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VOL. IV
SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH 26, 1924. No. 19
MISSIONARY GIVES AUGUSTANA DEFEATS ABERDEEN
MANY TALKS HERE • 1' * * * *
Dr. A. Keiser, head of the Eng-lish
and Public Speaking depart-ments
at Augustana College, will
represent the College at the conven-tion
of the Pi Kappa Delta, a na-tional
honorary forensic society, to
be held at Peoria, Ill., on April 1,
2, and 3. An application has been
submitted to this convention for the
purpose of obtaining a chapter of
the society for Augustana College,
and it will be acted on at this con-vention.
Leading Players in League Chosen
—Nettleton Gets Champion-ship
Pennant
LUTHERANS TO GIVE
ORATORIO TONIGHT
Given at First Lutheran Church—
Directed by Prof. Carl
Youngdahl
SIOUX FALLS ARRANGES
MUSIC WEEK FESTIVITIES
stellar artist concert will be given
schools, the local colleges, and the
local musical organizations, will ap-
Friday evening. The local city
pear in special programs.
the special features will be the pre-sentation
of the "Messiah," by the
Sioux Falls soloists, on Monday eve-given
over to the University of
program will be composed of a lo-
South Dakota State College, with
ning. Thursday evening will be
South Dakota, and state artists. Tbi
week program, for May 4-10. The
cal spring festival and the State
convention of the South Dakota
Federation of Music Clubs. One of
the Association with a gold basket- 'Wednesday, March 26
ball and a gold chain for being sue- Oratorio, "The Seven Last Words
and Chemical Co., the captains of
the winning teams receiving the
pennants.
cessful president of the league for of Christ," at First Lutheran
three years. Church.
tana.
v. ere presented pennants by Vin-
Scarvie, Augustana; Olson, Sioux
Falls College; Fjellestad, Augus-cent
Calvin of the Western Drug
tana; Centers, Prince, Y. W. C. A.;
Ryan, Nettleton; M. Martini, Y. W.
C. A.; Luden, Augustana; Guards,
, Junior and Senior League players
Milton Harvey was presented by
Friday, March 28
Debate: Affirmative team vs. E.
S. T. C. negative, College Chapel.
Negative team vs. E. S. T. C. af-firmative
at Madison.
At Student Body meeting, after A committee of pastors is in ses- Monday, March 31
chapel Tuesday, March 25, a stand- sion here today making preparations : Concert, Augustana College Or-ard
form of invitation, as proposed for the Pastoral Conference. It was chestra, First Lutheran Church.
by the graduating classes, was decided to hold' the conference at Wednesday, April 2
adopted for the exercises of com- Augustana College on July 8 to 11. Declamation contest, Academy So-mencement
week. The style of let- The committee meeting consists of cieties, College Chapel.
tering to be used is the solid old the following pastors: Rev. 0. C. Saturday, April 5
English. According to this plan, Hellekson, Newman Grove, Nebr.: All-School-Get-Together, College
the cost of having a new plate made Rev. B. J. Rothmen, Dell Rapids, Dining Hall.
every year will be eliminated, and S. D.; Rev. A. J. Everson, Sherman, Monday, April 7
a high grade of folders can be ob- S. a, and Rev. C. E. Sybilrud, Madi- Extemporaneous speaking contest,
tamed. son, S. D. College Societies, College Chapel.
ALL-SCHOOL GET-TOGETHER
BANQUET
TO BE HELD APRIL 5
minor part. Coach Anderson states
that it seems to be the general at-titude
that we ought to take part
in both baseball and track this
spring. Although no definite sched-ules
have been arranged, baseboll
games will very likely be arranged
with the colleges of the conference
that have teams. In the track and
field competition, Anderson intends
to enter men in the Dakota Relays,
and the South uakota College Con-ference,
both of which are to be
held in Sioux Falls, some time in
May.
Track Possibilities Favorable
Coach Anderson plans to call out
the track men as soon as weather
permits, possibly the latter part of
this week or the first of next. Much
of the material is new, but when we
remember what the coach accom-plished
with that same material in
football last fall, hopes run high.
Fjellestad, the star of last spring,
is back again. Such men as Rau,
Levorson, and Iverson, with their
experience, expect to do very good
work. With the spirit shown by
the newer material, Augustana fans
are waiting with interest whatever
the Viking tracksters can do in
track and field events of this spring.
Baseball Material Better
In baseball the material is more
experienced and better known.
Practically the entire squad from
last year is back, and, with the
advent of some new material anx-ious
to make a try for the varsity,
the great national game is expected
to create much interest. The ratio
between games won and lost is ex-pected
to be somewhat different
from that of basketball. No cap-tains
have, as yet, been elected in
these sports, but will be announced
in a later Mirror.
The Misses Ruby Anderson, Agnes
Snoen, Ella Hillan, and Dora Ander-son
appeared in joint recital before
a very appreciative audience at
Wentworth, S. D., Friday evening,
March 21.
,I .UDGE LARSON WILL GIVE
SERIES OF LECTURES
Prof. K. J. Jacobson's class in so-ciology
have engaged Judge Lewis
Larson of the juvenile court of this
city for a series of three lectures
on juvenile problems to be given
immediately following the chapel
services. The date and subjects are:
March 27, "Juvenile Courts;" April
3. "Some Causes of Juvenile De-linquency;"
and April 10, "What Is
Done to Lessen Juvenile Delinq
uency."
HOLD ELECTION OF
STUDENT OFFICERS
Hammer Elected Head of the Stu-dent
Body—Twedt Unanimously
Elected Editor-in-Chief
The annual election for the Stu-dent
Body and the Mirror Staff was
held on March 14 and 15. Discus-sions
were heated and many of the
candidates received excellent ora-torical
support. Nominations were
presented by the executive commit-tee,
although some were also made
from the floor.
Many nominations were made for
the offices of President and Vice-
President of the student body. Some
of the students wanted to re-elect
the old president and keep up "Leif"
for the coming year, others support-ed
the fluent Boe, and still others
the eloquent "Gib," but Clarence
Hammer eventually carried off the
honors for president and Ralph Iver-son,
vice-president.
The other officers were the fol-
Vice President, Ralph Iverson.
Secretary, Stella Rasmussen.
Treasurer, Hartwick Levorson.
Yellmaster, Vernon Sorenson.
Yellmistress, Nora Jensen.
Mirror Staff
Carter J. Twedt and Priscilla A.
Mannes were unanimously re-elect-ed
as Editor-in-Chief and Associate
Editor, respectively.
The other members of the Staff
are:
Managing Editor, Carl Pederson.
Business Manager, Carl E. Boe.
Circulation Manager, Elmer G.
Larson.
Advertising Manager, Julius Erick-son.
Assistant Advertising Manager,
Alvin Rogness.
Religion, Florence Olson.
Forensic, Louise Solberg.
Music, Mabel Everson.
Athletics. (men), Theodore Beck-man.
Athletics (women), Nora Jensen.
Alumni, Anna Solem.
Societies, Esther Loftesness.
Exchange, Emma Benson.
General News, Elizabeth Eggen,
and Vernon Sorenson.
The officers of the past term have
successfully carried out their duties
and it is hoped that the new mem-bers
will serve just as faithfully as
the old ones have done.
BLANCHE HANSON WINS
FIRST IN DECLAMATION
At the declamatory contest of the
Junior academy class, held Monday
evening, March 17, Blanche Hanson
took first place with the declama-tion,
"The Chariot Race," by Lew
Wallace. Second place was award-ed
to Judith Crogstad who gave,
"The River of Stars," by Alfred
Noyes. Anna Hamre won third
place with the declamation, "The
Lost Word," by Henry Van Dyke.
Others who took part in the con-test
were, Helen Berdahl, Martha
Ormseth, Sarah Monserud, and Edna
Eggebraaten.
ACADEMY SOCIETIES TO STAGE
DECLAALITORY CONTEST
An inter-society declamatory con-test
will be held in the College
chapel April 2. Three academy so-cieties
will take part. There will
be two representatives from each.
The Shakespearean will have a pre-liminary
contest March 27 or 28, to
choose their representatives. The
Ciceronian society has elected Jud-ith
Crogstad and Ida Stordahl, and
the Adelphics have selected Esther
Loftesness and Anna Hamre to rep-resent
them.
Miss Christensen Discusses Mission-ary
Work in Africa and
Madagascar
The Augustana Mission Union has
been instrumental in securing Miss
Anena Christensen '15, lately a mie-sionary
to Madagascar, to give sev-eral
addresses concerning her work.
She has been both in Africa and in
Madagascar and is at present a stu-dent
at Minnesota University, Min-neapolis,
Minn.
Her work at Natal, Africa, was
Miss Christensen's theme when she
spoke at the regular chapel exer-cises
on Saturday, March 22. She
had with her many interesting ar-ticles
from Africa which she showed
at different times during the course
of her talk. Miss Christensen pic-tured
very vividly the conditions as
they exist in Africa, but perhaps
that which was most interesting was
her presentation of a day in the
mission school. The schools receive
some aid from the government and
consequently are under government
supervision and inspection which
provides a regular course of study.
"Things must be well organized,"
says Miss Christensen, "to keep such
a flock of children busy all day."
The children are aroused at sunrise
by the ringing of the church bell,
and 15 minutes afterwards they
must appear for work in the fields.
At about 8 o'clock the breakfast
bell rings, and everyone must be
there on time or go hungry. After
breakfast there are studies and
classes until dinner time. After
dinner the children are taught to
do different kinds of industrial work
such as sowing and weaving. The
girls are being aee sew
ing machines, for sewing machines
are being introduced into the homes
of many of the natives. The girls
in the sewing classes do sewing
enough to provide the children at
the school with clothing.
According to Miss Christenson the
language of this part of the country
is rather difficult to learn, but it is
beautiful, as one could hear when
she sang a stanza from "A Mighty
Fortress Is Our God" in that tongue.
On Sunday morning at 9:20
o'clock Miss Christensen spoke to
the entire Sunday School at the Col-lege
Chapel on her work and ex-perience
in Madagascar. Miss Chris-tensen
showed that the conditions
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Sioux Falls has arranged a music
A banquet was given in honor of
the members and coaches of the
girls' city league basketball at 7
o'clock, March 17, at Y. M. C. A.
dining parlors. About 100 were
present at the banquet. St. Pat-rick's
decorations and flowers, do-nated
by the Minnehaha Floral Co.,
were used. A delightful two course
dinner was served, the ice cream
being donated by the Bridgeman-
Russel Co. Frederick Martini, Y.
W. C. A. coach, acted as toastmas-ter.
Gertrude Hall gave two comic
readings, and several coaches and
others connected with the League,
spoke..
A resolution to recommend to the
National Woman's Basketball com-mittee
changes in the rules was
passed. It was recommended that
double dribble and progress with
the ball be violations instead of per-sonal
fouls. Players would not be
notified but removed when four per-sonal
fouls or a total of six fouls
have been called upon them, ac-cording
to the proposed changes.
Holding the ball more than three
seconds would be a violation and
in case of a tie score an extra three
minute period would be played to
decide the championship, according
to the proposals made at the ban-quet.
A letter containing the rec-ommended
changes has been sent to
the national committee.
Leading players of the Senior
League picked by the coaches were:
Forward: Sheperd, Y. W. C. A.;
. Sheffield, Nettleton; Eider, Augus-
KEISER TO ATTEND
NATIONAL PI KAPPA
DELTA CONVENTION
"The Seven La— V.Torcls of Christ,"
sacred cantata will be given by the
choir of the First Lutheran church
assisted by a few of the Augustana
students tonight.
The introduction is a soprano
solo by Miss Dagna Berg, "0, ye
who travel upon the highway of
life, hearken to me." The seven
words of Christ on the cross are
then given in the following order:
Father forgive them for they
know not what they do.
Verily, Thou shalt be in Paradise
today with me. Amen, so I tell
thee.
See, 0 woman: here behold thy
son beloved.
God, My Father, why hast Thou
forsaken Me? This is a baritone solo
by Mr. Dahl.
I am athirst.
Father, into Thy hands, I com-mend
My Soul, which is a tenor solo
by Thorvald Eiesland.
Some of the conversation carried
on by the people while Christ was
on the cross, is taken alternately
by the soloists and the chorus. The
chorus numbers are beautiful, and
the last number is a simple hymn
Christ we do all adore Thee. The
cantata closes with a dramatic reci-tative
sung by the tenor soloist,
Mr. Eiesland.
Hard Fought Battle Taken From
Aberdeen by Narrow Margin
on Home Floor
Calendar of Events
AUGUSTANA ADOPTS STANDARD
COMMENCEMENT INVITATION
PASTORAL CONFERENCE
IS ARRANGED
TO MEET MADISON IN DUAL DEBATE FRIDAY
With a fifty per cent record to The annual All-School-Get-To-their
credit the Augustana evidence gether Banquet will be given in the
team took a two to one victory from Augustana Dining Hall April 5th.
Northern State Teacher's College, "Everyone included and no one ex-
March 19. The Augustana team de- clu.ded" will be the slogan. Spe-fending
the negative side of the cial honors will be paid to those
questIon, "Resolved, that the U. S. who have taken part in forensics,
should enter the International Court athletics and oratory.
as proposed by the late President All of the students and members
Harding," was represented by Esther of the faculty, and families of fac-
C. Johnson, Lyle Gilbertson, and H. ulty members are looking forward
Gerhard Mosby, while Martin An- with great anticipations to having
derson, Gale Finley, and William an enjoyable evening.
Gruhn presented the case for the
upstate school. Prof. A. R. Root, BASKETBALL LEAGUE HOLDS coach, accompanied the visiting team.
Strong Clash of Arguments BANQUET ON MARCH 17 The meeting of two fairly well
matched teams, marks the debate as
one of the most keenly contested
arguments that has been heard from
the home rostrum for sometime. The
affirmative based their case on the
points that the proposed court Now that the cage season is over,
would sacrifice policies peculiar to the students turn their minds to
the United States; that it is an spring athletics. Track and, base-improvement
over the old peace ball will in all probability hold the
tribunals; and it would not interfere spotlight, while tennis will take a
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VIKINGS WILL HAVE BOTH
BASEBALL AND TRACK TEAMS
Fjellestad Again to the Front— lowing: Prospects Good for Baseball
—Inter-Class Teamis