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Page Two THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Q'he Hilltop Plain Living and High Thinking*^ Published 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, $lj Issue, 5c. MKMBt-R ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS oisTRiRUToR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST STAFF Ediior iti-Chief Grady Dover Manag.ng Editor . . .. .Lowell A. Shive Associa e Edi'ors— Dorothy Pearce and Mary Lee Ellington Society Editor j.- i--,, Lynn STARKWEATHER Sports Editor L. John Foster West Photograj hy_ . , ‘. " I. GeorGE Blake Ffjr?i!ty Advisors— Mildred Hardin, Elise Rose Dons, and Ramon DeShazo CONTRIBUTORS Carol Bartling, Margaret Duckworth, Betty Lee Spainhour, Winfred Thompson, Robert Brissie, Thelma Baker, Sheila Gulley. Budness Manager . Richard Proctor CArcuUition Manager WiLMER Fisher and Billy Donnelly Advertising Manager WALTER HarrelsoN yol. XV. March 29, 1941. No. 12. Director Precious Time- If you live an average lifetime you will have slept twenty years. Allowing ten years for fooling around, five years for starting, and five years for stopping, you have very little time to look around and see what should be done. We have not much time left to consider the whence and wherefore of existence and grasp the explanations as they ore presented to us. Certainly we do not have time to "figure things out for ourselves." With this short period left in which to work we surely realize the extreme importance of grasping every fepportunity and taking advantage of every minute at our command. There was once a sailor who waited imtil his ship was putting put to sea. He intended to jump aboard but he turned to wave to the girl in the port one last time. When he turned around again the ship had moved out of his reach. If you wait until your ship is out of reach, you will end up with the rest of ;the, 'driftwood flung on the foamy waves of misfortune. Use every second as a firefly to light your way. —J.F.W. Springitis- ■ "The bright eyes of song sparrows, sitting on spotted eggs Peer restlessly through the light and shadow Df all Springs." , When Amy Lowell worte these lines in her poem "Lilacs" she exemplified perfectly the feelings most of us have after our recent holidays. Here we sit, like a sparrow on its nest, •waiting for something to hatch. ^ Well, why sit any longer? Spring is here. Let's hatch some- '^thing ourselves and get out of this winter rut. The woods around here give forth a song as seducive as that of any siren of the -past. Let's go out for more strolls to shake some of the fog from OUT befuddled minds. I haven't seen any signs of picnics or mountain trips about our campus since last fall. Come now. Let's show more enthusiasm, some of the proverbial "get up and go." I assure you that dividends will be received by all. —W.I.C. A Sleeping Beauty- God and nature have woven a web of loveliness—^physical and spiritual—that surrounds the human race. All of us have thrilled to the beauties of nature—to sunrises, sunsets, twilights, storms. We have trembled with fear and ecstasy in the presence of majesty beauty. Yet there is a human power of supreme bediity. It is the power of speech. Beauty of all kinds is often disregarded, and perhaps the beauty of speech suffers more serious lack of appreciation than all the other forms. In this power lies the root of all happiness and all evil. In this power lies the might to change the life and character of separate individuals, to change the destinies of whole nations. Such a potent force should be taken seriously and handled with care; yet do we handle it cautiously? Rarely. We talk continually, but ,wd spy very, little. We talk, so much that when we do say something it isn't heard because of the noise. Yes, talk is cheap, but not if you.have a real (perhaps original) idea. 'This gift of gifts can be used to lift our fellowman and at the.sdme time Jo help ourselves. If you feel like saying "Tommy- rot-TT-just a 'lot of > idealistic talk," you aren't to be blamed. YoU'.think ypu are faqing reality, but the idealist is too. Can we. .mpke the ideal become reality? Our speech can help us make this change. "This too shall pass owgy"—Yes, but the people who use this gift as it should be used will be re membered. —G. D. Miss Elizabeth Ellison is di rector of the college choir. She is voice teacher in the music lepartment and takes an active part in many of the campus activities. This is her third year as a faculty member of Mars Hill college. Open Forum Is a third literary society in evitable? Certain campus leaders, both society and non-society stu dents, and faculty members hove expressed their desire for a third literary society on this campus. They believe this improve ment is inevitable and, after examining both sides of the question, present facts as they find them. There are 305 non-society students on the campus. Both existing societies, considering the brother and sister societies as one, have expressed their desire that every student be come a member of one or the other of the societies. The faculty have expressed the same desire. Now this would be fine; but the truth is that if all the present members at tended one meeting in either of the societies, the halls would not hold them. Where would the other 305 find room or ob tain their training? There are plenty of brains and talents among the non-so- society - members. Thinking that certain leaders involve the societies in politics without the societies being responsible, these people will never join either of the existing societies. One of the main purposes for the existence of society is that of giving its members experi ence in forensic presentation on the floor. With the present enrollment os large as it is, a member, by the low of aver ages, appears on a program less than twice a year, just enough to increase his dread for public speaking. Those more aggressive or talented do appear more often, but they really do not need the exepri- ence as much as the others. With an increase in enrollment the number of times one mem ber appeared on the program would be decreased. The school is building new dormitories and other buildings and extensions. The enrollment ■will probably, be increased to 1,000 at Mors Hill college. Taking the 458 present society members as an overage there would be left 542 non-society students out of the 1,000. What would you do with the other students during' the : time the societies were in session, espe- (Continued on Page 4) OPINE On this campus is a building named as a tribute to the man who helped largely in making its erection possible. Perhaps none of us ever knew W. C. McConnell, a man who be lieved in the development of the body as well as of the mind. Recently I encountered the son of our benefactor. The character and beliefs of the father belong also to the son. As he told how his father had looked forward to the com pletion of the swimming pool —he wondered why this vital port of the college gymnasium is not being used. There are many people on the campus who do not even know that the McConnell Gym has a pool. There may be a good reason for the closing of the pool for an indefinite period of time; but we realize that swim ming and swimming contests form a highlight in the ath letic activities of other schools. Many of our students would enjoy participation in these contests more than in any oth ers on the campus, and we ask why Mars Hill does not initiate—even if in a very small way—a program of contests for the development of water sports. Even if this idea seems far-fetched and impractical, the swimming pool could at least be opened for the pleasure and benefit of the boys and girls who want to swim. Why isn't the pool open to us? Bitz by a Bookworm By Wm. I. Clark, Jr. When Ralph Ingersoll left his offices on 14 West 49th Street in New York City, he went to Europe—not as a busy body verb monger, but as the Editor of PM—to see what he could see on his o'wn. After a stay of less than two weeks in a war-ridden Eng land, he dashed madly back to the relatively peaceful conti nent from whence he came to publish a series of editorials on Great Britain, its plight and the morals of its people. This book reproduces those articles. There has been some change of sequence in order to integrate the individual articles into a full-length book—the first of its kind. When this book was put on the shelves of the bookstores of America, it was another tribute to the versatile Ralph McAlister Ingersoll. He has been dancing for some time to the music of thousands of admirers because he has pro gressed upward from miner via the ranks of free-lance writer, reporter and managing editor for the New Yorker, associate and managing editor of For tune, general manager of Time, Inc., and sponsor of radio and cinema productions of "The March of Time." Now, as ari author of a full-length book, ‘ he has done a verbal jete into the center of the con temporary stage where he pi rouettes in the spotlight of American approval. Report on England is differ ent. It made its way to America from England os did the Cotton Mill, via the mind of a man. Thank God that thoughts can't (Continued on Page 4) Business Manage Mr. H. R. Walker, Jr is fessor of chemistry at I' Hill college, this being his | year as member of that s He is business manager oi college choir. [ Hope-Hall Attends National Assemi C. C. Hope and James E. I core attending the National f dent Legislative Assembly Lexington, Kentucky, wl began on March 26 and i tinues through March 29. j The National Student L3 lative Assembly is simild. the student legislature wl; was held in Raleigh eorlisi the year. Mr. J. B. Huff, co Did y if the forensic team, scddiat eye consider this invitation tOyg jg National Assembly the gt . est honor that has: ever ' to the forensic team." ’ In previous years only colleges and universities b' Take attended, but this year Jteu e Hill received a special Ipihe c tation. Dr. Keith, of Wint^ College, who is considere^- be the most prominent forer*®^®®^ figure in the United personally asked Mr. Hulfcove send two speakers to theMcCoj sembly. bu do 'The assembly is carried ion ji in the exact manner os is saByo Senate in Washington, , campaigning, lobbying, ‘ rolling, filibustering, and political activities. Upon fhom rival at the assembly, s'rbud; person registers in one^tg gj three groups — Democrats, publicans, or New Ded During the last few years, president has come from brother sas; but last year with theVRole: gan, "Bust Kansas," Ash I of Wake Fof, ;ears. erved Worral, emerged victorious and ’ elected president. C. C. Hope is presenting bill "which will appropi’^- ^ $500,000 to make a study ofsr the possibilities of a union bet-W(veryo the two English speaking tructic mocracies, the United St^ and Great Britain. n ^ tOil©ct] Again, the forensic team, be honored by debating Forest on April 12 in AshewoHars This debate will be broad^riod over station WWNC from ■'manci until 10:15. In their series gog , radio debates. Wake fd has included Mors Hill o'* ^ •with Rutgers, the Citadel, mond, Amherst, Johns HopChristi University, and Sworthinhe F C. C. Hope and Frank iwill represent Mors Hill hi ■'^''bate. » >lcCoi . . . 1 1st C Officers Of Ministerial Conference in ad tig tc President Wade ^oss. Vice-Presi Cyrus KroiGiagg Secretary Oliver Wab^ion J Cor. Secretary Ralph Ro'J^urc Chorister. . Ronda Robbj Afte Organist . . Gus Verd^cCo Reporter Marvin Wil^where
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