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I am delighted to hear that
Augustana has been fully ac-credited
by the North Central
Association of Colleges and Sec-ondary
Schools.
I have employed several teach-ers
who are graduates of Au-gustana
and have always found
them well trained and equip-ped.
I am delighted to be able to
extend any congratulations!
A. A. McDonald,
Sulit., Sioux Falls Public
SFhools.
Sioux Falls can now take her
place in the sun as an "Educa-tional
Center." The gaining of
full accreditment by Augustana
college marks a milestone in
our educational progress, and
testifies to the fine work done
by the school. Congratulations!
S. A. Christenson,
Sioux Falls Book and
Stationery Company.
Hurrah for Augustana! I was
very happy to read in the
Argus-Leader the report of Au-gystana's
accreditation by the
North Central Association. The
goal has been reached which
was set five years ago when the
great endowment drive was
launched. This shows what
tenacity of purpose will do. A
great dream has been realized.
It is the culmination of a work
participated in by all who have
given of their time and money
to the institution.
The city of Sioux Falls is to
be congratulated on having a
college of such high standing in
its midst. The accreditation
shows that the consistent for-ward
march of our local college
has been purposeful.
W. Herbert Roberts, Vice Pres.,
Will A. Beach Printing Co.
The Augustana Mirror
Vol. XI.I Sioux Falls, S. D., Wednesday, April 1, 1931. No. 2 NORTH CENTRAL ASSOCIATION ADMITS AUGUSTANA * * * * * * * * * * * * *s,. ** * *
L. A. "Lefty" Olson, Former Luther Four-Sport Star, Will Be New Viking Mentor
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1931 EDDA
Comes From Iowa
Lutheran College
Complete Four - Year Accreditment
Raises Institution to Equal Plane
With Large Liberal Arts Centers
Augustana College has been granted full four-year accreditment by the North Central
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, according to an announcement issued by the
association Thursday, March 19, at its annual convention held at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago.
By this action, Augustana becomes Sioux Falls' only completely accredited liberal arts college.
It is now accredited by the North Central Association, by the state department of education,
and by virtue of general recognition by the large universities of the Middle West.
Coach Dee Resig'is After
Four - Year Pe riod
of Expansion
Leonard A. "Lefty" (1,4:en, of Wal-dorf
college, has been chosen as
Augustana's athletic director follow-ing
the resignation of H. Paul Dee,
present coach. Olson comes with a
brilliant record as a high school and
college athlete and as a successful
coach at Waldorf college, Forest
City, Iowa. His teams at Waldorf
have consistently ranked among the
leaders in the 29 schools of Iowa
junior college conferent..?..
While playing high school basket-ball
at Red Wing, Olson was ad-judged
one of the stellar high school
performers in Minnesota basketball
competition. At Luther college, he
built up a record in .four sports,
football, basketball, baseball, and
track, and is one of the few four
letter men ever to graduate from
that school. Although of slight
build and weighing little over 150
Pounds, Olson was chosen all con-ference
fullback in the Iowa college
conference in 1926.
He has spent the last few sum-mers
at the University of Iowa pre-paring
for an M. A. degree in phys-ical
education, and intends to con-tinue
his studies at the University
of Michigan this summer. This
training will fit him especially for
the physical education classes he
will be called upon to take charge
of, in addition to his coachingactivi-ties
at Augustana.
Besides being a successful coach
wand r
ifirnife=
and
at Wald
hr
said
neigh bOrhood g of-fers
from -various h In Iowa
and southern Minnesio`
--The resignation of- I Dee- as
Augustana's athletic director marks
the end of a four year regime of
constant - expansion and improve-ment,
in which Augustana has estab-lished
athletic relations with many
of the larger schools of the section.
Facilities have been improved upon,
an athletic field with a floodlighting
system has been installed, bleachers
to seat 3,000 have been purchased,
and a good record has been estab-lished.
It is not generally known
that coach Dee resigned a year ago,
but decided to stay upon the re-quest
of officials of the college.
The coming of coach Olson is at
an especially auspicious time as the
announcement of his acceptance ar-rives
simultaneously with the full
accreditment given by the North
Central Association. The full four-year
accreditation should bring an
influx of new material during the
next few years, which may cause
a further up-turn in the athletic
record. With a large percentage of
letter winners returning in all sports
next fall, Augustana should be heard
from in conference competition in
193.1-32.
Sioux Falls Business Men
Comment on Accreditation
Scholarships, graduate assist-antships,
and teaching fellowships
are held this year by Augustana
graduates at the university of
Minnesota, university of Iowa,
university of Wisconsin, Chicago
University, and the university of
Washington. Augustana has been
fully accredited by the university
of South Dakota for the past sev-eral
years, and the accreditment
with the North Central Associa-tion
puts the college on the same
plane as St. Olaf, Carleton, Grin-nell,
and other institutions of
high ranking in the Northwest.
Meets High Standards
The North Central accreditment
signifies that the college meets
the standards of the higher class
educational institutions of .Amer-ica,
and as such its credits will
be accepted at their face value by
both graduate and undergraduate
schools. The action of the associa-tion
gives Sioux Falls, the metro-polis
o.Lthe Dakotas, its first ful-ly
accredited liberal arts college,
making the city an educational
center of greater significance than
ever before.
Rapid Improvement Cited
The accreditation has been earned
by Augustana through the many
rapid improvements made during the
past few years, in the teaching staff,
in student enrollment, in scholar-ship
standards, in library and labor-atory
equipment, and in endowment.
There are now 38 instructors on
the college faculty, with nine men
having Ph. D. degrees or an equiv-alent.
Three members are on leave
of absence this year, studying for
their doctorates. The student en-rollment
has grown from 200 to
over 500 within the past eight years,
and during this time standards of
scholarship have also been raised
considerably at the college.
The addition of over 1000 books
a year to the college library has
greatly increased its value and ef-ficiency,
and the improvement of the
science laboratories has strengthened
that department in a great measure.
Over $3000 has been expended re-cently
for new equipment and ap-paratus
for the physical laboratory
alone. An endowment of $500,000
was raised five years ago, in 1926,
to meet requirements.
Congratulations to Augustana
college on its accreditation by
the North Central Association.
This deserved recognition should
add impetus to all active and
latent forces contributing to the
college's immediate and future
growth.
Dear Augustana:
This is the greatest event in
your history as a college. You
have made a splendid record in
scholastic effort and a phenom-enal
record in forensics; but
this is the greatest achievement
of all. For your accreditation
is a reward of merit and a goal
attained by true worth in all
fields of college standards. Nov
your future is secure.
May you grow steadily and
soundly. And may your progress
be, . not in the catchy super-ficialities
of life, but in the
center and in the deep of the
current. My heartiest congrat-ulations:-
Rev. H. J. Glenn,
Pastor, First Lutheran Church.
S. B. Nissen, Editor,
SDEA Journal.
"Complete Gym-Chapel" Say Alumni,
Who Praise School's Accreditment
According to reports from the Rev. S. Berge Will Give
Evangelistic Talks Here
Augustana,—fully accredited,
—a college of the highest rank!
To no group is this news
kome. --ttuul - to the alum-of
Augustana. No group is
In ye genuinely grateful, first,
to the Giver of All, then to
President Preus and all those
who this year and in years past
have pushed valiantly to the
goal.
From your former students,
Augustana,—Congratulations.
Alvin Rogness,
President, Alumni Ass'n.
Rev. Selmer E. Berge, Fort Dodge,
Iowa, will conduct a series of evang-elistic
meetings at Augustana from
Tuesday to Friday next week, April
7-10. He will speak at the chapel
exercises each morning and will also
hold evening meetings, which will
begin at 7:00 o'clock in the Old
Main chapel.
The presentation of well-known
spiritual leaders in the church has
been the policy of the college for
the past several years. The most
recent evangelists who have visited
at the campus have been Dean S.
M. Miller and Dr. C. J. Sodergren
of the Lutheran Bible Institute, St.
Paul, and Rev. Martin Norstad,
Minneapolis. The religion board and
its adviser, Dr. Iver Iverson, has
charge each year of the arrange-ments
for the outside lecturers.
Rev. Berge is a graduate of Au-gustana
Academy, Canton; of St.
Olaf college, Northfield, Minnesota;
and of the United Lutheran Sem-inary,
St. Paul. He has served as
pastor at Fort Dodge for the past
seven years, and has become well
known in church circles through-out
Iowa. He is president of the
Iowa district of the Young People's
Luther League, and is editor of the
magazine, "Better Leagues."
Our hearty congratulations to
Augustana college!
This recognition will mean
much to your splendid institu-tion.
It insures a greater meas-ure
of service, a finer growth,
a larger school.
Great credit is due all those
who have worked so hard and
faithfully these many years to
bring the college up to the high
standard which brought this
accreditment from the North
Central Association.
Best wishes to the president,
the faculty, the student body
and friends of Augustana.
Ben B. Lawshe, Sec'y,
Sioux Falls Chamber of
Conunerce.
Assembly Delegations Organize;
Tonning Is Permanent Advisor
Improvements Added to
Model School Equipment
Several Students Get
Teaching Positions
The Augustana placement bureau,
under the direction of Dr. I. B.
Hauge, head of the psychology de-partment,
is now receiving reports
of vacancies and requests for teach-ers
from a large number of the
elementary and high schools of the
state. Several members of the col-lege
senior class, and the one and
two year normal classes, have al-ready
signed contracts for teaching
positions for the coming year.
Gloria Monserud, Sioux Falls, is
the first member of the 193 .1 senior
class to have secured a teaching
position. She will teach Latin, Eng-lish,
speech, and journalism and
will assist with extra-curricular ac-tivities
at Roslyn high school. Con-rad
Hoyer, Sioux Falls, has accept-ed
the superintendency of the Mis-sion
Hill public schools for next
year. Ruth Loftesness, Sioux Falls,
a member of the two year normal
class, will have charge of the pri-mary
department of Mission Hill.
Borghild Oyan, Baltic, was the first
student at the college to sign a
contract for a position for 1931-32.
She will direct the primary depart-ment
in the public schools at Sher-man.
Members of the one year normal
class who have secured positions are
Sidsel Thormodsgaard, Alcester, who
will teach near Colton, and Margery
Asper, Artesian, who will teach a
rural school near her home. The
bureau is also aiding graduates of
the college to secure positions this
year, in case they wish to change
schools fo 1931-32 term.
Weiseth, Spence
Direct Fourth
College Annual
Impressive Ceremonies
Held; Staff Honored
At Exercises
'The. 1931 Edda, after an impres-sive
ceremony, in which the heads
of the staff and of the college and
representatives of the city of Sioux
Falls took part, was distributed to-day
to the Augustana student body.
The book is the fourth annual to be
published at the college by that
name, and like the editions of the
past two years, it is entirely a Sioux
Falls product, with the exception of
the cover. The yearbook, published
by a staff headed by Irving Weiseth,
Colman, editor, and Wells Spence,
Sioux Falls, business manager, is
the first annual of 1931 to appear
in any of the schools of South Da-kota.
Dr. 0. J. H. Preus, president of
the college, was the master of cere-monies
at today's exercises. Speak-ers
were, in addition to Dr. Preus,
W. Herbert Roberts, vice president
of the Will A. Beach Printing Com-pany;
Irving Weiseth, editor, and
W e 11 s Spence, business manager.
Representatives of many of the
business and professional firms of
the city who have advertised in the
annual also were present. The Col-legiate
Cadets, college pep b a n d,
furnished music for the occasion.
One of the features of the day
was the presentation of copies of
the book to Mrs. E. A. Weiseth, and
Mrs. W. W. Spence, mothers of the
heads of the annual staff, by Dr.
Preus. Following, Mr. Weiseth and
Mr., Spence prese•ted copies to Dr.
to Mr. .ttoe:3rts, to Bert War- .
-wick of the South Dakota Engrav-ers;
and to Miss Ellen Lewison ad-viser
of the staff. Members of the
editorial staff then received their an-nuals
from Mr. Weiseth, and assist-ants
on the business staff from Mr.
Spence.
The 1931 Edda presents as its
theme the project of the making of
the Edda, from the growing of the
tree from which the paper is made
to the close of the work of the staff
of the book and the distribution of
the completed annuals. The theme
is carried out throughout the book,
from the outside front cover to the
advertising section.
The cover of the Edda is a rich
brown-green in color, and is grained
to represent the vertical grains of a
tree. The artist's conception of axe
chips is shown in the title, and at
the bottom is a drawing represent-ing
the camera, the brush and the
pen, the engraver's tool, and the
printing press, or the main steps in
the publishing of the annual. The
cover, a product of the S. K. Smith
Company, Chicago, simply portrays
what is intended, and it is one of
the most beautiful ever used on an
Augustana annual, in the opinion of
the student body.
The frontispiece, illustrating the
editors dream of the finished book,
is a duotone print, the only en-graving
of its kind ever used in
the Edda. The opening section il-lustra,
es the making of the paper
materials furnished by nature,
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Larson Will Compete
In Interstate Event
At Augustana April 10
Orvin Larson, Augustana orator
and winner of the South Dakota old
line oratorical contest, will compete
on Friday, April 10 in the interstate
oratorical event, in which the win-ning
orators of North Dakota, Min-nesota,
and Nebraska will furnish
the opposition. Augustana college
will be host to the orators by
virtue of Mr. Larson's victory in
the state forensic meet which was
held at Rapid City, February 13
and 14.
The out-of-state orators coming
here are representatives of Carleton
college, Northfield, Minnesota; of
the University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks; and of Hastings col-lege,
Hastings, Nebraska. The con-testants
are the winners of the old
line oratorical contests in their re-spective
states. From the four con-testants
competing, two speakers will
be selected to represent this group
of states in the national contest to
be held at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois, on April 24.
Augustana has represented South
Dakota in the interstate contest for
the past throe years, and has over
a period of seven years entered four
orators in the interstate meets, from
a field of ten South Dakota in-stitutions
competing. Orvin Larson,
Augustana's fourth state winner,
will deliver the same oration, "Poly-nesian
America," with which he
won state honors in the Rapid. City
contest. In 1929, Arthur Larson,
with his oration, "Timocracy, Why
Not," won third at Hastings, Min-nesota;
and in 1930, at Lincoln,
Nebraska, Ralph Enstrom was rank-ed
fourth with his oration, "The
Lag."
Pupils and teachers of the model
school conducted ceremonies for
their new flag last week, the old
"glory" having become too "tat-tered
and torn" by the elements.
The entire school witnessed the
rites for the old flag. The school
delegated two boys to burn it, hold-ing
it so as to prevent it from
touching the ground while it was
gradually consumed.
Several improvements, in order
to increase the efficiency in the
model school, have recently been
made. Two sets of doors have
been placed between the third • and
fourth grade and the fifth and sixth
grade rooms, which will enable the
teachers to shut these rooms off for
individual use, thus eliminating all
foreign disturbance. A new ceiling
globe, pictures, and playground
equipment have been installed. The
slate blackboards in the basement
rooms of the Old Main have been
transferred to the model school
building also.
Spring Choir Tour
Begins Wednesday
A nine-concert tour, the annual
spring tour of the Augustana Col-lege
Choir, commences next Wed-nesday
noon, April 8, according to
an announcement made by 0. Clif-ford
Halverson, choir manager. The
tour will take the choir into one
Minnesota and eight Iowa cities, go-ing
as far as Ames, the home of
Iowa state college. The program
will be the same as presented in the
Sioux Falls concert, March 20.
The itinerary is as follows:
April 8—Blue Earth, Minnesota.
April 9—Northwood, Iowa.
April 10—Marshalltown, Iowa.
April 11—Madrid, Iowa.
April 12 (afternoon) Roland,
Iowa.
April 12 (evening)—Ames, Iowa.
April 13—Jewell, Iowa.
April 14---Eagle Grove, Iowa.
April 15--Le Mars, Iowa.
Bronze Plate For
100, Contributing
Classes Is Prepared
A bronze plate of large dimen-sions
is being prepared for the en-trance
of the proposed Gym Chapel,
on which will be engraved the
names of graduating classes of the
college whose memberships have be-come
100 per cent contributing.
Classes have been graduated from
Augustana college or from the Luth-eran
Normal School since 1890. A
complete record is kept in the alum-ni
office of each pledge and to
which class the contributor belongs.
Reports are that several classes
are 100 per cent contributing, and
that a number of others are very
near. Hope is expressed by the
alumni office that within another
week or two a large number of
these classes can be reported 100
per cent.
I am very glad to get the
good news that the North Cen-tral
Association of Colleges has
admitted Augustana college of
our city as a full four-year ac-credited
institution. This action
shows the people here that Au-gustana
is not only appreciated
as one of the good educational
institutions of the Northwest,
but that it is also recognized as
such by the highest authorities.
Lot's keep up the good work so
that this institution will get
bigger and better.
A. F. Larson, President.
Sioux Falls Board of Education.
I wish to congratulate Dr.
Preus, Sioux Falls, and Augus-tana
upon her full accredita-tion
as a four-year college. This
is the goal toward which the
school has been striving for the
last three years. This recogni-tion
will make Augustana col-lege
one of the outstanding
schools of the Northwest.
A. N. Graff,
President, Board of Directors.
Prof. Carlson Judges
At State Tournament
Prof. Hugo A. Carlson, head of
department of public speech at Au-gustana
college, was one of the
judges of the state high school de-bate
tournament which was con-ducted
by the• University of South
Dakota at Vermillion, March 23-25.
Other judges were Harry G. Barnes,
University of Iowa, and Dallas C.
Dickey, University of South Da-kota,
directors of speech at the
two universities.
Twelve district winners contest-ed
for high honors in this, the eigh-teenth
annual tournament, to be
held. An extempore contest with
12 district representatives compet-ing,
was conducted simultaneously.
The same judges sat throughout the
three-day session. Prof. Carlson
jonrneyed on to Sioux City for the
provincial Pi Kappa Delta tourna-ment,
to which Morningside college
was host, March 27 and 28.
office of the Augustana Alumni As-sociation
the recent full four-year
accreditment is expected to furnish
a driving incentive for a rapid fin-ish
of the Gym-Chapel project.
"Hundreds of alumni and former
students throughout this state and
the country have been anxiously
awaiting the time when their alma
mater would receive the stability
which the recent action of the North
Central Association has given it,"
is a statement issued from the alum-ni
office.
From various quarters throughout
the alumni world messages such as
the following have been received:
"Great! The news of the N. C.
action has given me a feeling that
our school is strong, sound, and
destined to great growth and long
life."
"This achievement is the first
great step forward for the year
1931. The second will be the com-pletion
of the Gym-Chapel." "I be-lieve
alumni and former students
will put forth every possible effort
to complete the Gym-Chapel within
the next few months." "Three
cheers for our great school! On to
the completed Gym!"
A recent statement published by
the Gym-Chapel office contained
these facts: 1. About $47,000 have
been pledged, of which about $11,-
000 have been collected; 2. Building
materials and labor are now so
cheap that if $25,000 or $30,000
were available in actual cash, build-ing
operations could begin; 3. Hun-dreds
of former students who have
riot yet pledged are sending in
their pledges day by day.
Asked whether he expected build-ing
operations to begin soon, Mr.
Alvin Rogness, director of the ap-peal,
made this reply, "How soon,
I cannot tell. But this I know,
that if those who have pledged
continue to pay their payments
promptly, or even long before they
are due; and if classes continue to
become 100 per cent contributing,—
the time for building is not far
distant."
ISSUED TO COLLEGE STUDENTS TODAY
A permanent organization was the
outcome of the League of Nations
Model Assembly, held at the First
Lutheran Church Friday and Satur-day,
under the auspices of the Au-gustana
history department. At a
business meeting of the delegates
which took place after the final ses-sion
Saturday evening, a League of
Nations Council was elected, consist-ing
of one representative from each
of the seven colleges of the state
who took part in the assembly.
Those who will hold positions on
the council are Harold Corey, uni-versity
of South Dakota, who was
named temporary chairman; John
Jackson, Dakota Wesleyan; Charles
Filbey, Huron college; Arthur Schol-ten,
Southern Normal; and Orvin
Larson, Augustana. The Sioux Falls
college and State college delega-tions
asked permission to confer
with their faculty advisers, who
were not present, before making
their nominations. Roy Smith, State
college, was elected secretary-gen-eral
of the League assembly for
the 1932 meeting, and a tentative
invitation was extended by Dr.
Christol, head of the history depart-ment
of the university, to hold the
next assembly on the university
campus at Vermillion. A vote of
thanks was given. to Mr. Clark M.
Eichelberger, Chicago, editor of the
League of Nations Chronicle and
executive secretary of the League of
Nations Association, for the large
part he played in making the as-sembly
a 'success, through directing
the actual procedure of the meeting
and thus insuring an accurate re-production
of the Geneva confer-ence.
Prof. 0. Tonning, head of the
Augustana history department,
was elected permanent faculty
adviser of the League of Na-tions
Model Assembly and of
the League of Nations council
at the business meeting Satur-day
evening. Prof. Tonning, as
chairman of the arrangements
committee, has probably done
more than any other person
to make South Dakota's first
model assembly a success. He
will assist and advise those in
charge of next year's assembly
as to the preliminary plans and
also the actual procedure to
follow.
Arthur Larson was elected presi-dent
of the assembly at the Friday
evening session. He delivered his
acceptance speech in the French
language, after which it was inter-preted
in English. Lyle Cheaver,
State college, was named secretary-general
of the assembly previously,
and as he called the roll of the 54
nations belonging to the league, a
delegate from each nation stepped
to the front of the room to drop
his country's ballot in a box pro-vided
for the purpose. This im-pressive
ceremony was a duplication
of the procedure of election car-ried
out by the League of Nations
at Geneva.
Mr. Eichelberger, who acted as
temporary chairman of the assem-bly,
gave the opening speech, a
review of the purpose and progress
of the League of Nations as an
international peace organization. The
promise of a world disarmament
conference to be held at Geneva
next February was estimated by
him to be one of the outstanding
peace developmentS in the history
of the world. Orrin Larson dis-cussed
the Briand project for the
federation of the European states
at the Friday evening meeting, with
discussion following.
Instead of attempting to present
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