The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-08
FARGO COLLEGE NEWS

lTOul the COileBe one OF ueF most pOpu-
lar students, Francis Lewis Mr..
Lewis has been prominent in college
activities. especially in debate. He
will teach at Columbus, N. D., for the
remainder of the year.
A number Of the young ladies en-
tertained Monday evening in honor OF
some of the young men. The young
ladies, the Misses Ashelman, Jacob
sen. Carpenter, HOLSTER, Simonson
and Welter gave the young men a
progressive dinner. The guests were
Messrs. Lewis. Sharp. Aurner, Jacob
sen, George Haggart and Mcdonald.
A ladies' double quartette was
formed Wednesday of last week at the
home OF President and Mrs. Creegan.
The personnel of the quartette is as
follows: Miss Beard, Miss Steele, Miss
Read, Miss Conant, Miss Jessie Blu
chanan, Miss Beckman, Miss Euren
and Miss Stanley, accompanist, HUI
bert Beard. The quartette made its
first appearance in chapel Wednesday
morning Of this week, and rendered
two selections, Dream Song, by Dan
iels, and We Banks and Braes, by Wag-
horne. They give promise of becom-
ing one of the prominent musical or
ganizations of the city.
Mrs. H. c. Simmons left the city
Wednesday for her farm at Lennon
is. d. She was the guest of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Creegan at lunch Tues
day and of Miss Perley OH Monday,
Word has been received from OK
ford to the effect that Mr.. Beard, the
next North Dakota Rhodes scholar, has
been admitted to Wadham college. H.
S. Quigley, of Cando, N. D.. the Min
nesota scholar, has been admitted to
HEREFORD college. These two colleges
are not more than half a block apart,
so the two young men of the neigh
boring states will not be widely sep
arated.
The Y. NJ. and Y. w. c. A. held a
joint meeting this week. The leader
was Mr.. Blaming.
The catalogue is now out. The fig
ures show that the enrolment in the
college proper exclusive OF the pre-
paratory Department. is Ill. The
number was seventy last year, and this
increase is the more remarkable in
view of the general hard times. The
total enrolment, including the college
preparatory, art and musical depart
ments, is 4o1.
Last Wednesday Mr.. Baker of Beloit
college, one of this proprietors Of The
News, addressed cite students on the
subject of advertising the college. He
said one of the pest ways for a stu
dent to advertise mis- alma mater was
to make good himself Another way
was to tell ones friends about the
college. The students should form
themselves into groups for keeping in
with each other and with prospective
students. We shall be glad to well
come Mr. Baker again. Mrs. Creegan
was a chapel visitor.
The college quartette sang at
GAINESVILLE Monday evening. With
reference to their appearance in
jamestown, The Capital says: "The
Congregational church was full Tues
day evening with an audience that
anticipated much from the Fargo Col
lege quartette. And they were not dis
appointed. Each Of the singers gave
sufficient solo work to exhibit the fine
qualities of their individual voices, and
in quartette music they blended UNI
usually well. The audience was es-
pecially pleased with their renderings
of Old Black Joe and StIlle Nacht.
and was very complimentary in its
call for encores. Miss Beckman was
happy in her German and Swedish
love songs, and also in the dramatic
readings with which she varied the
programme. Each of the young peo-
pie was charming in personality and
gave the impression that they were
not professionals, but simply a COM
pany of college students having
good time and giving pleasure to their
friends. They did great credit to their
college training. jamestown will be
happy to hear them again."
DR. Knowlton has recently been
elected to the Oberln chapter of the
Phi Beta Kappa. He left Leipzig Feb.
IA, and is now in Paris, where he will
make study of the school system.
Official permission has been granted
him to visit all the various kinds of
schools of the city. DR.. Knowlton
writes that Miss Margery Moore, who
has been in Paris for some time,
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