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Who's distressed about a C in-stead
of an A? I'm not. I didn't
study very hard anyway. I tried
though. I tried until 4:00 A. M. the
night before exam. So did my
roommate. We studied together,
over crackers and peanut butter,
in our room—alone, and no one
disturbed us. No one, except the
other residents of the dorta.
We're going to Bethel to study
and learn and the dorm is just the
place in which to do it. It's always
very quiet. It is, except during
study hours and after lights out.
And then, all that can be heard is
the sound of those upstairs re-arranging
furniture o r jumping
rope. But you don't mind that.
What's a little noise. You can
just ignore it. You can, I can't.
Not while they sing, I can't. I'm
not complaining. It doesn't make
me nervous. It makes me sick,
but it doesn't make me nervous.
After the noise subsides, I can
alw`a-Ys go to bed and reflect upon
my studies. I can, unless my bed
has been treated. There are sev-eral
ingenious methods of treating
beds, all of which have been dem-onstrated
on mine. But it doesn't
take long to shake the cornflakes
out of the sheets, take the pepper
out of the pillow-case, put the slats
back in, turn the mattress and
spring right-side up, and then I can
be assured of a full night's sleep.
I can, unless the girls have another
treat in store in the form of a
bathtub party.
The dorm residents are really
lovely girls. They understand how
important it is to study before
every exam. But first of all, they
realize how necessary cleanliness
is. They will even forsake their
own interest to be of assistance in
any needy case. The fact that the
baths are administered at 3:00 A.
M. in ice water, or that you are
fully clad doesn't make any differ-ence.
Why should it? It doesn't
bother them.
You wouldn't let little things like
that keep you from your studies
would you? I would! I went to
sleep. I'm not distressed about
getting a C instead of an A. And
I'm not surprised.
Party Starts
Girl's Dorm
Tonight 7:30 The Clarion Refreshments
Alter at the
Dining Hall
Vicial Salad Papeit
Vol. XXVI — No. 8
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. January 31, 1947
AS ROSY Full Fledged College In Store
SEES IT
By Rosenquist
If you hear the Boston Pops
Symphony playing some of your
favorite radio commercials soon
don't be shocked, because your
ears will not be deceiving you.
It's happened at last, a symphony
based on current musical radio
commercials. I can just- imagine
the first movement being called
"andante in Rinso White."
* * *
The chairman of the U. S. atom-ic
commission, David K. Lilienthal,
is anxious that the conception of
atomic power be that of a force of
peace and health instead of a pow-er
of destruction. Therefore he is
asking that the atomic commiss-ion
offices be transferred from the
war department buildings to the
public health building.
(Continued on page 3)
Bethel Debaters
Meet Augsburg
The Bethel Debate Squad met
Augsburg for their first practice
debate of the season Wednesday,
January 22, at Augsburg. This
was Augsburg's second practice de-bate.
Three teams debated the curr-ent
resolution that labor should be
given a direct share in the manage-ment
of industry. Harold Christ-ensen
and Lee Kingsley formed
the Bethel affirmative t e a m.
Charles Germany and Al Brown
formed one negative team; Donald
Decker and Earl Hoagberg formed
the other.
After a number of practice de-bates,
the squad will enter teams
in various tournaments under the
coaching of Miss Berthel.
Seeh .9otirviotatiaot
Students will shortly be ask-ed
to indicate on a questionaire
their intentions for the summer
vacation, so that plans may be
made for • a Summer School.
Those expecting to study will
be asked to show the subjects
in which courses are desired so
that requirements can be met
as far as possible. Summer
School will be of .eight weeks'
duration.
College Actions
Reflect Change
Macalester College is finding a
method of getting back all the li-brary
books on time! The librar-ian
is threatening to publish a
black-list of borrowers who do not
return books by due date.
To assist in amending their con-stitution,
the Student Council of
Rochester Junior College contact-ed
thirteen junior colleges in
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois for
copies of their constitutions. From
the replies they combined the best
points.
A committee of six resident stu-dents
of North Park College has
been appointed to receive com-plaints
from students concerning
the dining hall and to suggest pro-posed
improvements to those in
charge.
Cheerleaders have been tried out
for the first time at Tracy Junior
College, the result being described
as "on the rough side but will im-prove
with practice." Maybe the
Bethel basketball team must take
care!
Is Veteran's
Bonus "another
grab demand?"
The question of a state bonus
for veterans seems to be gather-ing
momentum both among Minn-e
s o t a veterans concentrated on
school campuses and at the_ state
legislature. A bill now contempla-ted
would provide a $1000 bonus
in two equal installments in 1948
and 1949.
Tabulations of opinion among
veterans, however, indicate a large
minority opposed to such a bonus.
In a recent poll conducted at the
University, 40% of those veterans
questioned and of non-veter-ans
were opposed to -any kind of
state bonus. 15% of non-veterans
had no opinion, whereas only 9%
of veterans were undecided.
Veterans, in deciding. on support
for or against the bonus, have to
weigh the merits of more money
against several definite disadvan-tages.
If the suggested bill is pass-ed,
the likelihood of a state sales
tax is greatly increased. The pass-age
of a bonus bill will tend to
further segregate veterans from
non-veterans and, once a bonus
has been allotted, there may de-velop
a feeling that the veteran
has been "paid off" and in conse-quence
any veteran demand for
better housing, state aid for edu-cation,
or a state health program,
might be written off as "another
veteran's grab demand."
Arrangements a r e already i n
hand for the J. S. banquet, the
Freshman Class having approved
the appointment of the necessary
committees to undertake planning.
It is expected that the function
will be held in a local hotel.
Anticipate Ten
New Professors
Students have this week been
given an opportunity to help plan
the four-year college course for
Bethel. They have been asked to
indicate on questionaires the ma-jors
in which they are interested,
so that suitable subjects may be
offered for the third year's work,
which is to be added this Fall.
In an interview, Dean C. E. Carl-son
stated that the Board had de-cided
to proceed at once with the
organization o f Senior College
work and to offer work at a third
year level when the new School
year opened. This would lead to
a fourth year in 1948/49. The Ad-ministration
had been instructed to
work out curricular plans and were
considering with what majors to
begin. He hoped that the ques-tionaires
would indicate those in
which the students were most in-terested.
"Most majors," Dean Carlson
stated, "will include from 27 to 36
(Continued on page 4)
Weather Doesn't
Spoil Outing
In spite of a lack of snow, the
Sophomore Retreat at Camp Ihdu-hapi
last week-end was pronounced
a success. Plans were revised to
fit the weather and indoor games
were substituted for snow sports.
Big event of the retreat was the
coronation of King Earl Hoagberg
a n d Queen Bernadette Thureson
Saturday afternoon. The balance
of the afternoon w a s spent in
ping-pong, volley ball, and pillow
(Continued on page 4) -
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL POLICY: To maintain and promote the Christian
principles cf Bethel; to promote scholarship; to foster,
more school spirit; to establish a better understanding
among the :tudents,.
Editor Gordon Krantz
Ass't. Editor Charles Germany
News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Sheffler, Rosenquist, Ger-many,
M. Lindstedt, R. Dischinger, Kenward.
Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, D. Carlson,
Olson.
Sports Ellison, Ed.; H. Peterson, Goodrich,
E. Johnson, Dahl
Religious Editor Ruth Bridges
Circulations Manager Karl Rosenquist
Business Manager Bud Peterson
Typists Schultz, Christiansen, Ward, Bavin, A. Carlson
Faculty Advisor LaVone Berthel
ar. Page 2 THE CLARION
My But Times
Have Changed
By Bob Dischinger
Are 75 years of conservative tea-ching
being abandoned in Bethel
Seminary? This provocative ques-tion
shook the minds of some
thoughful theologians in the Sem-i
n a r y Conclave. Rev. Turnwall
told this story. Twenty-five years
ago in his student days, women
were to be allowed in the Semin-ary
for the first time. The Gener-al
Conference had so voted. Dr.
Lagergren of the seminary was op-posed,
but knew he must conform.
At the opening session of his class
in theology in which three women
were registered, the good doctor
set the scene for a pitched battle.
Arranged in a semi-circle at the
front were just enough chairs for
the men in the class. They were
each assigned one chair. At the
rear of the room were three other
chairs. As the women entered, Dr.
Lagergren said, "The women will
take the three seats at the rear
of the room."
Now, of course, women have a
large part in the life of the sem-inary.
The shocking thing about
this incident is the apathy with
which the seminary men heard
Rev. Turnwall recount this story.
They actually laughed. To the ma-jority
it was humorous. Students
of only a few short years ago
would not have acted thus. Their
brows would have furrowed. They
would have shaken their heads
gravely at such a turn of events
within one man's life time. Lights
would have burned far into the
night in dormitory rooms as ser-ious-
minded young men called
councils of war (generally called
bull-sessions) to combat this ris-ing
liberal tendency. Not so today.
Issues are confused. The rich her-itage
of the past is forgotten and
the imminent danger of the near
future is ignored. I trust it may
never happen, but I call upon our
men to think seriously of a day not
long hence when three young men
may enter a class in theology and
be asked to take seats at the rear
of the room.
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Sir,
Will you allow me the hospital-ity
of your columns to bring to the
notice of your readers the mis-use
of the word "skit." The word is
frequently used in connection with
church programs and was last
week included in the B. W. A.
meeting to describe a presenta-tion
of a typical day at Bethel.
The dictionary indicates that a
skit is a satire, jibe or jest, which
hardly seems a fitting description
for a program that included sever-al
devotional periods. It would
seem that a "sketch" is a more ap-propriate
description of the intend-ed
idea, and I would like to sug-gest
that it be used more freely.
It is no word of which to be afraid.
I am told that "skit" is used to
remove the possible stigma of ama-teur
theatricals, but I do not think
that the substitution of "skit" is
an improvement.
Yours etc.,
Webster,
Chapel Quotes
The man who is careless about
reading the Word of God is the
man who believes in himself.
M. R. Siemens
God has no place for pride in
Christian service.
Elwood Anderson
As we go forth to serve, let us
remember that God wants us to
be humble.
Elwood Anderson
I believe that the Christian who
says, "I need not take the Word
of God every day," is well on the
road to the next step of backslid-ing.
M. R. Siemens
Peter was the great man with
the sword, but he ran like a whip-ped
dog when a maid spoke to
him.
o M. R. Siemens
If we are not willing to yield to
him we will not be able to re-joice
with him the rest of our days.
Elwood Anderson
Seek Variety
In Chapel
The appointment of ushers and
lengthy discussion at Freshman
Conferences have focussed consid-erable
attention upon seating ar-rangements
at Chapel. But nec-essary
as such considerations have
become, it is to be hoped that they
will not serve to by-pass the main
question of the chapel programs
themselves.
At a school such as Bethel, the
chapel services rightly occupy an
important place in the day's activ-ities
and to them should b e
brought the best of every depart-ment.
In the music, a commend-able
effort has been made, handi-capped
though it is by an iriade-quate
supply - of hymn books. It
remains to be seen whether last
week's address by Dr. J. 0. Chris-tianson
indicated the introduction
of a similar variety of speakers.
That address, with its Christian
approach to the atomic bomb, stim-ulated
and broadened the think-ing
of the student body. At the
same time it suggested the wide
poss.i b. i.l ities of inviting other qual-ified
speakers to Chapel to exam-ine
other world problems in the
same spirit. Many speakers of the
same calibre are available in the
Twin Cities and can be used to re-lieve
at Chapel services the local
pastors whom students can-and do-hear
regularly every Sunday.
Recent Missionary Band activi-ties
have included a report from
the delegates to the Toronto Con-
By Dave Carlson
This typewriter has certainly
taken its intentional abuse well in
the last four years. . . and they ev-en
promoted it to more spacious
quarters. I can still recollect
squeezing in behind it in the old
corner office or else lifting the
desk up so I could crawl under it.
Them was the "days of toil and
tribulation" when office hours in-variably
ran to 6 A. M. the night
before deadline and those walks
from Selby and Snelling with Fah-renheit
at —20 degrees hardly ad-ded
to the joy of living. Suffice
it to say, however, it feels some-what
professional to loosen the tie
that blinds. . get a desk under
my feet again. . . and rack my
brain for scraps of thought (print-able,
that is) for our dear readers.
Until recently, the female of the
species has been the ep,tome of
fickleness, in my estimation. Now,
however, the weather man threat-ens
to take the lead position after
the recent spasmodic and unpre-dictable
weather. His sense of ti-ming
is way off, too. . . as evidence
the warm sunshine the day after
the Fire Dept. flooded our campus
for skating.
This brings to mind a certain
young lady on campus who is mak-ing
her bid for Barnum and Bailey
fame by skating on her ankles,
she says. She must be a pretty
sharp kid.
n the Carpet
By President Wingblade
From the lips of the Christ to
Martha, concerning Mary, came
those ringing words which would
make a great text for a three-point
sermon:
"Mary (1) has chosen (2) the
good part (3) that shall not be
taken from her."
How true it is that everything
the physical eye sees or the ear
hears or the hand touches—will be
rolled up as a scroll and leave not
a wake behind. It is the invisible
things that are eternal.
Life is made up of continuous
choices. It was Calvin Coolidge
who uttered that succinct sentence,
"I do not choose to run."
If we choose the good only it
will crowd out the better. If we
choose the better it might crowd
out the best. We cannot read ev-ery
book, we cannot associate with
all men, we cannot attend every
meeting, we cannot do everything
—we must choose.
It is the life that is characterized
by wise choices which becomes the
great life. What we will be doing
with each of our twenty-four hour
periods this coming year will de-pend
upon how we choose.
What a privilege that we can,
if we will, choose in the light of
the eternal truth. There is wisdom
(Continued on page 4)
ference, an address by Dr. Shaw,
of the St. Paul Bible School, and
a discussion led by Dr. G. A. Hag-s
trom.
Three cheers for "Socks" Lind-roth,
Bob Nelson and their lively
aid-de-camps for their super job of
yell leading at the Tracy game.
Second prize goes to Shirley Daley
and Co. followed afar off by Bud
and Les.
FLASH! Here's a chance for
y o u hungry excitement-seekers:
To paraphrase the famous "last
words" of a certain professor, "the
neighbors are complaining" so I
had better silence this Woodstock
of 1890 vintage for the sake of
community good will.
.21:1' flatted diaipps . .
.-- A 500 CRUMB REWARD is be-ing
offered for information lead-ing
to the apprehension and arrest
of the lousy kidnapper who is hol-ding
our esteemed friend Archie
for a 2,000 crumb ransom. Con-tact
local Gestapo in Room 108 if
you possess any info. which will
hasten Archie's r e t u r n to our
ranks. . . and his crumby box.
SEEN AND HEARD. . . Olaf
and Carl using the service en-trance
at the all-school party. . .
Taffy cartooning Engwall in Eth-ics,
of all classes . . . Kalserud on
his head in t h e bus while at
Stanchfield; remember the name
on the side of the bus, Ralph. . .
Berthel applauding the Male Chor-us
in the middle of a number—tsk,
tsk.
THE CLARION Page 3
a/facie 11 ars diewici
W he r e are all those out-door
sports Minnesota boasts of having?
Aren't we far enough North to en-joy
a good winter of ice skating,
or at least a few week-ends of ski-ing?
Who can say that they have
had enough tobogganing this win-ter?
Minnesota is not my home
state, and if I were to look for a
northern state which can provide
me with all the snow and ice
I want I surely would not choose
the Gopher State.
For weeks now we have been
patiently waiting for a snow and
a few degrees of colder weather so
that we might go ahead with our
plans for a hockey rink. What
happens? We go home for Christ-mas
vacation knowing almost for
sure that by the time we return in
January Bethel's campus will be
deeply shrouded with snow, en-ough
snow to make suitable banks
for any type of skating rink. What
happens? Upon the first week of
our return back to school we are
ready to write home for our bath-ing
suits! Bethel is almost ready
Tracy Loses By
Close Margin
13ethel took a rough game away
from Tracy Junior College Satur-day
night, January 18, on Bethel's
- home floor.
The game was knotted several
times through the first half, with
Tracy gaining a slight edge. After
the intermission Bethel came out
on the floor and put on a scoring
splurge that iced the game. The
scoring honors for the winners
w en t to Greenman sinking 30
points, and Sandberg came in sec-ond
with 19 points. For the los-ers,
Tange and Roth each racked
up 15 points for high point honors.
(Continued from page 1)
And speaking of health, there is
good news from the field of medi-cal
research. Two scientists from
Stanford University think that
they have finally found the_virus
that is the cause of polio. This
Virus was isolated by a process of
freezing the brain and spinal chord
of a rat infected with infantile
paralysis. This material was then
placed in a high speed centrifuge.
A particle two billionths of an inch
was isolated that was 95% pure
virus.
Their hopes now are for a vac-c
i n e which may prevent polio.
Let's hope that they are on the
right trail!
A recently formed Chapel Choir,
under the direction of Joyce John-son,
has made several appreciated
appearances at services.
to include swimming on their
sports schedule.
Perhaps by the time this issue
reaches the press winter will be
upon us. Let's hope so; but still
we have been cheated out of al-most
two months of winter sports.
According to the calendar we use
back home winter officially arrives
December 22, and we're already
weeks along in our ice capers and
ski frolics. Statistics show that
more bones have been broken back
home by now than you Minnesota
people will be breaking all season.
You're being cheated out of your
winter, and there is nothing you
can do about it.
Our only solution, as a school
of cold-blooded Swedes is to trans-port
our whole campus out to the
high mountains of the Colorado
Rockies, or better still, return to
the land of our forefathers and
take up our studies where we can
enjoy our free hours "schussing"
the slopes of Mount Kebnekaise or
doing figure-eights on the munici-pal
rinks of Stockholm.
Bethel Squaws
Beat Aggies
Doris Richerts netted all but one
of the 23 points which the Bethel
Squaws recorded in their victory
of 23-19 over the "Ag" School on
January 18th. The odd point in
the tethel score resulted from a
free-throw by Lois Raymetz.
The victory followed a defeat by
the narrow margin of 14-17 on the
previous evening at the hands of
St. Francis. The reverse came in
spite of a Bethel lead of 7-4 at the
half. D. Richerts and L. Raymetz
were again in scoring form, each
having three buckets to their cred-it.
The remainder of the points
came from S. Burnett.
Seminary
Snatches
A new baby is always news ev-en
for Bob Dischinger. Meredith
and John welcomed a new little
sister into their home January 14.
Some fellows carry a folder of
photographs showing off their fam-ily
but Bob gave that up long ago
when people accused of trick pho-tography
in producing such beau-tiful
pictures. He says now, "You
just have to see them to believe
it."
Walter Eddy is having quite a
task these days trying to convince
some boys at the "Y" that Moses
was a greater man than Paul. If
you have some helpful arguments
for his thesis or some weak ones
against it, put them in his mail
box. The s t r o n g arguments a-gainst
it you may keep for yourself.
Bernie Travaille a n d Clarence
Sahlin are encouraged of late by
the progress in their churches.
Last Saturday night 160 people
were out to watch their current
basketball tournament. A few more
people and they will have to seek
a larger floor. Keep up the good
work fellows.
A petition is being circulated in
the seminary for supplying that
part of our school with a new ping-pong
table, or at least a new top
to the old one. Heading the list
are two of the seminary's good
women students, Eloise Jensen and
Joyce Johnson. Now if we can on-ly
find out who should receive
the petition there might be some
results.
Bethel Defeats
Two B.B. Teams
T h e Bethel Indians out-scored
Bethany on the loser's home floor,
Friday night January 24.
The first quarter ended with the
score tied at 12-12. Starting with
the second period Bethel found
the hoop and pulled steadily away,
sparked by Sandberg, who captur-ed
the scoring honors for both
teams by collecting 22 points.
On Saturday nite January 25, on
Luther's court a determined aggre-gation
from Bethel kept in the
win column by defeating a stub-born
Luther quintet 55-54. Bayer
for Luther took scoring honors
with 26 points, followed close by
Greenman of Bethel with 22
points.
Intra-mural
Sports Begin
Boys on the campus have had an
opportunity lately to show off their
skill on the basketball court in the
Intra - mural basketball games
which were begun on January 17.
Before long there appeared some
extraordinary names f or t h e
groups. Team No. one is known as
the Roger Dodgers." No. 2 with
the name of "Tornadoes" must
expect to create some destruction.
The third team are known as "Lu-lus"
while the fourth team have
adopted the name of "Sneakers."
"The Wheels" is the name of team
No. 5 while the sixth team must
have an inferiorty complex with
the title of "Fumblin' Five."
Box Score
W L Pts. Op. Pts.
Sneakers #4 2 0 66 38
Wheels #5 , 2 0 48 43
Roger Dodgers #1 1 1 53 66
Lulus #3 1 1 50 ,53
Tornadoes #2 0 2 46 52
Fumblin Five #6 0 2 50 61
So far the teams have played
twice and to-day team No. 1 will
play No. 6, team No. 2 and No. 3
and team No. 4 will play No. 5.
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office, the bag so far including
two linguistic mice caught in their
search for knowledge or candy
from Miss Berglund's desk.
THAT a student assured his pro-fessor
that the class would get a
bang out of a consideration of ex-plosives.
THAT Coffee-shop receipts are
declining because the seminary
students attending Combined Cha-pel
have to rush back to ensure a
seat at Dr. Karlson's lectures.
THAT the campus alternates be-tween
a duck-pond, and a skating-rink,
depending upon the vagaries
of the weather.
THAT Professor Norstrom enliv-ened
a chemistry lecture with a
demonstration of the kangaroo-walk.
- THAT mid-quarter test for the
Communications class has been
prepared by the students them-selves.
THAT according to a theory ad-vanced
by Ruth Bridges a theolog-ical
student goes through college
by the sweat of his frau.
THAT Paul Wage has a pecul-iar
taste in birthday gifts for co-eds.
THAT a familiar trio in the
chemistry roll-call are Shold, Skov
and Skoog, and that while every-one
else is "here", Walter Cecil
insists on being "present."
THAT since Mrs. Sjordal's lec-ture
and demonstration on dining,
patrons of the Coffee Shop are
looking for an alternative to the
under side of the table as a place
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Photos Taken
As '47 Spire
Progresses
"Say six, say five, say Mickey
Mouse," comes from the man be-hind
the camera and another fresh-man
has his picture taken. As the
freshman, middleman and junior
sits there with a sheet draped over
his lap and one arm, the photog-rapher
struggles behind his cam-era.
"Now just hold your head right
there, and don't look directly at
the light because you'll be cross-eyed,"
admonished Mr. Cooke, the
photographer from Chicago.
Everyday from Monday, January
20, to Monday, January 27, stu-dents
were seen hurrying towards
the boy's dorm where the pictures
were taken in the basement.
Upon entering the room each
student was greeted by Joybe Lar-son,
former Bethel student. The
young ladies were provided with a
mirror to primp in front of and at-ter
combing and recombing their
hair, it was at last time to go in
for the picture-taking.
After waiting for quite some
time two of the teachers began to
grow uneasy but finally one was
heard to say, "Oh well, no one
looks very good in these pictures,
so why sho'uld I worry.
Most people objected to having
all their teeth showing and when
one girl was asked why she didn't
want hers to show, she replied,
"They're dirty, I don't want them
to show."
On Tuesday morning the teach-ers'
pictures were taken and on
Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday
the group pictures were taken for
the Spire.
Bethel Life
Is BWA Theme
A typical day at Bethel was pre-sented
at the B. W. A. meeting
January 17. The dining hall of the
girl's dorm was arrayed with Beth-el
banners and dogs. While one
part of the room portrayed a col-lege
co-ed's room complete with
bed, desk, and alarm clock; an-other
part showed the coffee shop
and the mail boxes.
Before the skit was presented,
ice cream with strawberries and
cake topped by miniature Bethel
Banners was served. During this
time Elaine Christianson and
Grace Johnson presided at the pi-ano.
COMO SHOE SHOP
WE'LL MEET YOUR
SHOE NEEDS
1560 Como Avenue
COMPLIMENTS OF
FALCON HEIGHTS
PHARMACY
1526 W. Larpenteur Ave.
NEstor 0609
Laundry Is Big .
Dorm oblem
The laundry situation for resi-dents
on the campus is showing
signs of taking a turn for the bet-ter.
The long waiting lines for the
use of the Bendix washing machine
in the seminary basement will soon
be a thing of the past. Work on
the laundry rooms in the two new
dormitories is now nearly complet-ed.
A check of the situation in the
Married Couples' Apartment s
shows that laundry tubs are in-stalled
and that the water is now
hooked up. Two Bendix washers
are expected soon. Another fea-ture
of the laundry is the drying
room with a capacity for eight,
washings. It is operated by gas
and will dry washing in fifteen
minutes.
There has been a Bendix in the
basement of the Men's Dormitory.
for some weeks, but for some rea-son
hasn't been hooked up. It is
expected to be connected shortly
however. Two ironing boards have
also been installed in the refectory
and it is expected that the use of
the drying room in the Married
-Couples' Apartments will be grant-ed
to the men as well.
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quartes credits of senior college
work with pre-requisites on the Jr.
College level with either one or
two years in the field. For exam-ple,
in philosophy only one year
will be necessary but in history it
will' have to be two."
"It is not just for the sake of
education," continued the D e a n,
"but with the definite object of
preparing students f o r Christian
service. We don't want to make
Bethel just one more of the Liber-al
Arts Colleges, of which there
are many all over the -country. We
do not expect to compete with the
University Institute of Technology
but can fill an important role in
the field of Christian service."
To meet these requirements it
would be necessary- to limit the
fields in which to specialize. The
subjects that seemed most likely
were those of Philosophy, P -Sychol-ogy,
Sociology, English, History,
Speech or Communications, Educa-tion
and Religious Education.
Asked the position of pre-medic
students, the Dean said that the
proposals involved strengthening
the science department by addi-tional
chemistry as soon as that
was possible. They hoped to hold
pre-medical students for two years
but they would have to finish off
elsewhere. As f a r as sciences
were concerned it was unlikely
that a course in geology would be
included but a course in anthropo-logy
was far more likely.
The Dean stated that at the
same time there would be some ,
significant additions to the school
library.
On the subject of faculty he said
that it was his hope that from
eight to ten new members would
be added to the teaching staff
next year.
The bell rings—first period is
over. From the class rooms and
lecture halls pour the scores of
students. They rush as if mad, all
going in the same direction. What
could the attraction be? Let's fol-low
them—the choice is not ours
for. it's like a Maelstrom carrying
us like a leaf on the sea. Thank
goodness! You have your feet on
the floor again. Or at least, what's
left of them. You say with a smile
"That's okay, I walk on them all
the time." The mail boxes are
opened and slammed shut in crazy
disorder. Like the tide dashes its
refuse against the shore, so some
of us are bounced against the
walls. Casualties are surprisingly
low, and soon the tide draws out to
sea. We stand there, dazed and
alone, like a stranded barge; and
wonder how often such takes
place. Then you notice a face peer-idg
at you through one of the box-es
and Jean's sympathetic voice
falls like a benediction on your
dazed and tired soul.
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for our choice if we avail ourselves
of it.
From the time that Paul saw his
Master on that Damascus road and
was blinded forever to the things
of this world and cried, "Lord,
what wouldst thou have me to
do?" to the time that he was giv-ing
his testimony, as we under-stand,
before. Nero's throne, he
could honestly say, "I was not dis-obedient
to the heavenly vision."
We are responsible for the light
that we have and for the light that
is available. The great and suc-cessful
life is the life that walks
in the light.
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fighting on a hanging log. A few
went tobaggoning and a few
sportsmen fished through the ice.
In the evening the campers . en-joyed
a Smorgosbord.
Sunday School next morning was
led by Dean Carlson. After lunch
the campers were returned to the
campus.
A revision of the student body
constitution was discussed at the
Student Council monthly meeting
the evening of December 22.
A committee –consisting of Mel
Soneson, Bob Nelson and Donald
Decker together with Dean Carl-son
was appointed to work on
changes to be suggested to the
Council for presentation to the
student tsody.
President Sandin w a s charged
t o appoint Publicity, Promotion
and Follow-up committees for N.
A. S. in order that this year's fund
campaign may get under way
soon.
Tha Social Committee reported
progress in its work of planning
social funtions of the school.
Dean Ca rlson revealed his con-cern
over the spiritual condition
of the school, emphasizing espec-ially
the necessity of close con-tact
with God and the need of con-sistent
and pure testimony, espec-ially
in the life of our students.
Male Chorus
Makes Trip
The Male Chorus made an out-of-
town appearance on Tuesday,
January 21 in Stanchfield, Minne-sota.
The chorus of nearly forty
singers made the trip in the Bethel
bus chauffeured by Coach Edwards.
The varied program which in-cluded
numbers by the male quar-tet
and the trombone trio as well
received by the large audience that
turned out for the concert. After
the concert, all the chorus mem-bers
were invited to chorus mem-ber
Willis Dahlman's home for
lunch before returning to school.
What and When
Jan. 31 Intramural Basketball
Feb. 4 Student Council
Feb. 7 D. V. B. S. Teacher Party
Feb. 7 Intramural Basketball
Feb. 11 Convocation Concert
Feb. 14 Intramural Basketball
Feb. 14 B. W. A.
Feb. 14 Missionary Band
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Council Work
