Board Considers
Faculty Vacancy
Members of the school board of
trustees are in the process of se-lecting
a professor to fill a vacancy
left by Harry Lundell, who is now
in Chicago, President G. Arvid
Hagstrom announced.
Classes which Lundell taught are
now being instructed by Everett
Backlin, Martin Erickson, and E.
A. Finstrom.
Problems Considered
Consideration is also being given
several problems which concern
the future. This, he mentioned, in-cluded
the physical strengthening
of the school in laboratory and
classroom equipment and the con-struction
of a women's dormitory.
According to Dean Emery John-son,
the building would provide
rooms for 36 women, a dining hall
for 150 students, and a reception
room for social activities of the
school. A fireplace is expected to
add to the latter.
"Although Bethel is already in
very good standing with the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, it will con-tinue
its policy of strengthening
scholastic standards," Dean John-son
stated. "This can be accom-plished
by more rigid entrance re-quirements
and imparting more
knowledge to students."
Library Policy
A policy as to the library was
also stated by the dean. New books
are being purchased at the sugges-tion
of faculty members. Maga-zines
added this summer are "For-tune,"
"Saturday Review of Litera-ture,"
"The Congressional Digest,"
and "The American Magazine."
A "Penny-a-Meal" project for No-vember
is being sponsored by the
school . board. Previous efforts have
brought in $6,000-$6,500.
New members of the school com-mittee
include the Rev. Walter 01-
son, secretary; Marvin Samuelson
state executive secretary; Thor
Knudson, treasurer; A. Anderson,
assistant treasurer; Alfred Ander-son;
C. R. Wall; Robert Klingberg;
Ernest G. Nelson; and Nels Swan-son.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
TODAY
Alexis meeting, Seminary
,..napel, 7:30 p. m.
FRIDAY
South Dakota delegates go to
Swedish B. Y. P. U. rally in
Strandberg.
MONDAY
Men's Recreation club, club
room, 7 p. m.
TUESDAY
Basketball practice begins for
men and women.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 18
Missionary band, Seminary
chapel, 7:30 p. m.
MONDAY. Oct. 23
Skating party sponsored by
Clarion staff, Rollerdrome, 7
p. m.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 25
Prayer and Missions Day.
Boarders Reach
High Enrollment
With 103 students in the Board-ing
club, a new record was set this
year, according to Jack Bergeson,
steward. This exceeds by seven
the number last year.
Appointment of a host and host-ess
for each of the 13 tables has
been made. Students serve as
waiters at their tables, each taking
one day a week. Plans include the
rearrangement of boarders once a
month.
The executive committee of the
Boarding club includes: Bruce
Fleming, chairman; Alvera John-son,
secretary; Maurice Lawson,
Donald Johnson, Carl Lundquist,
and Bergeson. Dr. K. J. Karlson is
the advisor.
Mrs. Reier Olson, the cook, is as-sisted
by Henrietta Carlson, Rutu
Olson, and Henrietta DeCamp. The
dishwashing crew consists of Stan-ley
Paulson, Alrik "Kvist" Blom-quist,
and Warren Johnson. Fran-cis
"Mickey" McOlash is "handy-man."
In conjunction with the Boarding
club, a cafeteria is maintained in
the college building for benefit of
resident students. Annabelle Sher-man
and Ethel Tederman are in
charge.
PROFS VACATION
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XIX No. 1 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. . Paul, Minn.) October 11, 1939
School Grows
to 181; Seven
Is Net Increase
Men Lead with 103
to 78 Women
Seven more students are enrolled
this semester than last Fall, ac-cording
to statistics received from
the office. The new high has
reached 181 as compared to 174 of
last year.
Further figures reveal that 144
students are registered in the Jun-ior
College and 51 in the Seminary.
Of the total 91 are new students
compared with 90 returning. Again,
it was found that there are 103
men in contrast to 78 women.
Minnesota Leads
Of course, Minnesota leads with
84 enrollees. Altogether, 19 states
and two Canadian provinces are
represented.
The states represented according
to the number of students regis-tered
from each are as follows:
Wisconsin, South Dakota, Illinois,
North Dakota, Michigan, Iowa,
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ne-braska,
Oregon, New Jersey, Penn-sylvania,
,Saskatchewan (Canada),
Washington, Alberta (Canada), Ida-ho,
Alabama, Indiana, New York,
and Wyoming.
Eleven Denominations
Classification by denomination
reveals the following: Swedish
Baptists (representing 69 church-es)-
118; other Baptists-36; Alli-ance
and Evangelical Free—five
each; Covenant—four; Lutheran
and Presbyterian — three each;
United Brethren, Methodists, and
Evangelical—two each; none or not
know—two.
Executives Consider
Program Disturbance
Concert etiquette for student
functions is a problem under con-sideration
by the Student council,
according to Roger Goodman, pres-ident.
He says that the group wishes to
work out a system of ushering for
meetings which will avoid disturb-ance
and congestion.
Robert Wallin and Francis Otto
were selected as athletic managers,
while Clifford Bjorklund, Corrine
Swanson, and Joyce Davenport will
serve as cheerleaders. These ap-pointments
were made at a recent
meeting.
Serving on the Student council
with Goodman are : Maurice Law-son,
vice-president; Henrietta Carl-son,
secretary-treasurer, Prof. C.
E. Carlson, faculty adviser; and
representatives from nine campus
activities.
From the New York World's fair
to the Golden gate exposition in
California, through the Southland
and into Northern Minnesota, fac-ulty
members traveled about the
country during the summer vaca-tion.
Theodore Bergman reports that
he conducted several concerts in
the East and at the New York fair
on Minnesota day. Miss Edith Lar-son
also took in the East, visiting
Niagara falls, Washington, D. C.,
and New York.
Going into the South was Presi-dent
G. Arvid Hagstrom, when he
attended the Baptist World alliance
at Atlanta, _ Georgia. He also
preached in Austin, Texas.
Miss Enid Platts pursued West-ern
trails to California. Greatly
impressing her were the Redwood
forest, which she termed a "Ca-thedral
of Trees," and the Hunting-ton
library in Pasadena, where she
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Mission-Prayer
Observance to
Come Oct. 25
Noted Speakers Will
Come for Day
-1,7--
To present not only missions but
also the need for prayer are em-phases
for Prayer and Missions day
to be held October 25, according to
Miss Esther Sabel, chairman of the
program committee.
"Several interesting speakers will
be brought here for the 16th ob-servance
of this day," Miss Sabel
said.
To Be Held in Chapels
Morning and evening sessions
will be held in the Junior College
chapel, and the afternoon program
in the Seminary chapel. Classes
will be dismissed at 9:45 a. m. for
the day's program, Dean Einery
Johnson announced.
Included in the morning's pro-gram
are George Weise of Morocco
and Marvin Samuelson, Minnesota
state missionary, with President G.
A. Hagstrom as leader. The Rev.
Eric Anderson, pastor of the Cen-tral
Baptist church, will preside in
the afternoon with the Rev. E. 0.
Schugren of India and Miss Grace
Cooper of Africa as speakers.
Special Music Planned
Special music is planned for all
sessions, Miss Sabel said. The
evening program is not definitely
announced as yet.
The morning speakers have been
asked to emphasize prayer, accord-ing
to the committee. Pastors from
the Twin cities and the Isanti dis-trict
have been asked to cooperate
in attendance.
The program committee consists
of Miss Sabel, Professors Adolf Ol-son,
Ernest Norstrom, and Deans
K. J. Karlson and Johnson
Chapel Outline For
Week Is Formulated
Tentative plans for Junior Col-lege
chapel programs, as announced
by A. J. Wingblade, chairman of
the chapel committee, indicate that
a faculty member will have charge
of one period each week with stu-dents
taking over another day.
It is also hoped that a cnapel
choir can be organized to have
charge of an additional service a
!week, besides a united program
once a week with Seminary stu-dents.
"Worship programs will be con-ducted
occasionally by different
groups," Wingblade promised fur-ther.
"Outstanding speakers will
address the students at various
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Clublicity
Miss Esther Sabel and Dr. John
Alexis Edgren will be honored to-night
at the initial meeting of the
Alexis society, literary organiza-tion
for ministerial students, meet-ing
in the Seminary chapel at 8
o'clock, according to Ned Holm-gren,
newly elected president.
Miss Sabel is the professor of re-ligious
education, and Dr. Edgren
is a founder of the Seminary, in
whose honor the club is named.
Impromptu speaking and other
traditional features are promised
for the program, Holmgren said.
Other new officers are: Herman
Tegenfeldt, vice-president; Henri-etta
DeCamp, secretary; Rawlin
Johnson, treasurer; Alrick Blom-quist,
social chairman; and Ruth
Olson, refreshment chairman.
Men's Recreation Club
Thirty members of the Men's
Recreation club will hold their sec-ond
meeting Monday evening at 7
o'clock in the Men's room, Gene
Nyman, president, announced.
Those wishing to join may also at-tend,
he said.
Activities planned for the year
include tournaments in table ten-nis,
badminton, volley ball, basket-ball,
horseshoe, and tennis. These
will be open to all the men. How-ever,
the club room will be limited
to members only.
It is hoped that the group can
secure larger accommodations, the
president said.
Other officers elected at the last
meeting are: Grant Samuelson,
vice-president; Glenn Anderson,
secretary-treasurer; Melvin Swan-son,
custodian; and Coach Bill
Adams, faculty adviser.
Missionary Band
A "Fireside circle" is a unique
feature being planned for a meet-ing
of the Missionary band next
Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Miss Susannah Anderson of China
will bring a missionary address, fol-lowed
by a social hour.
At the group's first meeting they
heard Mrs. H. Pol, a China mis-sionary.
Officers for the coming year are:
Bill Hagstrom, president; Ethel
Ruff, vice-president; and Pearl Pe-terson,
secretary.
Bethels Women's Association
New BWA officers, headed by
Viola Waihila, were inducted into
office at a recent meeting. Others
going in are: Constance Swanson,
vice-president; Joyce Johnson,
treasurer; Doris Jane Eggleston,
assistant treasurer; Olga Anderson,
secretary; Dorothy Webster, as-sistant;
Henrietta DeCamp, Pearl
Peterson, Elna Finstrom, and Ethel
Ruff, cabinet chairmen.
The meeting was in the form of
a candle-lighting service. Ethel
Tederman, Elizabeth Larson, and
Ruth Olson comprised a trio to open
the meeting.
The membership is open to all
Bethel women students, the presi-dent
said. Its purpose is to seek
development of its members.
Malmsten Tells About
Supporters' Liberality
By Gunnar Hoglund
Since Bethel has sent out its ap-peal
for financial aid, several ex-amples
of sacrifice and of loyal
Christian stewardship have been
revealed. Of the hundreds who
have given in one form or another,
Wyman Malmsten, field representa-tive,
tells about several who have
"given until it hurts."
One elderly woman, because she
had a heartfelt desire to help the
school but had no money to give,
donated her own long-cherished
golden, wedding ring.
Malmsten has as his task the en-couragement
of giving to Bethel
and also of telling our young peo-ple
about educational opportunities
at Bethel. This past summer he
covered sections of Minnesota, Wis-consin,
Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa.
In the next few weeks he plans
to campaign in upper Michigan.
For November and December, his
itinerary includes the state of Kan-sas
and several Eastern states.
South.Dakota Rally To
Draw Seven Students
Seven South Dakota students will
travel to their state over the week-end
to attend a Swedish B.Y.P.U.
rally in Strandberg.
Those making the trip are: Carl
Lundquist, Melvin Swanson, Rod-ney
Kephart, Grace Swanson, Le-ona
Pearson, Evangeline Malm, and
Violet Carlson.
Lundquist will preside over the
meeting, and Miss Pearson is at
present vice-president.
Clarion Skating Party
To raise money for the Clarion
budget, a skating party will be
sponsored by its staff Monday eve-ning,
October 23, at the Roller-drome
at 7 o'clock, the staff an-nounced.
Clarion reporters will sell tickets
to students before this date. Gene
Nyman is in charge of sales.
Male Chorus Stands
Much As Last Year
Only five new members were
added to the Male chorus this year.
Sixteen are remaining from last
season, according to George Hult-gren,
director.
The new singers include: Glen
Soule, Gordon Larson, Paul Tulga,
Robert Perrin, and Robert Paulson.
Professor Hultgren states that
the prospects for a successful sea-son
are especially bright, and the
entire chorus is looking forward
with enthusiasm to the work ahead.
He says also that tentative plans
have been made to organize a worn-en's
chorus.
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Gospel Activities
Take 80 Workers
About 80 students have respond-ed
to a call for gospel team volun-teers,
according to Herschel Rog-ers,
president of the Council of
Religious activities.
These groups are under the lead-ership
of Albert Johnson, Robert
Paulson, Francis Otto, Donald
Johnson, and Valentin Hauk. These
teams are the biggest and best or-ganized
branch of the Religious
council, Rogers said.
Services Held
Already considerable service has
been rendered by members, he
went on to say. This last weekend,
team one conducted a service at
the Linnea old people's home. Paul-son
took his group to the West-side
branch of the Union Gospel
mission. Team three took over the
B.Y.P.U. service of the Prospect
park dhurch on its Bethel Sunday.
Team four has also visited the
Linnea home, while Hauk took his
team to the West-side mission.
Officers Named
Rogers plans to have the Reli-gious
council go into new lines of
endeavor this next year. He is as-sisted
by William Hagstrom as
vice-president; Pearl Peterson, sec-retary;
and Paul Lundgren, treas-urer.
The Missionary band is also an-other
branch of the council. This
is headed by Hagstrom.
NYA Aid Maintains
21 Student Workers
Fifteen men and six women are
able to continue in school because
of funds allotted by the govern-ment
for NYA work, Dean Johnson
announced.
The college receives $213 per
month ($1,917 per year) from the
Federal government, and $25
monthly ($255 yearly) from the
State for this aid. Students are
paid for their work on the tenth
day of each month, and checks
range from $5 to $15, according to
the amount necessary.
"The money granted is used for
general improvement, reconstruc-tion,
painting, office work, and the
like," Johnson stated.
Chapel Outline
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times during the year, but no
schedule has as yet been formu-lated."
Already this semester, messages
have been brought by Drs. R. A.
Boyles, S. W. Powell, Harry 0. An-derson,
H. C. Wingblade, and Mar-tin
Nelson.
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Steppin' Out
By Muriel Petersen
September 30
Florence "Floos" Dunning got
"Don"! The only trouble was
that he was just another of the
male inhabitants of Eaton stables
where 11 Bethel women went
horseback riding Saturday morn-ing.
They not only lost their
morning's beauty nap and had to
make out their breakfast on
sweet rolls while driving out
there, but the girls in Carl
Young's car had to walk the last
mile back to school because of a
flat tire. When Lorine Chance
returned to Bethel with her car,
she had another flat!
October 3
The Blue Shirts and their com-panions
were sorry that Eddy
Tegenfeldt's "Ma" and "Pa"
wouldn't let him come to their
steak fry, but those who went
had a good time anyway. The
visitors at this Seminary sen-ior's
outing were the guests of
Orville "Plough" Johnson and
Carl "Dopey" Young. Florence
Lindstrom and Henrietta Carl-son
were in charge of the eats.
October 4
"Happy birthday to you"—This
was sung three times in honor of
the Misses Edith Larson, Grace
Widen, and Vivian Fons. The of-fice
force and several guests en-joyed
fellowship about coffee
cups and a birthday cake.
October 5
With Frances "Micky" Mc-
Olash as the host and Alrik
Bloomquist as "acting" hostess
the band celebrated its first "Af-termidda's
Kaffe." It was agreed
that the next one be sponsored
by the illustrious clarinet sec-tion.
The climax of the event
was a speech by President Ver-non
Pearson.
Today
Is it coincidence that there are
13 girls and 13 boys who are P.
K.'s (preacher's kids) attending
Bethel this year? It is conveni-ent
and will add to the spice of a
party which they will hold at
Professor A. Olson's home.
Introducing
By Iva "Reddy" Metam.
1. Him's tall an' dark an' has a
black mustache. Dignity is his.
2. Bethel's sophisticated lady.
Artist, Poet, Wit, Pianist, Scholar.
3. The Ladies' man. Instructor
(p. t. in caring for f. s.). Ipana
smile.
4. Last seen with Tr
Hal . President. "Aw you
cawn't do thawt." Boys, she'll take
your shirts.
5. Little man with a big voice.
Sans tonsils. The gentleman pre-fers
blonds.
(Editor's note: If you cannot
guess who the person is by the de-scription,
look for the answers in
another part of the paper.)
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Sport Sparks
By Vernon Pearson
For the past two years Bethel
has been tentatively promised six-man
football, and in both cases
many ✓ ave been disappointed on
their arrival at school. Each fall
and spring the cry has been, "Next
season we will have six-man foot-ball."
Again it seems that "next
year we may have six-man foot-ball"
Last year the Southern Minne-sota
junior college conference con-sidered
the advisability of having a
regular schedule for this sport, and
it was reported that such a plan
was under way. Now several of
the teams have gone ahead with
eleven-man teams.
To an observer of campus activi-ties
there seems to be no reason
why Bethel cannot have an eleven-man
football team.
At present, there is a tourna-ment
involving many fellows who
would be interested in football. The
enrollment of the school would be
increased to a certain extent if
football were made a regular part
of extra-curricular affairs.
* * *
Bernard "Ham" Hammerbeck
will assist in writing athletic
stories for the Clarion. Note to
would-be stars : When you treat
him to coffee, don't forget your
sports editor.
* * *
Elna Finstrom, commonly known
as "Finberg," will write up the
women's athletics. She claims that
the men cannot understand the
women, and we agree.
* * *
A departure from the basketball
schedule as given in the "B" book
—Dec. 1, Farm school plays here,
and on Dec. 2, Bethel travels to
Gustavus Adolphus for a regular
contest.
* * *
In a recent football game Bob
Hovinen caught a long pass and
raced up the side line toward the
enemy goal. One of the feminine
admirers called out in a very deli-cate
and musical voice, "Be care-ful,
Bobby, so you don't fall."
* * *
Robert Wallin, freshman, and
Frances Otto, sophomore, have
been appointed athletic managers
for the coming school year. Won-der
if we will get any socks this
year?
* * *
Answers to INTRODUCING: (1)
Gene Nyman, (2') Carol Jane Eng-wall,
(3) Bob Paulson, (4) Viola
Waihila, and (5) John Valine.
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With fiVe returning lettermen,
basketball practice is scheduled to
get under may next week, accord-ing
to Coach Bill Adams. He puts
out a call for freshman to show up
for the initial session.
Returning from last year's sec-ond
place Conference team are: Del
Ray Peterson, all-conference cen-ter
and the league's high scorer;
Don Johnson, Stanley Paulson, Gus
Ferre, and Robert Hovinen. Ray
Applequist, captain-elect, failed to
show up this Fall; accordingly, a
new leader will be selected soon
from this group, Adams said.
Frosh May Star
Adams is planning to develop
some potential stars from incoming
freshmen. He intimated that some
had excellent high school careers
behind them. He hopes to make
the returning lettermen fight for
their position.
Practice will continue with in-formal
scrimmages and games un-til
the annual Homecoming celebra-tion
after which regular practice
sessions will be held. At this time
the squad will be cut and only
those selected who have shown out-standing
ability.
Play For All
A plan to provide basketball par-ticipation
for all is still immature.
Coach Adams plans tentatively to
divide those who do not make thq
first string into several groups for
frequent play. In one will be placed
Sem.i nary students and other for-mer
players now ineligible for in-tercollegiate
competition. These
will be entered in a Midway
Y.M.C.A. league.
College freshmen and sopho-mores
will form two other groups.
Games will be scheduled with Min-nehaha
academy, Breck, and other
schools, the Coach said.
A women's hoop team. will par-ticipate
in the St. Paul Park board
league, and will play preliminary
to varsity games.
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By Elna Finstrom
Once again the red shorts and
white tops come out of storage for
our women's basketball players as
they plan to start another season.
Coach Bill Adams plans to start
practice Tuesday. However, he
needs more players to form a team.
Only four out of 10 are returning
from last year's team. They are:
Elizabeth Larsen, Ruth Olson, Ol-ga
Anderson, and Elna Finstrom.
Interested students are urged to
turn out Tuesday and Thursday aft-ernoons
when they can learn how
to play.
* * *
Volleyball reigns supreme when
freshmen and sophomores meet in
the gym. Two teams in each class
are participating.
Captains for the teams are: Vir-ginia
Carlson and Virginia Carl-berg
for freshmen and Marie' Lar-sen
and Miss Anderson for the
sophomores.
Profs Vacation
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saw displays on the history of the
novel, old manuscripts, and origi-nal,
paintings of "Blue Boy" and
"Pinkie" by John Gainsborougli.
Northern Minnesota visitors in-cluded
Bergmann, Miss Alice John-son,
Arvid Gordh, and Dean Emery
Johnson.
Miss Effie Nelson said that she
spent her time in figuring out new
and ingenius ways to teach and
test her German pupils.
Several professors taught in as-semblies
or Bible schools during
their vacation. Among them were:
Miss Johnson, Adolf Olson, Dean
K. J. Karlson, Hagstrom, and A. J.
Wingblade.
Ernest Norstrom rearranged the
chemistry laboratory. Miss Esther
Sabel spent her summer with her
father in Chicago, keeping house'
for him. She also visited two of
her brothers.
Dean Johnson completed some
graduate work in the University of
Minnesota, and spent two weeks
with Missionary Ernest Lundeen,
making sterioptican pictures.
Mural Pigskin
Round Starts
Three eight-man, intramural
touch football teams are engaged
in a tourney on the campus, Coach
Bill Adams announced.
At the end of the first half, the
Left-overs, captained by Dalphy
Fagerstrom, were in the lead with
two wins and no losses. Gene Ny-man
is leading the Comets for a
second place. The Seminary team
with Vernon Pearson as head is
holding the bottom with two losses.
In the first game, the Comets
eked out a hard-fought 8-6 victory
over the Seminary. The Left-over
and Comet game resulted in an 18-0
victory for the former. The final
game of the first half resulted in a
fiercely-contested 6-0 triumph for
the Left-overs over the Seminary.
The strength of the league-lead-ers'
offense has undoubtedly been
the danger of their long passes,
with Fagerstrom and Del Ray Pe-terson
heaving and the line, headed
by Ned Holmgren, as sticky-finger-ed
receivers.
The second half of the schedule
ends on Monday, according to
Coach Adams.
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Cooperation Needed
Volume XIX coming up on the Bethel Clarion
—that must mean that our newssheet is 19
years old. With the years, changes come and
go. Accordingly, we have tried to give our
readers something a little new this year.
Your new staff is attempting to live up to
the successes of former staffs. We want to
produce the best that we know how to do.
But we also need your cooperation. In order
to make the Clarion an interesting paper, we
must be able to publish advance information
about events on the campus. Our bi-weekly
publication cannot allow us to summarize past
events: those facts are known to all and are
not news. Therefore, if the clubs and activities
want publicity in the Clarion, they must be
ready with future plans when a reporter comes
to them.
We have an eager and active staff already to
work. Let us cooperate with each other.
Clarion Proposes
Bethel does have something unique to offer.
Although we have only a small student body
and inadequate means and finances, no one
can deny that our Institute does not have a
definite mission to fulfill.
Your Clarion staff summarizes this program
for your consideration. It is our platform for
the coming year.
First, we emphasize a more fervent and spir-itual
atmosphere in the student body. We
should exemplify the highest qualities of Chris-tian
life in action. This can come through par-ticipation
in religious activities, prayer, and
chapel.
We also propose that a cultural and schol-astic
preparation for life's work is important.
Let us fit ourselves for the best.
Third, we urge a participation in extra-curricular
activities for personal benefits. And
last, a full support of our school and its activi-ties
with a good school spirit is needful.
We are here for a purpose. What is it?
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Some method whereby all those eating lunch
in the Coffee Shoppe at noon would wait and
say "grace" together would be a valuable con-tribution.
* * * *
Our tribute to "Fraulein" Effie Nelson, who
handles the most stupid German classes and
yet does not lose her patience.
The Bethel Clarion
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Official school paper of Bethel Institute.
Published by students bi- weekly except July,
August and September.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL STAFF
LEMUEL PETERSEN EDITOR
Glen Anderson, Dale Bjork, Caroline Dilgard, Carol
Jane Engwall, Betty Danielson, Dalphy Fager-strom,
Elna Finstrom, Bernard Hammerbeck,
Gladys Hanson, Gunnar Hoglund, Archie Johnson,
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, Harold Mickelson, Gene
Nyman, Vernon Pearson, Muriel Petersen, Lloyd
Shold, Leone Smith, Sara Mae Swenson, Martin
Toews, Viola Waihila, Robert Wallin, Dorothy
Webster.
BUSINESS STAFF
Stanley Rendahl Business Manager
Doris Jane Eggleston Circulation Manager
Dean Emery A. Johnson Business Adviser
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at
the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the act
of March 3, 1879.
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PRECAUTION
Lest there should slip some name unsung
Lest on Fame's highest ladder rung
Some Bethelite (with wit to spare!)
Is missing—somehow is not there.
Oh, let it ne'er be thought or said
We've kept the laurels from his head!
Let none such wag his lively tongue
Or wail, "No chance to me had come."
For such as he we've saved a place
And ask that one to fill this space
With words of wisdom, or in rhyme,
And thus commence his upward climb.
And then on some far distant day
When to the top he's made his way,
He shall, in retrospective view,
Admit, "Dear Clarion, Thanks to you!"
Or Will He?
At any rate we invite Bethel students who
are poetically inclined, or who possess a philo-sophical
bent to their thinking to submit sud-den
thoughts, short prose descriptions, or po-ems,
to be not more than 150-200 words in
length.
All material submitted must, of course, be
original. Any person (pity 'em) inflicted with
that most loathesome of literary diseases,
Plagiaritosis, will be publically subjected to
the ultra-violent rays of our new "Deplagiarl-tosilator."
Hope you haven't been scared away!
Yours truly,
The Verse Girl on the Campus.
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By G. Arvid Hagstrom
In these days when people are selling their
birthright for a mess of pottage as Esau did,
it behooves us to give serious thought to the
times in which we live and the days that are
ahead. We need to consider that these times
are testing times\ educationally as well as re-ligiously.
Christian schools—so-called—have
not infrequently been the cause of youth being
led astray from the faith; Christian churches,
at least those that are so-called, have often
lost their spiritual influence and witness,
hence lacked the power of molding lives into
the maturity of the Christ-life.
In the midst of such confusional environ-ment,
God has been gracious to Bethel and
spared her from slipping from the moorings of
faith. God has, therefore, honored such loyal-ty
by His gracious favor in that an increased
number of students from a wider area and al-most
entirely from Christian homes, have reg-istered
this year, for which we are devoutly
grateful. May it be to each of us, teacher and
student, an earnest challenge to wholehearted
consecration to the God, whose we are, and
whom we love. Acts 27:23. May it also be our
goodly portion to hear Him say to us, as He
said to Paul: "Lo, God hath given us all that
sail with us. Wherefore, be of good cheer; for
we believe God, that it shall be even as it was
told us."
It is time for everyone to pray: "God give
us men; give us a sense of the world's need;
give us an assurance of the needed wisdom and
power to meet this need this school year.
* * * *
Several unofficial clubs seem to be in the
offing. Those heard of are a PK ("Preachers'
Kids") group and a Danish club. Let's see them
grow, and yet not develop into social classes
on our campus.
* * * *
Singing of a hymn and prayer would en-hance
all of our classes. Five minutes spent
this way would not harm the lecture, and
would profit all concerned.
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By Squint and Squak
Greetings, one and all! It sure seems like
old times to see last year's bright and smiling
faces (at least, faces) popping around corners
with a big "I'm-a-sophomore" grin located
somewhere between the left ear and the right.
And who are those little tots yonder? Wihy,
they're the frosh, of course ! Remember when
we had that certain give-away look, too? But
don't mind the ribbing, chilluns! There's plenty
more to come.
Speaking of our new-corners, have you no-ticed
the unusual selection of fair damsels?
What a question! Stupid, eh what, boys?
Gordy "Pete" Peterson, for instance, doesn't
seem at all grouchy these days. Boys! What
dimples! ! (Ginnie's, I mean.)
Due to certain self-evident conditions, the
members of the Phooey-to-the-Men club have
placed Gracie Widen and Ethel Tederman on
the "Inactive list." Someone, however, has
made a correction. As it now stands: "Those
girls are now on the 'Active list.' " Hm-m-m.
Sounds logical.
Said Herschel Rogers when Art Slaikeu, an
alumnus, visited us one day: "Iz Slaikeu?"
Get 11, 999"
The freshman class of the Seminary didn't
even let a down-pour dampen their spirits on
their little jaunt one certain Wednesday night.
Methinks 'twill always remain an unsolved
mystery how they stretched two umbrellas
over the heads of several ladies in distress.
Ah! my hero!
Jack "Knobby" Bergeson has had a little
heart trouble of late. Notice it anybody? We
were happy to see Gladys Peterson, too, Jack.
She looks prettier'n ever.
Several of the boys have put in bids for Lit-tle
Sisters these past few weeks. Orville John-son
is still disappointed, as he feels he can
make a perfectly capable and lovely Big sister.
Sizatiktal lood
By Roger Goodman
When we honestly consider our great re-sponsibility
of living and preaching the gospel,
do we not feel the need for a renewed
strength?
One individual very aptly asked, "Are we
sufficient?" We are compelled to answer neg-atively.
But then, what about the message
which Isaiah has to bring when he says, "They
that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength: they shall mount up with wings of
eagles; they shall run and not be weary, and
they shall walk and not faint."
Thus, Isaiah tells us of a renewed strength
received through waiting upon the Lord. Would
not this imply that we patiently, yet expectant-ly,
through prayer and meditation, open our
entire lives to Him?
But what will the results be? Ours will be
an experience of elevation. Soaring above the
worldly atmosphere, we will breathe the purer
air of the spiritual sphere. Furthermore, we
will experience rapid progress. Many duties
will be performed "runningly," that is, with a
ready mind and an affectionate zeal. And last-ly,
our experience will be that of walking in a
steady course.
May we not wait upon the Lord for renewed
strength which will enable us to get higher, go
faster, and live more calmly consistent?
* * * *
"Fraulein" Effie Nelson seems to think that
the woman's movement still needs support. If
she keeps putting the "ladies" first, the males
will lose their superiority.
