Women are allowed to play basketball.

Not very good at first, the women's team picks up much speed and skill once they are allowed to discard their restrictive and impractical bloomers and play instead in shorts.

Johan Ulrik Xavier joins the faculty as resident theologian, and later becomes librarian. He teaches Latin, Greek, religion, the Bible, history, botany, and zoology

His wife, Signe Skattebol, later becomes the women's basketball coach and teaches reading and grammar.

PLA is advertised mostly to the Norwegian and Lutheran populations in the Northwest.

Ads appear in the Pacific Herold, a weekly newspaper printed in Norwegian by the Pacific Lutheran University Association.

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