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Page Two THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Q'he Hilltop "Plain Living and High Thinking" lushed by the Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the postoffice at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued semi-monthly during the college year. Subscription Rate: Year, $1; Issue, 5c. The Family Album MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST STAFF Editor-in-Chief .... Managing Editor Associate Editors , Society Editor ... ..Grady Dover Lowell A. Shive - Lynn Starkweather and Mary Lee Ellington Virginia Agee Faculty Advisors Mildred Hardin, Elise Rose Dons, and Ramon DeShazo CONTRIBUTORS Dot I’earce, Carol Bartling, Margaret Duckworth, Betty Lee Spainhour, Winfred Thompson, Harold McCroskey, George Baker, Stanley Smith, Robert Brissie, Wallace Brouse. Business Manager Circulation Managers Advertising Manager -WiLMER Fisher and Wally Brouse Marvin Wilson Vol. XV. January 25, 1941. No. 8. Life's Purposes- ... all thincTs work together for good to those who are the called, according to His purpose." Rom. 8:28. There is a defi’^ite purpose behind all of the thoughts and actions of man. The purpose may not be visible, but it is nonetheless ^ a reality. The subconscious mind contains thou- discarded purposes, displaced from the conscious mind by the birth of new aims and aspirations. Although these aims are now discarded, they have played an im portant part in the development of present aims. Just as one discards childish actions upon reaching maturity, so does he purge his mind of juvenile thoughts and aims when he has "come of age." But there is a power manifested on the earth that changes and clarifies purposes even more surely and swiftly than does time. This power is the power of God in the mind of on individual, a power that often changes the entire perspective of one immediately upon its reception into his mind. It is an intangible but commanding force. It can make of the vilest nature a radiant, happy and contented personality. This power is a transforming element in the mind of anyone who receives it. The power is available to all men. Its ready access some times causes one to fail to comprehend its true value, for men are prone to feel that cmything worthwhile must be striven for. Ine power is vesieu in otirist. It is available in abundance to all who accept Him. The power is limitless. It comes from an inexhaustible source, the throne of God. If you do not have a clear-cut and well-defined purpose in this life, look to God to enlighten you. He knows what your life should be, and He will help you to make it the maximum in service, in happiness, and in true love of living. "What shall I do with my life? ' If you desire an answer to the question, ask the Creator of men; and He will point the way to the higher and more glorious life that is experienced by those who hove sought and found their life and purpose. —Walter Harrelson. Come, sit on my knee, chil dren—Who said six inch law? Anyhow we'll take a look at the family album. Take this young fellow; you wouldn't believe him to be a father, but he is. He is the father of photography at Mars Hill, and is still occupied in rearing the growing youth his enterprise has become. In fact, he probably made this picture; it looks like his work. Look on page five for his name. School Spirit During the two years that I have spent as a student at Mars Hill college, there are a few things which I have noticed. One of the main things that has impressed me has been the lack of school spirit. The stu dents seem to take a nonchal ant attitude about their Alma Mater, vi/nen the school songs are played—and especially the Alma Mater—some few of the students will stand up, and the rest will slump in their seats and pay no attention at all. At the various athletic contests, especially the football games, the student body does not seem to care whether the team wins loses. The band and the or Thou Shalt Not- By honesty one means freedom from lying. Fishermen are notorious for their exaggerations concerning the size of the. fish they claim to have, landed and still more for those "whales" that got away. Boys and girls brag and then lie to make a good story. The teller of the story is the one who is always fooled. "Lying gets a person nowhere," so to speak. The truth is the easiest and simplest way. Most people think of stealing as robbing a bonk, or some other things along this line, but there are other forms, for in stance, stealing ideas, plots, inventions, models, and even clever sayings. Many people collect "souvenirs" as we call them, and "become attached to" other admired articles that it took money to get. If these things do not belong to them, why should they steal them? The Seventh Commandment says, "thou shalt not steal." This means all forms of dishonesty, cheating, stealing, and lying. —R. B. All Is Not Lost- All is lost. All is not lost! If all were lost there would be nqthing. There is something. Therefore all is not, has never been, and will never be lost. The fact of the matter is that very little is ever lost at any time. If a thing or an idea is lost this means that it cannot be found. There is practically nothing in the world that one cannot find if he will not but try. Thus we approach a conclusion to the problem: if there is a loss ac counted for, a try or effort is the best antidote to use. A winning person is not always a victorious person. A los ing person may be victorious theoretically, but actuality is all that counts in this world. Let a person try. Let him put forth effort. That which was lost may still be recovered!—Marks. cheer-leaders have no support whatsoever. Maybe the stu dents will come to the games, but if they hove anything else to do, they don't come. It seems to this author that this is a sqd state of affairs and one for which there is no ex cuse. It is easily remedied and easily maintained. One of the things that makes a school out standing among other schools is this thing called school spirit. One of the most admirable characteristics that can come to a school and on of the finest that can be said about on is that it has good school spirit. The next time there is a game of any sort here at the college, the next time the band plays the Alma Mater, the next time any thing like this happens, be there. Support your school. ... said your school. That's what it is. It's your school and it's my school. Let's support it with all that we have in us. —R. C. P. Apologies Our apologies to Miss Dhurch who is doing gradu ate work at U. N. C. (and not post-graduate work as stated before); also to Mr. ; I Spencer B. King and his family, who lived in Brown before the DeShazos. ;; The Editors. POET’S CORNER WHEN DAY IS DONE The glorious sun sets in the west The wandering cattle come home Twilight settles like shrouding mist When day is done. The twilight fadeS into the night The sunset from the earth is gone The weary birds have ceased their flight When day is done. All light from the earth has faded The shadows from the land have gone The waters of the river are jaded When day is done. —Bob Brissie. ire ■lor >ric lig] TO A MOUSETRAP Lowly little piece of wood Caught him, eh? I knew you could. With your tiny coiled up spring. And wire lever—^puny thing. Yet as strong as man to louse. To the sneaking little mouse. What if Robert let him go? Little trap,- you laid him low. Burns, he plowed 'im up, let go 'im. Then went straight and wrote a poem. Then the mouse come to our granary; In these days we hove machinery. Then squeakie, squeakie little mousie, Creeped into our storage housie. Nibbled cheese—the thing he learns is All men ore not Bobbie Burnses. —John Foster West. me vai dai lis 3ro 5ch ng eet via 3la Dcrv 3wi >ot Df ,Hil |sa; :oc bu the hii MY OCEAN I ve never seen the ocean. But I can hear it roar. In mind I see its rolling waves— I see the shell-strewn shore. I close my eyes and see the white That caps its tow'ring hills That rise and fall in rhythmic beats— This sight my spirit stills. I feel the wind upon my face Blowing back my hair And filling, thrilling all of me With tangy salt sea air. Someday I'll see my ocean That fancy shows to me.' I'll view. I'll hear. I'll taste. I'll feel The glory of that sea. —Mary Nell Hardin, WHEREFORE THENCE ■ What to do and how it's done? Ever wondering, never told In perplexity questing that As yet unseen, unknown, but still Desired and ever hungered for. When to go and where? we cry. What commands gives God today? What is right and why? we ask, But wander on enveloped in A seething mental fog. Whom to love and whom to hate? Dare we trust our hearts and minds? Should we listen to our hearts Or coldly weigh 'gainst virtue vice Within cerebral balance keen? Who, why, wherefore, whence?- .- Thudding up against m'y mind., ’ '• When, where, why then thence? - ■They come in never ceasing stream '' And leave me wishing I were hence...,- f Norman -Williamsons ODE TO THE INFIRMARY ■ I Here is to the infirmary nurse, \ \Vhose every dose gets worse and worse. She pass down the halls on rubber soles ' While we suffer with flu 6r bad head coMs.’ None of our friends are we allowed to'see Not even our latest and besLS. P. •, We suffer here in silent pain Attempting back our - health to gain. I wish ole lady'd bring ihe a coke; He knows darn well I'm perfectly broke. Why, oh why, do the hours lag! What I d give for one small drag! My mattress seems so awfully lumpy. ■ . Gee, the guy in the next bed's grumpy! I think that I shall try to' sleep Nope, no use, even counting-sheep. Here I lie in a drab, cold-fo'nib - Furnished in memory of who or whom..:-’ Oh well, I guess infirmary strife Is all a part of college life. But what about our dear Miss Brewer? Give her all the credit due'er. .— ; ■ ■ When we do- get out, as fit ds fiddles, ' ’ We come out sans that pain in joux middles. —William Jarnes Clark, Jr. Me Hi ■n\ dfjtvv: ■; ■A'.h i 0,1 J ! nj ' i.H . - ■tair-f r.f ' ; nr/j-irk"' .vo'.'ic'i , 'I 'll J.. - no i OG) r .hn.:j ; :u'r . od .00 ■ ; ,o’o.i hjh ' ,.o'' '--■'.r'iook ' .d njcT O'i ;iOf.-!o' 7 ■Uio'i''. -Jl ,r:;Jov ■■-•I .no.i!.'-; i 'S)J V.-/ iid*
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