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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

MILITARY BALL
ANNUAL FORMAL DANCE
WILL BE MONDAY NIGHT

LEXINGTON,

VOLUME XVII

MILITARY BALL CADET CORPS ELECTS TWO
NEW SPONSORS FOR YEAR
IS TO BE HELD
of the
MONDAY NIGHT Miss Thelma Snyder and Miss colonel military regiment. of Hervbearing
any cadet;
as that
is as
Radio Broadcasting Orchestra
Will Furnish Music for
Dance to Be Given in
Men's Gymnasium

Lucille Short are New Honorary Majors ; Others to
Be Chosen Later

PLAN FIRST TRIED IN 1921

Miss Lucille Short and Miss Thelma
Snyder were elected R. O. T. C. sponand
Scabbard and Blade Pledge sors of the first vote second battalions
of the advanced
respectively by
Service Is to Be Feature
corps meeting in Dicker hall Monday,
of Evening
February 14. The colonel sponsor of
the regiment will be elected Monday
,One of the most outstanding events also by vote of the advanced corps.
will take
of the formal social season
If you are a new student and especthe
night when
place Monday
ially a new cadet on the campus you
annual military ball, sponsored will want to know what is a sponsor
of
bv the military department
and why? When the spring brings out
the university will be given. TheJ the R. 0. T. C. reviews and. other cerealways been the acme
military ball has
monies you will become acquainted
of the university's social season, and with the sponsor. At every ceremony
plans now under way you
the elaborate
will see a young woman, dressed
indicate that this year's affair will smartly in white and wearing the ofits own record in splendor. The ficial Sam Browne belt around her
break
setting for this brilliant function will waist and over her shoulder, standing
be the men's gymnasium, and the and marching beside each company
hours will be from 9 till 1 o'clock.
commander, each major, and the cadet- Two orchestras, one a local, and the
other a Cincinnati
orchestra will furnish music for the
dance, according to Watson Armstrong, who with Charles Heidrick and
William Richards is in charge of preparations.
All students of the university are
invited to attend the ball. Tickets Scabbard and Blade, Organized
are priced at S1.75 and may be purin 1921 at University as
chased from Captains Schmidt or
Boots and Saddles Has
Spaulding, or from members of the adInteresting History
vanced corps. Tickets will also be on
sale at the gym on the nfght of the
62 CHAPTERS IN COUNTRY
dance.
The gymnasium will be gaily decIn 1921, which was to the advanced
orated in a manner becoming to such course of
R. O. T. C.
the
a splendid military event. The col- - university the year one, unit of and
Boots
the
Saddles was organized locally among
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
officers of the military department.
The following year (1922) the national
fraternity of Scabbard and Blade accepted the petition of the local,
Boots and Saddles, and D company,
fourth regiment of Scabbard and
Blade was installed. The officers who
formed the local were Coleman" HuntOrganization Formed to Stimu- er, Horace Miller Clay, Edward Gans,
late Interest in International and Herndon Evans.
In 1919 officers from Purdue, Cor
Relations and to Investigate
nell, and other northern colleges or
Foreign Conditions
ganized at Purdue Scabbard and Blade,
and toSEVENTEEN ARE IN GROUP a national military fraternity, 62 chapday it boasts approximately
3,000 members in universities
An organization of students and ters and
faculty members of the University of and colleges throughout the country
Kentucky to stimulate interest in in- wherever the United States govern
provided R.
C. units.
ternational affairs and to promote a ment has and Blade has0. T.
the distinction
study of the conditions of the for- Scabbard
only military organizaeign countries was formed Tuesday of being the
govern- night at a meeting of seventeen stu- tion outside of the regular
dents and instructors in the office of (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
Dr. Frank L. McVey, president of the
university.
Direction of the organization, to
be named at a later meeting, was
placed in the hands of an executive
committee composed of Arch BenReceives
nett, of Henderson, president; Miss Campus Publication
Certificate From National
Jeanette Metcalf, of Pineville, vice
president ;and Joe Lee Davis, of LexPress Congress
ington, secretary.
The Kentucky Kernel has been giv-- n
The group asembled last night
decided that during the months of
a distinguished rating in the 1926- March, April and May the countries 27 National College Press Congress
to be studied would be Russia, China Publication contest according to a cer
and Italy. The executive committee tificate received this week from the
University of Illinois. The Kernel
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) did not enter the contest nor send
papers to the University of Illinois to
Will be entered in the competition, and for
Rifle
this reason the award came indicative
of unsolicited merit.
This
JBe
The National College Press Con
Sixty Girls Are Eligible for gress Award was established at the
University of Illinois and is under
Classes Made Possible by
the direction of Laurence W. Murphy.
Military Department
The award reads as follows:
National College Press Congress
According to an announcement
Award
by Miss Helen Skinner, approximately sixty girls are eligible for rifle
'Established at the University of
This certifies that The Kenclasses and instruction will be re- Illinois.
sumed this week. All girls are re- tucky Kernel of Lexington, Kentucky,
quested to sign up for classes as soon has been given a distinguished rating
in the 1926-2- 7
National College Press
as possible.
Although rifle marksmanship for Congress Publication Contest.
girls is sponsored by the W.A.A. it is
LAURENCE W. MURPHY,
through the kindness of the military
"Director
department that its organization was
Urbana, 111."
made possible, and Lieutenant Kcas
ler has instructed the following girls
Katherine
in rifle marksmanship:
Poster, Luett Greeno, Mabel Hill,
Ruth Jane Lee, Martha Minihan, Mabel Whitehead, Virginia Bean, Mary
O'Hara, Virginia Robinson, Elizabeth
Shea and Miriam Slan.
Leida Keyes is rifle manager, and
the following class managers are her
Poage;
assistants: freshman,
sophomore, Elizabeth Dupree; junior,
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KENTUCKY

R.

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TENNESSEE VOLS PLAY
'CATS IN LAST GAME

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KY., FEBRUARY 18, 1927

Begins Tenth Year
0. T. C.

Phenomenal

University Rifle

Team

Kernel Is Awarded
Distinguished Rating

Instruction
Week
Resumed

G

Unit

Shows
Growth

OF TENNESSEE
IN FINAL GAME

-,

She
her marching, a s axact.
is a sponsor and she is honorary commander of the outfit with which she
marches. She is the representative of
"the. feminine contingent of the uni
versity. She typifies the good-wiand cooperation of the women of the
university for its R. O. T. C. unit.
The unit is proud of her and she is
proud of the unit.
The Kentucky regiment elects ten
sponsos each year at the beginning
of the second semester who holds office for one term. One young woman
is chosen as sponsor of the regiment.
She is honorary commandant of the
regiment and bears the rank of colonel. She is elected by vote of the advanced corps. Two others are elected
in the same manner for battalion sponsors. They are honorary commanders
of the battalions with the rank of
major. The company sponsors, six
in number, are elected by vote of the
cadets comprising the personnel of the

estab-lishme-

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Contest Is Second Meeting This
Season of the Old Enemies; -Orange and White Won
First Encounter,
4
19-1-

WILDCATS WANT REVENGE
Knadler, Phipps, Helm, Jenkins
and Dees Probable Starting
Combination
(By WARREN A. PRICE)
The curtain will drop on the University of Kentucky's varsity basketball season tomorrow evening when'
the University of Tennessee Volunteers and the Wildcats will come together for the second time this season. The scene of the contest will be
the new gym, and the time for commencement of hostilities will be 8:00
o'clock.

In their first encounter this year the '
Volunteers triumphed over the Wildcats, 19 to 14, but with the exception
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
of this game and one other, Tennessee's basketball quintet has not been
faring so welL They have lost to
i
Tennessee Wesleyan, Maryville( two
games) Georgia,
and
South Carolina. The Volunteers' victories have been scored at the expense of Kentucky, Florida,. Centre,
and Clemson, which includes
two
teams that Kentucky has beaten. Thus
University Shooters Finisli Year
Tennessee's mediocrity in basketball
Kernel's Feature Artist Intimates Militaristic Blowout Is Nothing But a Male Fashion Show
With Higher Score Than 1926
appears to be about on a par with
Championship Squad; Beat
of the Latest Thing in Military Clothes; Officers Can 'Be Identified by Belts,
that of the Wildcats.
Michigan State College
Boots, and, Unless the Fellow Happens to Be Blond, Mustaches; Civilian.
After their most impressive triumph
Beau Brummels Suffer Temporary Lapse of Popularity
Centre Saturday
MEET IS SOON over have been taking night the Wild- NATIONAL
cats
a strong work(By KAJHLEEN PEFFLEY)
lettes. You can usually tell an officer say suppressed admiration for camThe university rifle team, shown
This is the week to write about all by his mustache. A mustache1 in the pus soldiers which we have tried to
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
above, finished firing
our little campus military heroes for!' military department is a privilege and conceal in our usual facetiousness in the pictureCorps
area match this
in the Fifth
We have always had a weakness for
it seems they're throwing a big party an achievement. A mustache is
7706. The score
which is to last until the un- - ially difficult for blondes to rear, uniforms and soft spots In our hearts week with a score of
' since it may come in most any shade for policemen, traffic cops, etc. When
Is, ef,gnty P?m
precedented and ungodlv hour of 1
F5
be"f
?vhen.
a. m. arid of course we aTl want to be , from ash to maroon regardless of the little Ferdie from the Epsilon. Gamma thaVhat
won the
P10?!? of oth- invited- - After all, it's rather nice for color of the particular male's bair. To house gets all togged out in
Corps area.
oil
our soldiers to give a party for they be a military blond with a mustache re- - irhoiri.. 1,0
quires fortitude and a Jtotal Jack oft ruin our new chiffon hose with 'tS e'r schools are not known as yet but
can dress up so nicely and assume
his
be a senior of- - spurs we still love him with an un ths university beat Michigan State Phi Delta Phi Announces Names
such a delightfully military bearing. sense of humoj.-"T- o'
week.
of Seven Pledges; Three
Acer with leather boots, a freshman dying devotion.
Campus
cadets come in assorted f
After all, Ferdie, College in a match last
The university rifle team is coached
Students Pinned by Phi
when you don that uniform, tho, it
sizes, like stick candy; you can have to pull them off and on is necessary.
Alpha Delta
any shape you like, from the figure
The preceding paragraph is a brief probably could fit certain portions of by Lieutenant James Keasler and is
of the following men:
like a cigar to the one like a tooth-- , but conclusive outline on soldiers. We your anatomy a bit better, you don composed
Herman T. Combs, Edward F. Crady, INITIATION
pick. Since boyish styles are now in have tried to include a few directions all the romantic atmosphere, the
TO BE SOON
vogue, the latter is usually preferred, on how to be a success as a campus
that is associated with sol- - Robert C. Darsie, Clay D. Fyffe,
James R. Hester, Karl P. Hohman,
University chapters of Phi Delta
They come nicely belted in leather soldier. But seriously, being feminine
and rare ones are branded with epau-- 1 we have a deep let us be modern and (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Albert S. Johnson, Jess M. Laughlin, Phi and Phi Alpha Delta, national
Earl C. May, John J. Richardson, law fraternities have since the beRobert S. Sauer. Sti-- y M. Stagg, ginning of the second semester pledg
n E. Weems, ed several students who will be initi
Virgil D. Johnso.
Colonel H. P. Hobbs
and Raymond H. i
ated soon.
The Fifth Corps area is composed
Phi Delta Phi announces the pledg
Command Camp Knox.
of the states of Indiana, Ohio, West ing of the following men: Bradley
There are Combs, Whitesburg, Ky.; James Bur- Virginia and Kentucky.
U. K. Commandant Will Have
nette, Tompkinsville, Ky.; George
General Charge of All TrainEIGHT) Robbins, Florence, Ky.; Henry Cox,
Courses Offered Under Funk-houseing There This Summer
President of Senior Class Takes (CONTINUED ON PAGE
Lancaster, Ky.; Theodore Johnson,
Rush, Farquhar,
Command of University RegiRidout,
Colonel Horace P. Hobbs, comman$500 Youngstown, Ohio;W. Albert Lexingand Webb. Possibly
ment When Sid Goodwin Dr.
Wilmore, Ky.; J.
Jones,
dant of the University of Kentucky
Sax and Shackleford
Leaves School
ton, Ky. Initiation will be held Monon Economics
Reserve Officers Training Corps has
day evening, February 21 at the PhoeTWO HUNDRED REGISTER received word from, the corps area CHOOSE OTHER OFFICERS
Prize Is Offered Annually by nix hotel.
headquarters that he is tentatively
Members of the active chapter are:
Hart- - Schaffner, and Marx
More than 200 persons in Lexing- designated to be in command of Camp
William Fowler, magister; Colvin
John M. Rachal, a senior in the enKnox from April 3 to September 3 of
Company
ton and vicinity are taking advantage
Rouse, Brent Dickenson,
Hamilton
college has been selected
of the extension courses for college this year. He will take charge of the gineering
Hanratty, Thaxter
Rice, WSlliam
general administration and camp rou cadet colonel of the university regiDr. Simeon E. Leland, professor in Sims, Woodson Scott, Hugh Porter,
credit, at the university, according to
ment by the faculty of the military the College of Commerce, won the
,
the department of university exten- tine.
Russell O'Neill, Joseph Feather,
Members of the regular troops to department to take the place of Sid 1926 annual prize of 500 offered by
sion.
Edmon Middleton, Robert Craft,
First bat- Goodwin, who left school to take a the Hart, Schaffner and Marx Com- John Watts, Roland Schultz, and
The following courses are offered to be stationed there are:
the citizens of Lexington during the talion of the Eleventh Infantry, two position with the Louisville Colonel pany, of Chicago, for his essay .on
promotions of "Classified Property Tax." The consecond semester. Ornithology given companies of the Tenth Infantry, one Baseball team. Other
high rank are: Lieutenant colonel, test is open each year to any resident (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
by Dr. W. D. Funkhouser, on Monmajor of the first of the United States for the best essay
day evenings at 7 o'clock at the zo- (CONTINUED ON JAGE EIGHT) William Leivenson;
batalion, J. L. Darnaby; and major of written in the field of economics, and
ology laboratories; hygiene for gradthe second battalion, Frank Brown, the winning treatise is published in
ed schools, Doctor Rush, Mondays at
Convention
Jr.
the book of prize essays of the last
4 o'clock;
drama,
The following promotions, appoint- twenty years:
Professor Farquhar, Wednesdays at
Speaks to ments, and assignments in the R. 0. The committee making the award Delta Epsilon Chapter Enter
4 o'clock;
curriculum construction, Miss McLaughlin
T. C. regiment were issued by the was composed
tains Large Number of
Georgetown Women
Doctor McMullen at Morton Junior
of Dr. Lawrence Laugh
and Alumni
order of Colonel Hobbs, February 15. lin, chairman of the committee, of the
high school, Tuesdays at 3:30 o'clock;
Regimental Staff
Miss Margaret McLaughlin, as
tests and measurements, Doctor Ross,
Institute of Economics of Chicago; J.
About two hundred and fifty dele
Colonel, J. M. Rachal, lieutenant B. Clark, former professor at Colum
Wednesdays at 4 o'clock; introduction sistant professor of journalism, de
livered an address on journalism Wed
bia University; Edwin F. Gay, of gates from alumni and active chapters
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Harvard University; Hon. Theodore arrived in Lexington last night and
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) nesday afternoon at Georgetown, before the Woman's Association at
Burton, of Washington; Professor this morning for the combined conGRADUATE CLUB WILL MEET Georgetown College. The address WHITE CLUB HOLDS MEETING Wesley C. Mitchell, of Columbia Uni ference of the northern and southern
divisions of the Delta Tau Delta frawas made in Euepian hall.
versity.
Miss McLaughlin closed a series of
The Graduate Club of the UniverThe regular monthly meeting of the
Professor Leland has been a mem ternity. Delta Epsilon chapter is the
sity of Kentucky will meet in the lectures on vocational guidance, which White Mathematics Club was held ber of the faculty of the university host to this conference.
smoker was held
A
Little Theater in White hall on "Sat- have been given for some time at the Thursday, February 10, at 4 o'clock for several years. He was granted
urday, February 19, at 12 o'clock college. The talks were sponsored by in the Civil and Physics building. Mr. a leave of absence last year to receive last night at the chapter house on
Lexington avenue for those who ar
noon to elect officers" and complete the college division of the educational South presented a paper on "Line, his. doctor's degree in economics at
rived yesterday. The conference will
arrangements for the annual banquet. department of the institution.
Surface and Space Integrals."
the University of Chicago.
open at 10 o'clock this morning with
business sessions held in the Phoenix
hotel. The afternoon will be devoted
to business sessions also.
Tonight at 8:30 o'clock there will
be a formal conference dance held in
the men's gym. The feature of the
dance wil be the appearance of an
unique orchestra, composed of eight
Carson-Newma-

n,

(

espec-Mond-

PLEDGING

HELD
BY LEGAL FRATS

!

,

i,;...,-..Wt-

-

hisl'
I

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1

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dare-devilt- ry

to JOHN M. RACHAL

EXTENSION WORK
ENROLLS MANY

IS NEW COLONEL

r,

Leland Wins
Treatise

Roy-Ray-

Delegates Arrive for
Delta Tail

Delivers Address

Del-gat- es

Junior and Senior Advanced Corps Men

(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

To Give Show

(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

to Be Run
Curtain Fund

Two Films

Theta "Sigs"' Meet
Virginia Conroy Is Appointed

for

The
Associaticn of
the University High school will sive
a picture show in the new auditorium of the high school Thursday, February 24, at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and again at 7 :30 o'clock at
night. The purpose of the pictur? is
to raise funds to procure a stage curtain for the auditorium of the high
Parent-Teache-

National Delegate

Theta Sicma Phi. journalistic soror
ity, held its regular monthly meeting
Thursday, February 10, at the home
of Miss Catherine Carey on McDow
ell road.
Miss Virginia Conroy was elected
.a delegate to the fifth national
convention of the sorority to be held
!n MinneaDolis in June. A commit
tee, composed of Lydia Roberts, Ruth
Kehoe. and Virginia Conroy, was ap
pointed to have charge of the campus
Y. W. program bunaay.
Plans are being made for Theta
Sigma Phi to get out the Easter edition t of The Kernel.

9

CATS MEET VOLS

COMPANY D TO Campus Cadets
RIFLE TEAM HAS
to Ttafow Fir Big Party of the
HOLD PLEDGING
BETTER SEASON
Year for Purpose of Strutting Their New Uniforms

CLASS TO STUDY
CHINA SITUATION

SB

NUMBER 19

The R. 0. T. Q. unit of the University of Kentucky is nearing the completion of its tenth year of instruction
the campus, having been establish-- 1
ed at the university in the fall of 1917.
Previous to this time, military train- -'
ing was conducted under the provisions
of the act of Congress of July 2,,
1862, "donating lands for the
of colleges where the leading
object shall be the practical instruc- tion in agriculture and mechanical '
arts, including military tactics."
Military training has always been
compulsory at the university for all
male students physically able to carry the work during their freshman and
sophomore years. Under the act of
1862, the training of students was
chiefly drill work,
This continued
in force until the establishment of thp
R. 0. JF, C, infantry unit under the
provisions of the National Defense
Hermaa
Act o? 1916 which was amended by The university rifle team is composed of the following men:
T. Combs, Edward F. Crady, Robert C. Darsie, Clay D. Fyffe, James R.'
the National Defense Act of 1920.
Hester, Karl P. Hohman, Albert S. Johnson, Jess M. Laughlin, Earl
Two courses of training are offered
C. May, John J. Richardson,.Robert S. Sauer, Stanley M. Stagg, Virgil D.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)
Johnson, William E. Weems and Raymond H. White.

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TIME IS FROM 9 UNTIL

OF

UNIVERSITY

GAME TOMORROW

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school.

,

JUNIOR

CLASS

SENIOR

CLASS

The pictures to be presented at this
time are the "Nightingale" and The
Early Bird," the latter being a seven
reel comedy featuring Johnny I lines.
The "Nightingale" is a picture in
natural colors.
It was awarded a
prize in 1926 as being the best short
picture filmed. The admission price
will be 20 cents.

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WORLD WAR

HENRY CLAY THOMPSON, Jr.
Special Student in Engineering,

FRANK MATTHEW COFFEE-Cla- ss
of 190G in Engineering

1918

STANLEY HARTWELL SMITH
Class of 1919 in Law

RAYMOND ANTHONY
SCHOBERTH
Class of 1915 in Law

LEWIS WASHINGTON
HERNDON
Class of 1918 in Arts and Science
MERRITT POWELL
MARION
Class of 1918 in Arts and Science

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Makes

CALENDAR
Chicago Alumni Club, luncheon
third Monday in each month in the
Men's Grill, Marshall Field Co.
Buffalo Alumni Club, meeting
second Saturday in each month at
Chamber of Commerce, Seneca and
Main streets, 2:15 p.m.
Louisville Alumni Club, luncheon,
private dining room Brown, hotel
1 o'clock p. m., first Saturday in

Possible,

Establishment of Agricultural and Mechanical College in
Kentucky

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STORY

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each month.

The act makes instruction in those
branches of learning related to agri
culture and the mechanic arts obliga- -

GAMAGE GUEST
OF OLD "K" MEN

Dance Programs and Menus a Specialty
145 W. SHORT ST.

IS

PLEDGED

The Fayette County "K" Associa
tion, composed of those men who have
been awarded their letter for par

tory. It also makes instruction m
ticipation in the organized athletics
military tactics obligatory. It makes i AiUmnUS 111 LeXingTOll of the University of Kentucky, were
m,
me inclusion ui uuici oucunm. auu
hosts at a banquet in honor of Coach
1iyrl
0,UUU
Mile T
classical, studies permissive, optional UI1
Harry Gamage and the Athletic CounREUBEN BRENT HUTCH-CRAFcil of the University of Kentucky,
with the states. The states may, out
Jr.
BERTIE WILSON DAVID
of this Morrill fund establish and Charles Planck is Tour Manager Wednesday, February 9. The ban
MeProfessor in College of Law
maintain an Agricultural and
quet was given in the private dining
Class of 1920 in Engineering
of Automobile Endurance
chanical College the nucleus of a Uniroom of the Lafayette hotel. Thirty'
Trip
ROGERS
CLARK
. GEORGE
HOWARD IRVING KINNE
Organization which shall inversity
six were present.
Class of 1915 in Engineering
Class of 1918 in Engineering
clude agriculture and mechanics as
Charles Planck, '19, of Detroit,
James Park, president of the Alumni
colleges. Eleven or twelve former aviation editor of the Detroit Association was the toastmaster and a
ELMO BLEVINS
one of its
CHARLES
CLARENCE RUSSELL CAUGH
and Science
states maintain out of this fund Free Press, was in Lexington last number of the old athletes gave short
of the
Class of 1914 in Arts
Class of 1917 in Engineering
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges week on an endurance tour for the talks on athletics at the University
JOSEPH CARR REYNOLDS
ROBERT EMMETT CULLEN
only. The majority of the states have Oakland Automobile Company of De of Kentucky, past, present and future
Law
Class of 1916 in
Class of 1916 in Law
built and maintain universities on the troit. He is manager of the tour,
The undivided support of the "K"
basis of the land grant act of 1862, The automobile is a stock Oakland men and the entire Alumni Associa
DEXTER WHITTINGHILL
H. TOWNSEND
AUBRA
some of which are among the. best uni- six landau sedan, and it passed tion was pledged to Coach Gamage
RAMSEY'
Class of 1919 in Agriculture
versities in America. These "institu through Lexington on a 15,000 mile by President Park in introducing Mr.
Class of 1914 in Law
tions have in their faculties many men trip over the United States.
HELM
CHESTER BRYAN
Gamage. He said that every graduate
HAROLD ARTHUR PULLIAM
of distinction, men of ability and
Class of 1919 in Law
The rout of the tour from Lexington and former student was behind the
scholarship. )
Class of 1918 in Arts and Science
is bounded roughly by the following teams of, the University and willing to
WALTER CLEVELAND
When the Morrill Act passed Con cities: Cincinnati, Columbus, Pitts do anything to aid in the program that
LEONARD CABELL BRIDGES
NEAGLE
gress, the, country was in tne miasc burg, Baltimore, Boston, .Albany, Buf he would inaugurate.
Class of 1910 in Engineering
Class of 1917 in Agriculture
of the grea't Civil War. Educational falo, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee,
Coach Gamage responded, thanking
matters occupied their attention but St. Louis, Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, the association for its hospitality. He
It is fitting and proper that we, the Alumni of the University of
little. In 1864, the Trustees of Tran- Spokane, Bismark, Minneapolis, Des outlined briefly his program for the
patrioKentucky, pause next Tuesday when our thoughts are filled with
sylvania, in which the state had a Moines, Chicago and Detroit.
s
teams of the university and let it be
tism and for a moment bow our heads in honor of these
controlling interest, offered to the
Mr. 'Planck, formerly wa associated understood
he was capable of
who gave their all for the cause of civilization in the
and Kentuckians
Legislature of Kentucky the endow with one of the Lexington newspapers handling thethat
situation on the field and
World War. . They were our brother Kentuckians and students. They
ment, grounds and buildings of Tran later going to Detroit. As aviation did not wish any interference from
paid the supreme price for their country. They are worthy of your
sylvania University as a site for the editor of the Detroit Free Press he anyone. He explained how the Alumni
'
Agricultural and Mechanical College made several endurance and test Association and the interested friends
reverence and kindest thoughts.
of Kentucky, this combining the old flights covering thousands of miles of the University of Kentucky could
state" interest in Transylvania with He flew his plane from Detroit to Lex help by seeing that the good ath
the new institution which was to come ington for the
e
football letes of Kentucky come to the Uniinto being and placing all the state game last fall.
versity of Kentucky and not allowed
sociation and the University have not interest in higher education under
to slip away from the state.
of the failure of a one management. A bill for the conThe guests of honor were: Coach
been met because
live up to solidation of Transylvania with the turn over its trust to any eligible sue Harry Gamage, Enoch Grehan, W. D
number of the pledges to
Mechanical College cessor.
Agricultural and
Funkhouser, E. A. Bureau, S. A
their obligations.
passed one house of the General
At this juncture, Kentucky Univer Bowles and John G. Stoll.
Last week this office mailed out
Assembly, but was not acted on by sity was ready to rise again like the
Needless to say the University and
The other guests were: Tom Rob- several hundred letters to Alumni and
the other.
Phoenix from its ashes and to take inston. '14; C. Johnson. '13: W. C,
friends of the University of Ken- the Alumni Association are facing an
sixty-on- e
on new life either at Harrodsburg or Wilson, '13; H. A. Bobb, '11; Thomson
After an existence of
tucky who have failed to pay up in embarrassing situation owing to the
years of success, followed by decline elsewhere and
point the future R. Bryant, '08; Brinkley Barnett, '13
full their pledges tothe Greater Ken- nonpayment of the obligations which and ultimately by collapse, Transyl- Agricultural at this
and Mechanical College!
tucky Fund. We wish to take this ig directly caused by the nonpayment vania with all its valuable assets was was ready to enter upon its existence Raymond L. Kirk, '24; Albert Mutb
'22; J. S. Chambers, '13; J. White
opportunity to explain the letter and of some of the pledges. The ultimate1 only a name, ready jto be incorporated either as a
entity, inde- Guyn, '04; William Rodes, '08; How
the need of a full and complete settle- blame for the delay in settling up all' or absorbed in any" institution which pendent and
or in alliance ell D. Spears, '07; George R. Smith
of the indebtedness comes back to the could infuse life and vigor into its in- with some other educational enter- '15; C. G. Downing
ment of the pledges to the fund.
'15; L. L. Guyn
v
was raised by pledges and Alumni Association. It is unfair to ert mass. Its Trustees were ready to prise.
The fund
'14; Doc Rodes, '17; B. L. Pribble, '23
amount pledg- the University and to those who gave
Mr. John B. Bowman saw his oppor- Bruce Fuller, '23; William G.. Walker,
on the strength of the
tunity" and was not slow to avail him- '21; E. C. Elliott, '02; J. P. Johnston
ed the Alumni Association and the their work and material in the conbas- faculty of the Junior College of Flat self of conditions as he found them. '00; J. R. Johnson, '93; Job D. Turner,
University of Kentucky went forward struction of the stadium and the
River, Mo.
CHAPTER III
'98; J. Milward Elliott, '98; Chas. F.
with the stadium and basketball build- ketball building to allow this condiMr. Bowman was no ordinary man. Straus,. '98; John William, '98; James
Bernice Grey Florence is lviing in
ing, using University funds that had tion to exist. It is up to us to get
beyond most of his con- Park, '15; R. C. Stoll, '95.
Paris, Ky.
been set aside for other purposes. every cent that has been pledged and
Holly Witherspoon Fluty is an at- temporaries and animated by a courDebts were assumed, by both the As- a good way to start is to pay up your torney and is located in Winchester, age which did not hesitate to seize
own obligation now, so you can then
sociation and the University, on the
an opportunity when presented, he re- ators have a cash endowment of two
Kentucky.
strength of the pledges and looking turn to someone who has not and try
Virginia Jesse Foreman is teaching solved to make a bold effort to achieve hundred thousand dollars yielding an
forward to the complete settlement of to influence him to pay his. This is a in the Indian School at Cherokee, a marked success for his church and annual income of about twelve thous
little matter that we must attend to North Carolina.
for education in Kentucky.
every one of the pledges.
and dollars, and that there are cash
To "finite and consolidate Transyl- funds of Transylvania University to be
Tom G. Foster, Jr., is with the
The last installment on the pledges at once. How about giving us a lift
e
thousand
has been due for mor than a year. with a check if you still owe any part Bond Department of the Illinois Mer- vania and the Kentucky University, united with them of
chants Trust Company of Chicago, Il- and upon this united interest to en- dollars yielding an annual income of
The obligations assumed by the As of your pledge?
linois. His address, is Harvard hotel, graft the Agricultural and Mechanical over three thousand five hundred dol
College with the. prestige which an al- lars besides the grounds, buildings
5714 Blackstone avenue.
Zilpha Maine .Foster is Home Dem- liance with the state would bring, ap- library and apparatus and other propUnited States Radiator Corporation
erty of Transylvania University of the
onstration agent in McCracken Coun- pealed to the imagination of his
of Clevela