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lol. XV.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 25, 1941.
No. 8.
:k=
'^ews Flashes
onight:
Dr. Grahn, prominent lec-
irer, will appear in the oudi-
>rium tonight at 7:30. Moving
ictures will be shown in con-
ection with the lecture.
We're through with exams!
tasketball:
Mors Hill plays Textile, Spar-
anburg, S. C., tonight in Spar-
'3nburg.
We're through with exams—
loorcry 1
; ’uesday:
Mors Hill meets Beacon Mills
Jere Tuesday night at 7:30.
I We're through with exams—
: roodyl
Tiday:
i The basketball boys leave for
Appalachian College Friday to
day the "B" team.
J We're through with exams—
vhoopee!
'lash:
"Pinnochio" will be pre-
iiented in the college audi-
orium next Saturday night.
We're through—!
Campus Personals
Miss Faye Cornwell has re-
umed to her home on account
the illness of her mother.
;||| The marriage of Mrs. Max
^amett, the former Miss Anne
a student in this col-
j^ege last fall, was announced
"'n January 18, 1941, at Shelby.
Miss Callie Noland has re-
turned to her home for an
p>perotion. After her recovery
^he plans to return to school,
p Miss Mary Alyce Hill is with-
fe^rawing from school because
^f the illness of her father.
|| The following new students
Jhave registered for the second
semester: Rosalind Chandler,
^Qttie Flint, Louise Fay, Sydney
Cunningham.
Between the 18th and 20th,
the following students were ad
mitted to the infirmary: Annie
ose Carter, Mary Leslie Dog-
m®**' Eunice Blount, Sheila
pulley, Patty Hodnett, Helen
Dorothy Show, Elaine
ridge, Eva Chesson, Emily
If White, Dorothy Go-
prt , Margaret Riddle, Evelyn
redenburg, Max Flack, Robert
Pruitt, James Wright,
heldon Boone, Matt Summer-
un, Frank Weaver, Harold Mc-
ros ey, Hamilton Spivey, Bill
PLur ' Hall, Miriam
n Hips, Delia Sarratt, Elizabeth
Margaret
® ^'^iriam, Charles Rollins,
hauncy Cunningham.
International
Summary
By Cecil Hill
CAIRO, Egypt, January 22.—
Tobruk, the Italian defense
center of North Africa, is falling
to the might of the Australian
crack troops of the British Army.
All night raids by the RAF re
sulted in the weakening of the
base in order that infantry
might advance to occupy the
base. The Royal Navy poured
tons of shells into the defenses
as tanks and trucks rolled
toward the city. The raid has
already resulted in the capture
of an Italian General and vast
stores of supplies left by the
Italians as they evacuated the
city. German air raiders are
offering little resistance to the
offensive launched by the Brit
ish. To date the Italian losses
in dead, wounded, and cap
tured resulted in approximately
85,000.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, January
22.—The Turkish wireless an
nounced this evening that the
government has gathered a
great part of its army in
■Phrace, awaiting any pos
sible action. F e a r of a
German invasion across the
Balkans is resulting in immedi
ate defensive action, but the
Turkish army officials doubt
that enough troops con be
massed on the Rumanian
shores for a serious offensive.
LONDON, January 22.—^Ex
cept for nocturnal air raids on
the British and German capi
tals, little warfare is carried on.
The British, on the other hand,
(Continued on page 4)
Student Revival
Challenge
In the Great Commission we
have summed up the task en
trusted to the disciples by' our
Lord. The responsibility j for
carrying it forward to qom-
pletion descended to the 'dis
ciples of succeeding centuries,
and here on our campus it has
become our task. The word
Great has special significance;
the commission is indeed a
great one.
We are commanded to make
disciples of all nations, and this
does not exclude our own na
tion. It takes us into every high
way and byway, palace and
hut, dormitory and cottage. Our
source is inexhaustible; for
Jesus said, "All authority will
be yours." As our time for the
Student Revival draws near let
there be no shirkers in our
ranks.
We soy, "Go ye into all the
world" sounds distant; we ask
what we can do. The Bible
says, "Begin at Jerusalem."
That brings those of us who are
Christians face to face with the
task that lies | before us. We
must begin at Mars Hill; then
the way will be opened for
broader fields. Let us resolve to
show others Jesus Christ
through our lives. Let us also
resolve to carry out the Great
Commission by telling someone
the story of Jesus Christ.
^ ""
I Bit^z hy a Bookworm
By William James Clark, Jr.
"Hess" Doctor, by Dr. Robert
J. Dinsmore, M.D.V.
Dr. Robert J. Dinsmore, in
his engaging autobiography,
"Hoss" Doctor, does himself
and the veterinary profession
a grove wrong in the title of
his book. The veterinarian is
not just a "hoss" doctor but he
is called upon to treat a wide
variety of animals, all the way
from the poodles of Mrs. Allen
B. Renfrew, 3rd to Caleb
Rowe's "critters." Dr. Dinsmore
was even called in to diagnose
the cause of swelling and blue
blotches on the abdomen of
one of his customers' wives.
Of course this is ethical as long
as the veterinarian does not
accept payment for this sort of
diagnosis.
"Hoss" Doctor is a salty,
thoughtful, and humorous se
ries of anecdotes dealing -with
the close-fisted, wiry Yankee
farmers whose stock the author
cared for. Not only did he have
to transact with the Yankee
bred out of his own soil but with
the Yankee from Poland, Wall
Street, Italy, Palm Beach, and
Bor Harbor. This book indicates
the usefulness of veterinary
science in protecting us not only
from rabies, anthrax, encepha
lomyelitis, and trichina, but
some score of other diseases
that may be contracted by
homo sapiens from milk, meat,
and saddle horses.
Dr. Dinsmore shows himself
in the light of a raconteur of
the first water, as well as an
M.D.V. of some fifty years of
successful practice. He was
educated at Harvard University
under some of the very pro
fessors who taught members of
the medical profession now
operating and dosing on the
polite stretches of Fifth Ave
nue. When he graduated Dr.
Dinsmore left Harvard with an
invitation to stay and be asso
ciated with the department of
basic research and teaching; in
stead he went to Sudbury,
Mass., to carry out the ambition
of his boyhood—to doctor ani
mals.
When one closes the green
cover of this bood, he feels that
animals ore a noble race, much
more admirable, in many in
stances, than the men who own
them.
Marjorie Rawlings—The Year
ling
"With its excellent descrip
tions of Florida scrub land
scapes, its skillful use of native
vernacular, its tender relation
(Continued on page 4)
Edward J. Carter Presents His
Master’s Thesis To The School
Aftermath
So great minds run in the
same channel? Well, I suppose
master minds stall in the same
rut? I'm mired so deeply that
it'll take a couple of dynamos
to pull me out.
I guess you know what that
approaching eclipse is? If not,
you're suffering a bad case of
amnesia. A beautiful semester
of drifting alone, putting off to
day w'hat I thought was im
possible to do, and tomorrow
knowing it is—then—bang—
comes the reckoning. That
shadow, is exams, politely
examinations.
People wonder why I don't
show both my plates all the
time, as though the bud of my
knowledge had burst into full
flower. I try to grin and produce
something which looks like a
combination of Charlie Mc
Carthy and a little yellow mon
grel. Then they think I'm sick.
Well, wouldn't you be?
I have three hundred
seventy-eight and one - half
pages of history to read
before exams (which my
class is now reviewing
for); I have a five thousand
word term paper in same to
write, vrhich should have been
six weeks ago; I have two
long overdue English papers
to do; I have a biology note
book to finish (all right, to begin
and finish); I have a back test
in math to take—which I went
to the infirmary to keep from
taking; fifty pages in French
must be learned by me, to say
nothing of the three lessons of
fifty sentences each that I have
not yet prepared. I need at least
eight hours to leom all the
chemistry that I have not
learned before. I have cut three
gym classes which have to be
made up double. And I still
have to go to classes and try
to stay awake on four hours of
sleep.
I need lime, time. I've
even looked under the bed
for it. And that's where gloom
simply enclosed me. The dust
(Continued on page 4)
Original Plays
Submitted By
Two Students
Two original plays, "Night
mare" by Grady Dover and
"Sir Agressor" by James
Dendy, have been submitted for
consideration in the state dra
matic festival at Chapel Hill in
the spring. One or two ploys
will be selected from those siob-
mitted by all North Carolina
Junior Colleges to be given at
the festival. "Jacob Comes
Home" by William Kozlinks will
be given by the club as the
production ploy of the festival.
"The Terrible Meek" and a re
ligious drama as representative
of Western North Carolina may
also be given.
A History Of Mars Hill Col
lege Given To The Li
brary
Edward J. Carter, principal of
schools of Almond North Caro
lina and grandson of the late
Edward Carter, a founder of
Mars Hill College, has recent
ly presented a copy of his
master's thesis, "A History of
Mars Hill College," to our li
brary. Mr. Carter wrote the his
tory as a thesis for his master's
degree which he received from
the University of North Carolina
last summer.
The thesis, which is 110
pages in length, traces the his
tory of the college from 1856 to
1940. The first chapter gives a
description of Mars Hill com
munity life at the time the col
lege was founded. The second-
chapter gives the facts concern
ing the establishing of the
school, which was first called
the French Broad Baptist Insti
tute. The third chapter treats the
period from the opening of the
first session of the college in
1856 to the close of the War
between the States and tells of
the school's being chartered in
1859 as Mars Hill College.
Chapter four deals with the
progress of the college from the
close of the War between the
States until the inauguration of
President R. L. Moore in 1897.
Chapter five traces the program
of the college from 1897 to the
present. The last chapter is de
voted to the interpretation of the
history. A number of interesting
appendices are added which in
clude reproductions of historical
documents, old photographs,
and other data pertaining to the
history of the college.
New B. S. U. Study
Courses Begin Feb. 7
New B. S. U. Study Courses
will begin Monday, February 3,
and run through the week till
Friday, February 7. Though
they come during the chapel
period, we may still enjoy the
regular chapel program. Vari
ous speakers will be in charge
of these programs.
Several new study courses
are available, with only one
repetition. Dr. R. L. Moore will
again teach his course in Pil
grims' Progress. The student
body is invited to take ad
vantage of any one of the
several courses offered. Those
who fail to take a course will
be expected to be in their new
chapel seats. The seats will be
checked, and those who are
neither in chapel nor in study
courses will be charged with
chapel absences.