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Augustana, under gruelling cir-cumstances,
took second place in a
conference cross-country meet held
at Yankton Friday, November 22,
with Augustana College, Huron Col-lege,
and Yankton College compet-ing.
Robert Ormseth, Garretson, ran
a beautiful race, leading to within
a short distance from the finish.
where the runners more experienced
in harrier traveling passed him. He
succeeded in gaining third place.
Helmer Myklebust, Jasper, Minne-sota,
finished sixth. Palmer Fjel-stad,
Florence, holder of the con-ference
record for Augustana in the
half-mile, negotiated the distance
for a seventh, after having been
'bit by a dog and affected by a se-vere
cold. William Svanoe, Sioux
Falls, put up a plucky fight, but
was unable to finish. The above
places accumulated enough points
to assure Augustana of ranking
second.
Yankton College took first, with
Valder and Lyman ranking first
and second respectively. Johns se-cured
a fourth. Huron College was
third, with Martin taking fifth and
Kruse eighth.
A cold, piercing wind and a dif-ficult
course deterred the contes-tants
from making good time, al-though
considering the circum-stances
the time, 24 minutes, was
quite satisfactory.
Miss Sullivan to
Appear in Recital
Walter Eggert, Howarsi, who was
chosen as honorary captain of the
1929 football squad has since his
arrival at Augustana, been active
in football, and his graduation this
spring will leave a place in the line
hard to fill. He was one of the
most valuable men on the team,
as was shown in his selection as
all-conference guard last season.
"Walt's" personality on and off the
gridiron has secured for him a great
number of friends, and his selection
as captain came as a deserved
honor. Everyone admires him for
his fighting spirit and his ability
to "carry on," even though handi-capped
by injuries, as he was much
of the time this season.
Eggert is majoring in the science
department and has been active in
the Science Club since it was or-ganized.
Orchestra Plays for
Women's Literary Club
The Augustana Symphony Or-chestra
will present a program at
the meeting of the Catholic Wo-man's
Literary Society to be held
December 2 in the ballroom of the
Cataract Hotel. The orchestra is
under the direction of Prof. Richard
J. Guderyahn and is composed of
fifty-two students in the music
department. Five selections will be
played. They are: "Overture," from
"Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai;
"Larghetto," from "Second Sym-phony,"
Beethoven; "Waltz," from
the comic • opera, "The Bat,"
Strauss; "Coronation March," Mey-erbeer;
and "Polonaise Militaire,"
Chopin.
This is the first public appearance
Press Convention
Is Helu at Madison
Thirty-four officia delegates from
seven colleges in th3 state as well
as many other stud' nts, and several
faculty members att nded the four-teenth
annual convention of the
South Dakota Coils/gate Press As-sociation
which war held at East-ern
State Teachers College, Madi-son,
November 15 sad 16. Augus-tana
was represented by six student
delegates and Miss ,Borghild Dahl,
who is one of the tdvisers for the
association.
0. Clifford Halterson, Astoria,
editor of the Mirro , , was president
of the association, .ind Miss Joyce
Gregory, of Eastern, secretary-treas-urer.
The officers 3r the ensuing
year, which were °,1ected at the
convention are: 'resident, Miss
Joyce Gregory; vicey)resident, Louis
Anderson, Northerr Normal; and
secretary-treasurer, lenn Bachman,
Dakota Wesleyan. Che convention
will be held at Mit hell, at Dakota
Wesleyan next year..1 Miss Dahl was
re-elected adviser f two years.
After registration of delegates on
the morning of N, ember 15, the
first session was b. 'Id in the col-lege
auditorium a. d was opened
by a piano solo by Margaret Han-son
of Eastern. At tresses of wel-come
were given 13) Dr. E. C. Hig-bie,
president of Ea ;tern, and Flor-ence
Newcomb, in behalf of the
student body. Chord Halvorson
responded, after wh 'Charles Mc-
Caffree, field secret ry of the state
press association, t Iked on "News
Writing and Gathi- ing." The as-sembly
then adjourn Id to the Y. W.
C. A. rooms where , mmittees were
selected and annou cements made.
In addition to n sisal numbers,
including soprauo olos by Re-
Mildred Biederstaet't, the after-noon
program consisted in talks
by R. P. Howard of the Associated
Press and H. Herbert Roberts of
the Beach Printing Co., who spoke
on the "Essentials of a Good Year-
Book." A round table on the year-book
was lead by Eugene Eliason
of Sioux Falls. Various phases of
the publication of an annual were
discussed by John Nickerson, Sioux
Falls; Virginia Wouell, Huron; and
Irma Maschke, Northern Normal.
On Friday evening, all delegates,
advisers, and speakers were enter-tained
by Eastern Normal at a
social hour held in the college gym-nasium.
The program of Saturday morn-ing
concerned itself with the prob-lems
in publishing a college news-paper.
After a cornet solo by Har-land
Shennum, A. A. Applegate,
director of printing and rural jour-nalism
at South Dakota State Col-lege,
gave an address on "Getting
Out a College Newspaper." Flor-ence
Newcomb entertained with a
reading. "Copy Reading and Head-lines"
were discussed by Jack Stahl
of the Madison Daily Leader. The
round table discussions were lead
by Joyce Gregory. Talks were given
by John Lyman, Yankton; Raydon
Ronshaugen, Augustana; and J. C.
Lindberg, Northern Normal, adviser
of the association.
On the Saturday afternoon ses-sion
Holle DeBoer played a flute
solo, after which Miss Borghild
Dahl gave a talk on "Definite Ways
in Which the S. D. C. P. A. May
Be Improved."
In the evening, banquet was
held for the deloga and advisers
at the Presbyterian 'rch. Glenn
Mills, Eastern, acted • lastmaster.
Toasts were given b, representa-tives
from all the collt, es who at-tended
the convention. Dr. Preus
was also present at the banquet and
gave a toast.
Augustana was represented by
six delegates, Clifford Halvorson,
Astoria; Gloria Monserud, Sioux
Raydon Ronshaugen, Roslyn;
Earl Rogness, Astoria ; Fred Draper,
Sioux Falls; and Nils Berdahl,
Sioux Falls.
Normal Groups Choose
Officers and Organize
So that they might take care of
any particular problems connected
with their work which might arise,
the notmal, classes organized into
two groups. The one-year normal
group elected as president Mae
Holm, New Effington ; and as secre-tary,
Olive Lindland, Brandt.
The second year normal group
elected as president Helen Kooima,
Valley Springs; ' and as secretary,
Hazel Larson, Brandon.
2. "Lead, Kindly Light"
Dudley Buck
3. "A Mighty Fortress"
Luther-Brewer
Part II
4. Soloist, Osmund Salveson
Part III
5. "Gloria"
__From Mozart's 12th Mass
6. "The Trees and the Master"
Protheroe
7. "Den Store Hvide Flok"____
Grieg
Part IV
8. Cornetist, Mr. Reinholhzen
Part V
9. Address
Part VI
10. "Send Out Thy Light"
Gounod
11. "At the Close of the Day"__
Geo. G. Nevin
12. "Hallelujah, Amen," From
"Judas Maccabaeus"
George Frederick Handel
(1685-1759)
Special Effort Is Planned
to Complete Library Fun d
During the next few months a
special effort is to be put forth in
completing the drive for the Au-which
was authorized by the Board
gustana oCllege Library Fund
of Directors a little over a year ago.
The sum to be raised, with which
to increase the college library facili-ties(
is $8,000. This amount has
'been allocated to the Luther
League organizations in the college
district.
Although much effort has been
expended by Rev. 0. C. Helleckson,
the college financial secretary, and
other field workers in behalf of the
fund, a considerable amount still
remains to be collected.
Under the supervision of Rev.
Hellekson and Fred Koller, the
college field representative, it is
planned to interest the many
leagues which have not completed
their pledge payments to send in
their contributions. A special call
has been sent to the graduates of
the institution to help present the
matter of the Library Fund to lo-cal
leagues throughout the state.
Pastors have been asked to co-operate
and to set aside special Lu-ther
League programs for the bene-fit
of the fund.
To awaken interest in the prog-ress
of the fund a regular status
will be published in the Mirror,
its the campaign progresses.
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The Augustana Mirror Winning
A A Prize
Paper,
Vol. 1%. y
Augustana Takes First In State Journalism Contest
Sioux Falls, S. D., November 27, 1929 N o.
Victory Over Eastern Gives VUtings High Conference Rating
Huron Forfeiture of Final Game
Hastens Close Football Schedule
Biology Classes Visit
Minnehaha Greenhouse Mirror Wins First, Edda Second,
To Give Augustana High Rating
Walter Eggert Is
Honorary Captain
Vikings Gain Third Place
for Conference Title
The two classes in Biology made
their first field trip on Thursday,
November 14, when they visited
the Minnehaha Floral Greenhouse.
A bus was chartered from the Sioux
Falls Traction System and the
classes were thereby taken to and
from the greenhouse. Both a morn-ing
and an afternoon trip was
made, because of the large size of
this division of the Biology depart-ment.
Professor Anton Ruste, head
of the department, through whose
efforts the trip was made possible,
accompanied the students.
Upon leaving, each student was
given a carnation as a souvenir of
an hour long to be remembered.
Besides getting a clearer concep-tion
of plants and plant life, the
broadness of this branch of the
field of science was brought home
to them. This visit to the green-house,
together with the "illustrat-ed
lecture" by Mr. Anderson, has
given them a glimpse of next se-mester's
work, when, under the
guidance of Prof. Ruste, himself a
plant propagator of note, they will
study the botanical branch of Bi-ology.
Publications Are Judged by
Missouri Journalists
Pct.
1.000
1.000
750
.750
.500
.500
.500
.167
.000
.000
S. D. Conference Standings
College W. L. T.
Spearfish 4 0 0
akota Wesleyan 4 0 0
Augustana 3 1 0
Yankton 3 1 0
Mines 2 2 0
Sioux Falls 2 2 1
Northern 2 2 1
Eastern 1 5 0
Southern 0 4 2
Huron 0 4 0
Winning the State Collegiate
Press Association contest for col-lege
newspapers, the Augustana
Mirror established itself as the best
in the state for this school year.
Judged on a basis of news values
and sources, news writing and edit-ing,
editorials, features, and make-up,
the publication was found to
be surpassed by none in South Da-kota.
In the same contest for year-books,
the Edda, the Augustana an-nual,
was awarded second. These
two prizes place Augustana in a
high position in the journalistic
field. Its publications have always
ranked highly in the Press As-sociation
contest, the Mirror win-ning
of first plance in 1927 and
1929, and the Edda winning sec-ond
place in the last two years.
Last year the Edda won All-Ameri-can
Honer Rating, and the Mirror
First Class Honor Rating in the
contest sponsored by the National
Scholastic Press Association. The
contest this year was judged by
members of the faculty of the
Missouri School of Journalism, Pro-fessor
F. L. Martin and Edward
Gerald. These men are experts in
the field of college journalism.
The success of the Augustana
college publications is due largely
to the system which prevails in se-lection
of staff members. In so far
as possible, the Edda staff mem-
Rev. Norstad Conducts
Successful Meetings
In a game characterized by er-ratic
football, the Augustana Vik-ings
emerged from the conflict on
the local gridiron with a 12-0 vic-tory
over the Trojans of Eastern
State Teachers' College at Madison.
One surprise after another occasion-ed
by misplays and unexpected
turns for fortune kept the specta-tors
on edge.
Securing the advantage of the
wind at the start of the game,
Eastern pounded its way into the
Augustana territory. The entrance
of the regular Viking backs quick-ly
stemmed the tide on the 40-yard
line. Augustana then received the
ball and through the invincible
rushes of Smith gained 25 yards
on four plays to penetrate the
eieuiy- Len itury at die iie,;irining of
the second quarter. The Vikings
advanced to the 38-yard chalk,
where an intercepted pass abruptly
halted the attack. Eastern elected
to punt and on a fumble recovered
the ball in midfield. The Vikings
retreived the leather on the 35-
yard line when the ball was fum-bled
by the Trojans and recovered
by Augustana. Smith contributed
a first down, but lacked a yard for
the second, giving the ball to East-ern
Normal on its 13-yard mark.
The half ended soon after with the
struggle still in Eastern territory.
Shortly after the opening of the
third period, Eggert captured a
Trojan fumble for the Vikings on
the Eastern 25-yard mark, from
where Johnson gained five yards,
followed with 17 by Smith on five
successive plunges. On the next
play, Smith traveled to within one
yard of the goal. With four downs
to make the requisite yardage,
Eastern braced, holding Augustana
on the first two downs to a dead-lock.
Johnson crossed the goal on
the third play with a cleved run
outwitting the Trojan defense, but
failed in the attempt to dropkick
the extra point.
The second Augustana counter
was added when an Eastern block-ed
punt rebounded past its own
goal. A general rush for the ball
resulted with Gunderson falling on
it for the touchdown. The pass
for point was incomplete. A fourth
quarter assault almost netted an-other
Viking tally had it not been
for a series of intercepted passes.
Eastern before the end of the game
accumulated 50 yards on three
passes, reaching to Augustana's 30-
yard line, but a possible scoring
threat was forestalled by the final
whistle.
In spite of the fickle twists of
fortune, Augustana was superior
throughout the game, making 14
first downs against 5 for Eastern.
In yardage the Vikings running
plays netted 212 yards to 59 for the
Trojans with the foremen adding
27 on passes and the latter 51.
Ralph Smith, Lake Park, Iowa,
was the predominant factor in the
Augustana offense, repeatedly pene-trating
the opposing line for con-sistent
gains. Curtis Johnson were
the outstanding performers in the
line.
For Eastern, Lindekugel and
O'dell performed creditable in the
backfield, and in the line Olsbo,•
end, and A. Johnson, tackle, were
superior.
This closed the football season for
the Vikings, as Huron forfeited the
game. to be played there on Thanks-gising
day. This gives Augustana
final rating of .750, the highest
rating held by an Augustana, eleven
sine,' 1024.
Luther Seminary Glee
Club Gives Concert
A splendid sacred concert was
given by the Luther Theological
Seminary Glee Club at the First
Lutheran Church Sunday evening,
Miss Gladys Carol Anderson, vocal'
instructor, will present Miss Phyllis
Sullivan of Wynot, Nebraska, in a
recital, December 12, in the Old
Main 'Chapel at 8 o'clock. Miss
Sullivan has studied with Miss An-derson
for the past two years and
is the possessor of a lovely soprano
voice. She will be assisted by Miss
Clarine Ellefson, pupil of Miss
Laura Fischer, instructor in piano.
The public is cordially invited to
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soil, manager of the chorus, Con-rad
Halvorson, and Clarence Hauge program to be given:
were former Augustana students.
The following program was given. "A Swan, 1876 Grieg
Part I "In Italy" Boyd
1. "Lift Up Lour Heads, 0 Ye "Alleluia" Mozart
Gates" Lutzel "Love, I Have Won You"__Ronald
Rev. Martin Norstad, field rep-resentative
of the Norwegian Lu-theran
Church of America, com-pleted
a four day series of evangel-istic
meetings at the college on
'Friday, November 22. During these
days the pastor spoke at the regu-lar
chapel services in the morning
and at the evening services in the
chapel of Old Main.
Familiar Bible passages were
chosen as the basis of his talks in
which he explained God's program
of salvation for man. Simplicity,
yet deep earnestness and genuine-ness
characterized the messages
which he delivered.
"Three Days in a Death Cell,"
Rev. Norstad's noted lecture, was
given at the chapel services on
Friday morning, November 22. In
this he related a personal experi-ence
which he had in the death
cell of the Ohio state penitentiary
where he was called to be with a
young man the last three days be-fore
his electrocution. The intro-duction
of the story gave a picture
of the young man's home and fami-ly
surroundings and the incidents
which led to the crime for which
he was sentenced to die. The story
of the conversion of the convicted
man illustrated the Biblical truth
that the wages of sin are death, but
eternal life is a free gift of God.
Before the evening services a
group of students and faculty mem-
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Home Economics Group
Visits Moe Hospital
of the
campus
opening
son. In
organization outside the
this year and marks the
of the year's concert sea-former
years the orchestra
The class in Home Nursing, ac-companied
by Miss Dorothy Dahl,
head of the Home Economics De-partment,
were shown a demonstra-tion
on bandaging by Mrs. Anna
Haugen Berdahl, assistant superin -
tendent of nurses at Moe Hospital,
in the demonstration room at the
hospital, on Friday, November 22.
The fundamental 'bandages were ex-plained
and illustrated. Economy,
comfort, and neatness of work were
also stressed. At the next class pe-riod,
practical applications of the
principles will be made.
Upon the completion of the dem-onstration,
the class was conducted
through the hospital by Mrs. Ber-dahl.
The modern electrical equip-ment.
in particular afforded much
has made numerous short tours to interest.
neighboring towns, as well as play-ing
for various local organizations.
The regular winter concert will be
given in the early part of December.
Prof. H. M. Blegen Makes
Plans to Study Abroad
Paper
journalism class, thus putting
trained workers in charge of the
work. For the publications en-tered
in the last contest ,Oscar
Hanson, '29, Astoria, headed the
Edda staff, and Clifford Halvorson,
'30, Astoria, was in charge of the
Mirror. Mr. Halvorson was also
business manager of the Edda last
year. The assistant editor of the
year-book was Fred Draper, Sioux
Falls, present editor, and the as-sistant
business manager, Nils Ber-dahl,
also of Sioux Falls, who is
now business manager for the 1930
Edda. The associate editors were
Nina Hofmeister, Chancellor, and
Melvin Nelsen, Canton. Advertis-ing
was solicited by Alvin Lewis,
Sioux Falls, and Weldon Hester,
Sioux Falls, had charge of the cir-culation.
The art work under the
supervision of the art department
headed by Mrs. Fitzgibbon was done
by Esther Hokenstad, Palmer Eide,
and Virginia Marston, all of Sioux
Falls. In addition to these, the
staff was composed of other de-partment
editors.
In addition to Clifford Halvorson,
editor-in-chief, the staff of the Mir-ror
includes Selmer Vevang, Ros-lyn,
business manager; Gloria Mon-serud,
Sioux Falls, managing edi-tor;
Raydon Ronshaugen, Roslyn,
managing editor; Myrtle Lokken,
Sioux Falls, associate editor; Eve-lyn
Engen, Vienna, associate edi-tor;
Earl Rogness, Astoria, adver-tising
manager; and Albert Holm,
Sisseton, circulation manager.
Publications which won places
in the last contest in the
year-book section were: first, The
Pasque, Northern Normal; second,
The Edda ; third, The Trojan, East-ern
Normal; and honorable men-tion,
The Greyhound, Yankton Col-lege.
In the newspaper section, the
winners were: first, The Augustana
Mirror; second, The Eastern, East-ern
Normal; and third, The Phreno
Cosmian, of Dakota Wesleyan.
Miss Selma Hogenson
Gives Lecture Course
Miss Selma Hogenson, college li-brarian,
is giving a series of lec-tures
to the freshman rhet (vie
classes. The classes meet in the
library reading room. The purpose
of the lectures is to explain the
arrangement of the library, the
classification of books, the use of
the card catalogue, the use of the
Readers' Guide, and of the stan-dard
reference books. Miss Hogen-son
stated in one of her lectures
that E. E. Hale had said, "The dif-ference
between an aducated and
and uneducated person is that the
educated person knows how to find
what he wants and the other (un-educated)
does not."
Men's Debate Team to
Make West Coast Trip
Professor Blegen left Tuesday,
November 5, and returned the fol-lowing
Monday from a trip to St.
Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota,
and the University of Minnesota,
Augustana's men's debate team Minneapolis, Minnesota. His visit
will make a trip to the Pacific was for the purpose of arranging
Coast early in March of 1930, ac- for a trip to Europe next June.
On this trip Professor Blegen plans
to be gone about fifteen months,
eight months to be spent in some
French University, either Grenoble,
Strassbaarg or the Sor'bonne in
Paris, and the remaining seven in
Spain and other parts of Europe.
While at St. Olaf College, Profes-sor
Blegen attended the Founda-the
State University at Seattle, and don Day exercises held November
Washington State College at Pull- 6. He also visited with his friend,
man are the probable opponents. 0. E. Rolvaag.
cording to Hugo A. Carlson. En-route
on this trip tentative plans
have been made by Mr. Carlson to
debate the University of Montana
at Missoula, Montana State College
at Bozeman, and St. Charles Col-lege,
Helena, Montana. In Idaho
they will meet the State University
at Moscow, Idaho. In Washington
II
"Fantaisie" Impromptu, Opus 66
F. Chopin
"Mignonnatte" Friml
III
Aria from Madame Butterfly,
"One Fine Day" Puccini
"Le Reveil" (S u n r i s e),—(Old
French) Wekerlin
"Bal D'Eufauts" (Old French)
Wekerlin
IV
"Danse Macabre," (Dance of
Death) C. Saint-Saens
Second Piano—Miss Laura Fischer
V
"La Tarantella" Boyd
"Dreamin' Tithe" Strickland
"Song of May" Roberts
Accompanist—Mrs. Mabel Kverness-
Warren
Shakespearean Plays
Presented by Society
Students at Augustana College
vied with professional Shakespear-ean
actors at the Latin Society
meeting Tuesday evening, November
12, when they presented the Death
Scene in Act III, Scene 1, Brutus'
Speech, Act III, Scene 2, Funeral
Oration of Anthony, Act V, Scene
5, and Anthony's Speech about Bru-tus,
of the play "Julius Caesar."
A resume of the play was given
by Minerva Nelson, Sioux Falls.
The cast of characters was:
Caesar Harold Svanoe, Canton
Brutus Dale Simons, Sherman
Anthony___Ralph Enstrom, Canton
'Casca
____Alfred Spilde, Willow Lakes
__Merritt Anderson, Valley__
Cassius Merritt Anderson,
Valley Springs
Metellus Cimber
Theron Johnson, Brandon
Soothsayer
Tilford Iverson, Brandon
Trebonius__Palmer Tideman, Baltic
Artemidorus___Andrew Seim, Sinai
Other numbers on the program
were: piano solo, "Spanish Castilian
Dance" by Johanna Christianson,
Sioux Falls; song, "Integer Vitae,"
Marie Bergsaker, Sioux Falls, ac-companied
by Clarine Ellefson,
Sioux Falls.
After the program a business
meeting was held and a report
from the float committee was given.
Professor Gratia Kjerland is ad-viser
of the society.