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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 25, 1935
No. 8
CONSOLIDATED SUMMER PROGRAM APPROVED
10th Cage Tournev
Here Feb. 28-Mar. 2
Sixteen High School Teams In
vited To Participate;
Several Champs.
The tenth annual Mars Hill high
school basketball tournament will be
held in the Mars Hill College gym
on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
February 28 and March 1 and 2.
This tournament is the largest
tournament to be held in the' state of
North Carolina this season. In former
years it ranked behind the N. C. State
College tournament, but since the lat
ter is not being held this year, the
Mars Hill tournament is expected to
take the spotlight. In the opinion
of many basketball authorities this
C-I CLASS ROLL
tournament is one of the outstanding-
over
held
the entire
tournaments
South.
A total of sixteen high school
teams have been extended invitations.
In past yeai's thirty-two teams have
been invited, but for the last six years
only sixteen teams have been asked.
This was necessitated by the lack of
accomodations for all teams.
Approximately forty teams sent in
applications for the tournament. Sev
eral county champions were listed in
this group. Around 15 counties were
represented in this year’s group of ap
plications. As a usual thing the best
team in a county is given the bid.
Glancing over the entry list, it is
found that three former champions
are represented this year. These are
Sylva, Edneyville and Tipton Hill.'
Sylva is the only one winning the
.-tournament twice, in 1926 and I 928.
Edneyville copped the title iA 1931.
Last year’s champions, Tipton Hill,
will again be on hand to defend their
title. The Sylva outfit is the only
one which has a chance to take the
cup home as a permanent possession.
In order to keep the cup permanently
a team must win it three times. Only
one other team, Leicester, has won
the tournament twice, but they are
not entered this year.
Fourteen teams have already been
sent invitations with two to be se
lected. Tournaments are being held
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Wake Forest, Meredith, Mars
Hill, To Combine For Summer
School
Senior College Work To Be Of
fered Here This
Summer.
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12 Members Added
To Scriblerus Club
Program Comprises Original
Plays And Poetry.
The monthly meeting of the Scrib
lerus Club was held Tuesday night,
February 12, at the home of Mr. John
A. McLeod, faculty advisor. It was
the first meeting of the new semester,
and twelve new members were admit
ted to the club.
After the roll call, to which the
membei's responded with quotations
from Shakespeare, the initiation in
the form of an English examination
-as given to the new members. Upon
the passing of this, they were voted
into the club. The new membei-s are
Evelyn Shepard, Atlasse Yeargin,
Judith Eller, Jessie Indorf, Earle
Brockman, Ernest Harrill, Ralph
Bowen, Charles Hurst, Walter Brock,
Brice Keller, Howard Richardson, and
Eddie Lieberman.
Charter Day Observed
Here February 15
Charter Day was celebrated at Mars
Hill College Friday, Feb. 15, with a
program in the college auditorium at
11 o’clock in commemoration of the
granting of the first Charter of the
college in 1859.
Among those appealing on the pro-!
gram were: W. H. Hipps, Ellis C. j
Jones, Henry Sharp, Gilbert H. Mor
ris, and Mrs. Devinish, all of Ashe- i
ville. Mr. M'orris, vice-president of,
the Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., '
Asheville, which administers the en-.
dowment funds of the college, spoke j
on the mission and opportunity of the !
college and told of the prospects of
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President of the C-I Class
Japan Is Subject
Of I. R. C. Meet
JOHN R. POWELL
Eight New Members Admitted
To Club.
At the regular meeting of the In
ternational Relations Club at the
home of Dean Carr on Tuesday night,
February 12, the following officers
were elected: LaFayette Wrenn, of
Siler City, president; Marie Young,
vice-president; Katherine Hollowell,
secretary-treasurer; Christine Rober
son, reporter.
[ The pi’ogi-am, a very educational
j one, was as follows: “Japanese Rela-
John B. Wilder Is
Ordained As Minister
The short program consisted of the j tions with England,’’ by Brownlow
reading of two original one-act plays, | Hastings; “Japanese Relations with
both of which were entered in the I America,” by Martha Mae Glazener;
contest at Chapel Hill, “A Good Bar
gain”, by Neil Hartley, and “Ashes”
From Asheville Citizen.
The Rev. John B. Wilder, a student
at Mars Hill College from Pharr, Tex
as, was ordained to the Gospel min
istry Sunday evening, Feb. 17, at the
Mars Hill Baptist Church.
At the request of the Ivy Hill Bap
tist church, where Mr. Wilder has
been called as pastor, a presbytery
was ordered for his examination Sun
day afternoon. The following pres
bytery, with the Rev. L. B. Olive as
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Presidents Of Colleges
Express Opinions
Meredith
A summer school for the session of
1935 at Mars Hill in which Wake
Forest College and Meredith College
are to participate indicates a whole
some and gratifying development. It
shows that these three institutions are
discovering the value and the possi
bilities of cooperation. The collabor
ation of the three institutions will
lead to results that could not be real
ized without Such united effort. It
is believed that such a relationship
will not only react favorably on the
institutions themselves but will offer
important advantages to students.
We congratulate all concerned on
such a happy consummation, and
pledge unfailing loyalty to this pro
gressive movement.
CHAS. E. BREWER,
President Meredith College.
Wake Forest
Wake Forest College has for a
number of years maintained a sum
mer session. The work of the sum
mer session is coordinated in courses
and credit with the work of the regu
lar session. An increasing number
of students are availing themselves of
the opportunities afforded by it to
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Contest Play Chosen
By Dramatic Club
A plan which has been in the mak
ing for some time is to be a reality
this summer when Wake Forest and
Meredith extend their forces to Mars
Hill to bring about a more efficient
summer session here. This plan
provides senior college work at
Mars Hill in summer session. The
executive committee of Wake. Forest
approved the plan Saturday, Febru-
ary, 23, and immediately upon the
approval all three colleges swung into
action to make the project a success.
A bulletin giving the facts concerning
the session is to be released soon.
This plan was originally conceived
in the minds of some of the leaders at
Wake Forest and has enjoyed the
hearty support of those at Meredith.
Dr. R. L. Moore and the faculty of
Mars Hill have eagerly pressed the
project to a successful conclusion.
Senior college work will be offered
with the exception of courses in law,
medicine, and the higher sciences. AH
of Mars Hill’s facilities will be avail
able. Visiting, professors will teach
the junior and senior subjects.
Dr. B. Y. Tyner of Meredith, who
is largely responsible for bringing
this helpfiil plan to pass, will be di
rector of the session, and Dean I. N.
Carr will act as associate director.
Mrs. R. L. Moore will fill the duties of
bursar and Prof. J. W. Huff will con
tinue as registrar, while Mrs. Laura
Shaw, the dietition, will prepare the
food for the greatly increased at
tendance.
Dean I. N. Carr estimates that
about five hundred students will at
tend the summer sessions. The terms
will last six weeks and nine weeks.
Many students will take advantage of
one or both of these terms this sum
mer. Those who could not come in
the past because Mars Hill offered
i only junior college work are expect
ed to avail themselves of the greater
service.
A full athletic program will pro
mote recreation for students. All
tennis courts will be in trim condi
tion; the swimming pool will invite
I students to a plunge; and summer
I baseball is being planned. The cool
j mountain tops invite students from
the terrific heat of the lowlands.
Mountain hiking and outdoor exercise
of all kinds in the beautiful sur
roundings will make next summer’s
sessions health building as well as
offering all the advantages of a senior
college.
As A Meredith Student Sees It
“From the student’s viewpoint the
new arrangement relative to a Wake
Forest-Meredith-Mars Hill Summer
School held at Mars Hill seems to of
fer many advantages. There is af
forded to a large number of students
in the western part of the state an op
portunity to enjoy the opportunities
and privileges of a fully accredited
four year liberal arts college set-up in
their midst. And to those in other
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by Hubert Elliott.
The following officers were elected
during the business session: Ruth
Bennett, president; Kathryn Ellis,
vice-president; Thelma Killian, seere-
tai-y; Dortha Morgan, x-eporter.
Following the business session re
freshments were seirved by Mrs. Mc
Leod, and a delightful social hour was
njoyed.
The Mai’S Hill Di’amatic Club has
■hosen the one-act tragedy, “The ’
Breaking of the Calm,” by Dan Toth- '
eroh to represent this society in the ;
annual production contest of the
Mrs. Lane Is House
Mother At Melrose
moderator and Pi’ofessor Vernon
Japanese Relations with China,” by Wood as sectetai'y, examined the can-
Katherine Hollowell; and “Japanese didate: the Rev. Dr. O. E. Sams, the, ^
Relations with Manchuria,” by Jack Rev. P. C. Stringfield, the Rev. James | Carolina Playmakers, to be held at
Benson. Thompson, the Rev. B. M. Canup, the'the University of North Carolina in i
Eight new members were accepted Rev. J. A. McLeod, Dr. R. L. Moore, May. As yet the cast for this play i
and initiated into the club. They A. V. Nolan, I. N. Carr, J. B. Huff, has not been selected, but students '
weie P. B. Oil, Elizabeth Johnson, S. Lee Carter, W. M. Edwards, Tom i of the expression department are now
Lois Church, Betty Elliott, Mildred Baird, and L. Z. Eller. trying out for parts. |
Rippy, and Helen Thomas. Following a favorable report from It is regretted that none of the I
At the conclusion of the meeting, the presbytery the ordination sei’vices hree original plays submitted in this I
a social hour and delightful refresh- ■ were held Sunday evening. The Rev. I mutest by Mars Hill entrants were i
ments were enjoyed by all. ! (Continued on page 2) | iccepted for production.
Mrs. S. M. Lane of Raleigh, the
mother of Louise Lane, a student
here, has recently assumed the duties
of house mother in Melrose. She
takes the place of Mrs. Charles Mc-
Comb, who was not able to return to
her duties on account of illness. Mrs.
Lane is new at this kind of work,
but she knows boys. As she expresses
it, her purpose is “to be a mother
to the boys.” Her greatest assurance
of success is her lovable disposition,
coupled with kindness and patience.