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Page T’v; THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C. Decent, 1959 Wonderful Season To Be At Your Best The most enchanting and wonderful time of the year has once again arrived . . . Christmas. Along with it comes thoughts of home for many Mars Hillians. In just a few scant days the entire student body will vacate the campus for the holidays. Many students will be going home for the first time since com ing to school in early September. Everyone will have many new, glad, strange, and exciting things to tell the “folks back home” about college life, friends, and Mars Hill in general. As a part of Mars Hill College we, the student body, will repre sent the college and its ideals even while we are away from the campus. When we leave for home we will be taking a part of Mars Hill with us. People will judge Mars Hill by what they see in us, just as they judge us by our actions, and as they judge our families by what they see in us. We represent ourselves, our families, and, as students of Mars Hill College, we represent it also. So, during this holiday season, even while we are away from “the hill” let’s first to our own selves be true; to our families be worthy; and to our school be loyal. Let’s keep our ideals high. A very merry Christmas to you all . . . Whg I Belieue In Chris By Sandy Ragsdale Students Should Not Lightly Regard Dishonesty On Campus The students as well as the faculty and administration, of the college have been amazed in the last few weeks about the appalling amount of stealing which is being done in the student center and elsewhere on the campus. This is a grave situation and reflects on the integrity of the college as a whole. From past experience the students have learned to lock their doors, especially during the weeks preceding the Christmas holi days, because of the disreputable scavengers who would like to find a few easy “Christmas gifts” for the folks back home. It is a very degrading factor to the college and an insult to the students when it becomes necessary to have a “room search” throughout the dorm. As yet, this has not been done this year, but in the pre ceding years it has been necessary; and the results have proven to be most embarrassing to some individuals. Everyone will agree that something must be done about the dis honesty on compus. Yet, it is another matter entirely to decide just how to abolish it. The student center could be watched over with an “iron eye” and the rooms could be locked each time they were vacated; but these procedures would not solve the problem itself. The individuals who make these procedures necessary must be corrected in some manner. If the persons who present these problems have no incentive to correct themselves, then it is up to the conscientious students to take a position in regard to the matter. Many students after leaving Mars Hill find themselves in a school which bases its law enforcement on the honor system. In succeeding years this may be desirable here, but at present the students will have to be content with the existing conditions of regulation and enforcement until such a time as the maturity of the average student warrants a change. This change will not come about as long as the prevailing conditions of dishonesty are overlooked by the student body as a whole. “They’re rounding the home stretch now! Numbers 19 and 25 are neck and neck, and 19 is gaining. He’s ahead by a nose, l)y a length, and he’s over the line! And the winner is De cember 19, the day that Mars Hill students go home for Christmas holidays! Yes, Christmas is coming, af ter our impatiently waiting for a year, it is approaching faster than books can be read, papers written, and last minute prepa rations made by anticipating students. Juht the same, it is being received with open arms. .Something else that has been received, although with mixed emotions is called by a four- lettered word, SNOW. Students have once again discovered the joys of snowcream, snowballing, sleighing on cafeteria trays, slid ing on ice, and getting bruised, well bruised! Packing as well as this last snow fall did, the snowballs made wonderful weapons. Sev eral members of the faculty dis covered this, mtich to their chag rin. An item of interest to the person who threw the snowball through an open window of Mc- An open fireplace cast forth a faint glow with its o tion being the brilliant glow of a gaily decorated greei which lay a mountain of gifts. Outside snow covered the ground and made a fair handiwork of God. The chilled air was quiet — e: casional laughter of children playing on their sleds snowmen, the crunch of snow beneath hurrying feet mas carol above the church steeples. This Ron Kellar Presents Library With Books Ji Christmas Thought Any custodian of a planetarium can tell you that about the year 6 A.D. the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars crossed paths in such a manner as to make them appear, to the people on earth, as one great star. We like the other version Bob Considine PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College Q*he Hilltop Suspicious Snowman Another highlight of winter’s snowy fling was the building of a snowman in front of the Music Building which held a suspicious looking bottle bearing an even more suspicious looking label. In order to get a better look at the world bathed in snow, four ambitious and daring lads decided to cilmb Mt. Bailey one night. Just what they managed to perceive in the darkness is not known, but it is suspected that they received runny noses, cold hands, and half-frozen feet. Another expedition has yet to be planned. “Christmas is coming The geese are getting fat . . .” and so were, they decided, a j;roup of girls in one particular dormitory. The girls formed a club for moral support and de cided to buy a present for the girl who loses the most weight before Christmas. Noticed any shapelier misses lately? All the emotions concerning the seemingly impossible amount of work to be done be fore Christmas was overheard being summed up in a few short words after Dr. Pierce’s English class the other day. “I’d rather be a ditchdigger than a dead scholar,” said one bewildered young man. There is not a day that passes but what I think of my two years at Mars Hill. Enjoying my cruise as 1 am, frankly I’d love to be at Mars Hill right now visiting with my friends. I feel sure that after my Navy duty I will be ready to put ev erything into my future college and life’s work. It was in Siros, Greece, that I thought of purchasing these two books, one being the famous Russian novel. Dr. Zhivago, and the other one a work of Charles Dickens. Both are written com pletely in Greek. It occurred to me that they might be of some interest to the s udents of Greek as far as being a challenge to read them. You may have no ]tlace in the library for them, yet I am sending them in hopes that you do. Give my regards to ... I hope to see you all before the 1959-60 year is out.” We are certainly proud of these two books and will wel come any others from our friends. Student Gift Our latest student gift is an album of French records and their textbook, from James Ever hart. We will profit greatly by his generous and thoughtful gift. Something special for which you can look forward in January is an art exhibi ion of Joe C. Robertson’s paintings in the Audio-Visual Aids room. Watch for the announcement of the date. Second-Class mail privileges authorized at Mars Hill, N. C., February 20, 1926. Published semi-monthly during ^ the college year. Christmas Tea Volume XXXTV December 12, 1959 Number 6 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Carol Raye Lankford Associate Editor Linda Simmons Feature Editor Sybil Whisnant Assistant Feature Editor Rosa Lynn Gruits Sports Editor Ron Denton Advertising Manager Norris Tisdale Circulation Manager Tom Gattis Assistants in Circulation— Lillian Robinson, Ronald Carpenter and Melba Vance Faculty Advisor Collie Garner CONTRIBUTORS Nancy Lane, Bobbie Shiplett, Page Shelton, Billie Faye Christie, Joan Blythe, Lillian Creech, Cynthia Finch, and Dick Buddine. Mother Sparks’ annual Christ mas tea was its usual success last week. The guests crowded into Spilman parlor to enjoy the punch, cake, and above all. Mother Sparks’ warm hospi tality. It was great to see all the many familiar faces of last year’s alumni back on campus in re cent days. A warm hush fell over the cafeteria and quite a few eyes became misty as for mer touring choir members sang a blessing Thanksgiving day. As the Christmas trees keep being j)ut up and one by one the days are being marked off Ycju will have a happier Christmas if you settle your li brary debts before you go home. A wonderful Christmas to you — from the Library Staff and student assistants! the calendar, students every where are either thinking or vo calizing “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays.” T h i s Christmas remember that there are happier things than “T’was the night before Christmas and Santa Claus died.” T here is inistletoel Need more be said. all is a sr what Christmas m but still it is mor butterflies in the rrell W We share the personal letter from Ronald Kellar, a library student assistant the past two years. He was one of our most capable assistants. He wrote, “I am now serving my two-years ac tive duty in the Naval Reserves and am on a six-month’s Medi terranean cruise. Our ship, the U. S. S. Vogelgesang, left (Jharleston, South Carolina, Sep tember 21. I am enjoying my Navy duty very much, as I am seeing many ports of the world that I might not have otherwise ever seen. college students w^mg an ceive letters sayiticir rug whole family will ^rkansa and awaiting theiAfkadel] Christmas; it is thel beat ( half excited gleam They w boy’s eyes as he si^- In tl is the feeling of ''5> Mars knee; it is the churion in ing over a clear, stil 88-74. ecstacy you know v^Rae 72 the smile on the fad'e 84-63, ly person you have barely simply by singinjion up i carols; it is holl] friends, candy, Chn ings on the mantle,)od has But most of all. In fon surprises, fireplacessketbal! Christ Himself. Wirnendou of Christmas and al. store, I cannot sto break c that come to my eytn the c member the Christnd a sIk on this day in a lowls set up become the Saviour in the c( the Prince of Peaenses th more. ow line. Yes, these are tlall do^i believe in Christma? of offe Did *7/ud boung h; a lot of God bless you on thed bv day s. I wou] With happiness supe ball h; And may you gathflrt line i gifts to want Of which you ever ots. jf { May all your frien) the shot you bnarily With sentiment sinty. To add a world of 7ood and 1 IS t -r 1-1 ^as dr To multiply your 4ber thi^ Gotl bless you wikndling | courage to 'gether t Pursue each noble ect. ’ And grant this gold will be jy. By far your happiesn.^ May all the ornam9]i„ A, lights i ^ ^^ho( Upon the ChristniaSei^j^. Reflect the peace fort of Your loving family >e lea^^^^ May every moment ''’ing life '^^oy scon Seem wonderful als And in the year a ’ ;7 ''eboiir away He May all your dreai’ true. ,firs 1 ^ ^ackii The Hilltop with y this opportunity ‘ eryone a happy son. May your filled with bright your journeying ‘ be safe and plea‘ very best wishes yours. J ^ a m We, of the HiH^' press our sincere ' Jean Yoder upon *- her grandmother.
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