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BASEBALL!
COME OUT AND HELP YOUR

TEAM BEAT CENTRE

UNiy ERSIT Y
LEXINGTON,

VOLUME XVII

41

THE KENTUCKIAN IS OUT
AND WAITING FOR YOU

KENTUCKY

OF

GET YOURS!

KY., MAY 13, 1927

NUMBER 30

'CATS MEET CENTRE IN FINAL GAME MONDAY
1927

ANNUALS

APPEAR EARLIEST
IN U. K." HISTORY
Students May Get Kentuckians
at Campus Book Store; Staff
Is Anxious to Have Books
Distributed

Soon

HAS MANY NEW F.EATURES
Campus Favorite, Beauty, Feature and Senior Sections
Arouse Much Interest
Appearing on the campus earlier
in the history of our
annual, the 1927 Kentuckians are now
being distributed at the Campus Book
Store. Seniors received their copies
last Saturday, and other students may
. get them at any time, up to May 13,
at the book store. The stjhT is very
anxious tha"t students and faculty
members call for their annuals by this
I time, as a financial report must be
turned into the finance committee of
the university on May 13.
Many New Features
The book, dedicated to Henry Clay,
(contains many new features, including
a campus favorite section, containing
of the most
pictures of twenty-on- e
popular girls on the campus. The
? staff attempted to make the senior
section and the feature section, edited
by Jimmy Cogar, two outstanding
' sections of the annual, and these are
done in brown pebbled paper. The
rrrangement of the senior pictures is
'an innovation of the book, and has
' never before been used in the make-.uof a college annual.
The beauty section, containing pictures of the six most beautiful girls
on the University of Kentucky campus, is "preceded by an art sketch 'by
John Held, Jr., Art Editor of College
' Humor, who chose the beauties this
" .year.
Distinguished alumni, their

'than ever before

'

SENIOR EXAMS, MAY 16,

17

Senior examinations will take
place Monday and Tuesday, May
16 and 17, according to information received from the registrar's
office. These exams will be given
during recitation hours in the regular rooms, unless it has bee otherwise announcedKby the professor.
The registrar's office has sent
out a list of those who are eligible
for exemption from exams, that
is those whose standings for the
past three years have been 1.5 or
over. They will be exempt from
those classes in which they have
made a grade of "B" or. above.

CHORAL SOCIETY
GIVES ORATORIO
Hayd n's "Creation" Is Presented Before Capacity House
in Woodland Auditorium ;
U. K. Singers Take Part
DIRECTS

LAMPERT

WORK

The Central Kentucky Choral Society, composed of 250 singers of
Lexington and surrounding cities,
presented its May Festival offering,

Journalists From Five Institutions Collaborate oh
Student Edition of Lexington Herald May

of the departments of
Members
journalism of five" schools, the
University of Kentucky, Transylvania .College, Georgetown 'College,
Centre', and Kentucky Wesleyan Colprelege carried on a
cedent when on Wednesday, May 11,
they took advantage of an opportunity offered by the Lexington Herald
to put what they have learned about
journalism into practice. Wednesday's
Herald was the annual student edition.. It was edited solely through
the combined efforts of students attending Blue Grass colleges.
On Tuesday afternoon ambitious
journalistic students assembled at the
news room of the Herald building to
receive asigsnments of duties with directions on carrying them out. After
due instruction they departed to cover
their various beats, returning to the
main office in time to submit and edit
copy for the forthcoming' issue before
Important stories were
6 o'clock.
held open until later.
Under the capable direction of John
three-year-o-

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Vice-Preside- nt

Miles,
Mr. McGary, who is a member of
the SuKy Circle, is enrolled in the
College of Engineering. He is a mem-"b- er
of Phi Kappa Tau and is also
representative of that
ic
fraternity. His home is in Owens-b- o

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Mr. Miles, of Lexington, is president of Delta Sigma Pi, honorary
commerce fraternity; a member of
Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary campus leaders' fraternity;
Council from the
of the
!Phi Delta Theta fraternity; of Mystic
Thirteen and of the Student Council.
He is also president of the Commerce
'Club and is a junior in the Colleg of
Commerce.
The Student Council in the past has
"been looked upon as little more than
in honorary organization for juniors,
Ibut this year great interest has been
shown and greater things are expected of the council.
ic

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STENOGRAPHIC NOTICE
4F

Prom now on the stenographic
will be open during the noon
hour for the convenience of those havOffice
ing occasion to call there.
hours will be continuous from 8:30
5 o'clock.
to

R. Bullock,

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ministration building or from the
committee, which is composed of
Charles Rice, Margaret Fry, Leonard Rodemyer, John Baughman,
Joe Stevens and D'Allis Chapman.
The tickets cost you nothing,
Freshmen, so come and get them.
The dance will, be an important
event of your lives and will be
a delightful remembrance of Saturday, May 14.
CHARLES RICE,
President Freshman Class

IS SCIENCE HEAD

leyan,
The following acted in the capacity
ot reporters: Beecher Adams, E, M,
Sargent, Evalee Featherston, Rath- leyan,' Claude Shouse, Georgetown, erine Best, Carroll Morrow, Leida
and Zez Reid, Centre; city editor, Keyes, James Mills, Harry Bolser,
Kenneth Gregory and his assistant, Ethel Stamper, Alalcolm Yeaman,
Alfred Robertson; state djtpr; Helen, William Russell. Claude Shouse. Ro- Shelton and her assistants, CathsrineTbert Elliott and Ronald Poindexter.

Clean Your Guns

ROMANY SCORES
... .
WlTH!Kflpp8
S U C C ES S
S?SJSrT fpr
The Kappa
SISTER BEATRICE just announced Sigma it fraternity has
will challenge
that
,

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any fraternity on the campus for the

Results Obtained From Lighting championship rifle team of the
in Use, of Nine Dis- - i versity.
The match shall be fired at a date
tinct Colors, Furnish.es Rare
j during the week of May 17 at a time
Spectacle Of Beauty
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that shall suit both teams. The posi- tion s&al! be e.ither four strin&s
prone or one gtrifjg eacn ot standing,
Capacity Audiences Necessitate kneeling, sitting and prone, as shall
suit the answers to thg challenge.
Holding Over Play for
The Kappa "Slgs" will furnish
Three Days Next Week
Springfield "22's" for the event. Each
i
team shall furnish Us ammunition for
Staging the largest and most elab- - practice and match shooting. A refis to be selected from the mili- late dramatic productionyever
,emptea at tne university, icomany , tary department
great-- ,
Diayera are scoring one of the
jst successes in their history in the
iresentation of "Sister Beatrice' at
.he Romany theater this week,
audiences have thronged every
oerformance and have necessitated
.he holding over of the play for the
first three days of next week.
Weil-Know- n
Graduate of 1926
Many of those who have witnessed
Takes Time From Rise to
the performance of Maurice MaeterJournalistic Fame to Win
linck's tragic drama consider it the
at Game of Hearts
Romany's
mightiest
achievement.
These persons base their judgment
not only on the excellent merits of MISS BROWN IS FIANCEE
the play itself and the acting, but
Scoring two signal triumphs in the
also as much on the lighting and
ocenic effects which are of the most brief period qf one week, Arthur H.
elaborate nature.
Morris, former managing editor of
When Professor Sax and his co- The Kernel apd more recently editor- workers decided to produce "Sister manager of ThS Corbin Times-T- ri
Beatrice" for the opening play of bune, is now receiving hearty conRomany's fourth season, they decid- gratulations on his appointment as
ed to build the cathedral scene on the state editor pf The Louisville Times
stage. It took five students wprking and on the announcement of his enfaithfully an entire month to finish gagement to Miss Katherine Brown,
work, of London, who is alsp a fqrme stuthe scene. The completed
however, has won the warmest praise dent of the university.
In hi.s undergraduate fays which
from Romany playgoers.
tq a
Elaborate and unusual lighting ef- came had close last June, "Ottje"
Morris
a reputation fqr achievfects are gained by the use of eigh- ing
what he sought, Starting out s
teen spotlights and ten olwet lights
reporter on The Kernel he rapidly.
in addition to the customary foot- a
lights. Results obtained from the worked lus way to the top and as
lighting system worked out by Henry managing editor of the paper was
Harper and operated by Ermin Fort responsible for a great share of the
enlargement and improvement of The
in the use of nine distinct colors fur- Kernel in the year of 1925-2He was
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) prominent in other activities; was a
member of Omicron Delta Kappa,
honorary campus leaders' fraternity;
and in his last year in college was
president of his social fraternity,
Alpha Tau Omega.
Brown Was Popular
Mrs. Darnell Is President, Mrs. Miss Katherine Brown entered th.e
MISS

FOSTER

HAS

LEAD

!

ARTHUR MORRIS
GAINS TRIUMPHS

State Mothers' Club Is
Organized at University
and
Thorne,
Mrs. Pride, Secretary
Vice-Preside-

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copy-boy- s,

U. K, PROFESSOR

--

Herald Recovering

pseudo-journalis- ts

Carey and Paul Sanders; telegraph
editor, Joe Palmer and his assistant,
Virginia ConroyJ sports editor, War-- i
ren Price and his assistants, Ray Par-- 4
ker, John Dundon and Thomas Coch- ran; society editor, Martha Minihan
and her assistants Thelma Snyder
and George Moore Jameson; advertising manager, James Shropshire
and his assistants, Virgil Couch,
Charles Honakir, Delos Nqoe, "Bob.
Warren, Hayden Qgden, Hunter Moo-- ,
dy and Phillip Glenn.
Proof readers included Lucile Cook, )
Virginia Boyd; Ruth Kehoe, Stanley
Royse and Dorothy Stebbins.
Copy Doctor Valleau, of Experiment
Station Is Elected President
readers were Martha Connell, who
of Kentucky Academy of
was also marjble editor, E. W. Kinner,
and AJtpn May, of Kentucky Wes
Science at Meeting

and Niel

editor-in-chie- f,

Plummer, managing editor, work on
the collegiate edition progressed rapidly, and the paper was on the press
five minutes before the usual time.
About 11:30 a brief recess was
granted the harried newshounds, and
during this time they partook of a
delightful midnight lunch which Professor Enoch Grehan, guiding light
of the university's department of
Doctor and
journalism, provided.
Mrs. McVey Dean and Mrs. Paul
Boyd, Doctor J, B. Miner, Professor
and Mrs Grehan and Mr. Cabell
Breckenridge joined Jhe students for
.supper. After the distribution pf rejournalists
freshments, the would-b- e
again, turned their atentioh to their
task.
The editor and managing-edito- r
were assisted by: associate editors:
Kathleen Peffley, A. R. Stimson, Wes-

More than two hundred mothers of
university girls, who were attending
the third annual Mother's Day Convention held on the university campus
last week, met Saturday and organized a State Mothers' Club, Miss
Lexington Daily Suffers in Annual Clash With Journalism
lara Blanding, dean of women at the
Students of Four Schools; Joe Palmer' Gets All
University of Kentucky presided.
Muddled Up; "Uncle Enoch" Furnishes
Mrs. J. M. Darnell, of Frankfort,
Hot Dogs to the Crowd
was elected president of the new organization; Mrs. J. M. Thorne, of
on the city desk promptly assigned
(By ALFRED P. ROBERTSON)
and Mrs. J.
sports writer to get a. T.exingto'n,
of journalism of the their crack
also of Lexington, secretary.
The students
comprehensive story of the May Day 1. Pride,
of Kentucky, Centre ColUniversity
Throughout the three days of the
College, Transyl- festivities at Hamilton College. He onvention, the Woman's Administrlege, Georgetown
came back
an
vania University and Kentucky Wes- three sheetsaboutcopy hour later with ate Council which sponsored
the
paper overflow- meeting
of
leyan have had their annual struggle ing
strove to furnish a program
with facts. That boy is certainly which
with the Lexington Herald. The Her- a reporter.
the mothers would enjoy. That
everyTe mentioned
ald is doing nicely, thank you, and is
thing except the number of beads in they were successful is proved by the
expected to recover.
every mother declared that
Maid of Honor's costume.
And 'act, that
Thevangard of this army of young the
he was charmed with the university
only once did he revert to form. The
descended upon the
proofreader caught him saying that urroundings and with university life.
newsroom of the Herald Tuesday,
"the May Queen, dressed in shimmer- ".t Mrs. Frank L. McVey a entertained
May 10 at noon like the Assyrian wolf
charming
Maxwell Place with
ing white satin, singled over short and
on the fold. The members of the
t a in honor of the' visitors the Y.
tripped lightly down to first."
regular staff grabbed their coats and
W. C. A. gave an interestingmusical
The reporters, first, second, and program for them Sunday night and
hats from the rack and, with the sorthird assistants, proof readers,
the May Day celebration helped to
rowing look of one who resigns a fair
headjiners, or what have you, make the convention one to. be long
and beautiful land to a vandal invadpossession of continued to pour in all afternoon un- lemembered.
er, left the students in
While irj Lexington the mothers
the building. All save "Shag" Barnes til by six the place was a bedlam.
and Jimmy Miller who hung around Gregory, wrestling with headlines of were taken to see some of the "show
in the way and looked on with cynical all sizes, alternately fumed and griped places" of the Blue Grass. Ashland,
and wondered audibly why "those the beautiful home of Henry Clay,
amusement.
blinkity-blan- k
kids couldn't keep quiet the home of James Lane Allen, KenCentre Gets the Dope
tucky's noted writer, and several
The Centre delegation arrived rarin'
to be put to work and were. Gregory (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) stock farms were visited.
.

1

Get tickets for the Freshman
Frolic today in the hall of the Ad-

Georgetown, Wesleyan, Transylvania, and Centre Send 'Delegations to Work With U. K. Students
in Their Annual Editing of Paper;, Collegians Handle, All Departments Except
Mechanical; Amateurs of Newspaper Game Find It Fascinating;
Staff Is Guest of Professor Grehan at Lunch

Haydn's "The Creation," Wednesday
night, May 11, at Woodland auditorium before a capacity house.
Camp
Y. M.
The oratorio was under the direction of Prof. Carl A. Lampert of the
university; and singers from Berea, Student Representatives Meet at
Georgetown,
Paris, Winchester, the
Daniel Boone, May 6
University of Kentucky, and Lexington composed
chorus. Three
The Y. M. C. A. Spring camp was
soloists from New York sang the solo held at Camp Daniel Boone on May
parts. They were John Parrish, ten8. The camp was directed
6,
or; Miss Marie Montana, soprano; and by 7, and Howe', state student secreE G.
Donald Pirnie, baritone.
tary of Kentucky, and was held under
The University of Kentucky Philthe auspices of the state Y. M. C. A.
orchestra, making an apharmonic
student represen
proximate number of 60 musicians, U The number of sixty-twthe replayed the accompaniment to the tatives numbered
EIGHT) oratorio and to the "Pilgrim's Chorus" presentatives coming from Wesleyan,
(CONTINUED ON PAGE
from "Tannhauser," and "Prayer of Berea, Transylvania, Centre, University of Kentucky and Morehead NorThanksgiving," by Kremer.
Prof. Lampert, who has directed mal.
The University of Kentucky delethe rehearsals and performances of
the Central Kentucky ChoraJ Society gation were eight in number: Bart
Penrose Ecton,
since 1924, is a musician of rare abil Peak, Ray Valade,
ity. He has been head of the depart Dempsey Brown, Henry Cravens, L.
"
ment of music of the University of Yost, Virgil Couch and Frank Mel"'
Eighteen University Students Kentucky since 1918 and before com- ton.
to
he was
T Will Be Charter Members of ' ingviolin Kentucky,University aofteacher
North
of
at the
Honorary Scholastic GreeK
Dakota, a member of the Chicago
and Latin Fraternity
Symphony orchestra under Theodore
Thomas, and director of the Schumann
ISTALLATION IS MAY 20 Quintet on the concert stage of Amer
ica.
Eta Sigma Phi, honorary scholasProf. Lampert sees in the Central
fraternity for a scholars in Greek Kentucky Choral Society the realiza- Crowning of Miss Minihan as
tic
Queen Is Feature of Annual
and Latin, will be installed on the uni- tion of
g
dreams, and the
Celebration; Many Floats
versity campus May 20. The installa- great success of his productions has
Entered in Parade
tion officer of the national society will been largely due to his enthusiasm in
be a member of the University of the organization.
Chicago chapter. Six "new chapters
DANCE CLOSES PROGRAM
have been installed throughout the
country this year. Charters have been,
Trio Coming
To the strains of "On, On, U. of
granted to Pennsylvania State,
Monday K.," played by the university band,
To
Southern College, Drake
Miss Martha Minihan marched across
"University, Miami University, UniOrganization Contains Violinist, the broad expanse of the university
versity of Kentucky, and Mississippi
gymnasium floor last Friday afterPianist and Cellist; to PreState College for Women.
noon, attended by five fair maidens,
(founded at
sent Varied Program
Eta Sigma Phi was
and assumed her throne as Queen of
the University of Chicago. The avThe Heermann Trio, one of the best May, amid the plaudits of hundreds
erage standing required for admittance is 2 or better. Students of the chamber music organizations of this of her fellow students and friends
country, is coming to the auditorium who crowded into .the gymnasium.
university who will be charter
are: Jane Bristow, Edward
of the Lexington College of Music
The day's program, beginning at
Alice L. Fowler, H. F. McChes-ne- next Monday evening, May 16, at 10 oclock in the morning and continMary McFarland, Mrs. Dorothy 8:15 o'clock for their first concert uing until midnight, included senior
Pennebaker, Lucile Short, Emma in this city, though they have been class exercises, presentation of ath"Yates, Ella Bell, Ann Woodson Gaith-e- heard here by many
fans each letic and other awards, an address by
Louise Kennedy, Ethel Morgan, Wednesday evening.
President McVey, a picturesque paThis trio is composed of the violin- Gladys B. Sharp, Laura Gibson Smith,
Nancy Mary Wilson', Helen Connell, 'ist, Emil Heermann, concert master rade of flamboyant floats, ceremonies
Gilbert Lavin, and .Betty Merrifield. of the Cincinnati Symphony Orches- and dances for the coronation, a
tra for many years, and his brother, freshman cap bonfire and the gingham
Walter Heermann, first 'cellist of the dance. The crowning of the queen
event of
Miles Are-Electe- same organization and Mrs. Thomie was, however, the chief May day the
McGary
by
Prewitt Williams, pianist. This or- colorful celebration of
Council
ganization will be heard here to the university students.
the best advantage, that is, in a
Folk dances, by peasant girls, in
INew President Is Junior Engi small auditorium, and presenting a all the bright costumes of the old
Is
very interesting and varied program world, gave color to the ceremonies
neer;
which will be as follows:
at the coronation. May pole dances
Commerce Student
to the accompaniment of the univer- I. Tschaikowskyf"
As a result of the election held last
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
Monday for the purpose of choosing a (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
of the
president and
Men's Student Council for the coming
year, the following men were elected;
Leroy
president;
R. O. McGary,
the-gre-

ATTENTION FRESHMEN

(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

VICTORY MEANS
CLAIM TO STATE

CHAMPIONSHIP

4

Charley Wert Is Expected to
Hurl in Closing Contest;
Regular Line-u- p
Will
Be Used
COLONELS ARE IMPROVED
Alexander May Be Centre's
Moundsman; Visitors Lost
First Game
(By JOHN W. DUNDON, Jr.)
"Playing the last game of the season, Kentucky's Wildcat baseball aggregation will meet the Centre Colonels next Monday afternoon at three
o'clock on Stoll field. This game will
be the second encounter of the two
teams on the diamond th year. In

the first game, played at Danville
the University of Kentucky emerged
on the long end of an
4
score
The
Wildcats, after a some
what disastrous start. hav
fin
ished the season playing heads-u- p
ball, and hafe 'established nnitp a
claim to the state collegiate title.
University of Louisville. Centre and
Kentucky Wesleyan have fallen victims to the Wildcats on the diamond,
and a victory over Centre Mondav
would give Kentucky a good grasp on
tne premier honors.
Charlie Wert, who turned in such a
sterling exhibition of twirling for the
Blue and White against Centre last
week, striking out 14 men and savinethe game after the Colonels started
their bombardment of McGarv's of
ferings, will probably get the call on
the mound, with Captain "Swede"
Ericson catching. The line-u- p will be
practically thft same as that which
started the last game with U. of L.
Franc$wy, Anderson and Layman
will be In the field; while Crouch, Cole,
11--

RIDDLE

GIVES

ADDRESS

Dr. W. D. Valleau, associate professor of plant pathology at the
Experiment Station, University- - of
Kentucky, was elected president of
the Kentucky Academy of Science at
the concluding session of the fourteenth annual meeting Saturday afternoon.
The former president was Prof. W.
G. Burroughs, head qf the department
of Geology at Berea College. Others
who were ejected to office for the

year were: Professor Charles

Stevens, of the-- department of Metallurgy,- School of Mines, University of
Kentucky, vi'cf
Dr. A. M.
eter, of the Experiment Station,
secretary; Prof. W. S. Anderson, professor of genetics at the Uni-ersi- ty
of Kentucky, reelected treas-ire- r,
and Dr. A. R. Middleton, of the
University of Louisville, councilor for
'
the year
The meeting was called to order at
nine o'clock In the lecture room of
"he Physics building.
A short busi-les- s
meeting was folldwed by the

(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

SUMMER SESSION

presidential address of President Burroughs,, and by a second address on
the "Thyroid Glands," by Dr. Oscar
Riddle of the Carnegie Institute. In
he afternoon the group divided into Class Work Begins o& Following
Day; Greatly Increased En?our divisions for the reading of
rollment Expected; May
oapers, the biogical. physical, philosophical, and psychological divisions.
Reach 1,500 Mark
At two q'olock members reconvened in the general session for the re- CLOSES
ON AUGUST 20
ports on the papers and an address
The first summer session of the
was given by Dr. Martin H. Fisher,
professor physiology at the Unievrsity University of Kentucky for 1927 will
of Cincinnati, on "The Constitution of open its registration Monday, June
Living Matter."
13, in the Administration building;
Adjournment followed the election according to Dr. William S. Taylor.
dean of the College of Education,
of officers.
and .director of the summer session.
Classes wilj begin Tuesday, June
Blayds"
14 at 7:30 o'clock and will continue
until 12:20 for six days a week over
Revealed
a period of five weeks. The second
semester will last fpr five weeks also,
Members of Cast "Do Them closing on August 20. The eliminaselves Proud" in Splendid
tion of the afternoon classes was
made in order that all classes might
Performance
be held during the cooler part of the
"The Truth About Blayds" was re day.
Last year the summer sessions were
vealed qn Thursday evening by the
Stroller organization of the Univer well attended, the first semester ensity of Kentucky at the Lexington rollment was 983, and 503 for the
Opera house, The play was quite the second semester. Doctor Taylor said
success that it was
it would he expected to have an enrollment of
be and the entire cast skillfully ex oyer 1,500 this year.
The summer sessions are of great
ecuted the parts assigned to them.
Harry McChesney, as Oliver Blayds aid to university students, who are
the great poet, gave a splendid per- trying to complete a four year course
formance, while Henrietta Black- in three years. It also provides a
burn as the leading lady, Isobel means by which the teachers through
Blayds, portrayed with' a great deal out the state may obtain further
of ability the part of the guide and
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
nurse of her renowned father.
The other members of the cast were
not less deserving of praise but it is "Y" Advisory
useless to enumerate all the many
fine qualities of the Stroller producMay 10
Off
tion for it is taken for granted that
i
every student loyally supported the Organization to Bring Religious.
dramatjc organization by attending
Leader Here for Fresh-

OPENS JUNE

13

"Truth About
Thursday
Is

pred-pte-

Elects

(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

Board
cers

f

man Week

The Advisory Board of the Young
Men's Christian Association held its

Page Man o'War!
Most Everybody Was Hot, the Course Was Slow, and Spills
Were Numerous, But Everything Went Off
Fine in the University's First
Skating Derby
(By JESS LAUGHLIN)
Horses ? No, but the way the stake
winners breezed down the course in
the opening meet of the Kentucky
Roller Skating Association reminds
us of the way Man o'War used to
bring home all the money.
When everyone had about decided
that rain and cold weather would last
the whole meeting, 01' Sol appeared
in time to make the Derby a "hot
affair."
Most everybody was hot, the course
was "slow' and spills were numerous,
but everything went off fine.
Ruth Jane Lee, of Covington, a
freshman in the Arts and Science
College, and James Sharp, of Lexington, a junior in the Commerce
College, managed to break fast at
the post and were never headed. All
three cups in the men's individual
races were won by Sharp and all individual cups for girls were captured
by Ruth Lee.
In the Sorority relay, a race for

four contestants to a team, the Alpha Gams could only muster two.
The Kappas, the only other team
entered in the stake, showed their
sportsmanship by racing only two
girls in their entry.
The race was close at the half, but
as a baton was being exchanged pre
paratory for the final dash, the Kap
pa foil. The jockey was not seriously
hurt. The members of the teams were
Virginia Kelley and Lucea Wildhr
for the Alpha Gams and Mary
Nash Averill, and Alice Wilkerson
for the Kappas.
The Fraternity relay was a hard- fought race which the Alpha Sigs" al
most won but Jockey V. Buren Ropke
was disqualified for coming in without
a skate. Jimmie Sharp, a stable-mat- e
of Ropke's was first under the
wire, but the judge's decision gave
x
Sigmn Nus first place.
the
The Alpha Sigs were well content
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

meeting Tuesday afternoon at the

Y. M. C. A. headquarters. The fol
lowing officers were elected for the
incoming year: Professor E. A. Bu
reau, chairman: frof. E. S. Goode.

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Professor P. E.
treasurer, and Virgil Couch,
secretary.
Discussion was held on the possi
bility of a proposed Freshman Week
to be held a week before the opening of the regular session, at which
time the newcomers will be given a
chance to learn the buildings, and to
get ready to start school at the open- nmg of the term. The Y. M. C. is
going ,to make an effort to have Fred
B. Smith here to aid the freshmen.
Mr. Smith is one of the outstanding
religious leaders of the country.
Others speakers were also discussed.
The final arrangements were left in
charge of a committee.
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NEW POSITION SECURED
The placement services of the College of Education of the University
of Kentucky annuonces that Miss
Alice Fowler, senior in the College
of Education, has been elected supervisor of the fifth grade in the State
Teachers. College at Harrinsonburg,
Va. Miss Fowler formerly was a
teacher in the public schools in Jefferson county.

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LAND SCRIP SOLD
FOR $1 65,000

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

The

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Commencement

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Area of 330,000 Acres Given by
Congress Brings Fifty Cents
an Acre at
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Regimental Parade and Drills
'Presentation of commissions tp graduates of the Advanced Course by Major
General William Weigel
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Area Commander.
Awarding c prizes and medals.

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Engineering Day
Dedication of the Henry W. Wendt Shop, 2:30 p. m.
'Public inspection of shops and laboratories of the College of Engineering,
3 to 5 p. m.
Engineering Carnival at the University Gymnasium
8 to 12 p. ni.
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"The Senior Ball will be held in the University Gymnasium,
Friday, May 27, ,9 p. m.
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Clafie Day

(Breakfast to the Senior Class given by President and Mrs. McVey, Maxwell
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Pilgrimage.
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Business Meeting of Alumni Association, Romany Theater,
11:30 a. m.

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Meeting of Board of Trustees, President's Office, 11:30 ;a. m.
in honor of Trustees, Alumni and Senior's,' Patterson Hall,

Luncheon

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SPiesident and Mrs. McVey at home to Alumni and Guests, Maxwell Place,
4:30 to 6 p. m.

SALE

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CHAPTER VIII (Continued)
Kentucky realized little or nothing
from. its land scrip. We had just
emerged from the Civil War. Institutions of learning in the South and
Southwest were prostrate. Many of
the states were bankrupt Kentucky
suffered much during the Civil War,
but in no proportion commensurate
with its area. Notwithstanding this,
people in Kentucky were thinking of
anything else than, education. The
land scrip representing. 330,000 acres
by the
of public land were placed
state in the hands of the sinking fund
They appointed Madcommissioners.
ison C. Johnson, ranked at that time
as the ablest lawyer and the best business man in Kentucky, to Negotiate
,the sale of their land scrip. He went
east and without exercising much discretion placed the stock upon the market and sold it for fifty cents per acre,
realizing from that magnifiicent domain giyen by Congress for the" foundation and endowment of a college to
supply, its citizens instruction in agri
culture and the mechanic arts, only
$165,000. Even this small sum seem
ed a large endowment to' institutions,
established for higher learning, which
up until that time thought themselves
well provided with an endowment
fund of $100,000 or $150,000.
The college was placed in successful operation with a small, but able
and energetic faculty, and supplied
instruction as best it could with the
means at its disposal. They managed
tolerably well to give instruction in
the rudiments of physics, chemistry,
botany and zoology, thus laying the
foundation for a system cf practical
education which it was hoped would
come into being when the income of
the institution became larger. But
practical instruction was out of the
question. There were no laboratories
.other than those of the most rudimentary character and no instruction
of a practical character possible un- -

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John William Lindsay is a County
TheBaccalaureate 'Service of the University will be held at the University Agricultural Agent and is located in
' Gymnasium at 3:30 p. m.
Summersvile, W. Va.
Jasper Johnson McBrayer is an atPresident Frank LeRond McVey, presiding.
torney with offices at 404 Guaranty
t The Address to the Graduating Class is to be delivered by the Reverend Bank building, Lexington, Ky.
Roy Hagan Kleiser,
John Edwin McClure is County Agricultural Agent for Daviess county
Minister, Park Methodist Church, Lexington.
and is stationed at Ownesbor.o, Ky.
Sara Winn McConnell (Mrs. Lloyd
MONDAY, MAY THIRTIETH
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W. Neville) is living in Arlington,
Ky.
Day
Commencement
.Charles Ellsworth McCormick