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rioffi tutor From the March editon of the
Ant. Mar. tutor "Quill," official magazine of Sigma
TOTl BORRtES
Delta Chi, Is quoted the following
AtmOClKTW EDITOieS
passage from an article entitled
Norman Oarllni
Ben r. Torlor
"Do College Editors Think?":
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Del mar Adams
"There are college newspapers.
BUI Oorrrt
John Gristle
8a Kah
good, bad and indifferent. But most
are indifferent.
WHM.KN
Liter a r Ml lor of them
DOROTHY
"They seem to have but two pur
UTOT JKAN ANDKRBONAssC. Lit. ItUor
BKTTIS BOB WORTH
Sreasnce tutor poses to fulfill to give students
Society tutor 'practical' training
h'. SMITH
WHAT
in Journalism
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and to act as the collegiate bulletin
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board.
"God save Journalism from the
college editor who can only produce
PKOIAI, WRITERS
a bulletin board. The college editor
- Marjr Reel Land
Oamrroa Colfman
who fills his paper with handouts
THOMAS ATKINS
New Editor from the administration building
ASSISTANT
NEWS EDITORS
will never have enough imagination
Ed Lancaster
John Darnell
to go beyond the handouts that
Dave Balyers
Dot Wunderllch
government officials will give him.
He will be In paradise when MussoREPORTERS
Mary Bharbert
Betty Bade
lini comes along and gives him
Capal MeNasb
James Rash
canned news."
Theodora NadeUteln Root Cbepeloff
Mary Acnes Brand
Mr. Sexson E. Humphreys, the
Catherine Jones
Klels Stahr
Leslie Scott
author of the article, Is now doing
Betty A. Pennlnfton
C. T. Hertsscti
Journalistic work In Washington, D.
Woodford Webb
Francos Retd
C. He was the editor of the DePauw
Raymond Hath rem
Elizabeth Milliard
University paper from May through
Lawrence Edmonson Raymond St. John
Burton Levy
Thomas Wagner
December of 1033, and while much
Mary E. EacU
Belmont Ramsey
of his article by be Just criticism
Edmund ' Thompson Henry Wilcox
for a considerable part of the col
Mildred Webb
legiate press, It is tinged ever so
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faintly with the contemptible attiSPORTS WRITERS
tude of a newly-mad- e
metropolitan
BUI Huston
Joe Quinn
newspaperman toward all college
Max Lancaster
papers.
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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Fajre Four

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FACE THE SITUATION
During the last few years colleges
and universities have drawn an Inestimable amount of criticism for
failure to meet the needs of the
depression, or rather contributing
to the deficiencies which led to the
depression.
Professors

If, as the introduction to the
article has us believe, Mr. Humphreys has "endeavored to keep his
finger on the pulse of college Jourwe suggest

nalism,"

that a

more

thorough diagnosis be made before
the ailment Is pronounced as needing any certain treatment. The fact
that many college papers are mere
bulletin boards Is not entirely the
fault of the editors.
It Is realized full weU that this
publication must bow to a portion
heaped upon college editors and
publications of the nation, but
through Its activities and the edi
torials appearing on this page dur
ing the last year we feel also that
The Kernel is somewhat lacking in
guilt In regard to many shortcomings found by Mr. Humphreys in
his "pulse" record.
The DePauw graduate suggests
that the college editor study and
find solutions to campus problems,
present them to his readers, and
write on subjects affecting students
as a whole. The Kernel has made
both studies and suggestions on
new methods of registration, disbursement of class funds, conduct
ing of campus dances, teaching
methods,
grades, and numerous
other Important phases of campus

have received the
greater part of the criticism. As
announced in the Tuesday edition,
the American Mercury, one of the
leading national magazines, has offered a prize of $500 for the best
essay submitted on the subject
"The Professors Oot the Country
Into the Mess: But We Can Oet It
Out." The publication goes so far
as to say that no sane man can
deny the truth of the first part of
this statement.
Just how much of the criticism
can be taken for the truth Is a
matter of question but certainly no
one doubts the authenticity of a
substantial part of it. Underneath
lies the failure of colleges to offer
courses which are of practical
benefit to the student
life.
The vast majority of the courses
"Those editors who strive to in
offered by colleges today are Im- form rather than to entertain per
practical and theoretical to the form a thankless task, and often
"Nth" degree. When the student a task without profit, but they play
upon graduation attempts to make a vital role In the preservation of
use of them, he gives up in despair democracy."
and determines to learn all over
again by experience. Even those
MOOD INDIGO?
courses which might be practical
become impractical because they
What Is your mood today T
are outmoded and antiquated-th- e
Recent surveys by leading scienreason being the failure of the In tists have led to the belief that
structor to keep abreast of the every individual lives in an emotimes. There are actually professors tional cycle. There are periods when
who have made no changes what- we are destined to be melancholy
soever In their curriculum syllabi despite
attending circumstances
for the last decade)
and there are periods when we are
The maintenance of the theory bound to feel elated despite "bad
which propounds the value of var- news" which we have received. For
ious courses for the cultural bene- this reason, at times we are able
fit to be derived from them Is more to "take It on the chin" gracefully
or less passe. The college student in the face of a great catastrophe
of today is more concerned with while at other tunes we sink to the
acquiring fundamental and prac- lowest depths of despair.
tical truths which will fit him to Such emotional cycles, It la be
meet the problems of the cold, lieved, run from two to five weeks.
matter-of-fa- ct
world which he will During that time the Individual
encounter when he leaves college. reaches the highest point of ela- Larger enrollments, the attending tion and on the other hand, the
of universities by more members of lowest point of "gloom."

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financial or moral, while at the
lowest part of his cycle, he will be
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By CAMERON COFFMAN
choose "the only way out." Whereas
If the Individual Is at the top of
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his cycle, or even In between, he
At the tins Of writing the col
will net feel such keen pangs of
remorse and will be able to "take lege crowd is all "bet up" over the
coming Junior Prom election..
It."
The little gals have been running
One can plot his own emotional all over getting names on petitions.
cycle by analyzing his "moods" ....soft soaping. .. .and campaign
from day to day and thus calculate ing in a big way.... Someone Just
gonna' be the
when he will be In his prime asked, "Who'se
and when unfit to tackle serious queen?".... Were probably wrong
as usual, but here goes our pre
problems.
diction.... Of the four nominees
Carolyn Sparks, Ann Payne Perry,
Mary Marshall, and Mary Lois
Shearer, we are forced to place all
bets on Mary Lois Shearer with
Ann Payne Perry being given sec
ond money. Did you'se guys and
you'se gals like the April Fool edl
tion of the Kampus Kat?....We
think It was really an April Fool.
Dear Editor?
everyone.... with Its
....Fooled
Tike to make a reply to empty
I should
As usual we
contents
an article published in the Kernel, took the rap for the column In the
March 15, and written by those two Kat
But we're making a public
worthy gentlemen who attended
a northern dance and returned apology.... with special attention
to Oene Bryant.... we had nothing
home with a sigh of relief.
In the first place, they ought to to do with the rag. . . .And to Dodd
be old enough to know that blind Best we again say, "excuse please'
dates are seldom good ones; and . . . .But the snoopers say his Romeo
Little Nelle sat
came scene was real
Just because the inevitable
true, they Judged the northern in the window tossing peanuU to
A card from
dances with a prejudiced minds. our friend Dodd
But before I defend the northern the famous Bavarian Restaurant in
dances, I would like to comment on little ole" New York brings regards
the southern ones.
from Kadee Virginia Young, former
It is a perversion of the meaning campus celebrity, and her husband,
of the word "dance" to call southSigalph Frank Stone. . .Other
ern millings and stampedings by
at the club were Sigalph
that name. And If you don't be- Duke Johnston, another campus
lieve so, sit up in the balcony at personality of a few years back,
the next dance and see for your- and his young bride, Helen Stoll
self. Observe the stags rushing like Johnston, Milton Rush, who left
wild cattle through the mob of
January, and that colorful
dancers; see how they shove, and us In of Kentucky athletics. Shippush, and bump the couples until figure
they seem like logs in an angry wreck Kelly.... That reminds us
sea; see them swoop down like vul- . . . .sometime ago, the old maestro,
tures on couples enjoying the rhy- Walter Wlnchell, in his column,
thm of good music and break their said that Kelly and Red Cagel,
timing with an abruptness and former West Point
roughness that is crudity itself. were numbered among the gayer
We Just re
And during lulls in the storm ob- glglos on Broadway
serve how they gather and collect ceived a telegram from our former
in the center of the floor, cutting snooping buddy, Lorraine Lepere,
down dancing space to a minimum, who has decided to see Detroit for
and with rowdy Indecency "size-up- " a while.... We are lamenting the
the girls, as if they were on fact that we missed Duke Ellingthe selling block, deciding on whom ton's concert on Monday night....
they would break next.
Tls reported that approximately
The girls are "broken so repeated- one-ha- lf
of the student body was
ly that they never have time to
there. . . .and that John Davis Hagcatch the beat of the music and the gard was unsuccessful In his ballyhundreds of couples, moving in hoo In getting Duke to play "Starbroken rhythm, make a hodgeHow come you like that
podge and hash of dancing.
I've dust"....
see
known girls to be broken as many one so well, Haggard?.... We
as a dozen times in less than that that Tridelt Virginia Throgmorton
number of minutes. I know that Is sporting a right nifty Ford coupe
this is considered a sign of popu around the campus.... She offered
but we
larity, much to be sought atfer; but to bribe us with a ride
it can satisfy only a childish van- declined her kind Invitation, be
Bill Bryant,
ity. Up North we consider It "high cause her beau-love- r.
Leo Spence
was approaching
school stuff."
To a person who goes to a dance has requested that we let him go for
to enjoy the dancing, the break Just one week.... We promised
system is a source of genuine irrinothing bad against him so we
tation and disgust. For example, must stick by it.... But did we tell
not every Individual likes every you that he had applied for memnumber played, and having waited bership Into the Bachelor's club?
for some time for some special mel- ....Bert Hallenberg
Is worried
ody or song, he starts out eagerly about something.... it seems that
to dance when suddenly he finds he stood Tridelt June Curd up on
n stag, a date Wednesday night.... Now
himself broken by a d
and In addition must like a 'good he's going home for three days un
guy' smile and find his way off the
til the scare passes over. . ..He also
floor.
date with Tridelt
I could comment further, unfav has a . .He will be forced toPhoebe
break
orably, on Southern dances, but I'd Ellis. .
like to show how Northern ones are It In his dash for freedom. . . .From
Louisville comes the report that
better.
Up North, we usually go to dances Kappa Dot Williams and her cour-te- e,
Delt Ben Cooper, were forced
in groups of two or more couples.
pleasant Inter- to occupy seats In opposite sides
This allows for
change of partners and thus avoids of Memorial Auditorium during the
promiscuous breaking and permits showing of "Mary Queen of Scots'
some variety. Quite often, some ac....The Phidelts continue to rib
quaintance not In the particular their brother, Bob Hess, about the
group may want a dance with one origin of his moniker, "Nancy"
of the girls. In this case, he comes ....From one of our snoopers of
over and asks for the next dance, authority comes the report that a
Just as is done in the all too infrenumber of Trldelts were seen In a
quent
dances here. In this forbidden section of the Kappaslg
way the Northern dances avoid all mansion on South Broadway...-the outstanding faults of the South- Their alibi is a good one.... They
ern ones. The dance Is a dance say "They are contemplating a
and not a brawl; the person who move again" and are on the lookbrings a girl friend at least has the
new house. .. .Tell the
opportunity of dancing with her out for a girlies.... From Paris
some of the dean that
sometimes, and to
report of some pictures
numbers he may especially like; comes a
bit
and finally the stag line and all of that are arousing a set of Interest
and at the
Its attendant evils are kept at a among the younger
same time are arousing a bit of
minimum.
Incidentally, quite a few of the worry on the part of several Kensouthern boys, and most of the tucky coeds and eds....!t seems
northern boys that I know concur that Bob "Bluenose" Forsythe,
Chio Mary Andrews Pearson, Triin the opinions expressed.
Sincerely yours,
delt Izzy Preston, Sigalph Tommy
Nichols and several others are the
J. L. 8.
parties In discussion.... The picJames W. Boyd, Paducah Ky., has tures were snapped at Boonesboro
accepted a position with the U. 8. last spring during a camp. , . .TomForest Service as civil engineer. He my NichoUs blushes slightly at the
was a member of Scabbard and mention of the pictures and Izzy
Blade and Triangle fraternity.
JusX
smiles. . . ."Bluenose" says,

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Conducted by DOROTHY WHAIXN
aiming at mass effects by a free
use of detail. And their detail Is
so appealing to those accustomed
Francis the First Francis Hackett. finally received refuge In the Col- to read In the tabloids or see In
This volume by the author of lege de France and the court of the movies every triviality of exthe widely read "Henry the Eighth" Margaret, and Its Idealism, received perience headlined with the conIs packed with the usual witty too scant attention. The author fident egoism of feature writers
writing of Mr. Hackett. In these states that while France did not who know that the modern mass
pages, Frances I, the warrior, accept the Reformation, she did ego is weak.
shines out in all his brilliance. accept the Renaissance, and from
It Is a miracle that we still have
Diplomatic history is usually dull, the Influence of this group of men
willing to use restraint and
but not so with this story. There there went out a spirit to which she writers
selection In their prose, writers
Is some excellent writing In the has given her adherence down to
Milder and Robert
chapter entitled "Francis Comes the present day. Francis was like Thornton
to Power," where the Battle of touchd by this force, and, although Nathan.
Perhaps there may be a JustifiMarignano Is vividly described. fearing It, It was his personality
Francis's career Is played off that aided considerably In Its sur- cation for exceeding long novels If
the subject Is, for Instance, the
against a background of noisy mil- vival In France.
At times the story is marred by slow development of character as
itary pageantry.
His France was not all aglow too great a striving for effect. The In "Tom Jones." And there sir
opening sentences begin with a other types, such as the romance
for military exploits and
alone. In his army even, vision of the modern Francis on of Dumas of the satire of Cervantes.
there was still the idealistic chiv- the boulevards of Paris,
Ninety-nin- e
long modern novels
with
and
alry of a Bayard, and Francis
himself was, at times affected by his hat raked at the Jaunty angle out of a hundred could be cut one
It. In this period we find the of a miMtarv cap," his hand on the quarter to a third with positive
strengthening of the monarchy, wheel of a car, a blonde girl at his gain. In ninety novels out of a
hundred, excessive length Is due to
and the policy of Francis towards side.
o
the unwillingness of Inability of
the church was an Important phase
preparation Battle of the Books.
the writer to control his Imaginaof this development
This time it is the longs and tion and the medium in when he
In Itself for the Age of Richlieu
and that of Mazarln. Again, there shorts that are fighting, with the works. Eighty long novels out of a
is too little of Margaret of Navarre, shorts In a deplorable minority. hundred are nothing but short
and, If the phrase may be allowed, Since the complete financial suc- novels puffed up, padded out,
too much of the practice of relat- cess of "Anthony Adverse" and the stretched by the Insertion of a
ing the Renaissance In a nutshell. reputation won by such works as mass of undigestlble material from
The scholars at the Sorbonne who "The Magic Mountain," "Look the lazy brain of the writer, who
Homeward, Angel," "An American has not taken time to work Its esstory.
"Yea man".... and Mary Andrews Tragedy," and "Three Cities," the sence into his
novel has gone lengthy.
Speaking of Bluesays nothing
The truth is that every born
nose, we hear that he and several
would rather write long
There are boors and boors, and
others celebrated his birthday an- novelist
is
than short.
niversary Sunday night .... We ing subject, Society he his everlast- there are also the fellows who incan swing
and
new steps on a
regret) that he did not call us as
from poetry or romance to the ex- sist on trying out
we, too, experienced another miletreme of naturalistic realism with crowded dance floor.
stone In our life on the same date
as did Prof. George White Fithian,
....After several pages of this
worthless prattle we toss:
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