Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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“Wk ere lived wo How do«irable to belong in now Dorm ! Yet who would de ert the old, thovO built fifty |iaty, leventy year ago? In Morton Hnll from ontronco to foundry from myttenou ba ement to thinly floored attic: in W t Hail, up and down it creaky ftair . in and through it winding hallway ; in Old Mam, from ground floor to Valhalla — wo belonq. Por whoro wo havo crowded together at Bull Se «ont homo workad or lifted alone we have became we

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 human service challenges into field ments. into useful labor for the welfa as a memorial to a mother, at th Sivertsen Hall shelters securely. For ♦ knowledge that a Mother's labors iha oear fr vision shall not vanish. ... It wasn't necessary t love Sivertsen Hall. When we entered it last fa™wr that we had come to a place where we belong Fifty-two years Augsburg was a sanctum for men. But one autumn day in 1921. five courageous women entered Main —to enroll. Traditions were shattered, co education be- gan. . . . Twenty years after that epoch-making event, forty young women entered another building, a new dor- mitory made possible for Augsburg through the generosity of Doctor Ivar Sivertsen. Retaining the name of the doc- tor, Sivertsen Hall with its past of scientific research and SIVERTSEN HALL

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MAI N MORTON HALL There were festive deys at Augsburg at the beginning of 1902. For three days, speeches were given—Main was dedicated. Festive days? Yes, days, for the completed build- ras the result of much faithful r, desperate courage, childlike in God. This is from God. and it is wonderful in our sight, stated the first speaker. It was only a build- ing—but it embodied an ideal. . . . The building stands today, rather old. h.rdly large enough. The ideal re- t and adequate. All stu- i enter Main shall hear, a shall understand Augsburg's en- ssage: In life the highest is truth. mains.