O Lord, when i is falling, ”] May Thy holy peace enfold A. the even, ^ A.s unto my rest I hear my i herd calling— ] For in the Morning Thou i, wake me. Prince of Heaven^ D. L. S. ? Local Leadership 3 The question confronting r minds of men today from * walk of life is the questioi leadership. Who shall directs destinies of men in the strong of competition? Will leaded spring from native ability 3 sleeping, or must we continui: depend for leadership on the n side world, while our native tV isolated and hidden among i rugged hills, flickers under prea alone, wanes in the candle glofe inactivity ? e Traversing the path of histoif find that leaders have arisen . out visible opportunity from lowest station to the highest of honor this nation affords. like Abraham Lincoln, who p a crisis as another opportunfi the race for leadership. At Jackson, of log cabin fame others who had their beginni^, this immediate section have g** the halls of fame as recognized ‘ ers in their chosen field of end« With the very insistent and , ion call for efficient leadership. come to Mars Hill College this i ester the response of approxiitj eighty native sons and daught®. Madison County, seeking to b« trained leaders in the fields ' they have chosen as a future , lenge to their latent abilities' bond of friendship is grownig. a union of interest is evident. ^ are united as one hotly with colors and one aim. i Yes, there has come a reaVr'* ing and these fond parents, s' by a longing for the voices of children to be heard and heedlj many, are bending their effoi* the last degree that the samC} thet which marked the stone ' a Latin grave be engraved of marble .stones of those whom] cherished most. Hie situs eS*ji indigetem erat. “Here he lie?i was a native hero.” They se‘ more. They ask no less than] their sons and daughters le^ victory over the untrodden d, tunities in the race of life.
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