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CHRISTA FINLEY
Students really "had It rough"
BO years ago at UK, as far as expenses were concerned. Room and
board cost from $2 to $4 a semester
and tuition was free except for the
Colleges of Fngineering and Law.
8ome cf the luckier students
even had rcom and board free If
they were county appointees.
Half a century ago county appointees were deserving: students
chosen from all the rounties over
Kentucky and attended UK with
very little expense involved.
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which have taken a Jump through
the years.
In 1909, the main campus consisted of 52 acres plus tHfc 243
acres of the Experiment station
Farm, which was a short distance
away from the main campus. Only
21 buildings were on the campus
then.
Today, the main eampus covers
702 acres with approximately 69
buildings standing on It. Of these,
nearly 40 are used for classes, research, laboratories and experiments.
In comparison to the 2,115

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courses offered by the University
now, there were about 320 to 350
offered then.
In grandmother and grandfather's day, the University was composed of three colleges and three
schools. These were the Colleges of
Agriculture, Arts and Sciences and
Law and the Schools of Civil,
Mechanical, Electrical and Mining
Engineering.
degrees
Nineteen
were offered altogether.
Presently, there are seven colleges and a graduate school offering 46 different degrees.
The University now employs an

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academic and administrative staff ous and 19 administrative and service organizations.
643 are professors, Instructors and
Total student population 50
part-tim- e
years ago was approximately 484.
Instructors.
Population on the campus now
In 1909, the University employed
numbers about 15,000, Including;
an administrative and academic
staff of 89. Approximately 34 were students, faculty and staff members and their families.
professors and Instructors.
An excerpt from a 1909 UniThere were only eight student
versity catalogue says: "As a rule
organizations on campus In 1909.
the less pocket money allowed by
Today's student may choose from parents or guardians the better
112 student organizations now In It Is for the pupil. When supplies
existence. There are 12 honor so- of pocket money are kept short,
cieties, seven leadership societies, the opportunity for contracting
eight recognition societies, 17 pro- vicious habits is correspondingly
fessional societies, 49 miscellane dimlnshed."
of 1,127. Of these, approximately

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cent had an overall of 2.0 or higher.
These figures compared favorably against trie overall undergraduate average in which 35 per cent
per
had less than a 2.0. Sixty-fiv- e
cent of the undergraduate body attained a 2.0 or better.
Proffitt emphasized that the
scores of the married students
were computed in with the
averages,
and
raising these scores higher than
they would have been had the married scores not been included.
The figures were computed from
last semester's roll of 4,321 male
students, 987 fraternity members
and 538 male married
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The University Interfraternlty
Council will be host to the annual
Southeastern IFC Convention this
weekend.
This is the third convention for
the SEIFC. Fourteen IFC's, representing 10 states, will send delegates to the meeting.
The purpose of the convention
is to exchange ideas and set up
programs to help each council.
One of the most Important
lems to be discussed is rush, according to Jim Heil, University
IFC president. Rush is a constant
problem and the exchange of information of each school's rushing system will be very beneficial,
Heil said.
He added that another problem
confronting the delegates would
be to find a permanent location for
office of
the secretary-treasurthe SEIFC. This officer Is elected
each year and the convention is
held at the home school of the

The twelfth annual Arts and

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ences College faculty and staff
dinner will be held April 28 in the
SUB Ballroom.
Dean M. M. White will be principal speaker. Faculty members
from the Medical School and the
Library Science Dept. will be
special guests.
Special music will be provided by
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis, accompanied by Ann Huddleston.
Nancy Lowe, Betty Gragg and Jane
Connrll will play dinner music.
Wallace Briggs is chairman of
arrangements. Committee members include Raymond Barnhart,
Elden E. Evans, Daniel McAninch,
O. Leonard Press and Douglas W.
Schwartz.

Heil

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"My Fair Lady"

; Tickets to "My Fair Lady" are
still available and will be on sale
today from 5 p. m. in the 'SUB
ticket booth. This is the last day
they will be on sale to students.
Department, will direct the proThe price of the ticket and
gram at 3:30 p. m. in Memorial transportation are included in the
fee of $5.60. The Fine Arts ComHall.
mittee of the SU Board is sponThree composers will be
for their works the soring the April 25 trip.
anniversary of Handel's
200th
death and the 100th anniversary of
the birth of Puccini and Victor
Herbert.
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given by
Incidental solos will be
Peggy Cowgill Davis, mezzo-sopranRobert Davis, tenor; and Donna Kelly, soprano.
Ann Huddleston, a graduate of
of the new
UK and
Fine Arts Center, is the accompanist for the program and Roc-hel- le
Stephens, a Junior, has been
the studio accompanist.
In the performance of the
Schicksalslied by Brahms, the
Choristers will be Joined by Sarah
Baird, flutist, and Dr. Kenneth
Wright, violinist. Miss Baird Is a
graduate student and Dr. Wright Is
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a member of the faculty.
The University Choristers are
composed mostly of UK students
with a few townspeople and faculty members. The group was formed
by Miss Lewis, the present director.
The University Choristers, under
concert Sunday at Memorial HalL
The concert is free and open to
the public.
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An advantage to this proposal,
according to Heil, is the centralizing of the council. The individual
councils can contribute information
and request material more conveniently if all the records are
kept in one central spot.
The site of the convention would
continue to rotate as it does now.
Business meetings are scheduled
for" 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. Saturday.
The delegates will have a banquet
at Wing's Tea House at noon
Saturday.

ness meeting. The convention will

end that night with dinner at the
Stirrup Club and installation of
the new officers.
The AFROTC Sponsor Club will
provide escorts for the visiting:
delegates for all activities except
business meetings.
University IFC officers to attend
the meeting are Heil; Phil Austin,
vice president; Jerry Shaikun, secretary and Charles Schimpeler,
treasurer. The IFC advisor, John
Proffit, will also attend.

Herter Top Choice
To Succeed Dulles
nations of imperialistic commun-

AUGUSTA, Ga., April 16 (AP)

the President

Heil said he will propose a plan
where one school will supply a
secretary-treasurfor the SEIFC
for five years. In this way, the
records of the council will be kept

Variety Will Be Keynote
Of Choristers' Concert

Dean White
To Deliver
A&S Address

at one central point and will not
Officers for the coming year will
be shifted around year after year. be elected at the afternoon busi-

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Musical variety, from "Tosca" to
"The Music Man," has been scheduled by the University Choristers
for their annual spring concert
Sunday.
Miss Mildred Lewis, UK Music

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University IFC Hosts
Weekend Convention

Dr. Lawrence Thompson, director of libraries, presents the Wilson
Rook Award to graduate student Henry J. Hubert, this year's
winner. Dr. John Kuipcr, chairman of the UK Library Committee
looks on.

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male
cords of UK's
undergraduates who were married
at the time of entering the University last fall. Comparisons were
average
made with the
average.
and the
standing for
The
last semester was 2.41. The
average was 2.17. while
's
score was 2.14.
the
Twenty-eigper cent of the
male married students had an
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Booh Award Presentation

Assistant Dean of Men John
Proffitt reports that UK statistics
substantiate educators' theory that
married students make better
grades than single students.
Proffitt analyzed scholastic re-

LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL

Elsenhower reportedly
has decided to name Christian
Herter secretary of state if Her-ter- 's
health is up to it.
That picture of the situation developed further today as Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles con-ferfor a second time on selecof a successor to Dulles.
tion
Dulles, 71, resigned from
the
cabinet yesterday because of caned

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Herter, 64. Is undersecretary and
has been acting chief of the State
was
Department
since Dulles
anew early in Eebruary.
stricken
Herter suffers from arthritis of the
hips.
Eisenhower formally accepted
Dulles' resignation today and
praised him as "a staunch bulwark
of our nation against the machi

ism."

And. Dulles, in serving official
notification he must step down
wrote Eisenhower that free world
liberty and justice "face a formidable and ruthless challenge" from
Communism.
The President's vacation headquarters disclosed that Eisenhower
and Dulles first talked by telephone last night regarding a successor. They had a second conference on the same subject this
morning, with Dulles talking
from Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington.
The word afterward was that the
two men are agreed on selection
of Herter provided there is medical assurance the job wouldn't be
too crushing a physical burden for
him.
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the direction or Miss Mildred Lewis, will present their annual spring
The program is part of the University Muslcale Series and will offer
varied types of choral music.

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