NEWS OF ' \ The School of Agriculture UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. V\(No. 3 UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. PAUL, MINN. Decembd; 1930 Dexterites Introduce Innovation, Model Masculine Modes Boys entertain faculty and student guests with music, exhibits, revue. ~ Style Show Features Dexter Hall Guest Day Yes, a boys' style show ! We'll d0 it. And so it was decided not to hold the traditional Dexter Hall Open House ·but to invite faculty and students to a style show in the Home Economics building, Satur­ day afternoon, November 15, from 3 to 5 o'clock. And then the com­ mittees went to work ! Saturday afternoon found them ready to receive their guests. As­ sisting them were Miss Hognason, Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Christianson, Miss Matson and Miss Fisher. In the fireplace room, the Dayton Company had set up an exhibit of men's clothing. Don Josephson, Darwin Hall and Roy Lennartson Sport Togs on Display answered questions about color, Standing, reading from left, Julius Goihl, Anton Johnson, Robert style and materials shown in this Norris, Russell Hoven. Seated, Gordon Johnson. display. good, Edmund Jones, Ole Sanness, ence. Twelve manikins made rapid The Maurice L. Rothschild Ooth­ James Ripley, Clarence Nelson, changes, more rapid than mother ing Company had also installed an Emerson Sartain, Arnold Lexvold, has ever known them to make. But exhibit of men's clothing over which Gilbert Ahlstrand, Ralph Nehl. for their trouble they had the ap­ Obert Loken and John Marrs kept Robert Flesland, Clifford Gilbert- plause of their fellows and the envy watchful eyes. An especially inter­ son, Harvey Ditlevson, Howard of every young Lothario there. The esting feature of this exhibit was a Pederson and Clarence Nelson. manikins who styled the costumes box into which the guests dropped And then came the show. Every- were Russell Hoven, Allen Hanson, their names, and from which Miss one moved across the hall to a large Kenneth Evenson, Arthur Fahland, Hognason drew the lucky name, class room where the chairs had Hakon Holm, David Johnson, An­ Engval Oanes, at the close of the been arranged about a raised plat- ton Johnson, Robert Norris, Julius afternoon. Lucky, because to Eng­ form in the center of the room. (':J()ihl, Francis Smith, Gordon John- val, the Rothschild Company gave Fred Bjornstad, president of son and Oswald Myhre. a campus coat. Dexter 1Iall, welcomed the guests Throughout the show, which was In one end of the fireplace room and introduced Mr. Wollan who given twice, the school orchestra, was set the refreshment table. In staged the style show f«;~r the Golden under the direction of Mr. Boland, candles arid flowers, the yellow color Rule department store, and who ex- played a program of lively music scheme was carried out. By turns, plained the principles of good dress. and, at intervals, the saxaphone Mrs. Alfred Harvey and Miss Mar­ Finally, the looked· for show began. quartette, Walter Malmberg, Oscar jorie Holbrook, and Mrs. Alvin Manikin after manikin mounted the Lundborg, Aloys Gruenke, and Larson and Miss Gladys Nordeen platform, wheeled, and strutted off. Stanley Lind, contributed number ~ . presided at this table. Charles The gamut of young men's clothing Committees and their chairmen Head was chairman of the refresh­ through lounging robes, school not already named were invitation, ment committee that overlooked no clothes, sports wear, tuxedos, top- Walter Clausen; ~ntertainrnent, Roy one. Assisting him were Clarence coats and fur coats, forty costumes Lennartson; exhibits, Obert Loken : Wass, Fred Sprenger, Leonard Os- paraded before the interested audi- and reception, Edgar Deters. 2 THE SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE how they could draw-just a few Principals Miller, Dowell, Donovan lines and they had a picture. November 19---The secretary of Please Assembly Audience the National Dairy Council, Mr. Bechtelheimer, says people would October 21-Herr Walter Beck­ November 12-Today, the three save health if they would use more er, son of Dr. Carl Becker, until re­ superintendents, Mr. Donovan of dairy products. cently minister of education in the the North Central school, Mr. Dow­ The orchestra, tu1der Mr. Boland. republic of Germany, explained the ell of the Northwest school and Mr: played "Down Main Street," and German government and its party Miller of the West Central school, "The Dance o~ the Teddy Bear'' system. How does anyone know appeared on our assembly program by White. how to vote when there are forty·· for the first time. Mr. Donovan November 21-Today, we heard two different parties with candi­ told us what sort of basketball team-; a very famous man, Mr. Pierre de dates? the other schools would send us. Lanux, chief of the Paris office of October 22-Rev. Meickle of the Dr. Dowell reminded us that the the League of Nations. When the St. Anthony Park Union church "main tent" was more important treaty of Versailles was made, took us to Japan and told us how than the "side shows" and that we President Woodrow Wilson lived in the Japanese farm their rocky should study English hard. Won­ his home. Mr. de Lanux said that mountainside farms with little pow­ der why so many speakers say Eng­ he had been told that the people in er except hand power. lish is so important? Mr. Miller the middle west did not know much October 24-I knew Shakespeare advised us to get all we could out about world politics but that was was a great play writer but I of our school. not so. Am afraid he did tell us thought they made us study him be­ Dorothy Gunderson and Alice Du many things about the League that cause he was hard to understand, Bahn sang the duet, "Some One," we didn't know before. but Rev. Lemon said it was because by Willard. November 22-Reverend Stewart, he was such a wonderful student November 13-Homecoming day pastor of the St. James Methodi!lt of human nature and that any of in the University so E. B. Pierce, African church, surprised us when his characters might be living today. the alumni field secretary, explained he said that one-tenth of the people October 25-Today Dr. Tan­ how the colleges are a part of the in the United States is colored. He quary cooled us off at the North University, like the spokes in a told what wonderful progress they Pole. He was entomologist of the wheel. All held together b..;ij. the had made considering what depths first MacMillan party that explored alumni that bind the collegci to­ they had come from. They had the region north of Laborador and gether like the rim of the wheel been free only 65 years after 250 took many pictures that he showed holds it in. years of slavery. us. November 14-Hugh G. Hughes, Ruth Pearson played "Rain of October 28-Dean Edward Free­ business adviser for the Minnesota Blossoms" on her violin. man told us what the college ex­ Wheat Growers Associations began pected of its students and who by saying "If I were twenty-one." Orden Now Being Taken for '31 should go to college. When he was through we all felt · Agrarian October 31- Independent think­ that he was not worried about farm­ ing is a good subject for a man who ing but that we should all buy good Have you ordered the 1931 Agra­ is helping to organize a third party farms while they are so cheap and rian? If not, why not? The main in politics. That is what Rev. How­ learn all we can, here, about the problem facing the business mana­ ard Y. Williams, our speaker, to­ farming business. It's good enough ger at this time is the selling of the day, is doing. for me. Agrarians. November 7-How the market­ November xs-Today we were For the convenience of the read­ ing program of the Federal Farm taken to Oberarnmergau in Germany ers of this paper who cannot be Board will work was the subject of where the Passion Play took place reached in person and who wish to Mr. William Dankers' talk, today. this summer, by Reverend Gilmore. order Agrarians, here is a coupon Maybe we can help explain it to the This play lasted from eight to twelve which can be clipped out and sent folks at home now. Mr. Dankers o'clock in the morning and from in to the business manager. Books '25 was graduated from college in two to six o'clock in the afternoon. will be mailed by April 1. Certainly 1929 and is doing graduate work in On the day that Reverend Gilmore there will be many who will order college, and teaching in the School. was there, the temperature of that the 1931 Agrarian which is dedi­ November 8-Plenty of exercise, rainy day was 42 degrees• Fahren­ cated to the memory of the late good food, fresh air, rest and sleep heit, and even tho the story of the Principal D. D. Mayne. -A.F. are the five essentials for good play was familiar to the whole audi­ health according to Dr. Wm. A. ence, every one listened and looked Mr. Arthur Foster, Bus. Mgr. O'Brien of the Medical School. without moving. It must be a won­ Agrarian Proper nourishment is an important derful play. University Farm factor in warding off the dread dis­ November 18-Arthur Foster St. Paul, Minn. , ease, tuberculosis, in the "teen" played a selection from "The Bo­ P.O. 1524 ages. This is definitely born out hemian Girl." "Haw£ and Hawf" Please send me the 1931 Agrarian by the fact that some girls through gave a chalk talk.