Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 =— -----------------------------------— AUGSBURG I AN i An Ideal TO be worth your weight in gold! If you ever have 1 een in a tight place, in which whether you were going to get out of it or not depended u| on some other man being true to his duty, then you realized what it meant to you to have a reliable man at your side. In your game, where victory depends upon every man being at his appointed place at the right moment, or otherwise each maneuver will be a failure, you want the player to arrive punctually at his place. 'Phe difference between living and playing is in the consequences. The rules of the game in both are. broadly speaking, the same. For that reason play is education for life. In the one case the results attained are quite immaterial, in the other the consequences arc the important thing. In a game, we play according to rules because otherwise there could Ik no game at all. The rules and the methods spring out of the necessity. There must ; be a certain amount of cooperation and a certain amount of rivalry. Both are defined and limited. That makes fun jjossiblc. In life we subordinate ourselves to standards of action both as to what is permitted and what is not permitted because it is the only way by which to attain the results we have set as ovtr goal. We would like to Ik surrounded by reliable persons in play, but more especially in the earnest efforts of life when the results arc of vital importance. We wish ourselves to be persons who are steadfast, in whom our friends can ; have confidence, and in whom they can trust. It is a good ideal and it is also a Christian ideal. The Christian thought towards men is one of service. It would seem that there can lx; no question of | such a thought direction in the self-centered person. He who thinks of his own : interest and glory first cannot l e a man in whom others can put confidence. ; That a selfish man may be a helpful man is a mere accident. You cannot ; depend upon it. I To lx? worth your weight in gold is a Christian aspiration provided the I balance which measures your value uses as weights the services you have un- : selfishly rendered. Your life is worth that much to your fellowmen. It is, in fact, a far greater value than that of the mere bulk of the metal gold. : It is a worthy ambition for every student of Augsburg, to become a stead- ; fast man. Augsburg knows of no other way in which to become a steadfast man than this, to have a firm ground upon which to stand. Find the truth and stand there. There is no other foundation, than that of truth, which will remain un- shaken. All else will fall. Augsburg wishes to see her students become reliable men and women, every one of them. Therefore Augsburg holds forth the standard of Christ. George Sverdrup. ------- 1922 I'ACK SEVEN

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AUGSBURGIAX Augsburg Park C. M. Roan, ’04. (( A L (iSIJUR(i PARK” is a new and distinct name in the Lutheran l ice 1 Church vocabulary and otherwise in the United States, as well as in the world at large. The creation of the name is a sort of home baptism affair as yet, which later may receive official recognition. However, it is a splendid name. It carries with it a refreshing thought that will lend inspiration and create joy in many hearts. Old Augsburg is in the limelight at present because of a contemplated change in location. More than fifty years ago. when the present site was chosen on the south prairie of St. Anthony, no thought was ever harbored in the minds of the pioneers that their choice should in time prove to be less desirable. The growth of the city of Minneapolis has surrounded the campus in such a way and by such environments that it has become apparent that growth and expansion at Augsburg cannot take place under existing conditions. The inevitable has come. Our Alma Mater must move to the open again where it can grow and expand outwardly as well as inwardly. At the crucial moment the friends of the school, old and new. rallied to the colors of old Augsburg by launching a project to provide a fully paid up campus site, -uitable in all particulars, and with a clear title transferred to the regents of the institution as an outright gift. The Augsburg Park Association has been formed and is incorporated for this purpose. Its real estate holdings have temporarily been christened Augsburg Park. Augsburg Park is a tract lying to the south of the city comprising one hundred acres of choice wooded and open land, with the beautiful Wood Lake at its extreme west end. Tin land stretches eastward to the old, familiar extended Nicollet Avenue. Through the center of the plot runs the great arterial highway. Lyndale Avenue Road, and parallel to it, two or three blocks eastward, the Southern Klcctric Railway. The parcel lying between the macadamized highway and the lake, is a place where oak trees'of all sizes abound and where the w inds create gentle, soft breezes in summer, snappy and brisk ones in winter, the hill and the lake affording opportunity for skiing, skating, and swimming, the atmosphere as a whole pro- moting thought upon the most sublime problems given man to solve. This part of the land has temj orarily been designated as the campus site. Within our knowledge no institution has ever had a more charming location offered it. Aside from the beauty of the spot, the distance of its location from the city of Minneapolis is an added attraction. Transportation facilities to the city centers will no doubt be ample in due course of time. And what is the distance of two' miles anyway for young men and women of Norse extraction, even if they have to make it on foot and that quite frequently. The motive and the comprehensive factors of the enterprise are such as should stir the hearts and minds of students, parents, faculty meml ers. alumni, and each and every member of Lutheran Free Church congregations. Mere is hoping. PAGE NINE