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_Breyard College, Brevard, North Carolina, Friday, May 15, 1936.
The Clarion
The Brevard College Weekly
Published from September to June while the
College is in session, except on holidays and
during examinations.
$100 per ysar by carrier. If by mail $1.25
for the school year.
Advertising Rates given on Request.
Editor-in-Chief: William Davis
Associate Editors: Odell Salmon and Evelvn
8waringen.
Reportorial staff
Earl Pearson Edith Beard
bummers Maugans Katherine Coffey
Cecil Evans Whisenaiu
Annie Donnell Patterson Bill Patton
Helen Avett
Bernice Brantley
Typist: John Odom'
Business Manager vvilson Forbe'^
Francos Gofcrth
Mary Lou Lai ham
Assistant
Advertising Manager
A.ssistant
Circulation Manager
Assistant
Clem Thomas
R. D. McNeer, Jt.
Bob Sumr.er
Mnzoii Murphy
Joe Allt-n
Faculty Advisers: Miss Craig, Mr. McNeer
and Mr. Cathey.
An Honor System at
Brevard College
For the past two years Brevard has
bean growing rapidly and developing
in many ways. We feel that we are
fortunate in having an unusually well-
qualified faculty and a cooperative stu
dent body. The ambition of every
student and faculty member is to cre
ate a college of high ideals and high
scholastic rating, which is the great
est achievement that any college can
contribute to society.
One of the best ways that we know
to achieve this is to establish and per
petuate here a much needed honor
system, by which we shall absolutely
disqualify and ostracize a dishonest
person.
We feel that every one of us is in
herently honest. Perhaps it has not
occured to us that there are other
forms of dishonesty besides cheating
on examinations. Let us realize that
anything which we do or say that rep-
sents our knowledge as being greater
than it really is can be nothing but ig
noble! None of us wants to be that
way! If we were not fundamentally
scrupulous we would be elsewhere
than here at a Christian institution.
Let us then, each of us, set about
at once to establish for our college the
one thing it needs above all else—an
honor system. Now is the time to act.
What Can We Do for
Brevard College?
By Tom Graham
(Retiring Pr3iilMt of the Siud3.it Council.)
We who are about to leave salute
you, Brevard College. A part of us
has gone into laying the foundation of
a College which shall grow, with the
help of each succeeding class, until
sonieday it shall achieve wide renown.
Is it possible that some of us do not
realize the pressure that this brings to
bear on every one of us? Success for
ourselves and the College can be gain
ed only by the best efforts of each of
us throughout our only too short stay.
Is it not true that we gain only as
much as we venture in any enterprise;
then is it practical for us to loaf on
the job, only receiving a small inter
est from our investment and at the
same time injuring others in many
and devious ways?
We succeed as the College does.
Unless we use our influence to shape
correctly the many characteristics of
cjlleg-e lifi, wa too shall suffer with
sluggards. Those who plan to enter
universities will be allowed entrance
only if the reputation of our College
is good. If our College has a reputa
tion for laxity in its rules, curriculum,
and morality, a student has a poor
chance of being accepted at any repu
table college or university. Brevard
College is judged by those students
who leave here and enter other col
leges or business concerns. If some
students make bad records because of
unpreparedness, immorality, or incom
petence, many innocent compatent
students will be made to suffer. Is it
not then to our advantage to strive
always to do our best in molding the
fundamental characteristics of agrow
ing college so that in later years we
shall reap a harvest of good will and
honor?
We are a part of everything that we
touch; we, therefore, gain because of
the hard work we do in bringing honor
to our College. If we could look into
the future, I am sure we would be able
to see many students whose Characters
will in many ways be shaped by rules,
regulations, and traditions that we
have fostered, governed, and left as
our early college landmarks (our
footprints on the sands of time..”)
Let us, of necessity then, will to, and
impart in, the corner-stone of Brevard
College the best that is in us.
Inadequate Lighting
System
Perhaps the most noticable of the
inadequate facilities here is the poor
lighting system in the class rooms
and the library.
In the course of this school year
there have been numerous students to
have their eyes fail, and have had to
begin wearing glasses. It can be ex
pected that a few students will meet
this handicap, but there appears to be
more than the usual number. Experts
in th3 electrical business tell us that
insufficient light causes the eyes to
weaken to the extent that assistance
is needed.
It is difficult to study in the library
at night under present wattage. Our
reading is slowed considerably, and
often the eyes are affected by the
strain. The library is used by every
student in school, and much of the
work must be done at night.
The class rooms are not used nearly
so much at night as the library, but
on cloudy days lights should be on.
We do not propose that a new light
ing system be installed, but we do
think that the wattage could be in
creased to a great extent with much
resultant benefit.
Let^s Go Hikeing
The members of the student body
who went on the hike to Glen Canon
Falls recently came back feeling that
they had been greatly benefited. Why
can’t we go on hikes more often?
A trip on foot to the lofty heights
of these mountains makes a person
feel that he has accomplished some
thing. While trudging the weary way
upward, the students become better
acquainted with each other. They
find out who can take hard knocks
and still get up smiling. They discov
er new friends and mak'e new friend
ships. They also become better ac
quainted with nature. The mountains
at this time of the year reveal won
ders in the teeming new life and the
great variety of wild fiowors. On the
hike a few Sundays ago the trailing
arbutus, trillium, lady slipper, dog
wood, Jack-in-the-pulpit, violets, blu
ets, blood-root, and other flowers were
in bloom. The mountain laurel and
I rhododendron were budding.
I Many of the students here came
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