| Summary: | VOL. XV. CONCORDIA COLLEGE, MOORHEAD, NOVEMBER 30, 1923. No. 5. RUTH RAY 10 APPEAR 3 VIOLINIST KNOWN AS ARTIST OF EXCEPTIONAL ATTAINMENT TO PLAY HERE. Miss Ruth Ray, violinist, will ap-pear in the second Lyceum Course number at the college auditorium on December 3. Ruth Ray received the greater part of her musical education in America. Making her debut In Carnegie Hall, New York, November •*, 1919, the jaded critics of the me-tropolis shook off their indifference and acclaimed her an artist of the first rank. The Philadelphia Record has this to say about her: "Real genius has been given to this attract-ive and unassuming daughter of the West. An individuality that com-pletely charmed her audieujce and that ipteced her at once as the great-est woman violinist before the pub-lic." Miss Ray will be an artist well worth hearing and everyone interest-ed in the violin should make every effort to hear her. She will play the following pro-gram: I Concerto in A Minor Vivaldi Allegro, Largo, Presto n Adagio and Correnti __ Eccles-Moffat Melody Gluck-Kreisler Rondo Mozart-Krelsler III Nocturne D Major __ Chopin-Wilhelmj Bird as a Prophet __ Schumaun-Auer Waltz in A Major _ Brahms-Hochstein An Irish Jaunting Car Whitfield Zapateado Sarnsate rv -Souvenir d*> Moscow _i_ Wientotvsky Fargo Concert Course In the interest of good music we feel that the Concordian should call attention to the excellent course of-fered by the Fargo Concert Associa-tion this season. We can never ex-pect to be discriminating musicians unless we make use of every oppor-tunity to hear good music artistically rendered. Such an opportunity is given by the course in Fargo. The first two numbers have already been given, and if they are any indication of what is to come during the re-mainder of the course, the rest of it will be well worth hearing. The next number is a joint concert by Bmil Telmanyi, violinist, and Eva Gauthier, soprano. The latter creat-ed quite a sensation in New York by incuding On her program some papu-lar songs that presented them in a new light from the average way of singing them. The violinist is one of the best that has come to our shores from Europe in recent times. The New York Times compares him to Kreisler. These two will appear on December 5th. On Jan. 10 we shall hear Thomas Chalmers, credited by Edison with having one of the twelve most nearly perfect voices out of the 1,780 voices tested by him. On Feb. 13 we shall hear Olga Samaroff, Russian Pianist, and Hans Kindler. Cellist. And on March 8th Lambert Murphy, Tenor, and Bertha Farner, Soprano. We can not urge our students too strongly to avail themselves of these concerts. The prices are with-in the reach of all and we can broaden our experience greatly by attending them. Races Feature Hard Times Party in Gym Zev wins! In Memoriam—second! My Own—third! Spark Plug—fourth! —Hurrah for Zev! No, it wasn't a horse race in the east, but a Hard Time party in tho gymnasium, Wednesday evening. Ex-citement was tense at all times, how-ever, when the jockeys, representing their various divisions strove with each other for honors in the different races. Zev seemed to capture moat of them, although In Memoriam and My Own were close seconds. Spark Plug must have had a night otf as he did not show his accustomed speed. Orville Moe, the **My Own" Jockey, in a spectacular manner, won the newspaper race by forging ahead of all tlie others in the last lap. He was carried off the field in triumph. The races and games at all times brot the yelling groups with them. The costumes of the crowd were especially interesting as they ranged from little tots in rags to negroes and old men and women. The refreshment committee was also on the job, serving a lunch that sur-passed that of any other party. 0.0. R. HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF YEAR MISS WEEKS TALKS ON THE MIS-SION WORK IN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES, Coach Watkins At Milwaukee Game Coach Watkins is now in Milwau-kee watching Marquette university play Vermont. Watkins is a gradu-ate of Vermont and gained national prominence as an end while playing on the eleven representing that school. Watkins will stop in Minneapolis Saturday on his way home to attend the annual fall meeting of the Min-nesota college coaches and athletic directors. O. M. Sattre, viceprealdent of the conference, will also represent Con-at/ the meeting. "The field is white unto the har-vest. The mission call is for you. We have no right to claim God's promises for ourselves if we do not obey His commands. Wo cannot be-gin to understand how great is the need for workers in our foreign mis-sion fields." Through her inspiring talk Miss Weeks, who has spent the preceding year doing mission work in China, stirred up great interest in foreign mission work at the opening meeting of the Daughters of the Re-formation last Sunday evening. Tak-ing the audience with her in thoughts to China, she vividly contrasted the Chinese heathen and Christian condi-tions and set forth clearly the great result* that one person with God's help, burning with the desire to save souls for HIB kingdom, may accom-plish. Other numbers on this program were a paper on "Thankfulness" by Esther WIsnaes and a vocal solo by Margaret Knoph. For a long time there has been a great need among the students of Concordia College of a stimulus to interest in mission work. The D. O. R. was organized here last spring to fill this need amongst the girls. Due to its late organization not much had been accomplished for the cause of missions by the end of the year This year however the or-ganization which is a branch of the Women's Missionary Federation promises to be very successful, and it is hoped that every girl will avail herself of the opportunity to acquaint herself with and devote herself to the study of foreign, missions. BASKETBALL PROSPECT fiOOD, SAYS WATKINS SIXTY CANDIDATES REPORT FOR. INITIAL PRACTICE. On Monday Nov. 26, the Concordia cagers donned their suits for the ini-tial practice of the 1923 basketball season. With a squ«<l of 60 candi-dates, including ten "e^tennen and most of last year's varsity reporting at the opening day for cage work. Coach Watkin's is optimistic over the prospects for a big season in Concor-dia basketball. Competition will be keen for all positions and especially for the pivot berth. Capt. Ted Blrke-laml and Anderson, stellar guards on last year's team, are the favorites for their respective positions while Brewster and Ostby will be given first chances as forwards. The place loft vacant at center by the graduation of "String" Martinson will be hotly con-tested for by Seversoa, Halvorson, and Edwards. Coach Watkins has his eye, however, on several good looking prospects from last ytsar's second strlngmen who showed rapid develop-ment so that none of the first strin-gers need feel assured of their berths. Coach Watkins will again use his practice system which worhed to an advantage lust season, of assigning the candidates to their squads accord-ing to their ability and development. Squad "A" which at present is com-posed of lettermeti and first string men of last year's squad will be a sort of graduating class and candi-dates are taken out of or put into this squad according to their develop-ment in the eyes of the coach. All Ifkoly looking prospeelT •vhn have had experience and are not in "A" will be put in "B" squad, while '*C*' will include men of little or no ex-perience. This system of practice schedule has its advantages in that it not only reveals to the coach those who ai'e the most talented and rapid developers, but also in that it gives equal chances for development to all. Thus it will be from squad "A" that the varsity will be picked and Coach Watkins wants to emphasize that there are equal possibilities of deve-lopment for all. An interclass tournament will bo held in February, which will permit those not on the varsity to participate in from ten to fifteen games and thereby get a chance to reveal their court talent. As yet the schedule is tentative but a meeting of the Min-nesota Intercollegiate Athleti^ Con-ference will bo held at Minneapolis, Saturday, Dec. 1st to draw up con-ference basketball schedules together with football schedules for next fall. Games will also be scheduled with the Fargo A. C, the Moorhead Teacher's, iind Jamestown College. FRIDTJQF NANSEN TELLS OF Famous Norse Relief Worker and Explorer Speaks To A Large Audience Nov. 26 DR. FRIDTJOF NANSEN WOMEN'S LEAGUE BAZAAR TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK MANY CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE AL-READY BEEN RECEIVED. $40,000 BEQUEATHED TO ST. OLAF COLLEGE Fund to Be Used for Aiding Student* of Scandinavian Descent. Madison, Wds.-~A bequest of $40,- 000 has been left to St. Olaf college of Northfleld, Minn., by Torger G. Thorn-son, a prominent Scandinavian farm-er of Dane county, according to the terms of his will made public here. Mr, Thomson's will provides that St. Olaf shall use the $40,000 for the es-tablishment of a "Torger G. Thomson fund," the Income of which Is to be used to help support needy Scandi-navian students desiring to attend the college. Mr. Thomson was a former member ot the Wisconsin legislature and has left an estate of more than $500,000. Concordia rejoices In the good for-tune of her sister school. A considerable number of articles have boon received from students and from townspeople as contributions to the Bazaar, which will be held under the direction of the Women's League, Saturday. December S. Former students and teachers are also show-ing their appreciation of tho worthi-ness of the cause, the Student Loan Fund, by sending in contributions. Doughnuts and coffeo will be serv-ed during the evening, while delicious home made candy, stuffed dates, and caramelized apples will be sold at a booth in charge of Miss Madsen and Miss Bjorkquist. Mrs. Nordlie is in charge of the sale of fancy work, etc. A home made toods booth will be di-rected by Mrs. Sattre and Miss Fjeldstad. A novel line of "sur-prise catches" is promised by the fish pond committee in charge of Miss Norbryhn. Luther League Meets Every Two Weeks The Luther League will give the following program at Its regular bi-weekly meeting Sunday, December 2: Scripture Reading and Prayer Lodver Schele Vocal Duet Spener Dahl arnJ Lillian Rolsvlg Reading Glna Kilen Piano Duet Delilah Erlckson and Olga En gen Talk Gabrial Gabrialson The last meeting of the Luther League was featured by a large at-tendence. At this time Marie Scheie gave an interesting discussion on "Obedience". In her discourse she showed how the Israelites had prosp-ered and developed because they were obedient to the commands of God. She briefly told her hearers the significance of the FOURTH COMMANDMENT and pointed out their obligations to this fundamental law. ''Patience" was the theme of an interesting and instructive paper read by Esther WIsnaes. Carl Tnomip-son led in Scripture Reading and Prayer. Musical numbers were rend-ered by Henry Hugelln who sang a solo and Harold Skel who played a cornet solo. Both numbers were well received. Dr. Fridtjof Nanseu, world famous Arctic explorer and a prominent figure iu internatlonl circles, painted a vivid picture of conditions in Europe in his lecture on ''European Reconstruc-tion" at the College Chapel Monday evening, Nov. 26. Dr. Nansen is best remembred by his several rvoyages of discovery into the Polar regions, and especially hfs expedition in 1S93-96 when he pene-trated farther north than man had ever succeeded in doing heretofore. This expedition brought back many reports of investigations made of the Polar regions that have been of great value to the scientific world. After the great war, Dr. Nansen has loomed high in international af-fairs, and is without question one of thn foremost figures in the world to-day. From 1920 to 1923 he has served as a representative from Nor-way to the League of Nations, and in 1921 that body elected him as High Commissioner for Russian relief. In 1922 ho was awarded the Nobel peace prize for his accomplishments In this activity. In his address, the speaker gave a review of the conditions existing in different parts oC Europe today, aud the problems of reconstruction con-nected therewith. He said, "What the world needs is a new spirit of brotherhood in international affairs. Civilized mankind is one, and cannot be split into nations, henco we must cooperate to the end that the world may be saved from chaos. Tho old world in in a turmoil, and war clouds, which predict a catastrophe infinitely worse than the last war, are hovering over Europe. If some of these storm centers are not relieved, it is likely to end in disaster." In dis-cussing these storm centers, the spea-ker first referred to Soviet Russia. In Russia the conditions are very cri-tical. The social system has been entirely upset by the Communistic experiment and in addition the great crop failure and resulting famine of 1921 caused the death of G-7 million people. However approximately 30* •10 million were threatened by starv-ation, and had it not been for the marvellous display of charity given by the United States most of these would also have died. This work of charity, Dr. Nansen said, has no pa-rallel in all history, and this was all done in spite of the fact that the gov-ernment of Russia was not recognized by the United States. At present however Russia is reviving. She has abandoned the communistic experi-ment and cannot now be considered as a very dangerous storm center. (Continued on page 2.) PUBLICITY BUREAUiSTARTED In an attempt to centralize the dis-tribution of Concordia College news, a Publicity Bureau has been established by the faculty. Mr. Bale was elect-ed as chairman of the bureau. The need for such a committee has long been felt at Concordia, and has alrea-dy been adopted by most large institu-tions of learning. The committee is "feeding out" news to local papers, church publications, etc. Items are also sent to the home towns ot stud-ents concerned in the news items. Cooperation from the students will be appreciated, and if Items of inter-est are dropped into Mr. Bale's 'post office box at any time, he will see that they get the proper publicity. i
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