The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XVIII No. 6 BETHEL INSTITUTE January 25, 1939
TWENTY FIVE YEARS PROGRESS
UNDER DR. G. ARVID HAGSTROM
Second Semester
Brings Few Changes
The new semester will bring several
changes in the student body. Doris Mo-berg
will have then finished her college
work, and will enter Mounds-Midway
School of Nursing on February 7. Doris
has contributed greatly this past year
and a half to Bethel life in song, spirit,
and good fellowship; and all will miss
her presence.
A scholarship for musical training was
given to Clayton Halvorsen during his
Christmas vacation by the Thomas Mac-
Burney Studios in the Fine Arts Build-ing
in Chicago. Clayton says he started
at Bethel with a pre-medic course, but
now his aim is the concert stage. He is
leaving at the semester that he might
prepare for a contest next summer; he
may continue his college work at the
Lewis Institute in Chicago. Singing
around the Twin Cities has occupied a
great deal of his spare time while he has
been here at Bethel.
Illness has caused Pearl Peterson and
Ruth L. Olson to drop their studies.
Elaine Halverson did not come back from
vacation because of the serious condition
of her father. The seminary has lost Mrs.
Ruth Tegenfeldt.
Registration January 30.
Registration for the new semester at
Bethel will take place on Monday, Jan.
30. Although enrollment for new stu-dents
at the mid-year has not been en-couraged,
some new students are expect-ed
to join the Bethel family at that time.
Balance the Points
In order to encourage participation in
extra-curricular activities on the part of
some students and to discourage an ex-cess
of extra-curricular work on others;
it has been voted by the faculty mem-bers
to evaluate such participation. The
Seminary faculty, as well as the Junior
College, has accepted this plan.
Evaluation of points has been made on
the following: Athletics, Clarion staff,
Debate team; Music, Activities, Student
Council, Bethel Women's Association;
Class Organizations; College Club; Alex-is;
Missionary Band, and Religious Ac-tivities.
Fifteen points is the maximum allowed
at one time, the scale becoming effective
February 1, 1939.
Sleighs, Bells, Fun
The annual all-school sleigh ride will be
held Friday evening from 7-9. Refresh-ments
will climax an evening of enter-tainment.
CHAPEL NOTES
Our forms are man made. They are not
one with an unchanging Gospel.
We need consecrated creativeness to
dare to do the thing that's new as long
as the truth of God is in the heart.
—Reuben Nelson.
* * *
The disciples took Christ just as He
was, and He took them just as they were.
We sometimes 'try to fit Christ into
out situations. —Rodger Goodman.
* * *
We are sometimes satisfied with leaves
when Christ demands fruit.
—Dr. Karlson
* * *
One with God is still a majority.
—Prof. Olson.
COMING EVENTS
Jan 27. All school sleigh ride.
Jan. 30. Registration.
Jan. 30. J. F. Caveny, artist.
Jan. 31. Class work begins.
Feb. 5. Bethel Day at Elim church,
Minneapolis.
Feb. 6. Basketball, Rochester, here.
SCHOOL IS PART OF PREXY'S LIFE
We who are a part of Bethel Institute
wish to congratulate most heartily our
president, Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, who
on December 31, 1938, completed 25 years
of service as president.
In January, 1914, Dr. Hagstrom began
his duties as president of Bethel Insti-tute,
which then included an academy
and the seminary. The ensuing quarter
of a century, which has so recently been
completed, can well be called an event-full
period in the history of the school.
Much of the progress which was made
during that period can be indirectly at-tributed
to the excellent presidency
which the school has enjoyed.
Advance under leadership.
In addition to his many local duties,
Dr. Hagstrom has done extensive travel-ling
for the furtherance of the school.
He has found time to teach intermittent-ly
in the seminary and one Bible subject
in the Junior College since its establish-ment
in 1933. Speaking of the Junior
College, this valuable and necessary ad-dition
took place upon the dissolvraent of
the academy. It can truthfully be said
that in the formation of a two-year col-lege
course, Dr. Hagstrom contributed in
both plans and effort.
During the years 1914-1938, the school
as a whole has developed both spiritually
and numerically, and a glorious future
enriched by God's blessing looms ahead.
Education fits him for work.
Prior to Dr. Hagstrom's appointment
as president of Bethel Institute, he led
an exceptionally active life in various
types of advanced Christian work. He
claims Sundsvall, Sweden, as his birth-place.
His early education was ob-tained
in Minneapolis, after which he be-came
a graduate of the former Baptist
Union Theological Seminary of Chicago,
and receiving his doctor's degree from
Wake Forest College in North Carolina.
Even during his latter school days he
became actively engaged in pastoral
work. His later duties in missionary,
conference, pastoral and young people's
work allowed him to contact many peo-ple
from) far and near places in the great
work of the Kingdom. Thus, he was
(Continued on page 3)
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
The Bethel Clarion
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 N. Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Official School Paper of Bethel Institute Published twice
monthly during school year
EDITORIAL STAFF
Gordon Peterson—Carl Young Co-editors
John Valine News Editor
Viola Waihela Feature Editor
Vernon Pearson Sports Editor
BUSINESS STAFF
Alrik Blomquist Business Manager
Dorothy Drotz Asst. Business Manager
Stanley Rendahl Circulation Manager
Doris Eggleston Asst. Circulation Manager
Grace Widen—Elaine Youngquist Typists
ADVISERS
Miss Enid Platte Editorial
Dean Emery A. Johnson Business
Student Opinion
Resolved: The Gospel Team. bus shall
be used exclusively for religious purpos-es
in conjunction with the Boarding Club.
Pro.
To speak affirmatively, let us call to
mind several considerations.
1. The purpose of the bus was original-ly
a purely spiritual one. It was pur-chased
on the initiative of the Religious
council in conjunction with the Boarding
Club with the support of the Student As-sociation.
The gospel team bus has come
to the campus and symbolizes a memorial
to prayer, and sacrifice of the students
It seems inconsistent to limit .the bus
its possibilities for religious activities
thru services in other organizations.
2. By calling the vehicle the gospel
team bus we must consider the impres-sions
that might be made on those out-side
of school. A bus referred to "gos-pel
team bus" hardly fills in the capac-ity
of a general transit for any group not
particularly representing gospel team
work.
Contra.
1. Our school as a Christian educa-tional
institution has a greater reason
for existing than any of the separate or-ganizations
that comprise it. Is there
any reason other than short-sightedness,
why the bus cannot be an all-school bus,
useful in promoting every phase of the
school's varied program.
2. The maintenance of the bus is han-dled
by a certain amount of students.
The same students that form the reli-gious
council are in most cases members
of the boarding club. As things now
stand, some students pay twice while
others escape any obligation. Why not
balance the load and dig together.
I Pledge QAllegiance
"To my school and to the conference it represents: one body proclaiming Christ
with salvation and liberty for all."
While at Bethel we are apt to forget that we are but a small part of an organIsm
banded together under the Swedish Baptist Co.nference. But the day is coming when
we must leave school; for a wider sphere of life in which we will manifest either a
favorable or unfavorable attitude toward our denomination. Why not begin now to
cultivate an active interest of boosting and building.
Personal Responsibility
Tradition has decreed] a prayer tower in the school and it would not be wise to
let the inspiration of it be dropped. Inasmuch as the tower has been, reconstructed
in the college building, it would be helpful to make a; daily/ use of it. The purpose is
to have continual prayer throughout the entire school day.
Let us avail ourselves of this opportunity! and keep this noble tradition by making
it a present reality.
Stifle the groatz_,
School spirit is vibrant throughout the building this year. It has been a point of
neglect for several years, but at last it has arrived and the rejuvenated atmosphere
is commendable.
But Friday night's basketball conflict taught us one thing. It is suggested in "I
ain't got no use for the women" . .
"They'll stick with a man while he's winnin'
And when it's gone they'll turn him down."
The team needs rousing cheers the most when fortune seems against them. A
timely groan can do as much harm as the blue) pencil of an editor.
DEVOTIONS
They looked unto Him and were, radiant. Psalm 34:5a.
When we attempt to reflect the sun in a mirror, that mirror must be held
in a certain position if we are to succeed. It cannot be placed in the shade,
nor can it be placed with the back to the sun if the light is to be reflected.
Why is it that we, as Christians, often fail to radiate the love of God to the
world around'in such a way that men and women are attracted to Jesus Christ?
It is because our lives are not in the right relationship to God. We have not
yielded our lives completely to Him and are thus not in such a position, before
Him that we can really be used.
Let us turn our 'faces to God and let His will control ours in such; a way
that He can give us lives so radiant that men and women will be attracted to
Jesus Christ. —Gladys Peterson.
J. Franklin Caveny
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Do You Xemember ?
The College Club met on January the
11th, in the Seminary Chapel. After
scripture reading and prayer, by Milton
Holmberg, Rueben Holmquist, who is
heard every Sunday morning over WO'GY
sang two selections, "The Old Refrain",
and Brahm's "Lullaby". Dr. Glenn Clark
of Macalaster College, gave a "Close-up
View of Jesus". Refreshments were
served in the dining hall after the pro-gram.
B. W. A. held its regular meeting on
Thursday, January 12, in the Girl's
Lounge. A light luncheon was served
preceding the business session, at which
time new officers were elected to serve
for the second semester. The results
were: Margery Ericson, president; Ruby
Christenson and Constance Swanson tied
for secretary; Annabelle Sherman, treas-urer;
Marie Dahlberg, assistant treas-urer;
Neoma Sund, Ethel Tederman,
Joyce Johnson, Mildred Lovegren, cabi-net
chairmen.
The Missionary Band conducted their
second gospel meeting of the year, Sun-day,
January 15, when they had charge
of the evening service at the Lake Park
Baptist Church. Three members gave
talks on "City", "Country", and "For-eign
Missions". Special music was fur-nished
by a girls trio and the string band.
Alexis Elects Sorley
Officers for the second semester of the
school year of 1938-1939, were elected
last week, in the Alexis Society. After
the first results, the candidates for the
office of presidency were tied. The sec-
°and vote was taken and Wilbur Sorley
was selected.
The other offices were filled by Carl
Young as vice president; Gladys Peter-son,
secretary; Folke Ferrd', treasurer;
Ned Holmgren, social chairman; Bertil
Friberg, Stanley Rendahl, and Willard
Anderson, ushers; Mrs. Dury Miller, re-freshment
chairman, and Virgil Olson,
pianist.
Dr. Hagstrom
(Continued from page 1)
enabled to take up his duties at Bethel
with a wealth of constructive and varied
experiences, which proved to be an ex-cellent
background for his duties here.
The school should and does feel right-fully
proud of the successful term of of-fice
which Dr. Hagstrom has already
contributed to the history of Bethel. The
look forward into the future is with an-ticipation.
It is with the most sincere
and heartfelt thanks that congratulations
are offered.
CAVENY COMES TO
CAMPUS
The Claautauquan series inaugurated
last year by Dean Emery Johnson brings
another interesting program to the plat-form
of the college chapel. He is an
artist of renown in the personage of J.
Franklin Caveny. Mr. Caveny will ap-pear
on Monday, January 30.
Being popular both in the United States
and abroad as "a master of clay and
crayon", he is especially original and
diverting as a platform artist, and is by
turns amusing, eloquent, poetic and dra-matic.
Agility with the crayton in pro-ducing
colorful paintings of pastel land-scapes,
and with clay in forming droll
types of visages of the immortals are
outstanding features of his program.
Mr. Caveny is ex-editor of "The Sketch
Book" of the Art Institute of Chicago,
where he studied under Lorado Taft. Be-sides
his quick sketches and mouldings,
he. is famous as a painter of popular pic-tures.
This artist has appeared from coast to
coast of our country in clubs, conven-tions,
colleges, and high schools, as well
as churches, and comments upon his
work from enthusiastic audiences prove
its worth. "The literary quality of his
program alone made it worthwhile,"
writes the High School of Oneonta, N. Y.
College students are admitted upon
presentation of their activities ticket.
The public is welcome at 25 cents per
person.
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
JEWELERS
OPTOMETRISTS
1573 University Ave.
Midway 9910
I Humor [esk ?]
The fatal day has arrived. Today is
the deadline for having this column in.
Why, oh why didn't we do this last week
instead of gabbing in the library? Come
on, brain, do your stuff. Minutes add up
into an hour;- two hours; three hours;
will an idea never come? The clock
ticks monotonously on. A train whistles.
—Cut it out, this is beginning to sound
like a dime navel. Let's get back into
the right track. We heard somewhere
that originality in humor is what counts.
Who was it that told us that one of his
jokes wasn't original, he'd thought it up
himself? (It did sound pretty good the
first time.) Come, come, let's get back
to the subject. Say, isn't that a funny
crack in the plaster? We never noticed
it before. Reminds us of the Colorado
River by the way it ambles around.
Someone ought to fix it 'with some gum
Or something. If there is anything we
dislike it's odors of 'food. Hmmmm,
smells like we are having cabbage for
dinner. Don't you just love it boiled?
We don't. Speaking of cabbage reminds
us of the old "A" model truck. Wasn't
that great sport to ride around in the old
buggy? Those days are gone forever
'cause the engine is almost ready to fall
out. Really, it should be fixed and placed
in a room where we keep curious. Say,
we have the darlingest little Giant Panda
on our radio. Maybe I shouldn't have
mentioned it because it was left in our
room and nobody claimed it. Our room-mate
says it keeps him awake nights but
we think that it is only the wind. The
wind is a funny thing. It blows! 'Twould
be great fun to just sail along with the
wind. That would be almost as good as
having a magic lamp which one could
rub. We know what we 'would wish for.
You can't guess? We'd wish that our
lessons would get studied all 'by them-selves.
Oh yes, we would wish that we
had a column written. — There we are,
back into reality with a blank sheet of
paper. And anyway we haven't time to
think of any ideas so we'll just let it go
at that. Oh yes, in closing we would like
to remind our readers that we have
changed our place of abode, so please
don't forget to address all our mail to
our new number. —George Darry.
DUPONT
5495
PTR.-I-N TTINHGE ANDERSON PRESS 111F 4209 Standish Ave. — Minneapolis
Hamline Hardware Co.
GENERAL HARDWARE
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 North Snelling Avenue, St. Paul
LOFROTH BAKERY
Complete Line of Bakery and
Delicatessen for All Occasions
1193 Payne Ave. TOwer 2910
Westlund's Market House
Quality Meats and Provisions
597 N. Snelling, cor. Thomas
We Deliver NEstor 1321
FIRST SWEDISH
BAPTIST CHURCH.
8th St. and 13th Ave. So.
Pastor, A. E. SJOLUND
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bethel Baptist Church
24th St. and 28th Ave. S.
Rev. WALFRED HOLMBERG
Mihneapolis, Minn.
EVERYBODY WELCOME
Central Baptist Church
Roy and Shield St.
Rev. ERIC ANDERSON
St. Paul Minnesota
Pittsburgh Coal Company
340 ROBERT STREET
Cedar 185 1
Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Bethel Bows to Bethany
Bethel's basketeers suffered their first
defeat in the conference campaign at the
hands of Bethany in a close game played
at the Bethel court on Friday, January
20. Lack of height, and unable to hit the
loop were the two main reasons for the
setback.
During the first half, the lead changed
hands several times with Bethany having
the edge 17-10 at the intermission. Pull-ing
away in the third quarter, Bethany
built up a comfortable lead never to be
hearer by the Bethel quintet.
Box score—
Bethel— F.G. F.T. P.
D. Peterson—F 0 7 2
S. Paulson— F 0 0 0
D. Johnson—F 2 1 2
W. Sorley—F 0 0 0
G. Peterson—C 0 0 1
R. Applequist—C 2 0 0
C. Young—G 1 0 3
T. Halvorson—G 0 0 0
R. Hovinen—G 1 0 2
G. Ferre—G 1 0 0
— —
7 8 10
Bethany— F.G. F.T. P.
Behner—F 2 1 1
Heitner—F 2 0 1
Albrecht—F 4 1 0
Guldberg—C 2 1 2
Peterson—C 1 0 4
Olson--G 0 0 3
Madson—G 1 3 1
Bittner—G 0 0 0
— — —
12 6 12
Albert Lea Swamped
The jinx of Friday the thirteenth did
not catch up with Bethel's cagemen;
Bethel trounced Albert Lea Junior Col-lege
by the decisive score of 52-18. Beth-el
had no difficulty subduing the visitors.
Coach Adam capitalized on the ,oppor--
tunity, and juggled the line up several
times during the game. D. Peterson led
the scoring with 14 points, and Don John-son
was a close second with 13 points.
In the preliminary game, the Elim
Swedish Baptist Church team defeated
the Bethel "B" team by the score of
26-21.
Overtime Favors Sophs.
On Thursday, January 19, the Sopho-more
Class of the College defeated the
freshman, 25-23 in the overtime period.
Ohsberg and Persons each scored 8
points. Carlson and Kommedahl paced
the losers with 6 points each.
Girls Take Logan Park.
The girls' basketball team has had one
encounter since Christmas vacation. It
was an easy victory for Bethel over the
Logan Park girls' team, 46-8.
The Bethel sextet has entered in the
Park Board League in which there are
four other teams, Logan Park, Daytons,
Team, Band, Cheer Section
To Travel for Game
At a recent meeting of the faculty,
Coach William Adam suggested that
plans be made for a group of the stu-dents
to accompany the basketball team
on some one of its future road games.
The plans, tentative as yet, call for the
hiring of one or two buses. One bus to
be used by the varsity, girls' team, and
the band; the other bus to be used by
students who desire to make the trip.
Two places have been considered, Roch-ester,
or Mankato. A committee, con-sisting
of the two deans, the athletic di-rector,
and the president and vice presi-dent
of the student association, has been
appointed to make the necessary ar-rangements
if such a trip can be ar-ranged.
According to Reggy
dear suzie wel i gess yer sins do find
ya out period exams came and i didn't
no nothin' so i gess i shoulda studied
last weak 'stead a gallavatin round to
the basketbal game friday nite comma
an Luchen's the other 4 nites period but
shucks what's gone is past and next weak
is regastration an then it starts all over
again jeepers period don't never let noth-in'
get ya down tho cuz whod ruther
study than sleep anyhoo cuz even so-crates
sed once sleep nitts up the rav-ell'd
sleave of care so i gess i better git
some comma by now reggy.
Northwestern National Life InsUrance
Company, and Immanuel Cohen Center.
MIDTOWN COFFEE SHOP
1535 W. Como Ave.
Props. G. Anderson, R. Peterson
