Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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THE ACORN 29 H. Peterson. It is with pleasure that we look back over the past year in our athletic dept-From the very outset of the year we have been crowned with success. The large gymnasium has been a great inspiration thruout the whole year. When the football season was over the boys and girls took to the gym, instantly. It has been there that the possibilities of a fine basket ball team has started. Just a glance over the basket ball season’s success: The first game was off like a flash. ‘ Each member was full of fire and hope. The opponents were the Minnehaha Academy boys. They were easily defeated 36 to 2. The second game played was with the strong Minnesota College team. This game was very exciting thruout. Due to the lack of practice together, Bethel was defeated 32 to 25. But hopes were strong for a return match. The next game was with the supposed Bethel Church boys; but we were vastly mistaken, because Johnson, a coach of the Northwestern School assisted Bethel Church. Still the Academy boys stuck hard and played a plucky game keeping tie until the last few minutes of play when they were defeated 25 to 20. The Academy boys felt proud of this loss because every member did his best and no-one played for anything else than a clean win. The following few weeks, about Christmas time, were spent playing smaller teams and gaining the necessary practice. The new year started in with a flash by a “win” over the Minnehaha Academy of •13 to 10. Not such a bad game as the score indicates. The game was fast thruout. A game with the Midway Y. M. C. A. followed and was won by a close score. This gave hope and inspiration to the boys. Following this game the Academy visited the Agricultural Gym. and was completely lost on the large floor space. .The score was 35 to 15. Now came the time for sweet revenge when Minnesota College visited us on our floor. They had just completed a string of victories over larger and stronger schools than their own. They defeated St. Olav's College; Gustavus Adolphus College and other such large teams. Surely they would defeat Bethel, but they were sorely mistaken. Bethel defeated then: 30 to 28. It required two extra periods of five minutes each to win, but Bethel was fit and capable. This was the most exciting game of the whole year. Other games were played but they were with lighter teams and therefore it is best not to mention the score to avoid ill feelings. The baseball season opened just as successfully. Only one game was played, due to the present critical condition. That game was won 4 to 3 from St. Raul College. Now, boys, rally 'round the flag of both country and school and let us wish Bethel tremendous success for the years to come in all her branches! Hip, Hip, Hoorah! Hip. Hip, Hoorah! Hip. Hip, Hoorah for Bethel!

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23 THE ACORN Albert Uahlby, 10, graduates from the Osborne Instance, ’10, graduates from University of Minnesota the coming June the Bethel Theo. Seminary the. coming with the degree of Bathelor of Arts. June. Rudolph Crook, '13, receives in June the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine from the University of Minnesota. Walfred Anderson, ’ll, President of the B. A. A. A., graduates from the University of Minnesota with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in June. Jonas Ahlquist. M. D., Bethel ’ll, Creighton Medical, 15, has recently completed at Harvard University a course in Tropical Medicine. Frank Ericson, '13. was recently married to Miss Ruth Rundquist of St. Paul. Congratulations! Arthur Bclstrom, ’14, graduates from Bethel Theo. Seminary in June. Miss Josephine Anderson, ’16, has entered the Mounds Park Sanitarium to take the course for nurses. Alex Rexion, ’16, eminent social organizer among the slums, graduates from the (Bethel Theo. Seminary in June. Harvy Stallard, B. S. C., once instructor of Science at Bethel Academy, graduates from the University of Minnesota in June with the degree of- Doctor of Philosophy. We congratulate him upon his scholarly attainments. Oscar J. R. Freed, B. S.. President Emeritus of the B. A. A. A., graduates in June from the College of Medicine of the University of Minnesota. He will enter the Minneapolis City Hospital June 15th as interne, where he will specialize in surgery. Albert Pearson, A. B., L. S. B., M. A., who has taught at. Bethel for the past four years, has accepted the position of Superintendent of the Milan High School the coming year. The Alumni wish him the greatest of success. The Alumni also regret the loss of Miss Elsa Nordin from the Rethel faculty. Teachers of her calibre and that of Mr. Pearson’s are few and their places hard to fill.

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30 THE ACORN The Athenean Society invited all students of Bethel to an “open meeting,'' Friday evening, May 25th. The auditorium, where the program of the evening was rendered, was beautifully decorated with the American colors and with the green leaves and bright flowers of Spring, which filled the whole room with their sweet fragrance. The program was superb and unusually so, full of the quality which pleases us most and which is so difficult to gain—the unexpected. After the program, refreshments were served. All who were present seemed to agree that: “It takes the girls to accomplish something really worth while.” Mr. and Mrs. Alex Beck gathered a number of students and faculty members or both schools in their pleasant home, on Monday evening the 21tli. The social was principally in honor of the class graduating from the Seminary this year. It needed not the welcome greeting of our host to make us all feel at home, for the good will and cheerful smile of hostess and host were assurance enough. The refreshments were splendid and the program fine. In class: S. G.: “Why is a class room like a Ford?” P. H.: “Because the crank's in front.” A. B.: “Women are not developed through evolution; the first woman was created from the rib of Adam.” M. E.: “Well, I am certainly glad they can't prove- that I have come from an ape.” McKee to G. A. G.: “I am afraid that you have been studying so hard that your mental powers are affected.” G. A. G.: “Why? McKee: “I saw you laughing at the jokes in the Acorn. Instructor: “Miss Edwards, what do you mean by the active voice of the verb?” Miss Edwards: “The subject goes right over to the object in the active voice.” , “My father and I know everything in the world, said a small boy to his companion. “All right. said the latter, “Where is Asia?” “Well, that is one of the things my father knows,” replied the little boy coldly—Ex. Mr. Hasselblad left Mounds Park Sana-tarium a few weeks ago, minus his appendix, but very much improved in health. Our mathematicians say that a positive one. minus a positive one, will always remain nothing. Wc are positive therefore that Mr. Hasselblad will never again be bothered with appendicitis. Ed. Tanquist, one of last year’s graduates, was also stricken with a sudden attack of appendicitis, and was operated on Sunday, May 13th, at Mounds Park Sanitarium. We are glad to know that the operation was successful and that the patient is convalescing very rapidly.