North Dakota State College of Science - Agawasie Yearbook (Wahpeton, ND)

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level or prairie country n that statement there i involve ! a fallacy of reasoning—the splendor is too large to he caught by camera or painter’s brush. There are few prospects in the world which are grander in scenic effect than the splendid expanse of green, waving prairie, extending unbroken to all hot-i .ons beneath the blue bowl of the sky. Against such a background is set the campus of our school with its orderly array of evergreens and other trees, luxuriant]) green in summer, catching in winter the fairyland beauties of ice and snow. South and southeast are the little cities of Wahpcton and Krcckcnridge and the groves along the rivers. West and north are the vast reaches of the Red River Valley, the ancient Mooring of Lake Agassi .. Dimly seen toward the east are blue hills near Fergus Falls. T IS often asserted that is without scenic effect. I

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To the Students of the State School of Science: It gives me pleasure to express a few words of greeting to the students of the school through this year’s Agawasie. To me the outstanding characteristic of this school year has been the cheerful and optimistic manner in which you have accepted the unusual conditions of the past year. There has never been a year when such a large percentage of students have found it almost impossible to continue with their school work. The great number ot students who have continued in school in spite of serious handicaps, and only after a great sacrifice and struggle, has been very gratifying. Students in a school like ours represent a good cross-section of the youth of the Northwest and the cheerful and courageous manner in which you have accepted the very difficult conditions of the past year arc certainly encouraging. It has been pleasing to see you maintain a happy frame of mind and a fine spirit under these adverse conditions. I am pleased to congratulate you upon your accomplishments during the school year just past and upon the production of an outstanding annual in this unusual year. President.

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Photo contributed by Johnson Studios During the early days of French exploration. DuLuth, in liis searcii for Father Hennepin, came to what is now Millc Lacs. 'Fhcncc, he said, he struck westward and set up the Kind’s arms in a village of the Huatbctons. From the distance and direction indicated, that village of the Wahpcton Indians should be located where is now Island Park between Wahpcton and 11 reckon ridge. Toda there are many beautiful scenes along the Red River, especially among the natural groves near our little twin cities. 'File picture reproduced above was taken along the Red River at the famous Fcmco Farm, owned by F. F. Murphy, publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune. About thirty miles east of this section you strike into Minnesota's “ten thousand lakes”: about thirty miles west begins the duck hunters paradise” of North Dakota.