The Exponent, 1929-11-28

              •
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."