Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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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“ Where lie Selong. It was in the fall of 1873 that the young theological pro- fessor. Sven Oft d l, came from Norway. Next year came his friend. Georg Sverdrup. Forty years they labored for education grounded in Christian liberty.... The results of their labors we gratefully accept, honoring the memory of Sverdrup and Oftedal. great teachers and great men. In the fall of 1937, President Sverdrup wrote concerning the erection of Memorial Hall: It was begun in the name of the Lord, and in Hit name it will be completed. A few days later, when we heard our president was dead, we saw new meaning and beauty in Memorial Hall. . . . The task was completed. Early in 1939, one hundred men moved into a new home, the Sverdrup-Oftedal Memorial Hall.

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