The School of Agriculture News Published Monthly by the Students of The School of Agriculture, University of Minnesota Vol. IX, No. 2 University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. Merry Christmas! With Tiny Tim We Sa~· /Jt:c 1\ , "God Bless You, Everyone!" ~,A Two Aggies Win Honors Cletus Hallquist Describes Borgeson Orchestra Plays Eugene T holland Tells ol At Junior Livestock Show Trip to Washington For Thanksgiving Ball 4-H Club Congress Trip Is it any wonder that school stu­ Every day crowded full of inter­ . Upon entering the gymnasium on Because of my success in a dairy dents are so interested in the Junior esting experiences. Historical spots Wednesday evening, November 23, we calf project, I was sent to the 4-H Livestock Show when two fellow Ag­ visited. Important people met. Ali (ound decorations consisting of ma­ Club Congress in Chicago as a dele­ gies carried away some of the highest these furnished the basis for an inter­ roon, gold, and green streamers sus­ gate from Hennepin county by the honors awarded at the show? esting talk about Washington given by pended from the running track with Minneapolis Journal. Ruth Turner, '32, of Nicollet county Cletus Hallquist at the November 4 tall cornstalks forming a background At nine o'clock Saturday morning, won the Reserve Championship on her meeting of the 4-H club. Cletus had and cedar boughs covering the lights November 28, the delegates left St. Shrop-Southdown cross lamb. Ruth been sent as one of four Minnesota were all in accord with the spirit of Paul, arriving in Chicago at 7:10 has been very active as a club member delegates to the National 4-H Club the occasion, the annual Thanksgiving Ball given under the auspices of the o'clock the same evening-a fast trip. in her county for the past seven years camp in June in recognition of out­ The next day being Sunday, we attend­ and had a trip to the state fair· this standing achievements in 4-H club Boys' Athletic Association. Faculty, student, and alumni enjoyed ed church, and spent the afternoon vis­ fall as a member of a canning and work. iting the Field Museum and the Plane­ demonstration team. Viewing Washington from the top dancing to the rhythm of Howard Borgeson's orchestra. When the tarium at the Field Museum. We Edward Smisek of Rice county who of the Washington monument, being found everything from ancient coins has been a club member for eight one of the group photographed with numbers were being played very few were in the sidelines. Many remarked and stone coffins to famous paintings. years, was awarded the highest honor the President, being served a second I took particular interest in the groups of the show, that of having the grand helping of ice cream and cake urged on the pleasure of dancing to good music. of mounted animals. At the Plane­ champion baby beef. Edward's calf on him by the First Lady of the Land tarium, which is built for the 1934 was a grade Aberdeen Angus and sold at an informal reception in the White At ten-thirty everyone was served a glass of orangeade and after a short World's Fair, we were shown pic­ for 44 cents a pound to the First Na­ House, visiting Mount Vernon, Arl­ tures of the stars and planets. The tional Bank of St. Paul. It brought ington Cemetery and the Smithsonian social visit and a few more dances the gong struck twelve and the orchestra ceiling of the dome is like the sky, and him approximately $560. Other cash Institute, and seeing Niagara Falls can be made to change and show where prizes will make his winnings about while on the trip home were some of played "Home Sweet Home." The committees responsible for the a planet is on Christmas Day, 1933, or $700. If more beef sold at that price, the thrills Cletus enjoyed and shared a thousand years later. the enrollment at our School would be with his audience. success of the dance are as follows : increased considerably, and there would Miss ,Am:v Wessell, one of the state invitation committee, Marion Noble, At the International Livestock Show be no depression among the farmers. 4-H club leaders, found it easy tQ chairman; Ruth Iverson, Ruth Otter­ we •found a show very similar to our The many Aggie friends of Ruth persuade her audience that club work ne~s, Harry Nelson and John Marrs; livestock show. However, the ex­ and Edward extend their heartiest con­ has its rewards, and urged all to pre­ refreshment committee, Cleve John­ hibits were larger and included one gratulations on these very fine achieve­ pare to strengthen the work in the son, chairman, Margaret Lind and of varieties of grains. Draft horses Kenneth Turnham: decoration com­ featured the horse show. ments. home communities. mittee, Gilman Hoven, chairman; MERRY CHRISTMAS In the 4-H Club building the girls At this meeting, the following of­ Russell Hoven. Howard Baer, Lam­ ficers were elected: Evelyn Henry, bert Erickson, William Haight, Doris had a very fine exhibit of canning and Miscreants Haled to Court president; Lyndon Gammalson, vice­ Axelson and Alice BuDahn ; checking of clothing, and the boys had eggs, Guilty? Guilty I Why, of course president; Muriel Molenaar, secretary­ committee, Alvin Sethre, Elmer potatoes, cotton, peanuts, and other you are guilty I These were the words treasurer; and Wayne Holland, ser­ Hexum, and Allen Solem. The farm products on display.. Judl!'e Lind used in pronouncing sen­ geant-at-arms. chaperones were Principal and Mrs. An interesting event of the trip was tence on students who were summoned The club meets on the first and third J. 0. Christianson, Mr. and Mrs. the fifteenth annual Thomas E. Wil­ into her court. At times the jurors, Fridays in each month in Room 217, Robert Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. son day. At the banquet that day, club Mildred Bissen, Dorothy Fruechte, and Engineering Building. Chester Berggren, Mr. and Mrs. W· members were arranged in small Muriel Molenaar dissented from her E. Peterson, and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil groups for the sake of sociability. judgment, but leniency was seldom Birder. After dinner, a good program was shown. Pet hobbies and foibles of THE LITTLE CHRIST Among the alumni and former stu­ given, but the greatest thrill came well known students from giggles to The stable roof was slant and mean, dents whom the reporters recognized when Mr. Wilson introduced Amelia thirty-two page letters, from glazed The rushes on the floor spread thin ; were: Julia Hoven, Sadie Hoven, Earhart, the woman who mastered the coiffeur to memory tests, from squared There was no fire to warm him by Gemila Clementson, Conrad and Joel dangerous flight across the Atlantic circles to fossilized foot-prints on the When the little Christ came in. Clementson, Ben Lewis, Florence alone last summer. steps of the girls dormitory were ex­ There was no fire to warm him by, Peterson, Albert Nelson, Barbara At the 4-H club banquet, given at posed. Gabriel (Evelyn Young) They laid him in the prickly straw; Hallquist, 011!<1 Fruechte, Mildred the Belmont Hotel, most of the prizes opened the court and closed it with The humble, witless oxen saw Falk, Myrtle Sunness. Allen Baugh­ man, Carl Johnson. William Erickson. were awarded and the Minnesota dele­ three mighty blasts on his trumpet. St. How helpless he did lie. ~~tion was happy when Dorothy Peter (Francys Young) called the Mae Otterness. Robert Garbe, Harold Bielenberg and Obert Loken. Ethier was chosen as the healthiest cases into court which sat in the par­ So helpless, and the stall so dim I 4-H club girl in the nation. lors of the girls dormitory on Sunday And yet, so near, the darkness MERRY CHRISTMAS evening, December 4. riven On Wednesday evening, I was one Preceding the trial, Margaret Of an archangel chanting him -1933 Agrargian Dedicated of ten lucky Minnesota 4-H'ers who Weber as Mrs. I. M. Dumb, her With cherubim and seraphim: were invited to have dinner with Jane daughter, Magnolia, Erma Fruechte, "Glory to God in Heaven I" To Fathers and Mothers Addams at Hull House. Until we got and Muriel Molenaar as depot agent, In these days of independence we there, I did not know what a famous staged a clever skit.. His tiny whimper brake above sometimes neglect to express our grati­ woman I was to meet. Hull House is The girls glee club sang Christmas The patient sound of Mary's sigh; tude to our parents who may be striv­ a neighborhood house which aims to carols, and the same theme was cele­ The drowsv cattle stirred to hear ing and sa<.rificing for us. But the help the needy people of Chicago. brated by a solo by Arlene Anderson, The little Christ's low cry. fact remains that we are grateful for I had seve.~al experiences that were and a duet by Edith Molenaar and The silent cattle heard him weep. their untiring efforts in our behalf, new to me, among them was my first Margaret Lind. And waked, and 1i fted gentle heads ; and as a tribute to parents the Seniors train ride which was a thrill at first Jerry Harrington, entertainer over Careless, nearby, on dreamful beds, of '33 will dedicate their Asrrarian to though it got rather tiresome. Thi~ weco, assisted by his wife at the The inn-folk were asleep. "Fathers and Mothers." The annual was my first visit to Chicago, and also piano, sang songs and lead group sing­ While, to their rocking camels bent, will have as its theme, student life.