Northwest Viking - 1930 February 7

              SYMPHONY CONCERT
TUESDAY NIGHT \
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"VOL. XXDC-NO.29 WASHINGTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON
CLASS CUTS
CHILD ARTISTS
LITTLE SYMPHONY
AND YE DIARY
—Ray Craft
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The attendance committee met
last week to "consider and clear up"
last quarter's absences from class,
and, according to the Viking, the
"considering and clearing up" con­sisted
of penalizing thirty students
for class cuts. The loss to some
students ranged as high as seven
credits.
UTILE SYMPHONY
W E R T WEI BE
HELD ON TUESDAY
Normal School Auditorium to be
Scene of Performance by Forty-
Eight Musicians of True Ability.
CONCERT BEGINS AT 8:20
According to the rules, six unex-cused
absences from a single class,
or fifteen from classes scattered ov­er
different courses means a cut of
one credit. In our experience, we
know of two excuses that will be
accepted. One is illness, and the
other is death.
The average value of an individ­ual's
time which he spends in school
is well over two hundred dollars a
quarter. Since most people carry
a load of around fifteen hours, an
.hour of school credit is worth fif­teen
dollars. Consequently, for ev­ery
lecture hour that the unfortu­nate
student has missed, he is pen­alized
from one to three dollars,
whieh seems—well—just a little
Jilgh.
It doesn't seem to matter to the
•committee whether he was using
.his stolen time to catch up with his
tennis, or was shovelling coal in or­der
to meet the payments on the
Tent. And there are we believe,
justifiable reasons for missing a
class now and then.
Wouldn't it be wise, in a demo­cratic
institution like ours, for the
.faculty to invite student opinion
and attempt to make some reason­able
adjustments? Perhaps it
would be possible to write a little
flexibility into what appears new to
be an unpopular measure.
(And, confidentially, we ''are all
for its being done immediately. We
have lost title to two of our credits
already, and as far as this quarter
is concerned, something tells us that
we are a marked man).
-W. S. N. S.
A Well Balanced and Interesting
Program Containing Many Gems
of Composition has been Arranged
"THE FAMILY" TO BE
TOPIC DISCUSSED BY
FACULTY AT CHURCH
If you haven't - seen the recent
issue of the Junior Viking, maga­zine
of the training school, bor­row
a copy from one of the student
teachers and browse through it. You
will be amazed at the original pieces
these small children write when en­couraged
to create something beau­tiful.
For example, here is a little
poem composed by an eight-year-old
training school child.
THE FOG
The fog • •• /
throws its flimsy, pretty
white drapery over the town.
It is pretty, pretty, pretty,
So softly it comes,
So softly it goes.
Over meadow, through forests,
All the World over it refreshes.
Then the sun comes at last
And sends it on its way.
— B E T T Y SOLLIBAKKE
W. S. N. S.-
Normal people should crowd the
auditorium next week when the Bel­lingham
Little Symphony., appears
in concert, not only to give Harold
B. Smith the support his organiza­tion
deserves but to enjoy a real
musical treat. Musicians will tell
you that Mr. Smith is developing a
remarkably fine concert orchestra,
while students who attended the re­citals
last year will assure you, de­spite
the fact that most of us are
undeveloped in music appreciation,
that when good music is played as
it ought to be played, we can at­tend
en masse and enjoy it.
-W. S. N. S.
Next Tuesday evening, February
11, at 8:20, will herald the second
concert of Bellingham's Little Sym­phony.
The concert will be held in
the Normal Auditorium and will
be presented by 48. talented and
well trained musicians. Nine of this
number are Normal students, name­ly:
Charles Bensen, Ethel Boynton,
Fay Kelly, Helen Amunds, Beryl
Bailey, Paul Anson, Pauline Larkin,
Clarence Thue, and Muriel Myhre.
The program will open with the
famous overture to "Der Freisctiutz",
by Weber. It is a highly dramatic
work, full of many beautiful melo­dies.
The horn duet in the first
part is one of the most famous for
this instrument, and will be recog­nized
by many for it has been used
as a hymn tune for years. The
part of the overture is a vivace
movement climaxed by a thrilling
coda based on the theme of Aga­tha's
Song of Joy of the opera.
Pure Orchestration
The second number is Schubert's
most famous and best loved Sym­phony
in B Minor called "The Un­finished
Symphony". This work,
so full of pathos and tenderness,
was found in a pile of manuscripts
after his death. It represents one
possible exception, absolutely the
highest level he reached in his very
short career. The first movement
begins with a mysterious melody in
the bass, forshadowing the main
theme which is heard on the oboe
and clarinet, accompanied by a
quivering string figure. The sec­ond
theme is played first on the
cellos then taken up by the violins
and developed into a fine climax.
With all its perfect melody and the
softest and purest orchestration, the
movement is full of romatic bursts,
as if it were the essence of legen­dary
poetry. The Andante begins
more quietly but in the same vein
and the second melody, sung by the
clarinet and then the oboe, is so
simple that one wonders where the
charm lies. The secret must be in
the accompanying rhythm and the
exquisite harmonic changes.
Mendelssohn did not write any op­eras,
but his incidental music to
"The Midsummer Nights Dream",
by Shakespeare, ranks him as a
dramatic composer of unusual mer­it.
Three movements from this cy­cle
will be played. The Intermez­zo
usually played at the end of the
second act seems to express the con­flict
of emotions in Hermia's heart.
Toward the end the theme abruptly
changes to the semi-comic measures
of the Clown's march which is
played by the bassoons. The second
movement is the Nocturne, whose
opening theme is one of the most
beautiful of all uses of the French
Several of the faculty will be
speakers at -the Congregational
Church family clinic which was
opened yesterday and will meet
every Thursday evening, until May
22.
Last night's • faculty speaker was
W. J. Marquis who, with Frank Al-lyn,
spoke on "The Father's Obliga­tion
to the Family."
Among the others who will speak
in the future are Miss Emma Erick-son,
Dr. Irving Miller, Mrs. H. C.
Philippi, Victor H. Hoppe, Herbert
E. Fowler, President C. H. Fisher,
and Pelagius Williams.
In all of the discussions the topic
is the obligation of certain indiv­iduals
or social groups to the family.
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54 UPPER DIVISION
STUDENTS ORGANIZE
Dick Louis Is Elected President;
Olson, Young, and Cotland Other
Officers Selected Last Tuesday.
POPULAR SOPRANO TO
APPEAR IN ASSEMBLY
ON TUESDAY MORNING
(Continued on Page Four)
The upper division group includ­ing
Juniors, and Seniors, met last
Tuesday for the purpose of organi­zation.
The group has been inactive
for some time, due mainly to lack
of interest on the part of the stu­dents.
Same years ago attempt to organ­ize
the upper division students was
sponsored by Dr. Irving E. Miller,
who is faculty advisor to the class,
but the group as a whole was not
back of the movement and so the
project was abandoned. Recently,
however, a need has been felt
among the Juniors and Seniors for
organization, which resulted in the
meeting Tuesday, January 4.
There are now fifty-four upper
division students in school. Dick
Louis has been elected president;
Grace Olson, vice president; Fran­ces
Young, secretary; and Eva Cat-land,
representative to the Board of
Control. Further plans for organi­zation
are now being made.
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STUDENTS DISCUSS
INTERESTING TOPIC
MAURICE G. HINDUS
JV/IATJRICE G. HINDUS is
author, orator and traveler, who
is qualified as an expert in his dis­cussions
of conditions in Russia.
Two years ago he toured Russia,
traveling on horseback and working
with the peasants to learn from
them directly'just how they reacted
to the revolution, the Soviet govern­ment,
and America. His lectures
are truly prophetic revelations. He
visited Russia, Siberia, Japan and
China during 1928, and Russia for
the sixth time since the Revolution
in 1929.
Last Sunday evening at the Stu­dent
Forum the topic discussed was
"Are student evaluations of faculty
members a fair indication of their
value as teachers?" Perhaps the
reason this topic came to the minds
of the program committee was be­cause
of the recent questionaire for
evaluating faculty members passed
out to students at the University of
Washington.
The immaturity and prejudice of
student judgment was constantly
emphasized. The various students
expressed themselves as not being
willing to accept the opinioins of
other students in even a majority
of cases.
The latter half of the meeting
drifted into a discussion of how
prospective teachers can conduct
themselves so that their personality
will have a good effect upon the
children they teach.
RUSSIAN WRITER TO
REVIEW LATE BOOK
AT ASSEMBLY SOON
Maurice Hindus, Famous Authority
on Russia Win Be Presented in
Assembly Friday, February 14.
PUBLISHED THREE BOOKS
Edens Hall Dance Tomorrow Night
Will Be Under St. Valentine's Spell
YE PROF'S DIARY
Sumwun puld owt mie piktewr
thiz weke but thatz awl rite—ye
diary cumz on tyme anyway. F.
Jon Greevz didn't wryt hiz wethur
kolum az iz supoaz tew bee—butt
thatz awl rite tew: Thu wethur iz
goyng tew bee mutch kolder Satir-dey
bhn becuz liv thu genrultrend
uy thyngz. Bleev it or Nut.
The quarterly Eden's hall In>
formal will be held tomorrow even
ing in the Blue room. The Valen­tine
motif will be carried out in all
decorations, being especially em-,
phasized in the programs.
Helen Purcell decoration chahv
man, says that the room will seem
a new valentine haven in its dis­guise,
and cupids will reign in all
their glory for the night." Chief
of •the cupids will be the giant one
whihc will completely cover the
fireplace and will be the center of
decoration. On the walls will be
hung six panels made as old-fash­ioned,'
lace valentines. Many, red
hearts will hade the ceiling from
view and some will wave gently
over the heads of the swaying
couples. The punch bowl will be
created into a silhoutte idea with
costumed figures serving the punch,
and the bowl in a brilliant rd.
60 COUPLES TO ATTEND
Programs for the dance _ will be
a more modernized valentine, and
will add color to the whole creation.
60 couples wil participate in the
affair, following out the usual
schedule of trots and a waltz. The
orchestra will play for the informal.
Chairman of the different com­mittees
for the dance are Gladys
Smith, social chairman of Edens
hall; Helen Purcell, decoration;
Virginia' Ward, programs; Grayce
Osborn, blind dates; Besie Hansen,
refreshment; and Bernice Glenn,
clean-up.
Patrons and Patronesses
Patrons and patronesses will be
President and Mrs. C. H. Fisher,
Mr and Mrs. Harold Smith,' Dean
and Mrs. W. J. Marquis, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Ruckmick, Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Fowler, Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Masters, Miss Florence John­son,
Mrs. Alice "Houston, • Miss
Adele' Jones, and Miss . Kathleen
O'Malley. ;.../ :;/:;• :;H:':V--'-^
Maurice Hindus^ one of the
world's leading authorities on Rus­sia
and the Orient will deliver a
lecture on the subject, "Humanity
Uprooted", in the auditorium here at
10:45 o'clock next Friday morning,
February 14. The regular assembly
will be called fifteen minutes earlier
than usual so as to leave time at
the end of the lecture for a period
of discussion, during which time the
lecturer will invite questions that
may be suggested by his talk.
Maurice Hindus was born in a
Russian village. He came to this
country at the age of fourteen and
worked his way through Colgate
University and the Graduate School
of Harvard. He recently returned
from Asia where he spent the sum-ber
of 1928 investigating conditions
in China, Japan, Siberia and Rus­sia,
and the summer of 1929 in Rus­sia
and Siberia, where he saw at
first hand the clash with China.
Recognized Writer
As a writer he has published three
exceedingly interesting books, "Brok­en
Earth" "The Russian Peasants
and the Revolution" and "Humanity
Uprooted". His lecture next Friday
will cover approximately the same
ground as is covered in the last
named book. His magazine articles
have appeared in leading American
journals, including Century, Yale
Review, Outlook, and several others.
Studied First Hand
His lectures are based on first
hand studies of the countries and
people he talks about. In Russia,
in China and in* Siberia he lived in
direct contact with the common
people, and learned their outlook
and their views.
He is said to be an excellent
speaker, a keen interpreter, an
imaginative observer and, an ac­complished
linguist. Famous news­papers
have often made most favor­able
comment on his work and his
lecture in our assembly is predicted
to be of extreme interest.
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BOND VISITS ANACORTES
Mr. E. A. Bond of the Mathemat­ics
department addressed the teach­ers
of the Anacortes schools Thurs­day
night, January 30. While there
he nad' an opportunity to meet
many former students from here
who are now teaching in* Anacortes.
Miss Carrianna Tucker, who attend­ed
Bellingham Normal last year,
was also present at the meeting. ~-
A delightful program was one" of
the main features of the evening,
Mr. Bond said. \
Gemma Paglieri, vivacious and
popular soprano, will be again pre­sented
in assembly next Tuesday
morning, February 11. She will ap­pear
in costume as usual, and will
offer one of her delightful programs
of songs.
She has been featured on several
assembly programs during the past
year and has proved to be one of
the most popular of our visiting ar­tists.
Her clear, rich voice, melo­dious
even in the highest registers,
coupled with her winning personal­ity,
moved the students to demand
encore after encore in her recital
here last quarter. It is certain that
her concept next Tuesday morning
will be received with enthusiasm.
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EXTENSION OF SONG
CONTEST IS PASSED
Board Permits Song Contest to
be Extended Until the End of
February at Meeting on Monday.
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The Chances for a Bellingham Victory Appears Slimy
but Carver's Re-vamped Line-up Shows Marked
Improvement Over Brand Displayed at Ellensburg.?
Routine business occupied the
Board of Control in the most part
of their meeting February 3. Jack
Musser asked permission to hire a
bus for the transporting of the Pep
Band to the Cheney games, and it
was granted.
Song Contest Extended
A motion, extending the Song
contest until the end of February,
was moved and seconded.
The Student's Co-op book store
was ordered to change the 307-dol
lar athletic bill, against the ath­letic
department, over to the ath­letic
fund.
Al Kuzmoski was appointed by
President Lyle Summers to be chair­man
for the winter quarter "Rec"
hours. Another committee was also
appointed to make arrangements
for the Board of Control banquet.
Harold Rich, Ethel Boynton, and
Clarence Thue comprise that; com­mittee.
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SCHOOL OF THE AIR
PRESENTS PROGRAM
Last Tuesday morning the Amer-.
ican School of Air presented an his­torical
program, for the first time,
to school children of the country
through a national radio hook-up
from New York. The program,
"The Life History of Columbus,"
was heard in room 239 of the Mu­sic
.department.
These programs will continue ev­ery
Tuesday and Thursday through­out
the year, with four different
themes: The Episodes of American
History, Literature, Nature Study,
and Health. Appropriate music will
be the background of these pro­grams,
making them, interesting as
well as educational.
Such personages as Secretary of
the Interior Wilbur; Dr. Bagley, of
Columbia University; Lorado Taft,
scupltor; Henry Turner Bailey, Art
educator; Mary Garden, of the Chi­cago
Civic opera, and Professor Pet­er
Dykema, of Columbia University,
will feature the programs.
Two training school boys, Herman
Int Veld and Henry Rearson, are
being trained to operate the radios.
A small booklet treating subjects
of broadcast and a complete course
of study will be sent to anyone on
request. The address is: American
School of Air, Box 100, Chicago, 111.
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CALENDAR
TODAY—
4 p. m., Rec Hour.
7 p. m., Y. W. C. A. party,
Edens Hall club room.
8:45 p. m., City League bas­ketball,
Junior Mechanics
vs. Normal Jayvees, Y. M.
C. A.
SATURDAY—Feb. 8.
8:30 p. m., Edens Hall infor­mal.
SUNDAY—Feb. 9.
7 p. m., Student Forum, Y.
W. C. A.
MONDAY—Feb. 10.
7:30 p. m., Social Science
club meeting, Edens Hall
, club room.
TUESDAY—Feb. 11.
11 a. m., regular Assembly,
- Gemma Paglieri, soprano.
Ellensburg vs. Vikings, Fair-haven
gym.
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8:15 p. m., Bellingham Little
Symphony Orchestra reci­tal,
Normal auditorium.
WEDNESDAY—Feb. 12.
• 7:30 p. m. MacDowell
meeting, room 141.
club
Tri-C meeting, room 120.
Basketball, Ellensburg vs. Vi­kings,
Fairhaven gym.
THURSDAY—Feb. 13.
7:30, Scholarship society ini­tiation.
FRIDAY—Feb. 14.
11 a. m., regular Assembly,
Maurice Hindus, lecturer,
"Humanity Uprooted".
Normal Supers vs. the Jayvees
and Roland Wreckers Against
Blaine in Preliminary Games.
Y. W. C. A. ENTERTAINS
WITH PARTY TONIGHT
This evening, in the Edens Hall
club room, the Y. W. C. A. of Nor­mal
will give a party for the pur­pose
of getting acquainted.
Members who feel they do not
know one another well enough will
find this an opportune time to be­come
acquainted.
According to the plans of Cath­erine
Graham, who has taken
charge of the party, there will be a
social time when games will be
played and at the conclusion of the
evening, refreshments will be served.
All the Normal Y. W. members
are asked to come and bring their
friends.
OFFICES SHIFTED
A shifting of the offices has taken
place in the training school during
the last week. Miss Anna Beiswen-ger
has moved into the intermediate
grades work room where she will
have her offices.
Miss Wilma Trent will move, to
Miss Beiswenger's office and her
room will, be used for speech work
in the training school.
With five straight victories be­hind
their backs, the Normal Vi­kings
will next week face the tough­est
opponent on their schedule, the
Ellensburg Wildcats. The Eastern­ers
will be here Tuesday and Wed­nesday,
February 11 and 12, for a
two-game series on the Fairhaven
floor. „~.;
Chances for a Bellingham victory
appear to.be rather slim. There is
no doubt that Sam. Carver's re­vamped
line-up has been playing a
better brand of ball than that.dis­played
earlier in the season. The
passing is improving, and Johnny
Dixon's return to
form has been a
large factor in
;he Vikings' vic­tories.
Getting off
to a slow start,
Dixon now. seems
to have his one-hand
push - shot ~
down to perfec*
tion.
Dixon
Pederson Good
"Doc" Pederson is probably the
best shot on'the team when he has
an "on" night, and Occie Thorsen
can always be counted on for a few
points.
However, with the Vikings going
at top speed, the Wildcats appear to
be still a little better. With an
abundance of material on hand,
Coach Nicholson has developed -a
combination that would give any
conference team a good run. The
Easterners have dropped but one
contest this year, and that to the
Washington State varsity. ; j .
Wildcats' Line-up
The Wildcat line-up which will
probably face the Vikings Tuesday,
consists of Sutphin and Bailey at
forwards, Haney, center and Gag-non
and Morison, guards. Sutphin
is an excellent shot, and will be
remembered as the boy who caused
the Vikings so much havoc last
year. McPhee, Rodgers, and Mc-
Mahon form a strong reserve com­bination.
Good Openers
Two hot preliminary contests have
been line up by Sam Carver for
both games. Tuesday night the
Super Varsity will clash with the
Junior Varsity the winner of which .
will play the return game with the
Custer town team at Custer. The ,
following night, the rangy Blaine
town team will meet the fast-step­ping
Roland Wrecker five of the
city. --
Both contests should be well
packed with action and interesting
to watch. They will start about
7:30 p. m.
Co-Op. to be Sponsor of Valentine
Box for Convenience of Students
George Hossfield of Patterson,
New Jersey, recently became the
World's champion typist with a
rate of 135 words per minute.'
Four; million, of the total
130,000,000 inhabitants of the Af­rican
continent, are whites. ",v.,.;
February fourteenth—ah! senti­mental
memories. Visions of-your
first girl, pig-tailied, in a calico
dress, luscious red bows on her hair,
and freckles, hundreds of them. You
brought her apples and rings off
sticks of, penny candy. .Then the
other boys would call, "Oh, Johnny
loves Susie!" and would write the
names together on -the sidewalks
with the chalk they had swiped
from school.
When Valentine Day was drawing
near you would buy her a gaudy
valentine with flowery looking angels
and skimpily dressed cherubims
holding a heart upon which was
written in sparkling letters "I love
you", and when opened showed
great ruffles of red paper. You had
saved for weeks.to buy that valen­tine
for HER, while your friends.got
them cut from pages of a wallpaper
catalogue. •••".'"'
Co-op Has Valentine Box... •',
-Now, I suppose we' are getting a
• bit old for that sort of sentimental
thing, What, What, What? Yoilv
don't think so? But I thought—•.
Well, if that's the way you really
feel about it you should see the
fine valentine box, just like we used.
to have in school, in the Co-op
store. You can deposit valentines
here until noon of the fourteerithV:
then they will be collected and put.
in the correct mail boxes or called ;
for. ., •.'••;• ..0.;
If you and the other presonalityj-- i
plus men don't know which girl to S
send a valentine . to—well, be ..dipr5
lomatic—buy several of the same
kind. '. '•-' , : - ^o
APPOINTMENT''MADE'- -'W^WS^
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• Mary-Morrow, a Bellmgham^Nor^^S^IStfffi
mal graduaterhas accepted the ^^^S#:J«Si
sitioh of teacher iri the rural sch6bl?t@f4I^S"
SUSP*
oh Sinclair Island.