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THE HILLTOP
Published Bi-Weekly By The Students of Mars Hill College
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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 12, 1933
No. 10
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tlATHlANS CHOOSE
s JUSTICE TO LEAD
3JP IN SPRING TERM
.yVilkins Elected Vice-
^ent; Dry Side Wins
le’ohibition Debate
^CONTESTS PLANNED
I meeting of the Philomathian
n society here Friday night,
'ice, of Black Mountain, was
3 head the organization
njts spring term. He succeed
ed Lowrance, of Charlotte.
Officers Elected
vvjofficers elected were as fol-
tbice-president, John Wilkins,
pljersonville; recording secre-
_Jley Rabb, of Lenoir; corres-
secretary, John Champion,
Carolina; and censor, C. B.
; Florida.
od Todd was elected fines
; Marler Tuttle, dues col-
,iaplain, David Bray; English
arry Ward; expression critic.
Bunker; marshalls. Bill Mar-
I Calvin Connor; choirister,
Fisher; pianist, John Wash-
■ ibrarian, Thomas Merrill;
reporter, Abraham L. Sim-
3id janitor, John Thomas.
',»ciety Contests Planned
^ew officers will serve for a
j nine weeks, being replaced
iie in May by the officers that
.ry over into next year. Sev-
portant contests are on the
I schedule for the ensuing
4office with the oratorical, and
^contests, both for high school
^ior college, slated to take
•
*^iteresting program preceding
tion of officers. H. H. Allen
1 the program with a well got-
‘^>ration on “The Confederate
r
itive Wins Repeal Debate
came the debate on the
Q‘Resolved; That, the Eigh-
j|.mendment should be repealed
qt immediate future.” Clyde
N;i and Freeman Wright set
e argunients for the affirma-
-Jiile John McLean and Billy
Argued the cause of the nega-
3 debate became warmer as it
-Jer and before the rebuttals
*R2r, each side had gotten pret-
nder the collar. The decision
Continued on page 3)
Senior Superlatives
Are Selected
The Senior superlatives were
picked at a meeting of the C-II
class here last Tuesday with the
following results:
Best all-around boy—John Wilkins
Best all-around girl—Lily Bennett
Most intellectual boy—Falk John
son
Most intellectual girl — Linda
Haynes
Most beautiful girl—Sue Stewart
Moore
Best looking boy—Bomar Low-
'ance
Most conceited—Dick England
Friendliest—-John McGehee
Campus flirt—Pearl Ownby
Campus shiek—W. D. De Brule
Best dressed boy—Pig Holland
Best dressed girl—Pearl Ownby
Laziest boy—Fh’ank Watson
Laziest girl—Emma Van Sant
Biggest “cobb”—^Mildred Moore
Biggest “four-flusher”—W. D. .De-
Brule
Most athletic boy—Walt Rabb
Most athletic girl—Agnes Stack
Dumbest boy—Johnny Reece
Dumbest girl—Pauline Wall
Biggest woman hater—Alexis Vin-
okuroff
Biggest man hater—Agnes Stack
Campus clown—^Carol “Stud”
Posey
Biggest eater—Dud Rabb (with
Emmy Van Sant a close second.)
DEAN CARR IS REELECTED
HEAD OF SOUTHEASTERN
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
Group Admits Three New Mem
bers; Middle Georgia State
Teachers, South Georgia State
Teachers, and Pikeville
DIPLOMAS TO BE AWARDED TO
141 SENIORS AT COMMENCEMENT
NEWPORT CHOSEN AS SITE
Dues Slashed; State Units To
Be Formed
C-II PRESIDENT
DRAMATIC CLUB
SELECTS OFFICERS
Casts Picked For Plays To Be
Given At Chapel Hill
Ity Member To
publish Book Soon
. N. Johnson Completes
cal Christianity/* Deal-
^Vith Religion And The
s Depression
ralt N. Johnson, professor of
■^^conomics in Mars Hill Col-
,.3 completed a book tenatively
* “Radical Christianity,” which
oably be published this spring,
took aims to show that Chris-
as now treated is a state of
vhereas it should be treated
^wer for changing the existing
I affairs. A chapter devoted to
f^oyment and its rellition to
^nity sets fox’th the idea that
^yment is the pivot upon which
Revolution or revival will be
ied. Dr. Johnson conceives a
I i Christianity as the key to the
and to future economic
lohnson is the author of a num-
Qbooks and editor of the “Next
a periodical circulating among
“iisters of the Southern Baptist
lion. “Stewardship Vitalized,”
’—Dominate or Permeate,” and
Readjustments in Southern
^ Life” are his most recent,
pooks, particularly “Steward-
:alized,” have occasioned wide
on in the South.
The officers of the Dramatic Club
for the spring term are as follows:
president, Ruamie Squires; vice-presi
dent, Reed Wood; secretary. Pearl
Owmby; treasurer, Doris Gibbs; re
porter, Sue, Stuart Moore; program
committee, Elizabeth Shipman, Sara
Corpening, and Margaret Owen.
To Present “Pygmalion And Galatea
The Dramatic Club will present
publicly, “Pygmalion and Galatea,” a
mythological comedy in three acts,
on Saturday night, March 18.
Casts Chosen For Contest Plays
Casts have been chosen for
“Hearts Enduring,” a one-act play by
John Erskine, and “Shimmering
Steel,” an original play by Mildred
Moore, which was accepted by the
Carolina Dramatic . Association at
Chapel Hill. These plays are to be
taken to Carolina to be presented on
April 31.
College Receives
Endowment Gift
Dean I. N. Carr, of Mars Hill col
lege, was reelected president of the
Southeastern Junior College Athletic
Association at the meeting of the
officers and coaches of the confer
ence here during the annual tourna
ment. Other officers elected were: V.
L. Phillips, president oL Shenandoah
college, at Dayton, Va., vice-presi
dent; while J. S. Kendall, of Weaver,
was reelected secretary-treasurer.
During the meeting three new
teams were admitted to the associa
tion running the total number of
schools to fifteen. The new teams
are: Middle Georgia State Teachers’
college, the tourney winners; Pike
ville, at Pikeville, Ky.; and South
Georgia State Teachers.
To Foster State Units
An important step taking by the
a.ssociation was to permit any state
that has as many as six schools in the
association to form a state unit of
the organization with the privilege of
holding tourneys to determine state
winners,- with the trophies being furn
ished by the mother group. As a re
sult of this action, six more teams
are expected to come in from North
Carolina to round out a state group in
that state. Weaver and Mars Hill
(Continued on page 6)
W
R. Chambers, Marion At
torney Scheduled For
Aiumni Address
ORATION CONTEST, MAY 20
Programs To Follow Accus
tomed Schedule
Mr. John Wilkins, the president of
the Senior class, was chosen “best
all-around boy” in the recent
Senior Superlatives contest held here.
Mr. Wilkins makes his home in Hen
dersonville and is very prominent in
campus activities.
DEBATERS WIN
NINE; LOSE FIVE
Negative Accounts For Six Of
Wins; Coaches Pleased With
Affirmative Showing
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Nine victories and five losses is the
record of the debate team to date
according to Professor J. B. Huff.
Of that number the girls’ team have
won five and the boys have won three
Plans for graduation this spring
are getting well under way, accord
ing to a statement issued by Presi
dent R. L. Moore, with a total of 141
seniors expected to get their sheep
skins either at commencement or in
summer school.
Chambers To Speak
Although plans are not definitely
formulated the graduation schedule
is expected to follow closely to those
of previous year. One change, how
ever, will find the alumni speaker
coming during one of the nights of
the Commencement program instead
of on the final morning. Mr. W. R.
Chambers, an attorney of Marion, is
slated for the alumni address this
year.
Declamation Meet On May 13
The first Commencement contest
between the literary societies is the
annual declamation contest which is
docketed for Saturday night, May 13.
On the following Saturday night the
oratorical contest will take place. The
reader’s, essay, and debates contests
have not been definitely dated, but
will come off during the last week,
probably in the afternoons. None of
the outcomes of the clashes will be
revealed at the close of the contests,
but will be kept a secret until ICom-
nienccment morning when President
W.N.G. To Be Featured
By 1933 Catalogues
3,000 New Bulletins To Come
Off Press This Week
with a mixed team accounting for the
other victory. The girls have partici- Moore will announce the winners from
pated in ten debates. Negative teams the stage.
have scored six of the nine victories. Those who hope to get diplomas
Defeat Weaver and Boiling Springs are:
In the preliminary junior college Luther Atkinson, Nas Bailey, Lillie
tournament here. Mars Hill boys won Bennett, Paul Berry, Elizabeth Blan-
a place in the finals held at Sails-1 ton, William Bodenheimer, Rose
j Mars Hill patrons will be interested
I to know that there is a great demand
for new Mars Hill College catalogues.
This week three thousand are expect
ed from the Biltmore Press in Ashe
ville. The new catalogue features for
the first time Western North Caro
lina. The revex’se side of the frontis
piece is a pictorial map (drawn by
Miss Bowden,) showing Mars Hill in
relation to points of interest in this
section of the state. There is also a
full page picture of Mt. Mitchell and
its surroundings. The catalogue is a
ninety-six page book, and once again
the cover is blue.
bury, N. C., March 10-11, by defeat
ing the Boiling Springs negative and
the Weaver affirmative. C. B. Jones
and W. Jones comprised the affirma-
Bradford, Minnie C. Brooks, Roy
Bryant, Ossie Bullard, Fred Byrd,
Ruth Cates, J. W. Champion, Lucile
Champion, Nora Champion, Jane
tive team while J. McGehee and F. Chandler, Arthur Childs, Francis
Johnson made up the negative.
Affirmative Makes Good Start
Coachman, Louise Coates, Ralph Cole.
Elizabeth Cole, 'Clara Colvard,
Affirmative victories throughout Sarah Corpening Julia Cox Joseph
Mrs. M. C. Treat Adds To
String Of Contributions
With $2,000 Check
Monday, February 27, 1933 will be
recorded as a prosperous day for
Mars Hill College. At a time when
institutions are having to struggle for
lack of funds, and all the banks of the
nation are restrained by moratoriums,
it is a favorable wind that brings
from the Pacific coast a check for
$2000 to add to the present endow
ment fund.
The gift was the gracious benefac
tion of Mrs. Treat, wife of the late
M. C. Treat, who herself has given
more that $25,000 to the endowment
fund of the college. Mr. Treat, also,
has donated generously for loan funds
and buildings. Besides a jxerpetual
loan fund established in 1905 and
added to in 1923, he made possible by
his gifts both Melrose and Treat dor
mitories.
Mr. and Mrs. Treat have for thirty
years been the most liberal contrib
utors to the institution.
intercollegiate competition have been
rare, according to Mr. Huff. The three
wins made by the teams are very
pleasing, he implied. The members
debating this side of the question are
Jones and Jones, Johnson and Mc
Gehee for the boys, while Wellborn
and Morgan uphold the query for the
girls.
APOLOGY
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We, the Senior staff, being re
sponsible for this paper wish to
state that the purpose of this issue
is neither to play up the best nor
the worst of the class, but rather
to give a representative array of
the talents of the constituency of
our group. What you will rqad in
these pages is representative of the
class as a whole. Most of us have
been here two years, while many
of our number have been under
the learned eaves here as many as
three annums; so we deem our lit
erary expressions as a reflection on
our training here. As someone put
it, “All that we are and all that
we have, we owe to Mars Hill Col
lege and Mrs. Moore” (including
our last semester’s bill.)
Again may we say that we have
tried to publish a representative
effort of the upper class and hope
that it may bring enjoyment, if
not enlightenment, to those who
peruse its pages.
Ralph Maxcey Chosen
To Lead Language Club
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Type Of Girl Preferred By Ro
man Youths Is Brought Out
In Paper
The Foreign Language Club, with
representatives from the Greek, Lat
in, Spanish, French, and German de
partments, convened in the Philo-
mathion hall for its regular monthly
meeting Tuesday night, February 14.
The new semester officers, Ralph
Maxcey, president; Linda Haynes,
vice-president; Madge Thomas, secre
tary; Mareta Huggins, reporter, took
their places with enthusiasm and de-^
termination to lead the club to new
heights of learning.
The program, consisted of three pre
pared papers: “Beauty Culture A-
mong the Romans,” by Mae Danner;
“The Effect of Precissite in France
During the Time of Louis Fifteenth,
by Linda Haynes; and “Traditions in
Spain,” by Ralph Cole.
From Miss Danner’s paper the club
learned that the fair Roman damsels
(Continued on page 6)
Crawford, Dorothy Crutchfield, Jack
(Continued, on page 6)
KATE HUSKINS
IS CLIO HEAD
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New Officers Elected At Meet
ing On March Second
Kate Huskins, of Burnsville, N. C.,
was elected head of the Clios for the
next nine weeks at a meeting held
March 2.
Other officers elected were: first
vice-president, Azaleen Kickliter; re
cording secretary, Ruth Cates; corre
sponding secretary, Pearl Puett; cen
sor, Zelma Price; chaplain, Louise
Coates; chorister, Grace Cole; pianist,
Janie Britt; costumes, Pauline Snel-
son; music critic, Louise McCracken;
expression critic, Agnes Stack; liter
ary critic, Garnette Shipman; mar
shalls', Sue Stewart Moore, Madge
Thomas, and "Ruth Wagner; program
committee, Pattie Fleetwood, Eliza
beth BlaJj-ton^ Rose Bradford; librar
ian, Maggie, Waldrop, and reporter,
Roberta Nestor.
The program preceding the elec
tion was as follows: Piano solo, by
Dorothy Smith; Reading, “Soul of the
Violin,” read by Azaleen Kickliter,
and accompanied by Lillian McGregor,
pianist and Nelle Bennett, violinist,
duet, “Music In The Air,” by Gladys
Houser and Pearl Puett; reading “The
Happy Prince,” by Mary Ella New-
brough; and a violin solo, “The.Desert
Song,” by Nelle Bennett^
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