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OUR PRESIDENT

THE GAME WILL BE SHOWN
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DOCTOR McVEY COMPLETES

UNIVERSITY

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UNIVERSITY

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Extensive plans are being made
for the presentation of a vaudeville
'skew, sponsored by the "university,
at the Woodland auditorium November 1, for the purpose of securing
funds with which to defray expenses
of the band on trips with the football
team for .the remainder of theseason.
The program has been completed,
.and rehearsals are now in progress,
binder the direction of a committee
appointed by the university officials.
The program is as follows:
University of Kentukcy
Act I
A
band.
Act II Comedy sketch.
Act III Dance review.
Act JV A chalk talk.
Act V Seventh round of Dempsey- Tunney fight (slow motioaj picture

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Act VI

Doubie quartette

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Act VII Magician act.
University Men's Glee
Avt VIII
act.
Act IX
Act X Dance orchestra.
The program bids fair to be one of
Mwal variety and originality, and
ttfce eammittee in charge promises
that there will not be a dull moment
ri
im the show.
The committee is
of Thomas R. Underwood,
editor of the Lexington Herald;
Charles G. Dickerson, city editor of
.the Lexington Leader, and C. Frank
'Dwui, manager of the Lexington Au- tewobile Club.
The iwiversity officials expect io
make the vaudeville show an annual
evest if this first attempt proves suc-- .
ccMfri. The results of the ticket sale
? wiH determine the number of trips
whiA the band will take. The SuKy
circle has promised to contribute
$1,500 of the $3,000 that will be need
ed to send the band on the three big
trips, and it is hoped that the "pro- ceeds from the show will supply the
remaining amount.
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Tickets 'are now on sale, andcan
any of the fraternity
be secured at
houses or from members of the band.
Admission is $1 downstairs and 50c
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FRATERNITY

WILL

DR. FRANK L. McVEY

President McVey Has Gained
Considerable. Fame As Painter
Landscape Painting Wins Hon
orable Mention in Southern
Society of Artists Contest ;
Is Praised Highly

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PAINTINGS

(By Prof. Carl M. Sax)
When the jury of the Southern Society of Artists, in 1925, awarded
honorable mention to the painter of a
certain landscape they had no idea
that pie
honor was "being bestowed on a college president.
When the art critics of Louisville's
principle papers .devoted paragraphs
to praising the, work they failed to
associate the name they mentioned
with Jhe presidency of the University
of Kentucky. Even had they realized
it, it would have been hard to
them that Pres. Frank L. McVey had taken up the difficult art
only five years before.
Few people .not connected with the
world of art realize Hhat President
McVey, in addition to his many other
brilliant qualities is a painter of
marked ability.
Contrary to the
President's own opinion, he isnot
accorded his eminence because of Jiis
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position with the university.
A few years ago, "in reply to genuinely enthusiastic remarks made by
some of his guests, apropos one of
his canvases", Doctor McVey quoted
Dr. Johnson's comparison of a woman
orator to a dog walking' on its hind
legs: That the remarkable thing was
not that is was done well, but that
it was done at all.
President McVey as a painter follows fio beaten path. He is a modernist in the best sense of the word. Al- (

Local Chapter of Alpha Gamma
Rho Will Be Host at Meeting Here on November
3, 4 and 5
100 DELEGATES

EXPECTED

Omicron chapter of Alpha Gamma
Rho will be host to approximately 100
' delegates who will attend the ninv

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teenth national convention of the fra-- j
ternity, which will be held in Lexington with headquarters at the Phoenix
hotel, November 3, 4 and 5.
Thirty-tw- o
chapters, including the
Universities of Illinois, Iowa, Mis- souri, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minne-- ,
sota, Washington, California, South-- era California, Maine, New Hamp-- )
shire, West Virginia and Florida;
Ohio State, Pennsylvania State, Pur-- f
due University, North Dakota Agri-- 5
cultaral College, Cornell University,
Massachusetts Agricultural College,
North Carolina A. and M., Auburn
University, Oklahoma A. and M.,
State Agriultural College of Colo- rado, Michigan College, Connecticut
Agricultural College, and Oregon Agricultural College will be represented.
The cnapber roll of the Omicron
chapter is as follows, W. Blackburn,
W. R. Brooks, J. W. Brown, L. M.
Caldwell, J. L. Collins, J. H. Evans,
T. E. Ford, W. L. Graddy, G. L. Hay-deH. T. Hesson, N. J. Howard, G.
F. Insko, J. S. Floyd, E. F. Ordway,
H. S. Scott, J. T. Terry, J. W. Utter-bacR. W. White, T. G. Young.
Pledges
Orrin Clore, Raymond
Crume, Lyon Jeffries, Cecil Pidcock,
Claude Marshall, J. W. Johns, Thomas
Lewis, Florin Currens, John Weber,
Charles White, George White, N. L.
Royse, J. C. Cassidy, and Dudley
Smith.

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Dean Boyd.

The next speaker of the evening,
Prof. J. T. C. Noe, of the department
of education and poet laureate of,
Kentucky, read a poem, "Blue Blood,"
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CAREER

Began uareer as Educator in
Iowa High School. While
Taking Undergraduate
Wrk in College
NOTED AS AN ECONOMIST

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TRIBUTES
Board .of Trustees, Alumni,
Faculty and Student Body
Express Appreciation of
s Doctor McVey's Work

Doctor McVey, who closes the
tenth year of his leadership at the
university this week, and to whom
this issue of The Kernel is dedicated,
began his career as an educator in the
high school at Orient, Iowa, between
his sophomore and junior years in
college.

In the June 12, 1920 issue of
and Society" an article en
titled "Teaching As a Calling" by
Doctor McVey was published.
In
this article he tells his own story of
the events that havebeen most outstanding in his career as a teacher.
He says: "Between my sophomore
and junior years in the early njneties,
I undertook to conduct the destinies
of a small school in a western state
at a salary of $45 a month. My enthusiasm for the work that I was doing was such that I felt then that if
this payment were taken from me, I
should stilf continue to teach. And
when I returned to college and listened to Doctor Clocum's lectures on
labor problems in the United States,
I felt that I had solved two questions;
one, as. to my calling, and the other
as to the specific thing that I should
undertake to teach. After gradua- "School

Anecdotes Show Doctor McVey
Is "Human9 Despite Dignity
And Scholarly Achievements
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Frank L. McVey was selected President of the University ten
years ago. I, was honored by being
chairman of the committee which rec
ommended him to the Board of Trus.
tees, who unanimously elected him as
the head of the university. This was
the greatest public service that I have
ever performed or ever will perform
We have only to remember back ten
years to realize what Doctor McVey
has done for the University. Under
him it has grown greatly in numbers;
its equipment has been increased, and
a million dollars has been expended
in new buildings; but better than all
that, Doctor McVey, realizing that,
after all, a teacher makes a university, has surrounded himself with an
able faculty, and, as a result, the instruction given by pur university is
the equal of that given in any university anywhere.
I know of ae cwm wtw is fete superior, and few who are his equal. Kentucky is indeed fortunate in having
Doctor McVey as the head of its
great university.
Dr.

RICHARD

Association. "Hurrah for him!" a
member of his audience exclaimed.
"Now he's beginning to speak like a
Kentuckian."
A more versatile man than this
very human college president is selr
dom seen.
His literary, educational,
and economic activities are nationally
known, but few people are aware of
his ability to skecth, paint, and carve.
On the mantel in the library of his
Lexington home, the visitor may be-- ,,
hold a beautful little three-maship,
carved from wood.
This boat was
made by President McVey while he
was visiting, up in Michigan one sumst

mer.

During the last ten year, Doctor

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He's human this august president
of the. University of Kentucky! At
erect
first sight, this tall
man, his face austerely set in deep'
lines, his eyebrows beetling, his chin
stern, does not seem very prepossess
ing. Yet a more likeable, friendly,
.and entertaining person can rarel be
lound. invariabely, the stranger
an interview, goes away saykto
himself, "Why he doesn't look it1, but
he's human after all."
Of course he's human! Behind his
forbidding and grim countenance,
there is a great, fine comrade-lik- e
spirit as likeable and entertaining as
any man's.
Kindness is one of President
chTef characteristics.
Eyer
since his first year as executive, he
Will Give
been wbrking to get an allowance
has
Game
foii retired faculty members. His interest in the faculty and in their famThe gridgraph will be in operation ilies manifests itself in his willingVanderbilt-Ken-tuck- y
tomorrow for the
ness to grant leaves of absence for
game, and the student body will study, lectures, and meetings.
have an opportunity of following the
A noted lecturer himself, Doctor
game play by play as given over the McVey can sympathize with those
starting at 3 o'clock in the professors who are called upon to
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Men's gymnasium.
deliver all kinds of addresses on all
that at
News of the game will be brought occasions. The
ld
by a special leased one time, Doctor McVey, who is genh
the
wire running direct from the press erally accused of being tod reserved
box at the football field in Nashville. for Kentuckians, grew especially enAn admission of 25 cents ""will ben thusiastic during a speech he was delivering at the Kentucky Educational
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A surprise banquet celebrating the
tenth anniversary of the administra
tion of Dr. Frank L. McVey as pre
ident of the University of Kentucky
was given last night, at 6:30 o'clock
in the Banquet room of Boyd nail, by
faculty of the university.
Guests
present, besides Dr. and Mrs. McVey,
included university faculty members
and their wives, county agriculture
agents and wives, home demonstration agents and wives, Robert
president of the men's student
council, and Anne Carvill, vice president of the senior class,, representing
the student' body.
The occasion was featured' by
speeches of various facuy members
lauding the work and character of
President McVey, and by the presentation of gifts from the faculty and
student body.
Dean Boyd Presides
Dr. Paul P. Boydfdean of the Col- -;
lege of Arts and Sciences, who pre- -'
sided over ceremonies of the evening,
delivered the introductory address.
Prof. George Roberts, of the Col-- J
lege of Agriculture, next discussed
the early history of the university
and recounted, step by step, its
growth and improvement since the
founding.
Dean Paul Anderson, of the College
.of Engineering, continued the pro- gram with an address, "The President and the Dean."
A letter written by Judge Stoll, who
.
I was unable to
attend, was read by

lffVEY TELLS OF

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'Faculty Tenders
Surprise Banquet
to Doctor McVey

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HOLD CONVENTION

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The University of Kentucky yester
day observed the tenth anniversary
of Pres. Frank L. McVey's administration. Today the University pf
Kentucky looks back on ten years of
unprecedented
advancement
and
growth under the capable leadership
of our president. The alumni of the
University of Kentucky have come' to
look upon President McVey as a tow
er of strength in the advancement of
their Alma Mater, a man who has
denied himself monetary advancement
in order that he might complete the
work that heset out to do when he
arrived on the campus ten years ago.
Too much cannot "be said to voice the
appreciation and respect that the
alumni hold for President McVey.
The undivided support and coopera
tion of the alumni, which has been
evidenced and which will continue.
The alumni know that so long as
President McVey is at the head of the
university, their Alma Mater will continue to grow and will&ach year as
sume new importance in the educa
tion of the nation. We have but one
hope to express 'and that hope is
that he remain with the University of
Kentucky many more decades.

McVey has taken' up painting,, alRAYMOND KIRK
though he never practiced it before.
On a bright sunny afternoon one may
FACULTY
see tho distinguished educator sketching amidst the quaint scenery of old
A durable president of an Ameri
Shakertown.- Like other people, President McVey can university is a joy foreyer. Pres.
has his hobbies. He is an ardent
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His friends often tease him
nbout the number of cars he has
bought, saying that he is. getting
poorer and poorer, since he started
Oh account of an unusual strain
with a Cadillac and now drives n on tho Kernel columns or thecur-ren- t
Dodge.
jssue severaj tributes to PresThe noted college executive is quite ident McVey that should have apa fisherman and his friends boast that
been reluctently withpeared

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held.

DECADE OF SERVICE

KENTUCKY

at Patterson Hal
brates Tenth Anniversary
as President of the
University

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Editor's Note.

NUMBER 6

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BLUE BLOOD

WILDCATS ARRIVE

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NOE)

IN NASHVILLE

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(Written for and delivered at Faculty Testimonial Dinner to Doctor
McVey, October 28, 1927)
She came from old Virginia, oh, so many years ago.
When I was just a little child her hair was white as snow.
She must have been of royal blood, she talked of kings and queens.
Of chivalry and tournaments, of castles and demesnes;
Of plantations back at home, of slaves and banquet halls,
Of powdered wigs and cavaliers, of mansions and of balls;
Sometimes f blooded horse and hounds and women
chase
(Grandmother wore great jewels and a cap of filmy lace).
She read large tomes of poetry, of love and strange romance
(She saioVshe came of Norman blood that traced clean back to France)
She owned a thousand acres of rich rolling bluegrass land,
A knob of finest timber that the eye has ever scanned.
She boasted of Kentucky's wealth in minerals and soil
(And this was many years before e had discovered oil).
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line of ancient ancestry.
She gloried in her
Their cattle on a thousand hills in lands beyond the sea.
We loved dear old grandmother for she lived in fairy land.
And sometimes she would ell us how grandfather won her hand. '
He knew Gladstone at Eton, and had often heard him speak
(Grandfather was a classic shark, read Homer in the Greek).
And once there was a Greek contest in which he won a prize.
When grandmother referred to this she'd all but rhapsodize,
For grandfather's opponent was the young Lord, Earl of Scone,
The next of blood and sometime heir to erstwhile Scottish throne.
And I infer grandfather killed two birds with this one stone;
For here grandmother always went and took a volume down,
Demethenes, she said it was, in vellum old and brown.
And smoothed its wrinkled pages out, "And here's he precious prize."
Jfcnd then we'd read the other in grandmother's swimming eyes.

FOR VANDY GAME
Blue and White Eleven Meets
Powerful Commodores Saturday; Many First String
Men Are on Bench

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But decade after decade passed and other days are here.
The timber that once crowned the hilla, is gone this many a year;
A billion tons' of mineral wealth passed on to foreign marts
While grandmother talked ancesters, but overlooked the arts
And sciences that build the state, the school where wealth is made,
Wealth that abides in character, the schools where men are weighed
In balances that test their worth, where aristocracy
Is" measured, not by titles or some genealogic tree,
But rather by a cultured life that serves humanity.
And so while old Kentucky dreamed of ancient pedigrees,
Her sister states awoke and built their universities,
Developed their resources and thus left us far behind;
But grandmother's great grandchildren are now no longer blind.
We honor her for what she was, welove her dear old dreams,
Her castles and plantations and her old ancestral streams.
To grandmother the setting stars were a religious feast,
,
But now we worship toward the sun arising in the east.
Out of the young northwest we called a great and good high priest
Who for the last ten years has led our school with much success,
In science, wisdom, honor, truth, and learning's rich largess.
Disdaining every vulgar "gift of politics, he "leads;
With keenest insight into life, he sees Kentucky's needs
And plans her future greatness, conserving all her might,
Dispensing 'justice, knowledge, strength, as God gives him the light.

THIRD CONFERENCE

GAME

Vanderbilt, Led by Spears, Is
Favored to Win by a"
Heavy Score
By KENNETH GREGORY
(Sports Editor of The Kernel)
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 28. Twenty-fiv- e
more or less crippled Wildcats arrived here this morning where tomorrow the Kentucky eleven engages
Vanderbilt in their third conference

conflict.
Amid the roara nf thn cttuJon-

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and the notes of Elmer Sulzer's
band the Wildcats and their
mentors left Lexington yesterday afternoon at 2:55 o'clock, spending the
evening in Louisville, the guests of
WHAS radio station and Tfc rvm,.i,- Journal.
Not a sinatle man on th trin ?c
good physical condition and an entire
ly new line-u- p
will face the Commodores in tomorrow's encounter. TW
are fourteen regulars nursing injur
ies ana none ot, these is likely to start.
Those on the ailing list are Belt, Scott,
Portwood, Lyons, Mohney, Jenkins,
Drury, Idlemair, Slone, Phipps, Bickel,
Gilb, Miller and Dees.
Kentucky seems tohavo n fiyf 'kaif
.team and if they ever hit their stride
in the second half th
iMa
better look out for heavy fire- - The
have not been pointing
for the Kentucky game and it is at
these times that a team usually does
the unexpected.
The Vandy eleven,
with Spears as their main" cog, appears to be four or five touchdowns
better that the Wildcats, but the Blue
and White is about due for a reversal
of form
Kentucky's probable line-u- p will be:
Walters and Crfvington, ends;
and Drury, tackles; Captain
Wert and Simmers, guards; Pence
center; Portwood, fullback; Jenkins
and Griffith, halfbacks and Gilb;

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We reverence dear grandmother her jewels and her lace,
We love the old daguerrotype that mirrors her sweet face.
We love her old romances and the book that was the prize,,
But we can't see the "world today with dear grandmother's eyes.

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WILL
Kittens Play Georgetown
Freshmen This Afternoon NOVEMBER
TRY-OUT-

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Other juniors pledges! were

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today, to fill their first football en
gagement of the season with their
ancient rival, the Georgetown Cubs,
on Hinton field at 2:30 o'clock.
The game is a question of much
controversy and, as usual, the Kittens
are favored to win, but the outcome
Osborne,
is doubtful.
Johnson,
and Haynes, very capable players, are crippled and suffering
from injuries, but may be able
to enter the combat.
An unusual
number of the players are suffering
from shdulder injuries received in

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To Want to Know" Is Ideal
Actuating Doctor McVey's
Writings, Interviewer Learn
(By Kady Elvove)
'Guiding a university from a trou
bled, 'small beginning, to a flourishing, prosperous existence in ten years
is an accomplishment that ought to
satisfy any man. But our president
no! A noted lecturer a scholarly
author, a renowned economist such
man is worth speaking to," I
thought as I waited for the secretary
to announce me.
"Doctor McVey will see you now."
So 'seizing my notebook, I entered the
inner office, 'a large room, lined all
aroun'd with bookshelves.
At the
farther end, his eyes beaming kindly
behind
glasses, sat the
president of the University of Kentucky.
"Doctor McVey, I'm very much in
terested in hearing of your literary
achievements," I began as an open
thick-rimm-

ing.
"Well, I've written some books, five
or six not very recent ones though,"
he answered, brushing his hand across
his forehead. " 'Modern Industrialism,' published in 1904 and republished in 1924; 'History and Government of Minnesota,' published in 1900,
I think; and 'Making of the Town,'
publishedin 1910, are some of them.
There's " the 'Finincial History of

Great Britain,
Populist Movement,'

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written in 1898.

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Three Best Plays to Be Given on
Amateur Night at Men's
Played on Hint en
Game Will Be
Gym; Much Interest Is
Field1 of Scott County InstiShown in Strollers
tution; Kentucky Frosh
Favored to Win
ADD NEW PLAY TO LIST
KICK-OF- F
IS AT 2:30 P. M. The

Tau Beta Pi, Fraternity for Engineers, Chooses Outstanding
(By Herman Sharp)
Men of Junior and Senior
The Kentucky Kittens, after a long
Classes
period of preparatory trauiing, will
leave by bus fpr Georgetown at noon
W. WARNOCK WINS PRIZE
Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering
fraternity, pledged U$i new members
Wednesday aiornin at Dicker Hall.
Requirements for seniors arthat they
stand in the upper fourth of the class,
while those selected from the junior
class number the three outstanding
men in the class. Each year the Ellis
Tau Beta Prize of S100 ia offered to
the junior with the highest standing.
This year the Ellis prize was award
ed to Wendell S. Warnock, of Detroit,

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Of course there have been

a great

many papers and magazine articles
of one kind or another on the shipping industry, the tin. plate industry,
educational matters, and so on," he
continued, seemingly unaware of my
astonishment at the variety of subjects upon which he has so skillfully
written.
"And, oh yes," he casually observed, "I edited the 'National Social
Science Series,' twenty-fjv- e
volumes
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written by
men and women."

date of the Stroller
has been postponed until November
according to a decision reached
at a Stroller meeting last Tuesday.
The price for trying out has been
changed from SI to 50c. Those who
desire to try out are asked to file
the following information together
with ther money sometime before
November 7 with Miss Margie McLaughlin. .Names of players, directors, address and telephone number,
and a time that will be most convenient in afternoon or nicht fnr-- .
Tut. The committee will endeavor, if
pussiuie, io can tne cast at this time.
A new play "Hearts" has been added to the list, and this play is for an
cast. This play together tAth
the other eligibility nlavs ran ha tained at the reading room as 'there
are two copies of each play.
The committee to imfon nTr. ;
composed of Addison Yeaman, Hunter
Moody, Mary Virginia Hailey, Minna
narry ttcChesney, and
xitKeruon,
Frank Davison. Additional information relative to
may be obtained from anv mmhr nf u;a
mittee.
The three best nlavs will' K
from the group presented and will
be given on Amateur Night. The date
for this has not been set hut urni
soon after the completion of the try-try-ou- ts

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Hoctor J. F. Shotwell

Addresses Students

Dr. James Shotw1l

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on international affairs and professor
of history at Columbia University, ad-

dressed the students and faculty of
umvcrsiiy oi Aentucky at a
special convocation TioM ; t.
uic men s
gymnasium Monday morning, at the

"That was a difficult task, wasn't mil U iiuur.
Following th invrw.nf;nn i...
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"Yes it was. There is a great deal Reverend Mark Collia and the singof work to be done in editing. I had ing of Alma Mater by the men's glee
to read hundreds of manuscripts be- club, Dr. Frank LMcVey introduced
fore J selected the topics and the the speaker whose subject was; "The
authors, because onp ,must always American Locarno". Dr. Shotwell
bear in mind whether each particular discussed the subject of international
work fits into the idea of the series." peace and stressed the fact that it
He paused and watched me, as I was a thine- in wh?ii
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scribbled a few notes.
citizen should have a vital interest.
"I wonder what I'll ask him next," vr. Anarews pronounced the benedicI thought anxiously, though I couldn't tion. While in Lexington Dr. Shohelp smiling at the idea of my asking
:. was me guest of President andtquestions of a college president. I Mrs. McVey.
glanced up to find President McVey
smiling broadly. "He knows how I
O. D. K. TO MEET
feel," I thought, and, encouraged by
his smile, I said,
Omirmn nlf Vnnnn ...:n meet
vm
next
"Which of your books do you like Tuesday night, ""f
November 1, at 7 o'clock in the president's office.
All
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OUR PRESIDENT
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President Frank L. McVey yesterday completed ten years-apresident of the University of Kentucky.
To those who have been closely in touch with the University
Kentucky little more could be said in praise of the man who
of
has been not only .responsible for. the advancement and growth of
the University but the very spirit of that growth and advancement.
President McVey came to the University in 1917 when our
school, like other universities, was going through a dangerous
period, caused by the war. In addition to this there was a certain amount of internal disorder that was making itself felt.
In truth the University of Kentucky was on the verge of a dePresident McV(ey, seeing all this, set himself to the
cline.
task and. at the close of his first year this difficultyghad been
Next year came the government control of the men
cleared up.
studentswhidl in'itself was to a certain degree demoralizing to
the collegiate standards of the' schools of the country as a whole.
In the fall of
This difficulty had to be met and worked out
the history of the University
1919 came the largest enrollment
of Kentucky. The university was hard put to find class room to
Every available foot of space was
take care of the students.
called on and many classes were forced to meet in basements.
Since that day there has been a rapid increase in the enrollment
of students at the University until now the number has more than
doubled itself since President McVey began his administration,

Our University has not only increased in enrollment but its
The scholservice to the state has increased an equal amount.
astic standing has been raised until now the instruction at the
University is ota par with any school in the South.
At the outset the president set himself to the task of making
Hamthe University of Kentucky the foremost in the South.
pered by a lack of funds he has been forced to use every available
means to carry on the work of expanding the University and its
services to the. citizens of Kentucky.
He has received flattering offers from other Universities but his task was not completed and he stayed.
He undertook a task, and a Herculean
task, and he js carrying through in a manner truly as great as
the task. . In many instances he has been almost alone in his
efforts for the advancement of our Alma Mater, but never once
has he faltered in his march toward the goal of perfection.
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We Alumni have given him our support all the way through.
We realize the great service that he has done for the University
of Kentucky. We are anxious that he carry on with the. Work
and that he remain with the University from now on.
Still we
have failed him in some ways.'
We have not given ourselves
to the job in the same ratio that he has. "We have failed to

obtain for the University of Kentucky enough financial assistance
from the State.
Think what the result would be if a man of
President McVey's vision and ability, had the funds necessary for
proper expansion and growth. .Think! Let us show our appreciation at the coming meeting of the General Assembly.

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James J. Scrugham Is'
Visitor to Lexington
Alumnus and Former Governor
of Nevada is on River
Commission
James J. Scrugham B. M. E. 1900,
1906, former governor of Nevada, now a member ofthe Colorado
River Commission as special advisor
and assistant to the Secretary of the
Interior, was in Lexington last suma
mer visiting his mother, Mrs.
Scrugham, and his sister, Dr.
Mary Scrugham.
He went from Lexington to Washington, D. C, for a conference of the
commission with Secretary Work, on
the subject of the Colorado river de- velopment plant and the dam construction at Boulder canyon, which
will cost $125,000,000. James R. Garfield, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Roosevelt, is the
legal member of the commission' and
W. F. Durard, former president of the
American Society of Heating and
Ventilating Engineers, is the associate of Mr. Scrugham in the commis-

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Theo-dos-

sion.

They Tell Me

Oscar Petty '20, Lost Overboard
in Unaccountable Way; Was
En Route Home From
Europe
FALLS

FROM DECK;

Homecoming
Game, Thursday,
November 24, Stoll Field, Lexing-

IN CITY

Club Secretaries:
Please send
in the dates and places for your

Oscar Petty, who was graduated
"from the University of Kentucky with
the class of 1920, with a degree of
Bachelor of Arts, on August 26 was
drowned at sea while returning to the
United States from Europe. He was
'returning with his sisterT Mrs. S. A.
Boles on the French liner Paris when
the fatal accident occurred. According to Mrs. Boles he fell from the
deck of the ship in some unaccountable way.
Press dispatches stated that he was
walking, on the sundeck of the vessel
with bis sister.. While they "were
leaning over a rail watching the wash
created by the propellers, he sudden
ly fell overboard. The liner came to
a stop and for more than an hour
circled around the spot where he was
thought to have gone down. The of- i ficers of the ship stated that the fall
was at least 60 feet and would, have
stunned him.
After leavine the university Mr.
Petty taught in Hopkinsville ftigh
school, later going to the Tennessee
Military Institute, at Sweetwater,
Tenn., where he taught for some tune.
He later wenn to Columbia winning'
his master of arts degree. He went
to France some time ago to study and
he was met this summer in Paris by
his siste.r, Mrs. Boles. On his return
to New York he was to have been in
charge of French in the department
of Romance languages at Columbia
University.
Besides his widow he is survived by
his mother, Mrs. W. 0. Petty, of
Louisa, Va.; three sisters, Mrs. S. A.
Boles, of Lexington; Mrs. L. L. Fo'u- ville, of Jackson, Tennessee, and Miss
Marie Petty of Louisa, Va.
two children, Elsie J., 6, and Vize
Theo, 4.

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Marion. Hulbert Crowder, B. A. in
Bacteriology, 1937, is beginning as

a$ alumnus in the right way. He
sends m his check for dues for this
year. He tells us that he is with the
sales department of the B. F. Good
rich Company, in Akron, Ohio. His
address is 197 East Archwood avenue.

OTHER

New York Telephone Engineer
Returns to Campus
Mr. W. R. Ellis, E. M. E. 1903, M.
E. 1906, .who is chief traffic engineer
for the New ork Telephone Com
pany was a visitor on the campus last
week. Hei was accompanied by Mrs.
Ellis and they spent several days in
Lexington 'visiting relatives of Mr.
Ellis. Mr. Ellis has been with the
New York Telephone Company for a
good many years and now holds, a
responsible post with the company.
He spent his time on the campus calling on instructors and classmates and
friends.
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Mr. Ellis is a cousin of Presley T.
Atkins, who is a widely known alumnus and journalist, and two other
cousins, R. H. Atkins and J. "W.
both graduates of the university and now interested in extensive
mining operations.
At.-kin- s,

entomologist. He is now state nursery Inspector for the Oklahoma
board. His address is Capitol P. O.
Box 72, Oklahoma City, Okla.

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