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Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local...
...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 and ten more courses, each complete with a slogan, to the 58 he started last October. Lansingites were proud as peacocks and Michigan's State Department of Instruction was forming a special division to promote the Lansing plan throughout the State...
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 of letting the school use their buildings free of charge even for light & heat. Other citizens discovered their spare time signed away to teaching their hobbies. Printers had agreed to put out catalogs and sales literature for nothing. Residents of Lansing and neighboring towns were loudly exhorted to come...
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 in Olds Tower the Rev. J. A. Canby of Lansing's Church of Christ offers Bible Study to all comers. Other ministers and church workers hold forth elsewhere on everything from Hymnology to Christian Parenthood in the Modern World...
...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 can do without money at a War prison camp near Salt Lake City, which he turned into a makeshift "college" with smart internes as instructors. In Lansing he be longs to the Rotary Club, works hard for inter-class brotherhood, begins every day at 6:30 a. m. by hiking 40 minutes...
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