THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XX No. 13 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) April 29, 041
Spire Completed
Is Sent to Press
Editors Report Success of
"Composite Pictorial" Book
The "Spire" goes to press early
Thursday. Relieved editors will
see it off with joy. Elving Ander-son,
editor in chief, returned from
the Male Chorus trip only this
week, and missed one hectic week
of preparation.
Betty White, managing editor,
says that the 1941 Spire carries
more pictures, covers more activi-ties,
and tells more about life at
Bethel than any of its preceeding
issues.
"It has been the endeavor of the
editors to include everybody in at
least two pictures and to incor-porate
in the copy material all of
the most interesting events that
have made this year at Bethel so
enjoyable to all of us," Miss White
continued.
Students who have been asking
about the release date of the year-book
are informed that they will
receive their copies here at school
June 2.
The business staff urges all stu-dents
to cooperate in the venture
by selling or interesting alumni
and friends in the purchase of this
book which is a composite ipictoral
review of "this year at Bethel."
Hagstroms to Honor
Sem Seniors Tomorrow
On April 30, Dr. and Mrs. Hag-strom
will give a reception for the
Seminary Seniors. The reception
will be held at Dr. Hagstrom's
home. A special program has been
planned for the occasion. Faculty
members as well as seniors will be
guests on this occasion.
"Crescendo from the start!"
"Keep that tone up!" "Hit the
pitch!"
With such words as these, Pro-fessor
George Hultgren led the
Male Chorus on its annual tour
during the past two weeks. Ar-riving
home late last Friday night,
the chorus was tired but extreme-ly
happy over the success of the
trip.
Meet Students in Chicago
The chorus was privileged to
meet several alumni of Bethel.
Present Bethelites were also seen
in various places. Ohester Stripe
was at the concert in Waukegan.
Gordon Johnson, Norman Backe,
Virginia Carlson, and Arden Finke
were seen in Chicago, while Paul-
Alumni Banquet
Set for May 10
Grad to Speak
To Be Held In Chapel
J. G. Johnson Presides
Lemuel Peterson, chairman of
publicity for the annual dinner
held by the Alumni Association,
announced late last week that the
banquet would be held Saturday,
May 10, in the college chapel.
The speaker of the evening will
be Carl Tideman, principal of Co-kato
High School. Mr. Tideman
was a member of the first class
ever to graduate from Bethel Acad-emy.
"Adventuring in Vision" is the
theme ihe has chosen. It will deal
with the completion of plans to
build the women's dormitory. Rev-erend
J. G. Johnson is to be the
toastmaster.
Bethel's Chapel Choir has been
asked to sing. The ticket charge
per person is sixty-five cents or
two tickets for one dollar twenty-five
cents.
Five committees have been ap-pointed
to take charge of all de-tails.
The general committee is J.
G. Johnson, pres. ; Wilbur Sorley,
vice-pres.; Lillian Johnson, record-ing
secy.; Robert Wingblade,
treas. ; H. W. Malmsten, alumni
secy.
Those appointed to the program
committee are J. Gordon Peterson,
chairman; Stanley Paulson, and
Henrietta DeCamp.
The publicity group is presided
over by Lemuel Peterson. The
members are: Elmer Johnson,
Florence Dunning, and Hope Wi-den.
Constance Swanson is chairman
of the decorations committee. Her
workers are Robert Wingblade,
Grace Widen, Grant Samuelson,
By a Member
ine Philips was in Moline, Illinois.
The choristers did a considera-ble
amount of sight-seeing while
on the tour. They visited the Nash
plant at Kenosha; the Adler Plan-etarian,
Field Museum. They were
given a fairly free hand in Chicago
and some went to see the Chicago
Cubs get drubbed by the Pitts-burgh
Pirates. A party at Virginia
Carlson's home was a very pleas-ant
and eventful occasion.
Appear on Joliet Station
Sunday afternoon, April 20th,
the chorus gave a half-hour con-cert
over station WCLS in Joliet.
Wednesday afternoon the Tenors
showed terrific power at the bat in
whipping the Basses in a game of
kitten-ball by a final tally of 20-10.
"qc, 2/0., Blacie-"
Atolitia9 cite Canowi
Tell 1104,t __Atedafr,9!
He was a young blade—a gay,
and rather green young blade, just
starting out in the big, wide world.
His was a courageous and indom-itable
spirit. He possessed in his
innermost soul the desire to push
himself forward in his own small
plot.
The sun was shining brightly
that glorious spring morning when
he first emerged, and it seemed to
him almost as if Heaven was smil-ing
its blessing upon him.
Each day thereafter he grew and
rose in importance in his own
sphere. Daily he reflected on his
success and measured his growth.
But then one terrible day, the
tragedy occurred! He was crush-ed!
All his hopes and dreams fell
when he fell—all that he had long-ed
to achieve was now impossible.
He was trampled under foot—and
it was almost impossible to rise.
But with a determined will, he
started again, and gradually he
grew until now he has almost
reached his former heights. You
can hear him singing almost any
time if you listen closely enough:
"Don't tramp all over me,
Step lightly like a fawn,
For can't you very plainly
see,
I want to be a lawn" .
DelRay Johnson, Gladys Hanson,
and Charlotte Ahlstrom.
Chairman for service is Paul
Lundgren. Others are Marjorie
Jacobson, Mildred Lovegren, Jack
Bergeson, and Laverne Berglund.
Outside of the continuous tuss-ling
on the bus several incidents
added to the enjoyment of the
group.
Robert K. C. Paulson was elect-ed
a member of the Monmouth
Baptist Church Cradle Roll. (Not
by choice.) Warren Johnson was
so preoccupied as to mistake an
Old Dutch cleanser can for a can
of talc powder.
Rev. Swan A. Engwall, pastor of
the Central Avenue Baptist Church
in Chicago, thought it was worth
a dollar to hear Francis McOlash
sing in Swedish.
These are a few examples of the
various incidents which marked a
successful and enjoyable tour. The
chorus arrived home late Friday
night, tired but happy.
Tries to Evade Call
Formerly a News Man
Visits 1915 Belgium
By Martha McMillan
"I never heard a man talk so lit..
tie and yet say so much," was the
almost universal comment after
hearing Dr. John Hess McComb,
New York City pastor, now hold-ing
evangelistic meetings at the
Warrendale Presbyterian Church.
His compact, yet colorful style has
been attributed to his seven-years
experience as a journalist. While
working for the Associated Press,
it was often his job to condense
60,000 words to 10,000 words in one
day.
He paid most of his woy through
the University of Pennsylvania by
working on the Philadelphia North
American, meanwhile preparing to
enter the School of Medicine. At
this time he had definitely decided
he did not want to be a minister.
But somehow he could not evade
the call. "Finally," he says, "I felt
like Paul — 'Woe unto me if I
preach not the Gospel.' "
He entered Princeton Theologi-cal
Seminary, still continuing his
newspaper work at night. He tells
how he would get home from work
at four o'clock on Sunday morning,
and then have to drive seventy
miles to the place where he was
to preach.
His pastorate for the last six
years has been at the Broadway
Presbyterian Church in New York
City. It is located just across the
street from Columbia University,
and a great many of the students
attend his services, forming about
one-half of his large young peo-ple's
organization.
At the question: "What do you
think of this younger generation?"
he replied that he believed the
young people of today are no more
irreligious than they have been be-fore,
but they still sadly need the
Gospel.
He feels, however, that their
atheism is the fault of the college
professors. "In fact," he said,
"90% of the skepticism of youth is
borrowed from old age. If left
alone, youth would be open-minded
and ready for the truth."
The former president of the New
York Stock Exchange, whose resig-nation
from a $48,000 a year posi-tion
to enter military training un-der
the draft has recently been
publicized, is a regular attendant
of Dr. McComb's church. He feels
that he is a very sincere Christian.
(Continued on page 3)
Doctor Finds Adventure
Through Service For God
Chorus Strains Lungs In Songs; Cut Capers
Page 2
THE BETHEL CLARION
la a At Sta . • •
Oh. where is my wandering staff tonight?
I asked with tear-dimmed eye,
And all around I peered in vain
Then turned to my copy with a sigh.
A black raven on the door jamb perched
Caught my eye as he cawed with a jerk—
"This room is too dreary, too sad„ too blue.
No place for even a raven to lurk."
Thru the Trance-urn
April showers refresh the
ground,
And shed a sweet perfume
around.
They make the trees with
leaves abound—
But don't they make your hair
fall?
More space filler:
Dinner guest: "Will you pass the
nuts, professor?"
Absent-minded professor: "Yes,
I suppose so, but I really think I
should flunk most of them!"
Editorial
The gray spider paused medita-tively
as a bell purred softly
through the dark ceilinged halls.
Another class was out. The rush
would undoubtedly start now.
Sure, enough, the flood tide of over
active young people surged from
various doors on all three floors of
the academic structure.
He sighed. Time was when a
spider could pursue his weaving in
his shiny intricate web in peace if
he occupied a high corner in a col-lege
building. It must have been
the Industrial Revolution that
made the change. He could hear
even now the scholarly voice of
the history professor explaining
the causes and effects of machine-ry
on nineteenth century England.
Still, his cousin in Eton was
voicing no protest. Nor his brother
at Cambridge. It was queer, truly.
Had his nerves gone back on him,
he wondered. The bell again . . . .
he crawled down the wall and en-tered
the chapel. He waited impa-tiently
as the students straggled
in.
In the two years he had been
here, he had never missed, nor
been late to a morning service in
the chapel. In a rigid state of dis-approval
he glowered out over the
heads of dreamy-eyed or mis-chievious
mouthed students. Here
and there throughout the audience
he stared in fierce disapproval at
whispering students. Why couldn't
they have taken Carl Lundquist to
heart when he said in chapel even
last fall, "If you must whisper,
whisper a prayer."
The speaker had given the bene-diction,
and now the entire student
body was pushing steadily toward
the doors . .. talking already. The
gray spider scurried down, around
the door frame and back to his
web, where he stopped again to
watch the milling mob below.
An elderly man was trying to
make his way to the office and the
small gray spider spat in disgust
and sympathy everytime someone
backed up unto the man's toes.
The man should learn to walk on
the walls.
Yes, this •was an academic hall,
those students below were serious
at their studies, only it would be
much more peaceful for a lone
Welcome
cilome
gray spider if they were at them
more.
Oh, well. The walls were still
safe, and if one's concentration
was upset once in a while . . . why
it afforded relaxation. Really this
was as nice as Eton . . . but, the
gray spider sighed, it was terribly
noisy.
Meditation
By Grace Hollinger
Loyalty is a harder test than en-thusiasm.
Easter is only two weeks past
and the Easter Story remains in
clear print in the backs of our
thoughts. Recall, if you will, the
triumphal entry of our Lord into
Jerusalem.
The crowd that met Him was
jubilant and enthusiastic. To them
He was the popular man of the
hour. They looked upon Him as a
Messiah who would take over the
city and be their king. His ap-pearance
in their midst and His
manner of entry into the city
served to aid their misinterpreta-tion
of His mission.
It was a crowd that did not know
Him personally. They had heard
of His miracles and were curious.
They joined in the praise and the
demonstration upon an impulse of
the moment.
The shallowness of their mood
made it easy to change ranks a
few days later when the Saviour
stood judgement in Pilate's hall.
The crowd in 1941 reacts in just
the same way. As long as most
the cliche goes to church, is active
in Christian work, the individual
also will be.
Some of the crowd that first
Palm Sunday had been healed or
desired to be healed. They fol-lowed
the Saviour for the benefits
he could give.
People today have the same
thought in mind; on with the privi-leges
of Christian fellowship away
with the sacrifices and work!
(Continued on page 3)
* * * *
Notes from 'neath our umbrella:
These typical April days remind us
that there are a lot of little drips
running around in the rain. . . .
We wonder how many students
who carried home a small library
before vacation actually accom-plished
something. Well, anyway
it looked good. . . . Jerry Larson
has, oh,'so kindly offered to run a
Dating Bureau to procure a date
for all you girls for the J. S. There
are to be no fees charged—all is
to be done out of the nobility of
his heart. . . . We liked Dr. Karl-son's
contribution to philosophy —
"Some people are born late — and
never catch up." ...
* * *
Add irony: Gene Nyman writes
"good luck with this issue" to the
worry-worn editor and forgets to
send the major story. . . . News by
gum! One girl with the initials of
Betty Swanson has had a lot of
trouble with gum and the dean of
late.. .. Miss Sabel told a student
the other day, very confidentially,
that she had bought a package of
gum—but she told the student to
be sure not to tell . . . so don't.
* * *
Enough of this drivel. The sun
is shining—so we'll crawl out from
under the umbrella, shake off the
water and continue.
* * *
Just to German students—
Two students translating Ger-man
into the subjunctive-
1st: "If we had more time, we
would study." (Reading from the
text, of course.)
2nd : "It's contrary to fact all
right."
Aren't teachers queer—
Professor Norstrom announced a
test for the Friday of vacation.
That was one chemistry test every
one passed—by.
FREE VERSE
(It idn't cost us anything,
anyway.)
Why thy haggard worn look?
Why thy deep furrowed brow?
Why the dark blue circled
orbs?
Ah, yes—research papers!
* * *
When a person gets into the
habit of wasting time, he is sure
to waste a great deal of time that
does not belong to him.
The preceding does not have,
nor is it intended to have any
bearing whatsoever on our German
mark.
Auf das Deutsch—
Miss Nelson: "What is a sedge?"
David Anderson: "The little
bushes that grow at the edge
of a lawn."
Cliff Bjorklund: "You mean
HEDGE, not SEDGE."
Miss Nelson: "Yes, but an
Englishman (Canadian) al-ways
leaves off the "H's."
Till next time,
SHADOWS.
May Day Is Thursday!
Remember the B. W. A. meet-ing
Thursday. Sara Mae Swen-sson's
cabinet has charge. Come
and be gay—it's Mayl
And away he flew and left me lone,
Except for the pipes wthich made quite a moan,
So I hoped as I wrote, and I 'wrote as I hoped
That my courage would last, tho I feared it had flown.
Soon in he swept on ominous wing
He was such a mournful, yet friendly thing.
His coal black eye held this thought most,
"Gee, we miss them, don't we?"
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Doctor Finds Adventure
(Continued from page 1)
Dr. McComb was visiting in Bel-gium
at the outbreak of the pres-ent
World War, and gave us a
vivid description of some of his ex-periences
in chapel talks here. He
has been enthusiastically received
in several of the St. Paul High
School assemblies this past week.
His picturization of the Belgian
preparations for war is startling:
four inches of sand laid on attic
floors to put out dropping bombs,
sand bags in basements for make-shift
retreats, and shop windows,
instead of the latest fashions, show
the most up-to-date methods and
furnishings for an aircraft shelter!
Even though Dr. McComb is a
bachelor, he has a steady travel-ling
companion—his mother. De-spite
the fact that she is seventy
years old and partially crippled
with arthritis, she accompanies
him wherever he goes.
This trip to the West is the first
time since his seminary days that
she has not packed her bags and
boarded the train with him.
On his trip to Europe, she was
one of the livliest of the passen-gers,
rolling around the ship's deck
in her wheel-chair, and making
fast friends with everyone, includ-ing
small boys. Threatening sea-mines
and sinking vessels held no
terror for her, and she refused to
be shielded from knowledge of
danger.
Taking trips is a hobby of hers,
and it is commonplace for her to
ask her son, John, to take her on
a 200-mile week-end trip just for
the fun of it!
Dr. McComb impresses one as a
brilliant thinker and an engaging
personality. His is a mind that be-longs
to no special age, for he feels
as much at home talking with a
five-year old boy as a fifty-year old
man. Just to converse with him is
an education. He is the author of
several books.
The meetings at Warrendale
Church, which also feature the
"Gospelairs" — a radio trio, will
continue every night through this
week.
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Eight Bethelites Tour
N. W. on Easter Trip
Leaving school Monday morning,
April 14, and spending the entire
week on a twelve4hundred-mile
trip, a gospel team visiting eight
churches in Minnesota, Iowa, and
South Dakota held a series of
evangelistic services proclaiming
the Word of God and at the same
time publicising Bethel.
Members of the team were Bill
Hagstrom, director, Professor Nor-strom,
faculty member, Ethel
Tederman, Harriet Anderson, Rog-er
Youngquist, Gunnar Hoglund,
Howard Olson, and Gerald Larson.
Group Uses Slides
The program, which was very
well received and praised by all
who heard it, consisted of slides
showing glimpses of school life at
Bethel, a slide program of the life
of Christ accompanied by instru-mental
and vocal music, and a
brief evangelistic message.
The trip was financed by free-will
offerings at each of the
churches visited. More than suf-ficient
funds were received, and
the surplus will be used by the
Religious Council in its gospel
team work.
Eight Churches Visited
The following Swedish Baptist
churches were visited: Lake Sarah
Baptist church at Slayton, Minne-sota;
the Arthur, Iowa, church;
the Kiron, Iowa, church; the Sioux
City, Iowa, church; the Big
Springs, South Dakota, church; the
Alcester, South Dakota, church;
the Worthington, Minnesota,
church; and the Gibbon, Minne-sota,
church.
Bill Hagstrom reported that a
splendid spirit of cooperation and
good will existed between the mem-bers
of the team in all that they
did and that the purposes of the
trip were fulfilled in a very satis-factory
manner.
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Meditation
(Continued from page 1)
A few of the original crowd felt
that they knew Him and what He
desired to I do. Judas was undoubt-edly
in the crowd. He desired that
Jesus set himself up as an earthly
king. The sound of praises thrilled
him and when the enthusiasm died
down Judas found revenge for his
shattered dreams by betraying his
Master.
Very few of that Jewish crowd
caught the real significance of that
incident. Most crowds today are
gathered primaily by the same in-stincts
that gathered the crowd
1900 years ago; curiosity, hope for
gain, or emotional impulse.
Today we think of loyalty as a
quality that can be exhibited only
under fire. But the real test of
Christianity is being loyal when
there is no flaming incentive.
Perhaps the only solution to this
problem would be the formulation
of a code. The code is up to each
individual. With such a code a
Christian ought to resolve definite-ly,
without fear of back sliding, "I
will place my loyalty to Christ
above all other loyalties."
(Condensed from "Are We Loyal
to Christ?"—A. L. S.)
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Campus Is Beautified
The past two weeks our campus
has undergone a beauty treatment.
NYA sturents have raked and
cleaned it, the baseball diamond
has been prepared for the games
this spring, and all the leaves, dry
grass, and other debris which had
gathered during the fall and win-ter
months has been cleared away.
In the office NYA students are
working on 12,000 Bethelgrams
which are being sent to prospec-tive
contributors to the school.
This is the last effort of the school
year to make the books balance
before they close. Approximately
one thousand catalogs were sent
to prospective students, about ten
per cent of whom usually come to
Bethel.
Because of •ITA mudh publicity
can be carried on by the school
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From an Editor on Tour
By Gene Nyman
Guest Writer Talks Ball
By "Shine"
Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Gym Classes Organize
Into Eight Squads
Spring is here, and with it comes
—softball:
The Bethel girls' gym classes
have been organized into four soft-ball
teams:
Jeeps—Hazelle Fossum, Capt.
Clucks—Arlene Johnson, Capt.
Sweat Sox — Betty Swanson,
Capt.
Teddy Bears—Betty White, Capt.
The initial game of the season
was rained out in the last half of
the first inning, but it is hoped
that this was just an initiation and
that clear skies and sunshine will
help the best teams win during the
rest of the season.
Last Thursday's games were
taken by the Soph "Clucks" over
the Christian Worker "Jeeps" by
a score of 8-2. In the Frosh class
Betty Swanson's Sox overcame
Betty White's Teddies. (Poor crea-tures.
B. S. be careful of the Hu-mane
Society! )
Men's gym classes also have
been organized. In the Frosh class
Herb Johnson captains the Ma-roons
which have been twice de-feated
by the Golds under Captain
Bob Beck.
The Gophers, Melvin Swanson,
captain, have won one game from
Jerry Larson's Badgers.
Play will continue until May 22.
The last week is set aside for
championship encounters.
In a benefit basketball game, the
last of the season on the local
floor, the Minnehaha Baptist church
team defeated the Minneapolis
First Swedish Baptist church five
on Saturday, April 5, by a score of
43 to 27. Jud Carlson, who plays
for the Rock Springs Sparklers in
city league competition, collected
over half of his team's total num-ber
of points to star for the vic-tors.
The proceeds from the game
were sent to Franklin and Phileda
Nelson, missionaries to Burma.
* * *
Living is getting cheaper in most
of the big cities, a news item says.
For that matter, so is life.
* * *
With the advent of warm weath-er
has come a renewed interest in
outdoor sports with a consequent
waning of enthusiasm for volley.
ball. In some of the last games of
the season a team of dormitory
men defeated a representative
group from the college in three of
four games.
* * *
Some people can stay longer in
an hour than others can in a week.
* * *
As I was unaware until lately
that this column had any readers
among the feminine sex, I have
felt it unnecessary to consider
their likes and dislikes in choice
BETHEL
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
FOR 1941
Fri. May 2 Bethel at Ft. Snelling
Mon. May 5 , To be scheduled
Fri. May 9 Waldorf at Bethel
Mon. May 12 Bethel at Concor-dia
Fri. May 16 Luther at Bethel
Sat. May 17 Bethany at Bethel
Mon. May 19 Bethel at :Macal-ester
Fri. May 23 Bethel at Waldorf
Sat. May 24 Bethel at Bethany
(A. M.)
Sat. May 24 Bethel at Luther
(P. M.)
Wed. May 28 Concordia at
Bethel
Tennis Crown Given
To Bethel, Rochester
Bethel J. C. and Rochester J. C.
have been awarded trophies em-blematic
of the tennis champion-ship
for the 1940 season. The
SMJC 'conference executive board
in a meeting held on March 29,
decided to make an award to each
of the schools as there was no sat-tisfactory
way to play off the two-way
tie.
The meet that was originally
scheduled between the teams rep-resenting
the two schools was can-celled
because of rain.
Members of the Bethel tennis
team who won the belated award
for the school were Don Johnson,
Gordie Peterson, Cy Young, Gus
Ferre, Ned Holmgren, and Del Pe-terson.
of material. I am sorry there is
not space in this column to devote
to those things which might prove
interesting to them. If any of you
fair readers wish to write this de-partment,
I shall gladly send you
some of my roommate's "tried and
true" recipes.
"I just sing to kill time."
"Well, you certainly have a
dandy weapon."
* * *
The all-conference basketball
team for the 1940-41 season has
been named. Worthington, which
won the conference championship,
received, the honor of having two
men named to the quintet chosen.
The Rochester, Austin, and Albert
Lea teams each landed one place
to complete the lineup. Gordon
Peterson, Bethel captain, was se-lected
again this year to fill a
guard spot on the all-conference
second team.
The first five players named are
as follows: forwards, Thompson of
Worthington and Wright of Roch-ester;
center, Van Citters of
Worthington; guards, Gavin of
Austin and N. Olson of Albert Lea.
*. *
The Indians used to settle their
differences with a pipe of peace,
but my old Swedish ancestors set-tled
theirs with a piece of pipe.
Twenty Five Attend
Miss'y Spring Retreat
Approximately twenty-five Beth-el
students attended the Annual
Spring Retreat held at Medicine
Lake, April 25-27.
Rev. Bernhard A. Helland, mis-sionary
to the Santals, India, and
Paul Lindell, of the World Mission
Prayer League and affiliated with
the Little Home-like Church in
Minneapolis, were the principal
speakers.
The purpose of the retreat was
to promote an interdenominational
interest among the students of the
colleges, Bible Institutes, and simi-lar
organizations.
The main objective was to stimu-late
a concerted interest in mis-sions,
which would encourage stu-dents
to more active participation
in their local missionary organiza-tion.
Keith M. Williams was the song
leader. Services were intersperced
with special vocal and instrumental
numbers.
Conference Hires Publicity
Agent; Changes Eligibility
The executive committee of our
southern Minnesota conference de-cided
in a meeting held on March
29, to hire a publicity agent. He
would be asked to reside in either
the twin cities or Rochester and
would work in conjunction with the
United Press.
The committee also changed the
eligibility ruling. Next season an
athlete must carry and pass in at
least ten semester hours of college
work to be eligible for play in con-ference
competition.
Other decisions were made as
announced elsewhere on this page,
but final decision is pending on the
selection of the type of blackboard
to be regarded as official.
The freshman volley ball team
was defeated by a Seminary team
on March 28. The frosh started
out slow but managed to take the
first game 21-19 after being on the
short end of 18-3. The Preachers
came back to defeat the Frosh in
two straight; 21-5 and 21-11. Gene
Nyman's height and ability was
one of the factors which turned the
tide against the Frosh.
* *
In the spring time a man's fancy
turns to love. Yes, that's base-ball!
* * *
"Tex" is all set and in good con-dition
for the first game. Of
course, he did lots of pitching(?)
during vacation.
Elwood Anderson claims he got
hit in the eye by a crank. Was it
a tractor crank ior what kind of a
"crank"?
Tennis Tourney
Will Be May 10
Play Is at Concordia
Needed: Team of Four
Concordia J. C. of St. Paul has
issued an invitation to the other
schools of the Southern Minnesota
Junior College conference to take
part in an all-day tennis tourney to
be held on Saturday, May 10. Play
will begin on twelve of the , courts
at Dunning Field, St. Paul, at 9:00
A. M. and will continue through-out
the day.
Coaches from all the schools in
the conference except Worthington
signified their intention to enter
teams in the tourney. Each team
participating must consist of four
men. The winner of this contest,
the first of its kind in the history
of the league, will be awarded a
trophy symbolical of the confer-ence
championship.
Coach Adam announced a prac-tice
game at Blake, May 3. The
first match will start at nine
o'clock. The boys will engage in 3
singles matches and two doubles.
"This match will give me an op-portunity
to see the boys in ac-tion,"
said the coach, "and it will
help me pick a team for the con-ference
meet, May 10."
"Practice will be held from now
until May 9 or 10," he continued.
"We must enter four men."
B Club Orders Shirts
The members of the B club, of-ficial
lettermen's organization of
Bethel, have just ordered about
one hundred white sport shirts
from the American Sporting Goods
Co. of St. Louis, Missouri.
An Indian head emblem and the
word "Bethel" is embossed on the
front of each shirt to help adver-tise
the school. The club decided
to restrict the sale of shirts to
members only, as a mark of recog-nition
for athletic prowess and for
unending hours of practice.
Coach Adam has scheduled a
game with the Fort Snelling base-ball
team for Saturday, May 3. The
possibilities of the Fort team are
innumerable. Today the sport
pages are filled with articles about
the major league players called for
draft, and maybe the Bethel In-dians
will have a real battle.
* * *
Dick Siebert, the basketball
coach at Concordia J. C., has start-ed
to hit his stride again. Last
week Connie Mack voted him as
his most valuable player. All his
Bethel friends wish that he keep
up his play and make a name for
himself among the baseball immor-tals.
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For Sale: Bethel T. Shirts! See
Roland Gustafson, prices reduced,
Midway 0619.
