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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARSHILL, N. C.
VOL.
THREE
Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hill, N. C., as Second Class Matter,
February 20, 1926.
Member North Carolina Collegiate Pres* Association.
STAFF
Faculty Director-
Editor—
J. A. McLEOD
-CARL MEARES
Managing Editor..
-JAMES BALEY, JR.
MANAGERIAL
Business Manager PAUL C. HUNDLEY
Circulation Manager ELLEN ROYAL JONES
DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS
Religious FRANCES RICH
Athletics RAY BOWMAN
Society - _ _ — — FRANK HUSKINS
Alumni.'l._.I...._'. -BARTLETT HAGER
D. L. STEWART
SARAH BLACKWELL
MADELINE MAY
Why Physical Education?
A well-developed body is an essential of a well-developed mind. W'e
come to college to train our minds. During this process our bodies should
not be neglected. .
There seems to be quite a tendency to cut gym. We are not hurting
Coach Roberts when we do this; we hurt ourselves. It is not smart to
try to beat yourself out of money, neither is it “cute" to cheat yourself
out of health. i
Health, wealth, and happiness should be yours. Attend to your p. ysicai
welfare, cultivate knowledge for your wealth, and happiness is easily won.
I AM JUST A BIT LINESOME, THAT’S ALU
Poetry
Exchange-
Reporter.-
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be
the day for any man when he become* contented with the thought*
he is thinking and the deeds he is doing, where there is not for
ever beating at the doors of hi* soul some great desire to do some
thing larger, which he knows he was made and meant to do.
—Phillips Brooks.
Do I seem oft discouraged or lonely to you
As I turn from the road and the crowd?
Do you feel I’m unhappy or think that I’m blue.
That I’m selfish, self-centered or proud?
Oh, you wrong me, my friend, if you think this is true.
Though the mood I know not what to call;
I but seek a quiet place where thew s no mortal face.
I am just a bit lonesome, that’s all.
Do you think that I am tired of the crowd and the noise.
That I fear that I shrink from the strife.
Do you think that I don’t like your pleasures and joys
That I’m living a miserable life?
’Tis not this—You are wrong, and you don t understand,
For my soul is not narrow and small.
O my friend, you should know that God fashioned me so.
And I’m just a bit lonesome, that s all .
Hymn—^“Lead on, O King
nal.”
1:30 P. M.
Joint Anniversary Program
By Euthalian and Philomath^E'^
Literary Societies. j ®
College Song—“Alma Mater.j
Declamation — “The Amef “
Ideal,” Clarence H. Patrick,
essee.
Oration — “Reward of Suciinib
William B. Logan, Buncombe Co# th
Oration — “Christian Eduqted
and a Vocational Choice,” Nathints
Brooks, Pitt County. 't.h«
Declamation—“The Path of :y i
tory,” S. Gale Morse, Buncipri
County. i
Special Music. ; He
Debate — Query, “Resolved,
the United States should grant
Philippine Islands their immq
How to Study
Yes I’m just a bit lonesome, that’s all, my good friend:
’ But I’ll tell you a secret divine:
Ah I travel with God on a long lonely road,
’ And His spirit gives solace to mine;
And I’m listening and waiting His call,
frionri vnii mav sav when I
So, my friend, you may say when I steal away
That I’m just a bit lonesome, that’s all.
—D. L. S.
If anyone will look at the large number of books sold each year at the
college book room, he must surely be convinced that study is one of the
important parts of the work. College life is a busy life. How to get time
for study seems to be one of the biggest problems confronting many stu
dents. Yet each one has all the time there is; so he has only to allot his
time carefully to the most important part of his work. College experiences
teach that since one cannot take part in all that goes on, he must choose
from the different activities what is best suited to his individual needs. Few
can take a big campus course and be leaders in class work.
And yet, the knowledge of books is only one phase of an education;
other things are essential and should have a place on the schedule. If no
time is wasted, there will be enough for both study and campus activities.
Many things can be crowded into a day. One day last year a student who
did as much work as any on the campus was asked if he was too busy to help
out in a little matter on hand. His answer was that he always had time to
do what he wanted to do. He was then asked how he accomplished so much
work. “If I am not doing this,” he said, “I am doing that; and if I am not
doing that, I am doing something else. I make that may habit.” There was
the secret of his success. He knew how to study.
What does the word study mean? The rc'ot meaning of the word implies
a keen eagerness to learn, an open mind. And unless it retains that mean
ing, the word is worthless; for without a will to dig, a readniess to pay the
price for knowledge, little will ever be gained.
Interest is fundamental to successful study. In fact, it is a bad policy
to continue to be bored with that which is not interesting. Where there is
lack of interest, interest must be cultivated. Surely anything that is so es
sential to a complete education as to be included in a certain college course
can be made interesting. Anyone who will give free rein to his sense of
curiosity will find knowledge interesting, if merely for the sake of knowing,
This interest and eagerness of intellect require that the mind be kept
keen, for which it will need rest. Concentrated study is tiresome to the
brain. Relaxation and refreshment are just as necessary to it as to the
body. Those who try to slave themselves to studying all the time will find
that they accomplish very little.
If with a keen and active mind an individual can concentrate all his
attention upon one thing even for half an hour at a time and if he can pick
out the frame or skeleton upon which the details of a subject hang, then
he is beginning to learn the art of study. Those who can and will concen
trate for hours will soon find themselves masters of much useful knowledge.
L. B. Hager.
RAVINGS
Discourses on the
Lack of Love
The highly-touted evolutionist
popped his bill on the wrong potato
when he said that man sprang from
the lower orders of creation. Any
body and anything that has eyes and
no sense at all could tell his ques
tioner that somewhere back in the
annals of time his fellow creatures
had a beginning along with himself.
How can any object evolute before it
is created? Now why couldn’t Dar
win have seen that at the start with
out my having to explain it to him?
The men who wrote iii ages past
have recorded the events of centuries
from Adam to Hoover in the hope of
gaining recognition from their super-
Records of other years and
Has Dan Cupid exhausted his sup
ply of arrows? Has he decided that
the campus of Mars Hill is to be an
unprofitable ground for his labors?
Neither of these reasons will do?
lors.
Founders* Day
Founders’ Day can either mean a lot to one or it can mean nothing at
all. It is thought >of by some merely as a holiday that has been given for
no good reason that can be named. These are the ones who look upon it as
a nice time to go home, and who attach no other significance to it. If they
cannot go home, they either go to Asheville for the week-end or else loaf
about the campus. Possibly they attend the exercises and sit in boredom
while the program goes on. This type will never gain anything from Found
ers Day, nor will they gain very much from the college in general, for they
show the negative attitude which is the forerunner of failure.
To that other great mass of students who take a live interest in the af
fairs of the school the day takes on an entirely different significance. To
them it is something that represents the respect and gratitude that we pay
to the memory of those noble men and women who made Mars Hill possible,
Founders’ Day is representative of the spirit of the college. It is a day
set aside in the busy whirl of college life to be used as a day in which to pay
respect that is due the pioneers who went on infront of us. The day serves
not only to honor their memory but to remind us that the work which they
did was only tlje beginning. They were the founders. It remains for us to
continue the work which they have so nobly begun
To respect their memory is not enough; to invite their return to the
spots they love is not enough; we must face the challenge of our inheritance.
The challenge to push on, to build on, to add useful lives to the tower of
deeds that we are building toward the glory of God. How we are going to
meet that challenge is something that only we in our hearts know.
Forty, fifty, and sixty years ago there were no steam-heated Melrose
and Brown dormitories, no large and adequately heated Spilman home for
girls. The winters were just as cold then as they are now, and young men
hated to get up just as they do now; but they did get up, not in a steam-
heated room either, and they did go on, and they did graduate, and they
have made records in life that are a credit to the institution. It took more
gp"it and determination to go to college then than it does now, but the ulti'
mate result is the same.
We must never forget that some day, sixty years from now, the boys
and girls of a bigger and better Mars Hill will be gathering to celebrate
Founders’ Day, and will think of us much as we now think of those others
that have gone on. What we do must be above the reproach of that genera
tion, and we must leave behind us ideals and accomplishments that will make
them proud to say that we are the founders. So the challenge is put to ns.
We must accept it in the same sense that it is presented and ever work for
the upbuilding of M. H. C. W. C.
scenes of other days are memories
of the present. The doors of this in
stitution have opened and closed on
the outrushing tides of her sons nad
daughters in all walks of life; and
once again, as of old. Mars Hill sta
tions herself on the athletic field and
the tennis courts of 1928, urging the
rank and file of incoming humanity
ing into higher fields of service.
Now, tennis is a cultured game to
be played by cultured people. It also
requires action with quick thinking,
and action with quick thinking, and
action demands intelligence. Since no
one is lacking any of these endoW'
ments, all are expected to take part
in the struggle with racket and ball
Some have already responded; others
will do so at once. The fact that one
takes part does not mean that he must
actually play the game. He may take
part by backing the participants to
the limit. Let each student select his
man and root for him until the hea
vens are black with dancing scare^
crows.
As has been said before, all con^
testants cannot win. If you fail to
get your letter here, don’t be discou
raged in the least. “If at first you
don’t succeed, try, try again.” A man
is never beaten until he quits. There
will be letters given in all branches
of class athletics. Perhaps you may
be able to get your letter from an
other source, such as the cross-coun
try hike which will be staged a little
later in the season. Only one letter,
however, will be given to each person
in any sport.
Tn any game of whatever nature
the players will be subject to many
hard knocks and abuses from every
direction. Those who seek the shade
tree in order to follow the line of
least resistance will back down on the
job and quit. Heaven pity the man
that quits. We wish that the word
"quit” were discarded from every
dictionary in the land. May every
man get the idea fixed firmly in his
mind: “The other fellow has as much
to put up with as I do, and if he can
stand it, I can.”
Though the road may be as long
and as dreary
As the serpentine curves of the
Nile,
Yet the fellow who keeps on dig
ging
Will get there after a while.
Some
independence.” Affirmative,
Well, what then is wrong
thing surely is.
The soup-line on Sundays is almost
three feet long, including the chap
eron. The less popular girls stay on
the porch, and the more frightened
boys line up along the curbing, well
across the street. Where are the cou
ples? No “city notes” are seen. The
new students are either gloriously
green or amazingly well-versed in the
are of passing these missives! No
couples have broken any rules by
snatching” a moment of blissful
conversation on the campus. ’Tis an
amazing fact also that there are no
yearning looks passing from brown
eyes to blue, bespeaking a wish for
these said moments.
It has been said “ ’tis love that
makes the world go round.” If this
means Mars Hill’s special kind of
love, then this world isn’t going
'round very fast.
Castellow, Berie toCunty; Jamered
ley, Jr., Buncombe County. Newer:
Henry Brdiges, Wake County;! th
Meares, Columbus County. p
President, Eu., Bartlette Hien
Gaston County; Secretary, Phi.,I Sa
I.«onard, Tennessee. i^‘l
Special Music. pee
6:30 P. M. par
Complimentary Dinner. Sje 
tables provided for all returninj tV
dents, grouped by societies. l>sl
Dr. Zeno Wall, President oper
Alumni Association, Shelby, Ifini
presiding. [ H
7:00 P. M. leir
Reunion of Clio and Nonparej ai
erary Societies in their halls.
8:15 P. M. fts
Reunion of the Euthalian
Philomathian Literary Societii
their halls. Ilc
Marshals I (
Rex Brown, Ph., Chief, Mai"
I
May, Non
FOUNDERS DAY PROGRAM
IS ANNOUNCED
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gram on the afternoon of October
12th.
This program marks the beginning
of a new era between the Philomath
ian and Euthalian literary societies.
The joint anniversary progpram which
is to be held this time is ushering in
new ties of friendships more serene
and which we hope shall blossom into
forgetfulness of all the unfriendly ri
valry of the past into a glorious fu
ture of accomplishments together.
From all appearances a grrand and
glorious spirit will be permeating the
atmosphere as all assemble tog;ether
in the old Auditorium to open the
program by singing “Come Thou Al'
mighty King.”
The following program for the day
is announced:
10:00 A. M.
Hymn — “Come Thou Almighty
King.”
Invocation — Rev. E. B. Jenkins,
pastor First Baptist Church, Ruther
fordton, N. C.
Hymn—“All Hail the Power of Je
sus’ Name.”
Scripture Reading — Rev. P.
Stringfield, Mars Hill, N. C.
Prayer—Dr. O. E. Sams, President
Bluefield College, Bluefield, W, Va
Duet—“Love Divine”—Miss Pat
ton, J. K. Blackburn.
10:30 A. M.
Address—“The Student’s Contri
bution to the Greatness of a School,'
Rev. J. B. Eller, Pastor First Baptist
Church, Statesville, N. C.
Quartet with Baritone Obligato
"List! The Cherubic Host.”
11:15 A.M.
Address — “The Education of the
Soul,” Rev. J. Marcus Kester, PaS'
tor First Baptist Church, Wilming
ton, N. C.
BunCe (
;
Eu., Ric%ti
s
jIc
b
County.
Madeline
County.
W. F. McLester,
County.
Mildred Meares, Clio, South*
olina.
John Kirk, Phi., Montg^ch
County. ;h
Alice Beckwith, Non., Montg
County.
This anniversary, because it
joint program of the two men 4u
ties, promises to be one of th
attractions that will be offer^,
Mars Hill this year. All the old o-
and Eu’s will be invited back a \
training arena of their youth
they passed many happy and I t
ious hours together. When this las
ful day rolls around our campu^r
be filled with lawyers, doctors, ts-
ers, dentists, judges, bankers, cl
chants, farmers, and representiei
from all walks of life. al
From the facts shown above a
I
easily seen that we shall have>r
us many great men from all ovi 
nation. This day promises to b^(
living memory to all Mars Hill
us prepare to attend this pre^,
and meet these men of the pasl
IsnarA IsAlWArl ILT a XTsIIL
have helped to make Mars Hill j
it is today. —J. F. Haskl.,
Orchestra Begins Wr
for Current Y*
The orchestra of Mars Hill is^
ing splendid progress under tj^
rection and leadership of Miss 1 ’
stock. The orchestra is now
posed of Mrs. W. Wilkins, sol
linist; Ruth Davis, Helen Ti
Earnest Moore and Franklin
ins, first violins; Vernie Marti!
Mr. McConnell, second violins; ]
Brown, J. G. Womble, W. L. F(
X
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V
and Bill Logan, saxophones; JC
Freeman and Tom Dysard, clarJ
Rom Sparks, Henry Bridges, at
McDevitt, comets; Helen B|
flute; James Terry, drums; ant^
Rowland, accompanist
The organization practices '
Thursday night The orchestra J
the humns and the processoinf
the chapel exercises. Every m^
is working hard on the musid]
Founders’ Day.
The band is getting into fomi
the hope of being able to play i
first football game of the at
Miss Blackstock and J. G. W|
tin]
are supervising and instructii
band. This organization will be
from.
Cadet: “Look up, brown eye^
She: “No, if I do you’ll kiss
Cadet: “Honest, I won’t.” '
She: “Then wfaat’s the us of
ing \p?” —Exchan