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The music demons are at it. The
•wail of the sax and the moan of the
trombone were not stilled by a sum
mer vacation but came as the falling
of the autumn leaves to again vex
and worry those who cannot play an
instrument. If Mrs. Robinson can get
an orchestra out of that bunch she
deserves the silver-plated footstool.
Wonder what all those Hilltop
meetings are about. Hear they’re go
ing on a picnic sometime. Wonder
who’s invited to help the struggling
staif up Ogle
* * *
I actually believe some of those
last year birds think we miss them,
but we know better. They keep writ
ing every now and then and tell us
to send them a Hilltop. We will, but
for once their names won’t be in it.
They’re just the has-beens that we’ll
be next year, provided the teachers
are merciful.
* • *
The biology students, though
young in the study of animals, are
becoming regular zoologists. If they
continue to progress in the field of
zoological sciences as they have here
tofore, their names will some day be
selected as “Milestones of zoological
progress.
With much ease they sketch the
Arthropoda, but as young adventur
ers they wish to go further into its
physiological anatomy. They sketch
many creatures which never have
been seen, or never will be. And not
until examination time rolls around
do they realize that paragorically
speaking from a philosophical stand
point of view they were dynamically
wrong in their microscopic observa
tions.
The field trips are also of vast im
portance. The young zoologists go
out in quest of species of animals
ranging from the Phylum Protozoa to
that of mommalia. One day a fellow
ventured forth upon a field trip in
quest of a female specie of the homo
sapiens. It seems that he must have
found IT, for he takes in the soup
line quite often. D.A.H.
I wonder if—
Claude Royal ever worries about
anything.
Dean Plemmons goes to Spanish
for Spanish.
Bil Capel ever wakes up for break
fast.
If Graydon Jordon has got over
blushing about some joke that seems
to be on him?
Camnetz will ever stop teasing
Belle Howell.
They will really keep you out of
the dining hall if you don’t wear a tie.
(Borrowed)
Another Letter From a Bald-
Headed Dad to a Flapper
Laughter
• « •
There are times when it is best to
be heard and not seen. Don’t ask.
If all go to Milligan who says they
are going there will be enough to be
quite a group to yell and sing the
Blue and Gold on to victory. I hope
no one has to ask who won after the
game is over.
By the way, the trucks have careful
drivers who go slowly.
* * *
We wonder if all freshmen are born
homesick or do they get that way af
ter looking at the old students.
* *
Ways to succeed—
1. Never wear a tie at meals, then
you’ll know you are independent and
can’t be overlorded.
2. Never study your lessons; of
course the profs will realize that you
have a brilliant mind and will pass
you anyway.
3. Don’t go to chapel; then every
one will realize that you are an in
dividual and not one of the mass.
4. Be sure to wear suspenders even
if they make sore places on your
shoulders; then they can all see how
collegiate you are.
5. Always pick a fight with a man
bigger than you are; then he’ll know
you’re not afraid of him.
6. Never answer the roll call; then
the teacher will know that you are too
interested and individual to do so.
7. Always break in when others are
talking; then they will know that you
know something about it too.
* • *
With these few words of wisdom,
to struggling readers, I say goodbye.
Barny Ipsingwitz.
Freshman; “If you could give me
your telephone number I could call
you up.”
Girl: “Oh, the number’s in the
book.”
Freshman: “Fine, but what’s your
name?”
Girl': “Oh, that’s in the book,
too.”
* * *
Motorist: “Is it very far to the next
town?”
Native: “Wal, it seems furthurin
it is, but it ain’t.” *
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By Robert Quillen
My Dear Louise:
You will be ready for college next
year and I have been making a few
inquiries in the hope of finding a
school that will do you more good
than harm.
So far I haven’t succeeded.
All of the schools for young wo
men in this section of the country are
equipped to teach you as much as
you need to know, but not one of
them seems to know the value of lib
erty.
All of them seem rather proud of
their “restrictions.” A freshman isn’t
permitted to walk down town by him
self; she may go shopping but once a
week and then must be chaperoned;
she isn’t permitted to use a telephone
while down town; she may have a
“date” only once each week and then
must sit in a room with other girls
who have callers; she may not talk to
a boy while she 'is on the street.
These are samples. Different
schools have different rules, some rea
sonable and some foolish, and all of
them relax discipline after the first.
I don’t mean to imply that rules
like these would harm you—if you
obeyed them. But foolish rules aren’t
obeyed and that makes them bad med
icine for growing girls.
The female of the species loves
liberty no less than the male, and
when girls are enslaved by petty
rules they become sneaks. They be
come expert in the art of hoodwink
ing authority, and they develop the
belief that sin consists in being
caught.
■What is more, and,worse, when
they are punished for doing some
harmless thing that is “wrong” only
because a college rule forbids it, they
develop an inevitable contempt for
rule makers and learn to hate autho
rity.
I think it a bad scheme and I don’t
want you mixed up in it.
If I couldn’t trust you out of my
sight without a chaperone, I wouldn’t
waste the money to educate you.
Some restrictions are necessary, for
girls of your age aren’t overburdened
with good judgment and might run
wild if turned loose without a hobble.
But I won’t send you to a college
whose foolish rules develop sneaks,
and if I can’t find one with more lib
eral ideas than a reform school. I’ll
keep you at home and send you up
each morning on the bus.
I’d like to give you taste of “col
lege life,” but I have taught you to
love liberty and be worthy of it and I
won’t have my work spoiled by well-
meaning people who think character
is developed by means of chains.
Dear Barney:
No doubt you are glad to know that
I have returned ft’bm my vacation.
But whether you are or not, I am. I
am now ready to give you a lot of the
latest happenings.
It looks sorter natural to see some
of the folks back, namely De Forest
and Margaret, Virginia -and Frank,
Alice and T. Carl, Hattie Sue and
Ed . Well, it makes things seem more
homelike.
Oh, did you know that A. B. Parker
has returned? No? Well, he has.
You know there are lots of things
we will never be able to solve. Some
things can’t be solved, but we uo won
der if Jarret ever found the girls; If
the dining hall doors were not lock
ed a little too early Sunday night; If
Frank Dale has learned to Yo-Yo.
When some folks will ever learn to
observe at the table. Why all the
girls fell for John Cain. Who it was
that' ran a mile in twelve minutes
Sunday afternoon. Why May Bragg
likes roommates. Why Mildred
Meares has lost interest in the soup
line. There are others, but I will
wait until next letter to tell you
It has rained twice a week and
then nearly every other day since
we have been here.
The girls have new gym suits. They
are good looking, too. Just ought to
see them. They’re steppin out, any
way—the girls!
I think there is a contest on to
see who can get the most finger
waves before Saturday night. Why?
Oh, that is the first real date night.
You see. Seniors are allowed two
dates a week besides the one on Sun
day, when they all go on the C-11
line!
The Hilltop staff is going on a pic
nic to Ogle Meadows sometime. It is
quite interesting to note just who is
invited to go.
This is one of my regular shopping
days and as I am trying to reduce I
must go to town and weigh.
Yours in school,
Mirandy.
work. And as the honest pedestrian
who wants to work for a meal or a
night’s lodging is classed, ignorantly
or otherwise, with the professional
leech. That cannot be helped.
But is a “tramp” who -wills to work
for what he gets deserving to be
classed with the ambitionless fellow
who is satisfied to live on the charity
of others? Is he indeed a tramp —
“a strolling beggar,” as the diction
ary terms him, and as our imagina
tion pictures him, who by the brawn
of his arm and the sweat of his brow
earns what is coming to him? There
is something alive in the soul of
who is unwilling to receive sometl
for nothing; ambition' is not dea
that man’s breast. If he be a tra
then he is of a different caliber f
him with whom we associate
terms of suspicion and indolenc
God speed you, good friend,
occasioned this story: we trust
out yonder there is something be
than wandering awaiting you;
your itinerary is but a trans
means to a worthy end; and that
cloak of a tramp covers the soul i
man.
L. IV.
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Of more than passing interest was
the unveiling, Sunday, October 6th,
at Fletcher, N. C., of a bronze tablet,
mounted on a shaft of granite, to
the memory of H. Frank Arnold, the
orchestrator of “Dixie,” the popular
song of the Southland. This song
was played for the first time at the
inauguration of Jefferson Davis as
president of the Confederacy, Febru
ary 18, 1861, at Montgomery, Ala.
Some time ago a teacher—a much
loved teacher — digressed from the
lesson long enough to tell an inter
esting little incident about a foreign-
tramp who called at her house. The
story was told with a view to point
ing out peculiarities, or interesting
little variations, of different lang
uages. For instance, when the tramp
went to chop some wood — unusual
for a tramp?—^he remarked that “the
axe she dull.” Whereupon it was evi
dent at once that the word axe, in
that foreigner’s own particular lang
uage, was feminine gender.
But for another cause this story is
written.
This particular tramp, as you notic
ed above, was chopping wood; and,
according to the story, he was not
ordered to chop wood as payment for
a meal, but, upon seeing a pile of
wood awaiting the axe, himself in
sisted upon chopping a supply to pay
for his dinner. The author of this
article felt a lump in his throat as
this little story was told; for a time
was when he also was a tramp, and
chopped, not one but many piles of
wood for as many dinners—and no
ticed, like his honest contemporary,
that “the axe she dull”—^refraining,
however, from embarrassing the own
er by reminding him of the fact.
To the average person the word
“tramp” carries with it an atmos
phere somewhat of repugnance. Syn
onymous in our minds with the word
“tramp” is lack of ambition, laziness,
slothfulness. We hold in contempt a
fellow who would rather beg than
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