The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-08-10

those who know they are attacking new problem.
No do die spirit for the sake of the ideal
Nope went because it wasn't hard to go to school,
That's all we had ever had We had no jobs; be-
ginning to higher education was open to us at little
cost. So in we flocked about thirty of us late
in September that year. In the spring-that dry,
crunchy spring when winds blew and rains didn't
come-some twenty of us finished
Back of the whole plan stands jolly be-spectacled
Yves Kohl The thing is his dream. Dreamer"
some said of him. "Decentralizer," said others. He
admits to both; argues with neither But through
the since 1884 he has held to the hope that Sank
Centre may become seat for those who want the
beginnings of higher education at scant cost. It's
designed with double purpose that of low cost
early college training and to bridge the gap between
high school and college itself Kohl himself
admits to gap between high school and college.
claims most high school graduates today too young
to adequately know what they're about in college.
He not only breaches the theory; he practices
it. His daughter stayed home year. took
several post graduate courses before she entered
nurses training. -.
Now adequate housing facilities, staff of two
or more if necessary transportation trends interest
soften of the difficulties Of that first year.
Interest to be gaining; for Melrose Freeport,
Greenwald youths have asked about the school.
The tentacles of the University begin to reach out
scattering learning wider and wider areas. For
when say pioneered, the inference is not that Sank
Centre motivated this trend. Other communities,
through utilization with the University, have tried.
did students think interesting.
lot of things happened that first year. In mid
term changed instructors. " F. Beaumont who
started the term moved to another job Most
of us will never forget the day Harry Hamilton
reading from economics book stumbled onto
Latin phrase, guped at it few times. and resigned
y, Il don't know whatahell that is" While the
crowd roared. Beau tugged rapidly at his
mustache, Struggled his chin in his hand. But his
eyes danced; we knew he was laughing. Beaus
dead now. and into his stead the young cleric,
Rev. Lanse Kempton who could lecture endlessly
history, but who confessed he didn't know any
more economics than to suppose a marginal producer
the guy who left edges sheet of typewriter
paper So together attacked that subject,
and did a fair job of slapping Carver and Hanson's
principles of Economics" into nameless pulp
School out moments notice. There
the morning Lanse had birthday. Just open
ed our books for a round of economics in trooped
Fay Domke and Mary Markson, bearing huge
bowl of Strawberries crushed and sugared the other
bringing gifts that turned out to be cake-and
what mean delicious! School out and the party
Then there the time there the
fire uptown. And the basement regurgitated it's
crop of embryo coegans with lanky instructor
Kempton actually leading the pack. That year
took exams at Alexandria, Time before and
between exams we crammed for the extreme mental
effort by playing pool.
don't intend to pose as shining light of that
first year by which all may be guided into this
seat of learning. In fact Yves Kohl has long engend
If not dark, then shady. Once he threatened that
if exposed the fact attended this early effort he
would terminate his subscription to this paper.
But fearless journalism must be preserved. Which
is another way for saying guy is too dumb to know
when to keep STILL he wasn't offered anything
worthwhile for doing Besides if he thinks he
keep me from Haunting my pioneering efforts before
the world Ito be pioneer is thing to be desired),
then he is nuttier than our instructor after two
weeks educational section boss. /. . So into
maelstrom deeper we plunge.
All, but there are other things than book rarnin'
you contend. Social contacts, for instance. There
can't be any in this setup say you. Don't you be-
lieve it. We had more society life in ten minutes in
that birthday party than any fraternity stepped in
Greek letters and Roman togas. Then school was
co-educatona which is not conducive to intense stu
dy at least dverting and pleasant. All work. you
know OF course at the time were enamored
of others not in the school, which note is today
characteristic of high school students and cattle.
Greener pastures over the lea.
But learned something too. We found first
that all learning is not taught in high school; that
being a high school graduate is not the Of
worldly and scholarly success. We learned that
early, only year after we were out of school.
There were economic problems to wrestle we wrang
led over theories of the day. Oh boy, all in all
were going very academic at times. At about the
same pace Model gains momentum chuggins
on two cylinders We flew through history
course that traced maninds idocyncracies for three
hundred years. We watched the New Deal put into
effect, through the Brain Trust these same economic
theories we were studying. :. have always thanked
the New Deal for trying them out Otherwise Carver
and Hanson would have had fooled to this day.
And 1 would have treated those theories as facts
and probably wasted my substance with rotous lv-
ing.
I say this facetiously because in way 1t
funny. At least the associations now melowed and
SKINNED of the dross Of the unpleasantres, now
amusing There the mathematics department:
Floyd Nelson, Joe Huber, Badly Forsberg, Bob Van
most of the time. Harry Hamilton Juggling his
typewriter back and forth. John Copper calling it
economics with a long e), which agrees with Web
ster, but which didn't matter to who had chosen
to the short form Of the vowel And English
themes that convulsed instructors. Fay Domke
in fit of glee Lanky Doug McCrae, of Swan