Prizes Awarded for Best Posters in Good English Week
Judges awarded prizes for posters by Art 41 students. Eckel won first prize with The rats of poor English as the Pied Piper Good English. Mason took second for Poor English as a dog blocked by a gate. Third prize went to Etz for a vessel of English, with two honorable mentions Ruth Hurlburt and Adeline Stephenson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckel
Mason
T Hird
Etz
Geal
Indlu Cion
Ruth Hurlburt
Adeline Stephenson
Basketball season prep at VC N and local rivals
The winter term opens with plans for next term’s basketball schedule. Mr. Spalding travels to Fargo for an Interstate Athletic Conference meeting to set the schedule. Possible games are eyed with Aberdeen Normal, Fargo College, JamesTown College, Concordia College, Wahpeton Science School, Ellendale Normal and Industrial School, and perhaps Mayville Normal. A first VC N game against Mayville would mark a historic first. Dickinson Normal School likely won’t field a team this year. No first team has been chosen yet. candidates include Personing, Story, Anderson, Swanson, Gunderson, Maresh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spalding
Fargo
Aber «Deen Normal
Fargo College
Jamestown College
Concordia College
Wahpeton Science School
Ellendale Normal and Industrial School
Mayville Normal School
Mayville Normal
Dickinson Normal School
Dickinson
Aspiranta
Personing
Story
Anderson
Swanson
Gunderson
Maresh
L. H
Training in art for our children
An advocacy urging parents to foster art exposure for children using crude drawings, pictures, and stories. It argues art as a natural form of expression, supports collecting and scrapbooks, and notes early visual education shapes lasting appreciation for art, music, and literature through accessible prints and newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herpe
Little John
Winter Term Course List At State Normal School 1921
The schedule committee posted a tentative list of courses for the winter term beginning January 4, 1921, across departments such as Art, Commercial, Education and Psychology, Home Economics, Hygiene and Physical Education, Language, Library, Journalism, Manual Training, Mathematics, Museum, Public School Music, Science, and more. The catalog shows multiple sections per subject, including specialized courses like Animal Husbandry 51, Soils 41, Art Construction 41, Advanced Penmanship 651, Cookery 51, Athletics Coaching 61, Latin 42, Chemistry 42, General Physics 32, Geography topics, and various practice and methods courses, indicating a full program that may challenge students to fit schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Normal School
Ory Review
Home Economica
Museum
Clee Club
Science Co
Why Mild Weather Appears This Winter
J E Switzer notes weeklong near freezing with a low of zero on Dec 7 and recalls three other zero days. He explains mild extremes stem from shifts in high and low pressure systems and northerly versus southerly winds, citing last year’s north-dominant highs and this year’s northward lows. He lists daily highs and lows for the past week and mentions school building crews finishing work with minor fixtures remaining, plumbers waiting on materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hience
J. E. Switzer
Episcopal worker addresses chapel in school
Reverend J A Ten Broeck spoke at chapel about wartime sacrifice and the need to build character through teaching. He urged students to see teaching as a lifelong profession and to serve with seriousness, faith, and responsibility for America's future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Ten Broeck
Episcopal Church
New York
Ton
Biskoy Lawrence
Ten Broeck
America
C. E. Allen
General Peake
C. G. Fox
Episcopal
Jock
Jennie
Mary
Blizzard Staff Named for This Year
A committee selected the Blizzard Staff with Naomi Nelson as Editor-in-Chief Clare M Young as Advisory Editor Kathryn Burns and Dorothy Sorde as Associate Editors Ruth Nelon as Society Editor Florence Aitken and Florence Granger as Art Editors Vivian Christianson Irene Maroney as Dormitory Editors Lorene Heston and Henry Elster as Athletic Editors Marion Coyle Grace Gelder Marion Dunham Evelyn Hunter Myrtle Woodworth as Class Representatives Senior and Junior and Third Year Second Year First Year. Mary Mason as Business Manager Ronald Wright as Advertising Manager. The Junior Class approved the recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCoy
Miss Young
Emma Steyning
Mary, Wolf
Alice Hanson
Blizzard
Naomi Nelson
Clare M. Young
Kathryn Burns
Dorothy Sorde
Ruth Nelon
Florence Aitken
Florence Granger
Vivian
Scrap Book Fair Maiden Declines Impassioned Proposal
A determined admirer pleads on bended knee for Miss Wopkins Elizabeth to marry him. She declines with sharp wit and humor while referencing an inheritance and prospects, then promises affection, declaring darling, I am yours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imran
Darling
Unusual Kansas City bank note error baffled staff
A Kansas City bank issued a $100 note with a counterfeit like $50 back. A customer spent it at a hotel and cashiers counted the receipts repeatedly, each time short by $50. After 14 minutes a third clerk finally spotted the error and the note was sent to the Treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Kansas City
Focal Hotel
Treasury Department
Magisterial tenure in Gilbert and Ellice Islands cited
Colonial office 1919 report notes the Tabitesuea magistrate faces constant duties caring for 400 natives with feuds crimes births marriages land disputes and village affairs while maintaining trade and mission relations. He oversees prisons accounts and 70 junior officials and enforces peace among Christian and pagan factions for 120 dollars annually. Undersea humor and a Maidstone fox terrier anecdote follow about a head lodged with a drain pipe and a rabbit chase.
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South
Maidstone
Eng
Uttle
Whale clashes with steamer off Irish coast
A 50 foot whale attempted to use the steamer Philadelphia as a scraper to remove barnacles near the Irish coast. The whale crossed the bows and could not free itself as the ship sped ahead, its officers guiding relief and the whale limping away for repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Alumni Notes Highlight Local Teachers and Graduates
Miss Alberta L Wiley 1919 commerce graduate thrives in her second year teaching commercial subjects at Cooperstown high school. Other alumni pursue further studies at Minnesota and Minneapolis, with teaches listed in Faribault Kalispell Havre and Spokane.
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Alberta L. Wiley
Commerce Department
Cooperstown
Miss Wiley
Bessie Wallace
University of Minnesota
Valley City State Normal School
Morton Ober
LaPorte
Lews
Alice L. Smith
Steele
N. Dak
Normal School
Aileen Magee
Seal
Stella E. Wiggins
Walter L. Brean
Elvar Cullen
Iown
Iowa
Elizabeth Aylmer
Benson, Minn
S. Sixth St
Bozeman
Montana
Ida T. Midgarden
Grafton
Alvin G. Swanson
la Bolt
South Dakota
Oscar E. Anderson
Park Rapids
Minn
Olga Bridston
University of Washington
Twelfth Ave
N.eb
Seattle
Wash
Cecelia Whelan
Spokane
Washington
Florence
Sillman Hotel
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Walter Gilman Page
A. Matson
Northern Pacific
N. P
Siegfried
Xonias
Pollyanna
Drophead
Universal
F. W. Heidel
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