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VOL. XII

MAD1S0NVILLE

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Seamon of Asbury and
Trimble of Hopkinsville
Get Oratorical Medals

Friday.

Twelve

high schools,

were represented.
Thursday night the oratorical contest was held and gold medals were
awarded by Professor Mikesell on behalf of the University to Lyon Seamon
of the Asburg College Academy and
Trimble of Honkinsville High School.
The Lexington Herald cup, which the
edicor, Mr. Desha Breckinridge, has
offered to the high school which is
victorious in three successive state
oratorical contests, was given to the
Asbury College Academy for the coming year.
Friday night the finals in debating
were held and Madisonvllle High
School was victor over LaGrange
The representatives
High School.
from Madisonvllle were Thomas B.
Finley, Jr., William Morton, Jr., and
George W. Hickman, Jr., from
,
Foster Johnson, Emmltt Haut-erarid Virginia Manby. They debated
on the question of the retention of the
Dillingham Immigration bill, the winning team having the affirmative side.
Harry Giovannali, editor of the Lexington Leader, presented the winning
team with the Leader trophy, which
was won last year by the Lexington
High School; and Professor Mikesell
with gold
presented the winners
medals on behald of the University.
Miss Ellen Goodnow, Dayton high
school was awarded a gold medal and
silver cup by Professor Dantzler on
behalf of the University as the winner of the essay contest in which more
than 4,000 students took part. The
subject of the winning essay was.
"John Fox, Jr., A Criticism of His
Work." Maurice Stroud of OwenBboro
High School was awarded the second
prize, a silver medal. His essay waB
on "Why I Want to go to uouege.
S. S. Elam, editor of the Kentucky
School News, Frankfort, presented a
silver medal to Miss Frances Stahel,
Margaret Hall, Versailles, for the best
Stands
essay on "Why Kentucky
Miss
Educationally."
Forty-flftStahel's essay was fourth in the state
contest, third jblnce going to miss
Pearl Love, Bowling Green.
deMore than 200 members of the
bating and oratorical teams field and
track squads, students and faculty
atof the University and many visitors
tended the annual banquet of the
League held Friday
night In Dicker Hall preceding the
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General Roger Williams and
Captain Johnson To Be

Present

P U B L I C IS INVITEL
Elaborate Program is Plan
ned for the Event

WINS

L TOURNEY

Louisville Male High Comes
Second. Nine Records

Were Broken
Berea Academy won the championship of the ninth annual Kentucky
tournament held on Stoll
Field Saturday, scoring 31 points, and
Louisville Male High, their nearest
competitors, finishing with 28 points.
Nine interscholastic records were shattered.
Daily of Berea, with 11 points, was
awarded the silver loving sup for the
high point man of the tournament.
First second and third in the various
events were presented gold, silver,
and bronze medals respectively.
The final standing of the schools
was Anderson County, 0; Berea, 31;,
Covington, 4; Cynthiana, 0; Apkfort,
10; Ft. Thomas, 6; Lawrenceburg, 6;
Lexington, 0; Louisville Male, 28;
Madison, 0; Madisonville, 1; Massle,
5; JManual, 17; Model, 0; Morton-Ellio10; Pineville, 8.
Brady, of Lawrenceburg, shattered
the pole vault record, clearing the bar
at 11 feet. Ernsberger, of Ft. Thomas,
and Sandford of Manual, tied for
second, dividing the points.
broke the
Hughes, of Morton-Ellio- t
high jump record of 5 feet 6 Inches,
held jointly by him and Wllhelm, and
raised the mark a half an inch.
Hughes also won the broad jump,
leaping 20 feet, 9M inches.
Crutcher, of Frankfort High, broke
the Javelin record by nearly nine
feet, hurling the javelin 149 feet
of Pineville,
inches. Brandenburg
beat the discus throw of last year by
almost ten feet, throwing the discus
113 feet.
In the afternoon Dailey, of Berea,
broke the mile record, running It in
4:46. Davis, of Louisville Male, ran
seconds,
the 220 yard dash in 22
of a second from the
clipping
record. His teamate, Moore, shattered
the high hurdle record, lowering It
of a second to 17 seconds flat. Miller of Manuel set a new 440 yard dash
record whon he ran the dash In 53
seconds. Dailey, of Berea, shattered
the record of the 880 yard run. His
time was 2:4
The summaries:
Morning Summaries.
Pole Vault Brady, Lawrenceburg,
first; Sanford, Manual, and Ernsbor
t,

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PRIZE COMPANY

TO

President

The annual state high school oratorical and debating contests were BEREA ACADEMY
held at the University last Thursday

MEMORIAL

DRIVE.

Next Wednesday will be "Tag
Day",by members of the
Circle during which time every student will ber solicited and asked to
contribute at least $10.00 to the
Memorial Fund to be used to erect
a building on the University campus for those who died in the World
War. This amount does not have
to be given all together,
but a
pledge may be made, payable in
four quarters.
Thursday will be "clean up day"
for those who have not been solicited. A list will be kept and the
names checked off as the student
donate.
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Miss Ellen Goodnow Awarded Essay Medal- -

and

GUP TO BE

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IN FINALS

representing the twelve districts into
which the state has been divided,

LOVING

KY NOTICE!

There will be an important meeting of the
Circle in the Journalism room Tuesday afternoon
and every member is requested to
be present as new members for the
forthcoming year are to be selected
at this meeting. The boosting of
the University and athletics depends upon the members of the
Circle to a great extent and for
this reason the best selection for
next year must be made at this
meeting. It will begin promptly at
3:30. Every member be there.
ARTHUR BRADSHAW.

TWELVE TEAMS HERE

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No. 28

"The 1 3 th Chair" Great Success
DEBATING CONTEST WON

Air

MAY 12, 1922

The three companies of the Uni
versity battalion of Cadets will meet
in the annual Field Day exercises on
Stoll Field Tuesday May 16, for the
purpose of competing for the silver
loving cup presented to the company
showing the best training that day.
The prize, a lovely silver cup with
gold lining is the gift of IL Colonel
George D. Freeman and will be com
peted for annually by the University
companies of Cadets.
The program, which begins at 3:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon
will be
composed of a review of the battalion
a demonstration of a platoon tackling
machine gun and a rifle drill with
music by the band. The contest will
close with the presentation of the cup
to the prize company and a final passing in review.
The group of judges for the competition drill is composed of some of
the foremost military men of the
country. They are Colonel Charles
Marrow, Captain George E. Jacobs,
Captain Carl B. Byrd, Captain Tuinn
of Greendale Reform School for Boys.
General Roger Williams, in charge
of the 5th Corps Area will be present
for the occasion and will probably
present the cup.
All students who are to take part
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TAU

DELTO

HIGHEST

ALPHiTP

jRAT

AVERAGE

Thirty Five Percent of Men
Students are Members
of Fraternities.
A report of the standing of the
various mens fraternities on the
campus for the first semester discloses
the following facts, (1) that thirty-fiv- e
per cent of the men in the University are members of social fraper
ternities and that this thirty-fivcnt totals 262 men.
The University Y. M. C. A. awards
a silver cup to the fraternity making
the highest standing for the semester.
The Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, hav
ing but two members last semester,
and knowing that tho object of the
award was to promote larger group
requested
that
scholastic standing
they should not be considered In the
contest. Their standing howovor was
2. It Is gratifying to note, on a com
parlson of the standing of previous
semesters, a marked Improvement on
the whole In the fraternity standing.
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FIRST

PERFORMANCE

THE THIRTEENTH

OF

CHAIR'

PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE

Mary

Lyons, has Strong:
Support in Leading Role
as Madame La Grange

TO

PLAY

Elaborate

SAT. NIGHT

Stage

Setting

Adds to Production

Unique in the dramatic history of
the University was the mountain folklore play presented Monday afternoon
and night in chapel. The play, "The
Prophet of the Big Smoky," was a
dramatization by Professor Mikese'J,
based on Charles Craddock's book by
the same title, and was presented by
a cast composed entirely of mountain
students in the University.
Rare insight into the character of
the Kentucky mountaineer was displayed both on the part of the producer
and of the actors. Special mention
should be given J. S. Hays who played
the part of the mountain parson, the
Phophet and to Paul Bieknell who
played the role of the host. Other
members of the cast were:
Dorindy Cayce
Ann Riddell
Lenore Patrick
Mother Cayce
Katherine Elliott
Dancer
Max Howard
Rick Tyler
Ralph H. Woods
Sheriff
Blacksmith
Fletcher C. Walker
L. C. Fielder
Obediah Scruggs
O. W. Cain
Hirm Dole
D. V. Sublot
Nathan Hoodendin
R. T. Johnson
Attorney
C. M. Clay Portur
Attorney
Judge
Sidney B. Nettl
Especially entertaining was tho old
fashioned square dance which was executed in the last act by Ann Riddell.
Lenor Patrick, Kathorlno Elliott, Max
Howard, Paul Bieknell and S. B. Meal.
An additional feature that contributed much to the success of tho ror- formanco was the singing ot moun-- !
tain ballads by a troup of students
who came over from Berea College
Among the well known ballads that
they sang "Sour Wood Mountain,"
"Green Willow Tree" and "Lltile
Moheo."
The following students oam; from
Berea: Miss Irma A. Forman, music
director, Betty Herndor, Dora Gross-cup- ,
M.
Mabel Dhaley, Catherine
Haley, Gladys Barnes, Jlmm(') Norton,
Florenco Bakor, Fannie Lo: Reed.
Charles T. Morgan, Lloyd Rackloy,
Dan Wlntormute, Seth C. Whtto.
This was tho last of a very jjuccess-fu- l
serios of Little Thoutro programs
given at tho University this season.
It differed from the otunr three pro

The best dramatic talent of the
University combined under the name
of "Strollers," In existence for the
past thirteen years, during which
time parctlcally every phase of theatrical production has been undertaken
was far surpassed last night in the
first production of "The Thirteenth
Chair" at Woodland Auditorium. The
largest audience that has ever witnessed a Stroller performance on the
opening night in Lexington was in attendance last night, and was held under tension for two hours during
which time Velllers masterful mys
tery drama was produced with professional acting by University students.
The rising of the curtain at 8:30 last
night revealed the most elaborate
and richly colored setting ever used
in a Stroller production. The scene,
an Italian drawing room of the wealthy
Crosby family in New York was a
deep blue, with grey border, a mantle-piec- e
of stone,
heavy oak doors,
French windows and a hand painted
picture on the right side wall, chairs,
devans, upholstered in blue and gold,
table lamps tables, all of which were
made by the students of the Art Department and students in the wood-shoof the mechanical College. The
lighting effect was arranged
by a
switchboard made in the Mechanical
College under the superlnvision of J.
W. Owens, senior in that department
and was operated by Henry Harper.
The play because of the fact that It
was produced in its entirety by the
students themselves, reflects credla-blupon the University. This work
is done apart from their regular
courses and Is not credited in anyone
class or department, and those taking
part and giving their time and talent
so generously to the success of "The
Thirteenth Chair" did so because of
the love of it. And it Is for no other
reason that such appreciation as was
expressed after the performnace last
night was in small only part of the appreciation felt by those witnessing the
production.
Mary Lyons who carried the heaviest role In the play Interpreted the
character as Madam La Grange, an
old Irish woman, ns perhaps no other
student in the University could have
done. This difficult role was given
her over a hundred applicants who
tried for the part, and with tho burden
of this part and tho success of the play
within her hands, staged a comeback
with tho most masterful piece of professional acting ever seen on an amateur stage.
Frances Smith, was charming as
Helen O'Noil, because of her dainty

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SUCCESSFUL

PLAY ENDS

LITTLE THEATRE SEASON

Hays and Bieknell Given
Special Mention for
Excellent Portrayal

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