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Page Two. THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA. Hilltop '"Plain Living and High Thinking’ CaroHna*^^*^ Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the Post- office at Mars Hill North Carolina, under the Act of March 3 1879 Issued semi-monthly during the college year. ’ $1.00 . Issue 6c Subscription Rate year MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRE88 DISTRIBUTOR OF COLLEGIATE DIGEST hilltoppers Managing Editor wni^" Maureen BennettTRobbie^Gold’ StockS faculty ADVISORS Knor DeShazo Eleanor B. Church Rachel Templeton w . , CONTRIBUTORS Aur^ MuS?;^ Seta H^orfo^n ^‘^^rTd eS'^ Business Manager T ramson Circulation Manager t r V ^T^d Advertising Manae-er i V\ infred Thompson f Kenneth E. Davis .Volume XVI. • • February 14, 1942. Number 9. ■Valentine Day _ | (Of ValentiJe, a bishop and martyr .of the Catholic Church, was put to dlath at Rome during the persecution under Claudius II on Febjuary 14, 270 AD The origin of the custom of choosing a valentine on’this day js almost lost, in, antiquity, but it is possible that it has some connection with.the old belief that biras begin to mate on this c^Cty. On the eve- of Saint Valentine's Day the names of all girls ■Were placed in a receptacle, and each young man drew one. The girl whose.name he drew becorhe his valentine and he pecame hers—Art least for a day. i. This practice developed into our p‘resent-day procedure of receiving and.sending valentines. Tl^b modern method has token a somewhat different turn from the original custom. •Whereas the' traditional system was to exchange a message .of sentiment between only two of opposite sexes, the present .system has become one of friendly greetings between friends :and even members of the'family. In 1942 Valentine's Day will -•be a day of friendship, although the original purpose will not be defeated. ;t is still a day for lovers to exchange messages .or gifts as tokens of their affection ..for each other . In spite of. wars, poverty, and the many faults rife among .peoples, man is still a social and''sentimental creature. Though ■he blast a thousand lives from the earth, little things still touch ■his hemt; his-sentiment for love and friendship lingers with .him and grows with the race. A people with this touch fconnot .be actually bad, or hopelessly criminal, and they cannot be .defeated They will surely go on; they must go on spreading ■tokens of friendship, affection, and love through the years. ■ Today let us not only send valentines to the ones we love but let us hope that all men may feel some touch of friendship lor their fellowmen. t c tat —J.F.W. By East Never spurn hope; life is hyphenated between expectan cy and hope. There is nothing wrong with looking toward the future. Most of the benefits of all we do to day are reaped tomorrow. Hate is like a cancer: it is hard to get new tissue to grow in the wound. Even when you put Satan behind you, don't forget to keep one eye on him. Stop mumbling to yourself; you don t believe it anymore than anyone else. Before you take whcrt is on the other side of the mountain, be sure that it doesn't belong to someone else. To be or not to be should be no question; make up your mind and stick by it. Doubt can be disastrous. "Life, liberty, and pursuit of .lappiness ... if you work and fight. That which is not worth fighting for should not be ex pected. The only good textbook is a read textbook. An American is a man who will save a cat from a burning building at the risk of his own life, who will wade through snow drifts to go to church, who will get the rest of his hay up in a raging thunderstorm; or he is a clergyman who will turn his collar around long enough to fight for his children. Are you an American? What goes up will come back down; so watch out for your head. People often say the wrong thing at the right time. Real beauty does not have to demand attention; one is made aware of it merely by its presence. A 'wise guy' is pitied yet ab horred. He finds out how un wise he is usually too late to change the opinion of those who know him. Girls’ Grooming Guide We're back again with a load of new beauty tricks. It seems that keeping up with beauty is a great morale builder—and we could use more of it today. Let s look at you. This time we 11 start at the top and work down. Your hair—"woman's crowning glory"—it's the only hair you'll ever have—oh, I beg your pardon; that's eyes instead of hair. But you'll let me get away with it this time, won t you? I'm just trying to tell you that you should take care of your hair as though it were threads of gold. Now the care of the hair is a deep sub ject, but here are a few facts Brush your hair every night. That's what your roommate's here for, but don't tell her said so. Let her give it bris c strokes with a good hair brush (not hers, but yours) imtil your scalp fairly sings. Of course, you wash your hair at least once a week, so we won't mention cleanliness. Hear ye, though. All your time and hare work will be in vain if your coiffure isn't becoming to you. Study the shape of your face as though it were a math prob lem and style your hair ac cordingly. Any good fashion magazine will help you ploy the hair-do-jig-saw-puzzle. Don't forget; if you wear glasses, play them up with a con servative hair style. Now about this situation of (Continued on Page 3) Ex Libris Montague By James Dendy Study Not Of Books- The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. -—So Wordsworth wrote; and sooner or later each of us will today perhaps affords too versatility. Even if we are not accom plished in a number of activities, we usually have that im- pression and participate in them regardless. "Don't let your education" is as destructive a philosophy as Epicureanism. However, it is not the study of textbooks which we need to augment, but the study of ourselves: why we are here and where we are going. "Know thyself" is a prerequisite to ^h^t ing our course for today or for forty years hence. The youth revival is our affair. Professors and their books are to be of secondary importance for at least one week Here IS our chance for an introspective survey. May we do the fee luring for once—to ourselves; and say, with Holmes: Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul. As the swift seasons roll I Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, I Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea. —W.R.G. Notorious Hurricane Of Thirty-Eight By Bill Rimmer (Ed. Note: Bill Rimmer is an ex-member of the fighting U. S. Marines. Who are they? Ask the Japs!) To him who heeds the call of the open sea, the famous hurricane of 1938 will be long rernembered. I had the oppor tunity of steaming through its very raging heart. My ship, the U. S. S. Honolulu, steamed out of Portsmouth, England, en- route to New York City. From the start of the cruise our skipp©r kn©w that to bring his ship to her home port would be a tough assignment. In the ship's hull was twenty-five million dollars in gold from the English government, sent for safe keeping in Fort Knox. Only one of the three screws was turning because of an affected steam-turbine. Germany had just marched into Czechoslovakia. Weather forecasts announced that an unusually fierce hurricane was raging in the North Atlantic. The war department issued orders for our ship to proceed home north of the regular sea lane in order to avoid any un- forseen encounter with some belligerent ship. This would put us into the very heart of the (Continued on Page 3) WINDSWEPT By Mary Ellen Chase On the title page of Wind swept, these words are quoted from Sir Thomas Brown: "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." Miss Chase gives us a picture of life, life as it con be and life as it should be—a picture o:: the genuine and desirable emotions in man. Windswept is a novel of Maine. Its setting is a "wid s-weep of barren coast land. Miss Chase's own home is in just such a place, and it is not surprising that she should write about this locale. The essence of the story is this: Philip Morston buys an untouched stretch of land on the Maine coast and builds a home there. He wants to get away from the things of the world. Philip Marston's married life had been unhappy, emc now that his wife is dead he wonts to "make up" for his previous discontentment. His only child is a son, John. Very close to him are two Bohemian lads whom he adopted and set up in a small business in the is called Windswept." The story might have been called The House of Morston, for it is a story of Philip's close friends and de scendants. John Morston is not very old when his father dies. His friend, Jan, the Bohemian lad, is indeed a comfort to him iri the time of grief. But the story takes us on, and a year later (Continued on Page 4) SHE SNOOI TO CONQUL By Crackle B gorsh—all this snow wind is freezing me to da, A little bit south—^peria that's where I long to be this kind of weather. But tli are still a few who still holj. the old adage: "I've got''' love to keep me warm." 0 i! cold day there's nothing lib Take, for instance, the 5^ of Harris and Anderson. FWi' ces was very well squireoari: the latest Asheville concertapr none other than the inimitdun Henry. Henry appears tos g very adept at the art of beauur as well as bowing. 3 a He wasn't the only fasc0i°^ ing fiddler on that bus. Ann thinks that David cut‘1^ f nasty string, too. Or at he has very definite erttraetP®'^ Too bad he didn't ride ^ on the same bus, but he^®” to next time! >ar Even the loquacious Trf made a hit at the concert.^^ any rate—while he waited^Y, the home bus, which was r® he was heard muttering—"/p® I could have gone to j. Wilma." (1!??) To terminate this report Bq the concert, the PhiladelRmi symphony Orchestra "O' c forth" while "Shorty" Wilidm- burned over what she terJDc cm "unjust" article inserted,:ioc an anonymous author in lay last Hilltop. Quoth "ShoiVe: Miller may be old news ^n: le s still good news." I gifep' that definitely establis Ac "Shorty." £jd Killian now seems to bs ° his Wash out on a P J. ( definitely. Westmoreland se« an to be doing very well ^^e said Killian and one of He well known knights of ’eh, dining hall. rerk Elaine is still worryi Job afraid that the salt will notwn passed to Charlie as sooK^® he asks for it. Sh "Chick" ■was really iii^hu flutter, judging from the 'dub. she left glee club when ToiH Co showed up Wednesday. ®h 1 Who missed Maguire ol'®^b^‘^ much at the Howard Ro!'^®Jy B.T.U. social last Satui^® s night? Dorcas missed hirfl (Continued on Page 3) Ma >ne MUSIC N0TE5 )oth Its This is just to remind to that the orchestra—althou4^u doesn't quite come up to me Philadelphia orchestra in to sonnel and performance — working hard as usual to I sent a good program lats*| this semester. The ensemble, which j eludes 1st and 2nd vio viola, cello, cmd piano, is. pected to make its first apP emee in chapel very soon. J Cing is working with that twice a week. Speaking of ensembl what s this we hear about ensemble" playing on varsity show? The glee club is preparii’* ine program which will, heard on the M.H.C. MoU night radio program sP soon. This feature promis®^ be very entertaining.
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