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Practically all colleges, and many high schools, have a per
iodical which is more or less the product of the students. Such
a publication serves a number of purposes. It gives interested
students artual newspaper experience, serves as an outlet for
those wishing to write, and is a medium of publicity for the
school. The degrees of excellence of school papers vary. Some
high school papers surpass college rivals in contents and attrac
tiveness; other college newspapers maintain superior standards
in every respect.
Fifty years ago school publications bore dignified names and
were literary in content. In a few colleges this standard is still
upheld, but in all too many instances it has given way to the
modern campps sheet of Questionable moral and educational
value. The Hilltop, which had its inception more than fortv
vears ago as an occasional bulletin and assumed its present
newspaper status in 1926, has had an unusual record and has
maintained a standard of rather uniform excellence for which
the College mav well be grateful. With only infreauent sallies
into trivial and obiectionable material, the successive editorial
staflFs have upheld the traditions and fostered the ideals of a
true Christian college. The better things have consistentlv been
given their rightful place of prominence; and through the
vears The Hilltop has been a lifting, inspiring force. We
wish for it a permanent life of increasing usefulness.
—Dr. R. L. Moore,
President Emeritus.
HILLTOP—PAGE FOUR
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