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• 0 0 000 • 00 • 0000 00.0000 • • • 00 • 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 00000000000000000 COMING EVENTS • Nov. 30 Junior Speech Play Dec. 3 Faculty Meeting Dec. 5 Cotter's Saturday Night Dec. 12 Christmas Bazaar Dec. 12 Lecture Course Dec. 13 "Aren't We All Dec. 17 Mothers' Tea Dec. 21 Christmas Vacation Dec. 28 Junior Speech Play Jan. 6 Vacation Closes 0 O 0 0 • 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0000 • WOLVES COMPLETE SEASON WITH CREDITABLE RECORD PROVE STRONG IN DEFENSIVE Excepting Wesleyan Tigers, Wolves Held All Opponents to Small Margins By Floyd Blake The Wolves of 1929 will go down in the history of Northern's football teams as one of the strongest defen-sive teams that has ever been produced in the conference. Although they failed to win the championship, they gave a fine exhibition of football in every game they played, and the fine sportsmanship they displayed has brought favorable comments from all their opponents. The season opened with the return of seven lettermen, some of whom had been reserves from last year's squad. The squad was helped considerable by the eligibility of some of the upper-classmen, and the freshmen class con-tributed some outstanding men, who performed very creditably on the grid-iron this year. Coach Campbell dis-played remarkable ability in placing his men where they would be of the greatest help to the team, taking men, who had played in the line, and mak-ing them outstanding backs before the season was over. The coaches drilled on the funda-mentals of the game the first of the season, and although the first game did not find a finished team, they gave their admirers something to think about in defeating Jamestown 6-0. The next game, against Valley City Normal, found the boys rounding into shape, and with a hard charging line which was instrumental in scor-ing four touchdowns on blocked punts, defeating their opponents by the score of 45-0. The next opponent was Southern Normal which held Northern to a 6-6 tie, chiefly because the Wolves did not get any breaks. On Gypsy Day we met the strong St. Thomas football team, the cream of the Minne-sota conference, and after one of the best-played games on Johnson field, in recent years, the Wolves were fin-ally defeated in the fourth quarter by the score of 6-0. The squad was then taken to the Black Hills, where, in a great game, they were defeated by Western Normal 7-0. The Miners of Rapid City were met next and the Wolves took them into camp, 2-0. With many of the regulars on the in-jured list, they were defeated by the strong Dakota Wesleyan outfit 20-0, due to the great passing game of the Tigers, and because the Wolves were not playing "heads up" football. The last game of the season found the Wolves in fighting mood, and with their determination to win the final game, they defeated the strong Yank-ton gridders 6-0, finishing the season in the conference with a 500 percent rating. Fifteen letters were granted to the most consistent performers of the year. Nine linemen received the coveted award: Doney an end from Hector, Minnesota, and Holland, an-other wing man from Pierre; Johnson and Werth, both of Aberdeen, tackles; Sipes, Frink, and Mattice, guards; and Lewis, Aberdeen, and Bell of Leola, centers. In the backfield, Dresselhuys and Crawford at half pos-itions were outstanding and played most of the games on the schedule. Captain Finnegan at fullback and Herbert Black at full or tackle were two other stellar performers. Mar-quis played regular quarterback to earn his letter, but due to injuries his place was taken late in the season by C. Tobin of Milbank, who was also granted the "N." A summary of the seasons games shows 71 point scored by the Wolves as against 38 totaled by opponents. DEAN THOMAS IS HONORED J. W. Thomas, Dean of Men, has been honored by appointment to mem-bership on one of the important corn-mittee3 of the National Education Association. The appointment comes through J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the Association. The letter of invi-tation follows: "I am instructed by President Pyrtle to notify you of your appoint-ment on the Legislative Commission and to urge your acceptance. Dr. William M. Davidson, Superintendent of Schools, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, chairman of the Commission, will get in touch with members soon. Kindly let us have your reply by return mail." MISS NIELSEN ADVISES 1. Learn your part on your feet. 2. Age is expressed by the knees. 3. Breath control is essential for tears, laughter, and voice expression. 4. Exercise for poise. 5. Think while exercising. 6. While speaking open your mouth. 7. Learn to relax the jaw. Scene from "The Cotter's Saturday Night" PRESIDENT LAIRD IN CHARGE Novel and Attractive Program Fea-turing Music, Dancing and Clever Acts Please Audience Friday evening, November 22, the College Y. M. C. A. staged a clever musical sketch the "Jolly Good" Revue. Virden Laird, president of the association, was in charge of the event. Louis Anderson, serving in the capacity of master of ceremonies, introduced the various acts as they appeared and explained the numbers on the evening's program. The first number was a chorus girls' dance with Magnolia Washabaugh, Gloria Sipes, Daisy Tobin, Eleanor Scherf, Norma Hunstad, Clara Wright, Minnie Woods and Margaret Laird, doing the stepping to the pop-ular melody, "Singing in the Rain." They were followed by magicians of deepest mystery, Francis Clark and John Schaal, who used all their powers of magic and rivalled even the great-est of the slight of hand performers of the past or present. E. Kenneth Baillie, impersonating the famous Russian dancer, Leaping Lena Trotskinsky, danced gracefully for the large gathering. Assisted at times by her partner, Howard Tor-genson, she executed fancy steps never before witnessed in Aberdeen. As an encore the Princess interpreted the famous Lady Egypta in a wild, desert dance. The T. B. Quartet, composed of Alfred Sueltz, John Iszler, Joseph Molumby and Francis Clark, sang several very pleasing numbers, furn-ishing an encore, "Singing in the Rain". They were followed by a German Band, which played several selections and gave a clever stage act, "I'm the Dean," with Otto Hunstad in the leading role. Two more musical numbers, a solo by Joseph Molumby, "You Were Meant for Me," sung to Cleopatra, impersonated by E. Kenneth Baillie, and a trio composed of Chester and Russell Flolo and Turk Shaeffer ac-companied by Beecher Calaghan, pleased the audience. The "Revue" closed with a clever ensemble act. GET ON BOARD DECEMBER 9 Tourists Vessel to Stop Here! Registration will afford you the opportunity to enroll for a course in world travel under the supervision of a most competent captain. About 95 tourists are now on board. There is still room for more. The "History of Civilization" class under Prof. Onsgard is a diversifica-tion for students. Like a great com-pany of tourists, we started out at the beginning of the quarter by ex-ploring back into antiquity as far as man has probed. Our first detailed work was done amongst the pyramids of Egypt. Then we slowly drifted on into - Phoencia, Babylonia and other ancient points of interest. Next we sailed across the Aegean to Greece where everyone landed and explored to suit himself. After ex-tensive research in the field of his own selection he made a detailed re-port to the class. Points of interest that may have been overlooked or in-sufficiently stressed were thoroughly covered in an impersonal way by the captain who makes you feel as much at home in Athens as in Aberdeen. We are now about to wave our parting farewells to Greece wherein we found the zenith of ancient cul-ture. Our next full stop will be at Rome. Here a similar individual ex-ploration will take place. Beyond Rome we see the "dark ages" just coming up over the horizon. We shall plunge through this period in due time and again sail out under the clear blue sky of stabilized civilization. Our vessel is not driven by a stormy gale. We drift along the stream of life at a pace set by our own inter-ests, sailing past unimportant trivials but taking special excursions at points of universal interest. This course will help you fit your piece-meal his-tory into its proper niche in the uni-versal pattern which man has been weaving since the dawn of civiliza-tion down to 1928. Get on board! —Contributed by one already on. A Happy Thanksgiving FAMOUS PLAYERS RETURN Two plays will be presented by the Coffer-Miller Players on February 3 and 4 of the coming year. The first will be "Mistress of the Inn" mad the second "Tea for Three." The Cof-fer- Miller Players have appeared in Aberdeen many times under the aus-pices of the college and each time they have met with enthusiastic ap-plause from the people and students of the city. A year ago they presented "The Rivals," "Monsieur Poriette's Son-in-Law" and a children's produc-tion, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." During the coming year they are not carrying the juvenile theatre so no matinee appearances are scheduled. The Coffer-Miller artists come to Aberdeen under the auspices of the English department of the college, headed by Prof. Herbert R. Hiett. A Happy Thanksgiving IA HAPPY THANKSGIVING The Exponent o. .^.^r.^.•..4.".w‘4 Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXVIII. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, NOVEMBER 28, 1929 No. 10 TO ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY: A HAPPY THANKSGIVING VACATION Y. M. C. A. "JOLLY GOOD" REVIEW GOES OVER BIG RURAL DEPARTMENT TO INAUGURATE NEW EXPERIMENT WILL USE WESTPORT SCHOOLS W. S. G. A. COUNCIL MEETS FOOTBALL MEN HONORED At the regular meeting of the W. S. G. A. Council, the officers for the program and social committees were announced. Lucille Adkins will offi-ciate as chairman of the program com-mittee and Wilhelinina Penfold will head the social committee. Both girls are members of the council and are outstanding in their campus activi-ties. The "Mother's Tea' was discussed. This tea is given in honor of the mothers of the girls in school by every girl in the organization. It was de-cided that the afternoon of December 17 would be the day for the tea. Both the girls in the dormitories and the districts are planning Xmas parties which are to take place shortly be-fore the Christmas holidays. Fifteen Men Are Guests of Lincoln and Graham Halls at Special Banquet Practice Teachers Will Spend Entire Day In Up-To-Date School System The football lettermen were feted Monday evening at a banquet in the Lincoln Hall dining room of the local institution. They were the guests of the girls of both dormitories, Lincoln and Graham Halls. They were seat-ed at a special table with Dean Moul-ton presiding. Those present were Doney, Holland, Johnson, Werth, Sipes, Frink, Mattice, Lewis, Bell, Dresselhuys, Crawford, Captain Fin-negan, Black, Marquis and C. Tobin. Others at the guest table were Miss Lillian Hilt and Miss Ida E. Whitten and the presidents of the two halls, Helen Malloy and Bernice O'Grady. The cheering squad, composed of Ber-tha Oster, Katherine Devine, Lavonne Parrot, Margaret Hibbard and Virgil Hanlon, and several young ladies of the dormitories at the request of the football men were also honored at the special table. These included Fay Cosgrove, Marion Fix, Hilda Hansen, Marion Hilts, Helen Kidd, Constance Lane, Helen McCormack, Ruth Nelson, Carolyn Tompkins and Irma Wilkinson. The table was prettily decorated with yellow chrysanthemums and red tapers. Miniature Northern Wolves were scattered around on the table and the place cards were in the form of a gridiron hero carrying a pigskin under his arm. On the footballs were written the names of the guests. After the banquet the guests and girls of the two halls went to the Sunparlor of Lincoln Hall where they enjoyed dancing. With the beginning of the winter quarter the Rural Department will in-augurate an experiment in the con-duct of practice teaching. Arrange-ments have been made with the Board of Education to maintain a class of helping teachers at the Westport school throughout the entire day. Heretofore the Department has fol-lowed the practice of placing helping teachers in Demonstration Schools only one-fourth of the day for pur-poses of observation and practice teaching. Under the new plan twenty-two stu-dents will go to Westport at the close of the first class period in the morn-ing and will remain there until 4 P. M., each day. These students will be under the guidance of Professor Tostlebe, who will direct observation and practice teaching. Professor Tostlebe will also conduct certain col-lege classes at Westport, thus enabling the helping teachers to receive a full quarters credit for the work. Mrs. Drake, Miss Hansen, and Miss Adams, the critic teachers at Westport, will assist Professor Tostlebe in directing the work of the helping teachers. Other members of the Westport school will also assist with the experiment. Superintendent Michel has aided in planning it. Miss Munson and the pupils of the Home Economics Depart-ment will assist in preparing warm lunches for the helping teachers. Professor Culp and Dr. McCallister of the college faculty are assisting in the administration of the project. The college students who partici-pate in the experiment will enjoy a unique opportunity. They will have the privilege of pursuing their regular college courses and at the same time of securing the experience of spend-ing almost a full day in a teaching situation. This type of training will familiarize them with the entire days procedure in a thoroughly modern South Daokta school. COACH CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE WORK BEGAN THIS WEEK Many Lettermen Back; Frosh Squad of Last Year Year Offers Good Material Coach Campbell issued his first call for basketball men, Monday, Novem-ber 25. Present indications point toward one of the best teams in years. Lettermen of last year include cap-tain- elect Virden Laird of Aberdeen, who will lead the Northern quintet from forward; Harold Scherf of Ros-coe, a returning center; "Teps" Rau-gust, "Tootie" Mattice and Otto Hun-stad, all lettermen of good guard abil-ity. Raugust hails from Emery, Hunstad from Bath and Mattice from Aberdeen. Besides the old varsity stars who will be back on the courts this winter, the Frosh squad of last year presents a number of stars for use who will make the older boys step to retain their positions. Marquis and Lewis, guards, are experienced at the game, as are Washabaugh and Woods, for-wards of proven ability. Herbert W. A. A. MEETING The old members of the W. A. A. had a business meeting, last Wednes-day evening, at 7:30 o'clock, in the physical education office. Bertha Oster, the president, appointed an in-itiation committee of two people, Jeanne Champlin, chairman, and Mar-garet Hibbard. Plans are to have the initiation take place the last Wed-nesday of this quarter. NEXT ENTERTAINMENT NUMBER IS DECEMBER 5 IS "COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT" Seven Artists Will Present Famous Robert Burns Classic in Song and Story Brimful of delightful and inimit-able Scotch humor and joyous laugh-ter is the famous musical play "The Cotter's Saturday Night," to be pre-sented here in the auditorium, Decem-ber 5. Based upon Robert Burns' immortal poem of the same name, this notable play was written by John E. Daniels of Boston. It presents an unforgett-able picture of contentment and happi-ness in the life of a single Scotch family. Beautiful old Scottish mel-odies, loved the world over are super-bly sung throughout the production. In a quaint old Scotch setting of the eighteenth century John Anderson, the Cotter, his family and some of his friends are shown spending a Sat-urday evening, with songs, stories and laughter. The characters, beside the Cotter, are Margaret, his wife; their daughter, Jennie; Robert Douglas, the Laird's son; Jamie, the Cotter's son; and Tammas Cuthbertson, a neighbor. Each role is splendidly portrayed both as to acting and singing. The com-pany is composed of seven outstand-ing artist entertainers, including a pianist. This Scottish Musical Comedy Com-pany of Boston has a record of almost nation-wide enthusiastic reception. Among those who have expressed de-light at the production are former President and Mrs. Coolidge, who ex-pressed themselves as greatly pleased with this fine production. Jason Noble Pierce, the former president's pastor, after hearing the performance wrote, "I cannot begin to tell you of our appreciation of 'The Cotter's Sat-urday Night,' and everyone is asking when you are coming back." The newspaper clippings below will give an idea how eastern audiences have received these musical comedy artists. "It was a true Scotch play, and enacted by the best company of Scotch players in the East." —Portsmouth (N. H.) Times. "It is a charming cross-section of life in the typical home of a Scottish Cotter. The charm that Burns gave to his pictures of Scottish life in his inimitable poems was caught up by Daniels, the author, in his play, and it was held to the very last curtain by the competent cast." —North Adams (Mass.) Transcript. "Old Scottish songs, droll stories which were made doubly amusing by the brogue in which they were told, and bits of philosophy, which all com-bined to give a fine delineation of Scotch character, entertained and pleased. The evening's entertainment was such a success that it is hoped to have another in the future."— Worcester (Mass.) Telegram. " 'The Cotter's Saturday Night,' presented by the Scottish Musical Comedy Company of Boston, was one of the rarest treats ever given a Jamestown audience. Seldom is a play given in whose program there is mingled music, laughter, pathos and tears, as is shown in 'The Cotter's Saturday Night.' "He who is a lover of music found the singing of the familiar Scotch songs by voices rich and experienced one of the finest musical entertain-ments ever heard. He who is gay and is always waiting for the humor-ous lines to be spoken, those which produce a ringing laugh, was well sat-isfied and amused when time after time he heard the Scotch stories. Then he who appreciates a 'homey' atmos-phere was pleased with the picture be-fore him, and no doubt the majority of the audience was of the opinion that a Saturday night as the cotter spent it, far surpasses a Saturday night in the average American home." —Jamestown, Pa. A Happy Thanksgiving COUNTRY LIFE CLUB MEETS The monthly meeting of the Coun-try Life Club was held in the Dutch Coffee Shop, Wednesday evening. A short business meeting followed the dinner hour. The officers elected for the current year are Mr. H. B. Mel-cher, Superintendent of Schools for Brown county, president; Prof. V. H. Culp, Acting Head of the Rural Edu-cation Department, vice-president; and Prof. J. C. Readey, Head of the De-partment of Agriculture, secretary. The program consisted of a discussion of the recent farmers' economic con-ference for Brown county, led by W. E. Dittmer, County Agent, under whose immediate direction the con-ference was held. Mr. Dittmer re-ported that four committees of ladies had worked on a home budget and had concluded that it requires $1600 per year to adequately provide for a fam-ily of five at the present standard of living. The ten or eleven committees of farmers, each working on a differ-ent phase of the farm enterprise, re-ported that the minimum size of a farm for Brown county was 320 acres. They also submitted a farming sys-tem of considerable detail that would provide for the standard of living set by the committee of women, meet the expense of the farm and leave a small cash balance. Mr. Dittmer pointed out that the conference had challenged the thinking of Brown county as prob-ably no other form of meeting had done. Black, a center from Big Stone City, will undoubtedly take the pivot posi-tion. The present schedule includes five conference tilts. A full list of games will be completed in the near future. The present schedule is as follows: January 11, Springfield at Aberdeen January 14, Huron at Aberdeen .January 23, Madison at Aberdeen January 28, Wesleyan at Aberdeen February 7, Huron at Huron February 8, Madison at Huron February 10, Sioux Falls at Sioux Falls February 11, Augustana at Augus-tana February 21, Yankton at Aberdeen February 26, Mines at Rapid City February 27, Spearfish at Spearfish February 28, Spearfish at Spearfish March 1, Mines at Rapid City. INSTRUCTORS ATTEND S. D. E. A. The college will be well represented at the South Dakota Education Assoc-iation convention held this week for three days, November 25-27, in Rapid City. Among those who will attend are Professor Hiett, who discusses before the English Teachers Round Table, uniform tests given the fresh-man English students at the open-ing of the school year. Results of four colleges of the state, Huron, Yankton, Springfield and Mitchell, were accumulated and compared with the results of our own school, the average grade being found. The literary background test prepared by Miss Lighthall this fall will also be presented and discussed. Among others attending are Dr. Anderson, Miss Briscoe and Profes-sors Jensen, Mewaldt, McCallister, Spencer, Culp, Guhin. Russell Jonas, Superintendent of Meade County, will act as toastmaster at the N. S. T. C. convention banquet; Miss Briscoe and R. W. Kraushaar, '21, give toasts, Harry Reynard, former student, sings a solo; and Dr. Anderson gives the main address. JUNIOR SPEECH TO GIVE PLAY The Junior Speech Department an-nounces the second of a series of plays to be given during the school year. The play selected is "Neighbors" by Zona Gale. The characters in the order of appearance are Grandma, Lydia Crosby; Mis' Dianthia Abel, Bessie Premach; Ezra Williams, Eliz-abeth Douglas; Peter, Agnes Skibs-rud; Inez, Doris Anderson; Mis' El-mira Moran, Cheryl Chamberlain; Mis' Trot, Mildred Flory; Mis' Cary Elsworth, Eleanor Suttle. Preceding the play the younger pupils are giv-ing a short sketch entitled, "The Doll Shop". Those taking part are "The Bisque Doll", Louise Losacker; "The French Doll", Betty Jane Burnette; "The Sailor Boy", Janet Spencer; "The Indian Chief", Clyde Savage; "The Tin Soldier", Geraldine Goodsell; "A Young Man", Lois Clocksin. The play will be given Saturday afternoon, November 30, at two o'clock, in Room E-2 of the Central Building. Admissions: adults 25 cents; students 10 cents; children five cents. Miss Overby is in charge of Junior Speech work. SUMMER SCHOOL STATISTICS In 1929, it has been estimated, there were 9,500 teachers, principals, supervisors and administrative offi-cers in the public elementary and secondary schools of South Dakota. In the state, eleven institutions con-ducted summer schools. The enroll-ment reported for the summer ses-sions was 2,612; of this number 2,- 066 were enrolled in educational courses. The ratio of summer school enrollment in education courses to the number of teachers in the state was 21.7 per cent. ORCHESTRA TO MAKE TOUR Roderick Ross, business manager of the college orchestra, announced re-cently that the orchestra will make its annual spring tour again this season under the direction of Prof. Howard E. Goodsell. The tour will be west and will probably take the better part of a week. Glenham and McIntosh have already signed up for programs and several more towns have tenta-tive agreements for concerts. A group of twenty-five or less will make the trip, including the soloists and the best players in the organization. COOPERATION Mrs. Barnes is quite enthusiastic over the splendid cooperation from so many different sources evidenced dur-ing National Book Week. Among the various people assisting, she mentions Miss King, Miss Lighthall, Miss Wil-liams and selected groups from their classes; the janitors who assisted in carrying and hauling books from the campus down town; the library staff, including student assistants, gave Sat-urday in addition to many other hours in enthusiastic work; Mr. Stoakes and the class in journalism did splendid work in connection with publicity; Dr. Seymour loaned valuable South Dakota material from his personal library and Prof. Jensen loaned ap-paratus for the science table. Many others contributed. Mrs. Barnes says: "The fine spirit of helpfulness and cooperation shown by our people was much appreciated and impressed me with the fact that it is not diffi-cult to carry out a project when there is so many willing assistants at hand."
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Title | The Exponent, 1929-11-28 |
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Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1929-11-28 |
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Transcription | • 0 0 000 • 00 • 0000 00.0000 • • • 00 • 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 00000000000000000 COMING EVENTS • Nov. 30 Junior Speech Play Dec. 3 Faculty Meeting Dec. 5 Cotter's Saturday Night Dec. 12 Christmas Bazaar Dec. 12 Lecture Course Dec. 13 "Aren't We All Dec. 17 Mothers' Tea Dec. 21 Christmas Vacation Dec. 28 Junior Speech Play Jan. 6 Vacation Closes 0 O 0 0 • 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0000 • WOLVES COMPLETE SEASON WITH CREDITABLE RECORD PROVE STRONG IN DEFENSIVE Excepting Wesleyan Tigers, Wolves Held All Opponents to Small Margins By Floyd Blake The Wolves of 1929 will go down in the history of Northern's football teams as one of the strongest defen-sive teams that has ever been produced in the conference. Although they failed to win the championship, they gave a fine exhibition of football in every game they played, and the fine sportsmanship they displayed has brought favorable comments from all their opponents. The season opened with the return of seven lettermen, some of whom had been reserves from last year's squad. The squad was helped considerable by the eligibility of some of the upper-classmen, and the freshmen class con-tributed some outstanding men, who performed very creditably on the grid-iron this year. Coach Campbell dis-played remarkable ability in placing his men where they would be of the greatest help to the team, taking men, who had played in the line, and mak-ing them outstanding backs before the season was over. The coaches drilled on the funda-mentals of the game the first of the season, and although the first game did not find a finished team, they gave their admirers something to think about in defeating Jamestown 6-0. The next game, against Valley City Normal, found the boys rounding into shape, and with a hard charging line which was instrumental in scor-ing four touchdowns on blocked punts, defeating their opponents by the score of 45-0. The next opponent was Southern Normal which held Northern to a 6-6 tie, chiefly because the Wolves did not get any breaks. On Gypsy Day we met the strong St. Thomas football team, the cream of the Minne-sota conference, and after one of the best-played games on Johnson field, in recent years, the Wolves were fin-ally defeated in the fourth quarter by the score of 6-0. The squad was then taken to the Black Hills, where, in a great game, they were defeated by Western Normal 7-0. The Miners of Rapid City were met next and the Wolves took them into camp, 2-0. With many of the regulars on the in-jured list, they were defeated by the strong Dakota Wesleyan outfit 20-0, due to the great passing game of the Tigers, and because the Wolves were not playing "heads up" football. The last game of the season found the Wolves in fighting mood, and with their determination to win the final game, they defeated the strong Yank-ton gridders 6-0, finishing the season in the conference with a 500 percent rating. Fifteen letters were granted to the most consistent performers of the year. Nine linemen received the coveted award: Doney an end from Hector, Minnesota, and Holland, an-other wing man from Pierre; Johnson and Werth, both of Aberdeen, tackles; Sipes, Frink, and Mattice, guards; and Lewis, Aberdeen, and Bell of Leola, centers. In the backfield, Dresselhuys and Crawford at half pos-itions were outstanding and played most of the games on the schedule. Captain Finnegan at fullback and Herbert Black at full or tackle were two other stellar performers. Mar-quis played regular quarterback to earn his letter, but due to injuries his place was taken late in the season by C. Tobin of Milbank, who was also granted the "N." A summary of the seasons games shows 71 point scored by the Wolves as against 38 totaled by opponents. DEAN THOMAS IS HONORED J. W. Thomas, Dean of Men, has been honored by appointment to mem-bership on one of the important corn-mittee3 of the National Education Association. The appointment comes through J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the Association. The letter of invi-tation follows: "I am instructed by President Pyrtle to notify you of your appoint-ment on the Legislative Commission and to urge your acceptance. Dr. William M. Davidson, Superintendent of Schools, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, chairman of the Commission, will get in touch with members soon. Kindly let us have your reply by return mail." MISS NIELSEN ADVISES 1. Learn your part on your feet. 2. Age is expressed by the knees. 3. Breath control is essential for tears, laughter, and voice expression. 4. Exercise for poise. 5. Think while exercising. 6. While speaking open your mouth. 7. Learn to relax the jaw. Scene from "The Cotter's Saturday Night" PRESIDENT LAIRD IN CHARGE Novel and Attractive Program Fea-turing Music, Dancing and Clever Acts Please Audience Friday evening, November 22, the College Y. M. C. A. staged a clever musical sketch the "Jolly Good" Revue. Virden Laird, president of the association, was in charge of the event. Louis Anderson, serving in the capacity of master of ceremonies, introduced the various acts as they appeared and explained the numbers on the evening's program. The first number was a chorus girls' dance with Magnolia Washabaugh, Gloria Sipes, Daisy Tobin, Eleanor Scherf, Norma Hunstad, Clara Wright, Minnie Woods and Margaret Laird, doing the stepping to the pop-ular melody, "Singing in the Rain." They were followed by magicians of deepest mystery, Francis Clark and John Schaal, who used all their powers of magic and rivalled even the great-est of the slight of hand performers of the past or present. E. Kenneth Baillie, impersonating the famous Russian dancer, Leaping Lena Trotskinsky, danced gracefully for the large gathering. Assisted at times by her partner, Howard Tor-genson, she executed fancy steps never before witnessed in Aberdeen. As an encore the Princess interpreted the famous Lady Egypta in a wild, desert dance. The T. B. Quartet, composed of Alfred Sueltz, John Iszler, Joseph Molumby and Francis Clark, sang several very pleasing numbers, furn-ishing an encore, "Singing in the Rain". They were followed by a German Band, which played several selections and gave a clever stage act, "I'm the Dean," with Otto Hunstad in the leading role. Two more musical numbers, a solo by Joseph Molumby, "You Were Meant for Me," sung to Cleopatra, impersonated by E. Kenneth Baillie, and a trio composed of Chester and Russell Flolo and Turk Shaeffer ac-companied by Beecher Calaghan, pleased the audience. The "Revue" closed with a clever ensemble act. GET ON BOARD DECEMBER 9 Tourists Vessel to Stop Here! Registration will afford you the opportunity to enroll for a course in world travel under the supervision of a most competent captain. About 95 tourists are now on board. There is still room for more. The "History of Civilization" class under Prof. Onsgard is a diversifica-tion for students. Like a great com-pany of tourists, we started out at the beginning of the quarter by ex-ploring back into antiquity as far as man has probed. Our first detailed work was done amongst the pyramids of Egypt. Then we slowly drifted on into - Phoencia, Babylonia and other ancient points of interest. Next we sailed across the Aegean to Greece where everyone landed and explored to suit himself. After ex-tensive research in the field of his own selection he made a detailed re-port to the class. Points of interest that may have been overlooked or in-sufficiently stressed were thoroughly covered in an impersonal way by the captain who makes you feel as much at home in Athens as in Aberdeen. We are now about to wave our parting farewells to Greece wherein we found the zenith of ancient cul-ture. Our next full stop will be at Rome. Here a similar individual ex-ploration will take place. Beyond Rome we see the "dark ages" just coming up over the horizon. We shall plunge through this period in due time and again sail out under the clear blue sky of stabilized civilization. Our vessel is not driven by a stormy gale. We drift along the stream of life at a pace set by our own inter-ests, sailing past unimportant trivials but taking special excursions at points of universal interest. This course will help you fit your piece-meal his-tory into its proper niche in the uni-versal pattern which man has been weaving since the dawn of civiliza-tion down to 1928. Get on board! —Contributed by one already on. A Happy Thanksgiving FAMOUS PLAYERS RETURN Two plays will be presented by the Coffer-Miller Players on February 3 and 4 of the coming year. The first will be "Mistress of the Inn" mad the second "Tea for Three." The Cof-fer- Miller Players have appeared in Aberdeen many times under the aus-pices of the college and each time they have met with enthusiastic ap-plause from the people and students of the city. A year ago they presented "The Rivals," "Monsieur Poriette's Son-in-Law" and a children's produc-tion, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." During the coming year they are not carrying the juvenile theatre so no matinee appearances are scheduled. The Coffer-Miller artists come to Aberdeen under the auspices of the English department of the college, headed by Prof. Herbert R. Hiett. A Happy Thanksgiving IA HAPPY THANKSGIVING The Exponent o. .^.^r.^.•..4.".w‘4 Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXVIII. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, NOVEMBER 28, 1929 No. 10 TO ALL STUDENTS AND FACULTY: A HAPPY THANKSGIVING VACATION Y. M. C. A. "JOLLY GOOD" REVIEW GOES OVER BIG RURAL DEPARTMENT TO INAUGURATE NEW EXPERIMENT WILL USE WESTPORT SCHOOLS W. S. G. A. COUNCIL MEETS FOOTBALL MEN HONORED At the regular meeting of the W. S. G. A. Council, the officers for the program and social committees were announced. Lucille Adkins will offi-ciate as chairman of the program com-mittee and Wilhelinina Penfold will head the social committee. Both girls are members of the council and are outstanding in their campus activi-ties. The "Mother's Tea' was discussed. This tea is given in honor of the mothers of the girls in school by every girl in the organization. It was de-cided that the afternoon of December 17 would be the day for the tea. Both the girls in the dormitories and the districts are planning Xmas parties which are to take place shortly be-fore the Christmas holidays. Fifteen Men Are Guests of Lincoln and Graham Halls at Special Banquet Practice Teachers Will Spend Entire Day In Up-To-Date School System The football lettermen were feted Monday evening at a banquet in the Lincoln Hall dining room of the local institution. They were the guests of the girls of both dormitories, Lincoln and Graham Halls. They were seat-ed at a special table with Dean Moul-ton presiding. Those present were Doney, Holland, Johnson, Werth, Sipes, Frink, Mattice, Lewis, Bell, Dresselhuys, Crawford, Captain Fin-negan, Black, Marquis and C. Tobin. Others at the guest table were Miss Lillian Hilt and Miss Ida E. Whitten and the presidents of the two halls, Helen Malloy and Bernice O'Grady. The cheering squad, composed of Ber-tha Oster, Katherine Devine, Lavonne Parrot, Margaret Hibbard and Virgil Hanlon, and several young ladies of the dormitories at the request of the football men were also honored at the special table. These included Fay Cosgrove, Marion Fix, Hilda Hansen, Marion Hilts, Helen Kidd, Constance Lane, Helen McCormack, Ruth Nelson, Carolyn Tompkins and Irma Wilkinson. The table was prettily decorated with yellow chrysanthemums and red tapers. Miniature Northern Wolves were scattered around on the table and the place cards were in the form of a gridiron hero carrying a pigskin under his arm. On the footballs were written the names of the guests. After the banquet the guests and girls of the two halls went to the Sunparlor of Lincoln Hall where they enjoyed dancing. With the beginning of the winter quarter the Rural Department will in-augurate an experiment in the con-duct of practice teaching. Arrange-ments have been made with the Board of Education to maintain a class of helping teachers at the Westport school throughout the entire day. Heretofore the Department has fol-lowed the practice of placing helping teachers in Demonstration Schools only one-fourth of the day for pur-poses of observation and practice teaching. Under the new plan twenty-two stu-dents will go to Westport at the close of the first class period in the morn-ing and will remain there until 4 P. M., each day. These students will be under the guidance of Professor Tostlebe, who will direct observation and practice teaching. Professor Tostlebe will also conduct certain col-lege classes at Westport, thus enabling the helping teachers to receive a full quarters credit for the work. Mrs. Drake, Miss Hansen, and Miss Adams, the critic teachers at Westport, will assist Professor Tostlebe in directing the work of the helping teachers. Other members of the Westport school will also assist with the experiment. Superintendent Michel has aided in planning it. Miss Munson and the pupils of the Home Economics Depart-ment will assist in preparing warm lunches for the helping teachers. Professor Culp and Dr. McCallister of the college faculty are assisting in the administration of the project. The college students who partici-pate in the experiment will enjoy a unique opportunity. They will have the privilege of pursuing their regular college courses and at the same time of securing the experience of spend-ing almost a full day in a teaching situation. This type of training will familiarize them with the entire days procedure in a thoroughly modern South Daokta school. COACH CAMPBELL ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE WORK BEGAN THIS WEEK Many Lettermen Back; Frosh Squad of Last Year Year Offers Good Material Coach Campbell issued his first call for basketball men, Monday, Novem-ber 25. Present indications point toward one of the best teams in years. Lettermen of last year include cap-tain- elect Virden Laird of Aberdeen, who will lead the Northern quintet from forward; Harold Scherf of Ros-coe, a returning center; "Teps" Rau-gust, "Tootie" Mattice and Otto Hun-stad, all lettermen of good guard abil-ity. Raugust hails from Emery, Hunstad from Bath and Mattice from Aberdeen. Besides the old varsity stars who will be back on the courts this winter, the Frosh squad of last year presents a number of stars for use who will make the older boys step to retain their positions. Marquis and Lewis, guards, are experienced at the game, as are Washabaugh and Woods, for-wards of proven ability. Herbert W. A. A. MEETING The old members of the W. A. A. had a business meeting, last Wednes-day evening, at 7:30 o'clock, in the physical education office. Bertha Oster, the president, appointed an in-itiation committee of two people, Jeanne Champlin, chairman, and Mar-garet Hibbard. Plans are to have the initiation take place the last Wed-nesday of this quarter. NEXT ENTERTAINMENT NUMBER IS DECEMBER 5 IS "COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT" Seven Artists Will Present Famous Robert Burns Classic in Song and Story Brimful of delightful and inimit-able Scotch humor and joyous laugh-ter is the famous musical play "The Cotter's Saturday Night," to be pre-sented here in the auditorium, Decem-ber 5. Based upon Robert Burns' immortal poem of the same name, this notable play was written by John E. Daniels of Boston. It presents an unforgett-able picture of contentment and happi-ness in the life of a single Scotch family. Beautiful old Scottish mel-odies, loved the world over are super-bly sung throughout the production. In a quaint old Scotch setting of the eighteenth century John Anderson, the Cotter, his family and some of his friends are shown spending a Sat-urday evening, with songs, stories and laughter. The characters, beside the Cotter, are Margaret, his wife; their daughter, Jennie; Robert Douglas, the Laird's son; Jamie, the Cotter's son; and Tammas Cuthbertson, a neighbor. Each role is splendidly portrayed both as to acting and singing. The com-pany is composed of seven outstand-ing artist entertainers, including a pianist. This Scottish Musical Comedy Com-pany of Boston has a record of almost nation-wide enthusiastic reception. Among those who have expressed de-light at the production are former President and Mrs. Coolidge, who ex-pressed themselves as greatly pleased with this fine production. Jason Noble Pierce, the former president's pastor, after hearing the performance wrote, "I cannot begin to tell you of our appreciation of 'The Cotter's Sat-urday Night,' and everyone is asking when you are coming back." The newspaper clippings below will give an idea how eastern audiences have received these musical comedy artists. "It was a true Scotch play, and enacted by the best company of Scotch players in the East." —Portsmouth (N. H.) Times. "It is a charming cross-section of life in the typical home of a Scottish Cotter. The charm that Burns gave to his pictures of Scottish life in his inimitable poems was caught up by Daniels, the author, in his play, and it was held to the very last curtain by the competent cast." —North Adams (Mass.) Transcript. "Old Scottish songs, droll stories which were made doubly amusing by the brogue in which they were told, and bits of philosophy, which all com-bined to give a fine delineation of Scotch character, entertained and pleased. The evening's entertainment was such a success that it is hoped to have another in the future."— Worcester (Mass.) Telegram. " 'The Cotter's Saturday Night,' presented by the Scottish Musical Comedy Company of Boston, was one of the rarest treats ever given a Jamestown audience. Seldom is a play given in whose program there is mingled music, laughter, pathos and tears, as is shown in 'The Cotter's Saturday Night.' "He who is a lover of music found the singing of the familiar Scotch songs by voices rich and experienced one of the finest musical entertain-ments ever heard. He who is gay and is always waiting for the humor-ous lines to be spoken, those which produce a ringing laugh, was well sat-isfied and amused when time after time he heard the Scotch stories. Then he who appreciates a 'homey' atmos-phere was pleased with the picture be-fore him, and no doubt the majority of the audience was of the opinion that a Saturday night as the cotter spent it, far surpasses a Saturday night in the average American home." —Jamestown, Pa. A Happy Thanksgiving COUNTRY LIFE CLUB MEETS The monthly meeting of the Coun-try Life Club was held in the Dutch Coffee Shop, Wednesday evening. A short business meeting followed the dinner hour. The officers elected for the current year are Mr. H. B. Mel-cher, Superintendent of Schools for Brown county, president; Prof. V. H. Culp, Acting Head of the Rural Edu-cation Department, vice-president; and Prof. J. C. Readey, Head of the De-partment of Agriculture, secretary. The program consisted of a discussion of the recent farmers' economic con-ference for Brown county, led by W. E. Dittmer, County Agent, under whose immediate direction the con-ference was held. Mr. Dittmer re-ported that four committees of ladies had worked on a home budget and had concluded that it requires $1600 per year to adequately provide for a fam-ily of five at the present standard of living. The ten or eleven committees of farmers, each working on a differ-ent phase of the farm enterprise, re-ported that the minimum size of a farm for Brown county was 320 acres. They also submitted a farming sys-tem of considerable detail that would provide for the standard of living set by the committee of women, meet the expense of the farm and leave a small cash balance. Mr. Dittmer pointed out that the conference had challenged the thinking of Brown county as prob-ably no other form of meeting had done. Black, a center from Big Stone City, will undoubtedly take the pivot posi-tion. The present schedule includes five conference tilts. A full list of games will be completed in the near future. The present schedule is as follows: January 11, Springfield at Aberdeen January 14, Huron at Aberdeen .January 23, Madison at Aberdeen January 28, Wesleyan at Aberdeen February 7, Huron at Huron February 8, Madison at Huron February 10, Sioux Falls at Sioux Falls February 11, Augustana at Augus-tana February 21, Yankton at Aberdeen February 26, Mines at Rapid City February 27, Spearfish at Spearfish February 28, Spearfish at Spearfish March 1, Mines at Rapid City. INSTRUCTORS ATTEND S. D. E. A. The college will be well represented at the South Dakota Education Assoc-iation convention held this week for three days, November 25-27, in Rapid City. Among those who will attend are Professor Hiett, who discusses before the English Teachers Round Table, uniform tests given the fresh-man English students at the open-ing of the school year. Results of four colleges of the state, Huron, Yankton, Springfield and Mitchell, were accumulated and compared with the results of our own school, the average grade being found. The literary background test prepared by Miss Lighthall this fall will also be presented and discussed. Among others attending are Dr. Anderson, Miss Briscoe and Profes-sors Jensen, Mewaldt, McCallister, Spencer, Culp, Guhin. Russell Jonas, Superintendent of Meade County, will act as toastmaster at the N. S. T. C. convention banquet; Miss Briscoe and R. W. Kraushaar, '21, give toasts, Harry Reynard, former student, sings a solo; and Dr. Anderson gives the main address. JUNIOR SPEECH TO GIVE PLAY The Junior Speech Department an-nounces the second of a series of plays to be given during the school year. The play selected is "Neighbors" by Zona Gale. The characters in the order of appearance are Grandma, Lydia Crosby; Mis' Dianthia Abel, Bessie Premach; Ezra Williams, Eliz-abeth Douglas; Peter, Agnes Skibs-rud; Inez, Doris Anderson; Mis' El-mira Moran, Cheryl Chamberlain; Mis' Trot, Mildred Flory; Mis' Cary Elsworth, Eleanor Suttle. Preceding the play the younger pupils are giv-ing a short sketch entitled, "The Doll Shop". Those taking part are "The Bisque Doll", Louise Losacker; "The French Doll", Betty Jane Burnette; "The Sailor Boy", Janet Spencer; "The Indian Chief", Clyde Savage; "The Tin Soldier", Geraldine Goodsell; "A Young Man", Lois Clocksin. The play will be given Saturday afternoon, November 30, at two o'clock, in Room E-2 of the Central Building. Admissions: adults 25 cents; students 10 cents; children five cents. Miss Overby is in charge of Junior Speech work. SUMMER SCHOOL STATISTICS In 1929, it has been estimated, there were 9,500 teachers, principals, supervisors and administrative offi-cers in the public elementary and secondary schools of South Dakota. In the state, eleven institutions con-ducted summer schools. The enroll-ment reported for the summer ses-sions was 2,612; of this number 2,- 066 were enrolled in educational courses. The ratio of summer school enrollment in education courses to the number of teachers in the state was 21.7 per cent. ORCHESTRA TO MAKE TOUR Roderick Ross, business manager of the college orchestra, announced re-cently that the orchestra will make its annual spring tour again this season under the direction of Prof. Howard E. Goodsell. The tour will be west and will probably take the better part of a week. Glenham and McIntosh have already signed up for programs and several more towns have tenta-tive agreements for concerts. A group of twenty-five or less will make the trip, including the soloists and the best players in the organization. COOPERATION Mrs. Barnes is quite enthusiastic over the splendid cooperation from so many different sources evidenced dur-ing National Book Week. Among the various people assisting, she mentions Miss King, Miss Lighthall, Miss Wil-liams and selected groups from their classes; the janitors who assisted in carrying and hauling books from the campus down town; the library staff, including student assistants, gave Sat-urday in addition to many other hours in enthusiastic work; Mr. Stoakes and the class in journalism did splendid work in connection with publicity; Dr. Seymour loaned valuable South Dakota material from his personal library and Prof. Jensen loaned ap-paratus for the science table. Many others contributed. Mrs. Barnes says: "The fine spirit of helpfulness and cooperation shown by our people was much appreciated and impressed me with the fact that it is not diffi-cult to carry out a project when there is so many willing assistants at hand." |
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