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LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952

VOLUME XLIII

Sliuly Classes
Attended By
71 Students

Trustees Suggest
Assembly Favor
Medical School

Are Represented

Page Booklet

Explains, Defends
Issue
Stand

state-support- ed

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'Tartuffe9 Run Opens
Monday At Guignol

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Miss Stull, a senior in Education,
had a leading role in the summer
show, "The Dover Road." Miss
Anderson, Education sophomore, last
appeared as the maid in "Twelfth
Night."
Other cast members are Jane
Ratchford, Madame Pernelle; Harry
Carter, Damis; Evelyn Dummit,
Mariane; David Bere, Valere; Don
Clayton, Cleante; Bob De Bene-dictu- s,
Mr. Loyal; Bill Wintersole,
officer; and Anne Hall, Flipotte.
Mary Jo Bishop and Jim Inman will

Oscar Levant
Will Replace
Drama Quartet

Six Fraternities

from Kentucky during the year.
Thus, these schools do not intend
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to carry the burden of education
of doctors for Kentucky.
Neighbors Have More Schools
On
5. The neighboring states have one
medical school for each 1.800.000
University trustees suggested Mon- people. Kentucky's one medical
day that the General Assembly go school must meet the needs of about
on record in favor of a medical 3,000.000 people.
school to be located at UK.
6. Kentucky is one of only nine
booklet entitled, states with populations above
In a
"More Doctors For Kentucky," it 1,000,000 which have not established
was recommended further that:
medical school.
a
1. Funds be made available for
New York and Pennsylvania, two of
drafting preliminary plans for a these states, have a total of 15 primedical-scienc- e
building nd an ac- vately supported schools.
companying general state hospital
The booklet in making the recomfor indigent patients.
mendations for a medical school em2. The Legislative Research Comphasized that it must not be built
mission and UK made a thorough at the expense of other divisions of
study of all factors involved in the the University, or at the expense of
proposal and report back to the 1954 the state college.
General Assembly.
Must Spend Millions
3. The current General Assembly
consider how to pay for another
If the state is to have the kind of
medical school.
medical school it needs, it must ex,
pect to spend several million dollars
Trustees Have No Plan
Commenting on the recommendafor buildings and equipment over the
tions. Pres. H. L. Donovan said the course of the next 10 years, and it
trustees have no plan for placing must be prepared as well to carry
the matter officially before the Gen- an annual operation cost of at least
dollars when such a
eral Assembly. He said that will be a
left entirely up to the legislators.
school is in operation, the booklet
The report by the UK Board of said.
Trustees gave several facts in deThe report added that it will be
fense of its position. Among them necessary to think in terms of a
are:
medical scienct building to house
1. Kentucky has only one doctor laboratories, lecture rooms, and othto 1140 people and the ratio steadily er instructional and research faciliis getting worse. The nation as a ties: a state hospital of from 300 to
whole has one doctor to 740 people. 500 beds; several hundred thousand
3.1 Graduates Per 100.000
dollars worth of equipment; and a
2. In 1947, Kentucky had 3.1 medical-sextensive medical library.
chool
graduates per 100,000 peoThe report pointed out the posple. The nation had 4.3 per 100.000. sibility of putting the library, medi3. The seven states bordering Ken- cal science facilties, and the hospital
tucky have 17 medical schools, en- in one building. The federal governrolling an average of 6.6 freshmen ment can assist in the construction
per 100.000 population. The Univer- of a hospital and representatives of
sity of Louisville, only medical school the Council on Education of the
in the state, enrolls 22 freshmen per American Medical Association have
100.000.
suggested that as much as
4. A recent survey showed the 17
of the cost of such a hospital
medical schools in surrounding might be available from federal
states admitted only 15 students funds.

Tartuffe," a French satirical
comedy by Moliere, will open at 8:30
Monday night at the Guignol Theater. The play will run through
Saturday, with no Wednesday performance because of the Community
Concert that night.
Wallace Buice, a graduate student
in English, will play the title role.
Other leads will be taken by Gene
Arkle, Orgon; Bettye Stull, Elmire;
and Jo Anne Anderson, Dorine.
Buice appeared in "The Charm,"
play given this fall. Arkle,
a one-aa senior English major, made his
most recent appearances in "The
Glass Menagerie" and "Oedipus

NUMBER 17

Forty-on- e
male students attended
the IFC study classes last week.!
making a total of 71 students in at- tendance, Paul Holleman, IFC schol- - j
arship chairman, told Dr. Lyle
Croft, director of personnel, in a
formal report Monday.
Holleman said that only four stu- dents attended the classes on all
four days. Six fraternities were
represented in the classes, he said.
They were Sigma Chi, Theta Xi, '
Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Nu, Zeta
Beta Tau. and Pi Kappa Alpha.
There are 22 fraternities on the
campus.
Dr. Croft told Holleman the Per
sonnel Office would give individual
help to any pledge or active mem- ber just as any other student is
given help.
He said it would be possible to
give the Kentucky battery test re- suits to a fraternity the first week
of school. This would give the fraternity an idea of the chances of a
student's making the required stand
ing before he was pledged, thereby
raising the average of the fraterity.
This counseling includes both vo
cational and academic fields, he said,
but does not include discipline.
The study classes were given by
the Personnel Office last week and
were sponsored by the IFC.

Art Majors
Have Exhibit
Of Carvings
An exhibition of wood sculpture
produced over a period of years by
general art majors at UK is currently on display at the art gallery in the Fine Arts Building and
will remain through March 9.
Scheduled as part of a joint exhibition, the carvings will share the
gallery spotlight with a collection
of hand-wove- n
Guatamalan textiles
owned by Dr. and Mrs. Richard B.
Woodbury. Dr. Woodbury is associate professor of anthropology at
UK.

also be in the cast as featured
dancers.
Plot Is Told
Tartuffe is a hypocritical social
climber whose pretended piety and
goodness delude Orgon into signing
all his property over to him. Though
Orgon orders his daughter. Mariane,
to marry Tartuffe, the latter makes
advances toward Elmire, his patron's
pretty wife.
Dorine, a pert maid, tries to patch
up the romance of Mariane and her
sweetheart Valere when they quarrel, and is generally into everything.
Professor Wallace Briggs is directing the play. Mrs. Lolo Robinson is associate director, and Ernest
Rhodes is technical director. Sheila
Strunk is assistant director, James
Read, stage manager and electrician,
and Meg Bailey, assistant technical
director. Barbara Francis is assistant electrician.
Crew Workers Named
y,
Stage crew members are Jim
Marshall Amis, Peggy Magill,
Joellen McNutt, Dorothy Blackwell,
Marilyn Easley, Carol Bell, Anne
Hall. Marilyn Remmers. Bob De
Benedictus, and Lois Cammack.
(Continued on Page 6)

The wood carvings, a gallery
spokesman said, are not the work
of sculpture majors, but a result of
projects assigned the Art Department's general majors as part of
their overall training.
Wood used for the sculptures was
not purchased from the usual commercial sources but was obtained
locally, either from the UK campus
or nearby farms.
The show Includes work by University students from Lexington.
They are Dan Shindelbower, Evelyn
Greene, Hazel Schwartz, Patty Petty,
Corona Crary, Roger Williams,
James Smith, Joe Modica, Mary Hal
Cochran and John Kuiper.
Other Kentucky students whose
work is exhibited are Beverly Davis,
Cecil Thrasher, Nettie Miller, Mary
Sue McWhirter, Mary Halmhuber,
Cary Lawson, Mildred Hogan, and
Patsy Ennis. Out of state students
include Dolly Ernst of Cincinnati
and Juan Balzola of Mexico City.
The gallery is open to the public
from 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays and from
10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays.

Hol-lowa-

Illness Forces Dali
To Postpone Talk
Salvador Dali, surrealist painter,
will speak on March 17 in the
Coliseum, Lexington Community

Concert and Lecture Series officials reported this week.
Dali was to appear Wednesday
night, but was unable to do so because of influenza.

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Dr. Mclntyre Announces
Cancellation At Concert

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Pianist Oscar Levant will appear on the Community Concert
series at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Coliseum.
Levant replaces the First Drama Quartet, originally scheduled
to appear here last fall. Dr. K. D. Mclntyre announced Monday
night that the engagement had been cancelled.
Called piano's most unconventional master, Levant lias no

THIS GROUP of students with advisors are planning UK's First Annual Courtship and Marriage Conference to take place March 11, 12, and 13. The purpose of the Conference is to offer interested students
information which will better prepare them to meet marital obligations. Seated, left to right: Dr. James
Gladden, Marilyn Kilgus, Bosworth Todd. Dot Harrod, Dean Sarah B. Holmes, and Mary Pardue. Standing in the same order: Reed Holland, Jim Coyle, Betty Carrol Pace, Joe Lee, and George Creedle. The
Conference is sponsored by Mortar Board, Lamp and Cross and Omicron Delta Kappa, senior leadership

formal program and lists his nuip- bers to suit the mood of the audit nee
and himself, with ad libs appropriate
to the moment.
Levant said, however, that he may
play selections of Bach and Beethoven, also some Gershwin. Lecuoria,
Brahms, and Shostakovich. He caU.-hi- s
performance a "Program of
Piano Music with Comments".
Arrangements have been made
Appeared In Several Movies
for a Red Cross Mobile Unit to be
Levant recently appeared in "An
on campus next month to enable
students and faculty members to
make blood donations, ine project
is being sponsored by the Inter-- !
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fraternity Council, working in co
operation with the local chapter of
the American Red Cross.
The Interfraternity Council is
seeking a minimum of 360 volunteers
program scheduled
for a two-da- y
Tentatively the1 ;
for March
V-'PiVf.-'hours for making donations have
been set for 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March
24, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 25.
The project is strictly in the interest of national defense, IFC officials said. From the donation:
made on campus some whole blood
will be sent to Korea and the re- mainder will be used to provide
plasma for the defense program
This region, which includes South- ern Indiana and most of Kentucky,
year
has a quota lor the 1931-5- 2
of 29,000 pints of blood.
OSCAR LEVANT
Pledges will be taken March 12
Vats No Formal Program
from those 21 or older. Students
from 13 to 21 may pledge donations
on March 13. Pledges will be taken American In Paris" and other films,
by student representatives at tables including "Rhapsody in Blue." "The
in various buildings..
Barkleys of Broadway," and
Each appointment will be confirmed by mail or by telephone beDr. Mclntyre explained to the autween March 14 and March 23.
dience at the Cincinnati Symphony
concert that the Drama Quartet
was to have appeared on Oct. 5. but
the engagement was changed to
Nov. 26 because of "picture commitments."
Nov. 28 fell during the Thanksgiving holidays, and the date ag.tiu
was postponed to allow students a
chance to attend. Dr. Mclntyre said.
Reads Letter To Audience
Dr. Mclntyre read a letter from
The annual series of Lenten teas
sponsored this year by the Canter- - Paul Gregory, president of Gregory
bury Association. Episcopal college Associates, to the audience Gre-jorclub, and the Wesley Foundation, Associates is the firm which bookj
Methodist student organization, will engagements for the Drama Quartet. The letter was addressed to
be held at the new Episcopal-Methodicenter at 561 S. Limestone Dr. Herman Spivey and the mo;t
stinging paragraph said:
Street.
"I am not prepared to siyn a conteas, arranged especially for
The
the convenience of the students and tract or to give you a return enfaculty of the University, will begin gagement date if the Drama Quarat 4 p.m. each Wednesday during tet is to be used as a headliner to
artists and atLent. All students, faculty mem- sell all the worn-obers, and staff members may attend. tractions that the New York bookThe series will open March 5, with ing offices have sold to you by the
running an
the Rev. Daniel A. Poling, Baptist mere fact that they are you
want t )
churchman of Philadelphia and edi- - affiliation with you. If
tor of The Christian Herald, as guest offer the First Drama Quartet as
a special attraction, fine, but we wul
speaker.
not under any circumstances, be one
Other speakers include the Rev. of a series."
Peyton R. Williams, rector of Christ
Artists ?
Are Tbey Worn-OEpiscopal Church, Nashville, Term..
After reading this excerpt. Dr. Mo
March 12; the Rev. Carter H. Har- -

Blood Mobile
Will Be Here
Next Month

societies.

Two Committee Reports Form
Highlights Of SGA Meeting
Carter Discloses
Some Possibility

For

Book-Exchan-

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Two committee reports and discussion on a proposed athletic committee were the highlights of a
brief Student Government meeting
Monday night.
Pete Carter reported there was a
"distinct possibility" that SGA could
exchange. He
establish a used-boo- k
said he had already talked to University Comptroller Frank D. Peterson and was going to see President
Donovan later this week.
Carter said he didn't want to say
any more about the exchange until
he'd had a chance to completely investigate all possibilities. He said
he expected to have a more definite
report next week.
Charles "Red" Hale gave a preliminary report on the proposed central lost and found agency. He said
the committee had talked with Dean
A. D. Kirwan, faculty advisor for
SGA, and Miss Mackie Rasdall, director of the SUB.
According to Hale, the agency

in conjunction
room. He estito SGA for setunder $20. The
plan, as he outlined it, would not
require the hiring of any additional
labor. He said the students who
now work in the check room could
also handle the lost and found
agency.
Hale said it would take the committee at least another week or two
to work out the final details.
Pete Carter moved that SGA extend the powers of the Athletic
Committee so it would handle all
functions.
student athletics-relate- d
Last week SGA established the committee to handle
cards.
SGA Will Take
Cards
Although Bernie Shively. UK athletic director, now handles
cards,
the SGA committee will take over
that function as soon as it is able
to set up regular hours for meeting.
When the committee does start
meeting, students who have lost
their
cards may appear before
it to claim them. Students who are
turned down by this committee may
appeal in writing to SGA's Judiciary
Committee.

could be established
with the SUB check
mated the total cost
ting it up would be

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President Bob Smith said last
the Judiciary Committee could
use its own discretion as to whether
or not it would hear an appeal.
Carter explained that his motion
would empower the committee to
handle any problems that arose concerning Suky, the card section, and
student seating at basketball and
football games.
week

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Smith Sits On Committee
President Smith told the assembly members that he, as president
of SGA, has a seat on the University Athletic Committee, which now
handles all student athletic problems. He said the University com
mittee would gladly hand over its
duties to the SGA committee.
Smith said final action on the
establishment of the Athletic Committee will be taken at next week's
meeting.
Noting the large number of absences at the beginning of the meeting. Smith reminded the members
present of SGA's absence rules. He
said three unexcused absences require an assembly member to forfeit his seat.

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Draft Test Requests

Language Exams,
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Must Be Mailed Soon
Exams To Be Given
At 1000 Centers
Applications for the April 24 Selective Service Qualification Test
must be mailed by March 10, Major
General Lewis B. Hershey, director
of Selective Service, said recently.
This will be the last test given during the current academic year.
Students can obtain application
blanks from the nearest local board.
They do not have to return to the
board which has jurisdiction over
them.
The examinations will be given at
1000 centers throughout the United
States and Territories.
To be eligible to take the test, an
applicant, on the testing date (1)
must be a selective service registrant
who intends to request deferment
as a student; (2) must be satisface
college
torily pursuing a
course leading to a degree; and (3)
must not previously have taken the
test.
National Headquarters recently
said that 61.3 per cent of the 19,571
students who took the test Dec. 13,
1951 made a score of 70 or better.
full-tim-

The College of Arts and Sciences will offer Foreign Language
proficiencies in Spanish, WednesOf the 340,000 who took the first! day, March 12; French, Thursday,
four tests, 63 per cent made 70 or March 13; German, Friday, March
14;
Ancient Language, Friday,
better.
The criteria for consideration for March 14.
Students planning to take one
deferment as a student is either a
score of 70 or better on the Selective of the examinations may sign up
Service test or class standing among in Dean M. M. White's office in
the male members in the upper half McVey Hall at least one week beof the freshman class, upper two fore the scheduled examination
thirds of the sophomore class, upper date.
three fourths of the junior class, or
upper half for seniors who wish to
go to graduate school.
These criteria are guides for the
local boards, but they are not compelled to follow them. Any local
The Woman's Administrative
board classification is subject to ap- Council has started planning for the
peal. The appeal must be filed with honorary "Stars in the Night" prothe board within 10 days of the date gram' held in April. President Ann
the board mails the notice of classi- Carson appointed the committee
fication.
chairmen and members this week.
General Hershey urges all eligible
The program and decoration comstudents to take the test so their mittee will be headed by Marilyn
scores will be on file when the local Kilgus and Sitty Russell, organizaboards reconsider their cases to de- tion committee by Betty Carol Pace,
termine whether or not they meet printed program committee by Barthe criteria for deferment as stu- bara Wayman, publicity by Kim
dents.
Sanford, and invitations by Mary
"A deferment is a ueiay or post- Pardue.
This council is composed of all
ponement." General Hershey said,
"and in no way cancels the duty of the presidents of women's campus
organizations. Miss Brucie Cruise
the registrant to meet his obligais the administrative advisor.
tions."

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international relations and condi- phony, included in the list, and
tions in Western Europe, March 19:
if they "sounded
the Rt. Rev. William R. Moody, ed the audience
"worn-oartists."
bishop of the Diocese of Lexington. like
Dr. Mclntyre also said that the
March 26; the Rev. Gardiner M.
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Day. rector of Christ Church. Cam- - Gregory firm had proposed a
Mass.. ADril 2: and the Rt. 'ract for next "ear- b'lt he assure;!
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IS f'OSTl'ME, AND EVEN GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS of a
scnr, Gene Arkle, Betty Stull, and Wallace Buice offer a pictorical
preview of 'Tartuffe," a French by Moliere, which opens at Guignol
Monday.

Two UK Professors Believe Students
Think Bridge Is 'High Brow9 Game
By Charles Stinnett
Two UK professors believe college

students shy away from bridge begame, and
cause it is a "high-brobecause they prefer a game of luck
to one of competitive skill.
Dr. Hobart Ryland, head of the
Romance Language Department,
and Dr. N. B. Allison of the Electrical Engineering Department made
these statements this week, while
the annual Southeastern Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament is in
progress.
Bridge hit its peak at UK immediately following World War II, Dr.
Ryland reflected. At that time, several thousand veterans returned to
school. They were older, more mature, and accustomed to competition, and demanded participation in
the intercollegiate bridge tournaments.
In 1948, UK entered the Southeastern Association of Intercollegiate
Bridge Players. Dr. Ryland was di

rector of tournaments here during
1948 and 1949.
Now most of those veterans have
been graduated and a much younger
set of undergraduates has replaced
them. Dr. Ryland thinks these students are too busy with mental skills
in studies and want recreation without mental effort. Therefore, they
don't play bridge.
Cosmopolitan Magazine, in a 1949
survey, estimated that 25,000,000
people in the United States know
the rudiments of bridge playing. According to ratio, there should be
about 1000 bridge players at UK.
Bridge is the type of game that
has little appeal for younger students, and this factor influences the
ratio, Dr. Ryland believes. There
are probably no more than 500 players at present, he said.
10 Per Cent Play Regularly
Of the 500, Dr. Ryland estimated
that about 10 per cent play regularly and five per cent play so much
they have little time lor studies.

Dr. Ryland sees a correlation of
some degree between bridge players
and majors in physics and mathematics, due to the analytical type of
mind required of most good players.
Dr. Allison, present director of the
UK bridge tournament, has also
noticed a decrease in bridge interest
at the SUB. Two or three years
ago, he said, one could walk into the
card room and find six or eight
bridge players at any hour of the
afternoon. Now three players have

trouble finding a fourth.
Faculty Played
Dr. Allison recalls that, in 1935,
when several faculty members often
played bridge at the Faculty Club
on the third floor of McVey Hall,
practically no students were interested in bridge. In those days ' a
great deal of interest was shared by
faculty members Murray. Weaver,
Portmann, Whittaker, Ryland, Randall, Downing, and SaHy Pence.
Contract bridge was introduced in
the United States by Harold S. Van- -

and was mainly a
"high-brow- "
game reserved for older players. Few students at UK
played any bridge during the late
30s and early 40s.
The Lexington Leader recently
found that eight per cent of their
readers were interested in the
Charles Goren bridge column carried
by that paper. Most of today's
bridge players use the Goren point
system.
Goren To Be Here
Only a small percentage of UK
students belong to the Lexington
Bridge Club, which meets regularly
for duplicate tournaments on Tuesday. The club expects to bring
Goren here for their May tournament and this fact may stimulate
some interest for college bridge fans.
At any rate, bridge at UK probably will continue its decline with
the drop in age level of undergraduate students, and eventually will
become a lost art among college
players, the two professors believe.
derbilt in

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Huronanada.

be signed.

The First Drama Quartet cjii-sis- ts
of Charles Lanuhton. Aui ,
Morehead. Charles Boyer, and Sir
Cedric Hardwick.
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UK To Have

Conference
On Marriage
UK's First Annual Courtship and
Marriage Conference is planned for
(March 11, 12. and 13. The Con- -'
ference is sponsored by Mortar
Board. Lamp and Cross, and ODK.
The meetings will be held each
day from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Social
and Music Rooms of the SUB. The
first hour of each program will be
devoted to a talk by a feature
speaker and the second hour to discussion.

Feature speakers include Dr.
James Gladden and Dr. Alice
Pickett, who will debate the issue
"Are Women Equal to the Tasks of
Modern Marriage;" Dr. Irving Gail,
who will talk about "The Sex Factor;" and Dr. A. J. Whitehouse, who
will speak "On Becoming Parents".

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UK Marker Erected
To Guide Tourists
A UK marker is now being built
at the" intersection of S. Liiiie.-.toi.St. and S. Upper St.. Elgaa B. F.tr-ri- s.
chief engineer of the Maintenance and Operations Department,
said this week. School officials hae
long di.scus--.ethe project, but conee.-cstruction was begun only la.--t
he said.
Mr. Farris said the marker will be
a sign panel with brick columns
on each side. The panel will have a
cut stone trim and ca.,t bronze letters. The letters will be cajrt by the
College of Engineering.
G. C. Jones, carpenter foreman,
said the University has needed such
a marker for a long time. TourUts
pass through Lexington without
knowing where the University Is
located, he said.
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KENTUCKY

The Stewpot

Insult By Quartet's Agent
Overlooked Obvious Facts
Oscar Levant will appear in the Community Concert Series Wednesday. He replaces the First
Drama Quartet which was originally scheduled
for the Series. The Quartr. or at least its agent,
seems to feel that by appearing in the regular series
it will be used as a decoy to "sell all the worn-ou- t
artists and attractions that the New York booking
offices have sold to you."
Mr. Faul Gregory, who. wrote the letter informing Dr. Herman Spivey that the Quartet would not
appear as part of the Series,, has overlooked a few
important facts. First, the Concert Series has been
for months now and the appearance of
a sell-othe Quartet could not possibly sell another ticket.
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Dogs and Kats
This Week's Fare

Second, the quartet was probably not booked by
atthe local committee as one of the
tractions, since at that time no one was quite sure

By DORMAN C'ORDELL

ticket-sellin- g

just how such a presentation would be accepted by
the public. In fact, we doubt very much that even
now, after the publicity it has received, the Quartet
would prove as good a "drawing card" as will the
personable Mr. Levant.
We don't believe either, that attractions which
have been highly publicized in national magazines
are necessary to the success of a cultural program
such as the Concert Series. The First Drama Quartet would be desirable as a part of the Series, but
it falls far short of being indispensible.

Need For State Medical School
Graphically Outlined By Trustees
University trustees have suggested in a booklet,
"More Doctors For Kentucky," that a
medical school lx established at UK.
they have no plan for actually placing the
matter before the legislature, we feel sure that it
will receive the attention of that body.
factual presentation of their
In a
position, the trustees point out tliat Kentucky is unable, with its present medical scliool facilities, to
educate the number of doctors now needed in the
state. Each year, they report, many qualified students are unable to gain admittance to medical
school at the LTniversity of Louisville simply because that school is unable to take care of them and
state-support-

hard-hittin-

g,

maintain its high standards.
This situation leaves the
student here at
UK in a difficult position, to say the least. Even
thbugh he successfully passes his courses here and
is qualified, he may find it extremely difficult, and
perhaps even impossible, to gain entrance to a
medical school. It is likely that this same situation
causes many students who would make excellent
doctors to enter other fields, thus further decreasing
the number of possible doctors for the state.
While it may be impossible for the legislature to
do anything concrete immediately, we hope that
they will at least consider the trustees recommendations for future action.
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'Most Historical American City9
Is Title Often Given Lexington
and MARTHA TARFLEY
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Lexington has become noted for more than
and the surrounding bluegrass region. It
has been sty led the "most historical city in America"
since it contains more than a thousand shrines.
Many of these shrines are the first of their kind
in this section of the country or in the United States.
For example, the first Bible printed west of the
Alleghany Mountains was credited to a Lexington
man, T. T. Skillman.
John Bradford's Gazette, started in Aug. 18, 1787,
is the first newspaper west of the Alleghany mountains. Bradford also is responsible for the first
almanac in 17SS.
The city of Lexington was established as a fort in
1780. This original site is now approximately where
the J. D. Purcell department store is located on
Main Street.
By BETTY BAI GH

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Firsf Write Cluld Buried
The first white child who was born in the Kentucky wilderness, Mrs. Rhoda Holder Vaughn, is
buried in the Episcopal Cemetery on E. Third St.
between Walnut and Deweese Streets. This same
cemetery can boast of having a caretaker's house
which is the purest Gothic cottage in America, according to Prof. Rudford Xewcomb at the University of Illinois.
A house on N. Upper St. was the scene of one of
the first dancing sclrOAls, in America.
Lexington is famous for fts early advances in the
field of education. Transy lvania College, which is
the oldest institute of learning west of the
can claim such contributors as George
Washington, Aaron Burr, and John Adams. It was
here that Abraham Lincoln .first heard Henry Clay
give a speech.
Stoll Field Once Drill Ground
As for UK, the present Stoll Field was once the
drilling ground of the Lexington Light Infantry,
organized in 1789. A portion of the campus was
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part of the estate of one John Maxwell, whose marriage was the first such ceremony celebrated in the
original Lexington fort. Maxwell was a companion
of Daniel Boone.
Prominent residents and visitors frequented early
Lexington. Among these were Jefferson Davis, who
attended Transylvania and lived on Limestone,
Aaron Burr, General H. Morgan, and Henry Clay.
In May 1825, a great ball was held on the present
site of Leet Brothers in honor of the last surviving
Revolutionary War general, LaFayette, who was
visiting in Lexington at that time. As a result of
his visit, many proprietors changed the name of
their businesses to LaFayette.
President Monroe Here
Keen's Tavern, one of the forerunners of the
Phoenix Hotel, entertained President Monroe, General Jackson, and Governor Issac Shelby during
its course of history.
Perhaps one of the most outstanding facts about
Lexington is that it is the hometown of Mary Todd,
who later became the wife of President Abraham
Lincoln. It was in Lexington that Lincoln saw his
first slave sale.
Most historians hold that Mary Todd was born
on High Street and that her family later moved to
574 W. Main.
Domestic Trouble
Recorded in Deed Book D, page 98, Fayette
County Clerk's office, is proof of the domestic
trouble that Thomas Lincoln, brother of Abraham
Lincoln's grandfather, had.
When Tom Lincoln broke up with his wife he
left her "one Negro man, named Major; one Negro
girl, named Charlotte, and one Negro boy named
Morris; one brown horse and a saddle, and a bridle
and a bundle cow that gives milk."
One of the later Lexington firsts is the founding
of Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum on the present
site of the Fayette Hospital.

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Leap Year Started As Lobby
By Old Maids In Scotland
By PAIL KNAPP

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The right for the women to
leap year is nothing new. It all dates back to an old
maid's lobby in Scotland. This custom is now celebrating its 724th birthday, and seems content to
stay around for many more of them.
An Act of the Scottish Parliament, passed in the
year 1228, has been unearthed which says in the
best Scottish brogue that if a man refuses to accept
a leap year proposal by a maiden he must either
prove that he already has a wife or be "mulct in
the sum of ane hundridty pundes, or less, as his
estait may bee."
This was worded so as to be only in effect "during ye reign of her maist blessed majestic, Margaret."
In the year 1288, possibly when Margaret's reign
ceased, this law was amended to apply to every
leap year thereafter, and the penalty was cut to
just "ane pundis."