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THE DIALETTE
May, 1946
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Millie Bailey
Business Manager Kathryn Chason
Literature Editor Elizabeth Miller
Advertising Manager Mary DesChamp
Feature—
College Elizabeth Miller
High School Louise Petersen
Sports—
College Frankie Hall
High School Diane Allen
Humor—
C liege Bobbie Rea
High School Betty Johnson
Art—
College Jane Bachman
High School Peggy Schelling
Photography Editor Humphrey Armistead
Exchange Barbara Head
Typist Florence Kirk
Day Student Representative John C. Robertson
Class Representatives:
College—
Junior Barbara Stephenson
Sophomore
. Ann Browning
Freshman Martha Hughes
High School—
Senior Kay Bryant
Junior Harriette Seely
Sophomore Lot Jones
Freshman Bettie Jo Williams
Advisers—
■ Miss McElroy
Miss Collette
Mrs. Armstrong
THESE THINGS COUNT
As you look back over this past year, what has it meant to you?
Do you have something to take with you as you leave? If not, then
you have failed, because the opportunities were here.
For instance, in the quietness of the Sunday morning service could
you slip your hands into God’s and feel this presence ? He was there
if you took the time to talk to him.
After you left Y. P. C. meeting did you have a desire to want to do
more for the building of God’s Kingdom? That time they asked you
to take on the program, what did you say? Here was your chance to
do something. Did you ?
The beautiful sunsets, the bubbling brooks, the trees, the flowers,
the view from Lookout, the white clouds against a dark blue sky—
how can you experience these things each day without feeling closer
to God ?
Each time you look up at the mountain tops this scripture comes
to your mind:
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whenqe
cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord.”
Yes, Montreat had something to give you if you had time to discover
it. Remember, we get out of everything just what we put into it.
If you have not received a blessing, then you are to blame. If you have
gained something, as you leave you can look back and say this—
“Are not the mountains, skies and Montreat a part of
me and my squI, as I of them?”
Miss Harrison, terrified, called
Dr. Grier on the telephone. “Fays
Ruth Philips has just swallowed
a fountain pen!” She gasped. “I’ll
be up,” calmly promised Dr.
Grier.
“But hurry,” answered Miss
Harrison, “What shall I do until
you get here?”
“You’ll just have to use a pen
cil.”
The College Symbol of the Human Spirit
As the soul and the mind of man
raise him above the level of the
purely physical and animal plane,
he rises higher as a human being
by the nurture of his soul and
mind. Those who seek to live by
bread alone, therefore, miss the
truest happiness.
William Syon Phelps has said,
“That man is happiest who can
think the most interesting
thoughts.” No one can be lonely
if his. mind is well stored. Cicero
sa'd of the things of the mind,
‘‘These studies furnish a refuge
and solace, they delight us at
home, they do not interfere with
us out of doors, they go through
the night with us, they go every
where.” Whatever material things
may be lost, the things of the
mind and the spirit remain, a con
stant source of refuge and solace.
A college is the place where the
wisdom of; the ages is preserved
and transmitted. It is indeed a
symbol of the human spirit. Here
we have an opportunity to read,
study, and absorb the works of the
greatest men as they are pre
served in books. Milton said, “A
good book is the precious life
blood of a master spirit, treasured
up for a life beyond life.” Cicero
said, “Books are full of the voices
of wise men.” In college, as in
no other place in our busy, mater
ialistic world, we have the privil
ege of conversing with Plato,
Aristotle, Homer, Virgil, Shakes
peare, Milton, Carlyle, Emerson,
and other great men. One is re
minded of Southey’s lines:
“Around me I behold
Where’er these casual eyes are
cast.
The mighty minds of old.
M'^ never-failing friends are they.
With whom I converse night and
day.”
The college does not stop when
it gives us an opportunity to ab
sorb the wisdom of the past. It
cultivates our own minds, and de
velops our taste and appreciation.
Here we are trained to use our
reason and to discern that which is
highest and best. Education pre
serves the dignity of man as a hu
man being by cultivating his truly
human qualities.
A college develops our taste in
Music and Art, so that, as Tenny
son says, “We needs must love the
highest when we see it.” It de
velops our aesthetic nature, mak
ing us more sensitive to beadty
in the world around us. Further
more, minds filled with beautiful
and interesting thoughts have no
room left for evil ones.
There are some who have the
mistaken idea that the highest de
velopment of a human being is in
consistent with that of service.
In reply to this idea, I say that
the world sorely needs intelligence
and instruction and a better sense
of values. It needs a greater
realization of the worth of the
human being. The college, shin
ing like a steady light, can event
ually banish the dense night of ig
norance and raise the human spir
it to the full realization of its
great heritage and God-given po
tentialities.
TOMORROW’S WORLD
Author—Betty Johnson
Be thinkers today set the future aglow
Strive always to learn, use what you know.
Tomorrow’s a dream that is yet to come
So why play around? Get something done.
We have all the tools, so now let’s begin
Our hands and our hearts must both enter in.
To everyone here our motto we’ll tell
We each have a job, it should be done well.
Today we stand with empty, idle hands.
But if we should look toward the foreign lands
Their fields, lying bare, and their souls badly worn
In compassionate love would our hearts be torn.
Could we not work for the good of the whole ?
To obtain the freedoms for all? Our goal!
To speak, print, worship, without want or fear.
For these are the ideals we hold so dear.