THE AUGUSTANA MIRROR
Visit Chicago LUTHERAN STUDENTS'
UNION AND EDITORS
TO MEET AT ST. OLAF
. Above is pictured Augustana's1 The choir will sing at the nation-
A Capella. Choir—one of the fore- al biennial cOolvention of the Na-most
choirs of the country. A tional Federation of music clubs
recognized institution of Augustana in Chicago, April 22, and later in
for years, the choir achieved na- a Chicago high school. Other con-tional
recognition last year through certs will be as follows:
its extended tour of the west. March 25, Sicax Falls; March 27,
This year Dr. Youngdahl will afternoon, Hill'. Minn.; evening,
take his singers on a tour of the
First row, left to right: Berna Holland, Ulna), Thoinpson, Judith Krogstad,
kir, Effie Ormseth, Director 'Carl R. Youngdahl, Eleanor Holbrook, Clara Nold, Alice Raines, Mariam
Mannes, Lillie Halverson, Helen Olson.
Second row, left to right: Louise Youngren, Selma Evenson, Mariam Kartrude, Jewel Peterson, Agnes
Hanson, Mabel Seton, Doris Gieselman, Evelyn Larson, Nina Hofmeister, Agatha Hove, Marcella Mork,
Freda Olson, Hannah Quien.
Third row, left to right: Alvin Lewis, Clarence Johnson, Wayne Silcox, Clifford Olson, Thorwald Eis-land,
Mervin Johnson, Ralph Iverson, Hartwick Levorson, Clarence Hauge, Henry Solum, Melvin Nelson.
Fourth row, left to right: Arthur Berdahl, Gerhard Erickson, Merritt Anderson, Colburn Olson, Oscar
Larson, Julian Hofstad, Albert Gunderson, Palmer Larson, Oscar Hanson, Rudolph Dahl.
"0 Come and Mourn With Me,"
(Wilkes), solo, Clifford Olson.
The Augustana Mirror was rated "Beautiful Savior," (arranged by
among the leading college and uni- F. M. Christiansen), solo, Doris
versity publications of the United Gieselmann.
States and Canada at the "National
College Press Congress" contest held
following a meeting of the Congress DEBATE TEAMS MEET
at the University of Illinois last LUTHER AND DUBUQUE
November, according to a recent
copy of "The Quill," a publication Augustana debate teams met
issued by the "Sigma Delta Chi," Luther college at Decorah, Iowa, professional journalistic fraternity.
A list of the publications winning Monday night, Jan. 31, and Du-awards
was given. buque university at Dubuque, Iowa,
Every state of the Union and Tuesday night, Feb. 1, in a non-province
of 'Canada was included in decision open forum contest.
the contest. Three South Dakota Fred Koller, Palmer Larson and papers were rated among the best, Arthur Berdahl, all of Sioux Falls, "The Augustana Mirror;" "The In-dustrial
Collegian," State college, represented Augustana against
Brookings; and the "Volante," Uni- Luther college. They argued the
versity of South Dakota, Vermillion. affirmative side of the McNary-
According to "The Quill," the Haugen Farm Relief Bill question.
publications were judged for the A new debate procedure for Aug-purpose
of determining the gen- ustana college was engaged in at
eral merit on the basis of oppor- Dubuque university. Two men were
tunity, used on each team, one of whom
was an Augustana debater and the
FOGHT WILL DELIVER other a Dubuque university man.
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Thus Alvin Rogness of Augustana
college and Mr. Blair of Dubuque
Dr. H. W. Foght, president of u niversity argued the affirmative
Northern Normal and Industrial side against Marcus Houge, Sioux
School at Aberdeen, will deliver Falls, of Augustana College and
the commencement address, May 31, iur. Roeder of Dubuque university, at Augustana College, according to who upheld the negative side of the
an announcement made by Dr. Sol- McNary-Haugen bill.
berg.
Dr. Foght is the new president
of the South Dakota Educational AU GUSTANA LOSES FIRST
Association. CRITIC VOTE IN HISTORY
The college department will have
about 19 graduates this year. In the first decision ever given
against an Augustana team by a
SCIENCE STUDENTS TO critic judge, Concordia won from
FORM FRATERNITY HERE Augustana Saturday night, Feb. 12,
THREE SPEAKERS IN
ORATORICAL EVENT
DISTRICT, STATE ORATORS
GUESTS OF SIOUX FALLS
HOUGE IS PEACE SPEAKER
Five Colleges Will Compete In Dis-trict
Contest Friday, Gay-lord
is Judge
COLLEGE CARNIVAL HELD
AT GYNANASIUM FEB. 12
A carnival interspersed with fun,
was held at the college gym Fri
day, February 11, under the au-
. spices of the "A" club and the
Journalism class. The purpose of
the carnival was to help raise funds
to buy sweaters for this year's
athletes.
In the program given were banjo
selections by Rudolph Dahl, Bryant,
a dumbbell performance by Arthur
Raad, Howard, Colburn Olson, Hart-ington,
Nebr., and Paul Rau, Artas;
violin selections by Irene Mun-dy,
city; vocal selections by the
Augustana quartet consisting of
Thorwald Eisland, Inwood, Ia., Hen-ry
Solem, Lennox; Oscar Larson.
city, and Clifford Olson of the fac-ulty;
and a short talk by Miss Bor-ghild
M. Dahl, head of the Journal-ism
and English departments.
A jazz hand under the direction
of Arthur Berdahl, city, played sev-eral
numbers. Some ukulele music
by Evelyn Larson. Whalen, Min-nesota,
and Helen Olson, Vermil-lion
were given. Mark Hauge,
Howard, gave several mouth organ
selections. The journalism class was
in charge of the entertainment.
DORMITORY REGULATIONS
DISCUSSED BY DORM MEN
Dormitory regulations for the rest
of the year were discussed by the
men students rooming in the men's
dormitory at a meeting Friday
night, Feb. 4. Supervisors elected
for the different floors are Oliver
Bergland, Dawson, Minn., Clifford
Halverson, Astoria, and Oscar Han-son,
Astoria.
Study hours are to be observed
from 8 to 12 o'clock on forenoons,
1 to 4 o'clock .in the afternoons,
and 7 to 11 o'clock at night. Prof.
Martin Cole is in charge of the
dormitory.
IVERSON DELIVERS SERMON
IN ABSENCE OF REV. GLENN
Dr. Iverson, head of the depart-ment
of religion at Augustana col-lege,
delivered the sermon at the
First Lutheran Church last Sunday
morning, Feb. 13, in the absence of
the absence of Rev. H. J. Glenn.
RENA AS LECTURES ON
SYRIA AT F. Ti. CHURCH
Gerald Renaas, a former student
of Augustana, gave an illustrated
lecture at the First Lutheran
Church, Sunday evening, Feb. 13.
Mr. Renaas discussed the school
system of the Orient in his lecture.
He had two years of teaching ex-perience
in a Mission school at
Tripoli, Syria. In his lecture he
described many scenes of interest
which he had visited in the Holy
Land and which are important
from the standpoint of Biblical his-tory.
The slides which Mr. Renaas used
in connection with his address were
largely produced from photos which
he himself had taken. The scenes
included were of the most interest-ing
places Mr. Renaas had seen
from the Suez canal to the Bospor-us.
The lecture was sponsored by the
Luther League of the First Luth-eran
Church. Marcus Houge of
Augustana 'College is president of
the Luther League at the church.
PUBLICATION OF ANNUAL
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL
The publication of the Augustana
College Annual is to be postponed
until next fall, it was decided by the
student body, Feb. 5. A new staff
will be elected in place of the old
staff.
Because of the lack of time and
slowness of subscriptions the year
book will not be published this
spring. The annual which will be
published next fall will contain all
the particulars and material of the
annual planned for this spring.
DR. C. 0. SOLBERG TALKS
AT BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB
Dr. C. 0. Solberg spoke at
the meeting of the "Y" business
men's discussion club, at the Y. M.
C. A. on Thursday evening, Feb. 3.
The topic of the address was
"Jesus' Teaching on Sunday Ob-servance
and Its Influence on the
Social Order. Are His Teachings
different from the Fourth Command-ment?"
Science students of Augustana
college are taking active steps to
obtain the Beta chapter of the Sig-ma
Delta Epsilon, a national science
fraternity recently organized at
Northern Normal, according to the
decision taken by the college stu-dents
majoring or minoring in
science at a meeting held Feb. 8.
The purpose of the organization
is to foster interest in high school
and particularly in college science.
the first home debate of the season
for the local college. The question
was the McNary-Haugen farm re-lief
bill.
Theodore Grimsrud, Arnold Hag-en
and Herman Jacobson repre-sented
Concordia on its first in-vasion
of South Dakota. Augus-tana,
debating the affirmative, was
represented by Arthur Berdahl,
Palmer Larson, and Alvin Rogness.
Professor Barnes of the University
of South Dakota was critic judge.
Theme at. Conference Will Be
"What Shall I Do With My Life?"
AUGIE TO SEND DELEGATES
Speeches By Leaders of Church
Will Feature the Annual
Students' Meeting
"What Shall I Do With My Life"
will be the theme at the Lutheran
Students' Union and Editorial con-ference
convening at a joint meet-ing,
to be. held at St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minn., on March 4-8.
Speeches .by leaders of the church
will feature the annual student
Meeting.
The annual sessions of the L.
S. U. will be opened by an address
on Friday* evening -by Rev. C. S.
Thorpe of Minneapolis. He will
speak on "A God-given Life." Pro-fessor
C.. E. Tiller of the Red Wing
SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
In a most inspiring and instruc-tive
address, Rev. Knute Monson,
a missionary to Madagascar, pre-sented
a vivid and concrete picture
of "the place and work dearest to
his heart" (as he expressed it),
during the chapel period on Thurs-day,
Feb. 3. Mr. Monson had been
sent out by the Students' Union to
speak before the various schools on
this subject.
"One can never conceive of the
long journey from here to Mada-gascar
until he has experienced
it," he began. "Traveling steadily
without interruption, both night
and day, would require a time ex-tending
over two months. The dis-tance
is approximately fourteen
or fifteen thousand miles. Mada-gascar
is the third largest island
in the world, with a population of
over three and a half million. It
has been a French colony since
1906."
He continued by telling that con-ditions
existing there today cannot
be compared with those existing
twenty-five years ago. The coast
villages today have all the modern
conveniences, practically, that are
found in our cities. Telephones. and
telegraph and electric service are
not lacking. Wireless connections
are made with all parts of the
world. There are banks and trust
companies, postal service, and
newspapers published in. both the
French and native languages.
The tribal feuds, the many fear-ful
superstitions, the painful suf-ferings
and anguish endured by
the natives because of their beliefs,
have now declined somewhat, he
said, due to the influence of Chris-tianity
and civilization. The atti-tude
of the government, too, towards
the protection of missionaries, has
improved to a great extent.
There are at present seven Prot-estant
missionary societies working
on the land, he stated. Some of
these have been working for al-most
a hundred years. The Ameri-can
mission 'however, dates back
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SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, FEBRUARY 18, 1927
Represgritati - e: -;)f Augustana col-lege
will ci- ;inpe - .he district
Peace oratoricte, extoiiipere and or-atory
contests to be held at Sioux
Palls College and the City Temple
Friday, February 18. Winners in
these will compete in the state con-tests
to be held at the same places
Saturday, Febtuary 19.
Marcus Houge of Sioux Falls will
represent Augustana college in the
Peace oratorical contest, Arthur Ber-dahl
of Sioux Falls in the oratory
contest, and Alvin RG'xiess of As-toria
in the extempore contest
live colleges will compke in the
aiStrict contest Fri,/lay. They are
Augustus -1 Falls, and Colum-bus
collezes of i bis city, Dakota
-Wesleyan i;, 'iversity of Mitchell, and
Ys.nkt . college of Yankton.
.1%e" district Peace Oratorical con-test
will be held at the Sioux Falls
college chapel at 2 o'clock Friday
a .Cf_ernoon and the Extempore con-test
at 3 o'clock. - Speakers in the
latter contest will draw their sub-
;•gt jests at 12 o'cl4.--r:k. The district
Oratory contest will be beld at the
City • Temple at S o. 'c- lock Friday
night.
Winners in tiro district Peace-
Oratorical contest will compete in
the state contest at the Sioux Falls
college chapel at 3 o'clock Saturday
afternoon. Speakers entering the
state Extempore contest will draw
their subjects at 4 o'clock Saturday'
afternoon and the contest will. be
held at the City Temple at 7 o'clock.
this the state oratory
-:Thtfiftettl.-rn"=ar78 FTT6rrr7-
Prof. J. S. Gaylord of the Mc-
Cormick Theological Seminary of-
Chicago will serve as expert judge
at the contests.
AUGUSTANA ENTERS Augustana's A Capella Choir Will Make A-,
E,Uensive Tour In March;
"In Dulci Jubilo"' (arranged by
Luverne, Minn.. March 28, Pipe- ....F.. . M. Christianson) solo, Agnes
state. . The choir has also been stone, 11 anson. Rev. T. A. Hoff, Minneapolis, - and
this pro-
, Minn.; March 29, Flandreau;
invited to_ sing before the National March 30, Brookings; thi "0 Happy Day" (arranged by F. Dean- 0. Ingvolstad of the Chicago
Federation of Music Clubs which gram is to be broadcast by radio; M. Christiansen) solo, Doris Gies- Bible School will speak of theeve-meet
for its biennial convention March 31, Torolito: April 2, Arling_ elmann. ning . se2ssion. Rev. Hoff will speak
fl , , V*---t: . k,......'F5 - . - .. c , :". - 43"i -.7,7," .T.‘"F`rr'' ; • *1 ne Cotintless Hosls (C, I . e 1 g ) On' "A—I, i ic --hi Len de li ' iii V:111 i!,iit-ii- April 4, Clark; April 5, Redfield; solo, Clifford Olson. Service, - while Dean Ingvolstad's
Dorothy Ege, Ethel Eli- Seminary will conduct a Bible
Hour. A student discussion will
be led by Mr. Frederik Schiotz- of
the Luther Theological Seminary:
At the Saturday morning session
Rev. C. S. Thorpe will address the
students on the - subject, "A Re-deemed
Life." "A Life with Tre-mendous
Possibilities" will be the
topic of President J. M. Brown of
CdncordiaCollege, Moorhead.
Minn., which will be followed by
"Be Not Afraid" (J. S. Bach) the student discussion to be led
motet for two choirs including a by Alvin Rogness of Augustana col-vocal
fugue. lege..
"0 Bread of Life", (arranged The afternoon session will open
by F. M. 'Christianson) solo, Clif- with an hour of devotion. Dr. C.
ford Olson. M. Weswig of the Luther Theologi-cal
,Seminary Avill then address the
students on various student prob-lems.
Austin, business manager .
of t e choir, -is planning the itin- 6 ill Ail 7 H "
.
April 88,, Lake
Miller;
Preston; April 9
, Huron; " Col- Star Above" music arranged by A Life Destined
erary•
subject will be
prae reston; p, for immortality. Lloyal Tallakson
The choir, composed of 46 sing- man.
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl; words by
of St. Olaf will be the student dis-ers,
is chosen on a competitive Dr. C. 0. Solberg. cussion leader for the afternoon.
basis and it is considered an ac- De;tW).eeping Mary" (R. Nathaniel At the Sunday morning service
complishment to become a member
of that organization. The numbers AUGUSTANA MIRROR "I'll Never Turn Back No More" (Continued on page 2)
are memorized, not a score being (R. Nathaniel Dett).
used. GIVEN HIGH RANK "Cherubim Song," (Bortynansky). RETURNED MISSIONARY
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