Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE ACORN 19 The conference school committee held sessions Thursday and Friday to act upon the referendum vote taken by the churches on the future location of the school. Of the $57 churches, 230 gave their preference in favor of St. Faul. The school is to be removed from its present location at Morgan Park, III., where it has been a part of the divinity school or the University of Chicago. The university having in a measure withdrawn its financial support the question of location was referred to the general conference. The school will be opened October 1 with five professors, four of whom already have been chosen, Dr. C. G. Lager-greu as head of the school, Dr. E. Sandell and Prof. E. Hedeen, all of Chicago, and Miss Frieda Swanson of St! Paul. One other professor remains to be selected. The question of the location has been before the churches since last September. The seminary and the academy will have a total enrollment of about 100 students. Eventually new buildings will be added to the plant, Mr. Hagstrom says.—St. Paul Dispatch. May 12. THE NEW STAFF. At a special meeting of the Alpha Beta Literary Society this month the following were chosen to comprise the Acorn Staff for the school year commencing next September: Rudolph Crook, Editor in chief: Oscar Peterson. Associate editor; Adv. Manager, Axel Rendu hi; Business manager, Elmer Anderson; Personals. Milton Lind, Andrew Skansc, Rachael Walden: Athletics. Axel Heistrom: Society Notes. Esther Sundfelt; Religious. Anna Johnson: Swedish, Henry Young: Exchanges, Sigrid Hedberg. They have our heartiest wishes for success and may the Acorn prosper by their ppited efforts. An elderly philosopher once said: “I am an old man and have had many troubles. but most of them never happened.” Fully ninety per MOST OF THEM cent Qf the misery, NEVER HAPPEN. sorrow and gloom and trouble in the world never happens. You think of them and fear they may happen; you shroud yourself in woe and then sit down and worry over them. It is a very silly, but a very human thing to do. If in your youth you can master the philosophy of that old man, and realize now what he didn't realize until he reached the time when the sun of life is low, it will make the difference in your life between happiness and unhappiness. Fear is a paralyzing force that grows by what it feeds on. Banish it and most of your troubles go with it. Face troubles with courage, and grapple with the fearsome and dark things. They will prove to be mists and vanish as you boldly advance to meet them. Doubt is another paralyzing force. You doubt your own capacity of doing a thing and the chill of that doubt makes you weak and forceless. You doubt your ability to do a hard task that confronts you. and the more you doubt the harder the task becomes. But if you have faith in your own capacity, it nerves you to the combat and gives you strength to do the task which is before you. that confidence will make you strong and your task easy. You are a young man or a young woman and you think you have lots of troubles. To be honest with yourself, how many of them actually happen? How many of the things you worry about and fear and doubt your ability to overcome really amount to anything when you come face to face with them? Cultivate your courage and your self-reliance and apply a little faith and courage to impending troubles and watch them vanish.

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T H K A C 0 H N IS The Acorn Entered ns second class matter October 20th. 100‘J, ac Clie Post Office or St. Paul, Minn., under the Aet of March 3rd, 1870. Subscription Price 50c per Year, All articles contrihuted to the Literary Department should be addressed to the Kditor-in-Chief. and nil business communications to the Business Manager. Bethel Academy, St. Anthony Park. Minn. STAFF. Henry CJ. Thun oil ’12.. .. Kditor-in-Chief Ellen Swanson 12 .Associate Editor Frank Erickson ’IS .. Bus. X: Adv. Mgr. Annie Johnson 14 Kmlolpli Crook 13 . . . Religious Notes .Swedish Dept. Mnhel l.ind ‘11 Cun hi Id Hagstrom '12. Exchanges Olivia Johnson 'J:i 1 Personals. This is the last issue of the Acorn which the present staff has the pleasure of editing. While the Acorn has not come up to the standard VALEDICTORY. wh|ch we have wishe„ for it, yet comparing it with our numerous exchanges and judging from the complimentary words from some of them, we feel that the Acorn has filled its niche in the literature of school papers. The editor takes this occasion to thank the various members of the staff, Mr. H. C. Wing-blade. and all of those who have contrihuted by their subscriptions to make the Acorn a success. Especially are we indebted to the advertising manager, Frank Erickson, who has worked unceasingly to make it a financial success as well. Unless you have tried to get out a paper of some kind, you cannot appreciate the value of a good advertising manager. Next year, with the added department to our school, we hope, that the Acorn will he greatly enlarged and become a more potent factor in boosting for a bigger, better Bethel. Rev. G. A. Hagstrom, pastor of the First Swedish Baptist Church, Payne Avenue and Sims Street, and secretary of the school committee of the THE future SNVe(lish Baptist General RCTHPI Conference of America, reported last night that St. Paul had secured the theological seminary of the conference which will be established on the grounds of ibe Bethel Academy at St. Anthony Park, the Academy to be used as a preparatory school.

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