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HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL. N. C.
THE HILLTOP
in the E>meTald Ring of the Hills, battle
!Vhat Every Student
Ought to Know ...
Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hill, N. C., as Second Class Matter,
February 20, 1926.
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association.
STAFF
W. C. CAPEL, JAMES CHERRY and
Editor H. E. YARBOURGH,
PEARLE JUSTICE, Athletic
Associate Editor r. t c;tfwat?T
DeFOREST HASTY, UJ STEWART,
Associate Editor
PEARLE JUSTICE, MOORE
Society
Alumni
A. B. PARKER
THOMAS L. DYSARD-.
FRANK DALE-
MANAGERIAL
..Business Manager
JAMES CHERRY.
Frank Dale
-Assistant Business Manager
, Circulation Manager
Exchange Manager
REPORTORIAL
Boyd Brown Ray Tolbert Sam Rich
VOL. IV.
MARS HILL, N. C., DEC. 19, 1929.
NO. 8
Student Alumni Association in the Making
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From the time the first student graduated from Mars Hill
College, there has been need for a strong and workable Alumni
Association. There has been too little said or done about such
an organization for Mars Hill. Nevertheless, the present classes
are making history in that direction. Under the leadership of
Professor Elliott a great stride has been made toward a strong
and efficient Alumni Association.
A chapel period last week was given the four classes in order
that each individual through his class might have a say in this
great work. Each class voted unanimously for the project. How.
ever, the work has only begun. Committees from each class with
Mr. Elliott will work out a plan for organizing the association
All hope the plan will be satisfactory and a practicable one.
No greater object has been the goal of the college. All mus.
carry on or the great work of the founders and supporters wil
go for naught. Mars Hill is just now ready for great and noble
work. The past is strewn with trials and tribulations and the
work weary and hard.
Shall we, her sons and daughters, sit idle and see her retract?
Can we not give ourselves as well as our money for support of
such a noble work? God forbid that we be idle; that this college
suffer because of our indifference! Let success backed by hare
work be our aim.
FORUM
To the Editor of the Hilltop:
Most of us students are look
ing to the time when we shall go
home for the Christmas holidays. It
is a joy to hear that we will get two
more days at home. To the ones who
are responsible we give thanks.
While we are at home, shall we
forget the Christian principles that
are so thoroughly taught here? Shall
we disappoint the on^s at home? We
must not forget that during these off
days that we are stiii responsible to
God for our actions. 1 ken let us make
tins Cnri&tmas a most joyful one.
Let us “say it” to our parents. We
shall have them for only too short a
time as it is. The spoken words are
best now, not flowers later. Our
friends too would like to hear us “say
it.” When Christmas has passed, let
each of us say that we have made
some one truly happy.
Let us tljoroughly rest in order
that we may come back with a grim
determination to make good. “To live
sincerely” should be our motto for
the days to come. Can we truthfully
say at the end of the semester that
we have done our best? If we “flunk”
a course, can we put the blame on the
teacher? Surely not! Then let us now
begin to live for the examination to
come here and hereafter. Let’s not
wait until New Year’s to make re
solutions; they are easily broken.
Only the determination to live every
• minute as if the next were the last
shall we succeed. There is much to
do with only a few harvesters. Shall
it be said of us that we have failed
to do our task? We must not fail;
we can’t. We won’t!
Yours for a greater and better
Christmas and a glorious time on New
Year’s.
—Boyd Brown.
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year
Advice for Girls
‘The chief purpose of an education
is to train the mind and the will to
do the work you have to do in the
world, when it ought to be done,
whether you like to do it or not.”
—Huxley.
How to do rapid reading. Learn to
do skip reading. Read phrases and
sentences, not words. In reading
sentences pay attention to the be
ginning and end. In reading para
graphs pay attention to the first and
last sentences in order to get the
topic and summary. In reading chap
ters, notice the first and last para
graphs.
Have a study schedule—let nothing
interfere with it.
Concentrate on a subject to the
point of absorption.
Underline the important sentences,
if you own the book.
Use the dictionary.
Keep your work up to date.
Keep a note-book for each course
in a businesslike way.
Always quote exactly.
Always take a note-book to class.
Learn how to use the library.
On going to a classroom take the
essential things—two sharpened pen
cils, fountain pen, paper, a watch that
will go, and a sense of humor.
Don’t worry.
—Earl H. Hillbrand.
1. Keep away from track men,
they are usually fast.
2. Ne’er make dates with biology
students, they enjoy cutting up too
much.
3. The football man is all right, he
will tackle anything.
4. You can trust a tank man, he
will diye in and do his best.
5. The tennis man is harmless, but
he enjoys a racket.
6. Watch out for the baseball man,
he hits and runs.
7. Be careful of the dramatic mem
ber, they usually have several good
lines.
8. Don’t play cards with a civil
engineer, he is a bridge specialist.
9. Always let the members of the
band talk about themselves, they en
joy blowing their own horns.
“Skull and Bones.”
To a Horse
O horse, you are a wondrous thing.
No horns to honk, no bells to ring;
No license to buy every year,
With plates to screw on front and
rear.
That the statue of liberty weigj *
hundred an’ fifty thousand^
(Akers thinks they should
her cut out sweets.)
That waterpower is a source
most unlimited wealth, esj
when the water is used
stock. (No more milk, Mr,
man.)
That McClees wants to knowH
has become of the girl who n
ugly as a mud fence.” (It is
ugly girls who have disapj
it’s the mud fences.)
That Graydon Jordon wants h
Dearborn. (Stay with us a
girls, Jordon, and imagine j
living in the age of Eve.)
That a bee dies when it stin| dl;
(And a friendship acts that wa;
Things I Never Knew
Till Now ...
No spark to miss, no gears to strip;
You start yourself, no clutch to
slip;
No gas bills mounting every day to
steal the joy of life away.
Your inner tubes are all O. K.
And thank the Lord, they stay that
way.
Your sparkplugs never miss or fuss;
Your motor never makes a cuss.
Your frame is good for many a
mile;
Your body never changes style.
Your wants are few and easily met.
You’ve something on the auto yet.
The same old greeting, the
same good wishes, but they carry
with them a wealth of meaning.
The holidays are upon us now,
friends are scattering to their
homes, are eager to see home
and loved ones again. As they
leave and as you part, just send
the old message of good cheer
with them. Let them know that
you will think of them and that
your good wishes will go with
them.
When we return January 2 we
will have been away two weeks.
It is the happiest time of the
year and everyone should enjoy
it to the utmost and return again
after the holidays with renewed
determination to make good.
W. C.
“My good man, I hear there’s quite
a bit of drinking in this neighbor
hood.”
“There ish, lady; there ish.”
“Have you personally witnessed
any of it?”
“Witnessed any of it? Why, lady,
I myself just finished drinking two
quarts of gin.”
“Well, a man like you ought to be
shot!”
“I am, lady, I am.”
—Cornell Widow.
That a “drag” may be a dance, a girl,
or a puff on a cigarette;
That Claude Royal can sing Christ
mas carols (but, let us hope not
again.)
That Mr. Lee goes to Asheville on
Thursday evening. (Boys, beware!)
That co-eds are so beautiful an’ yet
DUMB. (Beautiful to make men
fall in love with them, an’ dumb to
make them fall in love with the
men.)
That Sir Walter Raleigh discovered
America. (Talks Before Chapel,
Ulysses Dale, vol. XIII, p. 631.)
That “Bill” Cai>el’s Ford can actual
ly and truly go (but down hill
only.)
That “humhuhumunkununukauaaku-
anaa” is good to eat. (Now, Miss
Pierce.)
That if Moses’d seen Belle Howell
there would be ’nother command
ment.
That “Cueball” Suttle would leave
his Lucky for a Sweet.
I That it is “Crip’s” off day again. (He
has walked off with someone’s hat.)
That the A. M. after Professor Carr’s
name does not always stand for
“absent-minded.”
That people other than “Bill” Middle-
ton wear both belt and suspenders.
That there is no Santa Claus.
That Hoh Juredine wears a long mus-
tache so that when he is home his
wife can’t tell who is talking.
That two can live as cheaply as one
(but not as pleasantly.)
That a few razors have gone bad.
(Look at the boys!)
That there were no co-eds in the day
of Webster. (His dictionary says
that dumb can’t talk.)
That no girl ever made a fool outa
Butler. (But who was it, then?)
That Stewart gets up and writes
verses when he finds he can’t sleep.
(Insomnia is a terrible thing.)
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morning at six-thirty sharp, much to
the discomfort of several young men
who aren’t anxious to get home so
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“I find letters from God dropped in
the street, and everyone is signed by
God’s name,
And I leave them where they are,
for I know that wheresoe’er I go.
Others will punctually come forever
and ever.” —Walt Whitman.
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“Blessed are the joymakers.”
We wonder if ... .
Camnitz has a place to sleep, and
if so, why he begs of everybody else.
Bill CapeTs and Crip Yarborough’s
“Chariot” runs.
Everybody’ll take the mumps for
Christmas.
Epitaph: Here Lies an Atheist; All
Dressed Up and No Place to Go.
—Loyola U.
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Yon glorious orb ascending in the
heavens
Tonight conjures me from my tem
poral abode
To have tryst with vagrant solitude;
While others delve with unrespon
sive books,
I quest for spirit-forms intangible:
The heart-beat and the life, where
of such things
As books and men are but the sound
ing shell.
The spirit that indwells this mortal
form
Beats like a caged bird that hears its
mate
Call from the freedom of the in
finite.
Where truth unlocks with beauty’s
master key
The mystery of the veiled eternities.
Arise, 0 soul! for beautys at the door
And waits to lead thee forth to sup
with God.
—D. L. S.
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