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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C. January 25. 195 Jan PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College QThe Hilltop k Second-Class mail privileges authorized at Mars Hill, ““ N. C., February 20, 1926, at the Post Office at Mars \ Hill, North Carolina, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published semi-monthly during the college year. Volume XXXn January 25. 1958 Old Dream Revived From recent reports the experimental planes seem to fall into two categories. One is the flying motorcycle powered by a light engine; the other is a flying bicycle powered by pedal pushing. Komsomol Pravda had to concede that the experiments with ornithop- ters got no place in other countries a half century or more ago. But Pravda went on to say that interest had been revived in Russia because a flapping wing plane could do things no conventional plane could do. These planes would be unmatched for short flights; they could land and take off anj'where; and they have a lifting power three or four times greater than others. Russia’s research is in the hands of the “committee on bird-like flight,” which is attached to the Soviet Union’s voluntary society for cooperation with the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The news agency complained that the committee is handicapped by a lack of funds, a common complaint among early inventors in other lands as well as present ones in the United States. Since inventors in years past have failed to get their planes with flapping wings off the ground, it remains to be seen if Russia can do any better. If she does, she will be one more step ahead of the United States in her race for world-wide supremacy. Maybe the U. S. would do well to start looking into the past for the unperfected things such as the ornithopter and begin to perfect them. Remember, Students'. During the past weeks there has been a situation on campus which has greatly disturbed the faculty and staff, particularly the library staff. This situation is the alarming number of library books which are kept overdue each week. Perhaps the students do not realize that this is causing grave concern, but it is. Each time a book is kept overdue, it costs a great deal of time and mone}'. It costs money to have someone write out fine slips because it takes time for whicli the library' staff members are paid. It also costs the students money in the fines which have to be paid for the overdue books. In another way it takes time in that there is probably someone wanting and needing this overdue book. There is only one person that can help this situation and that person is the individual student. This situation should be a matter of person concern. A student who has overdue books is apt to be the student who is careless in other matters, such as paying infirmary bills, college bills, and other personal debts. Each student should take the responsibility to return books when they are due and to pay bills when they are due. In checking out a library book, the student is pledging to return the book on or before the date given on the date slip. Remember, students, that the matter of the library is a matter of honor. Return your books promptly. 'Phe semester will be opening with a clean slate as far as bills and debts are concerned. Strive to keep the slate this way. igs8 Fashions To See Change Number 8 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Eleanor Boyd Associate Editor Tommy Tillman Managing Editor Barbara Elliott News Editor Barbara Griffith Sports Editor - Leslie Timms Girls Sports Ouida Gayle Schuman Advertising Manager Eugene Burris Charles Greenway Circulation Manager Ophelia Hildreth Ron Searcy, Hilton Bonniwell, Vanetta Karegeannes Typists Sarah Gay Simerson, Derenda Gulledge CONTRIBUTORS Arlene Edwards, Wanda Davis, Carol Ann Lawton, Elianor Riley, Hilton Bonniwell, Joyce Anderson, Claiborn Hopkins, and Jimmy Taylor. In the fifteenth century Leonardo da Vinci, the great artist, engineer, and scientist, started an experiment with a type of plane called an ornithopter. This was so named from a combination of ornitho from the Greek word meaning bird, and pteron, meaning wing. In 1958 the Soviet Union is said to be developing small planes that flap their wings like birds. This is a throw'back to man’s ancient dream of flying. The new Russian experiment was reported by the news agency Tass and Komsomol Pravda, newspaper of the Young Cornmunist League. Komsomol Pravda went soaring into the future. It pictured a day in Moscow with streets deserted of traffic and pedestrians and the air filled with flapping wings. The paper even went so far as to say, “Everybody will take to the air then, even children going to school.” The one thing the paper did not make clear was whether or not the planes have ever gotten off the ground. This muse have been a mere oversight, or possibly it was done on purpose. One popular item among the college crowd seems to be the Ivy League crew'-neck sweater. Both girls and boys are wearing these; sometimes it appears that the girls are borrowing the boys’ sweaters. Regardless, they look well on either when paired with an Ivy League skirt or a pair of slacks as the occasion may be. Eds. Note—Adapted from The Star, Halifax County High School, South Boston, Virginia. Re^iectlOHd. Have you ever thought of when you die? Or when you go away? Does one go for a little while Or does he go to stay? Can you watch others When you have long gone on? Or is there forever darkness? Is one all alone? Listen, do not think these thoughts. Face life with a twinkling eye. Relish each bit as it comes; Live until you die. Wanda Davis Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some feiv to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with dili gence and attention.—SIR FRANCIS BACON. Predictions in fashions seem to point to a drastic change in ’58 for the girls especially. Girls will be quite fashionable in the entirely new shift-look dress with a stand-offish collar, as well as in a fitted dress with a back bow at hip level. For the foot wear, the (still pointed-toes) shoes are somewhat lower to em phasize the leggier look. Stockings are available in about any color to reflect the shoe color. A “pearl” necklace of the choker variety, a bundlesome bag, and long gloves wdll complete any fashion-minded girls’ wardrobe for more formal By GWEN SLOAN Ho Classmates, (haunted by dread, I almost said ex-classmates) “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” Very few exam-con scious students could have agreed fully with Ben Franklin this week. They were too anxious for the seldom good-fortune to happen. wear. In the casual line of clothes the school girl’s middy over a pleated skirt, a revival from the twenties, is a must for all females who try to look collegiate. Whatever is bought and what ever the occasion is, it may be helpful to know that the key col ors will be marine blues, which consist of indigo, marlin, bermuda, and dark sapphire; marigold; misty beiges; or the fresh fragility of the new greenery. In materials the checks and green plaids, all in big, bold print are the thing. Naturally, now that most of the girls have cut off their hair, the trend is longer hair, turned up perhaps. Now to the male world! 1958 brings with it conservative styling, with dark subdued stripes. A her ringbone tweed sport coat worn with an Ivy League shirt, and dark-tone pants are quite the fashion. For more formal occa sions, a dark, black or brown (definitely not blue), suit will be appropriate with a white shirt for almost any occasion. For some oc casions matching tie, belt, and even watchband are available. Agreeing that students’ number one problem is study and their extra number one problem is fi nances, we must agree, too, with the following poem by Alargaret MeKeener Ellert. The ancients thought the world was flat. How quaint! But still, it's funny. That’s haw I find it when I try T0 borrow money. But take courage, students! Even if studying is impossible and money isn’t any more, Carl Fors- stom offers this bit of encour agement. “The electronic brain poses no threat to the classroom— you still need a college education to figure out which button to push.” We were soriy to learn of the illness of Mr. Oren Roberts, hus band of Mrs. Nona Roberts and former member of the Mars Hill faculty. He is at Mission Me morial Hospital in Asheville fol lowing an appendectomy. Mr. Bob Coley of the Eng lish Department suffered painful, though not serious, injuries, in an automobile accident on a slip pery road Januari’ 18. We welcome Judy Mayo, Linda Harbin, and Elaine Lance back to campus after their illnesses, which prevented them from re turning following the Christmas holidays. We are looking forward to Brenda Whitehurst’s return at the beginning of next semester. Augusta Ann Arrives Speaking of arrivals. Dr. and Mrs. A. Ellison Jenkins became the parents of a girl Januan' 10, whom they named Augusta Ann. Did you say you had noticed famous people on our campus? You should, for enrolled at Mars Hill are William McKinley Jen kins, James Stewart Stroup, Wil son Timmerman, Jack Benny Towe, who happens to live on Broadway Avenue, John Wesley Simpson, Johnny Mack Brown, James Madison Charles, Barbara Dale Rodgers, Ava Marie Barnes, Martha Wray Deal, Richard Nel son IMcCurrv, Ralph Lee Shoe maker, John William Wright, and John Wayne Clark. With a little change Frances Arlene Ed wards might become Arlene Fran cis. The following excerpt comes from a recent Bible memoiy work test: “^Vhen I consider the heav ens, the work of Thy hands ... (I think of George).” Congratulations, Freshmen, you have just reached your first plateau (semester). Sophomores, you’re now striving for your fourth. Autkor (ji 1V65 Speaking Hints The following excerpts are froii an article entitled “The Principle of Poor Speaking” by Harold I Harding: The serious student of poo; speaking can well afford to cot sider these first principles: Mak no preparation in advance, Giv the speech no order—let it ramble Avoid a conclusion. Mumble you' words and don’t look directly i the audience. Never analyze ai audience and never evaluate you performance. Don’t prepare until the nigl before you speak ... do your pre paring on the spur of the momeu —give an old lecture without re vision. Read your speech. Be lat in arriving for the session. If i PA system is available, avoid it. The rules of poor speaking at simple. The inherent good chai acter of the speaker or his edu cation and experience have littl connection with them. The pool speaker is the inadequate man witl nothing to say who nevertheles can painfully consume 30-60 min utes without profit and withou the slightest qualm of conscience Ed. Note—NADECEN News Johnsville, Pennsylvania. will l)la hai: of bus in ; was to the was wii Hil ( loc; Civil Si an vil] Co; to of Asl tilt e.rvice Ojfers Openings ni, *'ij tva During the week of Januai) 12-18, the nation will be observ ing the 75th anniversary of th signing of the Civil Service Ac which is the cornerstone of th Federal .Merit System. Student of American History will recal the slogan “To the Victor Beloni the Spoils” and the resulting chao during the Harrison and othe' mid-nineteenth century admink trations. Public knowledge o' these problems brought about th enactment of the Civil ServiC Act. This act substituted for tb Spoils System an orderly proced ure for staffing the Executi'i Branch of the Federal Govern ment with people best qualified t cope with its increasingly difficul technical and administrative prob lems. The need for young men anj women of high ability to fill pos' tions in practically ever\- field d learning will continue. It is of the United States Civil Servib Commission that the responsibilib for filling these positions fall- The Commission administers af equitable personnel program whiid recognizes ability and provide benefits that are competitive b the labor market. Just as impof tant, however, is the fact that tb' Federal Service offers to its cin ployees an opportunity for pet sonal satisfaction and professioiP achievement in seivice to the tt^’ tion. fac W| go bal Sta tlu s; tbi fir: hit no m trif wl Pc lo Fii of tb, tb, Otl fo, bo t\v be be to MHC Professors les ea, w) yo th, Contribute Articles John A. ^IcLeod, professor e Bible and French, have writtd articles for a book entitled tb Encyclopedia of Southern Bttf tists, which is soon to be publishf* by Broadman Press, Nashvilb Tennessee. Mr. McLeod wrote two cles; one is “Mars Hill College, the other, “R. L. Moore.” P' Jenkins wrote on “Experience.
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