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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

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EDITORIAL
MANAGING EDITOR
F
Niel Plummer
John R. Bullock, Jr.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Helen Shelton
A. P. Robertson
Llewellyn Jones
EDITOR-IN-CHIE-

NEWS
NEWS EDITOR
Virginia King Conroy
ASSISTANTS
W. H. Glanz
Thelma Snyder
REPORTERS
Rebecca Edwards Leida Keyes
Catherine Redmond
Iarthj CToimf.U
Virginia Early
Frank Davidson
Howard
E. M. Sargent
Beecher Adams
Mildred

Elizabeth Strossman
Evalee Featherston
Byron Pumphrey
Dorothy Darnell

Cowgill

Dorothy Darnell
H. V. T. Lukens
Billy Whitlow
Elizabeth Shea

J.

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Inley

Ethel Stamper
Pauline Adams
Bill Reep

ASSISTANTS

SPECIAL WRITERS
Lydia Robert" Exchanges
Kathleen Peffley, Feature
Lucile Cook, Squirrel Food
Virginia Boyd, Literary
P. P. Baker, Cartoonist
EDITOR
Martha Minihan

SOCIETY

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Frank K. Hoover
ASSISTANTS
Warren Price
Tom Cochran
John W. Dundon, Jr.

BUSINESS
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plan proper courses for technical students. Obviously
engineering students must devote to study of practical
arts time that liberal arts students may spend in'study-in- g
literature, music, and the fine arts. The problem,
then, is to arrange courses especially for technical students courses which will give students a general cultural knowledge and which will be especially valuable to
them in their professions.
Case school of Applied Science in Cleveland is one
of the first technical schools to attempt to meet the need
for special courses for technical students. This year the
faculty introduced a course called "Types of Literature"
for engineering students. Teachers are attempting to
approach this course from the engineer's viewpoint and
with an idea of making the course selective rather than
historical or chronological.
It still remains to be seen whether or not the experiment of Case School will be a success. If it is successful, the plan will doubtless be put into operation in
other technical schools. In such case it is also probable
g
courses will
that other cultural and
find their way into the strictly technical schools.
Unquestionably, if the experiment now being tried
out at Case School of Applied Sciences proves successful, it will be of untold value to engineering students. If
cultural subjects can be presented in such a manner as
to interest the technical student and broaden his viewpoint; if literature, art, and music can be offered embryonic engineers in such a way as to develop their
imagination and to inspire them to nobler efforts; and
if this can be accomplished without sacrifice of technical
knowledge, everyone concerned will be the gainer. The
life of the technical man will be broader, fuller, and
happier and his products will be more artistic, more beautiful, and niore beneficial to humanity.

CIRCULATION MGR.
"
E. L. Berry
ASSISTANT
Carl Morrow
MANAGER

ACCOUNTS

A. P. Glenn

MECHANICAL
FOREMAN
Delos Nooe

ASSISTANTS
W. D. Grote A. L. Pigman

EXCEPTIONAL

STUDENTS

Men, and women of exceptional ability have no business attending modern American universities.
Thus
briefly an article entitled "College and the Exceptional
Student" appearing in the January issue of Harper's
Magazine summed up a mighty defect in our educational
system the failure to provide for unusual students.
This criticism is by no means novel.
For years
educators, have maintained that in this country there are
many men and women enrolled in our universities who
have no business there. On the other hand there are
countless numbers of writers and authorities who take
the stand that education must be democratic that it is
better to educate the masses at the expense of a few
individuals than to educate these individuals at the
expense of the masses.
here can be no doubt that under our present system of education the courses offered are about as thorough
as the average student can comprehend in the limited
time he devotes to study. Simple though these courses
may be, the fact remains that practically
of
all our college students fail to make even satisfactory
marks.
To us the plan of the writer of the article in Harper's to have brilliant and exceptional students spend
their time in private research rather than in attending
college
does
not seem satisfactory.
There is
something valuable in knowing humanity, in mixing
with one's fellow-mein getting the other fellow's
viewpoint, that such students would miss.
It seems to us much better for these students to
attend colleges just as the average student does. Then
it should be the task of the instructor to inspire these
students to do research work outside of the classroom.
By these means they will get the benefit of group instruction as well as private study.
Certaiily, however, the problem is a difficult one
for it includes caring for all those students in the vast
range from those who unquestionably have no business
in college, through the various degrees of intelligence to
the one or two per cent about whom the article "College
and the Exceptional Man" was written.
one-thi-

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STUDENT SUICIDES

Borrowing a quip from one of our Ohio exchanges
this university is soon going to lose its prestige as an institution of higher learning if some one of its students
doesn't hurry up and commit suicide. - With a total of
fourteen suicides among college students in the last
few weeks it seems that the University of Kentucky is
falling behind its sister institutions in this epidemic of
a new form of publicity-crazVarious explanations have been advanced by eduSome'
cators, psychologists, churchmen and laymen.
persons profess to believe that this epidemic is caused
b&'scientific teaching; others say that it is but a mark
of the moral degradation of modern youth; while still
others believe that it is but another example of the
imitative nature of Americans.
To us the first two of these explanations do not
seem plausible. We have heard so much of the evils
of scientific teaching and of the moral failings of ourselves, and these have been answered so many times
by abler men that it seems unnecessary for us to
ment further on these two points now. It is the third
suggestion which seems to us the most logical.
Newspapers of the country give to accounts of college suicides undue publicity because of the fact that
such news is especially interesting to the general reading public Perhaps some student has committed suicide
on account of financial or othfer troubles. Accounts of
his suicide are printed throughout the country in elabor
ate detail. Other students with worries of their own
read these accounts. Then the great American quality
of imitation asserts itself. The next morning another
student suicide account is flashed over the wires of
the Associated Press. This in turn may be responsible
for additional suicides and so the endless chain goes
. on. And it will go on until college students and the
public as a whole come to a fuller realization of the
true mission of life or until (as is more probable) the
fad wears out. For this epidemic of student suicides is
nothing but a mad craze which has swept the country
and which will end as swifty and as unexpectedly as it
'began.
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EXIT, BASKETBALL

n,

THIS" AND

THAT

A Princeton professor says that one peanut contains
enough energy to type 1,000 words.
Math problem:
what is the value of the foregoing words expressed in
peanuts ?
A Maryland student wonders why otherwise delightful
people ever took up school teaching.
And we wonder

if he still expects to make Phi

Beta Kappa.
There's one advantage of this student suicide craze.
becomes general enough it may save us the trouble
of having to personally rid our fraternity of the brother
who is learning to play the saxophone.

If it

Who was it that said all good things have to end
some time? But what we started to say was that the
university basketball season ended Saturday night.

LITERARY SECTION

Because it is traditional for The Kernel to carry an
editorial on the basketball season at this time of the year,
VIRGINIA BOYD, Editor
ye writer decided he would have to submit something
about the season just past. But after staring at this
paper several hours and wracking his brain to concoct
BUT HE WAS ONLY A MOCK TURTLE
some possible explanation for ,the three months' nightAside from the great service he did us in inventing
mare just concluded, he decided that the task was a a tin rattle buggy, Henry Ford plans to augment his
herculean one.
value to mankind by eliminating the necessity of cookThe entire student body knows the situation. For ing. "The old fashioned mother is out of date," says
the first time Kentucky has not been invited to attend Henry. The day of household slavery is over. In the
the Southern Conference tourney. The Blue and White laboratory at Dearborn, Tord experts are already working on synthetic foods, and Ford says they'll be ready
basketeers following in the wake of their football brothwhen the people are.
ers, suffered the worst season in many, many years.
They've given us synthetic gin, synthetic jewels,
But as some optimist long ago remarked, "Hope
and synthetic pleasure by means of the picture show.
springs eternal in every human breast." Next year, athletics at the university will be under an entirely new After all synthetic food is but another step along the
coaching system. Already, Coach Gamage has begun same road. Perhaps the time will come when they can
arrange ,io have experts eat it for us and save us the
his work at football and from reports reaching this oftrouble and expense of producing it ourselves. A dysfice concerning spring training Kentucky's mentor evidently intends to have a winning team next year if peptic friend of ours scouted this idea, but put in a plea
for somebody to invent a synthetic digestion.
hard work counts for anything.
We pay motion picture stars to show us the ecstatic
No fault can be found with the support given the
athletic teams by university students. Backing teams heights of passion, the goading depths of remorse, and
which are losing consistently is always a difficult task, the glory of self sacrifice. We find unselfishness much
but the student body supported the wearers of the blue more satisfying that way. We pay football stars to
play for us. It is much more delightful than risking our
and white this year as they have seldom before supported them. The Kernel merely pleads for the student own necks. Perhaps the day will come when we are no
body to keep up the good work to attend the baseball more than mechanical Robots wound by the synthetic
games and track meets and to come back in the fall with key of science, going on synthetic drunks to satisfy
synthetic cravings.
We will live by vicarious experthe old enthusiasm and pep necessary to procure winience, machines untouched by mortal woes or divine
ning teams.
aspirations.
Oh, Mr. Ford let us really live! We dqn't want factory made fried potatoes and synthetic pie! Let the
FOR
pie come from the home oven, a bit sad as to crust, and
In the past considerable adverse criticism has been a bit syrupy as to filling, perhaps but oh so undeniably,
directed against technical schools by educators who mainunpalatably, realistically pie.
tain that in these institutions students specialize their
A famous mockturtle once composed a beautiful
study too much and too soon. These persons insist that poem called "Soup of the Evening, Beautiful Soup."
young men or women taking up engineering, But Alice was not much touched by the poem and nither
architecture, medicine, or whatever may be their were we, for despite the pathos of the lines and the
chosen profession, miss almost entirely the broadening tearfulness of the singer, we knew the turtle was only
a
effects of literature, art, and music.
mock turtle, and the soup delicious thoueh it must
One of the main difficulties in the past has been to have been mockturtle soup.
Kathleen Peffley.

LITERATURE

ENGINEERS

RELIGIOUS

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DISCUSSION

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PEELING CO-ETO
GET GOLD POTATO

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THE MEANING OF FREEDOM
Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D., Park
Avenue Baptist Church, New
York City

Young

Girl

snow-whi-

te

Ric-aso-

1,500

Bushels
Tubers

AND

of.

PREACHER

Peeling, preaching and harvesting
their way through school, three Simpson College women
are diploma-boun-

d.

A gold potato will be given to Gar-ne- y
Holman, Mt. Ayr, Iowa, with her

diploma when she steps out of college in June, to remind her that she
pared her way through 1,500 bushels
of tubers in dormitory kitchens to an
education.
The pulpit will be abandoned for
the schoolroom by Marie Cassel, Fairmount, Ind., who has preached two
sermons a Sunday in the Friends
Church of Indianola, to earn her way
to junior standing.
Shocking wheat, plowing and pick
ing potatoes have yielded revenue for
an education to Carol Sandy of In
dianola, who each vacation treks to
the North Dakota prairies to win
money enough in the harvest field to
carry her through another year at

"way of the
baby-dol- l,
who lays the
pink and whiteness of her fingers in
yours with a confiding
air to the fervent spirit
with which the new initiate delves
into the intricacies of "the secret
grip."
There's the
who has grown so accustomed to
greeting every person he meets as a
"hale fellow, well met" that he goes
through the handshaking process
automatically.
And we all know the "campus politician," whose suave manners are accentuated by the skill with which he
works his hand.
Of course, cheerful conversation, several
"old mans," and a hearty slap on the
shoulder are essential too for creating an impression, but it's the handshake that really counts.
Ohio State Lantern.
ultra-femini-

hands.'' says another.
But the characterless handclasps
are comparatively few and rapidly
becoming fewer. Women seem to be
falling in line. Other forms of salutation have almost completely disappeared from the American campus
and thoroughfare. The flabby grip
is becoming confined to those would-b- e
poetic individuals who pride themselves on their flaccid gestures, and
to those who speak of having "been
recently in London, dontchaknow,"
(probably London, all right Ohio)
this accompanied by a discreet pressure on the tips of four limp fingers.
Will you ever forget the time when
you, a timid freshman (yes, there
have been several such) were sent by
a stern frater to "see a fellow, name
of Smith he's the business manager
and he'll put you on the staff."
How you stood, trembling, before a
godlike young man and mumbled your
W. W.
name. But when glory of 'glories
you found your cold limp palm inKODAKS
EASTMAN FILMS
closed in his big husky one and sensed
the warmth of his hearty grip, you
DEVELOPING and PRINTING
vowed to yourself forever to be his
humble admirer.
129 W: Short St.
Lexingtea, Ky.
There are many varieties of hand
well-tim-

STILL

Simpson.
The gold potato will be given to
Miss Holman by the school.
"If I had it. all to do over again,'
she avows, "I'd rather peel potatoes

"Wm -

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than earn my way in any other fash

ion."
She must mean it, for the school
offered her a "white collar" job and
she turned it down. She is the daugh

ter of a retired farmer.
"The dreams I've had while the
parings fell, and the questions I've
settled about life while conducting an
excursion through a pan of potatoes
are worth about as much as the education I've received," she says. "It's
foolish to say that a student who
earns his way doesn't enjoy his col
lege years."
Preaching isn't all Miss Cassel does
to earn her way. She leads the week
ly prayer meetings and supervises the
young people's work. She holds that
the present generation is the best that
ever lived, and getting better.
In evolution she keeps to the middle
of the road. Exchange.
HANDCLASP IS "OPEN
SESAME" TO CAMPUS
POPULARITY AND POWER
The clasp of a hand.
Rather a
small thing, isn't it? Yet not so insignificant, after all, when you realize
that students have been kept out of
fraternities, defeated in elections,
failed to "make" honoraries, and even
lost perfectly good dates, all because
they weren't fortunate" enough to
possess that valuable asset a firm
handshake.
"Nope.
Don't like the way he
shakes hands," has been the frequent
verdict when some prospect's name
was mentioned. (All ye who aspire,
beware!)
"Is there anything worse than a
flabby handshake?" wails one
co-e- d.

That was Paul's experience with
Christ. It was utterly real. During
his .early manhood he had been en
tangled in a legalistic religion which
bound him down with don'ts. He re
sented it; virile youth that he was, he
rebelled against it. All his life on1
God's counter he had rung liturgical
observances and negative moralities
and still he was in debt. Then he
came under the influence of Jesus
Christ, who mastered him. In that
experience he found a friend to fall in
love with, a cause to serve, a truth
to believe in, a loyalty to be true to,
The effect was startling.
His relig
ion, that had been laborious, became
spontaneous.,
It no longer pressed upon him from without; it welled up
from within. He learned what it
meant to love God and do as you
please, because you please to do what
loves that sense of reckless plunging
in. But goodness seems cautious; it
says: Beware, go slow, look out, Good
ness seems full of hesitation and warn
ings, so that in comparison with sin
goodness seems dull and tame. Is
not that the way life often looks to
you?
We Christians are largely to blame
for tame goodness. Christ's goodness
was not that. His goodness was nev
er dull. They do not crucify cautious
goodness. To be a Christian is to fol
low him. You may say you wish to
have your fling. So say I. That is
my idea of life. 1 propose to have
my fling. Stevenson said, Life is "an
affair of cavalry," "a thing to be dash
ingly used and cheerfully haphazard-ed.- "
Let us too, have our fling. Sir
Philip Sidney, the flower of knight
hood, advised his young nephew, if
ever he found a good fight to get into it. In comparison with that, all the
sin you can dress up is dull and enervating. Let us have our fling for God
and goodness, for a more decent human life, for peace against war, for
justice against greed, for vital religion against stereotyped church. In
our own personalities, God's most intimate entrustment to us, let us have
our fling, and see what, by God's
grace, we can make of them before
we are through. That is liberty; that
is release. It is the freedom where
with Christ hath made us free.
Prayer
Eternal God, our Father, we be
seech Thee that this great word of
thy Gospel may be honored and dig
nified in our experience. Set us at
liberty. Remove the shackles of our
fears, our timidities and doubts, and
release us into the glorious freedom of
the children of God. Amen.
Northwestern University
The
x
Evanston
is sponsoring
midwinter ice carnival at which
special university races for both men
and women are offered. While skat
ing is not a part of the sports cur
riculum, hundreds of entries are ex
r
pected,

Iowa

Pares Her Way Through

(CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) HOOSIER
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty."
Which sort of libery shall this generation seek the freedom wherewith
Christ sets us free?
In this insight of Paul we have
an indication, not simply of what
freedpm is but of how one comes into
it. Never until we are mastered are
we free. Is that nonsense, that we
never can be free until we are mastered? It is a paradox but it is one of
the deepest truths of the moral realm:
there is no liberty save through the
deep experience of being brought into
subjection to something that has the
right to master us. This holds good
even of science. Think of being free
to greet a man a thousand miles away,
of being free to sail the sea in a portable hotel, to fly on the wings of the
wind, to speak into the air words that
innumerable unseen messengers carry
to numberless destinations. Obviously in many a realm science has
wrought for us an amazing emancipation, but behind it all lies this fact:
you can never command
nature
or make free with the powers until
you have learned to obey her. "Sit
down," said Huxley, "before fact as
a little child, be prepared to give up
every preconceived
notion, follow
humbly wherever . . . nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing." Behind
liberation, therefore
all scientific
stands a scientist mastered by a truth.
A law of freedom that runs so
deep into scientific knowledge surely
applies to human personality. I appeal to your own experience that it
does apply. You never have known an
hour of freedom except as you have
fallen in love with some one or have
been mastered by something that carried you out of yourself. Only when
carried out of yourself by some one
you loved, some truth you adored,
same cause you served have you known
freedom.
It may have been a scene in nature
where the Mattehorn drew back its
veil of cloud and let you for a momament see its silent,
jesty. It may have been some work
of man's device, like Chartres Cathedral, under whose solemn altitudes and in the light of whose ineffable windows you walked at liberty. It may have been a little, child
that God put into your hands as his
first gift to your parenthood iwhp
carried you out of yourself. Or it may
have been some cause that called you,
li
to which you gave yourself like
the Italian patriot who, in the
day of his nation's need, as he said,
rose up and spat upon his life and
went out for Italy. You never have
been free save as you have been

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vie with class lerry Andrews in deciding the
heavy problems of the world or burlesquing
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notice the royal guest, Prince Albert.
Chiming in with the spirit of the occasion. Filling the air with the finest tobacco-arom- a
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Do you smoke Prince Albert? It will bring
you more pleasure and satisfaction than you
ever thought a pipe could give. The instant
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