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THE HILLTOP
Published Bi-Weekly By The Students of Mars HUl College
WELCOME
BASKETEERS
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mars hill, north CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 16, 1933
No. 9
TOURNAMENT IS LAUNCHED TODAY
S DONATE ROOM DEPOSITS
■dTO LIBRARY EXTENSION FUND
nes
y Pledges $2,000 While
Of Trustees Is Asked
^^500.00; Pledge Fund
^^^mounts To $1,500
NEEDED FOR WORK
V.
an.
nk/s Plan To Add Heating
teni If An Additional
! $1,000 Is Raised
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faculty, patrons, trustees,
,nd friends of Mars Hill are
stically supporting the Mon-
(ibrary Extension fund, ac-
to a recent report from offi-
sntire group of C-1 girls have
jthe petition to donate their
room deposits to the fund,
y |5 of the C-1 boys have signed
|ulty members have pledged
and the Board of Trustees
sn asked for $600.00, friends
[00.00, the centennial pledge
l*ei/^bunts to $1,600.00. Members
A-4 class and C-2 class are
“"^porting the fund.
Is been stated that $3,000 will
U(ued to complete the library un
it that if an additional $1,000
**ud a basement will be dug to
pfiodate a heating system.
-j library, according to a report,
I what it should be in order to
j dit to the college. It is neces-
lat it be enlarged in order that
lill may remain in the Southern
ence of Junior Colleges,
student body of Mars Hill is
If ntly growing, consequently the
'd for more books and reading
accommodations is prevalent.
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C-/ Class Largest
The members of the Hilltop staff
for the C-I edition have attempted
to make this issue representative
of the 1932-33 C-I class, number
ing 270 students, which is the larg
est in the history of the college.
Of the 270 members of the class,
there are 86 girls and 184 boys
m
The C-I class of ’33 outnumbers
the 1932 class by 15 students and
the 1931 class by 24 students,
these classes having been the larg
est recorded during their respec
tive years.
The officers of the class are:
president, Millicent Young; vice
president, Lionel Flack; and sec
retary-treasurer, Bill Martin.
DEBATERS HIT A
HEAVY SCHEDULE
To Meet Bluefield College Here
On Friday, February 24,
In Double-Header
The Mai'S Hill forensic representa
tives will meet the Bluefield College
speakers here Friday, February 24,
when both boys and girls will par
ticipate in debates to be held, one in
the afternoon and the other on the
same evening.
The debaters will debate against
Virginia Interment here Tuesday,
February 28, in a double-header to
PARKER ELECTED HEAD
OF EUTHALIAN SOCIETY
FOR NINE WEEKS’ TERM
New President Succeeds John
McGehee; L. C. Chiles
Is Vice-President
HARRIS NEW SECRETARY
. , , , occupy both the afternoon and even-
g|ent plans are to the effect that '
|nex be of the same size and ' „
ire, perpendicular to the east
teams here Thursday, March 2, for
competition in the State Junior Col
lege Triangle debate.
Mars Hill will send debaters to Vir
ginia Interment, Bristol, Va., March
the present building. Later it
d that another wing of iden-
and size can be added,
ill involve the removing of the
)uilding, but a new auditorium
built in its stead to afford i ^ ^ debating tournament.
room for all the fine arts.
J ^nnex will be used as a read-
/n while the main portion will
■the office, portraits, curios,
es, and possibly fiction,
ddition of the library, which
nt plans are followed, will be
tring the summer months, will
ps the most valuable asset of
ge. Colleges are often judged
size and quality of their li-
school officials say.
the present library is found
adequate in that it does not
fficient space and that there
l enough copies of certain
^^0 satisfy the demands or even
rtain books are not included,
^^{uldition will increase the vol-
Ipacity by 4,000 and make it
- to seat more than ten per
the student body.
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Debaters will also be sent to Salis
bury, N. C., for the Tri-State Tourn
ament to be held on March 9, 10, 11,
and two teams, a boys’ team and a
girls’ team, will go to Bluefield Col
lege on March 17 for debate partici
pation.
The climax of the season will re
sult when delegates will be sent to
the meeting of the Southeastern
Teachers of Speech at Berea College,
Berea, Ky., where Mars Hill delegates
will meet with representatives from
state colleges, universities, and other
junior colleges from Southea.stem
United States.
Girls representing Mars Hill in
these various debates will include:
Misses Mareta Huggins and Thelma
Price, Roberta Nestor, and Kate Hus-
kins, Evelyn Morgan and Joyce Well-
(Continued on page 2)
Fred Parker, of Sylva, a member
of the C-11 class, who has taken an
active part in several of the organi
zations on the campus, was chosen
Friday night, February 10, as presi
dent of the Euthalian Literary So
ciety, to serve in that capacity for
the regular term of nine weeks.
He succeeds John McGehee, who
for the past society term has led the
society in a commendable manner.
L. C. Chiles was chosen as vice-
president; Marvin Harris, secretary;
and Jack Bost, censor.
Other officers elected were: chap
lain, George Harris; chorister, Carl
Lanford; corresponding secretary,
John Bailey; debate critic, Woodrow
Jones; expression critic, Paul Berry;
English critic, Vance Hardin; collec
tor, Ralph Cole; librarian, Thomas
Sinclair; timekeeper, William Boden-
heimer; sergeant-at-arms, John Mc
Gehee; janitor, Charles Waters; re
porter, Nas Bailey.
The election was preceded by a
program of several interesting im
promptu numbers, one of which was
a debate in which an affirmative side
fought valiantly to convince three
judges that Mars Hill College .should
adopt a compulsory dating system.
The opinion of the judges gave the
decision to the negative debaters. De
bating on the winning side were
Alexis Vinokuroff and Jasper Tea
gue. Upholding the query were
Henry Parker and William Boden-
heimer.
SIXTEEN HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS
ARRIVE FOR ANNUAL CONTEST
C^I Hilltop Staff
Editor-in-Chief Mark T. Orr
Assistant Editors—
Evelyn Morgan Vance Hardin
Society Editor Ed Bunker
Faculty Adviser—John A. McLeod
State Editor Kenneth Stoner
Religious Editor Daniel Johnson
Sports Editors—
John Corbitt Billy Wright
Alumni Editor....Frances Burnett
Poetry Editor Frank Hunt
Intercollegiate Editor- Bill Martin
Asst. Business Manager
Wyatt Exum
Circulation Manager, Frank Powell
Reporters: Jessie Hilliard, Susan
Stroupe, Lillian Whitehearst,
Abraham Simmons,.
Contributors: Alma Reid, L. T.
Hamrick, Jr., Arthur J. Mc-
Ginty, Conrad Gentry, J M.
Purser, and Ray Lawrence.
Play Begins This Afternoon At
One O’clock; Games To Con
tinue Through Saturday;
Finals Saturday Night
RALPH JAMES IN CHARGE
Glenwood High Cagers Won
Tournament Champion
ship Last Season
CARR WRITES OF
STUDENT SURVEY
Mars Hill Graduates In Senior
Colleges Answer Nine
Vital Questions
Choice Of A Vocation
Is Dr. Bevan’s Topic
Students And Faculty Hear
Famous Speaker In
College Church
iLEGif MAN MUST ENTER
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c.
! L/ie average college man says:
At interested in politics. I don’t
me for such foolishness, or
is too rotten for me.”
nk the average college man
|the sentiment of the clergy-
d business man, for they too
^ :t the ranks of politics. So to-
f itics is dominated by the im-
corrupt politicians who in
ases are shyster lawyers,
jollege man is better prepared
ge in politics than the average
, He reads and studies the con-
of our land. He is not only
//;d, but well-bred, in many in-
y man under the sun knows
POLITICS HAMRICK SAYS
how to economize it is the college
man. If not before now the college
man today has learned to exercise
the strictest economy. Doesn’t our
nation need leaders today who are
capable of economizing? So many of
our men in politics have never exer
cised economy; therefore, we are to
day suffering the consequence.
The college man should be inter
ested is politics, for the simple reason
that he has a better foundation upon
which to build a political career. In
college one becomes familiar with
the studies that are necessary in poli
tics. The man who is studying eco
nomics, government, history, and ^o-
(Continued on page 2)
Dr. Bevan, president of Colgate-
Rochester Theological Seminary lo
cated at Rochester, N. Y., spoke be
fore a number of college students
and faculty members here in the
church auditorium, Sunday after
noon, February 6.
Dr. Bevan is one of the outstanding
leaders of the Northern Baptist
Church and is an old and honored
friend of Dr. 0. E. Sams, vice-
president of the college. In introduc
ing his speech Dr. Bevan mentioned
that during the past few years he has
met .several Mars Hill men and that
in every instance he has found them
of outstanding calibre.
He spoke on “The Choice of a Va
cation; or Your Life’s Work,” pre
senting the message very clearly ac
cording to three definitely outlined
(Continued on page 3)
In the Junior College Journal for
February, 1933, there appeared an
article by Dean I. N. Carr is which he
explained the results of a Graduate
Survey including nine vital questions
given one hundred and fifty graduates
of Mars Hill who continued their
work in senior colleges.
In the article Mr. Carr summarized
the answers to the questions which
were answered by one hundred and
thirty-eight of the solicited one hun
dred and fifty.
Four of the most interesting ques
tions follow:
1. Did you have difficulty in
being admitted to senior college?
Explain.
2. Did you have greater diffi
culty than non-junior college
students with any courses? Why?
3. Do you find instructors
generally friendly toward good
junior colleges?
4. If you had it to do over
would you attend Mars Hill for
the first two years of college
work ?
One hundred and thirteen answers
to the first question were to the effect
that senior college faculties show no
preference.
P’ive students .said they had diffi
culty in registration, according to Mr.
Carr’s article, while four said they
found the work more difficult than
did the four-year college students.
Inv'estigation showed that three of
these four were not recommended for
senior college work, while the fourth
(Continued on page 3)
The eighth annual Mars Hill - Wes
tern North Carolina High School
Basketball Tournament will open
here this afternoon continuing
through Saturday night, in what is
expected to be one of the most hotly
contested tourneys ever staged here,
according to Coach Roberts.
The sixteen teams that will com
pete for the tournament champion
ship include ten county champion
quints, seven teams that have played
here in as many as six tourneys and
four teams that have never been rep
resented here before.
The teams scrambling for honors
here are: Glenwood, 1932 Tourna
ment Champions; Edneyville, run
ners-up last year and former winners;
V/est Buncombe (Buncombe), Bak-
ersville (Mitchell), Marshall (Madi
son), Fines Creek (Haywood), Ros-
man (Transylvania), Valley Hill
(Henderson), Sylva (Jackson), Tip-
ton Hill (Mitchell), Catawba (Ca
tawba), Barnardsville (Buncombe),
Bald Creek (Yancey), and Red Oak
(Buncombe), Grace (Buncombe),
and Mars Hill (Madison).
Play will begin here this afternoon
at one o’clock lasting through the
night until the first round pairings
are run off. The quarter finals will be
played off Friday morning while the
semi-finals struggle will be settled
Friday night. The finalists will clash
Saturday night for the tournament
championship.
There will be no favorites this
year. Glenwood and Edneyville, the
choices last year, will be represented
by entirely new blood and the entry
of several new teams will make the
issue still more doubtful.
Any team that wins the tourney
three times will get permanent pos
session of the trophy, and Sylva, who
boasts a strong quintet, will be the
only team in the tourney which
might turn the trick, due to the fact
that they have already come out on
top twice. Leicester, the only other
team to win twice, will not be repre
sented this year.
The tourney has drawn wide notice
each year and has been promoted by
the Associated Press as one of the
leading high school tourneys in the
South. In the past eight years the
contest has drawn more than ten
thousand people.
The teams, as long as they stay in
the running, will be furnished room
(Continued on page 2)
INDEX
1. Annual High School Tourney
Page one
2. C-I’s Star for Lions Page 3
3. Swimming Page 4
4. Roper Boys Rescue Girl Page 1
5. Parker Elected Eu Head Page 1
6. Dudley Rabb Leads “M”
Club Page .3
7. What Is It? Page 4
8. Squints at Sports Situation
: 1 Page 3
9. Library Extension Fund Page 1
10 Campus Artists Page 4
ROPER BOYS RESCUE GIRL
EROM DEEP, WATERY GRAVE
“Help! Help!” It was the cry of a
young maiden in distress. But before
we go any further we should intro
duce the characters of this story.
Tom, Dick, and Harry" Roper were
orphans, their father and mother hav
ing died seven years before they were
born. They lived with their cruel and
parsimonious old uncle, who saw to
it that his youthful proteges got not
pleasure out of life. They were all in
love with Mary Nestle, who was
equally in love w’ith all three, but
cordially detested Nick Baxter, who
is the villain of this story. All these
young people were attending college
at Cohunkas, a large western uni
versity.
The cries came from the lake on
the campus, and upon hearing them
our three young heroes rushed down
to the shore. There a pitiable sight
met their eyes; Mary was just sink
ing for the fifth time, and in another
minute or so would surely have
drowned. Just as Tom, who reached
the lake first, started to leap into the
water he heard a rumbling sneer. He
hastily looked around, and to his con
sternation saw Nick, who was shed
ding his clothes rapidly.
“Don’t you come in heah!” scream
ed Mary upon seeing the latter. “I’d
rather drown than have you save me.”
(Continued on page 2)