The Exponent, 1920-12-04

              The Exponent
Northern Normal and Industrial School
Vol. XIX ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, DECEMBER 4, 1920. No. 10
100 % SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE PASQUE

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Our Place Among Nations is Subject
of Strong Lecture.
Ex-President William Howard Taft
spoke at the Normal Auditorium
Friday evening on "Our Place Among
Nations." This was one of the most
scholarly and logical arguments on
the place of the United States in
international affairs ever given in
Aberdeen.
He traced the growth of the U. S.
from the birth of the republic and
showed that this growth was due
in large part to her endeavor to
avoid entangling alliances. He ex-plained
why we have no fortifications
between us and Canada; then he
logically followed this argument with
the presentation of the League of
Nations and what it stands for.
After the lecture, Mr. Taft was the
guest at a reception held in the Sun-parlor
in Lincoln Hall, where the
Faculty and many citizens of Aber-deen
had the privilege of meeting
the nation's only ex-president.
Library Notes.
Miss Leora J. Lewis, field librarian
of the South Dakota Library Com-mission
at Pierre, was a visitor at
the library during the S. D. E. A.
She conferred with various county
superintendents in regard to county
libraries and inspected the Alexander
Mitchell library, Aberdeen High
school library and the N. N. I. S.,
library.
Wednesday, Novmber 24, a librar-ians'
luncheon was given at the Sher-man.
The advisability of having
a Round Table for librarians attend-ing
the S. D. E. A., was discussed.
Those present were Miss Lewis of the
State Commission at Pierre, Miss
Hummer, librarian at Huron High
School, Mrs. Drum and Miss Jones
of the City Library, Miss Schmidt of
the Aberdeen High School library,
and Mrs. Barnes and Miss Wendell of
the Normal Library.
During Miss Lewis' visit here she
was an honor guest at a luncheon
given by Mrs. Celeste Barnes at her
apartment in the Dorian, at a dinner
given by Miss Meek and Dr. Bunker
Wednesday night, and at an informal
party at the Business Womens' club.
Miss Lewis is president of the Busi-ness
Womens' club at Pierre.
Smokers! Attention!
Smoking on the campus has be-come
a frequent occurance of late.
We wonder if the ofenders are aware
of the fact that their misdemeanor is
offensive, and also that they are ig-noring
the traditions that have been
handed down from previous worthy
student bodies? It is inded no crim-inal
offense to smoke or be under the
influence of tobacco, but when on
must escape the punishment of
recitation and "heat it" to some ob-scure
place to find comfort in the
"camels" or the "make-urns", it is
an offense of no minor detail. In
short it comes to this: If you are
used to spitting around your home
spit around here, because we wish you
to feel at home.
Our New Organ
For years past it has been the hope
of some to have an organ in our
school. This hope has at last been
realized to the extent that we now
have an "Estey" student practice or-gan.
The new organ, which will be
set up in a few days in one of the
practice rooms at the rear of the
auditorium has two manuals (rows
of keys) and fifteen stops in addi-tion
to "swell' and "great" crescendo
pedals. It has a radiating and con-cave
pedal board—the most approved
pattern—and is equipped with an
electric motor of up-to-date type.
The possession of this instrument
fills a long-felt want in the Music
Department. Ever since the writer
has been here—and before—there
have been applications for lessons on
the organ. These applications have,
in a large measure, had to be denied
because we did not have an organ
and were obliged to rely on getting
permission to practice on some of the
church organs in the city and then
only in summer. We are now en-abled
to prepare orgaists to occupy
positions in churches, for whom there
is a considerable and constantly
growing demand. Students will be
tarined in the knowledge of the
best music in the English, French,
Belgian and German "schools."
It is confidently expected that
many will avail themselves of this
great opportunity to become laminar
with the "King of Instruments." In
order that interest in our new ac-quisition
may be quickened, Ivor
Thomas, the head of this department
will give an organ recital in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, Aber-deen,
on Friday evening, December
10, for which an interesting program
has been prepared and to which ad-mittance
will be free.
We may now look forward to the
day when we shall have a large
organ installed in the auditorium for
convocation and recital purposes. In
the opinion of the writer there is no
single agency outside the church of
such value as the organ in its uplift-ing
effect on both faculty and stu-dents,
and he is further of the opin-ion
that all higher institutions of
learning should be equipped with
one.
IVOR A. THOMAS.
The Messiah
The Choral Society will give its
opening program on the fourtheenth
of this month, in the presentation
of the Messiah. The society con-tains
about 80 mixed voices. This
does not include the soloists, who are
chosen from people outside of the
school. Mrs. Madge King-Johnson,
of Aberdeen, is the accompanist: Mrs.
Miriam Fryberger-Foutz, of Aberdeen
is the soprano soloist; Miss Mary
Partridge, a graduate of our school
and a former student of Prof. Good-sel
is the contralto soloist; Mr. W.
Herbert Roberts, of Sioux Falls, is
the tenor soloist; and Mr. Richard F.
Tuttle, of Aberdeen, is the bass so-loist.
Mr. Tuttle taught music in
Minneapolis for over four years but
has ceased work along this line sine'
he came to Aberdeen.
A School In Miniature
A movement has been started
throughout this state to build up a
etter rural school system. The con-struction
of consolidated schools has
been emphasized extensively and
from the reports of schools through-out
the country it will be found that
the consolidated school has many ad-vantages
over the present school sys-tem.
Dr. Foght has asked the legis-lature
to grant an appropriation for
the purpose of building a school un-der
the consolidated system a short
istance from the campus. This pro-posed
school is to have a five acre
playground, a teachers' cottage, a
complete agricultural department,
and all the up-to-date improvement,
of the modern school.
A miniature of this proposed school
has been built by Mr. Gerber and Mr.
Fisher, the painting being done by
he art department. This model, and
that of the Sargent schools of Colo-rado,
were placed on display in the
hall of the administration building
during the week of the S. D. E. A
The Sargent Consolidated school has
proven a great success and similar
schools have been erected throughout
the state of Colorado and the adjoin-ing
states.
The state of South Dakota hopes
ro play a prominent role in this
movement so that we may have a
better and more efficient rural
school system.
P. T. C. Banquet
The Primary Teachers Club held
their annual banquet at the M. E.
Church on Tuesday of the S. D. E. A.
week.
Miss Lida M. Williams spoke on the
purpose of the club. Miss Coleman
gave a reading which was much ap-preciated.
Miss Bess Gartland, a
former student of N. N. I. S., and
later of Mrs. Wood's Kindergarten
school of Minneapolis now in charge
of the Kindergarten at Huron, also
spoke, as did Mrs. Georgia Vauk, a
graduate of N. N. I. S., now in charge
of the Kindergarten at Stratford.
Many former members of th club
were presnt and all report a most
enjoyable occasion.
Associations Hold Joint Meeting
The Y. W. and Y. M. C. A. held a
joint Thanksgiving program in E-2,
Sunday afternoon preceding Thanks-giving.
Ben Sultz, President of Y. M. C.
A. presided. The organization was
favored with a song by a quartet:
Miss Hazel Nelson, Esther Hunstad,
and Messrs. Lambert Orton and R. W.
Kraushaar, accompanied by Miss Jean
After the reading of the scripture
lesson by Hazel Glenny, Mrs. J. C
Allen.
King gave an appropriate talk.
The Short Course Contest
The winners of the Short Course
students in the stock judging contest
were Wayne VanWinkle, Edward
Bierman, Andrew Bentz. These
boys left last Friday to attend the
International Live Stock Convention
in Chicago. They were accompanied
ay Prof. F. E. Smith.
PASQUE DAY
Over the Top with 580 copies sold
In First Drive.
The program for Convocation last
Thursday was in charge of the Pasque
staff. The first number was the
Pasque Motto given by Miss Jones'
athletes. It was very cleverly done.
The Pasque advocates a "biger and
better book, because of a bigger and
better school." The second numbee
was a sketcch by Mr. Kraushaar, busi-ness
manager of the Pasque, and
Catherine Woodward entitled "Ad-vertising
Under Difficulties."
Professor Sipple, dean of the Pre-normal
department, and Professor
Saymour, Dean of the Junior Normal
department, each gave a three-minute
speech, representing their respctive
departments.
Dr. Foght spoke on the subject,
"The All-School Point of View." The
entire student body was filled with
enthusiasm and college spirit as a
result of these talks.
During the program, a telegram
was received from Ann McCann, edi-tor-
in-chief, which reported 314
copies already sold, and that the
Senior Normal and the faculty choir
had subscribed 100 per cent.
After the short talks, the Faculty
choir gave a very appropriate selec-ion,
entitled "Have You Bought Your
Pasque?" As an encore they sang
a newly written school song entitled
"Hail N. N. I. S." Professor Lind-berg
had charge of the program and
introduced the various numbers.
Appropos of Good English
The following is a copy of a gen-uine
letter sent to the army depart-ment
at Washington. It is given
here as an encouragement to those
who were tagged during Good Eng-lish
Week. It is evidence of the
fact that there is some poor English
beyond our campus walls.
October, 10, 19.20
Levens, Worth, Kansas
Ornable
A. D. Gernel of the us Armey
Dear sar as james. L. Privet, first
class of the Sipplynear bearix at
fort, "evens Worth, Kansas His Wife
died juen the 19.19.20 and i stood
Good for Mrs. Mergret, Brown fur-nel
expence till the lotment was
stratend up James. L. had A lot-ment
Mad His lotment no, 266026
and the last check received was
June, 7,19.20 for aprile No. 300,
dollars so he has may and up Till
the 19, day of june then they have
been holding 'back $15 dollers each
month since the death of his wife
so that is may, and, june, and, july,
an august, september And October
which leaves him about, $100.20
dollers back Pay and he has, tryed,
to get it stratend out but they seem
to 'be dooing anything hear so I
thought i would rite to you and see
what could be don about the case
and see if you couldent look it up
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the Db gard at Fort, Levens. Worth,
Kansas, his searl, no. 1001952
yours truley