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BLUE RIDGE ISSUE
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The Kentucky Kernel
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON,

VOL. XV

if STROLLERS PLAY

KY., APRIL 24, 1925

No. 27

AT OPERA HOUSE ON APRIL 28

ELABORATE PARADE, LED BY MAY
.. inn. t rr i triT
'OR NEXT FRIDAY

"FIFTY-FIFTY-

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MOVING DAY
NOT OBSERVED
FIRST Of MAY

QUEEN O'

TO BE GIVEN
TUESDAY NITE

MAY

Is Seventh Annual

Production
ONE NIGHT ONLY

Freshmen May Discard
Caps But Remain
Yearlings

Best Staged in Years
by This Organization

PARADE AT 2 P. M.

"Flfty-Flfty'-

Classes Dismissed After
Third Hour for
Exercises

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May Day will bo celebrated on the
campuB with a program which, ac
cording to plans just completed, will
be a trifle mare beautiful, a bit gayer
and infinitely more colorful than any
previous celebration of this nature
which has taken place on the campus
in many years.
Classes will be dismissed after the
third hour on Friday, Mayl, and from
then until the close of the gingham
dance that night at 11:30 o'clock, a
of activities has-be- en-

arranged.
EXERCISES
Beginning at 11 o'clock tho seniors
will utilize all the time until end of
fifth hour. Their program will start
near the main entranco of the university when tho class prophet visualizes
all his classmates as they will appear
several years from now. Tho class
poet, imbued with tho spirit that
makes men jwrlte "spring poetry",
will recite his verso for about ten
minutes. The senior orator and tho
junior orator will next address tho
classes of the university.
A tree will bo planted near the main
entrance and each member of the
SENIOR

Annelle

Kelley

senior class will file by and toss in a
shovelful of dirt.
The scene of activities will then be
moved to the cannon in front of the
Administration building where Mortar
Board, senior women's honorary frat
ernity, will hold its pledging exer
cises; these exercises will bo followed
by the Lamp and Cross pledging which
will conclude the morning program.
PARADE AT 2 P. M.
At 2 o'clock in tho afternoon that
part of the day's activities of which
Circle is in charge will be
the Su-K- y
begun. A parade, led by the May
Queen in a beautifully decorated float,
will start from the campus at that
hour, and will wind through the down
town streets, returning to the campus
by a route which has not yet been
worked out.
Fraternities and other organizations
are urged to prepare floats which will
enter the competition in this parade.
A prize will bo given for the most
beautiful float in the parade, and a
(Continued

Robert E. Lee Hall in Distance From Opposite Mountain

"The Messiah' Greatest of Oratorios,
And Glee Club Are Music Week Features
MEN'S STUDENT
Occasion for a Brilliant Program CONFERENCE TO
MEET JUNE 16
FIVE GIRLS ARE ORATORIO APRIL 30
Life Interests Will Be
ELECTED TO GO National Music
will be
Discussed by
with a big two night
served
TO BLUE RIDGE musical here beginning with
Students
festival,
College Night, April 29, Will Be

"Week

Lee, Smith, Huddleston,

Hefferman and
Rouse Chosen

Institution Was Founded in 1906 By Dr. W. D. JUNIOR STUDENTS
Weatherford; Comprises 1561 Acres
Convention to Be Held!
in North Carolina in North
June 5
Blue Ridge tho "Land of tho Sky" generations western North Carolina
Carolina
Sky"
in 1906 when tho first has been called the "Land of the
was
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started

land was purchased. Since
then seven tracts have been secured,
making an aggregate of 15G1 acres.
By 1912 there were three buildings on
the grounds and at present there are
forty eight buildings, in which moro
then 800 people can bo accommodated.
The present valuation of tho property
is six hundred thousands dollars.
Tho founder and builder of Blue
Ridge, Dr. W. D. Weatherford, has
builded his life and Ideals into tho institution, aud tho equipment is used
t(T the maxium during tho summer
months for tho promotion of these
ideals. It is here that each of tho 500
students who attend the conference
this year will find a mountain top
experience. After a long school year,
with the grind of the classes and
examinations and tho coustant round
activities don't you sometimes
long to steul away for a fow days Into
lioine secluded snot In God'a green
to mediuway up high
outdoors
tate und pray to gain Inspiration and
vigor for tho groat task, boforo you?
Our Master needed this refreshment,
'how much more must you und I need
it.
hero Is no better pluco In all the
uueh exnerlouco than tuo
unri.1
rrn m.t.inni-- in thu Uluo Ridge. For

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and It has long been characterized as
one of the most exquisitely beautiful
regions in all America. United States
Government, created by tho National
Congress, and through this reservation
has become by statute the only Natl
onal play ground In tho Southeast.
It Is not so much the location and
beauty of Blue Ridgo us it is tho
spirit that makes tho place worth
while. Dr. Weatherford still maintains back of tho Institution, with all
of its growth, tho fundamental Ideals
Unit will loud into a great future.
Every student should plun to go to
Blue Ridge at least once during his or
her college career. Hero tho small
vision of tho uverago college studout
Is enlarged into a world vision und
they moot the challenge of a life dedicated to a servlco. One, who expects
tl live the uext 25 years, cannot afford
to start that llfu with a cramped, selfish attitude of their duty as a citizen.
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At the Student Conference Juno
one will find ihontal, soclul, physical
aud spiritual uplift that cannot be
estimated. 1 am frank to say that tho
first ten days ut Blue Ridge is worth
a semester In school and that you
will return Buying, "It is tho best ten
days I huvo ever spent".
Signed,
Bart N. Peak

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HISTORY OF BLUE RIDGE RECALLED
BY UNIVERSITY Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY

tracfof

the
seventeenth
annual spring production
of tlm
Strollers is to be presented at tho
Loxlngton Opera House Tuesday April
8 for one night only. This play,
Fred
erick Johnson's three-ac- t
comedy la
the best so far presented by the Stroll
ers, and the reception given the party
on both the Eastern and Western
trips far Exceeded any heretofore
accorded by the Strollers.
The Strollers have formerly played
in Lexington two nights but this year
on account of a full University program, the play will be given for one
night only.
'"Fifty-Fiftydeals with the experi
ences or two younc artists. Henrv
Brown and Paul Greene in the third
floor of a second rate lodging house
in Greenwich Village, and the subsequent happenings resulting from their
poverty and youthful
imagination
forms the basis for one of the most
amusing and attractive vehicles ever
used by the Strollers.
The cast follows:
Henry Brown .
Robert Bigler
Sophie Bland
Nelle Pulllam

lege night "Wednesday, April 29, when
the girls' and mens' glee clugs and
an orchestra of 40 pieces will bo the
feature of the program and culminating Thursday evening April 30, In
the spectacular presentation of Han
The
del's Oratorio, '"The Messiah."
men's glee club has already been on
two concert tours, where they havo
been highly successful, and the home
concert April 29, will terminate their

activities this season.
Messiah
of the
The production
which is being sponsored by the Mc

Dowell Club of Lexington and Phi
Mu Alpha music fraternity under the
At a meeting of the senior members direction of Prof. C A. Lampert will,
question, be one of the best
of the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet on April without
things of u musical nature ever given
19 tho following Blue Ridge delegates
lu Central Kentucky. Although this
were chosen: Frances Lee, Eleanor is the first time that anything of this
Smith, Beth Huddleston, Elizabeth sort has ever been attempted, unusual
Hefferman, nud Georgia Rouse. The interest Is being manifested not only
convention, which will be held June by the townspeople but also by the
people of Georgetown,
Purls, Berea
5 to 15 draws from 500 to 700 girls
und adjoining towns, who are sending
from every state in tho south.
representatives for the chorus. No
The five delegates are members of effort hus been spared to make the
tho junior class. Frances Lee, in addi- occasion the biggest in tho history of
tion to being president of tho Y. W. Lexington; tho special soloists will be
reinforced by a chorus of over 300
C. A., is president of Thetu Sigma
trained voices while uu orchestra of
l'hl nud a member of tho Kernel staff. 40 pieces is to furnish the accompaniShe has shown marked ability along
ment.
tho lines of scholarship and leadership
George Frederick Handel, tho comtho University,
since her entrance at
poser of tho "Messiah", when writing
only sophomore
la 1924 she was the
pledged to Thetu Sigma Phi. She Is
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a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.
Eleanor Smith, a member of Kappa
NOTICE
iu enrolled In the
Kappa Gamma,
Shu lias
Home Economics College.
There will be u compulsory meetboon active in Y. W. C. A. work for
ing of all town students, living at
tho past two years and Is a member
home, ut approved boarding houses
of thu now cabinet.
or out in town, ou Monday, April
7, 3:30
Beth Huddleston was recently eleco'clock lu tho Women's
gymnasium.
ted president of tho Phllosophlan Literary Boclety. She Is also a member
(Signed) Sarah G, Bluudiug

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HELD

AT BLUE RIDGE

Men of Renown to Be
Present to Give

Lectures
The annual men's Student Confer
ence will convene at Blue Ridge, June
10. The elected delegates will assem
bio there from all of the colleges and
universities In tho south. They will
hear discourses of some of America'
greatest students of life's vital Issues
These tested leaders have studied
social, industrial und moral problems
of our own and other countries. They
will give their observations und aid
tho students to form u philosophy of
life that will solve these difficulties.
The program committee bus secured
the services of several prominent und
well known men. Among these it is
likely that John R. Mott stuuds out us
the most prominent. Dr. Mott 1ms
made several tours of the world. It
has been said that he has talked to
more students than any other man In
history. At present he Is chairman of
the National Council of the Young
Men's Christian Association. Although
Dr. Mott hus had strong inducements
to take up other fields of endeavor,
he has chosen to devote his services
to tho promotion of christian ideals
among students, so that they may cury
the work forward.
Robert E. Spencer, general missionary secretary of all tho churches and
former head of tho Federal Council of
Churches, will be an outstanding lecHo will
turer on missionary work.
discuss thu field for christian servlco
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Paul Green
Mae Dexter

Al Weimann

Mary Lair
Mary Louise Fleming
Mrs. Podge
Luclle Stillwell
Margaret Yungblut
Mrs. Hawley
John Lair
Patrick O'Malley
Smudge
Wayne Faust
Cap(an old salt)
W. C. Thomson
The properties will be In charge of
Philip Rnsch assisted by Dow CaldWheeler,
well,
Edward
Charles
Munich and William Burks and Robert Williams.
Tickets for university students
which were placed on sale yesterday
on the campus may be exchanged at
the Lexington Drug for reserved seats
while reserved seats for the public
will go on sale tomorrow at the Drug.

Josephine

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SENIORS WILL BE
EXALTED A WEEK
Distinctive Costumes to Be.
Worn by 1925 Class
For tho first tlmo iu the history
of the university, seniors are to be
recognized and treated as such by tho
faculty and student body of tho university.
The transformation is to
take placo during the celebration of
"senior week" beginning April 27, during which tho fourth year students
will doff their marks of mediocrity
and appear as "real seniors."
During this week special deference
will bo shown to the seniors on tho
campus und iu the residence halls
und sorority houses. Tho terms "Mister" and "Miss" are to bo applied to
their respective names. Bows and tipping tho hat will be recognized u
suitable forms of courtesy.
Tho seniors
will appear on the
campus In certain distinctive costumes. Tho girls will wear Kentucky
blue arm bauds with the numeral '25
on them and the boys are to wear
corduroy trousers and curry canes.
The observance of tho week will be
officially
concluded
will
the Hay
Day exercises on Friday,

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