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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

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The Kentucky Kernel
The Kentucky Kernel Is the official newspaper of the
students and alumni of the University of Kentucky.
Published every Friday throughout the college year
by the student body of the- University.
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Strict Observance of Laws and
Better Scholarship

ALIBI
The time of the year when a young man's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of the more beautiful things
of life, brings with it the lassitude of dreams and
pleasant memories, but in the background of student
life, final examinations loom ominously with their
threat of, proctorial censorship. In less than three
weeks the efforts for this semester's work will be
tabulated and the folks back home will wonder what
sort of grades son or daughter has made.
Students ought to remember, if efforts for the
semester have brought high, marks, to make the best
of this success.
But if things didn't go so well and
the standing isn't a credit to ability, don't offer an
alibi to the ones who are trusting In the success of
your college career. They will sympathize or rejoice
as the need may be.
People who resort to the lowly alibi never make a
success of anything. If grades have not been high,
stand up like a man and take your medicine. Remember that Homer could have sat on the cold pavements of Athens and begged homage from the rich,
who, no doubt, would have pitied him and tossed bits
of good into his waiting hands, for Homer, like Milton,
had the best of an alibi. He was blind.
A long list of the world's greatest men have been
in positions such that all could have made use of an
alibi, but they all chose to dig right in and make a
success of themselves, despite handicaps. Julius Caesar was an epileptic, Beethoven was stone deaf, Pope
was a hunchback, and Napoleon was scrouged by a
cancerous stomach. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote
from his sickbed. Booker T. Washington was a negro and a pauper.
All these men could have been failures and could
have Justified their shortcomings with an alibi. The
road to achievement in not traveled on the soft pedals
of excuse. The semester is not over. There is yet
time to make up for many hours that have slipped by
without apparent notice. In order to do so try to
make these last days of school bring the success
which has been sought throughout the year. If you
fail, don't use an alibi, for an excuse is a confession
of failure. The old admonition to strike while the
iron is hot means, In collegiate language, 'Study while
there Is time and opportunity."

RATIONALIZING
SCHOLARSHIP
Indiana Dally Student
Dcrying the almost universal acceptance of the
statement that good students are more apt to succeed In life than poor ones, an editorial writer of the
Daily Ulinl of the University of Illinois ventures the
statement that it is not true. The reason, it is said)
Is that good students are more apt to be the ones
who accept the words and the statements of professors and textbooks religiously, while mediocre and
poor students are more prone to question them.
Whether or not students who make excellent
grades are more successful than the others is a question that does not Interest us. It is rather the explanation of the reason for poorer grades.
Some of the most brilliant minds in the universities have won but mediocre marks In studies because
they were unwilling to accept all that their instructors have said and that their books have taught.
That class, however, Is small. The question of whether or not to accept an instructor's statements as true

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dles on the way to the desired sheepskin. The content of the course is, to many students, Just so much
material to be shoveled Into the recesses of the brain
and to be held there until final examination time.
When the student falls to retain enough to make a
good grade he is prone to rationalize and ascribe his
failure to many extraneous causes. It is doubtful
whether his grade was poor because he failed to
agree with the instructor and with what he read.
It would be Just as wise to place "tlic blame on fraternity study conditions, laziness, failure to adapt
activity,
himself to study, too much
or any of a half, dozen other causes.
The average Instructor is not the Intellectual despot pictured. He is not so dogmatic that he would
penalize students who refused to side with him on
mooted questions. Such a procedure would strike at
the heart of education by tending to stifle Initiative
and Impede further progress. Where there is room
for a reasonable amount of doubt both sides of the
question invaribly arc given. Rationalization of poor
scholarship on these grounds will not decide the issue.

Society Editor

ELLEN MINIHAN
Lillian Combs

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LIBEL
To the man on the street, the college boy is an
idler. He is a millonalre's son, who rides to his institution of learning either in an Hispano Suiza with
a chauffeur and footman In front or a snappy yellow and green roadster with which he makes every
effort to run over Innocent pedestrians. Study? Why,
that has never occurred to him. In fact, it is well
known that only a few book worms go to college to
study. The rest of them, if they are very energetic
and athletic, engage in football contests every now
and then. But most of them are neither energetic
nor athletic. Lacking muscles, they seek to make
up for this defect by using their brains.
Let your college student be seen In intimate conversation with a young lady. Result? All college
students are oversexed and degenerate perverts who
neck and pet and illegally increase the population.
at a
Let your college student sip a drop of pre-wcold football game. Result? All college students are
Immoral drunkards who pursue their ideals by breaking the laws of this land of the free. Let your college student reprint an interesting article on the
problem of marriage from another collegiate publication. Result? Shame commands us not to reprint
any of the communications received as a result of so
bold a deed. ,
Frankly, we are getting sick and tired of being
maligned, misquoted and Jeered at by those who,
never having attended college and hence neither
knowing nor caring what it is like, have brewed a
mixture of jeasousy and ignorance into their reports
and opinions of American college life. The state, the
movie and the newspapers are not alone to blame for
this state of affairs. Obviously they are the productions of writers who know only too well what their
public expects of them. The truth about us is far
too uninteresting to the reader of tabloids and movie
titles. Hence, away with the truth, when only the
almighty dollar is to be weighed against the reputation of America's young intelligent aristocracy
The Reveille.

COLLEGE COMMENT.
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The Sewanee Purple at the University of the South
has instigated a program of propaganda with the
purpose of changing the name of their college.
Purdue University: The annual egg show at Purdue University promises a variety of exhibits. The
eggs will arrive on the first day of the show, and
be dropped on the athletic field by means of a parachute, another novel way of making whoopee.
Women at the University of Washington are proving to be almost perfect marksmen. A four-yecourse of this kind, and a little home practice is the
recipe for the perfect scorer. But the men will marry
the clinging vine.
A prominent senior in the College of Science, Literature and Arts at the University of Minnesota, Is
being held on charges of grand larceny, following his
arrest after he had been seen rifling students' clothes
left in gymnasium lockers.

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The Lexington rlalto will be well lections. "Jcrlco," one of those "nut"
singing and numbers for which the orchestra is
stocked In
dancing productions next week for famous, and "I'll Always Be In Love
three motion pictures of that nature With You" nre among the many
will be presented Sunday. One de
other compositions presented by
pends of music for its quality; one Waring's Pennsylvanians In the picon the stacc nlay from which it was ture. You will probably like the
adapted, and the other from the music but don't look for drama. In'
cidentally, Radio pictures is a trade
excellence of the picture itself.
Frank C. Fowler, director of the name of a newly organized producing organization and docs not mean
Guignol theater, rave a very in
teresting review of "Street Scene," that the picture is made by wireless
present Broadway success, over the telephony.
Current Attractions
radio Tuesday. His review was es"The Broadway Melody," Strand,
pecially attractive in the line inpicture. Don't
terpretation that was Inserted by
the speaker. Next Tuesday at tell me you haven't seen this.
"The Younger Generation," Ken12:45 he will review "Kibitzer,"
tucky, Columbia picture. Starring
and I recommend your attention.
Hersholt. He is too good for
Robert E. Sherwood, a critic of the Jean picture.
cinema to whom I have referred on this
"Riley, the Cop," Ben All, Fox picnumerous occasions, said that two ture. Low
d.
comedy with Farrell
pictures
very important
I rather like the title.
have recently been given the public.
They were "Alibi" and "Bull Dog
Drummond." "Alibi," a United Artists picture, will open at the Ben
AH theater Sunday for a week's run
College
and will probably be the outstanding production of the week here.
"Alibi" was produced and directed
by Roland West, who made "The
Mary C. Brogden, dean of women
Bat" and several other successes, at Southwest State Teachers coland, according to Mr. Sherwood, he lege, San Marcos, Texas, against
has made a splendid Job of it. The whom students, asking for her dispicture Is characterized by a type missal, have filed nineteen specific
of dialogue hitherto unknown to the charges, is in hot water.
talking screen in that it has the
At a recent moss meeting of the
terseness of lines spoken directly students, at which 200 were present,
from the stage. "Alibi" is a crook it was asked that Dean Brogden be
melodrama and is undoubtedly a dismissed because of numerous untriumph for the talking picture.
reasonable laws which she was alI would like to remind the per- leged to have been enforcing.
Dean Brogden, the protesting stuson responsible for the very attractive theater program issued at dents charge, went so far as to prevent .eds and co-eKentucky and State theaters
speaking to
the
that Jean Hersholt is a member each other on the campus. A girl
could not speak to her own brother
of the male species of humanity.
In an advertisement of a picture outside of dating hours, nor could
starring Mr. Hersholt a picture of she walk through town on Sunday.
Lina Basquette was printed with
The dean went so far as to hold
the line "Jean Hersholt" below it. girls responsible for the conduct of
The ad played up the delightful their visitors, and to enforce rigid
feminine qualities of the star. I demands for date slips by freshman
girls, complaint said. She prohibwonder who will feel the slight
Miss Basquette of Mr. Hersholt? ited among other things, the meet"The Squall," a First National ing of clubs after 6 o'clock in the
Vitaphone picture, will open at the evening.
Members of the administration at
Kentucky theater Sunday and is an
picture. The play from this southwestern school, in an efwhich it was adapted was what is fort to prevent her being dismissed,
called a "flop" on Broadway where have suggested that the rigid laws
it opened about two years ago. be done away with or altered.
However, the picture has been given Plainsman.
a good cast in Loretta Young, Richard Tucker, Myrna Loy, Carrol Nye
and several others and is said to
have some very good comedy. Per
haps you saw the trailer oh "The
Squall" so you know the locale of
the story. It is in the Cape Cod
egion of Massachusetts and the play
has a very intricate plot with some
clever
characterizations.
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Squall" should prove to be fair en
tertainment.
Since the advent of talking pictures the familiar cry of "Lights,
action, Camera," is now almost
obsolete in the Hollywood film
factories. The director now has to
signal his cast and technicians by
a series of lights which are controlled from a tiny switchboard
on the arm of his chair.
The Noise Era in motion pictures
has given vent to music in all forms
on the screen and "Syncopation," a
Radio picture, which opens at the
run,
Strand Sunday for a four-da- y
is the first production to feature an
orchestra. The famous Waring's
Pennsylvanians with Fred Waring
waving the baton, form almost the
whole show of the attraction.
Of
course there is a story woven around
the orchestra but that is rather silly
and quite subordinated to the music.
The orchestra renders their concert
arrangement of "Ah, Sweet Mystery
of Life," from the operetta "Naughty
Marietta" by Victor Herbert, which
was made on a Victor record and
released last summer. This hap
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