Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Tot Gustafson, senior seminarian, has led the class this year in studies in the book of Romans. Roland Johnson has been the president, Eric Hohner has served as pianist. Other men who have led devotions and attended class regularly are Elton Johnson, Elton Anderson, Paul Karlstrom, Frank Johnson, Harry and Franz Victorson, Constantine Trued, Philip Trued and Virgil Larson. Berean Bible Class for girls was organized in 1917. It has met regularly in the Women's Building at nine-fifteen o'clock. Various members have led in devotions and in preparing the Berean Breakfast, which is served every Sunday morning just before the meeting of the class. Berean was preceded by what might have been called Sunday School for girlsv, which was led by the Dean, of VVomen or the wife of a professor. A During the last year Miss Clara Holterman has been an excellent leader. By means of topi- cal study she has increased the girls' appreciation of the Bible and its significance. During Lent the girls held devotional meetings nightly. Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists rank next to Lutherans in student constituency .... A photograph of the art studio in the annual of the year 1900 shows three pictures of Christ .... Fifteen hundred young people attended the .Luther League jubilee Victory Conference at Augustana this year .... Nine members of Sola Fide in 1919 served overseas in the War .... About thirty-live percent of the seminarians meet their future Wives at Augustana .... Ninety-three per cent of Augustana students hold membership in protestant churches .... About fifty students attended the Bible class in 1878 .... The oldest and the largest campus organization is the Foreign Missionary Society. It was organized in 1886, incorporated in 1895, and has since steadily grown in membership until now it has a total of well over two thousand. Since it was organized it has contributed over seventy- six thousand dollars to the cause of foreign missions. During the year 1923, 317,331.55 was col- lected. The average attendance at Mission Study class the past year has been seventy-five. The Class was organized in 1901. A, museum was established this year in the seminary building. Next year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Society. Two buildings were built by this Society: a church at Samulcot, India and the Hasselquist school at Hsuchang, China. The theme of the Concordia Society for this year was The Lutheran Pastor's Career. The lecture series opened on November 1, when Rev. G. Fred Andree presented The Pastor and His Soul , later Mr. Ottoe Leonardson spoke on Practical Hints to the Pastor , Dr. C. E. Bengt- son, The Pastor in the Home of His Members , Dr. P. O. Bersell, The Pastor, His Organiza- tion and Organizationsf, Other speakers included Dr. E. E. Ryden, Dr. P. Arthur Johnson, Rev. Ernest Lack, and Dr. J. A. Holmen. The Concordia Society was organized in 1898. It is made up of the entire student body of the Seminary, the faculty and alumni. It sponsors spiritual, educational, social and athletic ac- tivities among the seminarians. Weelrly Sunday programs are conducted at the Moline Lutheran Hospital and at the Rock Island Rescue Mission. Fifteen years ago Dr. Bergendorff wrote: The Augustana Idea Cof Student Christian ser- vicej demands much from every student. He should not only receive, he should also give .... He should associate himself with the Missionary Society of the school. His interest should continue beyond graduation .... The Augustana Idea demands not only the gaining of missionary knowl- edge, it demands definite deeds which contribute to the advancement of missions .... The Aug- ustana Ideal is not yet realized. Sunday afternoon vespers in the seminary chapel have replaced Sunday evening services in the college chapel, Sunday evening services were held for seventy-three years. Vespers consist of a twenty-minute organ recital, short liturgy and a sermonette. There is a need of more private Bible study and prayer. A misplaced emphasis upon scholas- ticism, social life and extra curricular activities has crept into our college. The real, basic prepara- tion for life is living with and in the Bible. The greatest literary and spiritual asset of the world is the Bible. It opens a vista to the individual wherein he sees God as his father and is assured of the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting through Jesus Christ. KENNETH FARB. 4416 77

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RELIGICDUS LIFE AI AUGLJSIAINIA By KENNETH FARB Religious life at Augustana is not a number of organizationsg it is ., community of young souls. The founders of Augustana believed that religion and education go hand in hand. They favored the simultaneous development of all of the powers with which man is endowed, not least among these powers is that of the Spirit. The Lutheran church is an educating church. Its theory is that of bringing the masses to the highest intellectual level possible. . Augustana College, as the synodical school of a body of two hundred and fifty thousand Luth- erans, is an important part of the church. It prepares young men and young women for life, it places them on an intellectual level equal with students who have attended a state University for the same amount of time. In addition to this it fortifies the spiritual life. This is important in the agerof the new confusion of tongues . Buchmanism tempts students by flattering their intel- ligencen, and by promoting house parties. Theosophy is attempting to introduce oriental Indian paganism in America, so-called Christian Science is doing the same. The Russelites preach election and spread chaos among young Christians, many other really pagan forces are at work among our educated classes. Augustana, as a church college, offers a balanced, adequate curri- culum in a'Christian environment. A professor in a state school found that eighty-four per cent of his freshmen believed in a personal Godg four years later only sixty per cent had such a faith .... Augie has had a Christianity chair since it was founded .... The first American Bible was printed two hundred years before Augustana was foundedg it was printed in the Indian language. . . . . There were thirty-six members of the men's Bible class at Augustana in 1924. . . . In 1922 only one of the fourteen members of Sola Fide wore oxfords for best, the other thirteen used twenty-four inch shoe laces and high tops .... Augustana students helped to distribute the 7,800,766 Bibles, testaments and portions of the Bible distributed by the American Bible Society in 1934 .... In 1905 there was an active tract society at August- ana .... Over the total period of years the entire Bible has been studied and re-studied about twenty-five times in campus Bible study classes .... On jan. 31, 1935, two weeks before the jubilee Conference, 421 delegates Were registered for the Conference .... Eight students from Augustana attended the Student Volunteer Convention in Buffalo, N. Y., 1933 .... Berean sent a Christmas box to George Anderson in Africa in 1930 .... Seven- ty-tive churches in Moline and Rock Island welcome Augie students .... The Augustana Choir broadcasts 'over the national hook-up of both the NBC and the Columbia network. The agency of contact of religious activities with other general departments of the college, and with other colleges, is the Religious Board. It directs and plans all collegiate religious activi- ties and aims to present an organized schedule for each year, sufficient, and yet not too heavy, to meet the demands of the spiritual life of a student during the crucial college years. This Board is composed of the President of the college and the three deans, the professors of Christianity and a representative of each of the student organizations. This Board was organized ten years ago and has served a definite need on the campus. It has direct charge of Sunday afternoon vespers and weekly prayer meetings. The parish of Ching Wang, Chinese pastor, graduate of our seminary, '33, is Yenshih, Honan, China .... Dr. E. E. Ryden was Va first bass in the Wennerberg Chorus of 1914. . . . . Isagogics was a course in the Christianity department back in the 1880's. . . . If Berean girls have eaten as regularly as they do today they have eaten about two thousand dozen rolls on Sunday mornings since the class was founded .... A Student Volunteer Band was organized at Augie in 19183 it had fourteen members .... The Church His- tory text in 1897 had three volumes .... Twenty students attended Augustana last year who had no church connections whatsoever .... Christianity was once under the Swedish department. Sola Fidc Bible class for men was organized in 1920. At that time there were thrcc nn'n's 4415 P7

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ALUMNI AND FACULTY OF AUGUSTAINIA Augustana By HELEN PARK faculty in every branch of the liberal arts have brought honor to the institution, and alumni in all vocations have reflected the exemplary influence of their Alma Mater. Our respect is due to Augustana's three professors emeritus, Dr. Claude IV. Foss, professor of history from 1884' to 1932, Dr. E. F. Bartholomew, professor of English literature and philosophy from 1888 to 1932, and Miss Iva C. Pearce, professor of oral expression from 1906 to 1933. Dr. Foss received his A.B. degree from Augustana in 1883 and his A.M. in 1889. He was'an author, editor, and translator, travelled ex- tensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and was the Commissioner of the Augustana Synod to Persia in 1889. Since his death in January of this year, Dr. Foss' friends and former students have keenly felt the loss of his presence. Dr. Bartholomew, who resigned in 1932, but who taught philosophy this year because of illness among the faculty, was ordained in 1875, among the first of the pastors of the Augustana synod. Like Dr. Foss, he has taught practically every subject in the college curriculum. Miss Pearce will long be remem- bered by Augustana students and b her colleaffues of the faculty for her unfailing enthusiasm in her dra- Y e matic work, her kindly interest in the welfare of her former students, and a desire to influence those she was teaching toward high ambitions, a trait common to all three of the professors emeritus. Among other faculty members of the past worthy of mention are Dr. Anders Bersell, professor of Greek and German from 1880 to 1905, Dr. A. W. VVilliamson, professor of mathematics from 1880 to 1906, and Rev. Carl O. Granere ,rofessor of Latin Swedish, and literature from 1871 to 1898. Rev. R. F. Illeidner, : P , professor of Hebrew and dogmatics, was contemporaneous with these professors. Dr. Josua Linclahl, founder of the science department at Augustana, came in 1878 to this institution, after having served in behalf of the English Government as official botanist of the first Deep Sea Expedition ever attempted. Dr. Lindahl's thorough knowledge of science placed him as an authority of highest rank. From 1888 to 1911 Dr. Johann A. ment through was formerly Udden, senior, '81,'was the head of the science department, he not only improved the depart- is knowledge of its needs, having been one oflthe first Augustana science graduates, but with he State geologist of Texas, and he was knighted by King Oscar II of Sweden in 1911. ' h his work in geoldgy he brought international attention to himself and to his'Alma Mater. Dr. Udden t - ' e Of the pr year of 1906, Prof Chai exception of t Sent faculty we are including only those who began teaching at Augustana before or in the although there is noteworthy work being done also by the more recent members of the les Linus Eugene Esbjorn has been a professor at Augustana the longest of any, with the ie Professors Emeritus, h'1xing'come here as a college professor in 1887. Prof. Esbjorn was l born in 1862 ini Chicago, Illinois, 'md graduated from Augustana in 1880. He then taught at Gustavus Adolphus from 1881 'to 1882 and after this came as an instructor to the Augustana Academy. He attended the University taught modern of Michigan in '83 and '84 and the University of Leipzig in '86 and '87, Professor Esbjorn languages in the college until 1899 and during this time had attended the University of Chi- faculty. I m cago in the su versities in the mers of '97 and '98. In 1913 and 19141 the Professor of German visited 150 colleges and uni- interest of simplified spelling and he secured favorable action from 75 of them. In 1917 Professor Esbjorn Wrote his condensed German Grammar which is still used in his classes and appreciated by his students for its compact, yet complete, form. One notices the simplified spelling which is used in the grammar. and literature. From 1919 to the present Professor ESllj01'H has been professor of the German language In 1920 he wrote VVhy Not Prohibit VVar? and 'in 1932 was given the honorary degree of Litt.D. by Gustavus Adolphus. In 1872 Prof. Linus VVarner Kling was born at Rockford. Ilfhen 27 years old Prof. Kling graduated from the University of Nebraska and while attending the University he had also been teaching there. Upon his graduation for three years the University and meanwhile tended McGill 1932 and 1933. Greek was birthplace was wr,l7 'D he came to Augustana as assistant professor of French and Latin, which position he held , until he went to Yale University. lVhile' assistant professor at Augustana he had attended of Chicago the summer of 1901. Professor Kling was professor of Latin from 190-L to 1915 had studied in Paris. From 1915 to the present he has been professor of French and has at- University in 192-11, University of Paris again in 1926 and Pennsylvania State College in first taught at Augustana by Prof. Isaac Morene Anderson in 190914. Professor Andc-rson's Princeton, Illinois, and when 2-ll years old he graduated from Augustana, after which he cn- ..'.f F ,3-E51-v V 2 I r J i l 'H il ll l 4 i l i X 1 4 1 1 i 4