Northern Student archives

Don’t swallow your spoons: Words of wisdom from 1929 Bemidji State students

By Northern Student archives / June 9, 2025

Back when the school was called Bemidji State Teachers College, students took it upon themselves to provide critical etiquette advice to help their classmates in particularly perilous social settings.

From the Archives: Paul Bunyan’s escapades at ‘Princeton of the Pines’

By Northern Student archives / January 30, 2024

Many stories have been written of Paul Bunyan as the lumberjack king, but how many people know of Paul’s college escapades at Bemidji State College?

From the archives: “Harry” haunts theatre students in Bangsberg

By Northern Student archives / October 31, 2023

It has become a sort of tradition for the first student entering the stage to always greet Harry the Ghost. Likewise, the last person to leave the darkened theatre always says good night.

From the archives: ‘Footnotes in stone’

By Northern Student archives / September 15, 2023

Some would have found difficulty in finding space for the many footnote stones necessary to mark the continual changes that have been made in the status of B. S. T. C. For even to those who have grown along with it, the development of the College has seemed almost phenomenal.

From the archives: ‘Pull a wheelie, Steve’

By Northern Student archives / July 5, 2023

From the 1967 Northern Student archives: BSC frosh Steve Adams finds his unicycle a good way to make friends and solve the parking problem.