PROF. KALMAR J. JACOBSON
THE AUGUS ANA MIRROR
VOL. VI. SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, DEL EMBER ) , 1925. No. 11
PROF. KALMAR J. JACOBSON DIES
Head of History and Sociology
Department at A. C. Since 1922 The death of Prof. Kalmar J.
Jacobson, removing him from us in
the prime of his life and in the full
vigor of his sturdy manhood, is ex-ceedingly
sad and has filled our
hearts with bitter sorrow. His de-parture
from our midst is indeed
a serious loss to Augustana college
and Normal school, as he was in a
very practical way identified with
every activity of the institution.
His love of work, his devotion to
duty, and his desire to serve all
with whom he came in contact,
were so pronounced that he spared
himself no trouble, no expenditure
of strength, time, or means, to be
able to render service whenever
he thought his services might be re-
His Christian interests were
varied and intense and he never
shirked when an opportunity was
offered to serve his Master.
Our loss is, therefore, indeed
serious. Being Christians, we are,
however, not without comfort. We
have no doubt but that our beloved
co-laborer, teacher, brother, friend
is now with his Lord in Paradise,
partaking of the ineffable joys of
the blessed. Furthermore, our
precious Saviour has assured us
that if we are faithful unto the end
He will give us, too, the crown of
life and reunite us with the one
who has departed from us.
We also have the assurance that
whatsoever we ask of our Heavenly
Father in our Saviour's name, that
shall be given us. Therefore we
"give thanks always for all things
unto God and the Father in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ."
To the widowed wife, the mother,
brothers, and other dear ones of
our departed brother, we extend
our sincere sympathy, and for com-fort
we commend them to Him who
always comforted and is now com-forting
the one whose loss they
mourn.
Committee:
Ola A. Solheim,
Carl R. Youngdah 1,
Clara Knudson,
Carl 0. Pederson.
Clifford J. Olson,
Priscilla Mannes.
CAMPBELL; MCKINNON AND
GLENN SPEAK AT CHAPEL
Dr. Campbell of the local health
department spoke in chapel Thurs-day,
Nov. 19. He spoke on preven-tion
of disease, emphasizing care
in the case of contagious diseases,
especially measles, scarlet fever and
whooping cough. He mentioned
three rules of health: (1 ) Put
nothing into the mouth but food,
drink and a toothbrush ; ( 2 ) put
nothing to the nose except a clean
handkerchief__ ( 3.) always wash
hands before leaving a sickroom,
toilet room, and before meals. He
said that most evils in this world
are the consequence of our own
actions—to our doing the things we
should not do, and not doing the
things we should do.
He mentioned the work of Calu-met,
a student of Pasteur, who is
working in Paris, in an attempt to
find a preventive for T. B. He has
made successful experiments by im-munizing
calves through the injec-
Rion of dead T. B. germs.
Dr. Campbell concluded by a few
words on Citizenship, saying that
America is a great country, and
that it is our duty to 'be strong.
Mayor McKinnon addressed the
students and faculty Wednesday,
Nov. 18. His topic was that of
sanitation, dwelling especially on
the problem of the city's sewerage
disposal. He mentioned the natural
advantages for health that Sioux
Falls has in that regard, the hills
within its limits, and the river flow-ing
through it, with a fall of nine-ty-
two feet inside the city. He
spoke favorably of a project now
-under consideration for the building
of septic tanks to take care of the
city's sewage.
Students and teachers of Augus-tana
College were suddenly plunged
in deep sorrow when death cast its
grim shadow over the college on
Monday, November 23d. Prof. Kal-mar
J. Jacobson, professor of his-tory
and sociology, died at three
o'clock that morning after a short
illness of six days.
Prof. Jacobson's death came as a
distinct shock to all who knew
him. He was faithfully engaged in
his work up to his last active mo-ment.
No sign of illness was no-ticed
and no complaint was heard
until he failed to meet his classes
on Tuesday morning, NOvember 17.
At ten o'clock he was taken to the
hospital and in the evening operat-ed
upon; but the intestinal disease
from which he suffered could not
be stayed.
Prof. Jacobson had been in the
service of Augustana College con-tinuously
since the moment he took
over the work as head of the de-partment
of history and sociology
in 1922 until the last hour of his
active life. Besides teaching, he
traveled during the summer vaca-tions
of 1923, 1924 and 1925
through parts of South Dakota,
Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, dur-ing
which time he visited virtually
every community from which the
institution draws its support. In
1924, he traveled as a member of
the Augustana college male quar-tette
and in 1925 as its advance
agent and manager. The effective
work done by Prof. Jacobson to in-terest
young people in Christian
education is shown by the ever in-creasing
attendance Augustana col-lege
has enjoyed during the years
he traveled as her representative.
He was also active in extra-curricu-lar
activities of the institution in
which his chief interest manifested
itself as leader of the Mission
Union and instructor of the Boys'
Bible class. He conducted the Nor
wegian services at Grace Chapel of
the First Lutheran Church previous
to the arrival of Dr. Iverson in
1924 and preached as supply pas-tor
in many congregations through-out
the surrounding country. In
that same capacity, he preached at
Harlington, Nebraska, on the Sun-day
preceding his illness.
Kalmar J. Jacobson was born
JOSEPH HERMANSON IS NEW
MANAGING EDITOR
Joseph Hermanson, Dell Rapids,
a member of the junior class, has
been elected by the student body as
managing editor of the Mirror. This
position was left vacant at the re-signation
of Alvin Rogness, Astoria,
a member of the sophomore class,
who has served in that capacity for
about a year, and as forensic re-porter
the preceding year.
PHILOMATHIANS AND DE-MOSTHENIANS
WIN CONTEST
The Philomathian Literary soci=
ety won first place in the first in-ter-
society contest, the women's
oratorical, held at 4 p. m. Monday„
Nov. 30, in the college chapel. The
Philomathians, having two orators,
won a total of 130 points, and the
Athenians, having one representa-tive,
gained 95 points.
The winning society was repre-sented
by Agnes Crane and Esther
Loftesness, they getting 70 and 60
points respectively. The Athenians
were represented by Beulah John-son,
who was given 95 points.
The Demosthenian Literary soci-ety
won the second contest, the
men's oratorical, gaining a total of
166 points. They were represented
by Carmi Lawrence, with an ora-tion
on "The Educated Misfit," and
Alvin Rogness, speaking on "The
Black Scourge." Their opponents,
representing the Websterian Liter-ary
society, were Clarence Johnson,
who spoke on "Locarno," and Carl
Pederson, with the oration, "A Uni-versal
Brotherhood of Man." They
gained a total of 148 points.
Judges for the men's oratorical
contest were Rev. Glenn, Rev. Pres-ton
and Prof. Moore.
These two contests were the first
this year. Each society will meet
its opponent in four contests.
Seminary, he served as editor of
the "Hemnica" and as a part time
teacher and also found time to re,)-
resent his alma mater in inter-school
oratory. In 1917-18 he
taught at Jewell College, Jewell,
Iowa and in 1x18-19 at Park Re-gion
Luther )College, Fergus Falls,
Minnesota. From 1919 to 1921 he
was instructor and principal of Lu-ther
Academy, Albert Lea, Minne-sota.
He then studied one year at
Luther Theological Seminary, St.
Paul, previous to his coming to Au-gustana
College in 1922.
During the World War he served
for a period at Camp Pike, where
he received a commission as second
lieutenant. About a year ago he
was promoted to the rank of first
lieutenant in the reserves and was
also a member of the Officers' Mess,
Sioux Falls.
Miss Marie Toohey and Miss Dag-na
Berg, members of the Augustana
faculty, gave a joint recital in the
college chapel on Monday evening,
November 30. Their work was that
of artists, of which the school can
be justly proud. The delightful solo
work of each took well with a large
audience. The third group, Ave
Maria, was especially 'beautiful as
the sweet 'cello quality of Miss
'Berg's voice blended with the clear
sweet tones of Miss Toohey's instru-ment.
Miss Jahren's sympathetic
accompaniment was a pleasing back-ground.
The following program was pre-sented
:
Hejre Kati Jeno Hubay
Miss Toohey
Care Selve ( Atalanta) Handel
Adieu, Forets! ( Jeanne D'Are ) _ _
Tschaikowsky
Miss Berg
Father Almighty ( Ave Maria ) _ _
Bach-Gounocl
Misses Berg and Toohey
Uncle Rastus Cecil Burleigh
In a Cotton Field_ _ _Cecil Burleigh
Samoan Lullaby Tod Boyd
Minuet David Hochstein
Rondo Mazart-Kreisler
Miss Toohey
By a Lonely Forest Pathway_Griffes
Sandman Is Calling You_ _ _Roberts
Wedding Song Rosa
Love Is the Wind MacFadyen
Miss Berg
TENTATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
MADE FOR NEW DEBATES
Prof. Carlson has made tentative
arrangements for several new de-bates,
namely, with St. Thomas at
St Paul ; with Macalester at St.
Paul. There is also a tentative dual
.debate arranged with Northern Nor-mal.
Prof. Jacobson leaves to mourn
his death. his wife, his mother, Mrs.
George Jacobson, of Pelican Rapids,
Minnesota, and three brothers, Ar-thur
and Oscar, both of Pelican
Rapids, and the Rev. Joseph Jacob-son
of Hendrum, Minnesota. The
latter together with Mrs. Jacobson
were present at the time of his
death.
The Choir made its initial ap-pearance
in a concert given Sunday
afternoon, Nov. 22, at West Nida-ros.
The program was as follows :
'Hymn of Praise.
Listen to the Lambs.
Vocal Solo—Clifford Olson.
In Heaven Above.
Wake ! Awake !
Vocal Solos—Miss Oldre.
'Going Home.
A )Capella number from cantata.
VIKINGS HOLD MARINERS
TO LOWEST SCORE, 6-0
The Vikings held the Columbus
Mariners to the lowest score of any
game since football relations were
established between the two insti-tutions
in the final contest of the
1925 season, Saturday, Nov. 21.
The Mariners scored their only
touchdown in the second period as
the result of an intercepted pass.
Scobell, 'Columbus fullback, "Mark
the Mighty," was forced to plunge
into the Viking line four times to
gain the last three yards, just bare-ly
crossing the line on his last trial.
The deciding play came in the
second quarter, a long Viking pass,
Harvey to Levorson. The Vikings
gambled with chance for victory,
and lost by a matter of inches. A
strong wind blowing across the field
made an aerial attack practically
impossible—and unexpected. On the
first Viking play with the wind in
their backs, after changing goals,
Harvey received the ball from cen-ter,
set for a run. Suddenly he
stepped back from his interference
and threw a long pass, far over the
Mariner backs, toward Levorson,
flying end, who, seemingly un-noticed,
had already passed the
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JACOBSON MEMORIAL
STARTED BY STUDENTS
To honor the memory of their
late friend and teacher, Prof. Kal-mar
J. Jacobson, the students of
Augustana College and Normal
School have started a memorial
fund. This action was taken by the
students immediately after the sad
news reached them.
This fund will be donated as the
first contribution to the new five
hundred thousand dollar endowment
drive for Augustana College. The
income from the fund will be used
to purchase books, to be known as
the Jacobson Memorial Books, to
be placed in the college library.
Donations are being received dai-ly
from the students. The Boys'
Bible class, of which Prof. Jacob-son
was instructor, has given ten
dollars as an organization.
The student body voted to invite
the faculty and alumni of Augus-tana
College and -Normal School to
join with them in honoring the
memory of Prof. Jacobson by aid-ing
in establishment of this fund.
Contributions have already been
received from members of the alum-ni,
and they have expressed their
appreciation of the privilege to re-member
their teacher thus together
with the students.
Below is printed a letter accom-panying
the contribution from H.
Gerhard Mosby, '24.
"I am enclosing a check for two
dollars for the Jacobson Memorial
fund. Thanks for asking me to
come in with the students. I con-sider
it a very fitting way in which
we, his students, may remember
him, in a way he would approve of,
I am certain.
Trusting that Augustana may find
a man to fill his place, I am,
Sincerely,
1c,-1-^rd Mosby.
The following are the contribu-tions
received thus far from the
alumni:
H. Gerhard Mosby, '24 $2.00
Julius Erickson, '25 • 1.00
Cora Ostrus, '25 1.00
Louise Solberg, '25 1.00
INTERESTING LETTER
RECEIVED FROM RENAAS
Tripoli, Syria, Oct. 26, 1925.
The Augustana Mirror :
Your first issue of the paper is at
hand and I wish to rattle off a few
lines to tell how glad I am to get
the little sheet by which I can from
afar follow some of the activities
and developments of Augustana.
You may be surprised at the great
length of time it takes for the pa-per
to reach me, and then for my
letters to reach you, but I guess
the distance between Sioux Falls
and Tripoli has something to do
with it. I usually figure on eight
weeks for a reply to any letter I send home, although I do occa-sionally
get letters from home in
only three weeks.
I sent for this typewriter, on
which I am writing, some time be-fore
Easter this year, and my moth-er
sent the machine in May, and
here I got it the other day. Sucb
a great length of time, of course,
is not necessary but the mission
board held it in New York till they
had a chance to send it out in a
shipment of goods to the mission
here.
And how eagerly I shall follow
every column inch of the paper to
see how things are going at Au-gustana.
The alumni column is of
greatest interest to me—to see
where all my schoolmates and
friends are going. I even like to
look over the ads that shout out
their messages and as I look over
the firm names I think of the days
when I myself trotted around from
place to place soliciting ads, get-ting
copies, or collecting the legal
tender. But I miss that familiar
cut in its usual place in the upper
right hand corner of page four.
Changes in the faculty are as in-teresting
as they are inevitable, and
I sometimes wonder "Why?" I can
understand why Mr. Carlson accept-ed
the position he did, but I can't
see any reason north of the Mason-
Dixon line why Dr. Keiser hiked off
way down there to that North Caro-lina
city, if its name means any-thiIn
g. watch with keen interest the
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STUDENTS AND FACULTY
OFFER CONDOLENCES
Rev. Glenn, of the First Lutheran
Church, in addressing the students
and faculty Friday, Nov. 21, spoke
on the topic, "God and Our Coun-try."
He mentioned two ideals,
love of country and fellowship, and
love of God, which all should keep
uppermost in mind. ' L The former of these was illus-
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February 16, 1892, at Pelican Rap- Rev. A. M. Mannes, vice president midos,n Mthsin anneds o7t ad,a byesi onlgd 3a5t tyheea rtism, 9e of the South Dakota district, spoke
of his death. He spent seven years aat the afternoon service which was
at Red Wing Seminary, Red Wing, in charge of Rev. H. J. Glenn, pas-
Minnesota, completing the academy for of the First Lutheran Church.
course in 1914 and graduating from Dr. . Martin Anderson, pastor of the the college department with a B. First Lutheran Church at Albert A. degree in 1917. At Red Wing Lea, Minnesota, brought a message
from that congregation. Dr. C. 0.
Solberg read messages and resolu-tions
from the college faculty and
students, Prof. L. A. Vigness, sec-retary
of the 'board of education,
and the Rev. Myrwang, former
prerddent f board of trustees
of Luther Academy. Pall bearers
were Dr. Iver Iverson, Prof. J. G.
Berdahl, Prof. A. S. Moore, Prof.
G. H. Gilbertson, Prof. Carl Ander-son
and Prof. J. A. Johnson, all
of the Augustana College faculty.
Memorial services were held at
the college at 10 : 30 a. m. and at
the First Lutheran Church in the
afternoon, on Wednesday, while
burial took place at Pelican Rapids,
Minnesota, his boyhood home, on
Friday, November 27th. Dr. C. 0.
Solberg and Dr. Iver Iverson of the
college faculty spoke at the college
service. All present felt with the
speakers that the college had suf-fered
a real loss in that Prof. Ja-cobson
had been more than a teach-er.
Rev. J. 0. Tweten of Luther
Academy brought a message from
that institution. Carl Pederson,
president of the Boys' Bible class
of which Prof. Jacobson was teach-er,
spoke in behalf - of that class.
"We loved Prof. Jacobson," Mr.
Pederson said, "because he was a
brother to us and wished to be con-sidered
as a brother." The male
quartette, of which Prof. Jacobson
had been a member, sang. The re-mains
lay in state in the Adminis-tration
building with a student hon-or
guard, chosen from the Boys'
Bible class, in charge until the re-moval
to the First Lutheran Church
in the afternoon.
MARIE TOOHEY AND DAGNA CHPWRIZIMSArailli 14111;-ABOS
BERG GIVE MUSIC RECITAL