The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-12-02
MOORHEAD NORMAL

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J. Harold Powers, head of the music
department, will stage one of the
modern light operas on Dec. 10 at the
normal auditorium. Students of the
normal school comprise the cast, and
teachers of the school direct all the
work of preparation, which includes,
besides the music, the dramatic action
and the various dances and drills.
Miss Hayes, teacher OF reading, and
Miss Meyer, teacher of physical edu-
cation, assist Mr.. Powers in these re-
spective arts. The opera is a copy
righted production. Jacobowskfs
famous Ermine, or the Two Thieves,
which excited so much interest when
it appeared fifteen or twenty years ago.
The rehearsals are progressing very
successfully and what with careful
drill and fine costuming, the opera is
| expected to be one of the best per
formances the normal has staged.
The basketball season at the normal
was started this week. On Monday
evening Miss Meyer had two of her
girl teams in the field, and on Wednes-
day evening Mr.. Kingsford took his
boys team to Fergus Falls. The girls
contest was between the senior team
and picked team from the lower
classes, which played brisk game in
the normal gymnasium, the seniors
winning by score of 10 to 8. This
was the first of series of class games
that will be played before the girls
team of the normal meets outside
rivals. The boys team, in hot con-
test with the fast quintette Of Park
Region Luther college, won by score
| of Is to 20.
The two new literary societies or
ganized this week by electing officers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins, class coun-
sellers, entertained the seniors and the
members of the faculty at the home of
President and Mrs. Weld on Nov. rs,
Nearly 200 guests were present. A
musical and literary programme began
the festivities, features of which were
the piano duet of Mrs. Hackett and
Miss Chase; the baritone solos of Mr.
Powers, and President Yields reading
of the French dialect story Pitt Bar
ouette, by William McLennan. The
latter excited the liveliest interest, not
only because of the novelty of the plot,
but because of the vivacity and power
of Mr.. Yields Interpretation, which was
in his happiest manner. Following the
programme occurred an auction, each
guest having brought an article for
the general stock. An incident of the
entertainment, indeed the keynote of ii
all, was a letter from home" which
contained, besides the neighborhood
news, the usual check; hence the auc-
ton thrived. Refreshments and gen.
eral singing concluded a delightful
evening.
The following programme, furnish
ed by the instructors in the Fargo Col
lege Conservatory of Music, delighted
normal people and their guests al
chapel last Saturday, Nov. %:
Perpetual Motion. ................ Rfes
Serenade .................... Drige
A. j. Stephens, (violin).
Mother O. Mine. Tours
Rose in the Bud. .............. Foster
Bertrand Allan Orr, (baritone).
Novelette, .....,........,. MacDowell
Waltz in ID ............... Schultz
George Ralf Kurtz, (piano).
Farewell to Summer. ... johnson
Messrs. Orr, Stephens and Kurtz.
Judge Amidon of Fargo will be the
chapel speaker on Dec. 9.
President Weld has given two no.
table addresses lately before the mems
seminar of the Congregational church
The first embodied detailed history
of criminology and penology, showing
the humanizing influence of recent
times upon both sciences. His second
address dealt with the reformation Of
the criminal classes. The correctional
phase, he explained, is now much moro
prominent in the minds of thinking
people than the punitive phase. No
how to punish vice, but how to correct
and eradicate it, is the present problem
TO this end, the indeterminate sentences
is of great value. 1t is flexible anC
human, yet corrective. Much of the
difficulty, encountered by our state
corrective Institutions, is directly
traceable to our vicious system OF
management under the board Of con.
troll the members of which are selected
on purely business basis, or still
worse, a political basis The human.
izing factor is subordinated to the
technical or financial factor. Our in.
stitutions should be under a boarC
competent to enter into sympathetic
relations with the problem of reform.
ing the manhood of offenders in Their
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cape such alarming disturbances al
the Whittier case, a scandal traceablt
directly to the narrow policy which re-
quires the heads of our state correc.
tional institutions to intrust their re-
sponsible duties to cheap and ineffi-
cient subordinates who have neithel
soul power nor high ideals.
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Mr.. Kingsford was one of the speak.
ers at the Fargo celebration of the
tercentennary Of the King James Bible
His subject was The Success of IT.
Unique Influence. cart. literature
politics and government" he said
"have been dominated by the Bible
1t has always spoken with the power
OF authority. Though mans inter
probation Of it has not always beer
wise, and 1t has sometimes blocked
the path Of progress, still no Other
single influence could compare with Il
in uplifting power. The old theology
taught that 1t was true because it was
inspired; the new theology says 1t Ii
inspired because it is true. 1t is the
spiritual biography Of the human race
In it man may find his own soul analy.
sis, behold the divinity in his fellow
man, and thus come face to face with
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