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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C.
January 18,iory IJ
Altar-Bound Editor
Bids MH Farewell
To each student and staff or faculty member
I wish the very best during the new semester.
—Mary Mattison
We at Mars Hill are now engaged in the
greatest activity ever devised for the frustra
tion of students and teachers alike. The stu
dents, or at least the greater part of them, are
frantically trying to find out what we have
studied this semester so we can at least pass
our exams. We worry ourselves for days about
what the teachers will give during those two
fatal hours. Afterwards we worry about the
grade we made, or the question we could not
answer.
Students are not alone in their worries, how
ever. The teachers are frantically trying to
find out what they have taught this semester
so they can give the exam. They worry them
selves for days about what to do about two
hour’s worth of questions. Afterwards they
worry about how to grade all those papers in
time, or about the students who filled three
blue books with answers.
No matter how we look at exams, whether
as student or teacher, optimist or pessimist, let
us all remember that exams are an opportun
ity to use for the best advantage.
—Jimmy Daughtry
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Q*Ke Hilltop
Box 486-T, Mors HilL N. C.
Second-class postage paid at Mars
Hill, N. C. Published 16 times dur
ing the college year.
Volume XXXVm Jan. 18. 1964 Number 8
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Mary Mattison
Associate Editor Sally Osborne
Business Manager Steve Spain
Sports Editor Bill Deans
Assistants Joe Dunn and Ralph McGee
Circulation Manager Ken Huneycutt
Assistant Jim Daughtry
Religion Reporter Martha Penley
Reporters Sue Hatfield, Faye Shaw,
Dolly Lavery, Bessie Cline,
Tom Hall, Margaret Mitchell
Typist Rebecca Gurley
Faculty Advisor Walter Smith
LITTLE MAN ON
Examinations, no lights on campus, sympa
thy notes, and Christianity on campus have
been well written about on this page, which
actually leaves little to be written by the ed
itor. This is a difficult time for all of us with
exams, sorrow, the usual campus complaints.
Everyone is getting tense and things will get
no better until these dreaded exams are over.
Most of you will be returning next semester,
but some of us will not. Some of us are leav
ing to go to seminary, to work or just home
for a rest. Some of us are leaving to get mar
ried. I’m in this lucky group, and so this will
be the last issue of the Hilltop which I shall
have the privilege of editing. I want to take
this opportunity to invite any of you who will
be in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 8 to come to my
wedding; and I also want to use this last edi
torial to say “thank you” to some students who
have done some fine work on the newspaper
staff.
A special word goes to the newspaper ad
visor for all his untiring efforts put forth, plus
putting up with an editor who has “counted
days” all semester. Mr. Smith and Sally Os
borne, associate editor, both deserve special
praise for jobs well done. The entire news
paper staff has made it possible to produce a
newspaper under some trying situations. To
each reporter who has turned in news from his
organization, to the Student Government, to
people who have given information to report
ers and to the faculty members who have gra
ciously given of their time to write editorials
— to all of these, may I say thank you for a
job well done.
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Exams are Opportunity
Christianity on our campus is
said to be on the way out of style.
Those of us who profess to be
Christians are regarded as old
fogies from a past century. For
this reason, we feel that we must
hide our light from the world
about us, and, no matter what
happens, we must not allow any
one to tag to us an atrocious
plaque bearing the word “Chris
tian” upon it.
the midst of the battle. Christ
does not need us, but we need
him. We must struggle with him,
or we shall die standing alone as
the world marches onward in sin
and shame.
We Christians join the heathen
on our campus twice a week and
aU move toward the Moore Audi
torium for chapel, but we would
not dare to come out of that saying
the chapel speaker for the morn
ing was a good one. Such a re
mark would cause us to be known
as a “Christian” or as a “religious
fanatic.” The only reason we are
brave enough to go to chapel is
that all are required to attend
this religious service; therefore,
when Wednesday evening rolls
toward us, we would not consid
er going to the Wednesday eve
ning prayer meeting. Who needs
to attend such a trivial service?
Prayer is of no use anyhow be
cause God never answers those
petitions that ascend from our
hearts.
Is Christianity really disappear
ing from our campus because we
are living in the midst of hard
hearted people who lack the abil
ity, or the desire, to accept Christ
for their own? I believe that the
true Christian must answer this
question with a simple two-letter
word, “no.” Christianity is not
dying because our generation of
people is one of heathen devils.
It is dying because we ourselves
are lily-livered cowards who find
the subject of religion, or our re
lationship to Christ, to be very
embarrassing and an impossible
topic for discussion. It is dying
because we have failed to tell
the girl, the boy, the man, or the
woman who lives next door to
us that Christ lives. It is dying
because we — you and I — have
failed to follow the orders given
to us by Christ in Matt. 28:19-20
where he tells us:
The ultimate sin for us would
be to crawl out of bed on Sunday
morning and be present for Sun
day school and morning worship
in the local church. Of course, if
we are already up and dressed
and have nothing more challeng
ing to do when Sunday evening
arrived, it might not be too bad
for us to slip over to the church
for evening worship and training
union. We must remember one
thing. If we went to student
prayer meeting, to Sunday school,
and/or to morning worship, we
will have to sneak out quietly on
Sunday evening and to concoct a
plausible excuse to give to any
one who notices our presence at
all these meetings.
“Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost;
Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have com
manded you; and, lo, I am with
you alway, even to the end of
the world.”
In Isaiah 60:1, we read: “Arise,
shine, for thy light is come, and
the glory of the Lord is risen up
on thee.” We Christians must
arise and shine for Christ before
the people on our campus and
around the world. Christianity is
not dead, but we must live as
gleaming knights dressed in the
armor of faith and fed on Bible
study and prayer. Then, and only
then, will Christianity become
alive and live forever.
—Melva Hailman
Christians, we must awaken!
We must stand at attention, draw
our swords, and fight for the
greatest General that lives, Jesus
Christ. We have pledged our al
legiance to him and to his cause,
and we must begin to work for
and with him, or we shall die in
Cutting The Rungs wo
Dangerous Mista
iristma;
The roster of well-drawn charactery thini
Charles Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two C a red
includes the rather boisterous lawyer at^les bi
Bailey, Mr. Stryver. As he shoulders his®"^*®, M
through legal matters, gradually acquiri-®*L Joe
rather lucrative position, Stryver, accordtf'^'^
Dickens, begins to “cautiously hew awaj^^red.
lower staves of the ladder on which he mC)arkling
ed.” On the mental powers of the brilcast a t
and befogged mind of his partner Sydney , bright
ton, Stryver — glib, bold, and unscrupuloM e d f
has accumulated a fortune and a reputa^ chan
The tragedy in the character of this lion oir e r l y
court was that while he owed his succeil's fian
others, he was carefully but continuously PinkI
tempting to forget the people, circumsta-l in Fk
and conditions which helped him to aclte gave
his position. er.
There is an increasing tendency among ^ecidins
us to forget the paths by which we havi g^udeni
rived at a certain station, the people W
investments have made our limited su(, Dowd\
possible, the circumstances which have rel j^arr^
themselves in such a way that, molded to^or, Ho\
er, they have created an atmosphere in vi'cweii.
we could work, and play and study. Witt
achievement of the four-year college prog^*'^'*^S “
and the acquisition of new facilities, fad^S the
and student body, it is well that we take
to assure ourselves that we do not in the w(
of progress, “hew away the lower stavc^^ter E
the ladder.” ' ^
During om school careers we have all^®*^'
the experience of paying our tuition andJlltop sj
with a finesse which seemed to indicate h Halyb
and those around us that we have dispds Hillia
with our responsibilities by paying for oufe man
ucational privileges. There are few ifs.
schools in our country today operating Jo
institutions on the basis of tuition fees ai done
Endowments, special gifts and contribut niarri;
account for many dollars in supplementin^g the t
educational costs. Mars Hill students pay ‘ghter
70 per cent of the cost of their education, g jjjg g_
It is with a deep sense of regret that>d gafeh
reads a widely published newspaper ai "
which calls attention by name to Mars
College intending in its comments to slul
principles for which this school stands,
policies to which the administration is
mitted, and the precepts which are the (
point of contributors in supporting the
and mission of the school. Perhaps soiH ^
the rules seem to some to be antiquate^;^—
could be that some of the regulations apl
to be unnecessary; maybe some of the req'
ments don’t suit the fancy of all of our cd
tuents. It must be remembered, however,
Mars Hill College remains a monumec
people who believed enough in it and its
tentialities to invest in its future — their \
talent and trust. Were we to deviate too S
tically from the philosophy of educatioJ
which this institution was built, we too vi'
be “hewing away the lower staves of the la'
on which we had mounted.”
—Mrs. Margaret Bridges
Students In The Da
For who knows how long, the Mars Hill
lege campus has been without outdoor H!
This includes Girls’ Hill, Boys’ Hill, and
walks in between. ,
There are some relieving aspects to this
ation. For dating couples it is fabulous;
can always stay just out of sight of the k
mothers. It also is an electricity saver’s
light — no power — no bill.
There are a few less fabulous aspects to
“saving of power,” which is caused by
in underground wiring which cannot be i
until the weather permits.” For one, wN^
snows as it has this week, it is hard enou^y
walk seeing the ground in front of you. 5
ing able to see nothing at all makes it
more an adventure. t-.
There is a limit to everyone’s humor. §
Dear Mary:
Please permit me to use the
columns of your paper to express
my appreciation to everyone —
students and faculty members —
who have been so gracious to me
during my convalescence.
—Nona Roberts
students can understand why it would b^ O
possible to go out and dig up wiring in
however, when the weather is as nice as i*
been some days recently, it does seem
some attempt could be made to get us 1>-|
Fixing the electricity will be cheaper ,
Mars Hill getting even lower on the “Risk
in the insurance company. i.*-
—Sally Lee Osborn^