The Kentucky Kernel
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

VOL. XV

LEXINGTON,

KY., FEBRUARY

20, 1925

No.

19

CATS CLOSE SEASON WITH CENTRE TOMORROW
ORATORIO TO BE SUKY INSTALLS PEP DR. FUNKH0USER RETURNS FROM
CLUB AT PARIS HIGH
GIVEN HERE BY
OAlNULHVLAriLIWVVU VVLLiO 31 A I
To Organize Circles in Other
A LARGE CHORUS
High Schcools
"The Messiah" is Subject of Great Composition
300 TO PARTICIPATE

Phi Mu Alpha, Musical
Fraternity, to Sponsor Production
"The Messiah," Hnndcls immortal
oratorio, will bo given the latter part
of April under the direction of Professor Lampcrt. In celebration of
the one hundredth anniversary of the
rendition of "The Messiah," in New
York, the New York Choral Society
recently presented the oratorio. "The
Messiah" is considered one of the
greatest works' from a religious and
musical standpoint, giving the scheme
of Salvation as presented in the Bible,
the prophecy of the coming of the Sa
vior, His suffering, and our redemp
tion through His blood.
The university presentation of this
work will be unique in that we will
use our own orchestra and chorus,
supplemented by singers from Lex
ington and surrounding towns. Phi
Mu Alpha, musical fraternity of the
university, is sponsor for the presen
tation, and is organizing the forces
outside of Lexington, and the sue
cess of the presentation will be large
ly due to its efforts. The presenta
tion will not only be a civic cxpres
sion of the university and of Lex
ington, but will be an expression of
Kentucky in such an endeavor.
For an adequate presentation of
this work, a chorus of three hundred
voices will be needed.

The Music de

nartment desires that every student
who is interested in proving his or
her ability as a singer will come out
for practice. The showing of ability
in this production will be in a meas
ure a stepping stone for entrance in
to the Glee Clubs.
All students who are interested in
taking part in the chorus are invited
to 'come to White Hall, room 301, to
day at 3:30 for tryouts.

The SuKy Circle, in response to a
request from the Paris high school,
established a pep organization at that
institution last Monday. The name
of the group is "Parisians," and their
purposes nre similar to that of the
circle at the university, the fostering of athletics.
At the regular meeting of the Su
Ky Circle yesterday, plans were discussed concerning the establishment
of similnr organizations in other high
The
schools throughout the state.
plan outlined at present is for the
pep club to foster the high
local
school group and in this way to bring
them in closer touch with the uni
vcrsity.
If such a plan can bo worked out,
it is thought that it will tend to create
a keener interest among the prepara
tory students in the state university
and will bring a large number of high
school graduates here.

ALLEN, KENTUCKY
AUTHOR, DIES IN
NEW YORK CITY
One of America's Fore
most Men of Let-

ters

TO BE BURIED HERE

Says Many Heroic Deeds Were Done By Res
cuers of Which the World Will
Never Know
Nature, who had for two weeks held
Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, relinher close vigilance for n
short while, Monday, only to claim
him again, after the physicians had
examined the victim.
According to Dr. Funkhouser, who
has just returned from the cave after a stay of ten days, every possible effort was made and lives were
risked in futile attempts to rescue
He said that there were
Collins.
many heroic deeds performed by the
workers which will never bo known.
The early efforts of friends of Col
lins before the state took the matter
in charge, deserve great praise. Dr.
Funkhouser also said that the report
that the imprisonment was a "put-up- "
affair was absolutely unfounded,
and was a discredit to those who had
worked so faithfully.
Ho said that the ones to whom
much credit should be given are Lieu
tenant Governor H. H. Denhardt, who
was in charge of the military control;
H. T. Carmichacl, supervisor of the
work; Roy Anderson, N. F. Ford, Ben
Wells, and John Gerald, who risked
their lives to survey the underground
passage in order to locate the shaft.
Dr. Funkhouser said, "Sand Cave
is not really a cave at all, but merely
a passage through a 'fall,' which Col
lins thought might lead to a cave.
Probably Collins lost his way while
quished

CO-ED- S

Graduated From Iran
PETERS
sylvania with Highest Honors

The annual Military Ball will be
given in the New Gymnasium tonight
from 9 to 1 o clock.
This affair has grown in tho past
few years until now it is one of tho
principal social events of the year.
This year more elaborate prepara
tions have been made than ever before, and it promises to be of such
brilliance as to make it live in the
memory as tho outstanding feature of
school life here, approaching in importance tho hops at West Point and
at V. M. I.
A program of eight
dances has been made, the Grand
March coming at the end of the fifth

going through this 'fall' and dropped
into the dangerous place where he
was trnppcd."
Attempts were first made to rescue
Collins by means of the original tunnel, but after this caved in, efforts
were made to timber the tunnel and
remove the rock that had fallen in.
The miners reported a "mud squeeze,"
which could not be timbered. The
last attempt was by sinking the shaft
which was tho surest way, but was
very slow.
A coroner's jury, composed of per
sonal friends of Collins, declared that
With the Regiment acting as host
he came to his death from exposure to the entire university and resident
received while in Sand Cave. Each members of the Regular Army and
member of the jury made an inspec- the Reserve in attendance, the affair
tion of Collins' body and identified should be brilliant.
To have continued efforts to
him.
remove the body from the trap would
have meant probable death to one or C.
C.
more of the rescuers.
The family preferred to leave their
son and brother in his natural grave
rather than to risk losing another life,
Funeral services were held above
Sand Cnve Tuesday afternoon by the
Rev. Roy Biscr, of Glasgow, and the

PORTER

M.

IS CANDIDATE IN

RACE FOR SENATE

Rev.

C.

K. Dickey,

of Horse

Cave

They said that the spot would be
forever hallowed and remembered for
the heroic deeds performed there.
The shaft will be filled with rock
and earth and the cave entrance will
be boarded with heavy timber.

Says that Women Can Speaks on Increase in
Marry and Have
Number of Ky. High
Careers
Schools

James Lane Allen, 75 years of age,
noted Kentucky author, who occupies
high rank among American men of
letters, a former resident of Lexing
ton, died Wednesday afternoon at the
Roosevelt Hospital in New York.
Dr. Iva L. Peters, head of the VoMr. Allen, author of "The Kentucky cational Guidance
department of
Cardinal," "Flute and Violin," and Goucher College, spoke to the women
many other short stories and ro students of the university on "Advanmances, had been in ill health for tages of Vocational Guidance,"
on
several months. His death resulted Thursday, February 13, at the fifth
caused hour in Dicker Hall.
fro'm a general break-dow- n
by insomnia.
In giving statistics, Dr. Peters
Tho funeral services will be held mentioned that women occupied pocemetery Saturday morning at sitions in all but thirty-fiv- e
at the
of the
10 o'clock.
In accordance with the do more than five hundred major fields
srrc of the author, there will be no of endeavor. She suggested the adThe burial service will be visability of investigating tho growth
eulogy.
read by Dean Robert K. Massie, of of the field before entering it in orthe Christ Church Cathedral, the der to determine tho opening. In
church made famous by. Mr. Allen in the past few years, some fields have
his book "Flute and Violin."
increased from 150 to 204 per cent.
Mr. Allen was graduated from
An interesting remark make by Dr.
Miss Frances Lee, a junior in the
college of Arts and Sciences of thq Transylvania College, then known as Peters was that women may marry
university, left last night to attend Kentucky University, with highest and have a career as well.
a meeting of the Southern Confer honors in the spring of 1872. He re
ence Committee of the Y. W. C. A., turned to Transylvania after teach
at Gainesville, Ga. The committee ing several years, ofand received the
Arts in 1877.
is being entertained during its three degree of Master
Well known books by the Kentucky
day session from Friday afternoon,
February 20, to Monday, February author are, "The Blue Grass Region
and Other Sketches of Kentucky" Addresses Class in Educational
21, by Brenau College, at Gaines
ville.
"John Gray"; "The Kentucky Cardi
Administration
Miss Lee was appointed as the Ken- nal": "Aftermath"; "Tho Choir In
tucky member of this committee by visible"; "Tho Reign of Law"; "The
the chairman and she will serve for Mettle of the Pasture"; "The Bride
Defining a college as "specialized
a term of one year. This committee of tho Mistletoe"; "The Heroine in groups brought together around a
consists of eleven girls, one from each Bronze"; "The Cathedral Singer"; curriculum, and a university as
southern state. As the Kentucky "Kentucky Warbler", and "Emblems group of these colleges under the
member, Miss Lee represents the Y. of Fidelity."
supervision of n board of trustees,"
In thes Lexington public library
W. associations of all the colleges ot
President McVey addressed
the state.
there is a James Lane Allen corner. in educational administrationtheatclass
the
porThe nurnose of this meeting is to On tho wall there is a life-siz- o
university Friday, February 13.
plan the program for the Bluo Ridge trait. Beneath the picture a glass
Ono of tho greatest difficulties of
Conference to bo held by tlio faoutn case contains numerous letters and
ern Y. W. C. A. Association some articles of interest, duo to James tho college system today as pointed
out by President McVey, is the large
time in June. The Blue Ridge Con Lane Allen.
student groups with a small teaching
ferenco is one of the big annual
TO force. Ho suggested that tho organiORGANIZATIONS
events of tho Y. W., and nil colleges MUSICAL
zation of public education was pointand universities of tho south are rep
GIVE CONCERT SUNDAY
ing to a timo when a new system of
resented by delegates.
Tho Philharmonic Society and tho organization might take the place of
university our eight years of elementary school,
WOMEN JOURNALISTS TO EDIT Men's Gleo Club of tho
ONE ISSUE OF THE KERNEL will present a concert at the Maxwell four years of high school and four
Theta Siirma Phi. women's honor street Presbyterian Church Sunday years of college.
ary journalistic fraternity, will edit afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tho program
President McVey will address tho
tho Kentucky Kernel lor the issue is under tho direction of Professor class again on February 21, on "Tho
of March 0. Thertoforo, this orgam Carl Lamport, and will consist of the College Budget."
zution has published what was hu following numbers:
morouslv known as "Tho Yellow Overture
NOTICE
Rossini
..
Streak," a "scandal" sheet. Tho in- 1. Barber of Sovillo
Do Capua
There will bo a meeting of tho Unitentions of tho publication were 2. a Mnri Mari
versity Masonic Club in Dicker Hall,
b. I Passed by Your Window
in tho ariso of
spoiled, however,
Brahlo Lucas Tuesday night, February 21, at 7:00
scandal sheets of a more malicious
o'clock. Tho meeting is for tho pur(Men's Gleo Club)
nature.
Tschaikowski pose of petitioning Square and ComTho March 0 edition of tho Kernel 3. Marcho Slavp
(Mr. Beam and Men's Gleo Club)
pass. All Master Masons of tho uniwill bo known as the Thetu Sigma
Gounod versity aro urged to bo present.
Selections from Faust
Phi edition.

Southern Conference to
Meet at Gainesville,
Georgia

PRESIDENT McVEY
DEFINES "COLLEGE"

fit,

'Scabbard and Blade" Will Hold
Annual Pledge Service

Seeks the Nomination

to Legislature From
12th Dist.

IS

MAN

EX-SERVI-

HEAR DR. KAPPA DELTA PI Will be Graduated from
the College of Law
LECTURE HEARS GODMAN
In June

FRANCES LEE TO
REPRESENT Y. W

'

ary ball to BLUE

Hr. Mark Godman, of Frankfort,
state high school supervisor, in an
address delivered Tuesday night be
fore the members of Kappa Delta Pi,
honorary educational fraternity of
the university, pointed out the increase in the number of high schools
in the state in the past seventeen
years. He said "In 1908 there were
perhaps not more than fifty public
white high schools in the state, but
today there are approximately 500."
Mr. Godman emphasized the great
need of health education and moral
instruction, pointing out the need of
trained teachers for the work. "We'l
trained, sympathetic and socially- minded teachers will in time creat
a public opinion that is in favor of
increased expenditures for school
plants and for the enrichment of tho
program of studies," the speaker de
clared.

KY. MAY LEAD IN
SHEEP PRODUCTION

C. M. C. Porter, member of the
senior clnss, and student in the Law
college, has formally announced him
self as candidate for senator from the
12th Senatorial District for the next
Legislature, according to news dispatches sent to the various papers in
his district.
At present the 12th Senatorial Dis
trict is composed of Bullitt, Hardin,
LaRue and Meade counties, and is
represented in the Legislature by Dr.
B.
A. Muster, of Lyons,
LaRue

county.

Porter is tho son of Otis Porter,
a farmer of Bardstown Junction, Bullitt county. He came to the university from Berea College, where ho
was graduated from the Academy of
that institution in 1920, coming to
the university in the fall of that year.

During his collegiate career he has
made an enviable record in the class
room and in campus activities. He
earned mpmberships in Phi Alpha
Delta,
honorary professional law
fraternity; Tau Kappa Alpha, hon
orary oratorical; the debating team,
of which he was a member for four
years; and tho Speakers' Bureau,
of which ho has been president for
(Continued

on Pago Five

AND WHITE
TO PLAY CENTRE
TOMORROW EVE
Game Marks Close of
Season on Home

Floor
TO

ATLANTA

'Cats Rate Well as Contenders for Southern Title
Saturday night the Wildcats sing
their 1925 swan song to the basketball fans of Lexington.
On that
night the final game of the regular
season will be played at the University of Kentucky gymnasium with
the ancient foe, Centre, as opponents
to the Blue and White.
Tho Kentucky basketeers are at the
top of their form, as was demonstrated in their latter games on the home
floor, and expect to make a winning
finish to a season that has been marked by many ups and downs.
On
Wednesday following tho Centre tilt,
the Kentucky five leaves for Atlanta
to take part in the hectic struggle
for the southern championship held
every year in the Georgia metropolis.
With one win over tho Colonels,
registered earlier in the season at
Danville,
and with victories over
teams that have decisively defeated

the Centre quintet, the Wildcats anticipate little trouble in bunding out
a defeat to the Danville aggregation.
But the Centre teams are known for
their fighting proclivities and will
give the 'cats a run for their money.
It would be particularly gratifying
to the Colonels to win from Kentucky
this season, as it has been two years
since she has achieved a victory over
the Wildcats on the basketball floor.
Friends of the locals feel that they
have a stronge chance to win the
southern title this year. When the
Tulane quintet went down to defeat
before the fierce onslaught of Captain McFarland and his teammates,
one of the best teams in the south
had succumbed to defeat. The other
strong teams in the tourney will probably be limited to the fives from the
Ala
Universities ot worm
Alabama and
bama and Georgia.
Georgia both have wins to their
credit over the 'cats. If Applegran's
men flash the game they are capable
of playing, the cheering sections
might as well begin to limber up their
vocal chords to welcome homo tho
conquering heroes.

STROLLERS PLAN
PERENNIAL TRIP
Western and Eastern
Tours Being Considered

232 NEW STUDENTS HAVE

Animals are Profitable Class of
Livestock
Tho winnings of the Experiment
Station of the university with sheep
at the last International Livestock
Exposition at Chicago, speaks highly
of tho possibilities of Kentucky in the
sheep-raisin-

g

field.

A smnll

bunch,

of common lambs at the Experiment
Station returned a gross profit of
27 percent. The Station exhibited
tho grand champion wether nt tho
last show.
Sheep havo been found to bo a
class of livestock that can bo produced at a profit in Kentucky, and at the
same time, tho animals produced are
as good as any produced in North
America.
During the past year, over eight
thousand second and cull lambs wore
bred in tho stato of Kentucky and it
is thought that with more cooperation
among tho breeders, Kentucky will
become famous as the homo of tho
best sheep in America.
LOST A small gold Wahl
tain pen, without cap. Reward.
phone 5111.

founTele-

WED.

The publicity staff of the Stroller
organization met Tuesday afternoon
and outlined a tentative program for
mester at tho university, it was an- the spring tour.
The lirst production will bo given
nounced monday by the Registrar's
othec. lho student body of the uni- in Lexington, with, a matinee and an
evening performance. The eastern
versity now numbers about 2,100.
Kentucky
trip will include Lynch,
LOST Pi Kappa Alpha pin, witli MIddlesboro, and Harlan, and tho
"Z. Lnyson" on back. If found, plenso western itinerary is being formulated, with three western towns ,in
return to Kernel office.
consideration.
An extensive publicity campaign
SENIOR INVITATIONS
is being planned, and the Kentucky
alumni in towns to bo played are coThe Kernel regrets that an error occurred in the announcement operating with the Stroller stair in
tho sale of tickets and in advertising.
concerning the senior invitations
The Stroller oligibles have been
made last week.
The annuiijice-meiarranged into casts, and these groups
should havo read: "The
havo been practicing all week,
from Harcourt Ento tho final tryouts which
graving Company will be on the
will bo held early next week. These
campus March
to take orders for senior invitations. The casts will give tho first act of tho
"
before Director
leather invitations are 38 cents play,
Bayless, who will choose tho characeach; the plain white ones are 20
ters for the spring production.
s
cents each;
of the price
of the order is due when the order
NOTICE
is given."
All those wishing to try
Students are urged to make up tho position of Drum Major out for
for
their lists and be prepared to Band will seo Sergeant Kennedy tho
at
place their order on the dates
once.
Applicants must havo a
specified so as to prevent delay.
knowledge of military drill as well
as a knowledge of music and time.
REGISTERED HERE

Two hundred and

new
students registered for the second se
thirty-tw- o

it

"Fifty-Fifty,-

Two-third-

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