THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

BASEBALL!
PETRALS ARE HERE TODAY
FOR GAME WITH 'CATS

UNIVERSITY

MEN'S STUDENT

Male Students Will Vote for
President and Vice President;
Nominees Must Be Juniors
In Good Standing

LSTUDENT GOVERNMENT
WHAT ABOUT IT?

Make Elaborate Plans for May Day;
Men Choose Martha Minihan Queen
CELEBRATION IS QUEEN of may SOPHOMORE GIRL

Lexington, Are Reported to
Have an Excellent Team;
Beat Georgia This Year

(An Editorial)
Unnoticed, perhaps, by a large percentage of, the
student body, there was held on the university campus
a conference of representatives from the
last week-en- d
men's student government association of a number of
southern universities. The organization represented correspond to the Men's Student Council of the University
of Kentucky which was host to the convention.
The
holding of this conference at the university raises anew
the whole question of student
At the outset The Kernel wishes to state that it is
heartily in favor of student
It believes
that when students enter a university they do so as men
and women. It believes that the average college student
is better prepared to govern himself than the average
American citizen who by our national constitution has as
much vote in community affairs as the most learned- educator, economist, or student of political affairs. It believes that student
is of immeasurable
value in preparing college students for the administration of civic affairs after graduation.

Wednesday

of president and
of the Men's Student Council for the coming year will be held
Monday, May 9, according to an
announcement made yesterday by
Arch Bennett, president of the retiring council. All nominations must be
turned in to the office of the dean of
men not later than noon Wednesday,
May 4.
All men students of the university
are eligible to vote in this election.

Election

GAME TO

Wert Will Probably Be
Choice for Pitching

(By WARREN A. PRICE)
The Petrels pf Oglethorpe University drop into the Blue Grass for a
game with the Wildcats this afternoon at Stoll field and they will probably find a little more action in Coach

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On the University of Kentucky campus it is no
secret that the student council accomplishes little. It is
extremely doubtful if one student in five knows any of its
members. Indeed one questions if many students "know
even of the existence of such a bpdy. And why should
they? The student council meets two or three times a
year; it does practically nothing-.- Membership entitles
one to list another activity following one's name. But
student self government as such does not exist on the
university campus.

Pat Devereaux's Wildcats than they
are expecting. The game will begin
at 3:30 with John G. Heber calling
'em.

Charley Wert will probably get the
call to ascend the mound with Captain 'Swede' Ericson on the receiving
end. Charley has had considerable
rest and he should be able to register
his second victory. Wert pitched superb ball against Notre Dame and
with the Blue defense as steady as it
was in the game with Minnesota today's game should figure in the win
percentage.
Coach Pat Devereaux has had his
squad going at a fast clip all this
week and they never looked better.
With Cole at first, Blasingame at
second, Gilb at short, and Crouch at
third, the Blue and White mentor has
an airtight defense in the infield and
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Skate Up

Theoretically the Men's Student Council has as
much power as the student governing bodies of the other
schools represented at this conference. The constitution of the organization provides that it "may have jurisdiction in cases of discipline of undergraduates"
and
shall be authorized to exercise powers of "expulsion,

Seniors to March
Part in May Day
Exercises

dismissal, suspension, and reprimand."
student punished by the student council
the university senate and "if the latter
case MAY be reconsidered by the Men's
cil."

As a special feature of the May

Day celebration next Friday all
seniors of the university will
march in caps and gowns in the
morning procession. This is the
first time that this has been attempted here and Doctor McVey
as well as SuKy circle is very
anxious that it be successful.
Plans call for the formation of
all seniors in'front of the Administration building at the end of the
second hour Friday. Members of
the class of '27 will get their caps
and gowns at that time. Seniors
will then march to the gym behind
the band. John Rachel, president
of the class, requests all seniors to
take part in this parade.

FOR YEAR MADE
Grehan Announces
Names of Students Who Will
Have Charge of Committees
and Campus Bulletin

Professor

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The State Press Committe for next
year has been appointed by Professor
Enoch Grehan, head of the journalism department and is as follows:
Robert O'Dear, Charles Ilonaker, C.
C. Fortson, Jean Doyle, Paul Saunders, Margaret Elliott and Weldon
Simpson.
Students who were on the
committee this year are: Harriet
Edwards, CathMcCauley, Rebecca
erine Cary, Virginia 'Conroy, Charles
Headly and Helen Shelton.
It is the object of the State Press
committee to handle all the student
write-up- s
turned in by sophomore
journalism classes, grade and correct
them and then send them to the
paper of the town in which the student lives. When the school term
closes this year, the State Prss committee will have handled approxistudent write-upmately 1,C00
write-up- s
people
Through these
through the state are interested in the

NOTICE TO SENIORS

May 7 Set Is Date for the
Derby Classic
Newspapers of the country proclaim to the world in general that
on May 14 will:be run the greatest
of all races the Kentucky Derby.

Furthermore a
may appeal to
so advises, the
Student Coun-

But in practice how does this work out? Any member of the student council will tell you that the council
has no actual power. University authorities desire it to
be a mere advisory body; a group to recommend improvements and solutions to campus "problems. But as to
exercising any actual power, for some reason or other
the administration thinks that such a policy would be
unwise. One recalls the time several years ago when
the student council voluntarily disbanded because the
university refused to allow it to exercise any discipline
in cases of freshmen who habitually refused to wear
their caps. The Men's Student Council is without practical working power. This is the reason it does not meet
regularly. This is the reason that it is nothing more
than an honorary organization on the campus.
As was mentioned in the beginning of this editorial,
The Kernel is strongly in favor of student
and it feels that the benefits to be derived from
such a system at the university would far outweigh its
defects. Evidently the university senate also thought
so once when it gave the Men's Student Council the theoretical powers which it now refuses to allow it to exercise. What is the reason for this change?
"Election time is drawing near. Within a few weeks
students of the university will elect a president and
of the student council for the coming year.
When could there be a more appropriate .time than the
present to build for a real and practical student
?
When could there be a more appropriate
time for the student "body to appeal to university administrative officials for the actual as well as the theoretical
right to govern themselves?

APPOINTMENTS

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Assignment

This conference of the Southern Federation of College Students was of especial interest to Jhe Kentucky
delegates in revealing the power, work, and efficiency of
the student governing councils of other southern

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START AT 3:30
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The candidate receiving the highest
number of votes is declared president
and the one receiving the second
highest number is
of the
President and
council are chosen from the junior
class. To be eligible for nomination
for these offices, the man must be a
junior in good standing. Petitions
nominating men for president must be
signed by not less than twenty male
students of the university and must
be given Dean Melcher by next Wednesday noon. Names of the candidates
will be announced in next week's issue of The Kernel.
The constitution! of the Men's
Student Council provides that presirfhall be electdent and
ed on the first Friday in May each

WRITE-UP-

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Petitions Must Be in Hands of
Dean Melcher by Next

HANDLE MANY

KENTUCKY

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ALL MEN URGED TO VOTE

Southern Federation
Elects New Officers

The lisfc of candidates for degrees
is being prepared. Candidates for all
degrees will be given their examina- Walter Jones, Delegate From
tions early. All applications for deGeorgia Tech University Is
grees must be filed in the registrar's
Made President
office by May 2. After this time the
list of those who are to have senior
The convention of the Southern
s.
examinations and who are to be in Federation of College
Students, holdcluded in the commencement programs ing
its annual meeting at the univerwill be sent to members of the faculty, sity
April 22-2closed on Saturday
(signed) Ezra L. Gillis,
with the elections of officers for the
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Registrar
coming year.

Walter James, delegate from Geor- gia Tech University, was elected pres
ident ot the federation; John R. Bullock,
of The Kentucky
Kernel, was elected
and Boyce Martin, of Davidson Col
Put an Entry of Your Own in the May Day Parade Use lege, Davidson, N. C, was elected sec
retary and treasurer. The federation
Your Individuality in Decorating It, and Set Your
decided to meet at the University of
Own Limit; the Cups Are Ready
Alabama at Tuscaloosa next year.
for Someone to Win
Mr. Bullock is a junior in the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, editor-in- (By Alfred P. Robertson)
a "kampus kar," you will be in your chief of The Kernel, member of Del
It's high time, folks, to begin element. Hang a few appropriate ta Tau Delta, Sigma Delta Chi, Alpha
..
thinking of and planning for your labels on
.
it and join the gang. If the Delta Sigma, Mystic Thirteen and Su
entry in the May Day parade. SuKy . .
Ky Circle.
May citizenry of Lexington have been so
Circle plans to have the biggest
big May unkind as to laugh at it heretofore you
Day ever this year and a
Day celebration without an elaborate can give them the chance to laugh for
parade is like vanilla ice cream with- -' once in good taste. And if you can
g
to ride Mme. Lhevinne Will Appear at
8et a ew
out the vanilla.
You do not need an excuse to en- - with you (and that, might it be said,
U. K. Convocation May 3
ter the May Day parade. All you is not difficult so long as the car will
need is something to enter. And the actually run), why, so much the
Mme. Estelle
noted
is not so particular as to what ter. Your comic entry will then have violinist, and her
son
that something is, provided it does become a thing of beauty and they Laddie Gray, an expert pianist, will
not get them shipped from school or won't dare laugh,
appear in concert at the university
locked in the city bastile. Let the sky j Perhaps you think that everything convocation exercises Tuesday, May 3
be your limit and your collegiate novel in floats has already been done She will play two concerts at the uni
bhow your but that is a fallacy. It is surprising versity, at 11 o'clock in the morning
conscience, your guide,
originality by the individuality of what effects can be obtained with a and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Both
your float.
maxium of ingenuity and a minimum concerts will be held in the university
gymnasium and will be open to the
If you have at your place one of
those rattling juggernauts known as (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) public without cost.

But students of the university
wonder if perchance that date is
not one week late for has not the
sports department designated Saturday, May 7 as the
date of the first annual roller skating derby?
Cups will be awarded to winners
of individuaUevnts as well as to
championshrp"fraternity and sorority relay teams, and the W.A.A.
will give points in the association
conquerors.
d
to
"All comes to him that waiteth."
One week from Saturday dieting,
training, and midnight practice
Meanwill show their results.
while the student body waits with
bated breath.
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Y.W. CONFERENCE
TO BEGIN TODAY
Approximately Fifty Delegates
Are Expected for Annual
State Meeting Which
Opens at 4 o'clock
MEETINGS

OPEN

TO

ALL

The annual state
ference will be held at the University
April 29,
of Kentucky this week-en30, and May 1, with the University of
Kentucky Y. W. as ,thostess. Miss
Katherine Butler, National Y. W.
Secretary, who has been visiting the
various schools in Kentucky during
the past two weeks, will be here to
assist with the conference.
delegates
About fifty
are expected to attend the conference from Berea College, Kentucky
College for Women, Eastern Kentucky State Normal College for Teachers,- Logan College, Kentucky
University of Louisville, and
State Normal, besides
Morenead
members of the Y. W. from Hamilton
College, Transylvania, and Universi- ty of Kentucky. These delegates will
be furnished rooms in Boyd and Patterson halls.
Miss Elizabeth Davies, of Kentucky
Wesleyan, chairman of the conference, Miss Lydia Roberts, Pres. of
Y. W. of the University of Kentucky,
Y. W. C. A. cond,

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Get in the Game!

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Choral Society to Give
Third Oratorio May 11
Students May Secure Tickets for
"Creation" by Surrendering'
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Athletic Coupon 50

Noted Violinist

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EXPECTED TO BE
BEST EVER HELD

U. OF K.

HONOR

Charlsey Smith, Runner-uWill
Be Maid of Honor to Queen ;
Four Others Are Named
as Attendants
p,

Exercises and Prize Awarding in Morning
PARADE IS MAIN FEATURE

FESTIVAL

TO

BE

MAY 6

Baseball Game, Burning-o- f Caps
and Dance Conclude

Heavy Vote Is Cast By Men
Students; Election Is Free
r
oi .Politics

Brightly dressed, happy, chattering
throngs from all parts of the Blue- grass will ppur into Lexington, next
Friday, May 6, to witness the colorful
May Day festival of pageantry, dance,
and s'ong which will be held on the
campus of the University of Kentucky
and which this year is expected to be
the most elaborate ever held at the
university.
All classes will be dismissed at 10
o'clock Friday, in order to enable
very student to participate in the
celebration which has already become
one of the university's cherished tra
ditions. Members of the senior class,
clad in caps and gowns, will assemble
at the administration building, and
from there, proceeded by the univer
sity band in full regalia, they will
march to the men s gymnasium. Here,
n
when all the
have
gathered, they will be greeted by
President Frank L. McVey and given
seats reserved for them.
President
McVey will also deliver the May Day
address. Woodson Scott, senior class
orator, will give the response.
Will Award Prizes
Many prizes and awards will be
given at the convocation.
Coach M.
E. Potter will present the
prizes to the various winners; Colonel

Martha Minihan, sophomore in the
college of Arts and Sciences, was elected May Queen in the annual election,
held Wednesday, from 9 until 4 p.m.
of Lexington, soph- Charlsey
Smith, junior in the
College of Arts and
as May Queen will Arts and Sciences college, who was
second
the festivities next will be in number of votes received,
maid of honor at the festival
to be held May 6 on Stoll field.

Program

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GIVE

MEDALLION

TO TWO STUDENTS

Martha Minihan,
omore in the
Sciences,

who

preside over
Friday.

The attendants of the queen, the
four other
receiving the next
highest number of votes, were: Louise
Simpson, Henrietta Blackburn, Mat-ti- e
Baxter and Virginia Reeves.
The election created quite a furore
among the students. One of the bal-- r
lot boxes "was placed near the AdminSecond Romany Play of Current istration building, and another in
Season Will Be Given DurDicker hall. The officials in charge
ing the Entire Week of
of the election were: Charles Heid-ricMay 9
chairman;. Bill Gess, John Bullock and several other members of
SuKy circle.
MISS FOSTER TAKES LEAD
The election closed promptly at 4
"Sister Beatrice" the second Rom pjn. and the votes were counted by
any production this year will be pre the committee in one of the classsented the week of May 9 and with rooms. The results were announced
the Stroller play and the "Creation" at 4:30 o'clock.
promises to make this week a memor
When interviewed by a Kernel reporter shortly after the results of
able
r tit uiiiversitv dramatics.
The production of "Sister Beatrice" the election were announced, Miss
has been postponed a week on account Minihan said: "I didn't think I would
of delays in the rehearsals and the
completion of the scenery and cos (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
tumes. The play will be presented
every night except on Wednesday,
jVlay 11, and it is not given on this
date due to the fact that a large part
of the cast of "Sister Beatrice" also
have a part in the "Creation."
Maeterlinck's "Sister
re
sembles the "Miracle" in that it por Plans Are Made for Annual
Edition of DovntoNvn Paper;
trays the love story of the nun who
is persuaded to leave the convent and
Journalism Organizations
go into the world, where during her
Will Be in Charge
absence of twenty-fiv- e
years her n'sice'
is filled by the Virgin.
setting MAY 11 IS SET AS DATE
of the play is in a cunvti.t and the
costumes and scenery are gorgeous.
Students in the department of
The part of Sister Beatrice is taken Journalism will publish the annual
by Miss Dunster Duncan Foster, and university edition of The Lexington
the cast of principals is composed of Herald on Wednesday morning, May
Lexington patrons and university stu- 11. The entire work of editing the
dents. The play is under the direc- - paper will be done by the students.
Members of Sigma Delta Chi, men's
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Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary
journalism fraternity, and Alpha Delta Sigma, professional advertising
fraternity, will sponsor the publication.
Those who will work in the advertising department will start soliciting
Doctor MgVey and the Student advertising next week in an effort to
surpass last year's paper of sixteen
Council Call Upon Students
pages. The members of the news
to Contribute to Flood
staff will report for work on Tues- -

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STUDENTS

WILL

PUBLISH HERALD

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Handsome Bronze Plaques Pre
sented by New York Society
Will Be Awarded at May
Day Evercises
COMMITTEE

PICKS

MEN

One of the special features of the
May Day exercises will be the awarding Friday morning by Doctor McVey
on behalf of the university and the
New York Southern Society, of three
handsome bronze medallions for outstanding service on the part of those
persons adjudged by a university com

mittee as the most worthy to receive
the plaques.
The medallions are awarded an
nually by the New York Southern
Society and the university in memoiy
of Algernon Sydney Sullivan, public- spirited lawyer who died . in . 188.
Two are awarded to students, one
boy and one girl, and one to someone
not a student, as a member of the
Thay are
faculty or townsman.
Relief Fund
awarded on a basis of service and
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nobility of character.
WILL SELL TAGS
McVey has requested th.
President
Cooperating with the Red Cross and
Men's Student Council, Omicron Delta
Kappa, the faculty, and any other other organizations seeking to raise Only
Sixteen Students Make
organizations or individuals who so money to relieve suffering caused by
Perfect Grades
desire, to submit names of persona the devastating Mississippi River
flood, the Men's Student Council at
Only sixteen of the more than two
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voted to hold a general tag day on thousand students of the university
of three
next Tuesday.
Sciences the campusHhis drive will All money made a standing February 1. for the
Eight
raised in
be turned semester ending
sixteen were seniors, three
Will Be May 4 over to the Red Cross and used in the of thejuniors, four were sophomores,
national fund to relieve flood suffer- were
and only one a freshman. Eleven
Dean Chandler of Cincinnati ing.
University girls will sell the tags came from the College of Arts and
- Will Be Principal Speaker
Those
making perfect
on the campus Tuesday. Already a Sciences.
of Occasion
number of girls have signified their scores are as follows:
College of Education May HenderFrank W. Chandler, dean of the willingness to help, but any other
Bowling Green; Mrs. Paul Boyn-toCollege of Liberal Arts of the Uni- girls who desire to assist are invited son,
senior, Lexington.
versity of Cincinnati, has accepted to get a supply of tags from Dean
College of Law Woodson D. Scott,
the invitation to speak at the first an- Melcher's office Tuesday morning and
go to
Nicholasville;
nual Arts and Sciences dinner Wed- to makework. Any students desiring senior,junior, Lexington. George
contributions before Tuesday
nesday, May 4, at the Phoenix hotel may
leave them either in Dean Mel- College of Commerce
Emma Jane
at 6:30 o'clock, which will be attended
by senior students and faculty of the
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Arts and Sciences College.
The program is as follows:
Toastmaster Dean Paul P. Boyd.
- Faculty Greeting to Seniors Dr.
W. D. Funkhouser.
Senior Response Joseph Palmer.
Introduction of Guest Speaker Dr.
"That There Shall Be Failing and Gnashing of Teeth.'
F. L. McVey.
Address "Our Passion for Painless
For Lo! Dark Clouds of Failure Do Loom Upon
Education." Frank W. Chandler.
the Horizon and Notebooks Are in no
A committee of students will assist
Condition to Face Judgment

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HELD TUESDAY

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AllA's

First Arts and
Dinner

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The Central Kentucky Choral Society will present Haydn's "Creation"
in shorthand form with other choral
and solo numbers, at the Woodland
Auditorium, on May 11, at 8:15 p. m.,
under the direction of Prof. Carl
Lampert. The Philharmonic Orches
tra of the university will assist, as
well as three solo artists from New
York City.
This is the third oratorio to be presented by this group of Central Kentucky musicians of which the girls'
and men's glee clubs of the university
form a part, and it promises to be
the best performance given thus far.
All students of the university are

WINS COVETED

Program for Day Is Full of
Interesting Events ; Class

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YOUR ENTRY FOR
DAY PARADE

MAY

KY., APRIL 29, 1927

LEXINGTON,

COUNCIL TO HOLD
ELECTION MAY 9

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VOLUME XVII

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YOUR FLOAT!

Invitations
Seniors May Get Commencement
Exercise Announcements
invitations have
Commencement
been received and will be distributed
on Monday and Tuesday afternoons of
next week, according to Roland

Schultz, chairman of the invitations
committee of the senior class.
In order to facilitate distribution
of invitations to seniors who ordered
them, the invitations will be distributed in the men's gymnasium Monday and Tuesday afternoon from 1:30
invited to attend this concert. They until 4 o'clock. The offices of the
committee will be in the check room
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And it came to pass that examination time did approach near unto the
student body, and all were sore afraid.
And they knew not what to do, for
lo! dark clouds of failure did loom
upon the horizon.
One score and eleven weeks of the
had passed and
promised thirty-si- x
the tribes of Greeks and all their
brethern, and their sisters all cried
forth in agony, for their notebooks
were in no condition to face judgment. Yea verily, things looked very
punk for all those present.
And afar off stood a little group
who looked upon the suffering of the
rabble with little compassion, for they
had followed the words of the law as
laid down by the priests who taught
from the books. And wrapping their
completed notebooks
about them,

they gave burnt offerings and sang
anthems unto Phi Beta Kappa.
"Place only a few of your discarded
notes in our possession," wailed the
quaking rabble from the depths of
their despair, casting up theh. yctr to
the little group shrouded in their
notebooks.
But their pleas were not
heeded for the cause of their sorrow
was known, being written that it is
far easier to take in all the dances
and have a large time than to bone
for quizzes and such scum. And there
was much commotion.
Then in the windows of Patt hall,
and Boyd hall, and the houses of the
Greeks, and in the Men's dorm, and
even in the windows of those who
dwelled in the city, there appeared

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