AUGUSTANA OBSERVER Page Five RÕLVAAG of nature which are so essential Earth and Peder Victorious, vou Book Review - - Dr. Bergendoff Leads Continued from page one a part of the immigranfs strug- have given assured immortality Earthquakes, floods, famines, subjects. Rõlvaag is distinguished gle. to the contribution of the Norse Bible Study pioneers in the Northwest; be- banditry, warfare and a great from most of these writers, how- In Rõlvaag's novel, the impres- Last Friday evening from 6:45 cause vou have beconie, as none national uprising—every earthly ever, in that, whereas they write sion of epic greatness is due inbefore or sinee, the articulate in- prop and stay was gone. And tlie to 7 :.'íO. 25 Augustana students from the outside the experiences great part to the power with terpreter of the heroism, the diffi- land was "in a turbulent sea with began a series of meetings for dis- of others, of their ancestors, or, which he describes the expanse cult process of adjustment to a cussion of the books of Isaiah. like Willa Cather, of a people to of the prairies, the primitive new environment, and the social one wave of lawlessness and dan- struggle to build homes and cul- ger after the other." Dr. Bergendoff led the discussion whom they do not belong, he gifts to American life that enter tivate crops in a willderness al- into the tale of the Xorwegians Into these intolerable condi- which centered around the first wrote of what he himself experi- niost unconquerable. The book is enced. In his own life, with his of our Xorthwest; because you tions they go. A naval cadet chapter of this book. Future epic, too, in the elemental emo- transplanting to the plains of have given voice to the hitherto drops his duties, takes along a meetings will involve the study tions to whieh such a life forces silent saga of your transplanted Dakota after a boyhood in themeu and women. It is human, basket, a bell and some tracts and of additional ehapters. countrymen; because, as artist. Tlie purpose of the discussions íishing communities of the north- familiar, as well as epic, however. vou have broken the forms of fie- goes soul-winning. A Buddhist Xot ali the wives brood; there are is to provide a source of spiritual ernmost Norway, was that which tion and brouglit them into closer becomes a preacher to do Chrisfs enabled him to comprehend the times of social happiness, not inspiration and to better acquaint relation to life, mixing in new bidding. And what experiences force which brought Per Hansa, labor and hardship alone. There proportion the elements of epi- súidents with the Bible, giving is the happiness reminiscent of a lady missionary lias in her 23 Hans Olsa, and Syvert Tõnseton sode and plot until your pages days on a bandit-ridden ship! them an understanding of each old Xorway when, after having become a pageant of living meu to the new America, to picture been without a minister for sev- First in the North, then, like word thev read. the longing of Beret for the peace and women, and so combining the eral years, the little group is vis- realistic and the romantic that tire, to the South it spreads. and security of her old home in ited by a minister who can hold realism ceases to be sordid and Sinners come by hundreds and Geologists Visit Xorway. a regular church service in theromance ceases to be sentimental. thousands to hear and to receive. Giants in the Earth is largely frontier hut. There is the hínt Confessions, joys of rebirth, U. oí Chicago the story of Per Hansa and hisof the further problem which wife Beret, of their life among Rõlvaag went on to develop in Last Saturday six students prayers. liopes in telling others, tlie neiglibors from Xorway who the sequei to Giants in the Earth from the geology department, led what awakening testimonials they now face with them the newness — named 1'eder Victorious for by Dr. F. M. Fryxell, visited the give! The minoritv had prayed and dangers of the frontier. h\ Per and Berefs prairie-born University of Chicago. Included Per Hansa is pictured tlie strong son—the problem of the relations for a revival and here it was,in the group were Charles John- mau, happy in action, in theof people of one nationality with "God's judgment visited upon a son, Glenn Sandberg. Stephen building of a home, sensible and another, in the melting-pot of dead or lukewarm church." Ilult, James Yolton, Edgar Sum- understanding in ali his rela- America. Eead this stirring, heartening merford and John Eeinemund. tions—with his good friend Hans An appropriate summarv of review of "China in Revival," a During the morning they in- book from the missionary library, Olsa, another representative of Piõlvaag's achievement in litera- spected the laboratories of thepioneer virtues; with his wife, ture in general which is also de- Drink DOW on the L. S. A. table. geology building and tlie museum One in a Million —E. U. Beret. The portrait of Beret, scriptive of this, his best work, is and met several instruetors of the with her troubled spirit, her sense the citation made when the Uni- 12c department. In the afternoon of evil in these strange surround- versity of Wisconsin in 1929 con- Wãllin States Central other buildings were viewed, ings which, eombined with brood- ferred an honorary degree upon ainong them the physiology build- ing over a }>ersonal sin. leads to him. It is quoted from vol- Topics of Meeting ing, the oriental institute, the temporarv insanitv and then to ume VII of Norwegian-American "Democracy in Edueation" and Rosenwald museum and thereligious obsession, is one ofStudies and Records, a volume '"Co-ordination of State líequire- Rockefeller cathedral. the remarkable achievements in to be found in our library, in RITZ ments for Teachers" were two of Two Augustana alumni, Frank Crútnts in the Earth. The strength which are two excellent articles the central topics of lectures and Byers and Chester Johnson, eon- of the immigrant we see in these on Rõlvaag. The degree, said the THEATRE discussions attended by Prof. dueted the geologists on their meu, and in the gay, convivial president of the university to 14th Ave. and 38th St, R. I. A. R. Wallin in Cleveland, Ohio, tour. Tõnseton, another but equally Rõlvaag, was conferred "be- last week. Professor Wallin was representative type. The tragedy cause, as author of Giants in the THURSDAY AND FRIDAY present at meetings of the Na- FIESTA of the immigrant is presented in June Lang and Lynn Bari in tional Society of College Teach- Continued from page one Beret, in her own unhappiness 'Meet the Girls" and all-star and in the fact that, after a m cast in "Lives of Bengal Lan- ers of Edueation, the American contestants tossed their bouquets cers." Council of Edueation, and theinto the crowd, in an effort to measure of peace comes to her, National Society of Colleges of determine next year's nominees. she is the cause of tragedy for 'W OIBECTION OF A H BLANK SATURDAY Edueation. The entertainment was prohe- r husband, Per Hansa. He is R. Livingston in "Night Hawk" One of the most important re- vided by Phyllis Ed, the Oso fra- the victim of her religious ideas, CAN MOLINE TAKEIT.,,! and Gene Autry in "Prairie ports given, according to Profes- ternity bottle-blowing act, andwhich she can not adopt to fron- Moon." tier conditions, and of the forces SPECIAL "TEST" sor Wallin, was that of the Com- Miss Xina Plantz who presented SUNDAY AND MONDAY a Mexican dance. A feature of ENGAGEMENT mission on Teacher Edueation of Lane Sisters, Gale Page, the American Council of Eduea- the program was the appearance SATURDAY NITE AT 10:30 Claude Rains and Jeffrey tion. The Commission outlined of Mary and Harry Pells, a pro- 2 COMPLETE SHOWS Lynn in "Four Daughters." its plans to study problerns and fessional dance team. HARPER IT MAY NEVER BE SHOWN TUESDAY AND improvement of teaeher eduea- The Woman's club has report- HERE AGAIN! tion, in co-operation with educa- ed a substantial profit which WEDNESDAY tional organizations and institu- marks the "Fiesta" as a financial Hank Luisetti and Betty Gra- as well as a social suecess. Among HOUSE ble in "Campus Confessions" tions, and to raise the levei of and Boris KarlofE and Evelyn the teaching profession. the offerings were the Cog pup- Brent in "Mr. Wong Detec- pet show, Ken handwriting an- Meet your friends in our tive." alysis booth, Alpha Delta news- j Reward Offered by paper, eommercial class telegraph Coffee Shop and enjoy home-cooked foods. Daily till 7 p.m. Sat. 6:30. I office, Pi Kappa Delta Kangeroo Sundays and Holidays | Rockety -1 Editor Court, lv. T. fortune tellers and Basil RATHBONE • Our private r o o m s are 15c till 2 p.m. ' i One dollar will be given to any- Key baseball tossing concession. 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