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Page 2. THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, 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 Post Office at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued semi-monthly during the college year. Subscription Rate Year $1.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS STAFF Editor-in-Chief Sigsbee Miller Associate Editor Ed Long Managing Editor Peggy Chesson Sports Editors (Boys) Bill Everhart . Jerry Marion Sports Editor (Girls) Louvene Jordan Feature Editor Phyllis Ann Gentry Business Manager Dovie Tallent Art Editor Imogene Warth Advertising Manager Lib Foster Assistant Advertising Manager Jean McCurry Circulation Manager Mary Evelyn Crook Typist Tommie Wright CONTRIBUTORS Inez Wyatt . Lois Harris . Ruth Forester . Tommy Stapleton Mary Lela Sparks . Lamar Brooks . Jerry Saville Advisor Ramon DeShazo Volume XX. December 8, 1945. Number 6. Truth, Purity, and Fidelity- For fifty-five years Philomathia has stood as a beckoning light, which has served to illumine paths that have led people through archways of lasting friendships, broadening cultural experiences, and enriching spiritual and mental activity. ■ The first president of Philomathia was Douglas Tweed, of Mar shall. Many men have expounded themselves with zeal and vigor in debating, oration, and declaiming. The first debate query of Philo mathia was: “Resolved, that the Government of the United States will pass away as other great governments of antiquity.” After* a heated argument the affirmative won. People at that time came from miles around to attend the society and to take part in the debates. Great men have gone out from the Hall of Truth, Purity, Fidelity, and taken their places as leaders all over the world. Dr. O. E. Sams was one of the first members of Philomathia, but fifty-five years have not erased his enthusiasm and spirit. A number of the mem bers of our present faculty are Philomathians. We are proud of the lives of these great men and proud that the spirit of Philomathia has never died within them. For the Philomathians long since past and the future Phis, who wait unknowing, Philomathia is ever striv ing to hold high their ideals of Truth, Purity, and Fidelity, which are so far from the reach of the impure world. —J. S. Meeting An Emergency- Fireanns, perhaps wisely, are outlawed on the Mars Hill campus, but if they were not The Hilltop would suggest a 21-gun salute for Miss Eva Brewer and her brace of emergency Florence Nightingales who have so efficiently handled the epidemic of influenza. Working tirelessly under the strain of the largest outbreak of illness among the students in 23 years. Miss Brewer has superintended the creation of two emergency infirmaries (after hall space and her own room in the Robin.son Memorial Infirmary had proved in adequate) and the recruiting of student and faculty aide.s, to whom she accords a large measure of the credit for keeping the epidemic in the “mild” category. At no time was she nonplused by the giant task that loomed before her, even when the number of students on her official sick-list reached a peak of 75. Editorial bouquets are in order, too, for Mother Sparks, who added to her duties of being boys’ housemother the job of attending the boys placed in the gymnasium and those who remained in their rooms; and for these students who devoted several hours daily to helping in the infirmaries while continuing with their full class schedule: Dorothy Edwards, Eunice Robinson, Marcum Nance, Rosalie Harrison, and Louise King. A very special bouquet goes to Miss Caroline Biggers, dean of women, whose practical assertion, “I prefer treating influenza cases to an outbreak of hysteria,” had a sobering effect upon students among whom rumors of pending disaster were rampant. Hei-s was the task of putting into practice the very apropos axiom that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” There are others to whom great credit is due. Not the least of these are the girls in New Dorm, who watched their beds removed to the playroom, and with the spirit that is so typical of Mars Hill, cheerfully bunked for the night with a suite-mate. —S. M. Attention, Saints and Sinners- Last Sunday night, two of the religious leaders of the campus made an amusing spectacle of themselves in a Fellowship Hour per formance. Their performance—a modern, coarse rendition of a very old and sacred hymn—was hardly so amusing. A few weeks ago, some of the more devout students expressed themselves as shocked at some skits given at an after-church Fellow ship Hour. There was nothing at all religious in the program, as would have befitted a Sunday night affair, they protested, and sum marily left the auditorium. Which program would you have walked out on? —E. L. & S. M. /! tdfdUoH 9*t Chaplain Waldo D. Early, fath er of Jane Early and former Mars Hillian, writes an account of his visit to a Japanese home and says that both sides are learning that “friendships may arise between erstwhile enemies.” Pastor Yuya, Chinese preacher and friend of Chaplain Early, took him and a group of soldiers to the outskirts of Tokyo where they visited the “home of the humble working man, Mr. Ando and his wife. He earns his daily living by toil, and yet, because within him is a great soul and love for the beautiful, he is writ ten up in Who’s Who in Japan, as an artist and poet. The paint ings he and his wife have made adorn the modest little home,” writes Chaplain Early. “At the door, which occupies' a whole side of the room, we re move our shoes in true Japanese style. We are furnished scanty house shoes to keep our feet warm on a cool October day. Cushions are provided for our sitting comfort (on the floor). A scroll is brought and each of the five American guests is asked to write on it. Each tells that he loves the Lord and wishes for true Christian Brotherhood be tween the Americans and Japa nese. Each of the natives writes in their language on a scroll that becomes a prized possession of the Chaplain. “The little tables are brought and we sit and eat rice and beans (everyone uses chop sticks). Also there are boiled sweet potatoes, boiled chestnuts, and green tea (plain boiling water poured over tea leaves). Did I say there was much bowing upon entering and leaving the home? (Oh, my aching back!)” Mary Lela Sparks Chaplain Early explains that gifts of artistic woi*k and lines of poetic thoughts which are pre sented to the guests are inspired by the beauty of a persimmon tree in the yard of the home. On the paintings of the persimmon appeared the following poem which has been translated from the original Japanese. In the small spring (Beautiful autumn day—or In dian summer) We welcome our friends from afar. The color of the persimmon Shows pride in having friends. There is no w*ar in our meeting today. The persimmon shows we are only one. We can hear the sound of boiling water in our poor residence. And can see the persimmon ripening. Fall is deepening into winter. And we welcome you heartily. All the world has become One peaceful autumn. Chaplain Early closes his story by saying, “The Japanese friends had done their best to make ‘friends from afar’ spend a pleas ant afternoon. We agreed that they succeeded.” —Phyllis Ann Gentry, Dashing ai’ound the campus with too much to do, and yet al ways taking on more work, is typical of Mary Lela Sparks. Her interests are so varied and “fasci nating” that one begins to wonder if she isn’t “master” of all trades instead of “Jack.” Mary Lela came to school here in the fall semester of 1943. Aft er being away a year, she re turned the spring semester of last year. Within a few weeks after her matriculation, the rope of gloiy threw her on the peak of success in a Forensic Convention in Charlotte . She triumphantly bore away the highest honor for women’s orations. Not only that, but she stole the show in debat ing. She came back to summer school, and there she outstood all others. Mary Lela is just one who stands out in any crowd or situ ation. Mediocrity to her is abso lutely intolerable. She believes in doing the best with what one has. This year has given her bounti ful opportunities to demonstrate her gifts. She is Y.W.A. corre sponding secretary, literary editor of the Laurel, reporter for the Hilltop, member of the Scrib- lerus Club, member of the Dramatics Club, and Anniversarj* President of the Clio Literal^’ So ciety. She is a speech major, but she dreams of a lovely little cot tage with a husband and a “pas- sell” of intelligent children. These are but a few of the accomplish ments of Miss Sparks. She wand ered over here from the tourist center of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The people of Spruce Pine are very proud of their brain child. Last year, just before the close of school, she spoke to the Rotary Club. They have not yet ceased applauding. Ef ag ornac lions’ fee, f 6 ya 'orkin -oggin Lamar Judson Brooks H( ,'he gi You may see him in the pulj^g expounding elaborately upon so item of theology; you may It him emerging from the B. S.' ° room where the council just n>^’ * you may see him lounging, is doubtful, about the campus:, you may see him behind t' white desk in the Clio-Phi 1 I"i presiding in his best regal niljartii ner . . . But wherever you him you immediately recog^o^gg him as Lamar Judson BroWinfr You may or may not recogfl ~ the “Judson”. X Lamar blossomed forth in ’ Edison, Ga., high school wb' he out-classed nearly all cois in taking high honors. He ^h president of his dramatics for two years and official rer"® ^ sentative of his school in st”'*®® forensics meets. He was sal»^®®^' torian of his class and also ceived the Senior Activii^Etici Medal and a science award ‘"® commencement. Later that year Mars Hill college was duced to him, and almost at .oy honors began piling upon shoulders. He was elected vi^®®^® president of the Junior class * A president of his Sunday Seb^® Ei class. He joined the Ministe^°np conference, and has now bffeei preaching over two years. Sec*'*'S t semester saw him elected prI*eco dent of the I. R. C. and of ^Eiit Training Union. Later he elected first vice-president ®Efic the B. S. U. and vice-presiJ* TI for the Philomathian C-I te*cieti This year the Phis, sensing *Char mar’s ability for leadership, eRlngn ed him president for the most 'vice- portant term of the year. Croo His plans for the future tarie elude finishing at Baylor, prO'John ing all the while. Though d* Gi things temporarily hold his at^ E>ers, tion, the ministry has demand deti his all, and it is there that E>ers feels he belongs.
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