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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON,

VOLUME XXI.

KENTUCKY,

JULY

WELCOME
ALL NEW SUMMER SCHOOL
STUDENTS

NUMBER

25, 1930

PREVIOUS REGISTRATION RECORD BROKEN
BEREA ENGAGES'
IN DEBATE WITH!
U. OF K. TODAY1
Is First of Series of Four Con-tests Scheduled on Sue- -

(

cccdinc Fridays

INTERNATIONAL TEAM

TO COME IN DECEMBER)

Two

Men

From

Cambridge

University to Represent
England in Match

Tim first, nf n scries of four de
bates between the University of
Kentucky and Berea will be held
today, one at 1:30 p. m. In McVey
hall before the lass In argumentation, and the second tonight at Berea College, Subject for the debate
Is "Is the Chain Store Inimitable to
the Best Interests of the Public?" '
The three following doba'.es will
be held, one here In tho morning,
and one In the evening, on succeeding Fridays. Members of the
University team will be chosen each
debaters'
week from the regular
team In school for the summer, and
additional members from the class
In debate, according to Prcf. William Sutherland, coach of the team.
Members debating today are Virginia Daugherty, William Baker and
Bruce Waters.
The subjects for the other forensic matches will be: August 1, "Can
Business Be Conducted According
to Christian Principles?"; August
8, "Does Science Tend to Destroy
Belief in Theistic Faith?": August
15, "Does the Machine System Contribute More to Deliberation Than
to the Enslavement of Man?"
also anProfessor Sutherland
nounces that the fourth International debate- - at the University will
be staged the first week in December, with the Kentucky team opposing two men from Cambridge
University. A second international
team from continental Europe, made
Austrian and
up of English-speakin- g
German students, has planned a
tour of England and northeastern
United States, and It is hoped that
It will be possible to bring them
her?.
The Camridge team will tour the
southeastern states, and two men
representing the British Union of
Students Is to tour the west. In
1926 three men from Oxford debated at the University: in 1927
three representatives of the British
Union of Students from Reading
University and 1;he Edlnborough
and London School of Economics
and Political Sciences, met the University team; in 1928 the British
Union sent three women to represent England In the. contests In
the United States, and the University was fortunate enough to have
them here.
The subjects for the debates with
the Cambridge team will be, "Can
the Capitalistic Nations Survive?"
and "Is Western Civilization

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If there arc any seniors who
arc completing work for graduation at the close of the Summer
Session who have not made application for their degree, this
application should be made before July 30. No senior will be
considered for graduation until
the application has been filed in
Room 8 of the Administration
building. Also the fees for graduation must be paid to the Business office. Graduate students
pay $15, graduating seniors, $10.

AT CAMP KNOX

MOTION PICTURE
PROGRAM GIVEN

government report
official
An
gives the scores of all University of
Kentucky men. Company B, stationed in the R. O. T. C. camp at

"Daniel Boone" to Be Shown
July 30 as Second of Term's
Series "Chronicles of American Photoplays"
The first of the series of visual
Instruction motion pictures offered
to the students of the second term
of the Summer Session, "The Last
Days of Pompeii," was given Wed-da- y
evening at 7:30 o'clock in
Memorial hall. The next picture
will be shown July 30 and will be
another episode from "Chronicles of
Photoplays,"
"Daniel
American
Boone."
This and the other pictures in the
series are of special Interest to Ken- tucklans Three additional shows
will complete the program, one being given each succeeding Wednes
day evening in Memorial hall. Season tickets may be purchased for $1,
single admissions for 25 cents. All
students registered In the Summer
Session and members of the faculty
have received season passes.
In presenting this program of motion pictures to the summer school,
the College of Education and the
department of University extension
wish to furnish some diversion from
the usual courses of study, and also
to suggest the possibilities of visual
An increasingly large
instruction.
number of school systems are finding the motion picture of great val
ue in modern, education, in the class
rooms.

Camp to
Annual
Be Held Next Week
4-- H

150 Boys and Girls From Blue
Grass Counties Expected

to Attend

University Athlete Recovering
From Injuries Received
In Altercation

IS TO BE HELD

William D. Klclscr, University! Between 100 and 150 Will Bel
Report
Official Government
athlete who was seriously wounded
Gives All Scores of KenGraduated at Exercises
last week as the result of an attucky Men in Co. B
August 22
tack suffered while he was on n

COMPETITIVE FIRING
IS HELD BY R. O. T. C.
Large Number Gain Rank of

Marksman, Sharpshooter;
Expert in Contest

Camp Knox, who qualified in the
pistol, rifle and machine gun fire.
In the machine gun, first class,
two Kentucky men qualified, M. H.
Harris, with a score of 143, and Bill
Humber, with a score of 141. Those
who qualified in the second class,
and their respective scores follow:
J. S. Dunn, 130; C. C. Hosklns, 129';
P. A. Pemberton, 123; C. A. Spicer,
123; R. O. Woodall, 123; K. D. Little, 123; O. R. McElroy, 121; J. H.
Farris, 121; S. H. Robertson, 120;
T. T. Milby, 120; E. O. Morgan, 120;
L. McGinnis, 120; E. W. Kirk, 120;
W. A. Callls, 120.
In pistol fire Kentucky men qualifying as sharpshooters were: A. M.
Osborne, 82.94; B. C. Crosby, 82.77;
J. B. Hughes, 81.05; B. T. Sandefur,
80.28; R. E. Hisle, 79.72; H. H. Fitch,
78.61. Those qualifying as marksmen were: C. A. Whittaker, 75.61;
W. S.
L. V. Maschmeyer,
75.27;
Morgan, 73.38; F. A. Pemberton,
73.17; K. D. Little, J. D. Martin,
71.88; R. C. Aldrich, 70.7; W. A. Callls, 70.06; M. H. Harris, 68.77; Cecil
Smith, 67.66; N. Schwartzman, 67.55
J. C. Hearne, 65.5; V. M. Chandler,
65.27; W. L. McGinnes, 65.16; J. N.
Howard, 65.00; C. M. McGraw,
64.72; R. L. Allison, 62.86; E. D.
Hodges, 61.9; J. E. Goodman, 61.74;
M. R. Stewart, 61.55; J. L. White,
61.44; B. D. Harrison, 60.33.
B. T. Sandefur qualified in the
highest section of rifle with a score

of 222 to gain the distinction of expert. R. L. Allison qualified as a
0.
sharpshooter with' a scoro
Those qualifying as marksmen
were:: E. E. Kirk, 202; C. Smith,
r,
202; E. O. Morgan, 202; R. H.
198; C. A. Whittaker, 198; W.
L. McGinnis, 191; B. D. Harrison,
191; J. G. Dye. 191; T. T. Milby,
189; R. E. Hisle, 187; C. A. Spicer,
186.

Appointed to Teach
At Transylvania U.

The University Experiment Station farm will be the scene of the
H
club camps Jaly
annual
Shannon and Clay,
1, and 150 farm girls and Jordan,
Former U. K. Students,
boys from Bourbon, Franklin, Fayette, Harrison, Clark, Scott and
Added to Staff
Madison counties are expected to
attend, according to an announce- l Several former University stu
ment made by the College of Agri- dents were appointed as members
culture.
of the faculty at Transylvania ColG. K. McKinney, of the College lege at a meeting of the college
of Agriculture, will be in charge of board of executives this week. For
the program for the week. In- the first time Transylvania will
struction will be given in handi- have courses in Journalism, with
craft, dramatics, agriculture, music, Joe Speed Jordan, University gradand homemaking. Miss Josephine uate, teaching the new classes. Mr.
Frazar, Miss Margaret Evans, and Jordan is at present connected with
R. Y. Cravens, of the college, and the Lexington Leader..
C. L. Orth, representing the state
Prof. J. B. Shannon, former mem- Y. M. C. A., will be instructors in ber of the University faculty, was
various subjects, assisted by the appointed associate professor of histhe
county home agents and county ag- tory. He is now taking classes in
ricultural agents.
graduate work at the University
The camp will be open to visitors, , Summer Session, and taught politi
ana
and several hundred parents and cal science nere in luau-iuzothers are expected to see the ac- during the 1930 Summer Session.
camp during the
Mrs. Lucille Naff Clay, who retivities of the
week.
The boys and girls will be ceived her master's degree from the
quartered in the livestock pavilion University, was appointed to teach
English.
on the Experiment Station farm.

The boys from the University who
have been attending Camp Knox
for the past six weeks will finish up
their training on Friday of this
week with a final review and parade
wherein the students will hold down
the various positions in the officered
personnel. We will never forget
how surprised our mount was a
number of years ago at the saber
drill on parade day in which the
curiosity of the cayuse nearly lost
him an ear. Doubtless, many will
By LOIS PURCELL
feel that the training period has
been a futile struggle, but in after
(Editor's Note: Miss Purcell, of
years they will likely look back on
Is now taking classes
those six weeks as the most pleasant Paducah, who term of the Summer
and profitable that they have ever in the secondrecently elected as one
Session, was
spent.
of the youngest members of the Filmany reasons have been son Club, Kentucky's most promiA great
nent historical society).
given by various students for not
attending the second term, For
"Hey, dere, yo niggers Come outa
the most part they agree that it Is
entrely too warm to make going to dat trance and tote this here cawn.
bearable. The Don't yo hear dat boat a'whistlin'
school even passably
situation is bad enough In the regu- o'er de water?"
lar session, but with the weather
No more will the familiar hurry
man dealing the cards, there is no and bustle of the river front, the
particular Incentive to attend. A majestic landings and graceful defurther reason that strikes us as partures of palatial steamers, the
being particularly pertinent, Is the ease and beauty of the once
fact that the Instructors are apparriver life which centered
ently agreed on doling out the low- around the wharf-boat the foot
est gradest possible and at the same of Broadway be visible to the citiabout
time being most Inconsiderate
Paducah, Kenzens and visitors of
the amount of work assigned. As tucky. This historic old landmark,
a matter of actual observation, in which for more than
we have attended,
the classes which
has been the picturwe believe that the character of esque setting of romance, history
work has been higher than during, and folklore, will soon disappear to
the regular term, and the grades be salvaged, and to close forever a
are uniformly lower. We wish that glamorous chapter of life on the
our pedagogical friends would not Ohio river.
feel that they must Impress the stuThe old must give way to the new.
dents for the summer with the difficulty of obtaining passing marks In For years river men have foreseen
transportation of
the institution. The grades are not this event, as freight by bus pasand
at all representative of the charac- sengers and
ter of the work done. Such a sit- truck, as well as by train, have
older and slower method
uation Is most discouraging to the made the
fade into the backfew who are really concerned in of traveling
ground, while the past three years
their standing.

F'T' t FIRST SUMMER
COMMENCEMENT

swimming party on the Kentucky
river, has been moved to the home
of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Roy D.
Klciser, at Danville.
Young Kleiscr was in a party In
company with James Sharpe, former student of the University, on the
Kentucky river last Saturday night
and as the result of an attack made
by two men who molested the party,
was taken to the Good Samaritan
hospital here where he remained
until Monday of this week. Klel-ser- 's
injuries consisted chiefly of
cuts about the face and right arm
and it was necessary to take a
great number of stitches.
William D. Klelser is a member
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity here
and was prominent in athletics at
the University last year, playing on
the basketball team during the early
part of the season.

DR. G. BROMLEY OXNAM
WILL GIVE ADDRESS

Plans Authorized Last Winter
Will Include Three
at ions Each Year

Gradu- -

NOTICE
CALL

I'Oll YOUR MAIL IJOX

who have registered for the second semester of
the Summer Session are requested to come to the postofflcc in
McVcy hall immediately to be
assigned their mail boxes. Miss
Carrie Bean, postmistress, announces that if possible, the
same boxes will be nsslgncd to
those students who were here for
the first term, and urges promptness in atending to this matter,
so that mall delivery will not be
held up.
All students

MATRICULATES
FOR SEMESTER
151 Courses Offered to Slu-- I
dents in Second Term

of School

DR. WILLIAM TAYLOR
HEADS SUMMER TERM

Friday, August 22 Announced
As Dale for First Commencement Exercises

The largest class ever to register
for the second term of the Univcr-jsit- y
Summer Session has enrolled
this year. The office of the Rcgls-- 1
trar recorded 820 students matrlcu-- !
lated for the current semester
Prof. N. R. Elliott to Give t Thursday morning.
Classification
Talk on 'Marl," by Hon. L.
G. Drury, Former Speaker was held In the men's gymnasium,
and registration In the Adminlstra- -'
of House in Legislature
tlon building Monday morning
at 7:30 o'clock.
A talk on "Marl," prepared by
The number of students register
Hon. Lucian G. Drury, of Morgan-fiel- d,
former speaker of the House ed for the second term last summer
was approximately 740, and
of Representatives of Kentucky, will year's enrollment is expected to this
top
feature the University radio pro- that by more than 100.
grams over WHAS the week of
Today is the last date for making
July 28. This talk will be read by changes in the registration
and
Prof. N. R. Elliott, of the University schedule without payment of fe
the
College of Agriculture.
The com- Monday may last date on "vlud
register for rvdlS'Ij
student
Those Attending Summer Sesplete program for the week is as the terms work; also the astBw
sion Requested to Comply
follows:
upon wnicn a stuaent maj do M
With Rules; Offenders Are
Monday, July 28, 12:45 to 1:00 p. ped without a grade by jtils di
Liable to Punishment
m. (a) "The Worst Disease of Tuesday is the last date upon w
Bees," by H. B. Price, professor of a student may withdraw nu&m
By request of the buildings and
(b) "Feed ceive a refund of matricuIntlonvi1
Agricultural Economics,
following
Wafts
grounds department the
for Hogs and How to Feed It," by for the second term.
parking rules for cars on the UniFriday, August 22, has unan
H. Grady Sellards, field agent in
versity campus are repeated In The
animal husbandry.
nounced as the date sef for 'thcS
Kernel. Students are requested to
Tuesday, July 29, 12:45 to 1:00 p. nrst summer Session Comnv?fcce- comply with these laws, for conm. "Facts About Gases and You," ment exercises ever held ifetoej
tinued infraction of the rules merits
fourth of a series by Dr. Charles University, and examinatl03s.'rUl
severe discipline on the part of UniBarkenbus, associate professor of follow for undergraduate atudettUfl
versity authorities:
on Saturday, August 23.
Organic Chemistry.
double-deckin- g
1.
Ninety-eigThere is no
courses are offered
Wednesday, July 30. 12:45 to 1:00
allowed.
p. m. (a) "Feeding Beef Catt.w at by the College of Arts and Sciences.
two by the College of Agriculture,
2.
The White hall drive is reThis Season," by Wayland Rhoads,
served for faculty and staff memfield agent in animal husbandry, seven by the College of Engineerbers.
lb) "Marl," by Hon. Lucian G. ing, six by the College of Law, 32
by the College of Education, and
Drury, Morganfleld, Ky.
3.
The Neville hall area is also
reserved for faculty and staff.
Thursday, JuJyv,3Ic 12:45, to 1;00 pJ six by the College of Commerce.
The purpose of the Summer Ses
,i4. Parkiris,ljf aUcycttyonlyoh the
m "Adventtires In Modern Drama,"
east side back of the c. ana P.
fifth of a series by Dr. George K. sion is to offer an opportunity to
teachers, principals, superintendents
building.
Brady, associate professor of
and supervisors to take additional
6. The drive in front of the president's home, entered from Rose
Friday, August 1, 12:45 to 1:00 p. work and keep up with the recent
improvements in education; for unstreet, is absolutely closed to traffic.
m. "What Farm Folks Are Ask
to take additional
Also the old continuation of this
ing," by Prof. N. R. Elliott, state dergraduates
work, thereby shortening their col
drive, running between the library
agent in charge of specialists.
lege course; and for persons desirand the Science building, is closed.
ing training In Y. M. C. A. and Y.
7.
No cars are allowed in the
W. C. A. work.
To Be U. K.
area back of Mechanical hall.
Go
Sid
One-wa- y
driving on the main
8.
The entire Summer Session is
School under the direction of Dr. William
road in front of the Administration
Kentucky
The members of the
building. The north gate Is for en- Press Association will be the guests
S. Taylor, dean of the College of
trance, and the south gate for exit.
Sid Robinson, head of the physi- Education, and head of the Summer
Parking Is allowed only on the right of the University, the department cal education department
at the School. Many new improvements
Journalism, and The Kernel for University for the past year, has re and additions have marked the
of
side of this drive.
its winter meeting in January ac- signed his position and has accept Summer Session of 1930.
cording to an announcement made ed a similar one at Indiana UniverSTUDENTS IN SWITZERLAND
A cablegram from Mr. James Mol-lo- y by Prof. Enoch Grehan, head of the sity, at Bloomington, 111. Mr. Robinson announced Wednesday that he OLD
received this week said that his .department of Journalism.
party of students, including several I Professor Grehan presented the had received his appointment as
University to the professor in education and physical
from the University, had arrived at Invitation of the
Lucerne, and are to spend some 'members of the association at their education. He will also act in the
time visiting Interlaken and Mon-reu- x, summer meeting held In Somerset capacity of assstant track coach to
In Switzerland. Next week .last week. A move has been made Head Coach Hayes of the Crimson
To House Thousands of Arti-- '
they plan to go to Italy, staying In . to adopt the suggestion of Professor squad.
Milan, Stresa, Venice, Florence, Grehan that a change be advocated
Mr. Robinson has only been at
facts, Over 100 Skeletons;
Naples, and Rome. They are to re- In the program for the January the University for one year. He is
New Building to Be Ready
turn home the first of September. meeting. According to his plan, at a graduate of Mississippi A. and M.
for Occupancy June, 1931
least two Journalists of nation-wid- e
College, receiving his degree in 1924.
short After his graduation he was coach
fame would hold two-da- y
TO STUDY FOR DEGREE
With building conditions so favor
Prof. L. J. Horlacher, assistant courses in Journalism to replace the of track and a member of the fac- able, the new library is expected to
discussions of ulty in the biology department in
dean of the College of Agriculture, present round-tabl- e
be ready for occupancy next June,
left this week to go to the Univer- newspaper problems.
that school.
according to Dr. Frank L. McVey,
sity of Chicago where he will study
Another suggestion has been made
He received his M. A. degree from president of the University. When
for a doctor's degree. He and Mrs. that The Kernel, although strictly a1 Cornell University and taught biol- the old library Is cleared of the
Horlacher, and their daughters, college publication, be made a mem-- ( ogy there. Mr. Robinson has a
er of the state association. A num- reputation as a runner and compet- volumes which now fills it, the
Misses Helen and Frances Horlachmuseum of
er, stopped for a short visit in Fort-vlll- e, ber of social affairs will be arranged ed in the Olympic tryouts at Boston building will become the archaeology
Ind., with Mrs. Horlacher's pa- 'for the meeting, and the details of in 1928 for the American team. No the anthropology and
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. 'the program will be announced in successor to Robinson has been departments, and will house more
than 100 skeletons and thousands
the fall.
named.
Thomas.
of artifacts discovered by Dr. W. D.
Funkhouser and Prof. W. S. Webb
in their trips around the state.
Zoological specimens will be included in the exhibits. These specimens, with hundreds of others in
the anthropology and archaeology
department have been kept in the
ed a great stir of excitement among ticle written aout 1895 says, "At the Natural Science building and the
lives, and while the Federal gunpresent time of life of the writer glass cases filled with the interestpatrolled the river front shell- the ypung people.
boats
ing the town, Captain Fowler transMany have commented on the his mind becomes full of the memo- ing exhibits have attracted much
ported his boat and all the passeng beauty of the wharf front, for it is ries of people who have lived and. attention in the past. With all the
ers to safety on the Illinois shore.
a pretty Incline from the city's level died in Paducah the last sixty years. possibilities of proper exhibition in
The majority of reminiscences, by to the water's edge, but few who When Paducah was small the popu- their new location, the museum is
concerning the wharfboat and look upon it are aware that it is lation was largely interested In expected to prove a valuable source
far,
early days on the Ohio are pleasant the work of man. On March 20. steamboatlng, hence when sitting In of study and observation for stuand entertaining, and hark back to 1842, the town appropriated $1,000 some quiet place, at the hotel, for dents and visitors.
the days which were the very es- for Improving and graveling the le- instance, one would not hear much
Dr. Funkhouser plans to use the
sence of romance. Palatial steamers vee, which had some years previous- of anything but steamboat
talk, entire building for display, with a
regularly churned the waters of the ly been graded to afford greater ease with elaborate descriptions of nu- lecture room in the basement. A
river with their boiler decks loaded in handling the cargoes. The front merous steamboats and their rela- curator will be employed to show
with cargoes of bales of cotton, of the city was originally a bluff, tive capacities and business, and a and explain the relics to visitors.
hogsheads of tobacco, barrels of quite above the water's edge some- stranger unacquainted with such
The removal of the exhibits of
flour and other produce, while on times, and to make the wharf the things would soon call Paducah a the zoology, archaeology, and ansteamboat town, and In the court- thropology departments from the
the cabin deck were the rich and builders had to await low water.
prominent ladies and gentlemen of
house His Honor would be calling Science building may provide more
Many persons of great prominthe day. These floating palaces ence visited Paducah by way of the steamboat cases. Paducah will al- room for the exhibition of the geolIn every detail, ofways have her grand old rivers and ogy department, which maintains- - a
were luxurious
big river steamers. In the autobiogfering the best of food and comfort raphy of James K. Polk is the story they will always answer an import- display of fossils and minerals on
to their discriminating passengers. of the occasion of his visit to Pa- ant purposo to us."
the second and third floors of the
At one end of the spacious cabin
What a pity
the venerable
ducah In 1849. While enroute from man's prediction that not come true I building at present. More space for
was a bar where the fanciest of
will
the department museum is greatly
are needed.
drinks were served at all hours, New Orleans to Nashville on the That the fascinating river-day- s
while at the opposite end was an in- packet Caroline Walker, the former over; that they have yielded to
Dr. Funkhouser Is now on an exviting nursery, with comfortable president was taken ill with the progress and speed; that no longer ploration and excavation trip to
chairs and velvet carpet for the cholera Just after leaving Memphis, will leisurely travel by inland Trigg. Henderson and Crittenden
children and their maids. In the and as many on the boat were dead steamer afford the picturesque life counties, and Professor Webb exevening the floor of the cabin was and dying with the disease, he fear- of a day gone by; that no longer pects to Join him at the end of the
cleared for dancing, as each steam- ed for his life. When the steamer will the songs of the negro roustasemester
They will continue in
er carried her own band of negro docked at Paducah, a Doctor Jones bouts be heard in the making, as their work until the beginning of
the famous they keep step with the rhythm of the fall term.
boys who played lively tunes was called to attend
cabin
for the passengers and guests from man, and went on the boat with their song, and shoulder heavy
the town where they docked. This htm to Smlthland, where he was loads and transport cargoes across
Miss Elizabeth Ann Cooper refurnished the chief social attraction taken ashore and. stayed for several the gangplank, or tote them up and turned Saturday from a delightful
for the belles and beaux of the six- days. While there Mr. Polk was at- down steep levees.
visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Vance
But the memories of this glorious at Palnesville, Ohio, on Lake
ties and seventies, and the coming tended by Dr. Reujben Saunders,
past are a heritage that time run-n- where she was guest of honor Erie,
of one of these large boats heralded grandfather of Irvin S. Cobb.
at a
Judge L. D. Husbands, in an ar
by flambeaux and headlights, creat
dim, nor years erase.
number of delightful parties.

STUDENTS ASKED
TO OBEY RULES

The first Summer School commencement, authorized by the University senate and board of trustees
last winter, will be held Friday,
August 22, it has been announced
by Dr. William S. Taylor, head of
the Summer Session. Between 100
and 150 will be graduated at the exercises.
Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president
of DePauw University, will be the
speaker for the occasion, and will
deliver an address in Memorial hall
at 9 a. m. He Is an internationally
known author and lecturer, and Is
eminent In social international, industrial and religious studies.
Dr. Oxnam holds degrees from the
College of the Pacific, California,
and other degrees from the Uni
versity of Southern California, and
Boston University. He has studied
at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, the American Seminar in London, Japan, China, and
India.
He is a member of the American
Academy of Political Sciences, and
the National Economic League, and
was a member of the American delegation to Russia in 1926. Before
taking over the presidency of DePauw University in 1928, he had
served as an ordained minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church In
California, his native state; as professor of practical theology and city
church at Boston School of Theology; as professor of ethics at the
University of Southern Collfornla;
and as a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Board of Home Missions
and. Church Extension,.'
Exercises are also planned for the
close of the fall term, in February,
thus making three commencement
exercises each year. Further details
of the exercises will be announced
next week.

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Summer School Student Recently Elected Member of Filson Club Writes History of
Rapidly Vanishing But Romantic Days of Ohio River Wharf Boats at Paducah
have catapulted it toward its doom.
But it is with a feeling of regret
that those who have spent their
lives in close association with the
river witness this epochal event,
and wish that the stirring days
that are passing will not go unheralded.
The first wharfboat on the Paducah levee was established by
Watts, Given and Co., In 1842, and
soon became the center of the commercial life of the village of two
thousand inhabitants. Vessels from
the smaller rivers upstream would
bring their cargo to the wharfboat,
where it was stored and reshlpped
on larger steamers to New Orleans.
This new mode of business seemed
to give life to the little town, and
continued prosperity for many years,
the wharfboat playing a great part
in the growth and development of
the city.
Captain Joseph Fowler, or "Cap'n
Fowler," as the river Jargon has it,
for many years operated the wharfboat and Boat Store, which was located nearby, and sold supplies for
river men and their crafts. During
the war between the states, he was
a prominent figure, as with his
stubborn loyalty to the Confederacy he defied the northern officers
who were stationed in Paducah.
When General Forest and his men
attacked the town and Forb Anderson, the wharfboat was loaded with
citizens who were fleeing for their

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verslty Itself should be an Inducement to the
high school graduates nil over the state, Kentucky is not overloaded with poverty stricken
workmen, out of work because factories close
down.
In fact our state docs not depend so
much on manufacturing for an Income. And
while many of the smaller crops are suffering
because of the prolonged drouth, the United
States Department of Agriculture shows a
marked Increase In the production of many of
the more Important crops.
Many students have worked during the sum
mer In order to come back to school this fall,
and they arc an Indication of the valiant fight
put up for an education. The youth of today
will always find a way to obtain the necessary
learning, for they realize that n college education Is practically Indispensable to them.

The Kentucky Kernel
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DECREASED ENROLLMENT?
There has been no little talk about the effects of the financial slump and drouth causing a like slump in the registration in the various universities this fall. Wth the enrollment
showing the amazing increase that it has In the
present Summer Session at the University,
there seems to be small reason for worry. Each
succeeding semester booms upward the number
of students who matriculate at Kentucky.
Prospects at present indicate a remarkably
progressive year ahead of us, growth in the Unl- -

Dressing him in solemn black, and laid
Him to eternal rest.
To them one knowing no lack.
(If they might kno whow he hated black!)
He did have faults, my lover.

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