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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C. lon-M CThe Hilltop PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College Entered as second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the Postoffice at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published semi-monthly during the college year. Volume XXVII January 17. 1953 Number 8 _ Editor-in-Chief Margaret Johnston Associate Editor Harriett Rudd Managing Editor Anne Thompson Sports Editor Fred Young Advertising Manager Volina Dixon Assistant in Advertising Mary_ Jeanne Brown Circulation Manager Frieda Smithwick Assistant in Circulation Calvin Metcalf CONTRIBUTORS Paul Boyles, Wanda Chason, Mildred Scroggs, Helen Wood, Linda Bridgers, Carolyn Gragg, Sybil Lennon, Courtney Isenhour, Conrad Godshall, Richard Young, Sarah Adams, Joyce Ellis, and Frances Royal. march dgainsi Poliol More than 55,000 persons were struck by polio in 1952! A larger percentage of these were between the ages of 18 and 25 than in 1951. Thus, now more than ever, polio is attacking the college age group. With the danger being brought closer home, Mars Hill college stu dents will be given the opportunity to help guard against this ever-in creasing spread of polio when the March of Dimes drive is held on campus during the week of Janu ary 26-31. The March of Dimes fund provides financial aid to four out of five polio victims and some kind of service to all. the group inoculated. However, this experiment is only a step for ward in the march against polio. If research is to be carried further, a record response to the 1953 drive is necessary; for this year’s fund al ready has a debt of approximately $7,000,000, incurred from the 1952 epidemic, to pay off before help can be given to new victims and to research. In addition to the money which goes into the patient-aid program, funds from the March of Dimes are used in research. Just in the past two years experiments have been made with gamma globulin, a blood fraction containing anti bodies of all three types of polio, on children. These tests resulted in less infection of paralytic polio in Scholarship Counts A clean, fresh, white card lies in the permanent files of Mars Hill. On the top line is your name. Be neath it courses are listed, the courses that you and your adviser thought would prepare you best for what you plan to do with your life. The rest of the card is blank. With in the next few days, you will de termine what goes into some of those blank spaces. What is re corded there is important, for it is an indication not only of what you have learned in one semester at Mars Hill, but of your character as well. Someone is paying for your col lege education. Someone has enough faith in your character and ability to spend a lot of money pre paring you for a place in the world. Will you justify that faith? Or will you close your eyes, turn your back, and tell yourself that examinations and grades and scholarship are not important? They are important, perhaps far more so than you realize. Should you apply for a job, chances are that Watch and Pray The challenging month of Feb ruary brings on its wings one of the highlights for Mars Hill Col lege students. February 9-13 has been set aside as Religious Focus Week, and plans and preparations are being made that that week may be a successful one. Much depends upon the work done by each individual. How much time are you planning to give to the work? How faithful is your attendance going to be? How many hours are you resolved to spend in prayer that the week may be one of blessing for you? It is impera tive that much work be done. It is also necessary that much service be rendered, but far more important than zealous service is whether you as an individual are rightly related to God through His Son during the days of emphasis ahead, during the important Now. Your singing will be an unblessed song if your heart is not filled with the melody of God's eternal love song for the world. Your prayers will be of no avail if there is not within your soul that feeling of kinship and friendship with God. Your visit ing will be fruitless if you do not possess that spirit of understanding love and Christ-like encourage ment. , Christian fascination is not to be substituted for real Christian ex perience, and unless your Christian experience has brought you into that right relationship with God, your service will be useless. Be not the bearer of a guilty soul when the week’s activities are concluded because you did not do your part. Do not disappoint God. Do not disappoint your friends. Do not disappoint yourself. Make Relig ious Focus Week a time of spir itual deepening for you. There Are Those Who Are Happy; There Are Those Who Take Exams There are some people who are still able to look at the world through rose colored glasses—these are the people who look upon the delightful seasons of spring, summer, fall, and winter; then there are students. We have no rose colored glasses (What’s more some don’t have glasses at all). We look upon the year as consisting of (first semester) tests, tests, tests, tests, and examinations; (second — The March of Dimes fund also goes to provide scholarships and fellowships to students training in fields of medicine connected with polio, such as physical therapy, oc cupational therapy,pediatrics, orth opedics, physical medicine, and medical social work. Thus, through aid to victims, research, and educa tion the March of Dimes is doing much to lick this dragon called polio. Won’t you do your part to further this worthy cause? Remember—"The 1953 March of Dimes must outpace the march of polio!” you will be asked if you are a col lege graduate. Your prospective employer, in many cases, will want to know what sort of a record you established in college. What will he find? If your record is not what it should be and you are turned down, can you ever be sure that your record was not behind the employer’s decision? semester) te'ts, te:.ts, te.sts, tests, and examinations; then summer school with just a calendar of more t:sts. (By this time, some have finally caught on; they go home and during their remaining life boast of the way they straightened out Mars Hill!) We remaining students have only one consolation and that is that "It came to pass.” (Note the pronoun is not "we”.) In view of the effect of examina tions, students may be divided into several groups. There are those with down-in-the-mouth attitudes— that is, the answers are somewhere down there, but they just won’t come. (And some that do come up, really look just as if they’d been picked from a hollow tooth.) Yes, these are the students who have really studied and burned the mid night oil—these are the ones who have crammed and crammed and stuffed and stuffed till they have eaten all their suitemates’ food; yet they continue to study though they have nothing to nibble on. (Noble, aren’t they.) And if you’ve ever Then, too, most students are in college because they want to be there, not because they were forced. Is it reasonable to waste your own time and effort without accomplish ing anything? A college education is a privilege that is net open to everyone. You who have it are lucky. You live in a country where it is possible, and you were able to g't financial back ing from someone. An examination is not a useless torture device; it is the best method known to find out how you are progressing in that ed ucation. You can pass any exam ination if you really want to pass it; those who work don’t fail. Don t waste your chance at that privilege. Have you ever seen the sky? That beautiful arch over your head. Which talks to you and talks to me In the most exciting days. And which at night full of stars seems to tells us many things: Tales of Kings and Fairy’s tales. Like the tales of the Thousand Nights. It inspires the poet to write his verse, It inspires me and you to laugh and cry. So often we laugh when our heart is sobbing, So often we cry even full of happiness. Can you explain it, my child? Can you? The mysterious things of life, All that is grand, all that is great. And all the profundities of life. Why is it all so complicated? Have I still not seen the light? Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow you have exams. (Those without mealbooks, please disregard first word!!!) My heart is sobbing like a child. I do not even know why I cry: My eyes are tired of so many tears. What are the sadnesses that sorrow me? Perhaps tomorrow' I will understand; I’ll not tire of imploring The Lord. —by Leila Cassis News' Bril The Hilltop has a nal circulation,now'adays. Recj paper received a letter Irvin F. Barger, class of nus, who is now at TiJ Force Base in Fairfield, enclosing a page from thel section of the San Pram aminer. On it was a sectid lected jokes compiled by Bl terson, containing a joke in one of this year’s editio Hilltop, complete with cri A number of students from the Christmas holida] ing diamonds. Among Margaret Jean Kraft, Jo Marie Kornegay, Sadie Dixl Copeland. During the holidays Ps tower became the bride i Jackson. They live in Inrnlu Also married were John*o> and Mary Jane Lovingood, an’s College student who 'ft- fer to Mars Hill for the semester. During the holiday seaso 11 tried to study in a bed of cracker crumbs while hunger pangs gnawed at your 200 pound frame, you can readily sympathize with these un fortunates. So they study and study and soon are filled with facts up to their ears. Then on examination (they don’t know whether to blame it on that peanut butter or not) the an swers get stuck and just won’t come out; so they grumble about these horrid teachers who fail people when "they know I know it.” Then there are the ones with the sort - of - crooked - mouth attitudes. These poor souls are the ones who go into hibernation. They devote an entire afternoon to writing their loved ones back home and else where to tell them that the hand of fate has reached down to bring forth those dreaded examinations and that from henceforth there will be no communication to the out side world so that all time and en ergy may be applied with the hope of altering the present outlook on (Continued on Page 4) former Mars Hill studeri acl seen on campus. Among thC^. Robert Shaw, Ethel Evatif^^^ Taylor, and Iris Summers. ^ he Talmadge Penland, f >• Mars Hillian, recently '8 an award from Leo Pritefan directing the Appalachian 1 sic Tournament. Both he and his wife,. attended Mars Hill and prominent in extracurricu ph tivities. Talmadge was pi of the International K' f ■ *8- Club and the Philomathia^^] rart' Society. During his two years a' lachian, he has engaged in? a sics and Debating and is of the Baptist Student well as an orientation a> Recently he was elected in> ly to succeed in his senior T J Hook. Siijdk A biography of interest tertainment, which can found in the library, is for the Crown Prince, by Gray Vining. It is her ac^'^jg four remarkable years at anese court as tutor to the,i Prince of Japan. In 1946 Mrs. Vining, age and a creative mind, into a strange land, povertf^ en after a disastrous war, a court hedged about wi^.^ monial restrictions. She appointed by his Imperial F ness, the Emperor of Japa6>'^ tor the young Crown Pria' icth hito in English; for he waf®^ son, the future Emperor, ^'’vl about western civilization. Her account is colorful aP nating, spangled with the Pri touch of a person who writer her own experiences of of a broken, bewildered nat^ growth of friendship bets''^ met bitter enemies, and th^^^ opment of a boy into a young man.
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