The Exponent, 1921-10-01

              The Exponent
Northern Normal and Industrial School
Vol. XX ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, OCTOBER 1, 1921
No. 2
Boys, Beat Brookings; We're There With You!
RICCARDO MARTIN TO
OPEN LECTURE COURSE
PROGRAM OF FINE ARTISTS
Northern Normal and City Fine Arts
Club to Join Forces as Last Year
One of the finest combinations of
talent ever put before the people of
Aberdeen will be offered in the lec-ture
course for the coming year.
Dr. Foght, in behalf of the Northern
Normal School, and Mrs. Madge King
Johnston, in behalf of the Fine Arts
Club, have signed contracts to bring
to Aberdeen the following group of
superlative entertainers during the
school year 1921-1922. There is no
question that in the group is some
of the finest talent that any lyceum
bureau affords.
Riccardo Martin is rightly consid-ered
the greatest American tenor.
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EXTENSION SERVICE
Over 300 Enrolled to Date—Ninety-five
Per Cent Completed Courses
The extension service offers the
ambitious teacher or student two
ways by which he may do work for
full credit at the Normal School.
Study centers will be established
where there are six or more people
who wish to enroll for the same
course. Twenty-four actual hour
periods of recitation will be required
for the completion of a course of five
hours' credit. The course will be
given under the direction of the head
of the department at the Normal
School, who is responsible for the
same course given in residence, but
the local city superintendent or high
school principal will act as the class
leader and will aid the students in
every way possible.
Those who are unable to reach the
study centers may do the work
through correspondence.
The entrance requirements for the
extension courses are the same as
those for the residence courses at
the Normal School. High school
graduates or those who have had
equivalent training will be admitted
to extension courses of college grade.
The extension service is maintain-ed
to help every progressive teacher
in the state. In the past two years
more than three hundrd teachers en-rolled
in the extension service.
Ninety-five per cent of those enrolled
have completed their courses. This
shows that the courses offered are
proving their worth to the student.
The new bulletins for the current
year are just out. Anyone interested
should send for one.
"HIGH SCHOOL PEP"
Java School Enters Field of Jour-nalism
We are more than pleased to add
a new exchange to our list. Volume
one, number one, of High School
Pep has just arrived as the official
organ of the Java public schools.
The paper is both neat and newsy.
Keep coming!
The paper is published under the
direction of the superintendent, E.
C. Giffin, an N. N. I. S. graduate.
Mr. Giffin was in attendance here last
summer working for his bachelor's
degree, and was a member of the
class in Journalism. Perhaps that
has somethingto do with this new
venture.
Among the teachers of the Java
schools we note the following N. N.
I. S. people: E. C. Giffin,. superin-tendent;
Genevieve Fargen, girls'
athletics and assistant in high
school; Rose Rissky, eighth grade;
Freya Clement, seventh grade; Ra-chael
Smart, third and fourth grades;
Pearl Forbes, second grade; Rosella
Hunter, primary grades.

NORMALONIANS ORGANIZE
Many Plans Are Outlined for a Suc-cessful
Year
The Normalonians have begun this
year with more vim and pep than
ever before. With Mr. Cummings , as
director they are planning on a most
progressive year. A meeting of the
old members was held last Thurs-day
evening, at which the following
officers were elected: Hope Foght,
president; Esther Hundstad. vice
president; Eleanor C. March, secre-tary;
and Ruby Grimes, treasurer.
On the following afternoon they
were entertained at the home of
Mrs. Collinge, where a dainty lunch
was served by the hostess. The
girls were glad to renew acquaint-ances,
as many of the old members
of former years are back.
The new members were chosen
this week, and the club had its first
practice Tuesday evening. A busi-ness
meeting was held after the prac-tice.
A uniform dress was decided
upon by the girls. Tuesday evening
from 7 to 8 was chosen for the prac-tice
hour.

List of Members
First Soprano—Ferne Coacher,
Ann Drage, Hope Foght, Gertrude
Gullickson, Esther Hundstad, Eleanor
March, Monica McNickle, Emma
Shad.
Second Soprano—Lucille Dilger,
Aleda May Hundstad, Myrtle MacIn-tire,
Melba Mickelson, Margaret Sey-mour.
First Alto—Margaret Armstead,
Ruby Grimes, Alpha Klinger, Agnes
Larsen, Bertha Lindell, Alta Potter,
Bretchen Shad.
Second Alto—Alyce Abrahamson,
Pauline Collinge, Loleta Jasperson,
Elaine Mossman, Myrtice Stevens,
Lillie Warness,

DR. FOGHT ON TOUR
Will Spend Two Weeks on Circuit
in Michigan
Dr. Foght left last Tuesday for a
three days institute in the Black
Hills. After this he will spend two
weeks on an institute circuit in.
Michigan, lecturing at the following
places: Hillsdale, Adrian, Coldwa-ter,
Three Rivers, Cassopolis, Hast-ings,
Charlotte, and St. Johns.
Keep smiling; you'll never get on
your feet by getting on your ear.
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fiRAN6ER CUP RACES
TO BE STARTED SOON
FINAL RACE GYPSY DAY
First Call to Those Who Expect to
Enter for the Cup
With the annual cross-country run
for the Granger cup only a few
weeks off, it is necessary that all
who expect to enter the races should
begin practicing immediately. Those
who expect to enter should report
to Mr. Speelman, director of Normal
school athletics, who has the races
in charge.
Anyone, whether or not a resident
of Aberdeen, is eligible to enter. The
runners will be divided into two
classes. The high school class is
open to boys under 19 years old, and
the college class is open to runners
of 19 and over. The college class
is handicapped by 15 seconds for
each mile of the run, according to
the Granger rules.
Started in 1912
The cross-country races was origi-nated
in 1912 by John Granger, and
since then has been an annual event,
with the exception of 1917, when,
due to conditions existing during the
war, the run was cancelled; in 1920
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ANNUAL PLAY •DAY
Project Applauded in Current Maga-zine
The following statement in regard
to Brown county's annual play day
held on the Normal campus last
spring is clipped from an article pub-lished
in the September number of
The Playground, a magazine devoted
to community service. The old stu-dents
and faculty members will re-call
the occasion and the crowd. It
would be a good idea if the rural
schools of the country would begin
plans now for the next play day.
The project is a part of the health
program of -the Northern Normal and
Industrial School, under the direc-tion
of Mr. Speelman. He is assisted
by L. B. Sipple of the department of
rural education, and Miss Lucile
Trott, county superintendent of
Brown county.
Aberdeen, South Dakota, Gives a Play
Day for Rural Schools
"On the morning of May 14, auto-mobiles
loaded with school children,
teachers, parents and lunch boxes
came from many miles around Aber-deen,
South Wkota. The occasion
was the Brown County Rural School
Play Day held on the grounds of
the State Normal School. It was the
first event of the kind in the county,
but it will not be the last, in the
opinion of those who attended.
"If you had been driving by one
of Brown county's country schools
early in May you would probably
have witnessed great activity. Some
of the children might have been
practicing the standing board jump,
the running broad jump or the fifty
yard dash. Others might have been
chinning themselves on the horizon-tal
bar, and others might have been
engaged in a potato race, or perhaps
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FORMER STUDENT KILLED
Lester A. Senn, a former student
of this school, was killed a few
nights ago, when a car which he was
driving turned over. The accident
occurred about eight miles north of
the city, and unfortunately is attrib-uted
to reckless driving, as the ma-chine
was going at a rate of seventy
miles an hour when it turned over
an embankment. Mr. Senn was re-garded
as a splendid student and we
all share in extending our sympathy
to his relatives and friends who are
left to mourn his untimely death.
FIRST FOOTBALL GAME
TODAY AT BROOKIN6S
TEAM LEFT YESTERDAY
Hard Battle Begins After One Week
of Strenuous Practice
Our football team left yesterday
afternoon via the Northwestern for
Brookings.
Today they meet the State College
team. The members of our team
have been working hard and faith-fully
under Coach Speelman, and
have gone down to Brookings to win.
They return Sunday on the 1 p. m.
Northwestern. Do we know what
to do?
The line-up will probably be as
follows: Byrne or Collins, r. e.;
Amos, r. t.; Bachman or Morris, r. g.;
Cooper, c.; Anderson, 1. g.;Freyburg,
1. t.; Jacobs or Remde, 1. e.; Wertman
or Heinzelman, q. b.; Eberle or
Olson, r. h.; Hughes or Art Cooper,
1. h.; Campbell, 1. b.
CHATS ON MUSIC
Riccardo Martin Ranks With the
Best
Riccardo Martin, America's great-est
tenor, is to be in Aberdeen on the
current lecture course. Probably no
greater musical artist has ever ap-peared
in this city and the students
and faculty are to be congratulated
on the chance of having him. He
will be here on October 5. The fol-lowing
clipping will be of interest
to those who are musically inclined:
Week-End Operas
While Geraldine Farrar was enter-taining
an overflowing audience at
the Metropolitan on Saturday after-noon
with her piquant Manon in
Massenet's opera, Mme.
displayed vocal art to another
packed house of her admirers as
Violetta in "La Traviatta," an opera
which gave her a chance to exhibit
her voice both in colorature and in
sustained song.
In the evening two American ten-ors,
Riccardo Martin and Edward
Johnson, and a new American so-prano,
Frances Paperte, shared the
honors with mere foreigners like
Rosa Raisa and Titta Ruffo. The
two last named appeared with Mr.
Johnson in "I Pagliacci"; the others
in "Cavalleria Rusticana." Miss Pa-perte
made an agreeable impression
at her debut; she sang the part of
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PRICE IN OKLAHOMA
Heads Manual Training and Athletics
in Oklahoma School
The following letter comes from
Howard Price, A. B., '21, who is lo-cated
at 217 E. Broadway, Eufola,
Oklahoma:
"I enclose a check for one dollar
for a year's subscription to the Ex-ponent.
"I am teaching manual training
and athletics here in Eufola.
"Eufola is a nice little city of 3,500
population, on the Jefferson High-
Way, King's Trail, and Kansas, Mis-souri
& Texas railroad. The Jeffer-son
Highway and King's Trail are
both hard surfaced through the
county. Eufola has about four miles
of cement pavement.
"This is a fertile valley in the
fork of the North and South Canada
rivers. They raise cotton, sweet po-tatoes
and watermelons most exten-ively,
but there are numerous corn
fields.
"We played our first game of foot-ball
yesterday with St. Joseph Col-lege
of Muskogee, and won forty-four
to nothing. We will play ten games
and possibly eleven or twelve. This
is a good football town and the
whole town is back of the team."