The Exponent, 1934-12-20

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EMPLOYED STUDENTS
HIGH IN SCHOLARSHIP
RELIEF SURVEY MADE
Frosh Workers Show Best
Margin ; Unemployed Sen-iors
Only Group To Lead
Class In Average
The following data have been com-piled
by the Student Relief Office in
reference to grades made by stud-ents
working on Student Relief and
by those who are not working.
This material was gathered from re-cords
of the fall quarter's work. No
student doing relief work was per-mitted
to work more than eight hours
in any one day or 30 hours in any one
week. The average amount of time
students worked was approximately
twelve hours per week.
In collecting grades of the non-working
group, students were chosen
who were not on either relief or state
payrolls, and were picked at random
with no attention being made to indi-viduals
or their records. In order to
arrive at a fair basis of comparison
the same number of non-working stu-dents
were chosen as the number
working on relief.
First row of figures denotes average
number of hours carried per person.
Second row of figures denotes aver-age
number of honor points earned
per person.
FRESHMAN CLASS
Working 16.2'3 25.71
Not Working ___ 16.07 21.08
SOPHOMORE CLASS
Working 15.56 25.8
Not Working __15.66 25.6
JUNIOR CLASS
Working 15.21 25.5
Not Working ___16.05 26.3
SENIOR CLASS
Working _____ 15.5 23.75
Not Working 16.5 27.62
Holiday Promenade
Announced, Dec. 28
Prominent on the Christmas holi-day
social calendar will be the an-nual
inter-collegiate promenade to be
held at the Trianon Ballroom on the
evening of December 28.
In previous years this Yuleitde fro-lic
has been strictly formal but this
year the sponsors of the affair have
announced that the dance will be semi-formal
in order that more students
may get together and meet more of
their old classmates and to give them
tgh eir Christmas holiday
This Christmas dance will be an
open house to all college students
home on their Christmas vacation
and to all local college and high school
students.
Music for dancing will be furnished
by the NORTHERNERS, popular N.
S. T. C. ten piece dance orchestra with
special dance features. The Christ-mas
surprise entertainment will be
among the features of the evening.
Programs will also be provided. The
dance tickets will be one dollar a
couple. Dancing starts promptly at
nine.
Violin Solo Selected
Arr. Knight
Palestrina
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Tuesday Evening, 8:15 P. M.
When the Sun Had Sunk to Rest (Old English Noel)
Gloria Patri
Mixed Chorus
Violin Solo Selected
Franklin Mitchell
Lullaby Lieurance
Gondola Song (Italian Folk Song) Arr. Lester
Women's Glee Club
Lo How a Rose e'er Blooming __Praetorius
In Dulci Jubilo Pearsaell
Mixed Chorus
Vocal solo—The Star
Mildred Flory, soprano
Darkies Sing (Spiritual) Arr. Arnold
Cotton Dolly (Plantation Song) Arr. Geibel
Male Chorus
All Knew He Was There Turner-Maley
Mixed Chorus
Rogers
Carol Van Walker
Katherine Van Walker, Accompanist
Lullaby on Christmas Eve Christiansen
Mixed Chorus, Mildred Flory and Mary Phalen
Cello Solo Selected
Maynard Buck
Beautiful Savior Arr. Christiansen
Mixed Chorus and Marc Cleworth, Baritone
[ OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SAYS
BY JOE MARSHALL .
It makes one raise his eyebrows when he hears native Dakotans broad-ening
their "r's" and taking on the appearance of going eastern here. But
as in the case of most affected speech, it doesn't ring true.
One Steve Vasilikos, the fellow that has sold hot peanuts to five presi-dents,
parks his cart out in front of the White House each morning, and is
about as close to the First Citizen as a lot of Senators. And it might be
added that he pushes his business.
A rough description of a Washington business block is: on each corner
is a Chinese laundry and in the middle you can find a liquor shoppe.
With another health champion to its credit, the country is beginning to
wonder what South Dakota has to produce such a record.
The Ford Theater where Lincoln was assassinated is kept open as a
national shrine. One of the interesting articles preserved is the banner
which draped the Great Emancipator's box on the fatal night. It is a U. S.
Treasury Guard flag with a six inch tear, which is supposed to be the evi-dence
where Booth caught his spur and fell, breaking his leg. Seeing this
collection makes one feel that Lincoln really lived and wasn't just a history
book character.
Reading some of the editorials printed out your way, one wonders if it
is clear to some of the editors that the election is over.
Over the Union Station plaza are a nunmber of inscriptions selected by
Dr. Eliot. Two of them are quoted herewith:
"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."
"Virtue alone is sweet society.
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all."
And paragraphically speaking I hope you all the nice things that Christ-mas
and New Year cards say.
And the Administration still has a few aces in the hole.
The Exponent
Northern State Teachers College
VOLUME XXXIII ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, DECEMBER 20, 1934 NUMBER 12
WOLVES LOSE GAME
TO 'HOUSE OF DAVID'
SCORE IS 39 TO 34
Babcock, Stahl and Neudi-gate
Are Outstanding For
Local Team
The Northern Wolves opened their
1934-35 basketball campaign last
Tuesday night at Spafford Hall by
losing to the rangy House of David
team by a 39 to 34 score.
The bewhiskered Davids, like all
good traveling teams, scored as many
points as they desired and then took
it easy by playing "keep away" in
the last half.
The first half found the bearded
clan throwing up an airtight defense
through which the Wolves could pene-trate
for only eight points, while the
invaders rolled up 26 without appar-ent
effort. With but three minutes to
go and the visitors out in front, 39
to 19, Northern was allowed to make
baskets without any resistance on the
part of the Davids. Due to this re-laxation,
the Wolves were able to
boost their final tally to within five
points of that held by the whiskered
club, as the game ended.
Before the Davids relaxed, only
"Herbie" Babcock, flashy forward,
and Johnny Stahl, stellar guard, were
having any success in hitting the hoop
for Northern. "Bab" sank four bas-kets
while it was still a ball game and
then pushed through four more in the
last few minutes. Stahl dropped in a
couple of beautiful long shots.
The David players were all over
six feet in height whereas not one of
Coach Carberry's quint even ap-proaches
six feet.
Ray Neudigate, diminutive guard,
with a scrappy defensive exhibition,
shared what starring honors there
were with Babcock who rolled up 16
points. With the return of Marvin
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81 Freshman Are
Taking Honor Course
The English Department reports
that there are now 81 freshmen tak-ing
English 102-B, the honor course
more commonly known as the top
section. The policy of allowing ad-vanced
freshmen to take this special
course, for which they receive six
hours credit toward an English ma-jor,
was adopted last year. The same
textbook is being used, with the es-say
and biography stressed during the
winter quarter, and the short story,
novel, and poetry in the spring.
The faculty held their regular meet-ing
Tuesday, December 11, at which
time Mr. Murphy gave an excellent
talk on the Saar plebescite.
COMING EVENTS
Orchestra Concert Dec. 20
Brookings, B. B., here__Dec. 21
Holiday vacation starts __Dec. 21
Vacation closes Jan. 7
Di Crosta Co., 1. c. Jan. 11
Dak. Wes., B. B., here __Jan. 18
All-School dance Jan. 25
Amateur Astronomer
Talks to Local Group
F. A. Halstead, contractor and ama-teur
astronomer from Duluth, Minne-sota,
gave an interesting talk illus-the
astronomy class. He was here on
business for W. S. Jonason, local con-tractor,
was asked by N. H. Mewaldt
to give a talk to this class and he
graciously complied.
Mr. Halstead and friends have done
a great deal in the study of astrono-my
and have accomplished much in
the line of research work. He has
given previous talks to Boy Scouts
and other groups. In regard to the
slides of the moon and other various
heavenly bodies, he explained the
cause of the northern lights and the
glacial periods on the earth. He also
stated his belief that inside of twenty-five
years people of the earth will be
able to communicate with other plan-ets
by some modern invention.
OLD RELIC PLACED
IN COLLEGE MUSEUM
Miss Anna Wenz, one of the early
pioneers of South Dakota, has given
to the Northeastern Historical Asso-ciation
a high wheeled bicycle which
was brought here about 1882. The
bicycle will be temporarily placed in
the N. S. T. C. museum in Central
Building.
Other valuable old records of the
school districts around Bath and let-ters
of information about the early
day newspapers have been turned over
to the Association for the privilege
of copying by Mr. Titus Wenz, broth-er
of Anna Wenz. This material at
rresent forms the nucleus of the
Northeastern Historical Association
museum.
THE NORTHERNERS
--- It is rumored that The Northerners
propose to put on a display of school
talent. Their plan is to give a varie-ty
of entertainment by asking stud-ents
on the campus with talent to
give a few numbers on the nights of
school dances. Everyone is eligible.
They will first be given a try-out and
if they qualify they will appear on
the following program.
It is also rumored that The North-erners
and their novelty numbers will
be heard over the local broadcasting
station in the near future. They have
gained a good reputation and have
cnly been organized a short while. In
a few years Northern students will be
listening to Fedderson's falsetto say-ing,
"The name of this song is Dinah",
over the N. B. C. network.
PROF. JAMES DIRECTS
Lyle Weishaar Gives Excel-lent
Interpretation of Title
Role; Setting Draws Many
Comments
For the third consecutive play
coached by Professor Earl James he
has demonstrated beyond a question
his ability as a dramatic coach. Three
things are necessary for a successful
dramatic production: a director with
a keen sense of dramatic values, a
cast capable of interpreting and re-spending
to suggestions, and a good
play. All three of these items were
discernable in last week's production
of "The Return of Pdter Grimm", ac-claimed
generally by the public as one
of the finest amateur productions pre-sented
in Aberdeen for many years.
The play, the nature of which calls
for superb character acting, was fill-ed
with dramatically tense moments,
which were ably maintained by the
consistent interpretations of the prin-cipals,
Lyle Weishaar as Peter Grimm,
Alyce Solberg as Catherine, and Wil-fred
Wagner as Frederic. A capable
supporting cast, acting with more
than correct, mechanical actions.
brought the level of the scenes in
which they were prominent to heights
approximating those scenes carried by
the more important players.
The work of Lyle Weishaar in the
titular role will be remembered as an
excellent example of proper charact-er
interpretation sustained through
three and a half hours of tense situa-tions
in which even the slightest fall-ing
out of character could not be dis-cerned.
Wilfred Wagner carried the part of
Frederick splendidly, in spite of the
fact that as a character he was thor-oughly
disliked by the audience
throughout the play. The same thing
may be said of Leif Johnson, who
however had the advantage of a sym-pathetic
audience. Catherine by Alyce
Solberg, found favor with her splen-did
version of the character of Peter
Grimm's adopted favorite, while
James Levang gave an admirable in-terpretation
of the blustering, old Dr.
McPherson. The portrayal of the juv-enile
character, William, was unaffect-
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THE XMAS SPIRIT,
SANTA CLAUS
The following article is taken from
The Webster Journal which is edited
and published by Regent Will A.
Wells. It expresses a beautiful senti-ment,
a sentiment we all feel and de-sire
to be able to express.
"Of course there is a Santa Claus;
a good-natured Santa Claus, who
brings the Christmas time and fills
the world with joy; a Santa Claus
who makes the earth ring with Christ-mas
chimes and carols, who fills the
homes with the laughter of children
and the hearts of men with the kind-liest
thoughts of all the year. There
is a Christmas spirit that comes to
earth and makes men big and gener-ous.
It drives out the spirit of sel-fishness
and greed and prompts men
to nobler deeds. It prompts friendly
acts.- and inspires helpfulness. It
causes men and women to forget their
sorrow; to cease their worrying and
lift, in part, the burdens of their fel-lows.
It is a spirit of good will. It
wipes away tears and lightens grief;
it helps the fallen to rise again', it
puts courage into the heart of strug-gling
humanity; it brings the im-pulse
to forgive; it helps to bear
heavy loads; it makes dark places
lighter and helps to fill the world with
happiness. That is the spirit that
makes us send gifts to one another;
that spirit is Santa Claus."
W. A. A. Sponsor
Christmas Dance
The Christmas party held in Spar-ford
Gymnasium on Saturday evening,
December 15, and sponsored by the
W. A. A., was a great success. The
gym was appropriately decorated
with red and green, tinsel, bells, and
icicles, all accentuated by spotlights.
The Northerners, improving all the
lime, furnished most satisfying music.
There were three special numbers
on the program. Mildred Flory sang
several refrains with the orchestra.
The Industrial Arts Quartette favored
the audience with several numbers.
Rhea Robertson, from the high school,
performed some excellent tapping.
Punch and wafers were served.
A large number of the faculty mem-bers
attended the party and seemed
to enjoy it fully as much as did the
students. Prof. and Mrs. Lipscomb
were chaperones.
SIXTY-ONE URBAN
PRACTICE TEACHERS
Under the supervision of Prof. M.
E. Nugent, Director of Urban Educa-tion,
there are sixty-one urban prac-tice
teachers in four city schools: Ad-ams,
Garfield, Simmons, and Roose-velt.
Fifteen of these people are in
the kindergarten-primary division,
eighteen in the intermediate grade di-vision,
and twenty-eight in the upper
grade and high school division. Some
of these people have taught since the
first of December and will continue to
the end of the quarter while others
will teach till the end of the school
term in June. Urban practice teach-ing
is done in agreement between the
ocllege and the city school board.
NEWMAN CLUB MEETS
The Newman Club met Wednesday
evening in the Men's Faculty room.
Reverend Father McCarthy, spiritual
adviser of the club, gave an inspir-ational
and informational talk on the
Ecclesiastical Year of the Church.
During the short business meeting,
conducted by Mack Kettering, presi-dent,
the club decided to receive Holy
Communion in a body on next Sunday
December 16, at the 8:30 Mass. Dane_
ing was enjoyed by the members pres-ent
and refreshments were served.
All girls wishing to join Y. W. C. A.
this quarter should see -Virginia Kel-ten
or Mary Eloise Barstow.