The Exponent, 1928-09-25

              HELLO, FRESHMEN The Exponent  HELLO, FRESHMEN! 
 Northern State Teachers College
VOL. XXVII . ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 No. 1
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NINE NEW INSTRUCTORS 
JOIN NORTHERN FACULTY
LUKKEN IN CHARGE OF MUSIC 
Commerce And Physical Education
Departments Have New
Heads
The Northern State Teachers College
begins the new year with nine
new instructors. - Their degrees and
experience in teaching are listed here-with.
Mr. H. E. Alsup, B.S., State Teachers
College, Springfield, Mo., and M.A.,
University of Chicago. Mr. Alsup
will be the head of the commercial
department. For the past several
years he has been school accountant
and has taught bookkeeping in the
Central High School, Sioux City, Ia.
Miss Ruth Fickes becomes the head
of the department of physical education
for women. Miss Fickes is a
graduate of the Lincoln high school
and holds her B.A. degree from the
University of Nebraska. Since her
graduation she has had charge of the
gymnasium work at the Lincoln
Y.W.C.A. and has done high school
teaching in Mendota, Ill., and East
Lansing, Mich. For the past two years
she has been in charge of similar
work in the Michigan State College,
Lansing.
Miss Grace McArthur, director of
public school music, is a graduate of
the Lincoln high school and of the
Lincoln Musical College and holds the
degree of B.F.A. from the University
of Nebraska. Since receiving her
degree she has studied for several
summers at the University of Nebraska
and at Northwestern University.
She has had several years of
experience as a teacher of piano and
as supervisor of music in Nebraska
schools.
Miss Anne Raugust holds her B.S.
in Education degree from the Northern
State Teachers College, graduating
last .June. While a student, Miss
Raugust was interested in many cam-pus
activities, especially in woman's
athletics. She will have charge of the
fourth and fifth grades of the campus
school.
Mr. Lloyd H. Spencer, B.A., Coe College,
and M.A., Iowa State University.
Mr. Spencer will take the place vacated
by E. M. Paulu, as professor of
education. Since receiving his M.A.
degree he has had several summer
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ALUMNA IS HONORED
Marjorie Wilson Goes to State University
As Instructor
In Music
Miss Marjorie Wilson of Aberdeen
has been elected as instructor of piano
in the College of Music at the University
of South Dakota for the coming
year. Miss Wilson has been a student
at the Northern State Teachers College
during the years 1923-1926. She
has also been a piano and harmony
student of Prof. Walther Pfitzner,
head of the Department of Piano at
the College, during the years 1923-
1928.
During her several years as a student,
Miss Wilson has received many
honors. From 1924-28 she has been
president of the Beethoven Club, honorary
Music Fraternity, Brahms Chapter,
Aberdeen. During the same interim
she was pianist in the Aberdeen
Little Symphony Orchestra. Her
greatest musical triumphant was achieved
last spring when she was soloist
with the Little Symphony Orchestra,
playing the entire Grieg A Minor Concerto
with the orchestra under the direction
of Prof. Pfitzner. She has also
given many successful piano recitals.
She received her diploma in piano in
1928 and was awarded the president's
prize in piano for this past year.

FACULTY HAS MEETING
President Anderson called the faculty
together for its first meeting of
the year on Monday, September 17. In
a very impressive address he outlined
a clear-cut program for the year and
asked for the full and hearty support
of every faculty member in carrying
out his various measures. There was
a definite note of service and a desire
to do those things which are for the
best interest of the student body and
higher education, throughout his
speech.

MISS MARJORIE MOODY
Soprano Soloist

GYPSY DAY IS OCTOBER 20, 1928 
NEW GATEWAY ERECTED
STUDENTS Five Classes of N. S. T. C. Join In
Erecting Beautiful Memorial Entrance
The new memorial gateway to the
Northern State Teachers College campus
at Kline and Twelfth is now completed.
Like the Washington Street
gateway this is a gift from several
classes. Because the class of 1928 was
the last class to contribute to the fund,
Rosa Lambert headed the special committee
composed of Jane Bell, Oscar
Olson and Robert Campbell to plan
the gateway. The plans for the gateway,
drawn by Floyd Cocking, well-known
as a commercial artist and a
graduate of the class of 1928 from the
Industrial Arts Department, are an
exact duplicate of the plans for the
Washington Street gateway which was
erected by the class of 1921. Both are
of reddish brick with gray stone trimmings.
On the tallest column is a
bronze plate bearing the inscription:
"Presented by the class of 1924, '25,
'26, '27, '28."

REGISTRATION LARGE
Definite figures are not yet
available for the fall registration,
but the Registrar's Office
announces that before the close
of the first week over seven
hundred students have been enrolled.
This is over five per
cent in advance of the enrollment
for last year, covering the same
period.

SPAFFORD HALL DEDICATED
Dr. Charles Mayo of Rochester Delivers
Notable Address on
Health Education
One of the special events of the
summer quarter was the dedication of
Spafford Hall on July 10. The exercises
were accompanied by much dignity
and a most appropriate program.
Several members of the present Board
and former Boards of Regents were
in attendance as well as many guests
of honor. Among the latter may be
mentioned particularly Mrs. Spafford
and her daughter.
At the close of the special exercises
in Spafford Hall Auditorium-Gymnasium,
about forty guests attended a
banquet at the Lincoln Hall dining
room, in charge of Mrs. Helen M.
Gamble.
Among the distinguished guests of
the day was Dr. Charles Mayo of
Rochester fame who was a personal
friend of Dr. Spafford and who delivered
a notable address on the theme
of "Health Education." The entire
program is given below, Dr. Seymour
presiding.
Marche et Cortege, Gounod…College Orchestra
(Prof. H. E. Goodsell, Directing)
Invocation… Rev. J. E. Booth
Presentation of Building to Board
of Regents… D. F. Radsliff,
Assistant State Engineer
Acceptance… Regent Robert Bailey
Dr. Frederick A. Spafford… Regent Alvin Waggoner
Letter from Former-President H. W.
Foght… Dr. Seymour
Vocal Solo, "The Recessional"… Prof. Samuel C. Ham
(Miss Dorothy Hooper at the Piano)
Aberdeen and N.S.T.C….. J. E. Gorder, President, Aberdeen
Chamber of Commerce
Introduction of Dr. David Allen Anderson… Dr. Seymour
Address Dr. Chas. Mayo… Marche Slave, Tschaikowskey and
Pozieres, Lithgow… College Orchestra

SEYMOUR BROTHERS PROMOTED
During the summer further advancements
have come to Gideon and
Forrest Seymour, both of them former
students at N.S.T.C. and sons of Vice-
President Seymour. After many years
of newspaper work with one advancement
after another in the Associated
Press Service, Gideon has reached the
high pinacle coveted by every newspaper
man, that of a free lance columnist.
He is now New York columnist
and dramatic editor of the Associated
Press. His first efforts in this
line appeared Monday, August 13.
Several of his articles have appeared
in the Aberdeen American-News. He
writes: "I have now only to roam
about New York and write four hundred
words a day about the things I
see. But as a matter of fact it is much
more difficult than that, for to write
something interesting, and new, picked
out of nowhere, day in and day
out about phases of New York life, is
going to be an exacting task. Writing
a daily New York column for the
AP is the more difficult because of
the high standards it must adhere to."
Forrest Seymour has been a member
of the Des Moines Register staff
for the last five years and is now promoted
to the state editorship of the
Register and Tribune-Capital. He has
worked up from copy-reader, assistant
city editor, art editor and telegraph
editor. His wealth of experience
makes him well qualified for his new
position.
The Exponent and N.S.T.C. congratulate
the Seymour brothers on these
well deserved recognitions.

Harriet Seymour, and her sister,
Margaret, teach at Great Neck, New
York. Margaret is doing primary work
while Harriet teaches in the high
school. This school is supervised by
Mr. 0. S. Wood, formerly Superintendent
of Schools in Aberdeen.

As President of Northern State Teachers College, I
take this means of extending to faculty and students both
personal and institutional greetings. You are welcomed
to membership in this great academic family.
The provisions of this school are such as to challenge
the best metal in us. Cooperating we can meet the test.
Let us unite in unqualified loyalty and devotion to the
interests of the institution, its traditions and its ideals.
Sincerely,
DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON, President.

DAVID ALLEN ANDERSON IS NORTHERN HEAD
HAS HAD WIDE EXPERIENCE
New President Is Pleased With Institution And Plans For Wider
Usefulness
It is an outstanding event for any
institution when a new president begins
a new regime. Usually one
epoch closes and a new epoch opens.
Such is the case for the Northern
State Teachers College in the departure
of Dr. H. W. Foght for the Wichita,
Kansas, Municipal University, and
the coming of Dr. David Allen Anderson
from the Kent, Ohio, Teachers
College.
Dr. Anderson has been on the campus
since July 1 and has, therefore,
had a splendid opportunity to get acquainted
with his new surroundings
before the opening of the fall quarter.
He has impressed all of us-the school,
the city and the state-as one admirably
fitted for the important work
as the president of this institution. On
the other hand Dr. Anderson seems
equally pleased with his new field of
activity. The stage seems fully set for
a new era which will not only carry
on the fine traditions already established
by N.S.T.C. but will greatly
enlarge its field of service.
Dr. David Allen Anderson was born
in 1874. He attended the rural and
village schools and the state University
of Iowa, graduating from the
later institution with the B. A. in
1908, M.A. in 1910 and Ph.D in 1912.
For 1910-11 he was abroad on a traveling
fellowship. During that time
he made an intensive as well as extensive
study of the school system of
Norway and also studied for brief periods
of time in the Universities of
Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark;
Upsala, Sweden; Berlin and Leipsig,
in Germany; the Sorbonne, France,
and the Universities of London and
Oxford in England.
His experience in teaching includes
rural, elementary and high school
work in Iowa, Illinois and normal
school work in LaCross, Wisconsin.
He was for four years Professor of
Education in the University of Washington
and for nine years Head of the
Department of Education and Psychology
in Pennsylvania State College and
since September, 1926, was president
of the Kent, Ohio, State Normal
School. He has done special teaching
in summer sessions at Moorhead, Minnesota;
LaCross, Wisconsin; Pennsylvania
State College and in the State
Universities of Washington, Maine,
Colorado and Illinois.
Dr. Anderson belongs to Phi Delta
Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi, honorary
education fraternities. He is the Director
of the Public Education and
Child Labor Association of Pennsylvania,
a fellow in the American Association
for the Advancement of
Science and honorary member of the
American Association of University
Professors, the National Education
Association, College Teachers of Education
and the National Association
for the Study of Education. He is also
genuinely interested in church and
community activities. We are glad to
have Dr. Anderson with us and we
hope that he will bring much honor
both to himself and to the school
through the important position he has
just accepted.
We are sorry to say that Mrs. Anderson
has not yet come to make her
home in Aberdeen. Because of a serious
illness as a result of the flu she
is still with her mother in Des Moines,
Iowa. We trust that she will soon recover
and join Dr. Anderson in establishing
the new home in our midst.

SOUSA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE TOUR INCLUDES NORTHERN
WILL APPEAR OCTOBER 2
Famous Band Numbers 100 Musicians And Several Noted Soloists
Lieutenant Commander John Philip
Sousa, who, this year, is observing his
golden jubilee as composer and conductor
by taking his band upon its
twentieth transcontinental tour, will
be here with his organization at Spafford
Hall, October 2. For 36 years he
has taken his bandmen on tour and
always with tremendous artistic and
financial success. Everywhere he has
been a close observer, and as a result
of his observations he makes the prediction
that within fifteen years America
will lead the world in every
branch of music.
"It is bound to come," he said the
other day in an interview. "We have
a cosmopolitan population, and just
as surely as we have made phenomenal
strides in commerce, so we will in
music. The country is ready with its
commercial superiority to turn to the
arts and to help music in every possible
way. It wasn't so long ago that
the American was non-existent as a
musical factor. Twenty-five years ago
it would be a rarity to see the name
of an American on any Metropolitan
Opera program. Today you find such
names as Tibbets, Wakefield, Page,
Talley, Halliday, Marshall, Hackett
and many others. No longer does the
public demand foreign names for
musicians. People realize that talent
is not confined to any one nationality.
The public is more interested in the
work that the man or the women can
do than in the name. If you are a
genius or if you have great talent, you
can be Smith, Brown, Patterson or
Jones--the public will accept you if
you have the goods.
The Sousa organization for the Golden
Jubilee Tour is composed of 100
musicians. Aside from the regular
Band numbers, among which Sousa
will play several of his own compositions,
Mr. John Dolan, cornetist, Miss
Marjorie Moody, lyric soprano and Mr.
Howard Goulden, xylophone soloist
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MAMMOTH RECEPTION PLANNED 
Faculty, Students, Aberdeen Citizens
And Others Will Join in Welcoming
Dr. Anderson
What will undoubtedly prove to be
one of the most attractive social
events of the whole school year is being
planned by a special committee
appointed by Vice President Seymour.
This event is a general reception for
President Anderson and will be held in
the Spafford Hall auditorium-gymnasium,
Thursday, October 4. While the
reception is for the general public,
special invitations will be sent out to
various groups such as the faculty and
student body, the Regents of Education,
all the Aberdeen Service Clubs,
all the Aberdeen Women's Clubs, the
public school teachers, and to all the
ministers and their congregations. The
hours will be from eight to eleven
P. M. Further announcements will
be made in next week's Exponent.
The Committee in charge is Dean
Moulton, chairman; Prof. Mewaldt,
Mrs. Barnes, Miss Hayes and Prof.
Pfitzner.

COMING EVENTS
Sept. 29-W.S.G.A. Kid Party.
Oct. 2.-Sousa and His Band.
Oct. 4-Reception to Dr. Anderson.
Oct. 6-Sioux Falls vs. Wolves.
Oct. 20-Gypsy Day.
Nov. 1-Lecture Course.

SPECIAL ASSEMBLIES
Dean Moulton Talks to Women and
Dean Thomas and Other Faculty
Members to Men
Thursday, September 20, a special
girls' assembly was held in the auditorium
under the direction of Dean
Moulton who welcomed old students
and gave a hearty greeting to all new
students. She outlined for the girls
some of the things they should observe
in their college life that would
help them to become the women they
would like to be. These included: proper
preparation of lessons each day;
activities in extra-curricular work;
-pzoper „f alt l. habit:, including
recreation; affiliation with a
church; and the keeping of home ties.
She also emphasized the social regulations
of the school and regulations
for girls rooming outside the dormitories.
She closed by urging the girls
to feel at liberty to consult her about
difficulties and stated that by their
cooperation this should be made the
happiest and most profitable year on
the campus.
The men's meeting was held in the
balcony of the new gymnasium. J. W.
Thomas, Dean of Men, presided. He
spoke of his work among the men
students in personal assistance, securing
employment, etc., and urged that
students observe the traditions of the
school. Francis Clark who is president
of the Y. M. C. A. gave an interesting
address explaining the aims
of the "Y" and urged all men to be
present at the regular Thursday evening
meetings. Mr. Mead spoke of
football possibilities and requested
that all the boys try out for football
assuming them that great benefit
might be theirs even if they do not
make the first team. Mr. Spencer in
a short speech backed up Mr. Mead's
remarks regarding the advantage of
football training. Several faculty
members made announcements and offered
assistance to the students.

PROF. JENSEN IS BUSY
Prof. Jensen, Head of the Science
Department, spent a very busy summer
both on and off the campus. July
3 and 4 he attended the annual N.E.A.
session in Minneapolis where he was
one of six people to speak before the
science division. His theme was "Combined
Laboratory and Classroom for
the Small High School."
During the first part of September
he spent several days visiting with his
people in Buffalo, N. Y. Later he
spent some time in conference with
Otis W. Caldwell, Director of the Lincoln
Institute of School Experimentation
of Teachers College, New York
City. He also had conferences with
Clarence Baer, State High School Director
in Albany, New York, and with
E. R. Glenn, who is joint author with
Prof. Jensen on the suggested "Combined
Laboratory and Classroom."
Prof. Jensen also attended the seventy-
sixth annual session of the American
Chemical Society at Swampscott,
Mass., where he spoke at three different
sessions, once on the "Combined
Classroom and Laboratory," once on
the National Prize Chemistry Essay
Contest and once on the "Minimum
Equipment for High School Chemistry."
In connection with the annual
Chemistry Prize Essay Contest of the
American Chemical Society, Mr. Jensen
has been appointed chairman for
the northwest for teachers colleges
and normal schools.
Prof. Jensen has also responded to
many calls to assist in choosing the
proper science equipment for high
schools. Among these are Mobridge,
Bath, Alepena, Big Stone City, Glenham
and Mellette.

Nora Staael is another Aberdeen
city teacher, doing work in the Physical
Education Department of the Central
High School.

N.S.T.C.'S HOMECOMING
AWAITS ITS 
"Happiest Day" in School History
Beckons Friends and Alumni
Back Home
Saturday, October 20, is Gypsy Day
-the "Biggest Day," the "Best Day,"
and the "Happiest Day" of the school
year. It brings the old students back
to their school; it introduces the new
students to our Annual Joy Day; and
it makes us all more enthusiastic and
better able to carry on a program
which will make for the biggest and
best N.S.T.C. in 1928.
The members of the Gypsy Day
committee have been working during
the summer, and they will be very
busy between now and October 20, but
the committee cannot do the work
alone. They need the cooperation of
every student on the campus. The students
can assist in two ways: first,
by advertising; let the folks at home
and friends in the various parts of the
state know that Northern's Homecoming
is an important event, and that
they will benefit by being on the campus.
second, by being present themselves.
Before Gypsy Day a Queen and
Marshal will be elected by the school
body. Fitting coronation exercises
will be held at 9:00 o'clock on Gypsy
Day morning. Immediately following
the coronation a parade will be formed
and will go down main street to
the Milwaukee Depot and return. This
parade will give the down-town people
a chance to enjoy a part of our "Home
Coming."
The afternoon entertainment will
consist of a band concert at 1:30 and
a big football game at 2:30 with the
Spearfish Yellow Jackets-a strong
team that will put up an interesting
battle. Supper will be served in the
cafeteria. At 7:30 a play will be presented
in the auditorium after which
a dance and a party will be enjoyed
the rest of the evening.
It has become tradition that Gypsy
Day is the biggest all-school event of
the year. It is up to all of us to make
the 1928 Gypsy Day the most successful
and Happiest Homecoming in
the history of the school.

HARKNESS ASKS QUESTION
"Will You Help Bring The Cup Home
For the Third Successive Time?
In the trophy case of Spafford Hall
is a large silver cup. For two years
this trophy has been in the possession
of the Northern State Teachers College.
Miss Evelyn Mara was the first
Northern winner and Miss Mildred
Anderson won the state oratorical
contest last year. Some representative
of Northern has the responsibility
of bringing the cup to 'Aberdeen and
giving it a permanent home in our
trophy case. It means that every person
interested in oratory must do
something to aid. The first call for
orators comes from the speech department
at this time. The home contest
will be held early in December this
year. Every person who can write
an oration should be in that tryout.
The greater the number of orators, the
more opportunity will be given to
choose the best. All orators are asked
to call at Mr. Harkness' office, S-202,
and discuss the matter of subject this
week. Come out for oratory and be
one of twenty possible candidates.

STUDENT ASSISTANTS
Among the instructors for this year
will be three student assistants who
are especially well qualified in their
education and experience to conduct
work in their special lines. Helen M.
Davies will assist in the Fine Arts
Department. She is a graduate of the
Sioux City, Iowa, high school and has
had three years of work at N.S.T.C.,
holding the same position last year.
Russell E. Jonas will act as student
assistant in the Department of Biology.
He has attended the Spearfish
Normal and has had several years of
work at N.S.T.C. Incidentally we
may add that Mr. Jonas is candidate
for County Superintendent of Mead
County and reports are that he is all
but elected.
Mary Alice Baker will be student
assistant in the Physical Education
Department for Women. She is a
graduate of the Chariton, Iowa, high
school and has had two years of work
in the N.S.T.C.

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Band Director