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THE KENTUCKY

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The Kentucky Kernel
(Formerly The Idea).
Published every Thursday throughout the College year by the student body
of the State University of Kentucky, for the benefit of the stu- dents, alumni and fuculty of the Institution.

Till: KKNTUCKY KKUNKL Is the official newspaper of the University.
It Is Issued with the view or furnishing to its subscribers nil the college news
of Kentucky, together with a digest of items of Interest concerning the universities of other States and Canada.
SUBSCRIPTION, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
Entered at Lexington Posloffice as second-clasWilliam Shinnick
Dlllard Turner
W. T. Cottingham
.1. Franklin Corn
Miss Eliza Plggott
M. C. Finney
J. H. Marsh
J. T. Gooch
Harry Melton
S. J. Caudill
Miss Elsie Heller
Estill Woods
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liDITOKIAl. STAFF.
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Assistant Editor
Managing Editor
"Squirrel Food"
"Coed 'ltor
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Athletic Editor
Exchango Editor
Locals and Law

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Nance, Jr

Julia Vanursdalo.

Agriculture
.Home Economics

Mechanical
Fraternities
Mining Herbert Uraham
Education Miss Anna L. Whltworth. .. .Sororities
REPORTERS.
Miss Mildred Taylor
James Council.
BUSINESS STAFF.

S. C. Johnson

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Business-

Manager

The Kernel Changes Hands.
The Kernel is fast approaching the end of its most
successful year. Only one more issue remains and the
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staff has kindly consented to allow next year's
management to take charge and under their direction
learn some of the details of "getting the paper out."
The new editor feels that this year's forces deserve
the commendation of every student and faculty member
who is interested in seeing the Uniersity represented by
a live publication. It has been stated often this year by
those who know the newspaper business that the Kernel
is one of the best college papers in the country and" that
all past performances have been eclipsed by the men
and women who compose the staff. Every member is to
be congratulated on the excellent work accomplished,
Due we believe that the success of the Kernel has been
due more to the untiring efforts of the editor-in-chiand the managing editor than to any others. Mr. Corn
and Miss Crabbe have worked faithfully and have given
their time and energy without reservation to the work
of bringing out the paper regularly every week. Tie
make-uthe English, the editorial policy and the comprehensive news service the Kernel has given this year
are all due primarily to the efforts of these indefatigable
workers. To those who are not familiar with the difficulties of college newspaper work the accomplishments
of this year are not so apparent as they are to those on
the inside, but we are sure that the student bod'y will
join us in thanking every member of the staff, and in
particular the two members mentioned above and the
business manager.
The members of next year's staff who have been selected so far are announced this week, and the remainder will be printed next week. All those named are
familiar with the workings of the newspaper and we
feel that the paper and the University are fortunate in
numbering among our students newspaper "men" of
such calibre. It is hoped that next year's Kernel will be
as successful as this year's has been.
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A Source of Shame.
The Arbor Day and Tap exercises were a complete
success. The weather was ideal, the attendance was
large, and every part of the celebration was carried out
with smoothness and precision.
The day, as a whole, would have been ideal had it
not been marred by an unfortunate incident, which left
a bad taste in the mouths of all students who have the
good of the University at heart, although it in no way
hindered nor detracted from the success of the exercises.
The battalion had received orders to appear in the
morning for parade. When the companies were called'
to attention it was evident that nearly half the cadets
were absent.

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The absence of this large number was not a matter
of chance but the result of a concerted agreement
among a number of students deliberately to disobey orders on the occasion. For several days preceding Arbor
Day, pledges containing an agreement for a general disregard of orders were circulated among the cadets to be
signed, with the understanding that they were to be
void' unless signed by one hundred persons. A few signatures were gotten, but the majority of the delinquents
lacked the courage to sign a paper which might be incriminating. As a result, the pledge plan was discarded
and oral agreements were entered into by the

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'nuHo spring Is hero. Hock boor docs

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Immune.
Spring comoth, and the days that once
were dreary
Grow balmy and the woods and
fields grow gay,
And men who work grow dreamy-eyeand weary
And yearn to break away.
they sit nnd droop and
ponder
And gaze upon the warm and" hazy
sky,
And yearn to quit their daily work
and wander,
And stretch their arms nnd sigh.
All

The movement and the spirit that prompted it cannot be too severely condemned by every
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student. It is a source of regret that such a thing could
take place in the student body of the Universiy at a time
when every student activity seems to be on the upward
fair-minde-

path.

heavy-cye-

"lit though the April sky

bo warm nnd
hazy
And birds nro singing all the livelong day,
The balm of Springtime never makes
mo lazy
I always feel that way.
Exchange.

It is perhaps too radical to say that so large a body
of men is entirely without sense of honor or of duty to
its Alma Mater. The greater part of the absentees probably acted thoughtlessly and without consideration of
the seriousness of their offense. It is fairer to place the
more serious charge upon the leaders of the movement
and to deprecate the fact that Kentuckians allowed
themselves to follow such leadership.
J. F. C.

Blind Leads

Says:

but it doesn't take two men to carry
I have discovered, sub, that a hot a little
sign with "VOTES
FOR WOMEN" written on it.
tip is very much like a hot egg-v- ery
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A"d a sign bearing the slogan, "We
tempting, but hard to tell in advance
pay the taxes, why not let us vote?"
how good, suh.
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The Bright Stude.
Can anyone tell me the

You can talk all you want to about
modern inventions, but the truth of
difference between a beginner's arith- the matter is that a chicken never
metic and a piece of Limberger really gets to love an incubator. It's
too confining.
cheese?
Stude: Sure. One is awfully simLife is just one
ple and the other is simply awful.
thing
uftor another. As soon as the pink tea
season expired by limitation the pink
Popular Parody No. 3.
ice cream season hopped right in and
I didn't raise my boy to be a driller;
hollered for a dime.
1 raised
him up to be my pink tea
man.
One Happy Thought.
I'll never let him be a "movie" thriller,
The deadly sport shirt has not yet
Protection I will give him if I can.
broken away from its home among
Let other boys have corns on dainty
Ihe moth-ballfootsies,
And dreadful perspiration on their
An ad last week advised us to see
hands
Jeff Harris for corsage bouquets. Fie,
I merely rise to say; to tell the world
Jeff, lie; you feminine thing!
today
I didn't raise my boy to bo a driller.
Afternoon classes will begin again
next week, according to tho faculty.
Ever Notice That
ho races at the Lexington course
man often gets cold ended yesterday.
the
feet when a paper is shoved at him
containing the phraso: "I hereby
subscrlbo"?
the women who march in tho suffrage
parades always have on
clothes?
the man who never smokes or chows
or swears sometimes gets fired for
faking?

Professor:

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Speaking of tho suffrage parade, If
tho women ever expect to bo on an
oqual footing with tho men tho dears
will have to do awuy with thoso high
heels.
Women may ho equal to men,
intellectually
and. physically,"

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Blind.

Goucher College has inaugurated a
course in "love and marriage." The
forty seniors admitted to the class
showed an evident shyness when
asked for testimonials but nevertheless the class promises to be a success.
Undergraduates
express skepticism
over the qualifications of the Instructor, Dr. Welsh, as she is a spinster.

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The Kentucky Colonel

warm-hearte-

same thing.

Walk by on the Other Side, Mabel.
This spring weather is certainly
hard on "pep." Two students were
lounging out on the front grass and
:anguidly smoking.
First Stude (drawling): "Say Bill,
there's a peach of a dame going by.
Real class. You ought to see her."
Second Stude (slow and tired-ou- t
like)
"Is that so, Pete. Swell dame,
huh. I'd sure like to see her. Too
bad I ain't facing that way." U. of C
News.
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Nix on the Short Ones, Girls.
Utali University has adopted a set
of new rules forbidding freshmen to
wear high school jewelry and loud
socks. This applies to girls as well as
men.

HERE AND THERE

Heard at the Mess Hall.
"How much coffee do
Goldman:
you drink?"
Claypool:
twelve
"Oh,
about
saucers."
Why don't
Goldman: "Saucers?
you drink out of a cup?"
Claypool: "I can't. Tho spoon always hits my nose." Miami Student.

COLLEGE MEN

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Have you seen those swell English Last Shoes we are showing
this season? They are sure beauties; made in mahogany calf and
gun metal calf. They fit like a
glove and stand the knocks. They
are just the Shoe for the Dressy
Young Follow. Prices, $4, $4.50
and 5.00 the pair.

The Special Shoe Co.
206 West Main Street,

Lexington, Kentucky.

Cy Hanks, Manager.

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