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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS H1LL.N. C.
THE HILLTOP
Qem in the Enter aid Ring of the Hills.—battle
Entered at the Postoffice, Mars Hill, N. C., as Second Class Matter,
February 20, 1926.
Member North Carolina Collegiate Press Association.
W. C. CAPEL,
STAFF
• JAMES CHERRY and
H. E. YARBOURGH,
Athletic
D. L. STEWART,
Poetry
MACK MOORE,
Alumm
MANAGERIAL
A. B. PARKER-
-Business Manager
THOMAS L. DYSARD.
FRANK DALE
JAMES CHERRY..
Frank Dale
-Assistant Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Exchange Manager
REPORTORIAL
Boyd Brown Ray Tolbert Sam Rich
VOL. IV.
MARS HILL, N. C. MAY 3d, 1930.
No. 14
COMMENCEMENT
Only a few days yet remain before the trying time of com
mencement, with its contests, its diplomas, its tears, and its joys,
will be with us. Those few days are ours to work hard in and
to make this year end with a fulfilling of all that we hoped it
would be when we began back in September. The days have
fairy wings and are taking their places in the halls of time
with a speed that is remarkable.
With commencement comes the contests that are always a
feature. These contests, it is to be hoped, will be as friendly and
as clean as they have always been. If they deteriorate in any
thing else they will cease to be an addition to commencement and
will become a blot. It is for the societies to hold the record clear
and to make this year one that will be characterized by good
clean sportsmanship in every detail.
responsibility and an idea of government; second, it would take
many disagreeable duties from the faculty; and third, the ex
istence of an honor system at Mars Hill would in itself be of
great benefit to the school as a means of advertising its high
moral and social standards to prospective patrons.
Let us all think toward this end — an efficient, powerful
honor court for our school. But let us have it efficient or not
at all, for a thing half done were better not done at all.
—A. B. P.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Many students seem to be paying their loyalty to the school
in registering in the Alumni book that is in the Hilltop office.
Approximately 175 have already registered. It is hoped that
everyone will avail himself of the opportunity before the close
of school. We are especially appealing to the Senior Class.
Many members will perhaps go on to higher institutions of
learning. Even with this situation confronting the members
of the class, it is not a disadvantage. Each boy and girl has
the privilege to start paying his or her fee when it is most con
venient. We all know that everything great and permanent is
purchased with sacrifice and painstaking. If we appreciate an
education and what Mars Hill has done for us, not one will
leave this school without first paying llis best wishes to it, by
becoming a member of the Alumni Association. The success or
failure of this organization lies wholly within the powers of
every registered man and woman of this institution. With this
fact in mind, are you going to let the influence of Mars Hill
College fade or, on the other hand, cause it to be a perpetual
force in the lives of our future comrades?
GIRLS vs. BOYS
At the beginning of the semester when we register, all stu
dents must pay a fee, a part of which goes for athletics. The
girls must pay exactly the same amount as the boys, but, as it is,
it is spent for the boys’ athletics. What good do the girls get
from the fund? None! The boys have their football, basket
ball, baseball, and almost every other kind of suit furnished,
and the school keeps them. Why can’t the school do a little
something for the girls, too? Our part of the fund could go
for May Day.
If it is costing too much for the various and “sun-dried’’
entertainments the department is trying to offer, why not quit
boys’ athletics just as the girls’ have been done? The girls are
willing to pay for their own fun; therefore, the boys have no
kick coming.
The boys seem to get whatever they want. They have stu
dent government, have hardly any rules, have access to the ath
letic fund and almost everything. But the girls must sit back
and listen and do exactly as they are told.
If the boys don’t like May Day they don’t have to come to
see it. What about the girls who don’t like athletics? My opin
ion is that there is too much custom. It is customary for col
leges to have football games, and since it is customai'y, we have
them here. It is also customary to have May Day in other col
leges; therefore why can’t we continue having it? Or, if we
can’t have May Day, then let’s quit all athletics and disregard
custom altogether. Be yourself and don’t let convention influ
ence you.
I for one think exactly the same as the majority of the other
girls, and that is that there are too many inconsistencies on this
campus; not only with large groups but even with individuals.
Of course, we are not saying cut all of these things, but why
not let them be as they have been, including May Day, since this
is the only thing the girls can call distinctly their own?
—One who would like to see May Day continued.
WHAT OTHER, I
DO AND SAY
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The boys last week offered their nominations to the faculty
for the council which is to govern them next year. At the meet
ing quite a bit of controversy arose over whether the seniors
should be allowed to nominate and vote for the candidates. The
discussion was put in the form of a motion and the seniors were
ruled out.
We believe always that the governed should be responsible
for their governors. The seniors had a great deal of influence,
and were to a large degree responsible for the present council;
in fact, the council was composed entirely of seniors. Yet, in
all fairness to the council, we cannot but say that the council
the past year, taken as a whole, was almost a complete failure.
They produced few tangible results. A group acting as a repre
sentative of a certain body should represent them; they should
be of the highest type of young manhood; they should never be
tray the trust that those responsible for their position has put
in them. There is doubt as to whether the retiring council lived
up to the expectation of those governed.
If the boys are to be governed by such a body next year, let’s
try to make the organization a real success by choosing care
fully our representatives. To each of you who are elected —
be a man, and keep forever before you a single aspiration: to
continue to make Mars Hill College a place noted for its fairness
and high ideals. j. n. J.
AN HONOR SYSTEM FOR MARS HILL
Mars Hill has one very apparent need — a need which nei
ther faculty nor administration can fill — a need which should
be filled, if at all, by the student body itself. This need is for
an honor system, a well-organized system of honor among the
students with an efficient honor court whose members are chosen
by the students with intelligent regard to their moral character
and efficiency, with a president who is capable, honorable, and
impartial; and behind it all the hearty support of student body,
faculty, and administration. An honor system with an efficient
court and a capable personnel can do nothing for the good of
the school or students unless it has power to administer the
necessary punishment for misdemeanors of all kinds.
A good honor system would help Mars Hill in many ways.
First and foremost, it would develop among the students self-
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I would refer you and your read- contests. The uniforms were finally
ers to the editorial appearing in the
last edition of your paper entitled,
“Junior-Senior vs. May Day.” I
cannot, in fairness to all concerned,
keep from rendering my personal
v.ews on said editorial.
It seems as if the idea of economy
has so taken hold of the students,
and the majority of the faculty mem
bers, that if such desires are continu
ed it will in the last analysis prove
detrimental to the institution and to
the cause which the economy pro
gram is supposed to serve.
I believe that the students are not
expressing their opinions because
they fear that it will not be accepted
by the authorities who are respon
sible for the launching of such a pro
gram. I personally do not hesitate to
take this opportunity to try to give,
according to my way of thinking, a
correct interpretation of the position
in which those responsible for May
Day find themselves (a thing that the
writer of the above mentioned edi
torial failed to do.)
It was hinted in the editorial al
ready mentioned that the girls were
spending too much money for the
preparation of May Day.
The writer of that article failed to
comprehend the position that the
girls and their director are in. The
May Day program is supposed to be
a final exhibition of the things ac
complished in the physical education
department under the personal direc
tion of their instructor. It is a signal
honor to all of those taking part be
cause they deserve soma recognition
of the work they have accomplished
in that particular dpartment. Every
thing that is worth while in life has
to be paid for, and the author of that
editorial cannot contend that May
Day is not a worthy, as well as a
beneficial, undertaking. If the girls
who are taking part in that program
are willing to pay their own money
in order to bring this beautiful pro
gram to us and to the institution,
why should those who are in no way
connected, and not directly affected,
take such pains to endeavor to throw
“a monkey wrench” into the machi
nery that was, up until the present
time, running so smoothly, and from
all appearances needed no oiling from
any foreign party?
It is known by all that the girls are
secured. Now just why should such
pains he taken to count up the costs|
of the May Day program, when there
is g.ven to the boys athletic depart
ment some $2,000 for expenses of
that department? The girls have not
thi.s oportunity, nor this appropria
tion. Yet, we bother to wonder just
why they should pay $300.00 for the
one big program of the year in which
they have every right to participate?
The action of the Junior class to
ward the endowment fund and the
Junior-Senior banquet was given to
W'e notice that Wings hii
College has hud a lO-instrU) o
for the last spring. It seeis nd
group of musicians have -ei;
much success in their orgsi icc
Why couldn’t Mars HI ou
contrast the two different types of band also to play at the
entertainment. This writer is wholly
unable to grasp the force of the com
parison. The action of the Junior
class was taken of their own free
will and accord with the advice of
their sponsors.
If there is anything to offer those
taking part in the May Day festivi
ties, it is only fair to them to give
them our whole-hearted support and
encouragement, rather than try to
destroy the ideals of such a group,
because there is a justification in
their undertaking that should be re
cognized by each and every student,
and each and every faculty member.
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