Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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20 T HE ACORN 'The Acorn Entered as second class matter October ’JOlli. ll'OO, nt the Post Office of St. Paul, Minn., under the Act of March 3rd, 1S79. Subscription Price- 50c per Year. All articles contributed to the Literary Department should be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, anu nil business communications to the Business Manager, Bethel Academy, St. Anthony Park. Minn. EDITORIAL STAFF Oscar Freed, ’ll Henry G. Thunell. ’12.... ..Associate Editor Jonas Larson, ’ll—- —Business Manager A- J Kdstrom ’ll Jonns Alilqulst, ’ll.. Religious Dept. Alice Lund holm, ’ll. Joel Anderson, ’ll Joel Burkinan, ’ll .. f Victor Person, ’ll.. Swedish Dept. Mamie Lindblom, 13 Paul Anderson, ’ll.. Walfrod Anderson, ’ll.... ... X ” a .w. j o n h S a — 'I’llis is the last issue over which the present staff will have supervision. We might hand compli-AN EXPLANATION ments to each member individually but space forbids. It wi-ll suffice to say that every one has been active in working for the best interests of the paper. We have felt somewhat discouraged at times because of our inability to publish a larger “Acorn” but this has been due to the financial difficulties we have met. It may be an encouragement to next year's staff, however, if we say that when they come back to continue our school organ all expenses for this year's publication as well as last year’s debt which amounted to about $75, has been cleared, thanks to our advertising manager, and there will he no old accounts for them over which to worry, and we extend to them the best wishes for a successful year. At a recent meeting of the Alpha Beta Literary Society the following members or the staff for 1911 1912 were NEW STAFF, elected: Henry G. Thunell, Editor-in-Chief; Ellen Swanson, Associate Editor: John Anderson. Business Manager; Andrew Edstrom, Advertising Manager; Goorgina Staverfeldt. Religious Notes; Rudolph Crook, Swedish Department; Mamie Lindblom, Society Notes: Gunhild Hagstrom, Exchanges: Peter Oquist. Athletics; Mabel Lind. Alumni Notes; Oscar Peterson, Olivia Johnson, Arthur Hedberg, Locals.

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THE ACORN 19 ous youth in the land. Before, he was narrowed, appropriated, shut up to you. Now he is augmented, set free, and given to all. Before he vjas yours: he is ours. He has died from the family that lie might live to the nation. Not one name shall he forgotten or neglected: and it shall by-and-by he confessed of our modern heroes, as it is of an ancient hero, that he did more for his country by his death than by his whole life. Neither are they less honored who shall bear through life the marks of wounds and sufferings. Neither epaulette nor badge is so honorable as wounds received in a -good cause. Many a man shall envy him who henceforth limps. So strange is the transforming power of patriotic ardor that men shall almost covet disfigurement. Crowds will give way to hobbling cripples, and uncover in the presence of feebleness and helplessness. And buoyant children shall pause in their noisy games, and with loving reverence honor those whose hands can work no more, and whose feet are no longer able to march except upon the journey which brings good men to honor and immortality. Oh. mother of lost children! sit not in darkness nor sorrow whom a nation honors. Oh, mourners of the early dead, they shall live again, and live forever. Your sorrows are our gladness. The nation lives because you gave it men that love it better than their own lives. And when a few more days shall have cleared the perils f;om around the nation's brow, and she shall sit in unsullied garments of liberty, with justice upon her forehead, love in her eyes, and truth upon her lips, she shall not forget those whose blood gave vital currents to her heart, and whose life, given to her, shall live with her life till time shall bo no more. Every mountain and hill shall have its treasured name, every river shall keep some solemn title, every valley and every lake shall cherish its honored register; and till the mountains are worn out, and the rivers forget to flow, till the clouds are weary of replenishing springs, and the springs forget to gush, and the rills to sing, shall their names be kept fresh with reverent honors which are inscribed upon the book of National Remembrance. —Henry Ward Beecher. MOTHER, HOME AND HEAVEN. There are three words that sweetly blend, That on the heart arc graven; A precious, soothing balm they lend— They’re mother, home and heaven! They twine a wreath of beautieous flowers, Which, placed on memory’s urn. Will e’en the longest, gloomiest hours To golden sunlight turn! They form a chain whose every link Is free from base alloy; A stream where whosoever drinks Will find refreshing joy! They build an altar where each day Love’s offering is renewed; And peace illumes with genial ray Life’s darkened solitude! If from our side the first has fled. And home be but a name. Let’s strive the narrow path to tread, That we the last may gain! —Mary J. Muckle.

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THE ACORX 21 The school-days for 1010-1911 are drawing to a close. We are standing at the verge of another year—pro-VACATION. Ji table we hope to all who have had the opportunity to pursue studies here, llow rapidly has not the time lapsed! At the beginning we all felt that a long, long year was before us. Now when it is almost gone we stand wondering at the fleet wings of Time which in its passing has had in every moment something for our betterment. We are confident that every one feels a sense of regret over its rapid strides. Those at least who this year leave never to return as regular students are especially prone to experience a touch of the blues,’' but will eventually seek other places for anchorage, now that they are set free. Those who return next year will, we trust, persuade some of their friends to follow their example. Let every one use a part of their vacation towards this end. In order to he loyal we must have something demanding our loyalty. A man may be loyal to bis friends or LOYALTY. to his principles. Many good friendships are broken on account of disloyalty. A dear friend may hear of some fault or misstep of another and then say I will have nothing more to do with that man. A man may be loyal to a principle by refusing to do the will and wish of some friend who differs from him. In this way he can live up to his principles and also pick out the friends who are faithless to him. Loyalty is an admirable characteristic if we are sure that our motives are just and noble. Students in the first place should be •loyal to their school. But just now we are thinking that students should be loyal to their school paper. Be loyal to our own Acorn! This is our annual number and we wish to see a copy of it in so many Swedish Baptist homes as possible. The students are responsible for the success of this paper, and in the measure tht you work for it, in that degree shall it become what it ought to be. The subscription list needs to be enlarged. We want the Acorn to reach more homes. Do not stop at past success. Many friends at and around home are interested in the school and you. See to it that they in some way receive acopy and become regular subscribers. Do it now! We are all in the same boat gliding toward eternity. It matters little what our occupation is in this world as long as we are employed at some OUR DUTIES honorable and useful work. IN life. The goal of our ambitions may never be reached, and the fond hopes of our day dreams may never be realized, but neverthless we arc all the while little by little, moment by moment, coming to the inevitable end ot our existence on this earth, and it behooves us to be up and doing so that we may leave the world a little better than we found it. The trite saying that the mills of (lod grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly sure is a fact that becomes more emphatic to us as we mature in years and thought. From the cradle to the grave is a road that every being must travel who is born into this world to exist for a period of years, which are only a measure cf what we have signified as time. The main purpose and objects of our stay on the earth then, are to do good and to perform the duties which we have taken upon ourselves and which have also been thrust upon us by circumstances. We should make the best of every opportunity and moment that passes by. That is the right philosophy cf life and as soon as every soul .that breathes the pure air which the Creator has so generously bestowed upon mankind, grasps these fundamental principles and makes them his aim in life, then war, crime and misery will be alleviated to its minimum degree.