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The Hilltop, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C.
THE HILLTOP
Published Semi-Monthly by the Students at Mars Hill College
STAFF
Faculty Director..
Editors-in-Chief .
Business Manager
Mr. McLeod
J. P. Huskins, Mary E. Carter
-. B. M. Canup
Circulation Manager Grady
On the Campus Brown
Exchange C. C. Harrel
Poetry and Jokes G- T. Greenway
Athletics
Fine Arts
Religious Activities Pauline Sitton
Alumni Annie Jones
Mary Hamby
Community
REPORTERS
Philomath(ian Society.
Euthalian Society
Clio Society
.. J. E. Brown
. .H. O. Parker
.Sallie Warren
Nonpariel Society Zelma Benette
Scribleris Club Bertie Holland
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LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
The Hilltop bears this Letter of Introduction because it is a
stranger on the campus and among the activities of Mars Hill Col
lege. But its strangeness is of a peculiar nature—a strangeness
that niay be turned into intimate acquaintance by merely turning
its pages and glancing at its columns.
The Hilltop comes to to take the place of its predecessor, The
Laurel, in discovering and developing literary talent, in helping
to create an atmosphere in which the music of pure English is ever
and abundantly present, in renewing through its appearances that
spirit which is so distinctly characteristic of Mars' Hill, in encour
aging athletics by acquainting the student body, the community,
and the surrounding country with each athletic enterprise, in mak
ing known the activities of the different religious organizations;
literary socie.ties, and the different clubs.
Last spring The Laurel ceased; this fall The Hilltop began. In
between these phenomena lie the organization, the working out of
a design, the reorganization of the staff to meet the new condi
tions and last, though least in the consideration of the staff, the
vast amount of work and earnest endeavor which usually attend
the change from a magazine to a college paper. In attempting this
change in the publication, the Staff realizes that it is becoming
venturesome, but it glories in the possibilities. For in the success
of the paper are implanted the sincerest hopes and the highest as
pirations of the entire staff; therefore, do we invite even request.
your co-operation in making The Hilltop, your publication, a sue
cess We are, indeed, Knf nnf nnpViored; will vou lenc
a hand?
launched but not anchored;” will you lend
P. Huskins.
MR. MOORE’S BIRTHDAY
September 8 was not only the date of the opening of the 1926
1927 session of Mars Hill College but was also President Moore’s
fifty-sixth birthday. This date marked also, the beginning of the
thirtieth year of his administration. Though no formal celebra
tion was attempted on this occasion, a group of his associates as
sembled, in response to an invitation by Mrs. Roberts, to pay him
their respects—“not loud but deep.”
Though we cannot voice our appreciation of Mr. Moore, we
seize this opportunity to say that we are not unmindful of our
debt to him. or thirty years he has given himself unreservedly
to Mars Hill, seeking no praise, accepting no reward. With unwa
vering fidelity and unfaltering courage, through sunshine and
shadow, he has maintained the glorious ideals of our alma mater
and has held her true to her cherished mission. Around him has
grown up the Mars Hill of today. The character of the schoo
bears the impress of his life.
Hundreds, even thousands, who have passed through these
gates before us testify in their lives that his work has not been in
vain His exemplary daily life, his scholarship, his kindliness, his
sympathy, his devotion to truth, his faith in God and man make
our privilege if sitting at his feet an experience to be coveted.
I hK open DUUK
Aa we enter anouier year’s rieiu or
acuvities ai Mars Hul, mere is eiie
itung that sliouia be o£ prirnai-y ana
paramount concern to us as students,
and that is the spirit ot our campus.
How shall we answer to the challenge
that comes to us through responsibility
which is so vital to all? We believe
that in our B. S. U. slogan for the
ear. ‘■'I HE OPEN DOOR,” there may
be found a basis for our measuring up
this responsibility, i’or, there are
three doors which if allowed to stand
opou throughout the year in the indi
vidual me of every student, with a
proper discrimination of an that pas.ies,
[hroiigh tiieir portals, will bring about
pioioimu consciousness of a campus
eiijiiieiy for Christ.
There should be first the open door
eading into our hearts or souls; not
door open to the lower and inferior
things of life, but to the higher ana
nobler things. Until that door is open
no Divine Dove may enter our souls.
Our lives are unreal. When once it
is opened there is brought forth a new
life; new beauties are seen; our char
acters assume new and more beauti
ful form; our visions are clearer; our
purposes more fixed; and our courage
heightened. Dife then becomes real.
Then, the door leading into our
minds should be open to a realization
of the qualities that go to make up
life in its truest sense. Surely, the
mind, the seat of our intellectual pow
er, that great dynamo which promotes
the evolution of empires, causing them
to quake, tremble and oftentimes fall
into ruin under the sway of the ideas
of a single intellect, should be open
only to that which is pure and high
and holy.
Furthermore, it is our minds that
produce our ideas, which are our real
selves. They are to us what the rud
der is to the ocean-going ship. No
matter what our course may be they
steer us. For that purpose, then, they
should be pure and noble. Our
thoughts either make us better or
worse. When we ourselves are mar
red, we mar others; for, “No man lives
to himself a day.” The door should be
open to virtue always; for, as some
one has truly said, “Virtue alone
raises us above hopes and fears and
chances;” also, “From the mind’s own
purity the body receives a sympathetic
aid.” Det us keep the door of our
minds open, therefore, only to that
which will be ennobling and enriching
to our own lives, thereby raising the
standard of our entire campus.
In the last place, let us carry the
spirit of “The Open Door” into our
dormitories which constitute the
homes which are ours to share while
at Mars Hill. In so doing we show a
greater faith in our fellow students.
Surely there is no one among our great
student body who is an enemy to so
ciety, like the wolf who forfeits his
own social liberty, and who would
cause it to bo necessary for those in
our dormitories to break loose the locks
now rusty from lack of use and turn
their keys in them for the first time
Heaven forbid that such a standard
should ever prevail on the campus of
Mars Hill College.
The challenge then comes to us as
students and as citizens of Mars Hill
The "glory or the shame of this year’s
activities rests on our shoulders. Shall
we make the citizenry of our campus
of the higher type, based solely upon
principles rather than upon rules?
Shall we open wide the doors leading
into our souls, minds, and homes.
R. Paul Caudill.
We shall
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PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS
Some one has said that our friends are our best asset.
We believe this; therefore, we are asking the students
to patronize our advertisers because they are our friends.
They have helped make possible our publication and in a
large measure they will prove your best friends when in
need of personal attention.
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Elmore, Messrs. Dan Hall and Frances
Anderson; to Meredith, Miss Mary
Francis Biggers; to Carson and New
man, Miss Bertha Danders and Mr.
Harry Sams. Miss Velma Shaw is in
training at Washington Hospital,
Washington, D. C. and Mr. Tate Shaw
at Washington Medical University,
Miss Caroline Biggers will return as
assistant Dean of Women at Meredith
College.
The former students of our town
who are teaching this year are: Misses
Pauline and Jessie Huff, Winston-Sa
lem; Miss Sarah Elmore, Paint Fork;
Miss Julia Buckner, Beach Glenn; Mr.
Henry Clay Edwards, Monroe, N. C.,
Miss Dizzie Jarvis, Dake Toxaway;
Miss Ruth Bruce, Haw Creek; Miss
Gladys Johnson and Mr. Douglas Rob
inson, Burnsville; Miss T. Johnson,
Gastonia; Mrs. D. E. Poole, Marsh-
ville; Miss Irene Edwards, Mars Hill.
One of the prettiest weddings of the
season was that of September 4. Aft
er the Sunday morning service Miss
Myrtle Tilson of Mars Hill and Mr. G.
C. Cox of Winterville, N. C., were mar
ried. Mr. Cox was a graduate of Mars
Hill College. Mrs. Cox was also a
graduate of Mars Hill College, and
during the past year taught piano and
French in the college. After the wed
ding Mr. and Mrs. Cox left for Win
terville where Mr. Cox will be a mem
ber of the high school faculty for the
coming year.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Welcome! New students, to Mars
Hill.
Good old school days aro with us
again, and our community boys and
girls will soon be leaving us.
going to Carolina are;
Those
Miss Kathleen
ISy Must Hang
(By Pacific & A.ilaDtic)
Jury at 'Welch, W. Va., took
five minutes to decide Adam
Burress (above), 16, shall hang
for assault on grirl, 9. Con
demned lad seemed indifferent to
his fate. He is among youngest
aver sentenced to Hang.
S. L. CARTER
Pondering a moment with the spean
er, we see that if Helen Keller and
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ers have overcome difficulties so gr
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We welcome you to our stori
Mars Hill, N. C.
as befell them, surely we ought to si^,
Vive the easier tests of life, and tp
we realize that almost any difficut
can be overcome with the proper at*
tude and that unquenchable faith tS^
victory awaits to reward just beyo,
the dim of life’s twilight. Well mifi
we take Dr. Johnson’s address to hed
and practice its contents in our strif
gle to overcome these difficulties.
Associating- With Mys,
I have found it necessary
That I make a rule or tw.o
As a standard for my living
And to govern what I do.
My main reason for this action
Is as simple as can be.
I have done it ’cause my body
Must associate with me.
Now these rules. I’ve made here latli
Are essential I am sure.
For I can’t stay with my body *
If my life is found impure. *
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Free from evil, free from basenes.’’^
0
Must my living ever be. ^
For I’ve found it necessary
To associate with me. U
—Geo. T. Greenway. '*
A CALL FOR HELP
Did you ever have a funny thoug
Aren’t they the queerest things? V>
if you ever think of something 1
would make one or two persons laUf
send it to the Joke Editor, or give
to some other member of the sWj
and If it appears to be original,
for it in these columns. f
Perhaps you are not good at fh
stuff. Then, why not send us
of your poetry? There will be sf
reserved for all good poems. If
should think of a good rhyme, d*
let it escape. Capture It and sen*
In—Poetry and Joke Editor.