EDUCATION: North Dakota Harvest

One evening last fortnight Governor John Moses broadcast a desperate message to North Dakota's citizens. For want of harvest hands, one of the lushest crops in the State's history—millions of bushels of wheat and potatoes and tons of sugar beets—might rot in the fields.

Next day at the University of North Dakota, in Grand Forks, 1,000 men and coeds jammed into a mass meeting. Up jumped Dean William G. Bek and roared: "Field work is not beneath any of us, and any one of you who thinks so is a slacker in every sense of the word." Then & there...

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