Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-16
COLLEGE ORATOR|cAL CONTEST
The First Annual Augustana Col
lege Prohibition Contest TOOK
Place Saturday Evening".

Under the National Prohibition AS
ISOLATION which includes th1rty-hVe
states, eight interstate districts
have been formed and n OF the
eight includes South Dakota, Iowa,
and Missouri, and at present the or
ganization in this state is represented
by the Sioux Falls College, Brookings
Agricultural College, Mitchell Wes-
leyan College, Huron College, Angus
tana College of Canton and the Wes-
sington Springs Seminery, and each
, of the educational institutions will
hold an oratorical contest and send
their champions or prize winners to a
state contest which will be held at
Augustana College in this city on
Thursday, May 6, after which the
champions from the several states will
meet in National contest at Holton,
Kansas, in May, shortly after the
contest is held in Canton. The dis
trict, state and national contests will
develop many splendid orators and
lay a foundation for genuine temper
ance education superior to anything
ever attempted along this line, be-
cause it will produce temperance ora
tors of the highest qualities in the
great educational schools of the coun-
try, ahd students will naturally grow
into the work through local pride and
a desire to save the unfortunate as
we'll as helping destroy the great
est curse the nation has to face.
Augustana College is an institution
that every man and woman in Can
ton has learned to love and appreci-
ate for its splendid christian educa
tional facilities, and for the progress
sive spirit in it's management. All
branches of education are taught by
teachers who are able and patriotic in
their work, surrounded and under the
influence of christianity exemplified
in a spirit that proves that they who
live a christian life enjoy the great
est blessings. Every year clearly
the value Of Augustana
as a real school for higher education,
yet lacking the reputation of the old
and richly endowed seats of learn
ing, 1t stands ahead of any as a real
christian home where young men and
are taught the common and
branches with a sincerity of
purpose that commands admiration.
Tuve and staff are not
teaching for high salaries, they are
teaching because they love the work
and the glorious doctrine proclaimed
oy Martin Luther.
Nothing but a true christian spirit
Ind love of education among those
who steadfastly adhere to the Luth-
,ran church could have survived the
struggle to erect and maintain at this
place under the trials that faced the
men who laid the foundation and
the noble structure that
s now the pride of the Norwegian l
of the northwest. The fu-
ure of the college is assured and its J
and Importance is only a I
question of time. I
Coming back to the starting point l
We wish to speak Of a contest held in
Augustana College last Saturday
;vening that more clearly tells of pro- !
ress among the students than any |
hing else we could say of the insti- a
ution. l
AS previously announced, the first !
nnual contest under the Augustana 4
League was held Satur- a
ay evening. The college band en- 6
ertained a fair audience, before the Q
began, under the direction '
Prof. Berdahl, and the musicians q
7ere given a splendid reception. a
The speakers and the title of their 4