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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C.
Nov. 11,19V. 11. IS
Q'he Hilltop
PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, N. C.
Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the Postoffice
at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Pub
lished semi-monthly during the college year.
Subscription Rate Year $1.00
STAFF
Editor Peggy Jones
Associate Editor Gerry Fossum
Sports Editor Paul Barwick
Advertising Managers Winnie Pringle - A1 Bright
Circulation Manager Marianne Summers
Exchange Editor Peggy Lucas
Managing Editor Elizabeth Bridges
CONTRIBUTORS
Ettie Jean Johnson - Jo Sloan - Bill Bennett - Earline Collier
Elaine Gibson - Winnie Pringle
Volume XXIV October 28, 1949 Number 3
On So4Aj-Ui^ And Reo/pUncj. A
Oj^ HecjAet
With the surrounding hillsides painted in a real picture
of autumn and harvest, it is fitting and timely that we
consider our harvest—not in terms of corn and pumpkins,
but in terms of accomplishment and gain—or loss.
Nature has produced a bountiful harvest this season.
Winter cribs and storehouses are in no way barren. Apply
this idea to our college life at present, if you will. Is our
harvest bountiful or barren?
There is nothing so sad as the picture of one who
suddenly awakes from his daily living to discover within
himself a barren harvest of regret. Time is the stuff that
life is made of. It is far too precious to waste in careless,
thoughtless, aimless living.
Awaken now! Let us search ourselves. Specifically
speaking, we have “sown” our first half-semester
averages. There is yet another to come. Will it again
be bountiful—or barren?
9n And
Recelue SUcutAcAl 9n Heit^An
As a group of us were eating supper , Sunday night,
who should amble up, looking rather wet and tired out,
but one of our B. S. U. delegates, home from Winston
Salem and a grand time at the convention?
Cornering him, we eagerly got the details of his week
end trip as follows:
After a rather damp reception (it had been raining all
the way to Winston Salem), the students attended their
first service, held in Winston Salem’s First Baptist
Church, and enjoyed a fellowship service afterwards. It
seems that a real magician was a feature of the fellow
ship hour, and amazed everyone with demonstrations of
his psychic powers.
Said our student, while describing one of his mind
reading feats, “I sure wouldn’t mind having some of that
talent around mid-term test time.”
Saturday, the main day of the convention, was fair
and sunny, and the weather was just right for a full
program of interesting events. Among the events of the
day were the song service, followed by announcements
and a speaker, and a meditation period.
After these exercises there were discussion groups, in
which members of each group discussed the speakers of
the morning and their topics.
At the night services, delegates heard several mission
speakers, among whom was the editor of the “Com
mission.”
The special music during these services was presented
by students. One soloist, who thrilled her audience with
her beautiful singing, was a negro student, and one of
the most accomplished student speakers was also colored.
“The atmo;phere couldn’t have been kinder or friend
lier,” said our interviewee, when telling us of the inter
racial plan upon which the convention was conducted.
“It was inspiring to see that different races could get
together to work and worship as they did. All the students
seemed to welcome everyone as a Christian brother.”
Asked about his trip home, our friend could only in
form us that again he enjoyed “showers of blessing,”
and that among all the things he learned at the conven
tion, one of the most outstanding was “not to hitchhike
in the rain.”
"^wo- 'Wodfl... /tnd Beii
We’re so human and childish we all naturally want
our way in most things that concerns us.
A pet gripe on any campus, we infer, is not enough
school spirit. Coaches, athletes and cheerleaders expect
the student body to be a 100 percent cheering squad dur
ing game seasons. Publication heads, choir and play di
rectors, club ramrods, house-council and B.S.U. leaders,
all are equally entitled to the wholehearted support of
all who make up our number.
When you’re tardy about returning your picture for
the yearbook (or worse still not having it made), you
show poor school spirit as much as by not rooting for
your ball team. When you make unreasonable demands
of the working student in dining hall or dormitory,, you
display poor sportsmanship. Are you careless about keep
ing clean and attractive your living quarters, dormitory
entrances, and the campus generally? Lasting impres
sions are formed by the visitor by the way we keep our
building and grounds. Are you courteous and friendly to
the stranger or returning alumni? More things are
wrought by courtesy than most of us dream of.
Let’s make “our way” the best way before we insist
on having it. —Campbell College Creek Pebbles.
FRANKLY SPEAKING
Wliick Way TlieWmi?
Fall is here. The wind is blowing. The trees bow to
its force. Leaves abruptly fall to the waiting earth.
How easily each one seems to blow from its summer home.
Before a leaf falls, it will bsnd to the left or to the
right, up or down. Its direction of bending simply
depends on the direction of the wind, the opposing force.
Now it flutters in the breeze no longer. It just falls.
Leaves have no choice; they must fall. Each leaf has
fulfilled its purpose in living. The brief period is over;
the leaves die.
Youth has a choice and it does not have to fall. Each
individual, like a leaf, can fulfill his purpose in life and
help himself, his community, his country, his world, yea.
the Kingdom of God.
A leaf cannot decide its fate, but an individual can.
By developing a strong, forceful character one can choose
whe.her he will bow to the wind or brace himself against
it. Ho\v? One may develop himself by losing himself in
prayer, work, play, thought,—and love. No one forces a
person to develop himself tO'the fullest possible extent;
yet no one is going'to force any person to be weak,
undependable, and shiftlers. There is a High Way and
a Low, but each individual decides the “way his soul
■ shall go.” Youth may choose whether it' will be the
“chaff that the wind driveth away” or “the tree planted
by the rivers of water.”
—Jeanne Ramsey, Guest Editor.
What’s 4 Solution To
This Timely tlnestionf
Every year there are many in college who seek to
answer for themselves the question, “How can I get the
greatest benefit from my college experience?” There is
no concrete solution for this problem, except as the
individual determines his own course and follows it, but
there are some valuable rules with which we may work
toward our goal.
Of these various maxims, models and guides there are
five outstanding ones given by the famous minister of
another generation, Jonathan Edwards. The following
five rules of conduct were his guides for a successful
life: (1) To live with all my might while I do live. (2)
Never to lose a moment of time. (3) Never to do any
thing which I would despise in another. (4) Never to do
anything out of revenge. (6) Never to do anything
which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of
my life.
We can see in Jonathan Edwards’ rules of conduct at
least two things which we might apply to our own lives.
His principles were definite and clearly defined. He
chose guides which challenged him to his highest ac
complishment; there was nothing suggestive of ease or
laxity in these regulations.
We, of course, must form our own standards, but in
their formnig it would be well to consider the value of
forming them on a high mental, moral, and spiritual
plane. “The men who try to do something and fail are
infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and
succeed.”
MEMORIES: The Hallowe’en parties and Edna Moor
eight-piece band; C-I society officers; the B.S.U. conve
tion; Tom Lovelace’s impersonations at Clio-Phi joi
meeting; home, sweet home; the leaves on all the tre
getting out of class for Laurel pictures; Mr. Jollej
clever (to say the least) performance in “The Red Velv
Goat.” “I’ll never again be able to regard him as t
teacher,” said one dreamy-eyed C-I.
HEARD IN THE AUDITORIUM: The boy who barl
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like a dog and pro'bably looks like one; the girl j.
whistles through her teeth; Gay Smith, laughing re
softly; Somebody singing “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”; Bi
to the
White’s portable radio; popcorn chomping; some poi
soul trying to hear what was going on in the movi
saying, “Shhhh!” ^Ithoug
lege sc
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS: Irving Watkins stopped it two a
on the campus the other day and asked us to printnbers c
retraction about his resemblance to David Matthews. Ttrs into
same day David asked us to do the same thing. Xn, wear
really don’t know why; they’re both so nice lookin on his
Oh, well, Irving is growing sideburns to help kill tie’s righ
lohn is
rh schoi
resemblance.
NOTE ON THE SILVERWARE SHORTAGE:
I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life;
I know that it sounds funny.
But it keeps them on my knife!
FAUX PAS OF THE MONTH: The other night Beti
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Houston received a telephone call asking her to sing
und fo,
church Sunday night. She asked who was calling
the reply was “Elwood” .... The last name was lost'^j-j^.
the buzzing of the phone. “Well, Elwood,” Betty
“I’m afraid I won’t have time to sing at anything tlinjg°. “
week. By the way, what’s your last name, Elwood?”
your harmony teacher, Elwood Roberts,” was the answe,„- ^
as he hung up. , ^
at his •
TO THOSE WHO LOSE THEIR BOOKS CONSTAN'
LY: Janet Minton seems tp have found the solution ^ ^
the problem of having h’er lost books returned. She ju'.
inserts a picture of her boyfriend in each of her 
and when they are found they are returned much mo"^L |
quickly than wdth just her name in them. r'TTVl
• SEEN AROUND THE CAMPUS: Betty Chambless ailvllV
Husky Sikes . . . Doris Shaffer’s family all the way fl'0'/\|\
Florida . . . people fighting to see the Laurel groiyK >
nictiires . . . atinles boiiorht in H • k
pictures . . . apples bought in town at nine pounds
a quarter . . . Celia Torres and Charlie Glanville , . . C-I TVIav-s P
sighing, “Only five weeks till Christmas holidays.” (BVeral t^
member, though', it’s less than two weeks till Thank,
ent for
giving, and we get a whole half-day off then!) Anticipinong tl
tory expressions in the hollow eyes of students awaitihxing j
mid-semester reports. Mid-semester exams account P all of
most of the gray hair overnight and the cheerfully muh report
bled greeting, “Duhhhh, hullo,” many people have latelitertain
... The divinely inspired love affairs on the campus. ;en in b
’ le boys i
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The college Alumnus is a member of a family. Evef®. ^he b
as the child grows into manhood or womanhood, moVi°^*^'on g
out of the physical bounds of the family circle, ®ohool
One ^ei
maintains the spiritual allegiance to the home, so shoiil^^ been
the college graduate regard his Alma Mater in gratefu’ hut ,
love and appreciation. This is the spirit that will inspi> U
Mars Hill College to greater fields of service in educatio“* a;
This is the spirit that will see her Christian influen' ^
spread beyond the local community to the state ai>'
nation. This is the spirit that your Alumni officers ur«^^ ^he 1
you to perpetuate, for in a very real and vital sense Parti
future of Mars Hill College belongs to her font)®’® Andy
students. Jug”