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ENGLISH FRATERNITY TO SPONSOR LITERARY PAGE SIGMA TAU DELTA PLANS WORK Original Literary Selections To Be Run in Insert Sheet of "The Exponent" In accordance with its aims to en-courage the study of literary master-pieces and to promote creative writ-ing on the campus, Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English fraternity, is planning to sponsor a special liter-ary section of "The Exponent" dur-ing the first week of February. Miss Lighthall, who is advisor of the group, says that the insert will be four columns wide and will be made up entirely of original literary writ-ings of the members of Sigma Tau Delta. The selections will be in the form of essays, poems, and other writings which were handed in at the last two literary meetings of the or-ganization called together under the direction of Miss Emeline Welsh. Judges of the selections to be run :n the insert will be Miss Caroline Sparrow, assisted by two members of Sigma Tau Delta appointed by Helen Kelly, president of the organization. Sigma Tau Delta is a comparatively new organization on the campus, but has been very active in promoting lit-erary work, especially in the field of creative writing. This honorary soc-iety is open to sophomores, Juniors and seniors, who have taken the re-quired number of English credit hours and who have maintained a high scho-lastic standard. For outstanding work, members are awarded honorary jewels for their key, the highest of which is the diamond. One member, Dr. J. C. Lindberg, has received this highest distinction for his work in the literary field. This year the following people be-long to Sigma Tau Delta: Dr. Lind-berg, Miss Vera Lighthall, Miss Welsh, Mrs. W. W. Garvin, Miss Edith Aldrich, Helen Kelly, Alice Lortscher, Margaret Brown, Caroljean Wilson, Mildred Anderson, James Ryan, Doro-thy Johnson, Georgia Lillian Kemper, Shirley Potter, Ruth Taylor, Barbara Anderson, Joyce Ellsworth, and Valva Weisman. Y. W. INTEREST GROUP MEETS The Y. W. C. A. Interest Group on Current Literature met Friday morn-ing in the Y. W. C. A. rest room to discuss recent novels that have been published. Josephine Brainard was in charge of the discussion of the follow-ing books, Ertz' "Story of Julian", Aldrich's "White Bird Flying", and Barnes' "Westward Passage." REQUESTS MADE FOR ANDERSON'S ADDRESS A request for copies of his address, which was delivered at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at New Or-leans in December, has been received by Dr. David Allen Anderson from the Carnegie foundation for the ad-vancement of teaching. The foundation, with headquarters in California, wrote to Dr. W. L. Uhl, dean of the school of education at the University of Washington, who read Dr. Anderson's paper before the con-vention, asking for copies of the ad-dress for their collection of discussions on teaching problems. Dr. Uhl refer-red the foundation to President Ander-son. The paper concerns "Curricular Offering in Teachers colleges." New Scoreboard Unveiled The new electric basketball score-board, a gift of the 1932 senior class to the college, was unveiled with ap-propriate ceremonies previous to the game, Saturday night, between Spear-fish Normal Yellow Jackets and the Northern Wolves. The scoreboard, of the type used by all of the large uni-versities and college in the country, was operated for the first time during the game. Talks were made at the unveiling of the gift by Professors S. R. Lipscomb, faculty advisor to the seniors; Gale Finley, of Chelsea, vice-president; and by Dr. David Allen An-derson, who accepted the gift in be-half of the institution. Harold Mar-quis, president of the class, is a mem-ber of the basketball team, and hence was not able to take part in the un-veiling ceremonies. The scoreboard is a "Simplex" board, operated by remote control from a desk on the sidelines. It hangs well up on the Spafford Hall rear wall, giving all spectators an ade-quate view. Minutes to play, names of players, and scores are given on the board. The scoreboard is the same as those used in this state by State College and the University. Each year, the graduating class at the College, presents Alma Mater with a gift. The class of 1932 leaves this scoreboard as its contribution. — — COMING EVENTS Freshmen Party Jan. 29 Co-Ed Prom .Jan. 30 Harry Farbman violinist Feb. 1 Yankton, here Feb. 2 Howling Echo hop Feb. 5 .111-School Dance Feb. 6 II uron, here _.. Feb. 8 "Giants in the Earth" Feb. 11 M Ines, here Feb. 18 Harvey Swenson plays the leading role, in "The Butter and Egg Man", that of a shy youth with a small for-tune and a large ambition to make a million or so on Broadway producing plays. He looks like an easy mark to the sharpers who take his money and sink what they can spare of it into a broken-down show, but he soon stands them on their heads and walks off with a handsome profit. And with him he takes their charming office assistant as his proud and laughing bride. College Orchestra Honored The Greater College Symphony Or-chestra with Professor Howard E. Goodsell as director has been reward-ed for their excellent work by a very attractive picture published in Jacob's Orchestra Monthly, Boston, Mass. The picture was taken in Spafford Gymnasium on the occasion of the orchestra's first annual concert held last July. The Greater Symphony Orchestra is made up of the regular College Symphony Orchestra, aug-mented by Professor Goodsell's pupils in eleven near-by towns. The news note accompanying the picture sug-gests that this first concert was in the nature of an experiment but was so successful that those in charge ex-pect to make it an annual affair. We congratulate Goodsell and his Greater Symphony Orchestra. HARVEY SWENSON Georgia Kemper playing opposite "The Butter and Egg Man" interprets the role of Jane Weston, a steno-grapher and office girl. Being the heroine of the fable, she uses her woman's intuition to advantage. When things look their worst, she neatly teaches the Chillicothe, Ohio, lad some tricks that hadn't been included in his education at home. At the Orpheurn Theatre, Friday, February 3, 4 and 5. GEORGIA LILLIAN KEMPER PREPARATIONS FOR CO-ED PROM NEARLY COMPLETED THE DATE IS JANUARY 30 One-Half of Women Students Will As-sume Masculine Roles and Es-cort Other Half The annual Co-ed Prom is to be held in Spafford gymnasium, Janu-ary 30, from eight until eleven. All final arrangements have been made and committees are at work as an-nounced by Marion Karrigan, W. S. G. A. president, at the W. S. G. A. Council meeting, January 21. Dorothy Davies, social chairman who has gen-eral supervision of the Prom, appoint-ed three committee chairmen: music, Marjorie Black; refreshments, Doris Watters; posters, Irene Lee. This event has always been remem-bered by co-ed students and faculty women as one of the first social func-tions of their school life. As this takes the form of a formal dancing party, one-half of the girls get a date and dress as boys, escorting the other half of the girls. Girls dress in their best as this is not considered a mas-querade. The evening will be spent largely in dancing. A program• arranged by members of the Physical Education Department will include folk dances, clogging, and natural dances. There will also be a program of vocal num-bers, a duet by Reva Hagg and Vivian Bauer, and numbers by the college quartet, Frances Greene, Mildred Chase, Marjorie Black and Marjorie Eyestone; and a vocal solo by Evelyn Shuck. Refreshments will be served, an:I it is expected that there will be a fa-vor for each person. Invitations are extended to every faculty woman and woman student on the campus. Guests of honor and chaperons will be Dean Moulton, Mrs. Barnes, faculty advisers and all district advisers of W. S. G. A. LEAP YEAR DANCE PLANNED Members of the Howling Echo are formulating plans for an exclusive dancing party to be held in the gym-nasium, Friday, February 5. Each girl will invite a boy, thus giving it the name, "Leap Year Dance." The following committees have been ap-pointed by Lavonne Parrott, president, to manage the affair: program—Jo-hanna Elsing, chairman; Helen Rich-ter, and Leone Blethen. Refresh-ments: Reva Hagg, chairman; Loret-ta Lohr, and Frances Fargen. WEEKS WRITES ARTICLE ON NEEDS OF TEACHERS Supervisory Needs of Rural Teach-ers in Social Studies" is the title of an article written by Prof. I. D. Weeks in the January issue of the Educa-tional Method. This publication is the official organ of the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruc-tion. Objective supervision, by giving the teacher the chance to indicate in which items she needs assistance, through the use of a check list, is ad-vocated by Prof. Weeks. He cites general results of such a survey tak-en among rural teachers at a teach-ers' institute in a South Dakota coun-ty. Pfitzners Give Recital By J. C. Lindberg Those who appreciate good music were more than pleased with the ex-cellent recital given by Professor Pfitzner assisted by Mrs. Ada Pfitz-ner, mezzo-soprano, Friday evening, January 22. The concert brought out a good-sized audience interested in classical and modern music. The high lights of the evening were unquestionably the "Sonata in B flat minor," opus 35, by Chopin, made up of four movements: Grave, Scherzo, Lento and Pesto, played by Mr. Pfitz-ner, and "The Erlking," Schubert, sung by Mrs. Pfitzner. The Sonata gives a wide sweep of musical exal-tation. In its four movements may be found the heights and depths of joy and sorrow. It is a test of real musicanship from every point of view: memory, interpretation, skill. Pro-fessor Pfitzner showed himself a mas-ter of all and his rendition was a triumph of artistic musicianship. Two other groups featuring such modern composers as Debussy, Tscherepnine, Albeniz-Godowsky, Glinka-Balakirew and Dohnanyi gave breadth and varie-ty to the program. Aberdeen people had not had the privilege of hearing Mrs. Pfitzner since her excellent portrayals of The Mother and The Witch in "Hansel and Gretel," last year. It was a pleasure to hear her again in two groups, one modern, interpreting Hugo Wolf; one classical, interpreting Schubert. Hugo Wolf has much to give and hence de-mands much, both from the singer and the listener. His themes are both heavy and light, as illustrated in "Longing for Home" and in "A Child's Charm for a Mouse Trap." Mrs. Pfitzner was excellent in her role as interpreter. She was equally good in the Schubert group, giving as a cli-max, "The Erlking". The haunting fear of the child, the comforting words of the father, and the aluring wiles of the Erlking's daughters were all brought out with consummate skill. The recital will remain an event in the musical history of the school year, Northern won easily from the tra- look like a set-up. Poor shooting on vel-wearied Yellow Jackets, by a 34 to both sides kept the score at a low 20 score, in a conference game, last mark, and the half ended 13 to 6, Saturday evening. the "hornets" trailing. Although the 'Wolves were off-form , the Westerners never threatened af-ter the first few minutes of play, when they held a 6-6 tie. The Yellow Jackets took the lead only to fall be-hind after a short period. Rainbow passes and ragged ball ran riot throughout, and the Wolves missed enough shots to triple the score. Marquis sank the first goal in the first half minute to make the game (Continued On Page 3) Western started to rally late in the game but Gregerson sank three in a row to stump the Spearfish cagers in their attempt to gain the lead. Coach Bob Campbell used ten men, although they all seemed off-form. Scherf was high point man with 12 and Marquis followed with eight. Lis-ton and Scheidt counted for six and BAND GIVES CONCERT The College Band, under the direc-tion of H. E. Goodsell, conductor, gave a very fine concert in the auditorium, January 19. The Band is composed of about thirty members. Solo num-bers by Ralph Carlson, cornetist, Rob-ert Hill, baritone, and a quartet com-posed of Katherine Van Walker, Mar-ion Fuller and Messrs. Buck and Houge. Harriet Hill and Patricia Fitzpatrick served as accompanists. Six stirring numbers were given by the Band. The only disappointing thing about the concert was the small audience. Professor Goodsell and the Band gave a wonderful concert. CULP EDITS "EDUCATOR" Prof. V. H. Culp has just completed the February number of "The Rural Educator." It is the Washington Bi- Centennial Edition containing scenes from the life of Washington. This bulletin has been written for the school children with the hope that at least some of the scenes may be 1)..e-rented to the patrons and friends of the schools of the state. The first scene is Washington as the Virginia Planter. The next scenes carry him through his military and political car-eer. The last scenes are given to "Washington Retires to Mt. Vernon" and a "Tribute to Washington by the Thirteen Colonies." The pupils of the Rural Demonstra-tion Schools are going to present this dramatization in honor of George Washington, at the college assembly, on the anniversary of his birthday. CLASS PRESENTS PLAY The play production class presented its third offering, "Pierrot's Mother", at Thursday's assembly. The play was excellently done, as a class pro-ject under the direction of Prof. El-wood Ramay. The students interpret-ing the roles were Jean DeHaven as the mother, Margaret McDiarmid as Pierrot, and Dorothy Kempthorne . as Pierrette. Mrs. W. W. Garvin, of the college spoke before members of the Wright community club, Friday, January 22, LECTURE COURSE GROUP MEETS Plans for the entertainment course for the summer session were discuss-ed at a dinner meeting at the Dutch Coffee Shop, Tuesday evening, when members of the entertainment com-mittee met with Harry Culbertson, of Chicago, manager of an artists' bur-eau. Two outstanding numbers were selected by the committee to be pre-sented during the summer school ses-sion. In addition, four other numbers for next year will probably be ar-ranged for in the near future, making six entertainment numbers scheduled. Those present at the dinner were Mrs. C. E. Barnes, chairman of the committee, Dr. and Mrs. David Allen Anderson, P. J. Harkness, W. M. Oates, J. C. Lindberg, John Lukken, Miss Lida Williams, Walther Pfitzner. Miss Vera Lighthall, Mr. Ralph Deni son and Mr. Culbertson. This is the twenty-first year that Mr. Culbertson has met with college officials to consider plans for enter-tainment courses. Jean DeHaven was announced as hav-ing the highest grades earned by any student in the fall quarter, with a straight "A" average. HARRY FARBMAN, NOTED The Exponent VIOLINIST HERE MONDAY HARRY FARBMAN, NOTED VIOLINIST HERE MONDAY Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXX. ABERDEEN,SOUTH DAKOTA, JANUARY 28, 1932 No. 15 " HARRY FARB:VAN, NOTED VIOLINIST, HERE NEXT MONDAY Helen KellyWins Oratorical Tournament CLIVE ACKER PLACES SECOND Winners Will Represent N. S. T. C. at the State Contest To Be Held At Brookings, February 20 Helen Kelly, with her original ora-tion, "Judgment or Justice?" won the honor to represent N. S. T. C. at the state oratorical contest to be held at Brookings, February 20, as the result of placing first in the local Lincoln Oratorical Contest sponsored last Fri-day by the local speech department. Second place was awarded to Clive Acker, who spoke on "Our Daily Bread." Mr. Acker will also rep-esent the college in the state con-test. Esther S'ueltz, speaking on "America's Archaic Assessments" placed third. Miss Kelly and Mr. Acker will com-pete in the women's and men's division of oratory at the state meet and will be given gold and silver medals, re-spectively for placing first and second in the local contest. Other students delivering orations were: Valva Weisman, "The Working Man's Dilemma"; Virginia Heaton, "Modern College Life"; Malcom Sol-berg, "The Bridge." The judges for the evening were Miss Emeline Welsh, Prof. Merle Trickey, and Prof. Harry Hutter, all members of the N. S. T. C. faculty. NORTHERN LEADS Information gathered by Mr. Crawford, Reg-istrar, reveals some interesting facts concerning the graduates and former students of the Northern State Teachers College, who at the present time are holding administrative positions in the pub-lic schools of South Dakota. The information is taken from the Director of Secondary Schools, 1931-32. At the head of the entire State Rural School System may he mentioned E. C. Giffen, State Superintendent of Public In-struction, Ruessell E. Jonas, Deputy Superintendent of Public In-struction, and R. W. Kraushaar, Supervisor of Secondary Educa-tion. Among Northern's four-year graduates are three county sup-erintendents, 12 city superintendents, 22 high school principals; a total of 37. Among graduates from the two-year curricula are listed nine county superintendents, one city superintendent, one high school principal; a total of eleven. Among former students, but who are not graduates, are listed two county superintendents, eight city superintendents. four high school principals; a total of 14. This makes a total of 65 Northern representatives who are holding importnat administrative positions. Weeks Sponsors Bulletin Prof. I. D. Weeks, Director of Ru-ral Life, and his committee put out the January issue of the "South Da-kota Parent-Teacher." The purpose of the bulletin is to be of practical help to the Parent Teacher Associa-tions and community organizations in the rural areas of South Dakota. It is hoped that the various subjects presented will be sufficiently helpful so that each may serve as the basis for a talk to be given by members of lo-cal associations. Since library facili-ties are often lacking, this bulletin may serve as a partial substitute. Some of the contributions to the bulletin were made by Dr. H. F. Stev-ens, dentist of Aberdeen; Mrs. Mrytis Clark-Gruhn, County Superintendent of Schools of Brown County; and Pro-fessor Paul H. Landis, sociology de-partment, State College, Brookings. WOLVES CONQUER EASILY FROM SPEARFISH QUINTET Northern Plays Off-Form in Ragged Exhibition of Pas-sing and Shooting RUSSIA SENDS NOTE The following interesting letter came to Dean Thomas of the Exten-ison Department from "The U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries", Moscow. "In accordance with the request of the Central Institute of Correspon-dence Study, Moscow, we beg to in-form you that they are extremely in-terested in the methods of profession-al and vocational training by means of correspondence courses applied in other countries and they would greatly appreciate it if you will be so kind as to send them your academic pro-grammes and other kind of material pertaining to the activity of your school in this line. "On their part, the Institute would be pleased to provide you with respectiv e publications in case the So-viet system of correspondence courses in of interest to you. "The Institute sent you in our care a specimen copy of their publications on January 1, 1932. "You are welcome to mail your a-vailable publications as well as any information you may like to share with the above Institute to the ad-dress of the Book Exchange Depart-ment of our Society bearing the name of the 'Central Institute of Corres-pondence Study'." FACULTY GROUP TO MEET "GIANTS IN THE EARTH" By Shirley Potter "Giants in the Earth" came into existence several years ago. Immed-iately it was showered with both cen-sure and praise. The Norwegians hail it as the mightiest literary creation of the time—perhaps that is because it concerns them. Other people ack-nowledge its style and composition, but, on the other hand, insist that it is "too true to life;" that it "could have been written concerning any other nationality just as well;" that it is "plain vulgar!" Still others appre-ciate it as a real epic of pioneer life and truly enjoy every page. Rolvaag, the author, has taken sev-eral of the main threads of American pioneer history and woven them to-gether into an interesting novel. The major theme is the settling of the vast western prairies and deals with the horrible cost of the loss of human life expanded during this period of Empire-building. Beret and Per Hansa are transplant-ed from their home along the coast of Norway to a sod shanty in South Dakota. The change, radical as it is, is favorable to the sturdy pioneer Per Hansa, but poor Beret—the silences, the open spaces are too much for her--goes mad, poor soul. The grass-hoppers, the storms, the wind, the vastness of the prairies, the lonliness, become tokens of the devil—a curse. Time, however, transforms her from a hysterical woman to an extremely pious, religious fanatic. Thomas .Job has adapted the story to play form. The thought remains the same and his efforts have created for the stage a life picture of the greatness, the horribleness, the power of the elements, figuratively called "the giants in the earth." It is an extremely difficult task to present a story such as this to an audience. Job is to be congratulated for his splendid work in bringing this power-ful drama within the realm of theatre ig)looett He has done all that could possibly be done with this complex Many people wonder how such a novel could ever be produced on the stage! The play is written in three acts and a short prologue. The lat-ter is a scene of the camp of the Per Hansa family on the Dakota prairie on a June night in 1873. An old cov-ered wagon stands in the background; behind it a brilliant moon is coming up; the fire has sunk to a red glow, dimly outlining four muffled figures. As the curtain rises a slim figure Just before the holidays the men of the faculty organized into a group for study of special current problems. The purpose is to meet once a week to listen to and discuss some special study on the part of some faculty member. At the first meeting Pro-fessor Murhpy gave an enlightening talk on the China-Japan-Manchuria situation. Dr. Anderson is, ex-officio, chairman of the group and Prof. Har-vey Welsh is secretary. The second meeting of the group was held January 25 in the faculty assembly room. Dr. Seymour gave an address covering interesting phases in the history of South Dakota. PLAY GIVEN MANY TIMES "Getting Started", a one-act play presented at assembly, January 14, by the members of the Dramatic Produc-tion Class under Professor Elwood Ra-may, has been given before many or-ganizations of the city of Aberdeen. On the afternoon of January 14, the cast appeared before the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid and the Methodist Ladies' Aid. January 20, the play was given at a meeting of the Loyal Order of Moose. At the noon luncheon of the Lions Club on January 25, the cast presented it for the fifth time. At a luncheon on February 13, at the Con-gregational Church, it will be given again. Mabel Murphy, Karl Hansen and Blanche Brill make up the cast; Mil-dred Anderson is in charge of the staging and properties. DORISS WITTICH, PIANIST It has just been learned that Miss Doriss Wittich, accompanist for Harry Farbman, is an accomplished musician in her own field. She is the favorite accompanist of V. Lazzari, noted bas-so of the Chicago Civic Opera Com-pany. Recently she made a sensa-tional success as guest artist of the Thursday Music Club in Minneapolis. She is scheduled to appear in Aber-deen again next year on the regular entertainment course. All interested should not fail to hear her next Mon-day with Mr, Farbman, (Continued on Page 2)
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Title | The Exponent, 1932-01-28 |
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Date of creation | 1932-01-28 |
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Transcription | ENGLISH FRATERNITY TO SPONSOR LITERARY PAGE SIGMA TAU DELTA PLANS WORK Original Literary Selections To Be Run in Insert Sheet of "The Exponent" In accordance with its aims to en-courage the study of literary master-pieces and to promote creative writ-ing on the campus, Sigma Tau Delta, national honorary English fraternity, is planning to sponsor a special liter-ary section of "The Exponent" dur-ing the first week of February. Miss Lighthall, who is advisor of the group, says that the insert will be four columns wide and will be made up entirely of original literary writ-ings of the members of Sigma Tau Delta. The selections will be in the form of essays, poems, and other writings which were handed in at the last two literary meetings of the or-ganization called together under the direction of Miss Emeline Welsh. Judges of the selections to be run :n the insert will be Miss Caroline Sparrow, assisted by two members of Sigma Tau Delta appointed by Helen Kelly, president of the organization. Sigma Tau Delta is a comparatively new organization on the campus, but has been very active in promoting lit-erary work, especially in the field of creative writing. This honorary soc-iety is open to sophomores, Juniors and seniors, who have taken the re-quired number of English credit hours and who have maintained a high scho-lastic standard. For outstanding work, members are awarded honorary jewels for their key, the highest of which is the diamond. One member, Dr. J. C. Lindberg, has received this highest distinction for his work in the literary field. This year the following people be-long to Sigma Tau Delta: Dr. Lind-berg, Miss Vera Lighthall, Miss Welsh, Mrs. W. W. Garvin, Miss Edith Aldrich, Helen Kelly, Alice Lortscher, Margaret Brown, Caroljean Wilson, Mildred Anderson, James Ryan, Doro-thy Johnson, Georgia Lillian Kemper, Shirley Potter, Ruth Taylor, Barbara Anderson, Joyce Ellsworth, and Valva Weisman. Y. W. INTEREST GROUP MEETS The Y. W. C. A. Interest Group on Current Literature met Friday morn-ing in the Y. W. C. A. rest room to discuss recent novels that have been published. Josephine Brainard was in charge of the discussion of the follow-ing books, Ertz' "Story of Julian", Aldrich's "White Bird Flying", and Barnes' "Westward Passage." REQUESTS MADE FOR ANDERSON'S ADDRESS A request for copies of his address, which was delivered at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at New Or-leans in December, has been received by Dr. David Allen Anderson from the Carnegie foundation for the ad-vancement of teaching. The foundation, with headquarters in California, wrote to Dr. W. L. Uhl, dean of the school of education at the University of Washington, who read Dr. Anderson's paper before the con-vention, asking for copies of the ad-dress for their collection of discussions on teaching problems. Dr. Uhl refer-red the foundation to President Ander-son. The paper concerns "Curricular Offering in Teachers colleges." New Scoreboard Unveiled The new electric basketball score-board, a gift of the 1932 senior class to the college, was unveiled with ap-propriate ceremonies previous to the game, Saturday night, between Spear-fish Normal Yellow Jackets and the Northern Wolves. The scoreboard, of the type used by all of the large uni-versities and college in the country, was operated for the first time during the game. Talks were made at the unveiling of the gift by Professors S. R. Lipscomb, faculty advisor to the seniors; Gale Finley, of Chelsea, vice-president; and by Dr. David Allen An-derson, who accepted the gift in be-half of the institution. Harold Mar-quis, president of the class, is a mem-ber of the basketball team, and hence was not able to take part in the un-veiling ceremonies. The scoreboard is a "Simplex" board, operated by remote control from a desk on the sidelines. It hangs well up on the Spafford Hall rear wall, giving all spectators an ade-quate view. Minutes to play, names of players, and scores are given on the board. The scoreboard is the same as those used in this state by State College and the University. Each year, the graduating class at the College, presents Alma Mater with a gift. The class of 1932 leaves this scoreboard as its contribution. — — COMING EVENTS Freshmen Party Jan. 29 Co-Ed Prom .Jan. 30 Harry Farbman violinist Feb. 1 Yankton, here Feb. 2 Howling Echo hop Feb. 5 .111-School Dance Feb. 6 II uron, here _.. Feb. 8 "Giants in the Earth" Feb. 11 M Ines, here Feb. 18 Harvey Swenson plays the leading role, in "The Butter and Egg Man", that of a shy youth with a small for-tune and a large ambition to make a million or so on Broadway producing plays. He looks like an easy mark to the sharpers who take his money and sink what they can spare of it into a broken-down show, but he soon stands them on their heads and walks off with a handsome profit. And with him he takes their charming office assistant as his proud and laughing bride. College Orchestra Honored The Greater College Symphony Or-chestra with Professor Howard E. Goodsell as director has been reward-ed for their excellent work by a very attractive picture published in Jacob's Orchestra Monthly, Boston, Mass. The picture was taken in Spafford Gymnasium on the occasion of the orchestra's first annual concert held last July. The Greater Symphony Orchestra is made up of the regular College Symphony Orchestra, aug-mented by Professor Goodsell's pupils in eleven near-by towns. The news note accompanying the picture sug-gests that this first concert was in the nature of an experiment but was so successful that those in charge ex-pect to make it an annual affair. We congratulate Goodsell and his Greater Symphony Orchestra. HARVEY SWENSON Georgia Kemper playing opposite "The Butter and Egg Man" interprets the role of Jane Weston, a steno-grapher and office girl. Being the heroine of the fable, she uses her woman's intuition to advantage. When things look their worst, she neatly teaches the Chillicothe, Ohio, lad some tricks that hadn't been included in his education at home. At the Orpheurn Theatre, Friday, February 3, 4 and 5. GEORGIA LILLIAN KEMPER PREPARATIONS FOR CO-ED PROM NEARLY COMPLETED THE DATE IS JANUARY 30 One-Half of Women Students Will As-sume Masculine Roles and Es-cort Other Half The annual Co-ed Prom is to be held in Spafford gymnasium, Janu-ary 30, from eight until eleven. All final arrangements have been made and committees are at work as an-nounced by Marion Karrigan, W. S. G. A. president, at the W. S. G. A. Council meeting, January 21. Dorothy Davies, social chairman who has gen-eral supervision of the Prom, appoint-ed three committee chairmen: music, Marjorie Black; refreshments, Doris Watters; posters, Irene Lee. This event has always been remem-bered by co-ed students and faculty women as one of the first social func-tions of their school life. As this takes the form of a formal dancing party, one-half of the girls get a date and dress as boys, escorting the other half of the girls. Girls dress in their best as this is not considered a mas-querade. The evening will be spent largely in dancing. A program• arranged by members of the Physical Education Department will include folk dances, clogging, and natural dances. There will also be a program of vocal num-bers, a duet by Reva Hagg and Vivian Bauer, and numbers by the college quartet, Frances Greene, Mildred Chase, Marjorie Black and Marjorie Eyestone; and a vocal solo by Evelyn Shuck. Refreshments will be served, an:I it is expected that there will be a fa-vor for each person. Invitations are extended to every faculty woman and woman student on the campus. Guests of honor and chaperons will be Dean Moulton, Mrs. Barnes, faculty advisers and all district advisers of W. S. G. A. LEAP YEAR DANCE PLANNED Members of the Howling Echo are formulating plans for an exclusive dancing party to be held in the gym-nasium, Friday, February 5. Each girl will invite a boy, thus giving it the name, "Leap Year Dance." The following committees have been ap-pointed by Lavonne Parrott, president, to manage the affair: program—Jo-hanna Elsing, chairman; Helen Rich-ter, and Leone Blethen. Refresh-ments: Reva Hagg, chairman; Loret-ta Lohr, and Frances Fargen. WEEKS WRITES ARTICLE ON NEEDS OF TEACHERS Supervisory Needs of Rural Teach-ers in Social Studies" is the title of an article written by Prof. I. D. Weeks in the January issue of the Educa-tional Method. This publication is the official organ of the Department of Supervisors and Directors of Instruc-tion. Objective supervision, by giving the teacher the chance to indicate in which items she needs assistance, through the use of a check list, is ad-vocated by Prof. Weeks. He cites general results of such a survey tak-en among rural teachers at a teach-ers' institute in a South Dakota coun-ty. Pfitzners Give Recital By J. C. Lindberg Those who appreciate good music were more than pleased with the ex-cellent recital given by Professor Pfitzner assisted by Mrs. Ada Pfitz-ner, mezzo-soprano, Friday evening, January 22. The concert brought out a good-sized audience interested in classical and modern music. The high lights of the evening were unquestionably the "Sonata in B flat minor," opus 35, by Chopin, made up of four movements: Grave, Scherzo, Lento and Pesto, played by Mr. Pfitz-ner, and "The Erlking," Schubert, sung by Mrs. Pfitzner. The Sonata gives a wide sweep of musical exal-tation. In its four movements may be found the heights and depths of joy and sorrow. It is a test of real musicanship from every point of view: memory, interpretation, skill. Pro-fessor Pfitzner showed himself a mas-ter of all and his rendition was a triumph of artistic musicianship. Two other groups featuring such modern composers as Debussy, Tscherepnine, Albeniz-Godowsky, Glinka-Balakirew and Dohnanyi gave breadth and varie-ty to the program. Aberdeen people had not had the privilege of hearing Mrs. Pfitzner since her excellent portrayals of The Mother and The Witch in "Hansel and Gretel," last year. It was a pleasure to hear her again in two groups, one modern, interpreting Hugo Wolf; one classical, interpreting Schubert. Hugo Wolf has much to give and hence de-mands much, both from the singer and the listener. His themes are both heavy and light, as illustrated in "Longing for Home" and in "A Child's Charm for a Mouse Trap." Mrs. Pfitzner was excellent in her role as interpreter. She was equally good in the Schubert group, giving as a cli-max, "The Erlking". The haunting fear of the child, the comforting words of the father, and the aluring wiles of the Erlking's daughters were all brought out with consummate skill. The recital will remain an event in the musical history of the school year, Northern won easily from the tra- look like a set-up. Poor shooting on vel-wearied Yellow Jackets, by a 34 to both sides kept the score at a low 20 score, in a conference game, last mark, and the half ended 13 to 6, Saturday evening. the "hornets" trailing. Although the 'Wolves were off-form , the Westerners never threatened af-ter the first few minutes of play, when they held a 6-6 tie. The Yellow Jackets took the lead only to fall be-hind after a short period. Rainbow passes and ragged ball ran riot throughout, and the Wolves missed enough shots to triple the score. Marquis sank the first goal in the first half minute to make the game (Continued On Page 3) Western started to rally late in the game but Gregerson sank three in a row to stump the Spearfish cagers in their attempt to gain the lead. Coach Bob Campbell used ten men, although they all seemed off-form. Scherf was high point man with 12 and Marquis followed with eight. Lis-ton and Scheidt counted for six and BAND GIVES CONCERT The College Band, under the direc-tion of H. E. Goodsell, conductor, gave a very fine concert in the auditorium, January 19. The Band is composed of about thirty members. Solo num-bers by Ralph Carlson, cornetist, Rob-ert Hill, baritone, and a quartet com-posed of Katherine Van Walker, Mar-ion Fuller and Messrs. Buck and Houge. Harriet Hill and Patricia Fitzpatrick served as accompanists. Six stirring numbers were given by the Band. The only disappointing thing about the concert was the small audience. Professor Goodsell and the Band gave a wonderful concert. CULP EDITS "EDUCATOR" Prof. V. H. Culp has just completed the February number of "The Rural Educator." It is the Washington Bi- Centennial Edition containing scenes from the life of Washington. This bulletin has been written for the school children with the hope that at least some of the scenes may be 1)..e-rented to the patrons and friends of the schools of the state. The first scene is Washington as the Virginia Planter. The next scenes carry him through his military and political car-eer. The last scenes are given to "Washington Retires to Mt. Vernon" and a "Tribute to Washington by the Thirteen Colonies." The pupils of the Rural Demonstra-tion Schools are going to present this dramatization in honor of George Washington, at the college assembly, on the anniversary of his birthday. CLASS PRESENTS PLAY The play production class presented its third offering, "Pierrot's Mother", at Thursday's assembly. The play was excellently done, as a class pro-ject under the direction of Prof. El-wood Ramay. The students interpret-ing the roles were Jean DeHaven as the mother, Margaret McDiarmid as Pierrot, and Dorothy Kempthorne . as Pierrette. Mrs. W. W. Garvin, of the college spoke before members of the Wright community club, Friday, January 22, LECTURE COURSE GROUP MEETS Plans for the entertainment course for the summer session were discuss-ed at a dinner meeting at the Dutch Coffee Shop, Tuesday evening, when members of the entertainment com-mittee met with Harry Culbertson, of Chicago, manager of an artists' bur-eau. Two outstanding numbers were selected by the committee to be pre-sented during the summer school ses-sion. In addition, four other numbers for next year will probably be ar-ranged for in the near future, making six entertainment numbers scheduled. Those present at the dinner were Mrs. C. E. Barnes, chairman of the committee, Dr. and Mrs. David Allen Anderson, P. J. Harkness, W. M. Oates, J. C. Lindberg, John Lukken, Miss Lida Williams, Walther Pfitzner. Miss Vera Lighthall, Mr. Ralph Deni son and Mr. Culbertson. This is the twenty-first year that Mr. Culbertson has met with college officials to consider plans for enter-tainment courses. Jean DeHaven was announced as hav-ing the highest grades earned by any student in the fall quarter, with a straight "A" average. HARRY FARBMAN, NOTED The Exponent VIOLINIST HERE MONDAY HARRY FARBMAN, NOTED VIOLINIST HERE MONDAY Northern State Teachers College VOL. XXX. ABERDEEN,SOUTH DAKOTA, JANUARY 28, 1932 No. 15 " HARRY FARB:VAN, NOTED VIOLINIST, HERE NEXT MONDAY Helen KellyWins Oratorical Tournament CLIVE ACKER PLACES SECOND Winners Will Represent N. S. T. C. at the State Contest To Be Held At Brookings, February 20 Helen Kelly, with her original ora-tion, "Judgment or Justice?" won the honor to represent N. S. T. C. at the state oratorical contest to be held at Brookings, February 20, as the result of placing first in the local Lincoln Oratorical Contest sponsored last Fri-day by the local speech department. Second place was awarded to Clive Acker, who spoke on "Our Daily Bread." Mr. Acker will also rep-esent the college in the state con-test. Esther S'ueltz, speaking on "America's Archaic Assessments" placed third. Miss Kelly and Mr. Acker will com-pete in the women's and men's division of oratory at the state meet and will be given gold and silver medals, re-spectively for placing first and second in the local contest. Other students delivering orations were: Valva Weisman, "The Working Man's Dilemma"; Virginia Heaton, "Modern College Life"; Malcom Sol-berg, "The Bridge." The judges for the evening were Miss Emeline Welsh, Prof. Merle Trickey, and Prof. Harry Hutter, all members of the N. S. T. C. faculty. NORTHERN LEADS Information gathered by Mr. Crawford, Reg-istrar, reveals some interesting facts concerning the graduates and former students of the Northern State Teachers College, who at the present time are holding administrative positions in the pub-lic schools of South Dakota. The information is taken from the Director of Secondary Schools, 1931-32. At the head of the entire State Rural School System may he mentioned E. C. Giffen, State Superintendent of Public In-struction, Ruessell E. Jonas, Deputy Superintendent of Public In-struction, and R. W. Kraushaar, Supervisor of Secondary Educa-tion. Among Northern's four-year graduates are three county sup-erintendents, 12 city superintendents, 22 high school principals; a total of 37. Among graduates from the two-year curricula are listed nine county superintendents, one city superintendent, one high school principal; a total of eleven. Among former students, but who are not graduates, are listed two county superintendents, eight city superintendents. four high school principals; a total of 14. This makes a total of 65 Northern representatives who are holding importnat administrative positions. Weeks Sponsors Bulletin Prof. I. D. Weeks, Director of Ru-ral Life, and his committee put out the January issue of the "South Da-kota Parent-Teacher." The purpose of the bulletin is to be of practical help to the Parent Teacher Associa-tions and community organizations in the rural areas of South Dakota. It is hoped that the various subjects presented will be sufficiently helpful so that each may serve as the basis for a talk to be given by members of lo-cal associations. Since library facili-ties are often lacking, this bulletin may serve as a partial substitute. Some of the contributions to the bulletin were made by Dr. H. F. Stev-ens, dentist of Aberdeen; Mrs. Mrytis Clark-Gruhn, County Superintendent of Schools of Brown County; and Pro-fessor Paul H. Landis, sociology de-partment, State College, Brookings. WOLVES CONQUER EASILY FROM SPEARFISH QUINTET Northern Plays Off-Form in Ragged Exhibition of Pas-sing and Shooting RUSSIA SENDS NOTE The following interesting letter came to Dean Thomas of the Exten-ison Department from "The U. S. S. R. Society for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries", Moscow. "In accordance with the request of the Central Institute of Correspon-dence Study, Moscow, we beg to in-form you that they are extremely in-terested in the methods of profession-al and vocational training by means of correspondence courses applied in other countries and they would greatly appreciate it if you will be so kind as to send them your academic pro-grammes and other kind of material pertaining to the activity of your school in this line. "On their part, the Institute would be pleased to provide you with respectiv e publications in case the So-viet system of correspondence courses in of interest to you. "The Institute sent you in our care a specimen copy of their publications on January 1, 1932. "You are welcome to mail your a-vailable publications as well as any information you may like to share with the above Institute to the ad-dress of the Book Exchange Depart-ment of our Society bearing the name of the 'Central Institute of Corres-pondence Study'." FACULTY GROUP TO MEET "GIANTS IN THE EARTH" By Shirley Potter "Giants in the Earth" came into existence several years ago. Immed-iately it was showered with both cen-sure and praise. The Norwegians hail it as the mightiest literary creation of the time—perhaps that is because it concerns them. Other people ack-nowledge its style and composition, but, on the other hand, insist that it is "too true to life;" that it "could have been written concerning any other nationality just as well;" that it is "plain vulgar!" Still others appre-ciate it as a real epic of pioneer life and truly enjoy every page. Rolvaag, the author, has taken sev-eral of the main threads of American pioneer history and woven them to-gether into an interesting novel. The major theme is the settling of the vast western prairies and deals with the horrible cost of the loss of human life expanded during this period of Empire-building. Beret and Per Hansa are transplant-ed from their home along the coast of Norway to a sod shanty in South Dakota. The change, radical as it is, is favorable to the sturdy pioneer Per Hansa, but poor Beret—the silences, the open spaces are too much for her--goes mad, poor soul. The grass-hoppers, the storms, the wind, the vastness of the prairies, the lonliness, become tokens of the devil—a curse. Time, however, transforms her from a hysterical woman to an extremely pious, religious fanatic. Thomas .Job has adapted the story to play form. The thought remains the same and his efforts have created for the stage a life picture of the greatness, the horribleness, the power of the elements, figuratively called "the giants in the earth." It is an extremely difficult task to present a story such as this to an audience. Job is to be congratulated for his splendid work in bringing this power-ful drama within the realm of theatre ig)looett He has done all that could possibly be done with this complex Many people wonder how such a novel could ever be produced on the stage! The play is written in three acts and a short prologue. The lat-ter is a scene of the camp of the Per Hansa family on the Dakota prairie on a June night in 1873. An old cov-ered wagon stands in the background; behind it a brilliant moon is coming up; the fire has sunk to a red glow, dimly outlining four muffled figures. As the curtain rises a slim figure Just before the holidays the men of the faculty organized into a group for study of special current problems. The purpose is to meet once a week to listen to and discuss some special study on the part of some faculty member. At the first meeting Pro-fessor Murhpy gave an enlightening talk on the China-Japan-Manchuria situation. Dr. Anderson is, ex-officio, chairman of the group and Prof. Har-vey Welsh is secretary. The second meeting of the group was held January 25 in the faculty assembly room. Dr. Seymour gave an address covering interesting phases in the history of South Dakota. PLAY GIVEN MANY TIMES "Getting Started", a one-act play presented at assembly, January 14, by the members of the Dramatic Produc-tion Class under Professor Elwood Ra-may, has been given before many or-ganizations of the city of Aberdeen. On the afternoon of January 14, the cast appeared before the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid and the Methodist Ladies' Aid. January 20, the play was given at a meeting of the Loyal Order of Moose. At the noon luncheon of the Lions Club on January 25, the cast presented it for the fifth time. At a luncheon on February 13, at the Con-gregational Church, it will be given again. Mabel Murphy, Karl Hansen and Blanche Brill make up the cast; Mil-dred Anderson is in charge of the staging and properties. DORISS WITTICH, PIANIST It has just been learned that Miss Doriss Wittich, accompanist for Harry Farbman, is an accomplished musician in her own field. She is the favorite accompanist of V. Lazzari, noted bas-so of the Chicago Civic Opera Com-pany. Recently she made a sensa-tional success as guest artist of the Thursday Music Club in Minneapolis. She is scheduled to appear in Aber-deen again next year on the regular entertainment course. All interested should not fail to hear her next Mon-day with Mr, Farbman, (Continued on Page 2) |
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