The Kentucky Kernel
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

VOL. XII

LEXINGTON, ICY,, MARCH 3, 1922

No. 19 I

WINNING POEM IS TO
OFFERS WIDE FIELD

E PLACE OF

Personal Representatives To
Visit University March
4 to Interest 1922

Writer of Memorial.. Must
Under Regulations, Be
A Kenttickian

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Seniors
years,
in proceeding
Community Service is turning to the col
leges of the country and selecting a
number of fifteen or twenty of the
outstanding men in the 1922 year's
graduation classes for employment. Com-muiService is a national civic organization incorporated in February 1919
wtih headquarters at One Madison
Avenue, New York City. It exists to
assist American communities to make
the leisure time of their citizens more
valuable and more expressive through
community recreation, music, drama and
neighbhorhood organization. By so doing it aims to promote citizenship,
neighborliness, community spirit and in
general a more abundant life for the
locality in which it operates.
At the present time Community Service is promoting work in more than two
hundred American cities. Next year it
is expecting to increase its field of operaThis year, as

tions substantially and for this reason
its working personel must be enlarged.
The college, men chosen will be given a
very thorough training in the methods
and policies of the organization at a
training school to be held in Chicago
starting August first. Following this the
men will be sent out in the field in charge
of an experienced worker who will give
them practical training over a period
of several months. After this the men
will be fitted into the national organiza
tion (depending upon their own abilities
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L

C. FIELDER TO BE'

The above is the strong Alpha
for 1922. They defeated the Sigma
five in the final game.
Reading from left to right: Bud
Henry Campbell and Coach Lawrence

BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM
Tau Omega fraternity basketball team, winner of the silver loving cup
Nu, Phi Delta Theta fraternity teams and won over the Delta Chi
Meriwether,
Burnham.

Carl Ross, Walter Morris, Berkett Lee Pribble, Ed. Wiley,

U. OF K. TO BE ASKED TO

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JOIN MEW CONFERENCE

CLASS GIVES 2 PLAYS

Big Intercollegiate Athletic
Association Hopes to
Improve College Sports

Second of Series of Little
Theatre Offerings Given

The University, of Kentucky was in
cluded among the names of those univer

The program for the regular Thursday
afternoon matinee which was given by
the class in Dramatic production in the
Little Theatre consisted of two short
plays; the first called "Bachelor Girls,"
in which Mary Elizabeth Crafton and
Margaret Lavin took part; and the second
consisting of two scenes, entitled "Success" in which Marjorie Riddle and
Henry Taylor took part.
Tea was served afterward
in the
Woman's Rest Room in White
Hall,
Elizabeth Hopkins being hostess of the
afternoon.
Tho play "Campbell of Kilmour" by
J. A. Ferguson, given last week, was a
viewpoint.
success from every
The
audience enthusiastically
predicted a
splendid matinee season. The cast was
composed of Corinno Cowgill, Jeanetto
Sasher, Henry Taylor, John Vogel and
Joe Wadsworth.
Next Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
tho class will present "His Place in tho
Family," a play written by John M.
Brown, a former student of tho University of Kentucky, who is now taking
dramatic work in Harvard. The cast
will be as follows:
C. D. Graham
John Weatherly

Will Meet Contesting
Orators In Danville Satur
day Night.

L. C. Fielder will represent the Univer
sity of Kentucky in the State Oratorial
Contest which will be held at Danville
Saturday night. The subject of his
oration is "The Debt to Our Dead."
Unusual interest is being
in the contest this year, and a

of students from the University of
Kentucky are planning to attend.
Prof. W. H. Mikesell is sanguine over
the outcome of the contest, as he regards
the oration of Mr. Fielder as one of
marked merit..
Final tryouta for the debating team
will bo held in the Little Theatre Tuesday afternoon, March 7. Of the twenty
or more men who are trying for tho
team, six will bo chosen, three for the
tho regular team and threo alternates.
The University team will debate with
Vanderbilt, Sewanee, and North Carolina
University on tho subject of Immigration. In addition Professor Mikesell is
endeavoring to schedule a debute with
Harvard in April. Tho subject of tho
Harvard debate has not been definitely
announced.
O! DEAR

There's a girl
That's a sensation;
She's awful fond
Of osculation.

to be held in Chicago

March 18, for the purpose of organizing
a central intercollegiate athletic confer
ence for all major sports. This move
ment originated at a meeting of repre
sentatives from a number of
schools in Illinois comprising the
Western conference, held in Chicago

February 25.
Other universities included in this list
were: Wabash, Michigan Aggies, DePauw,
University of Cincinnati, Marquette, Detroit University and Notre Dame.
Coach Rockne of Natre Dame in
speaking of the organization said, "There
is absolutely no question but that
athletics would be greatly benefited by
such a conference Unless a university
is a member of some conference, comply
ing with well defined rules governing
eligibility, it comes under suspicion, no
matter how clean it may try to keep its

SHERWOOD EDDY

EDDY STARTS

SERIES

OF LECTURES TODAY

Has a Message for Every
Student in the

University

Sherwood Eddy, tho noted
student
speaker, is hero at the
University of
Kentucky now. This is ono of the greatest of opportunities that has ever como
to Kentucky students and it is hoped
that they will all take advantage of it.
Doctor Eddy has an unusuul message on
all kinds of studnt problems and he
meeting.
will offer an opportunity for instruction on spiritual, political and sociul
EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY
subjects of the day.
Doctor Eddy will give four lectures to
Tho faculty of tho College of Arts and
tho students. Theso are scheduled for
Sciences extends to Mrs. Alberta Wilson
tho fifth hour and at 7:30 p. m. both
Server its sympathy for her in the loss
Friday und Suturduy in chapel. Ho will
exof her futher and requests that this
also speak to tho fuculty at 3:45 Friday
pression bo ucnt to Mrs. Server; pub
afternoon. Mrs. Eddy, who is hero with
lished in tho Kernel und spread on the
Doctor Eddy, will speuk to tho women
minutes of tho March meeting.
students of tho University at 4 o'clock
A. C. ZEMBROD
M. M. LAUGHLIN
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sports.
Athletic directors and faculty mem
bers of eligible institutions will bo invited and all open questions about rules
and regulations, schedules and associa
tions will be discussed at tho March

length or style.

Thursday Afternoon

sities which were slated for invitations
to a conference

The Kentucky Memorial
Association
has offered a prize of $50 for the best
poem commemorating
the heroes who
fell during the World War. Only
are eligible to write the poems
which are to be sent to Herbert Graham,
secretary of the Alumni Association.
Prof. L. Dantzler, head of the Department of English, at the University of
Kentucky, is chairman of the committee,
g
which is to decide the
poem. The other members of the committee, representatives of all the colleges in Kentucky, arc: B. F. Wise of
Centre; Clarence Freeman, of Transylvania; J. B. Jones of Georgetown; Boyd
Martin, instructor in dramatics at the
University of Louisville and Dramatic
Critic of the Courier Journal.
The winning poem will become the
property of the Kentucky Memorial Association.
It will be published, placed
on a bronze tablet and probably emblazoned on the wall of the proposed
Memorial Building. The committee is to
meet in the near future and announcement of the winner will be made soon.
Many applications from those not living in the state have been made but the
rules prescribe that the writer must be a
resident of Kentucky. More than sixty-on- e
poems have been received by Mr.
According to the rules each
Graham.
competitor must send five type-writtcopies of his poem and any poems not
complying with the rules will be disregarded.
There is no restriction in

DR. ARNOLD

TO SPEAK

TO GIRLS SATURDAY

League Brings
Third Interesting Speaker"
to University

Woman's

Dr. E. H. Arnold, director of the New
Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, will
speak to the women students of the Uni
versity on "Physical Education as a
Vocation" Saturday, March 4, at the fifth
hour in the Little Theater. His lecture
is the third in the series of speakers
brought here by the Vocational Guidance
Committee of the Woman's League.
Doctor Arnold, who comes hero from a
meeting of the United States Education
Commission in Chicago, is particularly
well known in athletic circles.
Ho was
formerly president of the American
BePhysical Education
Association.
cause of his ability as a speaker and
his thorough knowledge of athletics, and
kindred subjects, all University women
especially
and
those
interested in
athletics as a vocation are urged to
hear Doctor Arnold.
Susan
Helen Wells
Tho New Haven alumnae of Kentucky
Tom
Elizabeth Hopkins will entertain with a luncheon, nt the
T. A. Bayless Lafayette Hotel Saturday in honor of
Jack
Tho class will serve tea afterwards. Doctor Arnold. That afternoon he will
All students and friends of tho Univer- meet a class of graduates of tho school
sity are freely and cordially invited to in tho Girl's gymnasium.
Immediately
witness tho play nnd attend tho tea.
following, Mrs. Stout will entertain with
a tea for him.
THE TEASER
ADVICE
Woodman, fell that tree,
Reporters, when you call on your girl
Sparc not a single bough;
and wish to demonstrate tho power of
I carved a girl's namo there
tho press, remember not to do anything
I love another now.
to .Interfere with tho circulation.

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