{"id":596,"date":"2013-11-21T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:09:39","slug":"student-life-in-old-ytterboe-hall-a-century-ago","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/student-life-in-old-ytterboe-hall-a-century-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Life in Old Ytterboe Hall a Century Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>SEPTEMBER 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tidbits from the Archives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Gary DeKrey, College Archivist<\/p>\n<p>They may not have been the three tenors, but the three St. Olaf musicians pictured\u00a0here ca.\u00a01908 were already part of the college&#8217;s developing musical traditions.\u00a0 Because St. Olaf lacked designated practice rooms at the time, student musicians practiced in their dormitory rooms.\u00a0\u00a0 The two cornet players may have been members of the St. Olaf Band, which toured Norway in 1906.\u00a0 The 1907\u00a0<em>Viking<\/em>\u00a0boasted that playing in the band gave students &#8220;a good training in music, practically free of charge.&#8221; The flag, calendar pin-up, pennants and photographs of classmates and friends provide a good idea of contemporary student room d\u00e9cor.\u00a0 The room itself was in the original Ytterboe Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken by\u00a0<strong>Harald Farseth \u201909<\/strong>\u00a0and is from a collection of over 100 images of student life that Farseth donated to the college in the form of glass-plate negatives.\u00a0 The plates were recently scanned for digital preservation.\u00a0 Some, like this one, are being viewed\u00a0 for the first time since their donation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPTEMBER 2003 &nbsp; Tidbits from the Archives: By Gary DeKrey, College Archivist They may not have been the three tenors, but the three St. Olaf musicians pictured\u00a0here ca.\u00a01908 were already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/596\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}