The Exponent, 1932-01-28

              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.
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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
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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)