| Summary: | VOLUME XXVI. CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, MINtf., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. Mft- NO. 20 Cobber Edition Is Rated Among Few Triennials Four Minnesota Liberal Arts Colleges Edit Annuals, Four, Biannuals PRESS UNIT GIVES FACTS Concordia Publication Is Begun Daring Academy Days In 1920 The Cobber, Concordia student ''year-book," is one of only half a dozen tri-ennials In colleges and universities of the United States, according to figures released this week by the National Scholastic Press Association. The figures were given in response to a request by the Concordian, a member of the asso-ciation. More than 200 annuals are entered in the college section of the press asso-ciation, a few biennials, and practically no triennials, according to information furnished by Mr. Fred L. Kildow, pro-fessor of journalism at the University of Minnesota, and director of the associa-tion. A tentative check over records in regard to colleges outside of the as-sociation show that there are probably not more than half a dozen triennials in colleges all over the country, he said. Four Publish Annuals Information is immediately available in regard to eight Minnesota liberal arts colleges, in addition to Concordia. Four of these—Macalester, Gustavus Adolphus, Augsburg, and Hamline— publish biannuals, while four—St. Olaf, Carleton, St. Catherine's, and St. Tho-mas— produce annuals. Concordia is the only one not to put out a "ye£u— book" at least once every two years. Concordia's publication was begun back in 1920, according to available records, before the college was fully accredited, and at the time that an aca-demy department was still maintained. With the passing of the academy, and then with the full accreditation of the four-year college in 1925, the publica-tion remained as a triennial, instead of being changed to a biannual, which is much more suited to the four-year scheme of things. Expense Is Considered While Concordia's "year-book" has remained a triennial all of its days, changing only in name from "Scout? to "Cobber," students at other colleges hav» found even a bi-annual unsuited to requirements in some cases. A number of colleges have changed from bi-annual to annual in recent years, finding that the latter is the most lo-gical book for most colleges. Hie bi-annual remains, however, particularly where it is felt that the expense of publishing a book annually is too great. Students To Elect Concordian Staff Haugseth, Evanson to Run For Editorship at Polls Tuesday A slate of candidates for the Concor-dian staff election to be held Tuesday has been submitted for approval by a student committee to the Literary Board and the student body. Margaret Haugseth, Twin Valley, and Edmondc Evanson, Battle Lake, are listed as candidates for the office of editor-in-chief. Other nominations in-clude: managing editor, Ruth Eidsaa, Fargo, and Ralph Related, TJhief River Falls; business manager, Norman Wal-lin Stee.e, N. D., and Sterling Rygg, Fairdale, N. D.; advertising manager, Clifford Peterson, Little Fork, and Nick Matthees, Goodhue; circulation manager, Joel Moe, Galesburg, N. D., and Otto Lutncss, Enderlin, N. D.; cir-culation assistants, Melford Bruer, Al-berta, Robert Jorgenson, Blackduck, and Carlyfe Holte, Upham, N. D.; ad-vertising assistants, Sidney Rand, Rothsay, Burton Smith, Kennedy, Ken-neth Hillier, Hoople, N. p., and Man-ford Knudsvig, Audubon. The nominating committee consisted of one representative from each of the four classes, two from the Student Forum, and three from the Concordian staff. Class representatives on the committee were Palmer Tang, Ralph Fjelstad, Ove Branford, and Stanton Thorson. Delta Rho to Hold Banquet for Pledges Members of the Delta Rho literary society will hold a banquet Thursday evening at the Waldorf hotel In Fargo. Pledges will have been accepted and thus will be invited to attend the func- Prof. Nordlie Will Conduct Party on European Tour Prof. Herman C. Nordlie, head of the history department, Concordia college, has announced plans to conduct a party on n tour of seven European countries this summer. Mr. Nordlie spent the greater part of last summer in Europe, at which time he went over the route planned for this year's expedition. The party is scheduled to leave New York, June 12, on the Cunard White Star liner, Majestic and will return to the United States the latter part of July. Landing in Cherbourg, France, the group will visit Paris and Ver-sailles, then go through Belgium, through Namur and Liege, the route of the German invading armies in 1914. In Germany the cities of Aix-la-Cha-pclle, Cologne, Berlin, Potsdam, Wit-tenberg and others will be visited. One day will be spent in Copenha-gen, Denmark, and then the tourists will travel through western Sweden into Oslo, Norway, the end of the out-ward trip. After a week in Norway, the party will sail from Bergen on July 11, the same day that the Concor-dia college band is expected to arrive there. The last stage of the journey will take the group through the length of England from Newcastle to Southamp-ton, with a stay of several days in Lon-don, embarking on the Berengaria, July 17, and arriving in New York the 24th. The group plans to visit Washington D. C, on their return journey from New York. Ten Receive Membership In Alpha Scholastic Society 85 Percent of Possible Honor Points Is Prerequisite to Admittance' Monday's chapel period was set aside to honor scholarship at Concordia, when the new members received ad-mittance into the Alpha society. The Alpha society is a scholastic hon-or society which seeks to stimulate students to greater effort and to re-cognize and reward those whose intel-lectual attainments are superior. To be admitted to the Alpha society, one must have earned 85% of the total number of possible honor points during his college career. Those who have fulfilled the require-ments are: Otto Bra tlie with an average of 98.1; Bernice Brevif, 95.4; Agnes Wik, 92.9; Myra Reinertsen, 92.7; Irene Monson, 91.3; Osmund Akre, 87.7; Si-grid Bortvedt, 87.7; Mildred Norby, 87.7; Gretel Gosslee, 87.6; and Mona Spiel man, 87.4. The. old members of the society in-clude: Anne Viken, Maurice Felde, Al-len Hanson, Gabriel Hauge, Thomas Silness, Evan Silness, Carl Tiller, and May Rognlie. The faculty members are Prof. G. L. Schoberg, Miss Ander-son, and Miss Paulson, A party was held Wednesday night at the Verenda, Fargo, in honor of the now members. Dr. and Mrs. Brown and Prof, and Mrs. J. V. Hjelmstad were guests. Allen Hanson and May Rognlie were in charge of the general arrangements. L.D.R. Will Sponsor "Everyman" April 3 "Everyman," a morality play, will be presented under the sponsorship of the Lutheran Daughters of the Reforma-tion Wednesday evening, April 3, in the college chapel. This is the third successive year a religious play has ben given during Lenten season. Characters in the play represent qualities of evil and good. Everyman, the central figure, is depicted burdened with sin and striving toward salvation. The play beautifully and strikingly re-veals death and gives the conception of meeting death. Concordia Public Relations Bureau Provides Speakers High school commencement pro-grama are receiving more attention and are more carefully planned than formerly. The senior class is usually given a more prominent part in the program and the com-munity is given an opportunity during commencement week to en-joy the results of the extra cur-ricular work of the school in plays and musicals. traditional custom of invit-ing a speaker to bring a message to the class and the community is generally practiced. Commence-ment is an important occasion in the life of a high school student. At that time their minds are open to the impression of a worthwhile message. The Public Relations Bureau of Concordia college will be pleased to furnish commencement speakers from the faculty of the Institution. Tlie bureau has a list of experi-enced speakers who have filled many commencement engagements and who know how to speak to young people. Address your com-munication to the Public Relations Bureau Concordia College, Moor-head, Minnesota. College Symphony Orchestra to Give Concert Thursday The Concordia Little Symphony, un-der the direction of Soren Lura, will give a concert Thursday evening at eight o'clock in the college chapel. Eu-nice Plann will accompany the orches-trat and the soloist. The program con-sists of three groups, by the orchestra and a selection by Earl Berg, baritone. The orchestra's first group of the concert includes: Prelude (Bezet); The Swan (Saen Saint); Cabin Song (White), and Menuet (Mozart). Allegretto from seventh symphony Allegro, Village Dance, from sixth symphony (Beethoven) constitute the second group of numbers. The third group includes: Suite Ancinne, Pre-lude, (Hadley); Melody of Peace (Mar-tin); Dance of the Jacks (Poldini), and Bohemian Girl (Balfe). Body Organizes Under Johnshoy Home Mission Board Calls Pas-tor to Work in West Fargo Under the leadership of the Rev. J. Walter Johnshoy, a new congregation called Faith Lutheran church has been organized in West Fargo. Early in 1934, the Rev. Johnshoy was called by the Home Mission board of the North Da-kota district of the Norwegian Luther-an Church of America to do mission work in West Fargo. The first service was held in the West Fargo district on November 18, twenty-two Lutheran families being interested in the mission work. At present, the Rev. Johnshoy's mailing list includes 66 families in the West Fargo district. A Sunday school has been organized and now includes fifty children on its attendance roll. A constitution and by-laws have been adopted. Services arc held each Sunday at 11 a. m. The Rev. Mr Johns-hoy will continue to serve the congre-gation until they become thoroughly established. The Rev. J. W. Johnshoy is head of he deportment of philosophy and a member of the department of religion at Concordia college. Mildred Johnson Gives Piano Recital The Concordia School of Music pre-sented Mildred Johnson, pupil of Miss Hector, in a graduate piano recital, Fri-day evening. She was assisted by La- Verne Gilbertson, reader. Miss Johnson's program consisted of the following numbers: Pastorale (Scar-letti); Sonata in A Major (Scarlett!); Gavotte (Gluck-Brahms); Waltzes, Op, 39, Nos 15. 9 (Brahms); Nocturne, Op. 15, No. 2 (Chopin); Scherzo Op. 20, No. 1 (Chopin); Concerto, Op. 37, No. 3 (Beethoven); Allegro con brio, or-chestrial accompaniment by Miss Edna Hector, second piano, and Miss Clara Duea, organ. Miss Gilbertson read "The Finger of God," an excerpt from a one-act play, by Percival Wild; "Hie Opening of th* Piano" by Oliver W. Holmes; and "The Graduate" by James W. Foley. Miss) Edna Hector will present a group of her students in a piano re-cital in the college chapel Sunday aft-ernoon. 'Gifeat Decision' Forms Theme of Joint Convention Gilbertson Is Named Financial Secretary of Lutheran i Students' Union TORfVIK BRINGS GREETINGS Haugseth Is Secretary of Press Association; Schmidt Gives*Address "The Great Decision," based on Mat-thew 22:42, "What think ye of Christ?" formed the theme for the joint conven-tion of the Lutheran Students' Union and Lutheran Students0 Association held at St. Olaf college, Northfield, March 1, 2, and 3. Concordia was represented by five L. S. ;U. delegates, Gabriel Hauge, Otto Bra tlie, Valborg Grimsrud. Beulah Johnson, and Margaret Haugseth, as press representative; two L.S.A.A. dele-gates, Esther Fossum and Burton Smith; and six student visitors, Ardis Anderson, Harriet Thorn, Olivia Torvik, Helen Sellic, Everett Gilbertson, and Harold Brown. Torvik Gives Greeting Everett Gilbertson was selected fi-nancial secretary of the L. S. U. and Margaret Haugseth secretary of the Press Association, a branch of that or-ganization. Olivia Torvik gave a greet-ing from Madagascar at the Fireside Hour, and Prof. W. F. Schmidt, Con-cordia, delivered the Sunday morning address. The Press Conference, held Friday morning and afternoon, preceded 4he regular L. S. U. convention. Dr. C. N. Evanson of Luther college gave the opening address on "The Collegiate Press in the Decision for Christ." Al-bert Kosek, editor of the Minnesota Daily, University of Minnesota, gave a critical survey of the various college papers represented at the conference. Officers Are Elected Following the noon luncheon, at-tended by editors, managers, and rep-resentatives, the regular business meet-ing was held. Paul Adix, Luther col-lege, was elected president and Mar-garet Haugseth, Concordia, secretary. Mr. Lloyd Refsel, Augsburg Publish-ing House, was the speaker at the con-cluding session, addressing the group on the subject, "The Management of College Publications." Th Lutheran Students* Association's meetinsg were opened Friday at three o'clock by Mr. E. Clifford Nelson, the national president, who told about the beginnings of this group and then-growth during the past years. Dr. J. C. K. Preus then traced the growth of the north-central region of the L. S. A. A. After these discussions, Miss Edith Okerlund, regional student sec-retary, explained to the group how they could derive the most benefit out of conferences. The Rev. Edgar Carlson, Mt. Olivet Lutheran church, Minneapolis, pre-sented the address, "Today's Need for Decisions," at the opening -joint meet-ing of the Lutheran Students9 Union and Lutheran Students' Association. He expressed the need for our college (Continued to page 4, column 6> Senior Class Accepts Announcement Offer On Friday evening, the senior class met and received announcement offers. The class decided to accept the offer of the David Balfour company. Band Leaves Today On Weekend Tour Tthc Concordia band leaves at noon today for Fergus Falls where two concerts will be given. The first will be presented at the high school auditorium in the aft-ernoon for all high school students and the second in the same place at 8 p. m. under the auspices of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Saturday afternoon the band will go to Warren and that evening will play under the auspices of the Lu-theran church. The final concert will be given Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the Municipal auditorium at Thief River Falls. Soloist Is Slated To Appear Here In Artist Series Berthold Busch, German-Ameri-can Baritone, Will Present Concert March 15 Berthold Busch, German-American baritone, will appear on the college ar-tist course next Friday evening in the Concordia auditorium. This will be fifth of the series of lyceum numbers given this year. At the present Mi*. Busch is head of the voice department of the Minneapo-lis College of Music. He has appeared with brilliant success on his concert tours in prominent American cities. His first appearance in this country was at the Apollo theatre, New York, where he sang two principal parts in the dra-matic show, Johannes Kreisler. He has been with the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra and on several occasions was a soloist with the Minneapolis Sym-phony Orchestra. After completing his studies under noted European teachers, he was en-gaged to sing with the Rigar Symphony Orchestra in Russia. Following this he mado notable appearances throughout several European countries including Russia, France, Germany, and Eng-land. Mr. Busch made his operatic debut at the Neurenberg Stadt Theatre in Tannhauser, Germany. The last Lyceum course will be given April 17 when Samuel Thaviu, violin-ist, will appear. Mr. Thaviu is a mem-ber of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Nebraska Wesleyan, St Thomas Win First The college of St. Thomas at St Paul and Nebraska Wesleyan of Lincoln, Neb., won first places in the men's and women's divisions respectively of the annual Northwest debate tournament in St. Paul, February 26, 27, 28. Concordia was represented by two teams. The men's team, composed of Gabriel Hauge and Ralph Fjelstad, won fourth place, in competition with 55 colleges. The women's team, composed of Margaret Haugseth and Dorothy Holm, was eliminated after four rounds. Norse Club Will Install New Officers Hans Lee will be installed as presi-dent of the Norse dub at a regular meeting tonight. Other officers to be installed are: Noel Hastad, vice-presi-dent; Pearl Strand, secretary; Clifford Peterson, treasurer; and Helen Sellie, sergeant-at-arms. The program for the evening will include a talk by the Rev. Carl B. Ylvisaker and a solo by Pearl Strand. Could Correct Clocks Challenge Carelessness on Cobber Campus? Committees, cooperation of docks, bell system in dormitories typified sug-gestions made to the Inquiring Repor-ter as he sounded out the student body as to its reaction to system of clocks around Concordia. Several of the students view incon-sistency of clocks in a humorous atti-tude while others condemned time-pieces as causing tardiness to classes. Merrill Pederson, junior: "The Londis made Frick dock in the main Is all right All it needs is somebody to fix t and make it keep right time. It's usually fast and 7:40's come around too soon for both professors and students." Robert Stroup, sophomore: "More strict adherence to naval observatory time both by the college docks and students would be more acceptable." Sidney Rand, freshman: "There should be more cooperation between the clocks at Concordia. Freckles could make a coat of tan if they'd get togeth-er. It wouldn't matter if they were ill wrong just so they'd all be wrong together.* Rachel Johnson, senior: "All the docks should be set back five minutes. Would-n't have to get up as early, make all my classes on time. Dormitory clock should be slower—at night." Eleanor Harris, sophomore: "In this day and age of committees perhaps we should have also a clock committee— its duty being to see that all docks have the correct time and that teachers and students abide by them." Otto Bratlie, junior: "They should have a dock in the halL They ought 'o coordinate the movements of the clock in the chapel and the one In the office, also affiliate the two with west-ern union time. They should have a bell system over to the dormitories." Monson Names Choir Itinerary Of Annual Tour Organization to Give Concerto Throughout Northern Minnesota TO LEAVE ON MARCH 15 Singers Will Present Lyceum Course; Will Include Special Numbers The fifteenth annual spring tour of the Concordia choir, under the direc-tion of Herman W. Monson, will begin March 15, the tour being conducted through northern Minnesota and In-cluding a concert at Superior, Wle. The itinerary indudes: Friday, March 15, Mahnomen; Saturday, March 16, Erskine; Sunday, March 17, Roseau; Monday March 18, Little Fork. Choir to Sing Morning Concert Tuesday, March 19, will be the first of three days on which two concerts will be given. The first is a special morning concert in the high school au-ditorium at International Falls, and the second, in Bemidji that evening. Wed-nesday, March 20, Walker; Thursday, March 21, afternoon concert at Color-sine, and an evening concert at Grand Rapids; Friday, March 22^- morning; Virginia junior college, and afternoon, Nashwauk public schools; Saturday, March 23, Cook; Sunday, March 24, Ely; Monday, March 25, Hibbing; Tues-day March 26, Cloquet; Wednesday, March 27, Superior, WIs.; Thursday, March 28, Duluth; Friday, March 29, Aitkin; Saturday, March 30, Bertha. The tour will be conduded March 31 with a concert at either Detroit Lakes or Alexandria. As yet arrangements are indefinite in regard to this concert. The morning and afternoon concerts will contain special numbers besides choir singing. Of special inteerst Is the fact that the choir will present a 1^- ccum course concert at Cbleraine and for the Nashwauk public schools. Luther League Topic Is Christ As Bridegroom Grace Steen Is Guest Speaker At L. D. R.; Crusaders Discuss Taoism The portrait of Christ as the Bride* groom was the topic for discussion at the meeting of the Luther League Sun-day evening. Taoism was discussed at Mission Crusaders Sunday morning, and Miss Grace Steen, instructor at Moorhead high school, was the guest speaker at the Lutheran Daughters of th<j_Reformation Wednesday. Wayne Pixley spoke on **The Bride-groom," Agnes Olson on "The Bride," Sigrid Quarve on 'The Betrothed," and Sidney Rand on "Marriage Bliss" at the Luther League meeting. Wayne Williams ployed a trombone solo, a trio composed of Yvonne Sommerness, Ag-nes Herseth, and Ethel Rooa sang "Soon Shall the Heavenly Bridegroom Come;" Dennis Anderson led in devo-tion, and Helen Boyum played the or-gan. Agnes Wik and Alford Setness spoke on Taoism, a religion of the Chinese, at Mission Crusaders. Pearl Strand and Helen Hooverson sang "O Bread of Life From Heaven,0' and Alice Berge led in devotion. Miss Grace Steen from the Moorhead high school was the guest speaker at the meeting of the L. D. R. Wednesday evening. Helen Hooverson played a pi-ano solo, Agnes Herseth and Helen Gjesdnl sang a duet, and Esther Peder-son led in devotion. Musical numbers will constitute the program at the meeting of the Luther League on Sunday. Ludoiph Gjerde will speak on Lent. Harriet Thorn and Vernon Vollom will lead a discussion on Confucianism at the next meeting of Mission Crusaders. "Prayer** is the topic for L. D. R. this week. Team Will Debate With State College The Concordia men's debate team composed of Gabriel Hauge and Ralph Fjelstad will debate against a team from the North Dakota State college at Hawley, Wednesday, March 13, spon-sored by the Lutheran Brotherhood. Two women1! debate teams from Hamline will meet two women's debate teams from Concordia here sometime In March. lK #
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