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OF KENTUCKY

UNIVERSITY

VOLUME XXIX

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, TUESDAY, JUNE

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NEW SERIES NO. 62

13, 1939

FIRST TERM
June
Wednesday, June 14, 8 p. in. Faculty reception for students in the Great Hall of the Union building.
Wednesday, June H, 8 p. in. Boy Scout awards in Memorial hall aniphheatre.
Thursday, June 15, 9:50 a. m. General convocation in
Memorial hall. President McV'ey will sjeak. on "Assump-

Record Falls AS 1,665 Students Sign On First Day

tions of Democracy."
Saturday, June 17, 8 p. m. to midnight. Dance and bridge
party in Union building.
Sunday, June 18, 4:30 p. m. Vesper services in Patterson
hall. Residents of the women's dormitories will act as hos-

Doctor McVey To Speak STUDENTS MAY Number Surpasses By 35 Total
PARTICIPATE IN
At First General Convo
Of 1,630 Who Were Registered
FAVORITEJPORT
Of '39 Summer Session Recreational Courses
In Opening Period Last Summer

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Monday, June 19, 6:30 p. in. Dinner in honor of the visiting faculty in the Ballroom of the Union building.
Tuesday, June 20. Conference on professional relations.
Thursday, June 22, 1:30 p. m. Bluegrass tour.
Thursday, June 22, 7 p. m. Band concert in Memorial
hall ampitheatre. John Lewis directing.
Saturday, June 24. 9 p. m. to midnight. Dance and bridge
party in Union building.
Monday, June 26, 9 a. m. General convocation in Memorial hall. Harry Elmer Barnes will speak.
Wednesday, June 28, 4 to 6 p. m. Tea at Maxwell Place.
President and Mrs. McVey, hosts.
Thursday, June 29, 4 p. m. Mrs. George Edwin Smith
will review "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in Music room of
Union building.
Thursday, June 29, 7 p. m. Band concert in Memorial
hall ampitheatre. John Lewis directing.
Thursday, June 29, 8:15 p. m. Lecture in Memorial hall.
Dr. Walton E. Cole on "Defending Ourselves Against Propaganda."
July
Wednesday, July 5, 4 to 6 p. m. Tea at Maxwell Place.
President and Mrs. McVey, hosts.
Thursday, July 6, 7 p. m. Band concert in Memorial hall
ampitheatre. John Lewis directing.
Friday, July 7, 6:30 p. m.
students' dinner in
ballroom of Union building.
Saturday, July 8, 9 p. m. to midnight. Dance and Bridge
party in Union building.
Tuesday, July II, 11 a. m. General convocation in Memorial hall. Music department will be in charge.
Wednesday, July 12, 4 to 6 p. m. Tea at Maxwell Place.
President and Mrs. McVey, hosts.
Thursday, July 13, 7 p. m. Band concert in Memorial hall
ampitheatre. John Lewis directing.
SECOND TERM
Wednesday, July 19, 4 to 6 p. m. Tea at Maxwell Place.
President and Mrs. McVey, hosts.
Thursday, July 20, 7:30 p. ra. Little Symphony concert
in Memorial hall. Prof. Carl Lampert directing.
Saturday, July 22, 9 to 12 p. m. Dance and Bridge party
in Union building.
Wednesday, July 26, 9:50 a. m. General convocation in
Memorial hall. Songs by Chief Yowlache,
Thursday, July 27, 7:30 p. m. Little Symphony concert
in Memorial hail. Prof. Carl Lampert directing.
August
Tuesday, August 1, 11 a. in. General Convocation in
Memorial hall. Harry Collins Spillman will speak on "Fortifying Democracy at the Base."
Thursday, August 3, 7:30 p. in. Little symphony concert
in Memorial hall. Prof. Carl Lampert directing.
Thursday, August 10, 7:30 p. m. Little symphony concert
in Memorial hall. Prof. Carl Lampert directing.
Friday, August II, 9 a. m. General convocation in Me'',
morial hall.
Wednesday, August 16, 6 rx m. Commencement dinner.
Thursday, August 17, 4:30 p. m. Reception for graduates.
Friday, August 18, 7 p. in. Summer commencement in
Memorial hall ampitheatre.
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The first convocation of the second
semester will be held Wednesday,
July 75, and will feature songs by
Chief Yowlache, a
Harry Collins Spillman will speak
in "Fortifying Democracy at the
Base" at the fifth convocation of
the Session to be held Tuesday,
August 1.
The final assembly will be held
Friday, August 11. The program
for the last ponvocation has not yet
been announced.

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FORUM PLANNED
ON PROFESSIONS

Dr. Reuben T.Shaw To
Discuss Teaching
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with the National
education association, the Kentucky
education association and the State
Department of Education at Frankfort, the University will sponsor a
conference on professional
relations to be held in the Auditorium
of the Education building, Tuesday
20.

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Faculty Reception For Students
Will Be Given On Wednesday Night

Geology Students

Make Annual Tour
Fourteen students in department

of geology, accompanied by Dr. A.
C. McFarlan, head of the depart
ment and David M. Young, instructor, are on a
field trip
through Pennsylvania, New York,
and Canada. The annual trip will
end June 18.
The party of 16 left Lexington In
the geology field truck belonging
to the University, and will camp
out. The party went to Ashland,
Ky, from Lexington, thence through
West Virginia, Pennsylvania, into
New York State through the
and the Adirondacks, going into Vermont through Rutland and
During the first semester of the Summer Session a music hour Brandon, and from thence Into
Canada. Their return trip will bring
will be conducted Monday through Friday in the Music room ol them through Maine, the Conthe Union building, it was announced yesterday.
necticut Valley, New York State,
Washington, D. C, and home.

SHORTJMJRSES
Historian Is Member
Of Faculty
Due to the request of so many
students in the social field, the
University has procured the services of Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes s
member of the faculty in the History Department this summer. Dr.
Barnes was a member of the University faculty in' the summer of
1937 and since that time the Summer Session Department has received numerous requests from students for his return to the campus.
Doctor Adams, in announcing Dr.
Barnes' acceptance to return to the
University this summer said, "I feel
highly gratified that Dr. Barnes is
coming to our campus. I believe
that his work here will not only be
of interest to students but to our
faculty as well. He is one of the
most popular instructors we have
had on our Summer Session faculty."
Dr. Barnes will teach two in ten
tive courses in history from June 12
to 28, both of which will be open to
juniors, seniors and graduate students. At the third hour in the
morning Dr. Barnes will offer a
course entitled "World Affairs from
the Franco-Prussia- n
War to the
Munich Conference." In the afternoon, he will ocer a course entitled
"Social and Economic Factors in
Contemporary Civilization."
Dr. Barnes is a fluent writer and
is the author of over thirty books
and some 200 articles on historiography, sociology, political theory,
and penology.

RADIO PROBLEMS

COURSE OFFERED

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Satisfaction Expressed

The President's Welcome

Under direction of a staff of ten

instructors,

President McVey will speak on
"Assumptions of Democracy" at the
first general convocation of the
Summer Session to be held at 9:50
. m. Thursday,
June 15. in Mem
orial hall.
All classes will be dismissed so
that students may hear the Presi
dent give his yearly message to
those attending the Summer Ses- ion. Doctor Adams' will preside.
Thursday's general assembly will
be the first of six convocations to
be held during the two semesters
of the Summer Session.
On Monday, June 26. when the
second convocation will be held. Dr.
Harry Elmer Barnes, visiting professor who Is conducting two short
sources, will speak.
Slated for Tuesday, July 11, is the
third general convocation.
The
program for this meeting will be
under the direction of the music

June

Summer School

Historian

On Thursday

At this conference the problems
of some of the major professions
will be discussed and an attempt
will be made to set forth the standards, the ethics, and the opportuni
ties of the professions of medicine,
law, engineering, agriculture, bust
ness, and teaching.
Dr. Reuben T. Shaw, president
of the National education associa
tion, will close the discussion of
the morning and will attempt to
show how teaching is becoming a
profession and what steps must be
A faculty reception lor students of the Summer Session will be taken to aid It in achieving Its imgiven at 8 o'clock Wednesday night in the Creat Hall of the Union mediate goals.
Others on the program will be
building.
President McVey, Dr. J. Farra Van
This affair was originally planned for 7:30 o'clock Thursday Meter, Law Dean Alvin E. Evans.
night but it v.a found necessary to change the date and time to Engineering Dean James H. Graham, Assistant Agriculture Dean L.
8 o'clock Wednesday night.
J. Horlachcr, and Commerce Dean
In the receiving line to welcome the summer students will be Edward Wiest.
President and Mrs. McV'ey, Dr. and Mrs. Adams, and Dr. Harry

Elmer Barnes, visiting professor.
Assisting at the reception will be Dean and Mrs. P. P. Boyd,
Dean and Mrs. Thomas P. Cooper, Dean and Mrs. James Graham,
Dean and Mrs. Alvin E. Evans, Dean and Mrs. W. E. Taylor, Dean
and Mrs. Edward Wiest, Dean and Mrs. W. D. Funkhouser, Assistant Dean and Mrs. Lisle Croft, Assistant Dean and Mrs. Levi
Horlachcr, Dean T. T. Jones, Dean Sarah Holmes, Dr. and Mrs.
Leo Chamberlain, Miss Jeanette Scudder, Mrs. Eda Giles, Mrs.
Ethel Lebus, and Miss Margie McLaughlin.
Presiding at the punch bowls will be Miss Mildred Lewis,
Mrs. Ruth Haines and Mi's. May K. Duncan.
The Great hall of the Union building will be decorated with
garden flowers.

Are Scheduled For

Assembly To Be Held
In Memorial Hall

recreawill be offered by

By Doctor Adams

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Greetings to the students
who come to the first sev
sion of the summer school
of the University of Kentucky. I am wishing for
them a happy and profitable time. The University
is glad that they have found
it x)vsible to come and
trusts that the time spent
here will be of great value
and one of inspiration.
Mrs. McVey and 1 extend
to all an invitation to attend the teas which
at Maxwell Place during the summer.

tional courses
the physical education department
during the Summer Session.
Three courses not offered in past
summer terms are on the card this
year. They include low organized
sports, riflery for women, and Intramural activities.
Students may register for these
courses by calling at the offices of
the physical education department
in the Gym annex.
Commenting on the courses to be
offered. Department Head M. E.
Potter yesterday said, "The department of physical' education provides opportunity for Summer Session students to receive Instruction
and participate in recreational activities. All activities are taught
and supervised by experts and experienced teachers. No extra chaige
is made for this service; all are
invited and urged to participate.
Instructors for the courses include:
Charles Baril graduate of University of Kentucky.
Coach and
physical education teacher at Perry-vill- e
High School, Perryvllle, Kentucky.
Minelle Beuther
graduate of
Eastern State Teachers College.
Kentucky.
Richmond,
Graduate
student at the University of Kentucky.
Wayne Campbell
graduate of
University of Kansas. Director of
physical education, Neodesha High
School, Neodesha, Kansas.
Thomas Crouse
graduate of
Jamestown College, Jamestown, S.
Dakota. Coach and physical education director at International
Falls, Minnesota.
Ted Hornback graduate of. and
instructor in physical education at
Western State Teachers College,
Bowling Green, Ky.
M. G. Karsner graduate of University of Kentucky, Master's degree at Louisiana State University,
and instructor at the University of
Kentucky.
Wilda Knight graduate of Southern Methodist University, graduate student at Columbia and Louisiana State University.
Robert Knight graduate at Sam
Houston Teachers College, coach
at Palestine, Texas.
Helen Robbins instructor at
College, Abilene, Texas, graduate Texas State College
for Women.
Eloise Robinson teacher at Cullman County High School, Cullman.
Alabama, graduate University of
Alabama.
A complete list of the courses,
including times, places taught and
instructors, follows:
Golf for men; 1 to 2:30 p. m.,
Monday, Wednesday and Friday;
Gym annex; Crouse.
Golf for women; 2:30 to 3:30 p.
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Dance Saturday
A dance and bridge party,
the first of the 1939 Summer

Session will be held from 8
to 12 o'clock Saturday night
In the Union ballroom. Admission to the affair will be
25 cents per person. A local
orchestra will play.

Vesper Services
Will Be Conducted
Presbyterian Pastor To Have
Charge Of Program In
Patterson Hall
Vesper services for Summer Session students will be held at 4:30
p. m. Sunday. June 18. In the recreation hall of Patterson h.all,
women's dormitory, conducted by
the Dr. Warner L. Hall, pastor of
the Maxwell Street Presbyterian
church.
Following the services tea will
be served. Acting as hostesses will
be the residents of Patterson and
Boyd halls, the two women's dormitories.
Tentative plans are under way
to make the vesper services a regular Sunday feature of the Summer
Session.

Studios Open
That Summer Session Students
will have an opportunity to witness
the work of the University extension radio studios was indicated
yesterday by a statement from E.
G. Sulzer, studio director and head
of the publicity department.
Sulzer said the studios, located in
the Art Center, would be open to
visitors from 1 to 1:15 p. m. and
from 1:30 to 2 p. m. daily, Monday
through Friday.

SHORT COl'RSES
TO OPENJODAY
Intensive Classes Will
Close June 28
In addition to the regular courses
offered the r?.t semester of the
Summer Session, yesterday saw reg
istration of students for approximately twenty intensive courses
that will run from Jjne 12 through
Wednesday, June 28.
Included on the faculty for these
week short courses are many educators
who are
outstanding in their fields.
Among the short courses of study
which will begin on Monday are
World Affairs from the Franco-Prussia- n
War to the Munich Conference; Social and Economic Factors in Contemporary Civilizzation;
Administration of Pupil Personnel:
Problems in Agricultural Economics; Problems in Diagnostic and
Remedial Reading; Education for
Marriage and Family Life: Current
Land Problems; Rural Life; Agri
cultural Policy; Advanced Agricul
tural Entomology; Kentucky Soils;
Landscape Gardening: Determining
Content in Vocational Agriculture;
Part-TiSchools; Current Prob
lems in Home Economics Education; Trade Analysis Techniques
Shop Management Problems; Meth
odology of Educational Research,
and Modern Educational Problems
in Adult Education.
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POTTER TO TALK
of the
education department, will speak at
an annual meeting of the Corbin
board of trade to be held Monday,
June 19. at Corbin. His subject will
be "Leisure A Community Problem."

Laura Zirbes And Donald Durrell
Will Lecture In Reading Cousre

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The room will le okii from noon until 4 p. m. on Monday
Tuesday and Wednesday, and from noon to 2 p. in. and 7 to
IN CANADA
9 p. in. on Thursday and Friday.
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A large collection of classical music, with a numlier of records June
Relaxed after a quiet visit at Hyde
of lighter variety, is to le found in the Music room.
Park, King George VI and Queen
The Music room, formerly located on the fourth Hoor of the Elizabeth returned today to their
they
Library, was moved to its present location soon after the comple dominion of Canada, whence
Thursday
will sail for England
tion of the Union. It is directed by Carnegie Foundation.
night.

For Lectures

A three-cred- it
course in the
"Problems of Radio Broadcasting,"
for teachers, professional men and
women and citizens Interested in
the field, is being offered the first
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term of the Summer Session.
The course will be supervised by
E. G. Sulzer, director of radio at i
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the University, who, as the course
progresses, will bring to the classroom members of the staff of radio
station WHAS, Louisville, who will
in the presentation of
those fields in which they have
specialized.
Paul Sullivan, nationally known
news commentator with the staff of
WHAS will be one of the featured
lecturers at the radio course.
Registration for this course will
continue through Monday, June 19.

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Laura Zirbes of Ohio State university and Donald D. Durrell of Boston university.
The course, which gives three
credits, is being offered daily from
10 to 1 2o'clock, June 12 to June 28.
Other instructors who will be on
the faculty for the course are Gertrude Whipple of the Detroit public
schools, E. A. Taylor of the American Optical company and May K.
Duncan of the University's Education college.
Miss Zirbes, Professor Education
at Ohio State University, was one
of the instructors in the course last
summer and her work was highly
acclaimed by the 225 students who
ere enrolled In this work. She has
made many excellent contributions
to the field of elemeent&ry educa- tion and is one of the leading
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This number topped by 30, the
record set last year when, registrar's
figures show. 1.630 students registered on the first day of the initial,
term of the 1938 session.
Satisfaction at the number registering was expressed by Doctor
Adams who pointed out that the
record was broken despite the fact
competition was offered by the New
York and San Francisco
World
Fairs.
Yet to register are those who will
attend the annual coaches school
to be held August 7 to IX Last
year this school was held before the
opening of the regular Summer
Session and was attended by approximately 50 high school football and basketball coaches.
Registration for the first term of
the regular session will continue
through Monday, June 19.
During the last six years, summer enrollment has increased 70 3
per cent. Last summer the total
enrollment in both terms was 3.206.
and of this number approximately
1,100 were graduate students.
The second term of the 1939 summer session will open July 17, and
will continue
through August 19,
with commencement for ail students
completing their work in either of
the two terms scheduled for Friday,
August 18.
Approximately 50 visiting educators from all sections of the country
will supplement
the University's
resident faculty of 2C0 members for
the summer session program.

Accepts Fellowship
At Columbus School
C. W. Hackensmith, director of
intramural athletics at the University, has accepted a graduate fellowship at Ohio State university

where he will study for his doctor's
degree In physical education and
physiology.
On leave from the University.
Mr. Hackensmith will study at the
Columbus school during the 1939-4- 0
school year. He was acting head of
the physical education department
during the 1938 Summer Session.

Picadome Course
Open To Students
Faculty and students of the Summer Session may procure golf tickets for play at the Picadome country club by calling at the offices
of the physical education department. M. E. Potter, department
head, said yesterday.
Cost of the tickets is thirty-fiv- e
cents each or three for a dollar, a
sum lower than the regular Pica-dogreens fee. Mr. Potter said.
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Hammonds To Talk
Dr. Carsie Hammonds, head of
the Department of Agricultural Ed-

instructors during
the first week of the course in
"Problems in Diagnostic and Rete

Paul Sullivan Is Billed

A total of 1,663 students
the largest number ever to
register at the University on
the opening day of a Summer
Session, filed past the registration booths in the basement of Alumni gym yesterday to sign for classwork for
the first term of the Summer

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ucation, will give two addresses before the annual meeting of the
Ohio Teachers of Vocational Agriculture at Ohio State University,
Columbus, this week.
Dr. Hammonds will discuss "Selected Aspects of a Psychological
Basis for Method of Teaching" at
the opening session Monday and
the following day will speak on
"Some Considerations in Effective
Teaching."
This is the fourth year the University professor has been asked to
appear on this program.

Dinner Monday
A dinner to honor the visiting
facalty of the Summer Session will
be held in the ballroom of the
Union building at 8:30 p. m. Monday. June 19, it was announced
yesterday. Complete details of the
affair hava not yet been announced.

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