Word: lansinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week Try. Narvesen's three-month-old "People's University" had 2,615 enthusiastic students, 71 teachers. The students paid nothing for their schooling and the teachers received nothing for their instruction. Founder Narvesen had just added a twenty-first building to his rent-free campus...
Slogan of Try. Narvesen's salesmanship course is "If you can SELL-well-nearly all is well." He proved that proposition to bewildered Lansingites before the course started. When he had finished talking to them, Lansing manufacturers, preachers, city officials, bankers found they had been "sold" on the idea...
Classes are held one evening each week. In the directors room of American State Savings Bank citizens wrestle with Political Science ("Business brains becoming active here, will build stronger political leadership") under Businessman John F. Brisbin, assisted by Clothing Merchant Louis May and Editorial Writer Glenn K. Stimson of the...
Dear to Founder Narvesen are his courses in religion ("Not proselyting but better understanding is the goal"). In the Municipal Courtroom at City Hall, Rev. John Gabriels expounds the Fundamentals of Catholicism. Rabbi David I. Cedarbaum presents The Jew Under Persecution from Pharaoh to Hitler in Central Temple House. High...
The big breezy founder of the People's University was born in Christiansand, Norway 44 years ago, son of a steamship captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education...