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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- (Continued On Page 3) "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 a little tiresome. Several parts (Continued On Pat2re 2) 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,
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Title | The Exponent, 1932-04-28 |
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Publisher | Northern State University |
Date of creation | 1932-04-28 |
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Transcription | 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- (Continued On Page 3) "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 a little tiresome. Several parts (Continued On Pat2re 2) 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, |
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