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WE'RE OFF!
Well, it's over!

The intensive reviews, the agitated discussions, the
feverish rush, the terrible suspense had to have an end. So the examinations
occurred.
Tc boycott on the picture show ceased.
The grades are posted
and we know the worst. Deep down in our hearts we arc glad. Yea, even
though the margins narrow down so alarmingly that some of our points
fall on", we are happy to have the trial over.
Before us is a new semester, in which to try out our resolutions and
to rectify our mistakes; for, somehow, the second semester has a, more
friendly attitude toward us than the first. Probably it is because many
classes are the continuation of familiar subjects; probably, because we have
fewer "profs" to "break in." At any rate, we welcome the next four months
ardently. We are planning to give some real, live efforts to the subjects we
have honored and to make some of the faculty wake up to the standard of
mentality that has been taken rather casually.
An intense little frosh was heard to murmcr triumphantly, as she hugged a "B" metaphorically to her heart: "So that is what exams are!" Later
a confident senior muttered grimly: Just a 'CM Well, I'll do such work
that he'll have to dig up an "A" for me at the end of this semester!"
That is the spirit! Confidence, backed up by mental energy will produce such results that soon the high math class will be delegated to discover
what grade outreaches a "triple A plus."
Why not? We have the brains, we have the Profs now is the time.
For our benefit and your glory, U. of K., We'ro Off!

A GIRL'S VIEWPOINT

ON COURTESY

A letter printed in the Lexington Herald, written by an individual signing herself "A Southern Lady," brands the younger generation and especially
University of Kentucky students with discourtesy.
Her charge is preposterous in its breadth and unfounded in detail. Her
range of observation is too narrow to determine a fair or sensible conclusion, but her comment affords opportunity for an expatiation on the gentlemanly qualities of the younger generation.
Customs change as do styles, but the innate courtesy of the "Kentucky
Gentleman," exemplified especially in the Kentucky university man, has
not changed. Observations for three years on the campus have given proof
of a consideration for women more sincere if not so elaborate as the superficial courtesy of knight errantry. Courtesy is the rule on the campus, and
those who do not practice it on their arrival soon imitate it involuntarily.
It is a part of the college man's code necessary to his self respect. The
typical University of Kentucky man might be frigidly polite, might be a
trifle disdainful in his present stage of ignorance, but he is courteous.
Who but an unsympathetic, biased individual would judge an entire generation, a whole university by one or two acts of seeming discourtesy? If
a lady was crowded from the sidewalk, or not given her full share, the offenders were new in the ways of University of Kentucky men, or were unusually preoccupied with thoughts, which fact a keenly observant lady
would note, and a real Kentucky woman would pardon.
The modern woman with her equal rights demands only the courtesy
that one gentleman accords another, but the modern man meets her more
than half way, giving her more deference and consideration than she claims
as her due. Anyone who has observed University of Kentucky men or who
has been in contact with them can testify to their courtesy in manner and
in deed. There is not a group of girls on the campus who could not cite
acts of exceptional courtesy on the part of the men. Whatever the university man's shortcomings may be, discourtesy is not numbered among
them.
E. O'H.

RELAY THE SPIRIT

JUST A WORD
Someone, or some group lore the
rannon from its pcdistal in front of
Wc
the Administration building.
wondrr if that is their idea of fun.
is, they should he in a mine pit
If it
with a pick and shovel; they should
be congregated with the scum of low
browed and low minded people rather
than associated with the high type
of students at the University of Kentucky If that is their idea of fun,
they should carry a club, live in a
cave nnd go unshaven. Wc cannot
conceive of arty university student
getting any pleasure from doing
such an act of vandalism and in ad
dition putting the university to an expense of $10 or $50 in restoring the
cannon on its base. Show us the fun
in an net such as that. The "smart
alccks" who did that trick arc childish, mentally inferior nnd undesirable students.
Wc have noticed that students have
left the auditorium at recent basket-- 1
ball games before the game was over.
Arc wc going to have to continually
"harp" on these little
of the students to make them sec
them? Even if the gnme is well
sejved up or lost, the students, above
all others, should remain in their
scats until the game is over.

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We know whereof wc speak. A
few evenings ngo the students who
were seated on the public side were
sold seats in n certain specified section. Three minutes before the game
was over the section was empty and
the doorway was blocked. The fans
who attend our games arc our guests
and should be treated as such. Ignoring the fact that every one should
remain in his scat until the final gun,
we wish to impress upon the students
the fact that it is their duty to remain
and that it is a mark of discourtesy
when they do not remain.

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A few days ago we had occasion
to speak with a local fan on the
street. We asked him whether or not
he was going to the game in the even
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like to attend but the students were
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with them.

It seems, according to many of the
most prominent critics, that the general trend of all literature is toward
journalism as "floating" literature.
Professor Farquhar has noted the
fact and his heart is broken.
We tear our hair in vain the co
eds introduce a new style each week.
We once heard an adage, "an apple
a day," etc.; it should read, "a style
a day and the men will not stay

away."

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This latest fad may best
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be described

'man:
"She didn't have no stockings at
all. She had on a pair of sox which
reached just below her calves and
then on her feet she had a pair of
men's red Rockford sox, rolled to
her oxford tops."
We are merely commenting on the
fact; we arc not criticizing. At least
it shows a trend toward economy;
young husbands can now clothe the
feet of their wives for 10 cents per
foot. That is, if he can induce her to
dispense with the calf sox.

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dock,
A mouse ran up a clock
screamed,
The co-e- d
For, alas, it seemed
The clock was in her sock!
Hickory-dickor- y

Because of the interest and spirit of the Lexington Alumni Club, the
Su-K- y
Circle, campus pep organization, is in receipt of a gift of 28 sweaters,
DEW DROP INN
one for each of the active members of the Circle. The alumni organization,
which is composed of men and women who have the interest of the univer
sity at heart, and who already have made many sacrifices for their Alma "Hungry?" "Yes!
Circle to be the messenger that shall carry
Mater, have chosen the Su-K- y
their spirit and their love for the schcool to the students who are here now. More or less!"
Well, we both are, so lets stop in;
Circle to be
It is a trust. It is for the members of the Su-K- y
Here's a Dew Drop, so let's drop in.
And then gorge away our plaint of

DEMOCRACY

THE KEYNOTE OF THE MODERN COLLEGE

Recently u great deal of criticism of the college and college education,
directly or by innuendo, through such popular sellers as "The Plastic Age,"
"This Side of Paradise," "The Goose Step," and others, has been spread
broadcast. One of these criticisms was written by a young man who slipped
through Princeton without getting what he thinks an education should be;
another by a professor who, if we may believe his own words put into the
mouths of his students, has not been giving out the kind of education he
thinks ought to be given out; and n third by a man who opposes all the
steps the armies took in the recent war, including the famous "Goose Step."
The fault of all of these men in their criticisms of the modern college
is that they have either overdrawn their picture in an effort to be sensational
and thereby produce a best seller, or still regard the colleges as a medieval
institution. Modern scientific progress has completely revolutionized so
ciety during the Nineteenth and Tweentieth centuries. As a part of that
society the college and university have also been completely revolutionized.
When Professor Marks complains that college men are not gentlemen
and that they have not learned to think, ho apparently has in mind the
type of "pedantic fop" who once had a monopoly on campus life just as
their progenitors had had a monopoly on government, on the church and on
public affairs in general. Or else ho was thinking of the mental gymnast
of tho Middle Ages, who spent hours debating on such questions as how
many angels could dance upon the point of a needle.
The college of toduy is a product of an emancipated and a libccralized
society (democratic, if you prefer the word).
By what right does a socialist, a young upstart craving notoriety, or
even u professor from the cltete Last pass such a harsh judgment m them;
Ninety percent of the students come at a great sacrifice eithr to themselves
or to their parents. Fifty percent of them in some of the institutions in
the country work and slave, sometimes at the very lowest sort of drudgery,
to pay a part or all of their expenses while in college. Many others mort
gage years of their future by borrowing money to pay their way through
colletre. Yet in the face of these facts, which are a matter of common
knowledge, these sensationalists insist that none of the students study, that
none of them learn a thing!
The modern American college as a product of un American democracy
is heart and soul in the preparation of men and women who will bo leaders
and progenitors of a more widespread democracy than we have at the pres
ent time, a democracy that will extend equal opportunity to a greater nunv
ber than enjoy it at the present time.

Why

emptiness.
consarn 'em! They spell 'eggs'
without an 'a'.

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What a nice name for a ballad
But It wouldn't fill a corner in my soul
Why tho only combination they have

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of fruits and vegetables, cereals and forage.

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