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Published By The Students Of Mars Hill College
in 'L. XIV.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 7, 1939
NO. 2
SvERY Other Week
ay
its By CHARLES R. GREENE
es, ♦
FOUNDERS’ DAY
Mext week is Mars Hill’s birth-
r. Students past and present
*•*•1 sing praises to her name, and
Jjnds will lay Wreaths at her
Jeshold. Friends of the college
Jen speak of Mars Hill in the
^clinine gender. She is not so
;^inine after all; she doesn’t
Je to tell her age. Next week,
■S^ says, is her eighty-fourth
$;hday. Her life has been long,
;Jl during a period of eighty-
Jr years stories of heroism are
^Qembered and forgotten. Un-
Jwn to many of the students
J this campus are the stories
Jt cling like spider webs to his-
^ y of Mars Hill college.
year 1856 is far away, but
^s easy to see a dusky head
^ing heavily in two big, black
|ds behind heavy iroii, bars. It
E|je head of “Old Joe,’’ the negro
e who was taken by contrac-
, Shackleford and Clayton, af-
;n’s| they had finished the first
ge building in 1856. Old Joe
erson must have had a vision
outh clamoring for the higher
,gs of life as he waited patient-
or his white master to pay
debt for the first college
‘^^ding and remove him from
he historian will be interested
knowing that in 1866 the
ich Broad Institute became
s Hill college, chartered “with
power of conferring all such
■ees and marks of distinction
ire usually conferred in col-
s and seminaries of learn-
he founders of Mars Hill col-
were a “little group of will-
men’’ who feared only God
blazed the way for the beacon
education to cast its beams
1 the hills of Western North
I'plina. Men like W. A. G.
n and Edward Carter Were
Washingtons and Madisons of
institution, and this genera-
should justly honor them,
eulogy to the builders of
Hm college would be ade-
;e without mentioning Dr. and
Founders’ Day To Be Celebrated, Oct. 12, As Alumni Return;
Home-Coming Is Planned, Program Of Day’s Events Scheduled
NEW SCIENCE BUILDING
Above is pictured the architect’s dream of what the new science
building will look like when completed. Construction of the edifice
will start Saturday, October 14th, in a ceremony conducted at the
selected site. The new building will provide the students of Mars Hill
with better facilities for science courses. New literary society halls
will be included in the structure.
Dramateers Meet,
Elect New Officers
Tryouts Held For “The Ro
mantic Age”, Their
First Production
The Dramatic club met Sep
tember 18 and elected officers for
the coming year. The following
officers were elected: president,
Gordon Bernard; vice-president,
Mary Corpening; secretary, Anne
Lewis; treasurer; Ralph Jinette;
reporter, Geraldine Shields.
After a brief business meeting,
tryouts were held for the fall
play, which will be given Octo
ber 14. In their first appearance
the dramatic club will present a
three-act comedy, “The Romantic
Age” by A. A. Milne. The cast
will include as Henry Knowle,
Gordon Bernard; as Mary Knowle,
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jns To Charter
^^Busses For Games
rs^ents Offered Trips To
I Three Out-Of-Town
Games
re .
IIS year the students of Mars
Cn I college will be given an op-
jnity to attend three of the
& lall games that will be played
Ip- ’ from home. These games
be played with Lees-McRae
iruce Pine, W. C. C. at Cullo-
■, and Brevard at Brevard,
id- icording to Coach Roberts,
prices will be as follows: to
ce Pine, round trip and
t, $1.00; to W. C. T. C., $1.25
d trip, ticket extra; to Bre-
inv For the
ard-Mars Hill game there
be no admission charge for
Hill students. These trips
be made in chartered Queen
buses. Students are asked to
lase tickets as early as pos-
m order that the number of
Cj ' needed for the trips may be
n.
Founders’ Day
Events
10:45A.M.—Program in Au
ditorium. Dr. Fred F.
Brown will be the princi
pal speaker. Music will be
offered by the college or
chestra and double trio.
12:00 Noon—Lunch served in
the college dining hall for
visitors and students.
3:00 P. M.—Football game
with Lees-McRae at Spruce
Pine.
8:00 P.M.—Play, “The Ro
mantic Age,” presented by
the Dramateers in the col
lege Auditorium.
“Bazaar Of India” Presented
Here By Mr. William Willett
Forensic Club
Starts New Year
Officers Elected, Preliminary
Query Chosen As Quarrel
ers Start Their Fuss
On Tuesday, September 19, a
meeting of all previous members
of the Forensic club was held in
Room 6 of Moore Hall. This meet
ing was promoted by Bartlett
Dorr for the purpose of reorgan
izing the members and arousing
interest of talented and public
spirited new students on the cam
pus.
Officers elected to serve for the
coming year are as follows: chair
man, Martha Lee Grayson; secre
tary, James Thomas; general as
sistant, Bartlett Dorr.
These officials, with the assist
ance of Mr. J. B. Huff, announc
ed a query to the general assem
bly of all debaters and public
speakers at the next meeting
held on Monday, September 25.
The query selected is “Resolv
ed that the section on arms and
munitions in the Embargo Act of
1935 should be repealed.”
Upon announcement of the
query, affirmative and negative
teams were formed. Seven teams
of girls and fourteen teams of
men debaters were chosen. Each
team will have an opportunity to
debate within the next few weeks
in preliminary rounds to which
the public is invited. The first of
these debates will take place on
October 9.
Through these early skirmishes
the students are preparing them
selves for clashes on the inter
collegiate query, which will be
posted within the next few
weeks.
Professor J. B. Huff, director
of forensics here, has been de
lighted by the large number of
enthusiastic students who are
contesting for positions on the
varsity teams.
“Who is the Czar of India?”
asked a certain Mars Hill student
last Friday morning. Soon every
body was asking the same ques
tion. No one seemed to be able
to answer it. The new students
were looking forward with high
hopes to seeing the new Hindu
ruler. One student was determin
ed to get a little ahead of all the
rest. She hastened to the library
and consulted one of the largest
encyclopedias. First she looked
under “India,” but she could not
find the Czar of India. Then she
looked for “Czar.” Still she could
find no information about this In
dian dignitary. Finally she asked
a faculty member about the Czar
of India. With a downcast expres
sion she returned to her room
and there in the quietness learned
from her roommate the horrible
truth. There is no Czar of India.
According to the announcement
in chapel the Czar was coming,
but there is no Hindu Czar. Was
it all a joke? No, somebody had
misunderstood.
On Saturday evening, Septem
ber 30, Mr. William Willett, lec
turer and former engineer who
worked in India for six years,
presented to the students and fac
ulty “Bazaar of India.” Begin
ning where the Orient begins.
Port Said at the west and of Suez,
all present embarked for a trip
to India. After passing through
the Suez Canal, the group sight
ed the place where Moses led the
Israelites across the Red Sea. A
little farther east Mount Sinai
was seen towering to the left of
the sea. A brief stop was in Aden,
Arabia. Here the first real glimpse
of Oriental life was seen. And
then came Bombay, with its popu
lation of over a million people, its
2600 castes, and its 46 races who
speak over 200 languages and
numerous dialects. The sacred
quarters of the Zorastrians were
visited. A bazaar was taking place
in one of the market-places, and
peoples of all types were crowd
ing the narrow streets of this
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College To Observe
Its 84th Birthday
♦
Dr. Fred F. Brown To Be
Principal Speaker On
Morning Program
Commemorating eighty - four
years of useful service as an in
stitution of higher learning. Mars
Hill college will present its an
nual Founders’ Day program next
Saturday morning, October 12, at
10:45 in the chapel auditorium.
The highlight of the morning
program will be an address by Dr.
Fred F. Brown, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Knoxville
Tennessee. Dr. Brown, an alum
nus of Mars Hill, is one of the
outstanding ministers of the
South.
During the morning program,
in which Dr. Brown will speak,
a double trio and the college or
chestra will present musical se
lections. The noon meal,, served
in the college dining hall at 12:00,
will be open, not only to the stu
dents, but also to visitors. In the
afternoon, at three o’clock. Mars
Hill’s eleven will play Lees-McRae
at Spruce Pine and in the evening
at 8:00 the dramateers, under the
direction of Miss Bonnie Wingert,
will present as their first pro
duction a three-act comedy, “The
Romantic Age,” by A. A. Milne.
Gordon Bernard and Emily Pat
rick will head the cast. One of the
major events of the day will be
the breaking of ground to start
the construction of the new
science building. Several nota
bles will take part in the ceremo
ny.
During the morning program
the music department will pre
sent a double trio and numbers
by the college orchestra.
Sebren, New Prof.,
Develops Good Band
Was Former Instructor At
Black Mountain High,
Berea College
Mr. Herbert Sebren, a new ad
dition to the faculty of Mars Hill
college, has performed the mirac
ulous task of organizing an ex
cellent college band in the short
period of one month. He is the
first faculty member to devote his
entire time to instruction in wind
and other band instruments.
Mr. Sebren was graduated from
Mars Hill college with the class
of ’36. Before entering Mars Hill,
he graduated from Asheville high
school. He was an instructor at
Black Mountain high school for
two years before matriculating in
’37 at Berea college, from which
he was recently graduated.
Although Mr. Sebren was a
student in Berea college, he be
came assistant director of the
band and taught private lessons.
In addition to this training he at-
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D.A.R. To Unveil
Grave Marker
Near Mars Hill
Memorial To Be Erected At
Grave of James-Jennings,
Early Madison Settler
Under the auspices o f the
Asheville chapter of the D.A.R.,
a federal marker today will be
unveiled at the grave of James
Jennings, Revolutionary war sol
dier and one of the first settlers
of what is now Madison county.
The unveiling ceremony will be
held at the little cemetery, near
Mars Hill and just off the new
Asheville-Johnson City highway,
where James Jennings was buried
in 1837.
Mrs. J. G. Stikeleather will
represent the Asheville chapter
of the D. A. R. Mrs. Herbert Win
ston, of Asheville, Mrs. John
Smith, of Mars Hill, and Profes
sor J. B. Huff, of Mars Hill, great-
great-grandchildren of Jennings,
are the committee in charge .>f
arrangements.
Jennings enlisted for service in
the Revolutionary war in Colonel
Adam Stephen’s Virginia regi
ment and fought in the battles of
Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine,
and Germantown and, according
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