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NOW IS THE TIME TO PUT HAPPY NEW YEAR THOSE RESOLUTIONS The Peptirnist Crier INTO PRACTICE Volume IV Madison College, Tennessee, January 5, 1938 Number 5 Dr. Bralliar Outlines Winter Quarter The Fort Nashborough Historic Opens With Much Plan for Remodeling Landmark Crow's Nest Chapel Activity the wives and children of the men to By DICK WELCH Episodes of Frontier Life As those of our readers who have the fort, the Battle of the Bluffs was Resolutions are Again Ex- visited Madison in recent years al- Centered Around Log Fort fought. A band of Cherokee In- ready .know, we have outgrown our Near the heart of Nashville's busi- dians had been in ambush near-by pressed by Students A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF LIFE chapel. What td do about the mat- ness district and on the bluff over- the night before, and early in the ter has been a problem for the past looking the Cumberland River, morning they slipped out, fired at The first few days of 1938 proved Two hundred years before Christ, two years. stands a replica of Fort Nash- the fort, and ran. The pioneers to be quite important ones to the the Emperor Chin established a dic- Three years ago when we real- borough, as it was in 1780. General considered this a challenge to fight, residents of Madison College. Stu- tatorship over China. The builder James Robertson, with seven white and after much consideration twenty dents returning from vacations, new of the Great Wall, in his zeal for a ized that we must enlarge the li- brary, several thought it would be men and one negro, established his of them rode out of the fort in pur- students, and the usual hustling and new China, ordered the burning of well to use the old chapel for a li- headquarters near the French Lick. suit of the Indians. Before they had bustling occasioned by registration ancient books and manuscripts. brary and build a church large Here they built a fort, laid off their gone very far the Indians turned to could be seen all during the day of Scholars who protested against this enough to accommodate all students fields and planted corn. fight. As the white men dismounted the third. There seemed to be in sacrilege were buried alive. This and Sabbath visitors and to hold the air a feeling of excitement and was considered a major tragedy and our chapel exercises in it. But when expectancy. Groups of students now another cruel blow is being we came to consider the matter, it gathered around the bulletin boards struck at the peace-loving Chinese. was found that this would cost much in an attempt to select classes and The Great Wall that was so suc- more than to build a library and it arrange their programs for the fol- cessful in keeping the Mongols out would never be as satisfactory. We lowing quarter. The business of- is broken through in scores of places moved into our new library over a fice was crowded with young people and a more deadly foe is trampling year ago, but this did not settle our making financial arrangements for in the dust one of the most ancient chapel problem. another term of Glasswork. Reunited and beautiful civilizations the world friends gathered in groups on the has ever known. After much consideration, it was campus. The object of the Son of Heaven decided to remove the partition be- is to spread abroad Nipponese cul- tween the old library reading room A popular topic of conversation ture and influence so that all the and the auditorium of the chapel, seemed to be last quarter's grades. Orient might someday be united in and the partitions between the chapel Everywhere one could hear comments one common cause. Whether a and the two classrooms at the rear. on various marks, and almost in- country of 80,000,000 people can By doing this and moving the ros- variably these would be accompanied successfully absorb and dominate a trum back into the old library wall, ny remarks showing a strong deter- country of 300,000,000 remains to we would have ample room for five mination to study more thoroughly and accomplish more in the ensu- be seen. hundred good theater chairs in the main auditorium. Then, by re- ing quarter. * * * * * moving another partition, it was pos- So, it may be said that Madison sible to make a room in the south- College has begon. fir New Year _tat Iv_ t To cultivate the di&t42r's favor, wq(i large FORr I sHBZSROrMi right, with a new quarter, a new —CaMng 7sa en , gh or fifty or more seats. By Soviet editors began chance to do bigger and better Stalin "Our Sun." Stalin's effigy putting a sliding partition between This fort, as Mrs. hobertson found to make a stand they were fired upon things, and a new determination to was plastered all over Moscow and this and the pulpit, this room need it when she arrived in the late spring from ambush. The horses, of course, accomplish more during this year. his life's story enlarged in the news-. (Please turn to page 3, col. 5) of 1780, consisted of a log enclosure, ran off, passing near the gate of the papers. On every parade day,' huge two blockhouses, and three cabins. fort with most of the Indians after posters with his likeness are carried This was to be her future home, and them trying to head them off. Elder F. C. Gilbert through the streets. Almost the Mountain Pastor her protection from all the dangers Mrs. Robertson, along with the entire country will swear by him. of the untried forest of what is rest of the inmates of the stockade, All this homage, to a mere man Tells of Work in now termed "Middle Tennessee." was watching proceedings, and at Talks on seems ridiculous and reminds one She must depend on the produce of the opportune time released a pack Sanctuary of the French revolution with its Highlands the few small fields and the game (Please turn to page 3, col. 1) consequent bloodshed, mob-violence brought down in the woods to fur- nish the food and necessary articles We were especially privileged to and exaltation of the Goddess of The rediscovery of a land and a of clothing for her family as the Senior's Present have as guest and speaker for several Person. people looms as a challenge for supply brought with them dimin- days, Elder F. C. Gilbert, of the America to produce pioneers who ished. Moving Pictures Home Missions Department of the * * * * * will once more grapple with the From time to time different articles General Conference. Elder Gilbert forces of nature and free six million If you were a radio fan on the of furniture were added to make the The Seniors •are beginning to spoke to the school family at the continent of Europe, instead of tun- people from their mountain fast- cabins more comfortable and to help functiOn as a class. It was first regular evening chapel services. The ing in on the "Hit Parade" or nesses of poverty and hardship. manufacture some of the necessities noticed when posters were seen on theme of his talks was the absorb- "Time Marches On" program you Such was the message of the Fri- of life. A few of these were brought the campus advertising that the mo- ing subject of the sanctuary service would no doubt be subjected to an day evening hour, December 17, over the long water route down the tion picture "Life and Times of and its important place in this pres- intense ordeal of propaganda. Every given here by Edwin E. White, Holston, down the Tennessee, up George Washington" was to be pre- ent age. Perhaps no living indi- `night finds the ether filled with dis- Congregationalist pastor of the the Ohio, and up the Cumberland sented by the Seniors in the Ro- vidual is better equipped to present torted news broadcast; nations oc- Pleasant Hill Community Church, Rivers to this frontier post of homes tunda on December 28. Everybody, this topic. For many years he has cupied in poisoning men's minds. In- Pleasant Hill, Tennessee. and civilization; bjtt many were of course, wanted to help the Seniors labored in behalf of the Jewish stead of educating, their object is to During this short hour the fashioned with ax Land jack-knife by paying the small entrance fee people. As a youth he was edu- keep the truth hidden as far as pos- speaker • pnesented the history of from the trees growing up to the and everyone wanted to see the pic- cated for the rabbinical service and sible. There is one light in this these highland dwellers, their ge- edge of the small cornfields. ture, so the Rotunda was filled to his knowledge of Hebrew history, darkness however, for the British ographical situation, and their pres- On April 2, 1781, about a year capacity. tradition, and custom is profound Broadcasting Corporation has an- indeed. The acceptance of Chris- ent problems. An appeal to doc- after the "Adventure" had brought The film depicted the life of the nounced its intention of broadcast- tianity as a young man naturally tors, nurses, and teachers to respond Father of our Country from the ing the truth in form of straight to the needs of an isolated people Sanitarium Group meant complete separation from his news, and in several different lan- cradle to his death.