THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Friday. April 22. 1955

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mind remain unanswered.
Then there appears someone who can adequately express "the haunting, elusive fragrance of violets" and each of us can understand what he is- talkingnibout.
' Such is the case of A Man Called Peter.
Peter Marshal, the minister who gave sermons from his heart, won fame and recognition because of his work in the Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.
He was recently immortalized in a movie
adapted from the novel, A Man Called Peter.
This was one of the most refreshing and
pictures to be shown this year. The
movie-goer- s
had something to take home
with them for once.
The story of this man, who dared to be a
in the field where conformity
is expected, reaches into the everyday lite
of every American who lias tried to understand himself.
Cod cannot be analyzed in a test tube.
Marriage is a oneness, like two tributatries
ilow ing toge ther. Death is waking up in the
morning and not knowing how ou got

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Come on Ophelia. If you don't of fur. are Oh
hurry well be late to the tea. And Thighs little so lucky to have such
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we don't want to be late to the a cute
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Thigh Thigh tea."
Thigh
"You're so right, Ophelia, . But
you think it's about time
"Aw, what's your rush? It's only don't
we departed?"
in honor of their newly acquired
house dog."
"Yes, I guess we must lea ve. We

cessors.
We who move "daily upon the errands of
the mind" at UK have. a. great deal to live
up to and a responsibility to see that the
dreams, visions,1 and ideals entrenched in
each acre and every brick of our university-arnever lost.
iE;eflf though we represent "every county
states, and twenty
in KeiVtucky, thirty-siseven foreign countries," we first and foremost' represent a university, the University
of Kentucky: "an intellectual spirit that
abides on the Campus, an intangible value
that cannot be measured physically by
scales.
A (University is a place; it is a spirit: it is
men of learning . . . it protects the traditions. . . .

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Vtry seldom can man find answers to
these problems that will re lease his wony
anel doubt, but Peter Marshal tunnel the
weirds and spent Lis life helping his fellenv
nu n understand them.
His comments on college life anel young
people hit close to home. With his wife, he
showed how women can be thinking in

certainly had a wonderful time.
The punch was so' good: Every-

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dividuals in the world and yet occupy an
honored place.
Although the picture was a series of sermons, the sermons did not give the effect of
being preached at. They were direct and
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point. And points that concern each
of.us.
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One for the money, two for the show, and
three, we go home without any dough. So,
student greets another after
one
a hard day at the races, "And how did you
do today?" "Oh, not too bad. 115." "Say,
that's pretty good. You must have really had
the inside dope on those horses." "Nope.
That was my golf score.''
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"I just can't stand her, Jennifer.
And wasn't that a horrible dress
she had on! It looked just like
one of our initiation robes, without the hood."
"Yeah. And with that hair do,
she'd lock better if she wore a
hood."
"You're so right Jennifer. And
I just hope she doesn't drop by to
see me sometime.
I utterly, and I do mean utterly,
despise the snoopy way she looks
around your room while visiting."
Oh look, Ophelia. There's Cynthia Crudwall. Isn't that an obnoxious dress she has on?"
"It certainly is. Makes her look
like an undtrfed Dior model.''
"And there's Marietta Murch
How are you Marietta? I just
can't see what she sees in Charlie.
He's from nowhere."
"Look Jennifer, there's Charlie
over by the punch bowl . . . well
wait lor me."
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"It certainly was:. Ajid the punch
tasted like diluted antifreeze. I've
never had such a horrible time, in
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And so ended another" .scene
each week on
which is
college campuses throughout the
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world.
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lowship and warrnness of sorority
teas.
,public minded paToo bad the
triots, who held their own tea
party back in Boston many years
ago, didn't do away with all the
blasted stuff.
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Sp rmgtmie
Spring: and flowers and suntans.
Soft breezes
butterflies and
cotton , dresses. Green grass and
robbins and helicopters.
Suzzics bct beware.
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One More
Committees, committees, committees. What would the world do
Strange,
without committees?needed one
though, that the most
hasn't been invented a Traditions
Committee.

This Is Art?
Dada is a nic.it amaiinf form of

art. It has no form. The dadahts
even paint pic teres by dropping; a
piece of string on their canvas and
hape in which it
pave a lecture
which consisted of the letter W.
But their favorite pastime- - was to
get together after an exhibition
and burn all the pictures' exhibited.
These moderners.
outlining the
fell.

Once they

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Men: Been wendering about that
inexplicable iusation known ;h
falling in love? George nernanf
Shaw, the wonderful .realis'V 'Kins
love down by explaining if as' tn '
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inisfnUo of cverfcvtimitjng thr
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Yeu know what I '.h:. ''
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See you Tonight,'"'
' Come on Ophelu.; L
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at little Barf, the new Tlv.h Thi-iThigh house dog."
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Jenniler. It's just l:ke walking

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on campus."
"I'm ready
Jennifer. How
do I look?'
"Your hat looks nice. But
Ophelia, look at your stockings.
They're, awfully wrinkled."
"But Jennifer, I don't have any
stockings on. I decided it was too
hot to wear stockings . . . and I
think you knew that I didn't have
stockings on. Just 'Who do you
think you are saying things like
that to me?"
"Now Ophelia, I was just. . ."
"Don't try to make up. It's too
late. Just wait until I tell Herman
that you snore. You'll be sorry
"You wouldn't dare tell Herman.
And anyway, I don't snore. But
let's get to the tea."
(At the tea)
"Well hello Judith. I'm certainly
glad to see you. You look so nice.
Why don't you drop by and see me

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A Man They Called
Sometimes it is hard to put into words
exactly how one feels. The right words just
don't come and the questions that haunt the

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each other."
The story of UK includes cultural, educa. . and what are your prospects for next fill, coach?"
scientific.development, becoming
tional, and
the "intellectual center of the State," the
elevation of the professor to a "highly honored and respected scholar and a man of
dignity," and economic rewards for Kenthrough an obstacle course, isn't)
By RAY IIORNBACK
tucky people from the research laboratories.
it?"
UK's "This Is Your Life" story told by Dr..
on Ophelia, it's time to
"Well what can you expect? The
"Come
Donovan is fascinating, exciting, and imgo.
poor little puppy is only tw.)
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portant to each student who now enjoys the
"I'll be right down as soon as I months old. Ke'il learn
get my stockings on."
"Hi there, ycu sweet little bundle
benefits earned the hard way by our predeyou Thigh Thigh

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accessible to the poorest 1oy in the land . . .
universities have been accessible only to the
few, such are the expenses attending them,"
According to history, UK had to make
three starts before the university was accepted and permanently established. "Men
with little vision, religious bigots" stood in
the way of the development of a liberal
state school from the very beginning of
Transylvania through to the day of President James K. Patterson, when "sermons denouncing the state school were preached
from one end of Kentucky to the other. . . ."
The dissentions between the denominational schools and public colleges were
straightened out during the time of President
McVey, and today these colleges are aware
of the fact that there is room for all of them
and that their "common foe is ignorance, not

What is f7 university? A university is a
place; it is a spirit: it is men of learning, a
collection of books, laboratories tvlicrc work
in science rocs forward; it is the source of
teaching of tlw beauties of literature and the
arts; it is the center tvlwre ambitious youth
gathers to learh; it protects tfie traditions,
honors the new atul tests its value; it believes in truth, protests against error, and
leads men by reason rather tlian by force.
This famous definition of a university, our
university, by Frank L. McVey, the fifth
president of UK, was brought home forcefully in the address given by President Herman L. Donovan to the Newcomen Society.
President Donovan's Newcomen Address,
dealing with the history of the University of
Kentucky, was given at the "1935 Kentucky
Dinner" of the Newcomen Society in North
America, held at Lexington on April 14, VXyj?
The Newcomen Society was begun 30 years
ago as a voluntary association interested in
the background factors that have contributed
or are contributing to the progress of mankind.
In concluding his comments on the historical growth and struggles of our university, Dr. Donovan said that the university
today is the reward of the "vanguard of
noble souls who have served here" and have
"paid in blood and sweat and tears for that
thing we call the spirit of the institution."
"Our inheritance" today is a university
with a "vigorous, scholarly faculty" of 700, an
enrollment of 7,838 different students in
1953-5a "growing library of 'approximately
700,000 volumes," a "series of great laboratories wherein research is carjieej oi'v.'anik
physical properties acquired vek a.. period of
ninety years worth more than $40,000,000.
Dr. Donovan showed how this "inheritance" that is ours today was not the result of
overnight miracle, but a long, slow process
of toil, vision, conflict, and determination.
He pointed out the dream of UK's first
champion. John B. Bowman, who said, "I
want to build up a people's institution, a
great free university, eventually jopen and

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Astronomer? tell u.i that moon
no water, and
has no atmev-phereno life of any kind. All of which
sounds like a paradise for peopl:
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