The Exponent, 1932-04-28

              112 STUDENTS GIVEN
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
17 EARN GOLD MEDALS
Six Students Are Honored With Gold
Awards For Fifth Time
One hundred and twelve students
were awarded or earned scholarship
medals for high standards of college
work during the winter quarter. For-ty
seven earned gold medals and six-ty-
five earned silver medals, the for-mer
representing the highest averages
ond the silver awards representing a
better than average score. In cases
where the student had been awarded
a medal previously, but during the
winter quarter made an average en-titling
him to a medal, the award was
made in the form of an engraving on
the medal already won.
Those earning gold medals for the
first time were Herbert Black, Vilas
Bracht, Marie Brown, Hazel Butz,
Vernetta Fisher, Otallia Friberg, Win-ifred
Goudie, Carol Harding, Irene
Harding, Eileen Klein, Alice Lamm,
Loretta Lohr, Ramona Ludwig, Mar-tha
Melgaard, Oliver Messenger, Mar-jorie
Niesen, Raymond Olson, Suz-anna
Pfitzner, Grace Riser, Frances
Smith, Katherine Smith, Karl Snyder,
Olga Sueltz, Carl Sundahl, Ruth Tay-lor,
Robert Tiffany, Katherine Van
Walker, and George Yeager.
Those students earning a gold med-al
for the second time were Jean De-
Haven, Vivian Dyer, Lucille Empson,
Helen Freimuth, Josephine Shannon,
Grace Howell, Sophia Kreitman, Ruth
Lovelady, Carol Minder, Irene Strom,
and Thelma Swinson.
Students winning gold medals for
the fourth time were William Frad
and Virginia Rowlee. No student was
awarded a medal for the third time.
Fifth time winners were Barbara An-derson,
Warner Blake, Margaret
Brown, Chester Buenning, Marion
Karrigan and Doris Watters.
Silver medal winners for the first
time were Gerhard Anderson, Wil-liam
Beckman, Blanche Brill, Roberta
Busse, Lawrence Chapin, Clifford El-frink,
Ford Fowler, Hernando God-derz,
Marie Goeken, Frances Hanson,
Ella Hartwell, Rebecca Heinrich,
Lloyd Hughes, Beulah Jackson, Emma
Johnson, Mabel Johnson, Lucy Keller,
Alma Larson, Margarette Leap, Nila
Mielke, Ruth Miller, Evelyn Peterson,
Viola Pierson, Shirley Potter, Dale
Ryman, Ruby Schneider, Roscoe Soike,
Mildred Sommers, Myrtle Steptoe,
Maxine Stubsten, Gertrude Weisman.
Those who earned silver medals for
the second time were Mildred Ander-
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"THE CIRCLE" AT The Exponent
AUDITORIUM TONIGHT
"THE CIRCLE" AT
AUDITORIUM TONIGHT
Northern State Teachers College
VOL. XXX. ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, APRIL 28, 1932 No. 27
ito "THE CIRCLE", ANNUAL SENIOR PLAY AT AUDITORIUM TONIGHT
Seniors Give Up-To-Date Social Comedy SIGMA TAU DELTA HOLDS
MEETING AT JAMESTOWN
XI GAMMA SENDS DELEGATES
Patricia Fitzpatrick
Is W. S. C. A. President
Four Chapters Attend; Fargo Will Be
Dr. E. Ford Piper Is Host to Convention Next Year
Commencement Speaker
Dr. Edwin Ford Piper of the Uni-versity
of Iowa will be the commence-ment
speaker for the graduation ex-ercises
held at Northern, June 2. Dr.
Piper, who is an authority alike in
the creative fields of prose and poetry,
will also be the principal lecturer at
the annual English Institute this year,
which will be held during the first
week of the summer session, June 6-
10, inclusive.
Dr. Piper is listed in "Who's Who in
America" as a poet of considerable
note. Carl Sandburg says, "Edwin
Ford Piper has written some of the
most thoroughly honest and loveable
poems that have come from the soil
of the midwest states." His works in-clude
"Bardbed Wire and Other
Poems", "Barbed Wire and the Way-farers",
and "Paintrock Road".
DR, GARVIN WINS PRIZE
One hundred dollars each year for
the rest of her life! That is the re-ward
received by Dr. Wilhelma Gar-vin,
as winner of a house-naming con-test,
sponsored by the Household Jour-nal.
She received her first check last
week, with the added information that
her name had been placed on the
books of the company for a similar
check at the same time each year for
life.
Glancing through a magazine early
last winter, Dr. Garvin says that her
attention was arrested by the picture
of a fascinating house, just the type
of a dwelling she would like to build.
Further inspection of the picture told
of a $100 prize to the person who
would select the best name for the
house, the fund to be paid each year
for the rest of the winner's life.
Dr. Garvin, deciding that the house
was "The Chosen One", brought her
knowledge of languages into effect
and from the Latin, picked "Electa",
meaning "having been chosen". She
dispatched her selection to the maga-zine
and—quite forgot about the con-test.
Her memory was, however,
sharply revived last week when the
check for $100.00 was received. Con-gratulations!
Welcome To Fairyland
Queen Invites You
Her little health clowns and fairies
will take you through her beautiful
garden to give you many delightful
surprises.
Fairy Health Palace
If you never walked into a really
truly palace, you will be delighted
when the fairies take you across a
bridge and into the Queen's beautiful
palace.
The Magic Wand
This as a play that will be full of
fun and you will enjoy seeing it. Af-ter
you see this play you will know
many of the wonderful things a Fairy
Prince can do with a magic wand.
There are other things you will en-joy
also, the Fish Pond, The Bremen
Band, Adventures in Healthland, and
story telling. Ten cents will admit
you to all Fairyland entertainment in-cluding
the play, puppet show, movie
and stories. If you would like some-thing
to take home, bring extra mon-ey.
There will be home made, fancy
cookies baked by the Home Economics
department, for sale. You can get
them by the dozen, and you can also
buy sandwiches, candy and Eskimo
pies.
Diplomas Have Been
Ordered For Graduates
The registrar's office has been busy
checking over the list of graduates for
this spring and ordering diplomas for
them. The names of the four and
two-year graduates have been posted
and the names of the one-year gradu-ates
will soon appear.
PLANT A TREE FOR
GEORGE WASHINGTON
"Plant a tree in memory of George
Washington during 1932" is the sug-gestion
of the United States Forest
Service on the 200th anniversary of
his birth. It matters not if a single
tree is planted for shade or ornament-ation
on the lawn, on school grounds,
in parks, or if it is a windbreak to
shelter the buildings and stock of the
farmer. Each will serve its purpose.
The planting of these trees and their
dedication to the Father of our Coun-try,
in 1932, will give them a special
significance in years to come. The
dedication may be completed by ap-plying
to the American Tree Associa-tion,
Washington, D. C., for a tree
planting certificate. A certificate is
given to everyone planting a tree in
memory of George Washington and
the trees are registered on the Na-tional
Honor Roll of the American
Tree Association. Trees may be mark-ed
with a copper, bronze, or aluminum
plate so that they will always have
the distinction of being George Wash-ington
memorials,
"The Circle" at Auditorium Tonight
THEME IS MARRIAGE PROBLEM
By Margaret Brown
Iota Alpha Chapter of Sigma Tau
Delta at Jamestown, North Dakota,
was host at a regional convention held
Saturday, April 23. Besides the James-town
Chapter, three chapters were re-presented:
Mu Gamma of Moorhead,
Minnesota; Omicron Gamma of Far-go,
N. D., and Xi Gamma of Aber-deen.
About forty members of Sigma
Tau Delta were present.
Eight delegates represented North-ern.
These included Misses Vera
Lighthall, Rowena Shifflet, Shirley
Potter, Helen Kelly and Margaret
Brown; Mrs. Helen Burton and Mrs.
W. W. Garvin; and Dr. J. C. Lindberg.
The program opened with an after-noon
conference. The formal wel-come
was given by Dr. F. Y. St. Clair,
head of the department of English at
the Jamestown College. Following
this, each of the chapters were called
on for a report of the undertakings
and accomplishments of the year. Re-presentatives
of the chapters read or-iginal
prose and poetry selections for
discussion.
Dr. Lindberg was the main speaker
of the afternoon. He spoke on South
Dakota Poetry and Creative Writing.
Discussing the organization of the
State Poetry Society, he suggested
procedures for North Dakota in es-tablishing
a similar society. Dr. Lind-berg
also read several poetry selec-tions
from South Dakota poets includ-ing
some of his own writing. Much
interest was aroused by the interpre-tations
and the background of the
writers given by the speaker.
At the evening banquet there were
three main speakers on the program.
Dean F. B. Taylor of Jamestown Col-lege
spoke on "Reminiscences of an
Old-Time Journalist". Mr. K. W. Ol-son,
a student member of the Iota Al-pha
Chapter, spoke on "Intellectual
Aristocracy", and revelations of "The
Next Generation of American Writ-ers"
was presented by Mr. Byron D.
Murray, instructor of English at the
Moorhead State Teachers College. Mr.
Burkett W. Huey, who assisted in es-tablishing
Xi Gamma Chapter of Sig-ma
Tau Delta at Northern, acted as
toastmaster.
An invitation was extended by the
Omicron Gamma Chapter of Fargo
College to attend the next regional
convention which is to be held there.
The "Eternal Triangle" Concerns Mildred Anderson, Ken-Patricia
Fitzpatrick, Aberdeen, neth Crawford and Lloyd Hughes
sophomore, was elected president of
the Women's Self-Government Asso-ciation
at the recent election. Miss
Fitzpatrick won from two opponents,
Barbara Anderson and Lavonne Par-ott,
both of Aberdeen. Valva Weis-man,
sophomore from McLaughlin de-feated
Ottie Applen and Lucille Emp-son,
Aberdeen, for the vice-presidency.
Marion Nelson, Aberdeen, freshman,
was named secretary, winning over
Rosamond Baird, Milbank, and Franc-es
Fargen. Elizabeth Douglas, fresh-ma
n, Aberdeen, was named treasurer
winning from Roberta Busse and
Gladys Shedd, Aberdeen.
The new officers will be installed at
the next meeting of the association,
to be held May 5.
Even in 1932, in the midst of a
great mental depression, there are still
people who believe that the basis of
happiness is love. Some people put
the basis of happiness on business, or
money matters, politics, et cetera. We
must have something fundamental for
a basis of happiness. Love is some-thing
which has endured through the
ages. Maugham has taken this idea
and based his play on it. He manages
to contrive an excellent pattern by
which he shows that love is all. The
majority of people will feel that for a
lady to run away from her husband
even though she has a profound love
for the other man, is the most dast-ardly
trick she could play.
Mr. Maugham takes up this prob-lem
and solves it in the same way in
two succeeding generations. The is-sue
is solved beautifully and artistic-ally.
Elizabeth, played by Mildred An-derson,
absolutely respects her hus-band,
Arnold, as played by Kenneth
Crawford and admires his love for her.
Owing to the fact that his great in-terest
lies in politics and decoration
rather than in her, Elizabeth's love
for him has grown cold, Teddy Lut-en,
a member of the Malay States is
played by Lloyd Hughes. A profound
and real love has sprung up between
the two and they decide to escape.
(Continued on Page 2) CALLETT STORY CONTEST
One of the special literary activities
conducted by Northern during the
spring quarter is the Gallett Short
Story Contest. This contest has been
sponsored by Mr. D. G. Gallett, one of
Aberdeen's oldest and most respected
business men, for over twenty years.
The prizes are gold and silver medals
for the two best short stories.
Over two hundred members of the
freshman English classes are compet-ing
but the contest is open to any re-gularly
enrolled student in the college.
Three typewritten copies must be
handed in at the Publicity Office on
or before May 16,
A. C. E. GIVES PROGRAM
Activities of the Association for
Childhood Education were featured at
the morning assembly, last Thursday
in a skit of "Fairyland", which will
be presented April 29. Those taking
part were Virginia Rowlee, Josephine
Gutz, Hilda Heidenrich, and Dorothy
Stone. Little Miss Joan McGrath was
presented, giving two readings. The
program was opened by Lena Meyers,
who introduced Miss Rowlee and Miss
Winifred Goudie, who spoke on Child
Welfare aims and ambitions.
Unique Project Planned
Main Entrance, Central Building
Glee Clubs Open Season
Broadcasting At Fargo
22 STUDENTS MAKE TRIP
Group Accompanied By Professors Lukken and Mc-
FACULTY MEMBERS LISTED Arthur As Directors
Professor Glen Jordan outlined to
his Social Problems class a quarter
: eport that has the appearance of be-ing
interesting, The class has been
studying the conformity of the indi-vidual
to society, and society's meth-ods
of dealing with nonconformists.
WEEKS PUT ON COMMITTEE
An interesting book of 1037 pages
entitled "Leaders in Education" has
just been received by Dr. Mc-Callister.
A sentence from the preface reads as
follows: "It was planned to include
in the first edition of the book biogra-phical
sketches of about ten thousand
of those in North America who have
done the most for education whether
by teaching, administration, publica-tion
or research; the number of en-tries
exceeds eleven thousand."
The book is of interest because it
contains the educational and profes-sional
sketches of a number of our
faculty. In the field of administra-tion
may be found President Ander-son,
Dr. Seymour, Dr. McCallister and
Miss Moulton; in the field of educa-tion
the following are listed: Dr.
Byrne, Miss Lida Williams, Prof.
Spencer, Prof. Culp, and Miss Keo
King. Anyone interested in seeing
the book may consult it at the college
library.
The men's and women's glee clubs
The paper is to be in the form of opened their spring, musical season at
an autobiography, written of the stu- Fargo, N. D., Wednesday, April 27,
dent's life as far back as he can re- making the trip by bus under the
member. A preface of the student's eBusin ss management of Harold Fowl-background,
such as his nationality, er.
Prof. I. D. Weeks has been appoint-ed
a member of the South Dakota
committee of the League of Nations
Association. Mr. Weeks will assist
the national committee in forming the
state group. George W. Wickersham
is president of the association.
ing for the concluding group.
Those making the trip were Rosa-mond
Baird, Evelyn Shuck, Josephine
Gutz, Dorothy Christenson, Margaret
Brown, Dorothy Schoppe, Johanna 11-
sing, Irene Eschbach, Vivian Bauer,
Pauline Ekrem, Sylvia Kopplin, Carl
Bierman, Elmer VanderLinden, Fran-ces
Briscoe, Chester Buenning, Lynn
Zech, Lawrence Styles, John Holtz,
Donald Hart, Harold Luke, James Le-yang,
Clifford Nordby.
his parents' ages, his religion, and Twenty-two studeLn ts, accompaGnriaecde politics is necessary to put the right bv Professors John
McArthur, took partu i
k ken
n the
and
light on some of his actions. The concert.
survey is to be entitled "Accommoda- The program was divided into three
Lion and Adjustment to Social Or- sections, the men's glee club, the wom-der."
The skeleton outline to be fol- en's glee club, and the two clubs join-lowed
is first the individual's reac-tions
in the home, in school, in church
and in his present social order. The
instructor wishes his students to be
frank in these papers, and tell all
their trials and tribulations,
In order to insure secrecy of the
identity of the writers of the differ-ent
papers a code number system has
been worked out and nobody will know
the authors of the different papers.
The student body will not be allowed
to read the papers.
"THE SILVER CORD"
As a critic of drama I am not an
expert, but as a student of literature
and an appreciator of dramatic pro-duction
I naturally like to consider
constructive and destructive criticisms.
I am not criticising the play complete-ly
from my own point of view, but
rather from the viewpoints of several
people about the campus.
In the first place I would not call
the play "a play" but rather a "series
of events." Where was the climax ?
There were three definite points in the
play that were interesting and grip-ping
enough to cause a climax. The
author stirred the minds and emotions
of the audience to a high pitch, but
only to let them fall again. Such an
effect is all right in a semi-climax.
But was there a semi-climax ? The
author should have brought out the
climax in the latter part of the sec-ond
act. The plot material set forth
by the author was very good, but he
failed in portraying this idea to the
audience in an effective manner. The
plot material may be stated briefly
as: The true love of a mother for her
two sons, against the love which the
two boys have for their sweethearts.
Will a mother's love be stronger than
her sons' urge for companionship with
woman? In order for a play to be a
tremendous dramatic success it must
grip the audience and play upon the
intellect and emotions so strongly that
one is carried along as though he were
living what he sees on the stage.
Nearly everyone claim the play was
too long, and too tiresome.
What of the acting ? Considering
the play, the acting was satisfactory,
but nothing exceptional. The one ob-jection
was the voices of two or three
of the artists. Many speeches were
"Silver Cord" Closes
Y ear's Lyceum Course
PLAY CAUSES MUCH COMMENT
Acting Generally Considered Good ; Play and Directing
Questioned By Many
COLLEGE LIBRARY HAS
OVER 20,000 VOLUMES
The college library has at the pres-ent
time over 20,000 books, which have
been carefully selected for the needs
of faculty members and students. In-cluded
in the collection are many vol-umes
of bound magazines and United
States Government and South Dakota
state public documents. The princi-pal
monthly and weekly magazines,
educational journals, and daily and
weekly newspapers are on file also at
the library.
The library is a general laboratory
for students and faculty, and the ma-terial
found therein is for the sole
purpose of enlarging and developing
the work of every department.
of the play could have been omitted
without harming the plot, and thus
making the play shorter and more in-teresting.
The fact that Christina, David's
wife, was to have a child was over-stressed
so that it became more of a
joke than anything else, and thus
weakened the play.
The actors portrayed the charact-ers
well, but there was too much hesi-tancy
between speeches and a few o f
the actors were not too sure of their
lines. The play was intended for a
tragedy, but sometimes it made one
question whether the director had the
tragedy idea entirely in mind while
directing it.
The play ended as it should. Rob-ert,
the weakling, was not worthy of
Hester's love. The silver cord of his
mother's love had bound him so firm-ly
to her that he could not leave her;
David, having been away from his
mother for a while, and under the in-fluence
of Christina's strong person-ality
and love, under great difficulty
severed that cord and left his child-hood
home for his wife.
The students and faculty regret to
hear the news of the death of Miss
Welsh's father last week at his home
in Elgin, Illinois. Miss Welsh has
been at home for several days, being
called there when her father's condi-tion
became serious. The Exponent
wishes to express deepest sympathy
to Miss Welsh and her family.
By Martha Melgaard
"The Silver Cord", a three-act play,
was presented by the Chicago Art
Theatre Company to a capacity house
at the college auditorium, Wednesday,
April 20.
The plot of the play revolved around
the intense and selfish love of a moth-er
for her two sons. Our sympathy
should have been with the mother be-cause
her youth had been very un-romantic,
as her husband was much
older than she, and had died when the
boys were very young. After his
death, the mother poured all her pent-up
love and affections onto her sons.
In her blind selfishness she failed to
see that she was ruining her sons'
lives and that she had made weak-lings
of them. When the sons brought
home the women they loved, who were
both strong characters, the mother
did everything she could to keep her
sons' affections, so that she might
have the first place in their hearts.
She succeeded in keeping Robert, but
lost David. The playwright overdid
the part of the mother so that she be-came
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Work Starts Monday
On Washington Pageant
Mrs. Daisy Ellen Hughes of the
Lincoln Pageant Association, Minne-apolis,
will arrive here Monday, May
2, to start her work on the Washing-ton
Pageant. A start will be made
at that time in selecting the cast. The
members of the local committee for
the pageant are Mr. Harkness, chair-man;
Dr. Anderson, Miss Fickes, Mr.
Lukken, Mr. Gerber, Dr. Seymour, Mr.
Oates and Mr. Baillie.
TREES ARE PLANTED
Despite the serious drought of last
summer, trees, shrubbery and lawns
at Northern representing a consider-able
expenditure of time, effort and
funds, were not injured to any great
extent, according to LeRoss Morris,
superintendent of buildings and
grounds announces. The lawns suf-fered
the most and some re-seeding
will be necessary this spring but hard-ly
more than is usually required. The
sod field at .Johnson Athletic field
came through the severe heat in good
condition and will need very little
work to repair the slight damage.
Mr. Morris has a crew of men em-ployed
in cleaning the lawns, clipping
hedges, trimming the trees, and get-ting
the shrubbery and landscaping
into the best of condition. In addi-tion,
there are being planted five new
varieties of trees, mountain ash,
American linden, pin oak, weeping
willow and weeping birch. Few of
the trees on the campus suffered any
permanent damage from the excessive
heat of last summer.
COMING EVENTS
"The Circle", Sr. play_ _ Apr. 2S
Fairyland . Apr. 29
Swimming Meet_ .____ May 5
H. S. Com . Cont. _ _____ May 6
Raggedy Ann & Andy __May 7
Ruralite Banquet _____ May 11
Junior-Senior Prom ___ May 13
Gallett Short Stories due May 16
Washington Pageant_May 25-26
FAIRYLAND TOMORROW
Don't forget that the fairies
will be waiting to weave an en-chanting
magic over you at
`FAIRYLAND" tomorrow in the
Spafford gymnasium from 9 A.
M. until 5:30 P. M. Remember
you may see the play, puppet
show, movie, fish pond, stories,
and best of all the Fairy Queen.
Only ten cents will admit you
to this wonderful kingdom of
Fairyland.
MISS WILLIAMS TO
GO TO WASHINGTON
Miss Lida Williams, of the primary-kindergarten
department, will leave
Friday evening for Washington, D. C.,
to attend the National Convention of
the Association for Childhood Educa-tion.
The convention is to be held
May 4-7. Mrs. Arthur Hill, President
of the state branch of A. C. E. will
have charge of Miss Williams' classes
during her absence.
SOCIOLOGY CLASSES
MAKE REDFIELD TOUR
The members of the sociology class-es,
numbering over 70, visited the
State Home for Feeble Minded at Red-field,
Tuesday, April 19.
Professor A. N. Wray was in charge
of the group. The visit was made as
part of the class work in sociology
and the students studied institutional
plans during the visit,