Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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DR. BERNHARD CHRISTENSEN President

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The aucsbukc couporation consists of thirty members, who meet at least once a year to plan the operation of Augsburg College anti Seminary. Any person who is a member in good standing of a Norwegian Lutheran Church in the United States can become a member of the Corporation by being elected as such by a majority vote of the then members of the Corporation. Members arc elected for life and become inactive only in case of death, incapacity to act, or in ease of non-attendance at three consecutive meetings. The officers of the Corporation are, ex officio, the Board of Trustees. The Trustees are elected for a term of five years, or until successors are elected. They arc responsible for their actions to the Corporation which is responsible in turn to the delegates assembled at the annual meeting. After the death of Dr. Sverdrup in November, 1937, the Board of Trustees appointed Professor H. N. Hendrickson to the office left vacant by President Sverdrup. H. N. Hendrickson had been registrar and head of the history department, and had been on the faculty since 1900. He discharged the duties of the president until Bernhard Christensen was elected to the office in 1938. I) C T I n G PR€SID€flT 1 9 3 7 - 1 9 3 8 H. N. HENDRICKSON

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PR6SID6IIT’S mess AGC Zduxxdkmal PeM iectiue JN ONE of his great novels, Dostoyewsky makes the remark that often the sacrificial service which God requires of a young man is not that he engage- in some enterprise of special danger but that he apply himself diligently to his studies for five or six years. It might at times be easier to go off to the wars, risking one’s life in the front lines of battle; or even—for the more spiritually inclined—to set out for some distant and dangerous mission field. Rut God asks faithfulness to present duty in preference to the doing of seemingly more heroic deeds. He sees the needs of humanity in larger perspective, and marshals His forces accordingly. Pumpkins can be grown in a single summer. Oaks grow to maturity only after many years. This is a well-worn comparison, but it expresses a truth which does not grow old. The educational process requires concentration cf effort, stern self-disci- pline, patient intellectual application stretching over years. Students of today, however, are faced with countless distractions and temptations to slovenly thinking and careless dissipation of irrecoverable energy. And many succumb. Even the receipt of a diploma does not guarantee that one has really survived. Is it worth while to endure the difficulties incident to the securing of a college education, and possibly to going on for a year or two of graduate study ? Does it pay to lay the intellectual foundations of life securely? Our answer ought not be given in terms of personal or pecuniary reward but in terms of the resultant service to mankind made possible. Augsburg aims to be the kind of school where young people are challenged to enter whole-heartedly into the high discipline of a thorough preparation for Christian life-service. The biennial publication of an Augsburgiati should find its abiding value in recording a glimpse of a student generation enroutc toward this goal. 11 Rernhakd Christensen.