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Ov'l- . Page Six THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Youth Religious Services Conducted By C. Swor Student Interest Was High, Intense Chapel And Church Were Crowded For His Messages Thanks to Chester Swor! That was the feeling of the students for the professor of Eng lish at Mississippi college, who spoke here in mid-winter with a profound power and a penetrat ing analysis of the inner problems of young people. Knife-like were his messages in chapel each morning and in the church each evening as students and townspeople crowded to hear him; few, if any, were there who were not stirred and elevated by the religious services which he led. After every evening service al most the entire audience remained to hear his discussion of questions which students asked him; and in the afternoon, in Trent parlor, he scheduled conferences with stu dents. When he left, the students said, “Thanks to Chester Swor!” Mars Hill Has Old Log Church Mars Hill has a symbol on its campus—a log church. Brought from a remote part of Madison county and rebuilt by students last fall, this church was dedicated as a part of the Found ers’ day exercises in October. Be fore being moved to Mars Hill, it was one of the last log build ings used for worship in this part of the state. It is now located in Locust Grove, a natural amphi theatre on the slopes of Little mountain. It is a symbol of the fact that Mars Hill, enrolling over a thou sand students in the winter and summer sessions, has not for gotten its nearly complete de pendence in earlier years upon the small mountain churches, of which this is an example. It is a symbol that Mars Hill is now a positively Christian agency of education. Special Courses Were Highlights (Continued from page 1) perspective and about the work of the masters. And the clatter of typewriters came from the business depart ment, where fingers have flown in a mad race with time. Other students have stood on the carpet in Miss Wengert’s spacious ex pression studio; have sat in the auditorium as young bandmaster Sebren pointed his baton at them when he wanted them to blare; have at midnight tried to polish up an effusion for Mr. Mac’s class in creative writing. After all, it was rather nice, wasn’t it? STUDY COURSES Members of the B. T. U. and the Sunday school spent two weeks, in lieu of the usual chapel services, in taking study courses covering a large num ber of subjects related to the work of their organizations. Many students, active in their churches at home, were eager to take classes offered by faculty members and by visit ing teachers. Courses included study of administrative problems, of the Bible itself, of current work on the mission fields, and of the lives of great religious leaders. More than half the student group enrolled. Others attended special chapel services, where forums were conducted and where a series of informative discussions on lives of great men was given. (Continued from page 1) ment at Mars Hill) ready for pub lic presentation. Weeks were spent in planning. From trunks as pirants dug high school declama tions, perhaps the ones they got the medals for in their senior year, and started trying to re-run the gamut of emotion found therein. Others got new declam ations and started learning them at night, muttering them over in their dormitory rooms. Still oth ers spent October afternoons and nights in the library, going through new magazines, delving into old books, getting ready for the debate tryouts. The girls were at work prepar ing for their annual receptions; they were getting together cos tumes used at Christmas in a dozen foreign lands; they were preparing to stage a reception as it would have been staged in Southern ante-bellum days, with negro spirituals, Spanish moss, and elever pickaninnies. (Also they were wondering if he would ask them for a date on that night and how he would like their new hair do.) Then came the anniversary pro grams—the picked speakers ad dressing hundreds of people, the grand finale with the new light ing effects, the applause. And then came the reception: long dresses swishing, music, the hum of scores of private conversations —and cleaning up after it all. But perhaps the regular Thurs day afternoon or Friday night meetings stand out in memory as clearly as the larger events. It was here that all faced an audi ence, not once, but several times, and spoke. It was here that irS PICNIC TIME Rolls, Weiners, Pickles, Cakes and Gold Drinks Paper Plates, Cups And Spoons FOR COMPLETE SUPPLIES GO TO WELL’S MARKET Pleased Play Room & - The Black-Gold, The Blue-White “This,” commented President Hoyt Blackwell when asked how the year now drawing to a close had struck him, “has been one of the best sessions of the eollege since I have been assoeiated with it.” “Not only have we had a ca pacity enrollment,” he continued, “but the general tenor of the stu dent life this year has been on a high plane.” The Mars Hill Pharmacy FOUNTAIN SERVICE $ Try Our Delicious Sundaes FOR DELICIOUS MEALS speakers had their efforts torn to shreds by student critics and yet spoke again—better. It was here that invitations were staged, that elections were held, that friend ships started and grew. And at commencement? Well, that part of the story, the most important part, is yet to be written for this year. 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Garnegie Graiij For Books, The rapid clicks of ping-pong balls; the long, drawn - out scrunch of discs sliding across the shuffleboard; and the inevitable feminine shrieks—these are mem ories of the play room in the basement of the new Edna Moore dormitory for girls. This play room, open through out the day, has been the setting for many a pleasant hour of di version after hours of work on— well, say, term papers, for ex ample. Some look forward to the time when the attic of the dormitory, designed to be used as a play room, will come into its own. (Continued from p,: the purchase of boo^ library, the other tli choice collection of reo has greatly extended tT
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