(ell thorn a few things that would mnkc them cry, or nt least to mnkc them
calizo the seriousness of some things, they too would go out with fire in
their eyes nnd they would fight. They too would win. And they would
come off the field proud.

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YKA, CISNTRE!
Centre college, for the second time in four years, hns won the football
championship of the' South. Upsetting "dope" in the most startling fashion,
the eleven-ma- n
machine of our neighbor dofoated the best teams of the
South nnd outplayed them, mnn for man. Probably the greatest victory of
Centre this year was her dofent of Alabama, who had theretofore defeated
nil comers.
The Gold nnd White, entering the game already conceded to
Alabama by many writers, played a wonderful game and took the long end
of n 17 0 score. Alabama had only the week before submerged Kentucky
in n free for all race to the goal lino. Last Saturday Centre clenched the,
title by brilliantly outplaying the University of Georgia, winning handily.
The Kernel, speaking in behalf of the students of the University of

MANAGER OF ACCOUNTS
Jnmcs Augustus '27
ASSISTANTS
Dow Caldwell '27
CIRCULATION MANAGER
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ASSISTANTS
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John A. Dabney '28

Kentucky, heartily congratulates our
in thus attaining
honor for themselves nnd for the state. The sportsmanship displayed by
the Colonels is nn outstanding feature of the football season, nnd no little
credit is duo them, for clean sportsmanship goes fnr indeed in nttnining
victory. Aside from the traditional "bitter" rivalry existing between the
two institutions, the university is proud indeed to know that the champion
ship comes to Centre nnd to, the slate of Kentucky.

ADVERTISING MANAGER
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Vlrclnln Iloyd
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Dorothy Cooper
Edith Mlnnehnn
Harriet Chattleld
Jewel Hayes
John Dullock
Annabclle Murphy
Ellxabeth Ltllcston
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GREEK LETTER CONFERENCE
bodies met for a three
The sixteenth annual conference of Greek-lettday session last week in New York City. The conference was composed of
the national officers of the leading fraternities of the United States. In attendance also were many prominent educators from colleges and universities
throughout the country.
The conference is the product of a movement begun in 1908 by James
Duanc Livingston, designed to foster a more cordial spirit between the
various fraternal bodies and to provide a common forum wherein each
could discuss the problems that are so typical to secret college organizations.
Conference there had been
Prior to the inception of the
little or no attempt to cooperate for the furtherance of aims and ideals of
undergraduate fraternities.
But immmediately after the movement was
launched, a cordial and cooperative spirit among the societies constituting
the conference began to manifest itself.
The problems that affect fraternities are intrinsically the problems of
higher education as found on every campus. Scholarship, individual and
group morality, and all other educational problems are essentially the same
in every school.
The organization of the Greek-lettorders into a composite body is
In every phase of human endeavor,
in keeping with the trend of the times.
in business, in politics, in society, and education, a strictly group life is being created. From the cradle to the tomb mankind moves in companionship
with his fellows. This gregarious tendency gave birth to fraternities for
the development of high attributes that ennoble life and all its relationships.
It augurs well for the increase of college secret societies as a power
for good that they have let their interests converge in a meeting where
there can be evolved a program that will, in part, solve critical problems
that pertain to the undergraduate and his university.
DO WE NEED AN HONOR SYSTEM?
We are handicapped at the university by poor buildings; our hands are
tied because of economic pressure within our very gates; we are in actual
reed of certain facilities. But with all these deterrent factors, the univer
sity is making steady progress. Hardships and privations produced that
sturdy race of frontiersmen celebrated in song and story; therefore we
need not fear that these factors will touch the adamant foundations of our

There is another agency gnawing at the heart of this institution. It is
a nameless spirit that displays itself in such remarks as these: "Why
should I worry? It's not my business if anybody cheats." "I'll cheat if
I can get by. If I can't get by, I'll take my medicine. That's fair enough."
The university is not unioue in displaying this spirit. It is as old as
It is wide
the Grecian Sophistry and as new as Yankee commercialism.
spread as the four points of the compass. But there is no reason that the
University of Kentucky should not be among the minority who have already
taken a firm stand against this evil. On the contrary, there is every reason
that we should be listed among the colleges who have adopted the honor
system.
Pride of race runs high among Kentuckians. The annals of the Com
monwealth are filled with the names of wilderness scouts, orators, poets,
Rtntpsmcn.
Wo are proud, and justly proud, of our glorious heritage. But
we must hang our heads in everlasting shame if the descendants of these
men are inculcated with that pernicious idea of "getting by."
We have talked about this affair and have discussed and harangued
over it for years. The time is at hand for action. If Kentuckians cannot
trust and be trusted, something is vitally wrong. A move cannot come
from the officials or from the student body alone. It must come from
both. The outlook may not seem bright at times, but there is only one
answer to the arguments against it. That was made by that incurable
optimist, Robert Louis Stevenson:
"I believe in the ultimate decency of things; aye, and if I woke in Hell
should believe it still."

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JUST A WORD
Consternation, surprise, incredibility and utter amazement are generally registered on the face of the fair
young thing when "broken" at a
She knows she is going to
dance.
be broken, has been looking for it
all evening and realizes that the more
breaks she gets the more popular she
appears, and yet, when she is broken
she gives one a look of unbelievability
which the bashful can hardly endure
and which the bold construe to be
a cordial invitation to relief. But
and
such is the strategy of the
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They call them
and give
you fruit juice; they say, "You are
invited to attend," and never know
whether you are there or not; as favors they give you little horns and
oh, what's
they won't blow; they
the use? We love 'em anyhow.
One of our engineers informs us
he had English on the third
floor of the Administration building
Its mur
and was dropped from it
der, Farquhar, nothing less.

that

Artificial lightning was first publicly demonstrated
on June S, 1923, in the laboratory oj the General
Electric Company at Pitts field, Mass.. when a
spark crashed into this miniature, village

The student body of the university
should hang its head and blush in
shame.
Never have we seen such a
poor exhibition of school spirit as

that manifested throughout the foot
ball season.
When we watched the Tennessee
supporters sit in the stands when they
knew their team was hopelessly de
feated when we saw them line up
behind their band after a bitter defeat had been handed to them, and
when we heard them yell even after
the last echoes of the timekeeper's
whistle had died away we hung our
heads and pictured what would have
liappened among our own "alleged"
supporters under similar conditions
When the tide began to turn, our
supporters would have become restless nnd when the score was such that
our team had no chance to overcome
the lead, the crowd would have ceased
to yell; when the third quarter
and our team was still hope
lessly behind, as was Tennessee's on
Thanksgiving Day, our supporters
would not have stayed in the stands
as did Tennessee's, but they would
have slunk away like the traitors
they were.

THE PENDULUM SWINGS BACK
For the two months of the football season, that quality known as "pep"
has been at low tide in the university. The football team has won amid
cheers; it has lost in the midst of silence. It has fought its battles before
It
crowds that started homeward during the middle of the last charter.
has fought a good fight, it has kept the faith, at least. The student body
strengthen the team. Our
of a school should bo an nrmy of reserves to
body has not been such an army. It has broken the faith.
But the pendulum swings backward for it can swing no further in
the other direction.
The basketball season begins at the university Saturday, December 13.
The basketball season is upon us.
During this season there will be pop real pep bushels of it. Win, lose or
Alma Mater, if
sake
draw, the Wildcats will get the support of the student body. Wo do not for the your of the
own personal pride, of
say that of our own authority; we say it because that is 'what the shamed not for
which there seems to bo little, stu
faces of the whole bloorain' student body have said to us.
dents, show your spirit and your love
quit saying that
university
Don't say anything about this, but just before the Wildcats went into for the a student or the university.
in
you are
the University of Tennessee game nt Knoxvillo on Thanksgiving Day, Coach
Murphy started to make them a little talk. We do not know what ho said
LOST Between High street and
such things are more or less sacred but wo do know ho never finished
The university campus, spectacle case,
that talk. Ho couldn't. Tears filled his eyes and his voice failed. And containing tortoise shell rim glasses
players went onto the field with tears in their eyes real, honest tears.
rethey played the best game they had over played. The Wildcats defeated and two fountain pens. Please Chi
turn to Ida Kennoy Risque, at
Tennessee 27 to 0. And they came off the field proud.
If this student body had someone to talk to them just a little, and to Omega house.
Btu-de-

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WHY NOT A LITERARY JOURNAL?
The last editorial I wrote for a student publication appeared in a college literary journal. I have often turned the pages of that student magazine and read again the first literary effort of students who have since become more or less known to fame Tcrhunc, whose dog stories never lose
charm, Curry, who can write a prize poem as well as a learned dissertation
on Chaucer and others. They may never have discovered their talent, had
they not found opportunity to unite and publish while college students.
Opportunity invites endeavor. One who enjoys writing will write, of course,
but the greatest encouragement to the literary artist is the hope that he is
writing something for others to read.
Why not a literary journal at the University of Kentucky? It would
not infringe upon the field of any of the present publications; should the
Kernel wish to print litrary articles, it would be compelled to refuse them
for lack of space.
There is ample talent among the student body. Instructors are consistently receiving written work that would grace any college magazine
thoughtful essays, charming verses. If they are printed, they must appcr
elsewhere, as they often do.
If wo had a literary journal, we should have the refreshing pleasure
of seeing what students are doing and should give encouragement to others.
L. L. Dantzler.

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artificial lightning?
It

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Many such experiments yield no
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