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The Kentucky Kernel

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Owned & Operated

UNIVERSITY

VOLUME XXXI

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course In acting.
1M Frise Offered

conducting its sixth
nation-wid- e
contest in
which Kill close November 30. The
contest Is open to everyone and
the winning and perhaps the second and third plays will be pre
sented during the season at the
theater. Mr. Fowler especially urges
University students to enter the
contest. During the six contests one
UK student has won the award.
Four playwright discussion even
ings will be held, which both stu
dents and townspeople are Invited
to enter, at dates to be announced
Is

play-writi-

later.
Guignol curtains for both major
and studio productions part at 8:30
for evening performances and at
2:30 for Saturday matinee performances. No reserved seats will be held
alter 8:15 or 2:15.
Students interested In doing technical work for Guignol this season should report to Mr. Fowler at
his office in the Theatre building
this afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Besides "The Women" there will
be Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the
Man," Phillip Barry's "Philadelphia
Story." Elizabeth McFadden's "Double Door," and S. N. Behrman's
"Mystery from Heaven."
The position of business manager
which was held last year by Mrs.
Loio Robinson has been filled by
by, Mrs. Frances Bouton of Lexington. Mrs. Robinson resigned to
accept a position as program di- -,
rector of the University radio studios.

ACTING

Positions Open
On Kyian Staff

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FOOTBALL COACH KIRWAN

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ATHLETIC

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DIRECTOR

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No Slacker He

NEW MEMBERS
Card Stunts Set
For W-- L Game
Sam Ewing, Suky president, has
announced that salesmen should
report to Ernest Harris, treasurer,
at the south stand 30 minutes before
the Washington and Lee game, October 5.
Only ten students reported at the
game last Saturday, while at the
same time last year, there were 40
try-out-

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sions at the games are handled by
the SuKy Circle, which sells soft
drinks, candy, chewing gum, ice
cream, and cigarettes.
The card stunts, which will make
their first appearance this year at
the Washington and Lee game, will
be formed with new type cards
side, permitting more colors to be
which have different colors on each
used without the awkwardness of
a large number of cards. Robert
Rice Is in charge of the freshman
card section.
According to S. A. Boles, one of
the first members of the organization, the Circle was organized
around 1921-2- 2 for the purpose of
backing the athletic teams and the
band. It received its name from the
initial letters of State University of
Kentucky. Members of SuKy have
charge of pep rallies, caard formations at football games, tag sales for
the band, and the annual May Day
festivities.
With profits from the refreshments and tag selling. It sponsors
band trips, buys athletic cups, conducts May Day activities, and var.
ious other projects.
Students who are admitted to the
organization on the basis of their
sales at the football and basketball
games, are pledged on May Day.
Upon returning to school the following year, they are presented with
the official SuKy sweater.

Two associate editorships on the
1
Kentuckian are now open to
Juniors, Sam Ewing, editor, announced yesterday. Petitions must
be received in the Kernel business
office, basement of McVey hall, by
noon, Tuesday, October 1.
Applicants must have a minimum
scholastic standing of 1.4 for their
entire academic work and a similar
standing for the preceding semester. A $50 salary is paid associate
editors.
Any student, especially Freshmen,
who are interested in working on
the business Jand editorial staffs
of the yearbook are urged to see
Editor Ewing at the Kentuckian
office in the basement of McVey.

Ballroom Dancing
it
A
class In ballroom
dancing for all boys and girls who
wish to learn how to dance will
he held from 5 to 6 p. m., each
Tuesday and Thursday, in the Women's gym. These classes, under the
auspices of the physical education
department, will begin today.
non-cred-

for the year's
Nomination
pluckiest
freshman goes to
Duane M. Van Horn, engineer
from Binghamton, New York,
who, in spite or the loss of his
right hand, applied for and received special permission to enroll in freshman military .
requireUniversity
Under
ments, he was automatically
exempt from training, but was
granted special permission upon
his personal plea of application.

IN NYA ROLLS
College Allotment
Is Decreased

ratricia

$50 Scholarships

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Meeting Called

WOMEN'S CLUB

For Thursday

TO MEET TODAY

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Program Released
For Coming Year

Army Exams To Begin

Marine Trainees
May Apply Now

For First Convo
Of Semester

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Dr. Thomas Poe Cooper, acting
president, Bernie Shively. athletic
director, and Ab Kirman, head football coach, will address the student
body during the first general convocation of the year at 10 o'clock
this morning in Memorial
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third classes will be dismissed
to enable the students to attend the
convocation.
This will be Doctor Cooper's first
appearance before the entire student body since succeeding Dr. Frank
L. McVey as head of the University
last July 1. Doctor Cooper spoke
briefly to the Freshman at the Loyalty Circle gathering last Monday

Eighty-nin- e
less than last year's
record figures, the total enrollment
of students In the University numbered 3,538 when the registrar's office closed at 5 p. m. yesterday. This
number does not represent the
grand total since late registration
will continue several more days for
students who arrived after the regular registration periods were concluded.
Final date on which entrants to
the University may register has
been set for September 30. Until that
time new students may undertake
their admission procedures in the
afternoon from 2 p. m. until 3 p. m.
and from 10 a. m. until 11 a. m.
on Saturday.
Last year at this time there were
3,627 enrolled. When the final count
was taken by the registrar's office
a grand total of 3,788 resulted.
It Is doubted that the number
registering late this year will build
the present enrollment figure to the
level of last year's final total.
Physical examinations are being
given for the new registrants as
they enter by Dr. J. S. Chambers
In the Health building and ROTC
uniforms are still being Issued by

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night

Dean Cooper will speak on "Kentucky's University", while "Debunking Football" will be the subject of
the address by Coaches Kirwan and
Shively.
The acting president came to thi3
campus 22 years ago to become dean
of the agriculture college. Previously he had served as director of the
University of North Dakota experiment station for four years while
Doctor McVey was president was
president there. He received a
bachelor of sciences degree from the
University
of Minnesota
and a
doctor of sciences degree from Clem-son.

Coach Kirwan, captain of the
Wildcat eleven in 1926. returned to
his alma mater as head football
coach, following the athletic reorganization In February. 1938
Shively, an
lineman
at the University of Illinois, was

the military department
Most of these late registering stu
dents are transfers from other appointed athletic director at the
schools and Freshmen. Saturday, same time. He served as line and
however, the office expects consider- track coach here since the fall of
able number of the University's fa- 1927.
culty to file their entrance papers
for the courses which they will take
In addition to their teaching activi
ties. Many members of the faculty
are accustomed to taking classes In
the University In connection with
work on additional degrees. They
arrange most of their classes hi the
afternoons and Saturdays.
A3 freshmen men students
Increasing steadily since the schomill be required to wear clas3
lastic year of
the registracaps to keeping with a Student
tion total has grown until this year.

Kampus
Kernels

1934-193- 5.

Course
In German Offered

Non-Cred-

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In reply to several requests, the
German department has announced
that It will meet students interested
in acquiring a rapid reading knowledge of the language at 7:30 p. m.
Thursday,

September

26, In room

Administration building, to
consider the possibility of offering
such a course. Such work would
not come under the regular curriculum and would not be offered
for credit. The group would be organized principally to meet the
needs of those who wish to satisfy
the reading knowledge requirement
for advanced degrees here and elsewhere, the department said. All students interested to becoming members of such a group are urged to
attend.

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Government ruling, officials of
the SOA announced yesterday.
Officers of the organization,
which let the frosh cap contract last spring, said that official caps are to be purchased
at the Baynham Shoe Co.. 135 E.
Main Street
All students who have not purchased parking permits are requested by Dean T. T. Jones to do
so by 4 p. m today. After todav
a fine of 10 cents will be imposed
on any student who has not registered his car and received a permit from the dean of men's office.
I'MOS NOTES
Today
HL. Room 204.
Lamp and Cross, 7:15 p. m.. Room
205.

Freshman club.

7:00 p. m to 8:44

p. m., Y lounge.

Senior TMCA cabinet. 7:15 p. m

Frosh Should Be Thankful
For Those Freshman Caps
In Bygone Days
Their Headgear
Was Shining Pate
By MIXTA ANNE HOCKADAY
Most freshmen who are now bashfully wearing those blue and white
insignias of their newness in college life are unaware that the custom has 27 years of tradition

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Each year's new crop of freshmen
has seriously questioned the advisability of perching undignified caps
on heads full of budding wisdom.
In fact there were so many disturbed complaints two years ago, that
a poll was conducted by the Men's
Student council to February, 1939.
But here enthusiastic upperc lass-mvoted over 400 strong to favor
of the action, while a lonesome 43
votes condemned It.
The class of 1913 saw the beginning of the custom, when members
voted to banish the older practice
of "'head shaving" by Introducing
freshmen caps to be worn at all
times by all first year men. These
caps were black and gold, colors
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for that year's freshman class, and
each following class was to adopt
caps to their class colors.
However it wasnt long before
head shaving was renewed, and caps
were not worn until Dr. Frank L.
McVey, who resigned his presidency
of the University to July, came here
to fill that office in 1917.
When, at a meeting in his honor,
Dr. McVey rose to address the students, he was confronted by a sea
of shining bald heads. His remark:
"I thought I was to be president of
a civilized group of students," had
a telling effect for then and there
head shaving was abolished.
In 1923 the Student Council officially banned this more drastic
practice and adopted the blue and
white freshman cap with numerals
on the left front side, styled similarly to the military doughboy cap.

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Y office.

Student Cooperative meeting.

hibit
In "A

History of Travel In Ameri
ca" on display Is a picture of the
steamboats Robt. E. Lee and Natchez
which participated in the most
thrilling race in the Mississippi has
ever witnessed. The winner was the
Robt. E. Lee which traveled from
New Orleans to St Louis In three
days, 18 hours, and 30 minutes.
The prints displayed show that
the boats were named by both prac
tical and imaginative captains. Side
ie made by Will Rogers. "All Aboard" by side with the romantic Belle of
by Irvin S. Cobb of Paducah has a the Bends and the Sultana are the
place by Edna Ferber's "Showboat" John W. Cannon and the City of
A specimen of handwriting and
Louisville. The Hill City, Richmond,
book called "Poor John Fitch' and J. M. White are contrasted with
bring to mind the man who, ac- the Morning Star, Big Sandy, and
cording to most authorities, first Pargoud.
invented the steamboat. Fitch wrote,
These photographs and prints are
"X know of nothing so perplexing
from the collection of the late M.
and vexatious to man of feelings. R. Sulzer of Madison, Indiana.

Faculty Awards

SWIMMERS PLAN

as a turbulent wife and steamboat
building."
Many of Stephen Collins Foster's
melodies were inspired by the work
of the stevedores on the river boats.

These are represented in the

WIN LAW PRIZES

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Snider

.Bringing vivid reminders of the
days when "mark one" echoed
across the rolling waters of the
Ohio and the Mississippi, river
boat prints, some retaining their
original bright brown, some faded
to a neutral tan, are now on display on the first floor of the University library.
Alongside these prints are the
books that did so much to spread
the glamour of these days. "Life on
the Mississippi" is there, written by
Samuel L. Clemens who looked to
the river for a nom de plume and
made Mark Twain famous. "Steamboat Round the Bend" by Ben Bur-mis remembered as the last mov-

newsroom, basement of McVey
hall. Anyone wishing to apply
on the staff will be welcomed.

Four students of the law college
Reduction of appropriations to the have been chosen to receive the Licollege division of the National brary Scholarship awards given each
Yoath Administration program has year by the law college.
Selected by the college's faculmade it necessary to reduce the Unity were Mary Barton, Falmouth,
versity's NYA rolls, Dean T. T. Jones
and Roy Vance, Jr:. Paducah, second-year
has announced.
students, and Marvin
Under the national administration Tincher, Richmond, and Eugene
stuWebb, Lexington, third-yeprogram of monetary aid to
students, the federal dents.
Each scholarship, which amounts
government allocates approximately
to about $50 a semester, is awarded
$100,000,000 per year for NYA exon the basis of scholarship, library
penses. The program is divided in- ability, and character. Recipients
to three branches in the 4 years are required to work In the library
of age group high school, college. about eight hours each week.
attending groups,
J and
jA
portion of the federal fund is
expended proportionally among the
three groups. Dean Jones said.
the
Under the present set-u- p
The University swimming team, amount given to the University for
wonders," will meet NYA work has been reduced to such
"the pool-lefor the first time this year at 7:15 an extent
that slashing of the Unip. m, Thursday, in the Y rooms,
Jamse S. Shropshire, faculty ad- versity's rolls was made necessary,
he explained.
viser, announced yesterday.
Under the auspices of the art and
Last year, 357 men and women
Freshmen, as well as upperclass-me- n,
music divisions of the Fine Arts deapproximately
who are Interested in becom- students received
partment, the University Women's
work, according members of the team are re- $48,135 for part-tim- e
club will hold its first meeting of
quested to attend the meeting. For ing to Dean Jones on a maximum the 1940-4- 1 school year at 3 p. m.,
time in the team's meteoric yearly basis of $135 per person
the first
today in the Union Music room.
history, a Freshman team will be
This year, pared allocations have
On the musical program will be a
organized this year, with Mary reduced the local rolls to about
piano duet by Mrs. F. E. Hull and
Schwartz, backstroke speedster, in 330 students. Applications for jobs
Mrs. W. P. Carrigus; a double trio,
charge.
have been received from approxiconsisting, of Mrs. Maurice Seay,
not be back mately 450 students, he said.
Among those who will
E. N. Fergus,
Providing total enrollment reaches Mrs. Fritz John, Mrs.
from last year's team is Bud Scott,
Mrs. F. E. Hull. Mrs. A. E. Bigge,
4,000 students, current applications
captain-elec- t,
who has not registerand Mrs. J. H. Dupre, accompanied
ed this semester. Eddie David, will about equal the "10 per cent by Mrs. Robert Ogle; and a group of
mainstay and last of enrollment" maximum set for all piano numbers by Mrs. Ogle. .
breaststroke
year's manager, will also be missing schools.
The following program for the
during the swimming season. He will
year has been arranged by Mrs. Edcollege academic work
complete his
ward Fisk, chairman of the program
in January.
committee:
October 22, Patterson hall, Mrs. R.
P. Halleck, "Women to Kentucky
Graduate student applications are Industry," Mrs. Thomas Cooper prePhysical examinations for stu- new being received by the Univer siding.
dents in the first year advanced sity military department for admisNovember 26, Patterson hall. Dr.
military course will begin at 8 o'- sion to a three months training peri- Henry Carey, "Egyptian lomb Wall
od at the Marine Corps school. Paintings," Mrs.
clock Wednesday morning in the
James Burt Miner
Quantico, Va., Lieut. Col. Howard presiding.
Armory, Lieut Col. Howard Donnelyesly announced yesterday. Lieut. John Donnelly, ROTC head here, said
January 28, Patterson hall, panel
J. Kamesis, army surgeon from the terday.
discussion, Mrs. Amry Vandenbosch
Completion of the course entitles presiding.
medical corps. Ft. Knox, will conduct the examinations, assisted by successful candidates to three or six
February 25, Guignol theatre,
local ROTC personnel and Lexing- more months of active duty with the vaudeville, 1920 version. Mrs E. S.
physicians, Colonel Donnelly marines. For information contact Ooode presiding.
ton
said
the local military department.
March 25, Patterson hall, Mr. Ru
ben Taylor. "Kentucky Lore." Miss
Sarah B landing presiding.
April 22. Patterson hall. Miss Emily
Poole, "Prints," Mrs. Leon Cohen
presiding.
May 27, luncheon, Mrs. Carter
Logan, speaker;
Mrs. Clariborn
Latimer presiding.

Display In Library Recalls
Days Of The Stern wheelers
By

Total At 3,538
With Seven Days
Left To Enroll

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FRESHMAN TEAM

Classes Dismissed

1939 FIGURE

There will be a compulsory
meeting of the Kernel staff at
3 o'clock this afternoon. In the

FOUR STUDENTS

SURY SEEKING

1940-4-

.Dr. Thomas P. Cooper, acting
president of the University, will attend the 15th annual Robinson Harvest Festival, Thursday and Friday,
at Quicksand, In Breathitt county.
Roger Jones, a graduate of the
University and superintendent of
the experiment substation at Quick'
sand, will be in charge of the festi
val, which is to Include games, con
tests, and various agricultural ex
hibits.

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For semester's first convo: an introduction, a debunking

Ester Lee Pierson, senior In the
political science department, won
a $50 prize for her article entitled
"Our Stake In The Future of
China," which was entered In the
China Essay contest last year. Miss
Pierson, from Akron, Ohio, was one
of many contestants representing
more than 70 per cent of the ac
credited colleges and universities
In the United States.
Among the Judges of the national'
ly famous contest were James Row
land Angell, Pearl Buck, Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., Senator Elbert D.
Thomas, Alexander Woolcott, and
Rear Admiral H. E. YameU, U. S.
Navy, retired.

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Pierson Wins
China Essay Prize

Cooper To Attend

FAILSTO REACH

Will Meet Today

Several personnel changes In the
University's military training department for the 1940-4- 1 school year
were announced yesterday by Lieut.
Col. Howard Donnelly.
Majors Irvine C. Scudder, George
N. Randolph, and E. E. Morrow,
have been
military Instructors,
transferred to new divisions being
formed by the war department
TUaU rlnno rtnr fTVHLfori Vnmnrtp
of the
ttm&bld
mA for
year, Col. Donnelly said.
Mai William S. Barrett has been
elevated to Instructor of the second
year advanced course, replacing
Major Scudder. Maj. Arnold Sander
succeeds Major Randolph as first
year advanced instructor.
Lieut. John L- - Carter, and Second Lieutenants J. C. Smee and
Leslie Allison, all University grad
uates, have been added as ins true
tors in the second year basic course
succeeding Maj. Sander and MaJ.
Morrow. Lieut. Gene Myers, also a
University graduate will teach first
year basic military.
Due to the great number of appli
cations for admission to the first
year advanced course. Colonel Don'
nelly said he had asked fifth corps
area headquarters to Increase the
quota approximately
University's
70 additional places. More than 300
applications
have been received
thus far, of which 150 men have
been authorized by Colonel Donnelly
to appear tomorrow for physical
examination.

amateur actors to try out at the
University-civi- c
theatre in years,
ts
the women will continue their
until Thursday when director
Frank Fowler will pick his final
cast.
Written by Clare Booth, "The Wy
men" numbers 44 in Its cast, all Of
them women. The production is
some two years old but came Into
K greatest popularity only recently
since the motion picture version of
the drama appeared In the nation's
theatres.
Frazier Richards Is replacing Billy
3ulrey as stage manager this year.
Clarence Geiger returned to the
te
(heater as Instructor and will
to act as technical director.
He will teach a course offered for
the first time this year. In oral interpretation. Prof. Frank Fowler,
producing director, will teach a new

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Meeting Called
For W O'Clock

REGISTRY TOTAL

Kernel Staff,
New Applicants

TO ROTC STAFF
Advanced Course
Quota Exceeded
By Applicants

theatre-conscioover
definitely
the summer, as some 300 of them
thronged to the Guignol auditorium
on Euclid avenue Sunday afternoon
ts
for
in the casting of "The
Women," Culgnol's first production
thb year.
Termed the largest number of

Guignol

NUMBER

Cooper, Football Coaches
To Speak At Convocation
In Memorial Hall Today

NEW OFFICERS

Apparently women of the University and Lexington have become

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300 Women Swarm
To Guignol Tryouts
Clare Booth Play
To Include Parts
For 44 Actresses

Semi-weekl-

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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

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TUESDAY ISSUE

4 p.

Room 204. Election of 1940-4- 1
officers and discussion of year's
plans.
Council meeting.
5:00 p. m.
Wednesday
Pan Hellenic. 7:45 a. m to 1:15
p. m.. Room 204.

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Inter-Fraterni- ty

Thanday
Panhellenic, 7:45 a. m. to 1.15 p.
m.. Room 204.
Swimming team, Y lounge, 7:15 to
9 p. m. Freshmen and varsity men
asked to attend.
Union board. 5:30 p. m.

Friday

7:45 a m. to 1 13 p.
m. Room 204.
Capt. R. N. Gaines calls a formal
meeting of Scabbard and Blade ac
7:15 p: m. today at Buell hall.
OTHER NOTES
Taesday
Philharmonic symphony orches-

Pan Hellenic,

tra's

first rehearsal,

7:30

p.

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Room 8 of Music center.
Begifmind ballroom dancing. 5
p. m. to 9. p. m. Women's gym
Try-oufor Guignol technical
work, 5:00 p. m. at the theater.
Men's Glee club applicants rehearSince these caps have varied to style sal. 7:15 p. m. at the Music center.
each year, but maintained the blue
Phi Delta Chi, 1p.m.
and white official colors of the UniThanday
versity.
Men's Glee club applicants' reSo freshmen, when you voice your hearsal, 7:13 p. m. to 8:15 p. m. at
next complaint about your cap, re- the Music center.
member the "head shaving" days
Student bar association, first year
. . . and be thankful
room.
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Tuesday, Sept. 24,1940

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
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Now it came to pass in the reign

of Franklin the Spender that the
solons of a certain country known
as the United States did become
sore afraid when they contemplated
the armed might of the nation
For they heard of wars and rumors of war and of a madman of
the east, calleth Adolf, whose
hordes advanced in horrible metal
monsters that crawled over towns
and trenches and in screaming birtls
calleth Messerschmitts. And he did
treat warrior nation and peaceful
nation alike.
And they heard of rumblings in
the west where a race of men calleth Japs did make noises liken unto
belligerents, and they were crafty,
sinister men because they had slant-eye-

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planning,

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salaries. rcvcaK indircctlv a
ihiimkiI umdiiion which for several years lias
students in a niimliei ol
i .iki iikiI informed
stale universities throughout ihe South.
1 liai is the all too obvious fait ilia) Southern
Diiiviisitv professors, in comparison will) mem
Urs of oilier professions mosi of which lequire
e'en less intelligence and training, are saolv
underpaid for ihe services ihev render iheir respective stales.
In ihe first place lo bring the mailer t lose
10 home CK salaries in excess of SS.fMHl. iiik oust inn ional (sic) though ihev mav he. art- not
mcessai ilv unwarranted. The pay limiting provisions in iicsiion comprise a sccu'on ol a stale
xiiisiiiiiiion vvhie h was adopted in the IKWs. and
although S.'i.OIKI mav have seemed a great deal ol
iiionev in I SOrt. iim1:iv ii is onlv a week's wages
in the eves of such "useful servants" as ihe aek
Brums, ihe (.lnu Millers, and ihe Tvrone
Powets.
And. in the second plate, we should like to
incomes
poini out ihal the I ' "supra-legalnamed commutes ihe very eak salaries, and lhal
average Cnivcrsiiv prolessor's income (even lor
those who have worked vears for Ph. 1). degrees)
is more in the ncighli hood of S20rtrt-S.'5rtWhen one views these fads, and at the same
lime realizes that nowhere in the South are there
more highly trained intelligent. comcicnt groups
of ersons assembled than in the universities, then
hr is tempted to wonder if the citizens of Ken-nukand of the rest of the states of 'cighlor
Dixie are as concerned as they should lie with
ihe welfare of those men and women to whom
ihev have entrusted the higher education of theit
sons and daughters.

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II we were a biand new freshman, wilh shining
morning lace and a blue Freddie Bartholomew
cap and hopes that everything will lurn out all
tight in the end, we lelieve that during the next
couple of vears we would make ii a point to do
ihe following things:
Forget all alxiut grades and concentrate on
getting viewpoints from the classes listed on the
schedule card. Ii may seem paradoxical, bin
whenever the undergraduate mind Incomes occupied "getting an 'A' out of this course, " and
wiih three standings for the sake of the three
standings, the result usually is that he cannot
see the forest for the alphaletical trees. Then
there is little if any integration of course material:
psych is psych and math is math, and it never
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occurs to the
that there could
Mssihlv Ikj any connection between the two.
Study current events as well as textbooks and
to lit the two together into a pattern that
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makes sense. This, obviously, will necessitate going to the library for an occasional glance at
ihe newspapers, magazines, and a few key books
ill. ii furnish background for the sorry events of
the time. It would also call for what is some-limereferred to as a "scholarly attitude," a
thing which actually is nothing more than the
indulgence of a healthy curiosity.
Get into a few
but
in the one that is best liked and to which
we were Ix'st suited. There is a tendancy, when
one goes into the thing in dead earnest, for one's
schoolwork to interfere with his activities.
We would try not to succumb too quieklv
io this widely prevalent cynicism which
college campuses, nor to sophistocation
(sometimes referred to as "Joe College"-ness)- .
The present state of ihe world is leading to
nough cynicism as it is, and sophistocation, you
will find, went out wilh
trousers and
lacciHiii coals.

The Vice Of The People
By John Spicer
"Just three tangled lives," moaned
"Dum-Dum- "
Lail when he
heard that his own Alpha XI, Phil
Gerald has been playing hearts with
Emory Johnson behind his back.
Don

only recently gave Phil
aa expensive silver bracelet.
Whatever made Pi Kap Prexy
Bob Brown, decide he didn't wa'nt
Methinks it's
to be an engineer?
the punishment of a playboy.
Reggie Palmore, contrary to popular belief, is back in school. The
happy galivanting boy of old is gone;
in his place we have a serious, deChemistry
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termined flunked it three time) young man.
Can it be the influences of a good
"wife?" nice work Peg.
We have it from a reliable source
the girl from back home has corralled the hard boiled heart of Mel
French.
"My heart belongs to daddy" says
dancing Anne Adams who has to
do away with romancing and start
studying if she wants to remain in
school. Anne is in on probation.
Mrs. Samara, wife of managing
John, strenuously objects to John
Ed saying they live on North Lime.
It's Paris Pike, she says. Better be
careful John Ed or she'll invite you
out to supper.
Jean Foley, making her university bow this semister, is a honey.
Thee kid's going places, watch her.
Paul Cavise. perennial freshman
from Brooklyn, wha has been searching for a pretty girl to call his own,
has finally clicked. The girl is Betty
Ellsworth, pretty little freshman
from Henry Clay.
Gresham
The Dot Manning-Russsummer romance is on the skids.
Owen Cox is head man now.
Junie Jones of football fame returned from Louisville one day this
past summer like a sun flower. His
usually tawny dark hair was bleached
a platinum blonde. "Cute," said preacher Sam Hulette. Next day he was
also a platinum blonde. Not to be
outdone. Parda and Zoeller also followed suit.
and
Si ma Chi Bob Harrington blitz- was

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Convocations, Believe It Or Not,
Are NOT Terrible Orgies'
Incoming freshmen and campus
will have the opportunity of meeting Dr. Thomas
Poc CoojKr for the firsi time as ailing president
of ihe Cnivcrsiiv at the vear's oxning convocation at 10 o'clock this morning in Memorial hall.
Concurrent with the introduction. President
Cooer, formerly dean of the agriculture college
and successor to Dr. Frank L. McYcy as president,
will acquaint the student ImhIv. especially the
freshmen, with "Kentucky's University".
(ioojK-raiinwith President C!ooer this morning will le Football Coach Ab Kirwan and Athletic Director Bernie Shivelv. F.levaiing the sjmmi-inside of the session, the dale will oin in "De"old-timers-

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Last The Decameron9 Has Won
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By AIXENBY
ago. within the Churc h of Santa
Marie Novella, (ate- one dav brought together
whose profound
ten k i sons of
of life and command of language (noi
to miss mentioning of their c hronic extroversion)
a jxiwer-In- l
enabled to le recorded for jxtsie-riicollection of short. sux-r-rix- ante doles.
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len x rsons were the creatures of Giovanni
Boccaccio, and are known io moderns through
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Italian novelist's puriian roc king Ixiok.' D ami ion.
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cause such fine fellows like Shakespeare
Tennyson had
inspired by them. That
a crucial decision for had the judge ruled otherwise Shakespeare and the oilier greats would
this dav have their nolx l handles slighilv lain
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Why such a fuss was made over ihe
is obvious in one way. For timid souls the
Ixiok clixs not make an esjxciallv disgesiible
dish, but after all, why can't these pusillanimous
xople stick lo the Rover ISns and the- adventures of Helen Trent.
from another xint of view, there is nothing
ai all wrong with the Decameron. It is as frank
as your lamily doctor, and not professing to tell
only ihe truth, it is as true as anv novel.
II HiHcaccio is immorial, then is Wall Whitman and Bret Harte. II Decameron is lasciv ious,
ihen so is Leaves of Crass and Luck of Roaring
Camji and The Heathen Chinese.
Some educational cirele-- have actually awakened to the fact that Bixcaccio wasn't such an ugly
bird alter all, and this day his Decameron is on
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must read list ol manv prominent Univer
sities. It certainly tixik a long time to make the
climb, and the picture will le most discouraging
if it take-- as long to bring into college classroom other equally fine literary attainments. It
seems ihat no mailer how much ihe cducalion-engineerfiddl