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Dedication To the Students and Graduates of This Year the 1952 Augsburgian Is Dedicated. May the Glimpses of College Life Captured Within These Pages Be a Continual Reminder That 'In Life the Highest Aim Is Truth.
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c 3n nilemofiij oj ANDREAS HELLAND (1870-1951) Andreas Midland began teaching at Augsburg earlier than most people realize. It was in the school year of 1892-93 that he was asked to take over some of the classes in the preparatory department. He was then a senior in the seminary and had a better educational background than most of the Augsburg students, having received the B.A. degree from the Stavanger Cathedral School in 1888 and the M.A. degree from the Royal Frederick Uni- versity in Oslo in 1889. He received his theological train- ing at Augsburg. After graduation he served parishes in the Lutheran Free Church for some years, but in 1901 he was back at Augsburg as treasurer on a part-time basis while serving as pastor of St. Olaf Church in North Minneapolis. He became full-time teacher in 1905, and continued as such until his retirement in 1940. Professor Hclland was a Norwegian in spite of being thoroughly orientated in American life. His cultural back- ground was in Norway, and he never lost touch with it. It was only natural that he should be the one to conduct classes in the Norwegian department of Augsburg—both language and literature. His lectures in theology con- tinued to be in Norwegian almost to the last, though whenever he left his notes to make some parenthetic remarks in class he would drift into English? Anyone who heard him speak in English did not doubt that he was Norwegian; his grammar and style were perfect, but his dialect was from across the sea. He once remarked humorously that a man had complimented him on his use of English: it was so easy to understand because it was so much like Norwegian. He was also a man of missions. This was possibly his first love. Being unable to enter foreign mission work himself in his youth, he work untiringly at home to promote the cause of this branch of Kingdom work. For twenty-five years he was secretary of the Lutheran Board of Missions; during much of this time he also edited the mission paper, “Gasscrcn.” He wrote pamphlets and contributed articles in the interests of foreign missions almost until the end. His literary endeavors were prodigious for a man who was loaded down with so many other duties. Dur- ing the years 1909-1912 he edited the Complete Worlds of Georg Sverdrup, a six-volume set. He was himself a facile writer in both Norwegian and English. His first major book was a large volume in Norwegian on the history of Augsburg during the first fifty years of its existence; this book has come to serve the purpose of source material on early Norwegian-American Lutheran church history. His last major work was a biography of his teacher and co-laborer, Georg Sverdrup, published in 1947. His last known writing was a memorial article written about his fellow-teacher, Lars Lillehci, who hail recently passed away; it appeared in the Norwegian weekly, “Decorah Posten, two days before Hclland s death. This article has historic interest. In it he relates a conversation that he and Lillehci had carried on during their last year; the latter told how it came about that he chose Augsburg as his school. His teacher in Norway seemed never to tire of telling about a man he had met at Lake Minnetonka in America; it was Georg Sverdrup. Lillehci decided he must meet him. T his teacher in Norway was the father of the erstwhile president of the League of Nations, C. J. Hamhro. m
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