4, October 21, 1944.
THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA.
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KNOW YOUR CAMPUS
THE LIBRARY
By Eunice Smith
“Ignorance is the curse of God,
knowledge the wing wherewith
we fly to heaven.”
Through the climbing plant
that twists and twines its way
over the gray granite rock of
the doorway, these words stand
forth to greet the eye and chal
lenge the mind of each student
as he makes his way into the Es-
tella Nissen Montague Library.
Mars Hill College was well over
I fifty years old, however, before
' this building, beautiful in its
quaintness, became a part of her
: campus.
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^ During the early life of the
: college, any available room hav
ing a table, a few chairs, and a
' few shelves containing some
, books, magazines, and news-
1 papers served as the library. In
i the early nineties, however,
! “Uncle Jacob’s” library came
^ into existence. Through the ef-
forts and contributions of Mr.
|| Jacob Sams, all the books belong-
j ing to the college were taken to
3 the east room on the second floor
of the present music building.
Mr. Sams kept adding books from
t time to time, and in this manner
"j the college was served for sev
eral years.
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The college kept growing, and
somewhat after the turn of the
n century the boys’ literary socie
ties, the Philomathian and the
Euthalian, with the aid of the
girls’ societies, brought their sev
eral cases of books, and these
^ni'were merged with those already
,hii belonging to the college. The
ji( center room upstairs in Moore
he Hall was the place selected for
t'the new library—Moore 31. Thus
the room where “Pop” String-
vg field now does his pictures, was,
h in 1910, the college library. The
room was equipped with shelves
to hold all the books possible, a
rack with several newspapers,
j^rfand a stand for the magazines.
Just after America entered the
first World War, Colonel H. Mon
tague, in honor of his wife, Es-
tella Nissen Montague, a mem
ber of the prominent Nissen fam
ily of Winston - Salem, gave
?5^000 to the college for the con
struction of the first unit of the
;present library. Mrs. Montague
|Was to know nothing of the build
ing being erected in her honor,
and in the spring of 1919, Col-
.oriel Montague suggested to his
^wife that they attend the com-
EH
mencement exercises that year at
Mars Hill College.
On Thursday morning, May 1,
1919, at 10:00 o’clock, the dedi
catory address of the Estella
Nissen Montague Library was
made in the college chapel by the
late Dr. H. A. Brown, of Winston-
Salem; and, of course. Colonel
and Mrs. Montague were guests
of honor. In his address. Dr.
Brown paid a fine tribute to Mrs.
Montague and to all womanhood.
Fourteen years later, in 1933,
sufficient money was raised to
enlarge the library. The refer
ence room and storeroom were
added. The building is fireproof
throughout, with steel shelves
and stacks.
The library contains at present
20,000 volumes besides pam
phlets and current periodicals.
During the past year 1,586 vol
umes have been added. The most
recent contributions made have
been a ?2,500 gift from the Car
negie Foundation of New York,
and a $400.00 check from Frank
lin P. Drake, of Atlanta, with
which to purchase books. Among
other gifts have been collections
from Walt. N. Johnson, M. A.
Adams, M. O. Carpenter, A. B.
Smith, and Mrs. Bertha Brad
shaw Carr. The entire library of
Rev. James Long, and collections
presented by Robert Percy Wal
ker, Ellerbee Chamblis, A. E.
Brown, and a “Southern Book
shelf,” given by the Asheville
Chapter of the United Daughtei-s
of the Confederacy, and added
to from time to time, are avail
able for general use. The Car
negie Endowment for Inter
national Peace sends to the col
lege each year a number of books
valuable to students of inter
national relations.
Recently Rev. E. A. Long, of
Winston-Salem, gave a complete
set of the Harvard classics. The
latest contribution came last
week in the form of a check for
$25.00 from Ensign George Cul
pepper, a former student at Mars
Hill. This money is to be used to
purchase books in memory of
Ensign Culpepper’s cousin. Lieu
tenant Caughey Culpepper, also
a former student, who was killed
in the retaking of Guam.
The library is efficiently ad
ministered by two well-trained
librarians and twelve student as
sistants. The facilities are supple-
Harris Injured
In Grid Opener
Alton Harris, 172-pound Cres-
well, N. C., blocking back on the
Wolves squad, suffered a severe
leg injury during the first few
minutes of play in the Wolves-
Cavaliers match Saturday, and
will be benched for at least two
weeks.
Miss Eva Brewer, college nurse,
said it would be “unsafe” for
Harris to return to the gridiron
within less than two weeks, and
expressed doubt that he could re
turn to the squad even by that
time. The specific nature of his
injury was not disclosed.
Harris played on the Creswell
eleven four years before coming
to Mars Hill, where he made the
first string of the Wolves.
mented by exchange privileges
with other libraries and through
the courtesy of the Sondley Li
brary of Asheville, containing
valuable items to which the stu
dents and members of the faculty
are given access.
But once again Mars Hill has
found that she has outgrown her
library. Preparations are now be
ing made for the building of a
new library, which will be con
structed as soon as suft'icient
funds and materials are avail
able.
Thus the history of the library
at Mars Hill has been the story of
men and women who sought to
prove that books are really a
“finer world within the world.”
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By Sigsbee Miller
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YOUR GRADING
SCHOLASTICALLY
Is Your Job!
But
A-RATING CLOTHES
Are Our Job!
Eon Marche'
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There’s a war on and Mars
Hill gridmen must play in their
own backyard until Herr Shickel-
grueber decides to stay in
his .. . That’s the answer of
.A.thletic Director Anne Clayton
to rampant campus reports of
impending pigskin crusades on
Brevard and Asheville. Last year,
the Board of Trustees turned
thumbs down on requests for
inter-school football matches, and
a ruling to that effect was put
into force for the duration. Hold
over C-II’s suffered a convenient
lapse of memory, and the C-I’s
just didn’t know . . . Reports that
a Mars Hill aggregation would
meet an Asheville high school
B-string today went the rounds
early this week . . . The Mars
Hill - Brevard tilt was to have
been a gala Thanksgiving affair,
with the student body turning out
en masse in true alma maternal
spirit to back up their gridders.
No official confirmation has
been forthcoming on that re
port that all who survive Ed
Dunlap’s kill-us-thenics will
be recommended for the
Order of the Purple Heart,
but Washington’s working
on it.
Here are some of the likeliest
looking cage prospects from
Coach Harvey Lance’s corner:
Owen Duck, Billy Todd, Ed
Schrum, Milton Bliss, Ed Dunlap,
Paul Gilliam, Jack Phillips, Leo
Baird, Wayne Edwards, Jay Kee-
ter, Boyce Medlin, and Edward
Landers.
Tumbling practice is being
held daily but there’s been no
organization so far . . . The
track and swimming pool will
be opened early in the
CAVALIERS DEFEAT WOLVES
2-0 AS 1944 SEASON OPENS
On the strength of a second quarter touchback and a de
fense strategy that held the Wolves on the five-yard line
for four downs, Pet Anderson’s favored Cavaliers sqeezed
out a 2-0 decision last Saturday in the opener of the intra
mural football series.
Wingback Boyd Allen (16), veteran of three years on
the first squad at Rowland High, ran the ball to the five-
yard line for the Wolves for a first-down in the last few
minutes of the third period, but the Cavalier defense line
was unyielding.
spring . . . New definitions:
Weird Jim Taylor’s softball
fielding. Spontaneous com
bustion—when Earl Miller
and Paul T h o m p s o n
meet . . . Their captain was
leading the Wolves on twi
light prowls last week; the
gridiron wasn’t even in sight.
Coach Lance thinks Boyd Ayres’
sneak play through the Cavaliers’
line in the Saturday clash was
“the honey” of the game . . . “All
of them packed a heavy punch,”
says Lance, “and the spirit was
excellent. Paul (Thompson) and
Rex Allen did a nice job and An
derson got in some nice running.”
Admitting with her char
acteristic modesty that she
did a “pretty good job” on
Saturday, Evelyn Brookshire
has announced that she will
sacrifice her Chief Cheer
leader (Wolves) berth to
Dub (Acuff) Lane, because
she th inks he’s good and for
other reasons.
Anne Hendrix has done nothing
—more than usual—but thinks no
column would be complete with
out her name.
Coach Clayton
P I a n s Tearns
Coach Anne Clayton, girls’
athletic director, is looking for
ward to a most successful year
with the physical education
classes ^ for 1944-45. Because of
the increase in size, the classes
have been divided into teams for
four major sports: Basketball,
softball, volleyball, and tennis.
These inter-class teams are en
thusiastic and friendly competi
tion is speedily rising.
Miss Clayton is expecting to
find new outstanding athletes in
the group of girls who are jun
iors and is working on an intra
mural program for competitive
sports between the two classes.
Equal opportunity will be given
to all students for participation
in some sport on the campus.
The Ayres - Paul Thompson
combination bore the brunt of
Wolves’ offensive, leading deep
thrusts into the Cavaliers’ line.
Pet Anderson and his co
captain, 155-pound Rex Allen,
led the Cavaliers’ attack.
No schedule for later games
had been announced at press
time, but it was reported that
weekly classes between the two
squads will be booked. The line
ups:
Cavaliers (2) Pos. Wolves (0)
Hutchins re Greene
Morton le Trammel
Sanders It Booe
McLeod rt Flack
Wallace Ig Fitts
White rg Ford
Tilson c Keeter
Allen wb Ayres
Jordan bb Harris
Henderson .... fb Davis
Anderson tb Thompson
Substitutes: Cavaliers - Miller,
Westmoreland; Wolves - Acker,
Rice.
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