THE CARDINAL
VOL. 2 LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934 NO. 28
FAMOUS BLIND ASTRONOMER
TO SPEAK AT Y.W.C.A. TUESDAY
Louisville Astronomical Society
Brings Dr. Edwin Brant
Frost To City On
April 10
QUARTET ALSO ON BILL
The Louisville Astronomical So'
ciety will present Dr. Edwin
Brant Frost, world famous as the
“Blind Astronomer,” in an illus-trated
lecture on astronomy at
8:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, at
the Y. W. C. A. auditorium.
Dr. Frost was director of Yerkes
Observatory for over twenty years
and only recently resigned his ac-tive
duties at the loss of his eye-sight.
However, he has not given
up his love of the work and now
gives lectures all over the country
on his favorite astronomical topics,
illustrating his talks with many
slides of the heavenly bodies
which he made himself during his
many years of observation.
Dr. Frost has been called by
many authorities the most interest-ing
lecturer on astronomy in
America, and he is famous
throughout the world for his val-uable
work in astrophysics.
A story is told about Dr. Frost
to the effect that he serves him-
DR. EDWIN B. FROST
Dr. Frank to Talk Over
WHAS On Cancer
Stites, Smith and Shapinsky To
Talk Later in Week
Dr. Louis Frank, teacher in the
School of Medicine, will speak on
“Cancer” on the regular Univer-sity
of Louisville radio broadcast
at 10:45 Monday morning over
WHAS. Dr. Frank’s speech will
be the first in a series of Medical
School talks, to be given every
other Monday at the same time.
Tuesday morning, Sarah Stites
will begin a series of programs by
Liberal Arts students with a talk
on Max Eastman’s Literary mind.
At 10:30 Wednesday morning,
Dr. C. E. Smith, teacher of his-tory
in the College of Liberal Arts
will speak on “Our Railroads.”
Sunday evening at 6:15, Mil-dred
Shapinsky will speak on the
regular program of the Louisville
Astronomical Society.
Friday night at 9:30, the School
of Music will radiocast another of
its weekly porgrams.
Candidates For Queen
Of Ball Announced
Winifred Young, Doris Counts,
Maxine Strunk and Vivian John-son
have been nominated as
Queen of the Engineers’ Ball. The
election will be held at the Ball
on April 13, at the Richmond
Club. One vote will be given with
each paid admission; price is one
dollar a couple. The election, ac-cording
to R. Palmer Benedict,
chairman of the Engineers’ Ball
Committee, will be honest.
KENTUCKY FACES
CRISIS IN SCHOOLS
State Ranks Low In Education;
Financial Status Is
Grave
ASSEMBLY’S AID HOPED
In the school year .1930-1931,
according to an excerpt from the
April issue of the Kentucky
School Journal, “Kentucky stood
fortieth among the states in edu-cational
ranking, forty-first, in av-erage
teachers’ salary and forty-seventh
in value of school prop-erty.”
The article continues, “In order
to put our schools on a sound
basis for coming year, the Gen-eral
Assembly should provide a
Kornhauser Talks To
New Med. School Prof.
Dr. Paul Roofe of The University
Of Chicago To Teach Here
Next Year
At the meeting of the American
Association of Anatomists, held at
the University of Pennsylvania
March 29 and 31, Doctor S. I.
Kornhauser, head of the Depart-ment
of Anatomy at the Univer-sity
of Louisville School of Medi-cine,
met and talked with Doctor
Paul G. Roofe, who will be an in-structor
of Anatomy at the School
of Medicine next year. Doctor
Roofe, of the University of Chi-cago,
has done research on the cir-culation
of blood in the brain, un-der
professors C. C. Bensley and
C. Judson Herrick. Doctor Bens-ley
is Professor Emeritus and head
of the Department of Anatomy at
the University of Chicago, and
Doctor Herrick is head of the De-partment
of Anatomy at the Uni-versity
of Chicago.
At this meeting Dr. Roofe had
a demonstration of the circulation
of blood in the living brain of the
amphibian. He transmitted light
to the living tissue of circulation
FACULTY AWARD
PLANNED BY KENT
Distinction For Merit Is First To
Be Presented At University
Of Louisville
COMMITTEE IS SECRET
An honorary award of merit to
be awarded to members of the fac-ulty
of the University of Louis-ville
hs been established, accord-ing
to President R. A. Kent, who
is responsible for the creation of
the award, the only one of its
kind ever offered at the Univer-sity.
The first presentation is to
be made this spring if a satisfac-tory
recipient can be selected.
The recipient is to be one who
has contributed significantly to the
intellectual or scholastic standing
of the University or to the pro-gress
of the students. Any admin-istrative
officer or member of the
teaching staff is eligible.
He is to be selected by a com-mittee
of five persons who are
full-time teaching members of the
University and who are not ad-ministrative
officers. Heads of
PLAY ATTRACTS
MUCH COMMENT
Recognition Received From News-papers
and National
Magazines
HAS LARGE AUDIENCES
Eliciting press comment and
widespread notice, and attracting
large audiences, the premiere per-formances
of “Garden of Memo-ries”
are considered outstandingly
successful. The production re-ceived
recognition in numerous
publications and national theatre
magazines, as an unusual endea-vor.
Written by Fred Karem and de-signed
by Rollo Wayne, noted
New York scenic artist, both U. of
L. alumni, and produced by the
University of Louisville Players
under the direction of Boyd
Martin, the play has focused con-siderable
attention on local dra-matic
effort.
The remaining performances
will be tonight, tomorrow after-noon
at 2:30, and tomorrow night.
Full houses are indicated for the
remaining night performances.
The Twentieth Anniversary Ban-quet
of the Players will follow the
performance Saturday night.
Conference On Public
Affairs Is Success
GETS EDITORIAL NOTICE
The Conference on Public
Affairs sponsored jointly by the
University of Louisville and the
University of Kentucky and in
which several nationally and in-ternationally
known figures par-ticipated
was according to J. Paul
Druien, very successful.
The conference which, brought
before the people of Louisville the
problems which are confronting
the world today, received editorial
comment both on the aims of the
assembly as a whole and on the
various topics discussed at the
meetings.
Jolas, U-L Symphony
On Columbia Network
Broadcast Saturday at 2 P.M.
Over WHAS - Mozart
Concerto Presented
A coast-to-coast broadcast
over WHAS and the Columbia
net-work Saturday, April 7, at
2:00 p.m. C. S. T. will present
Jacques Jolas as soloist with the
University of Louisville Sym-phony
orchestra, under the di-rection
of H. Arthur Brown, in
the Mozart concerto in E flat
major for piano and orchestra.
OPERA, SERENADE
ON NEXT PROGRAM
Elizabeth Burket, William Meyer,
Dr. Billy Keller Appear In
“La Serva Padrona”
WILL BE ON APRIL 11
“La Serva Padrona,” chamber
music opera of Pergolesi, and the
world premiere of Sedlaczek’s
“Serenade” are to be the outstand-ing
presentations of the eleventh
concert of the University of Louis-ville
series next Wednsday, April
11.
The cast for Pergolesi’s opera
intermezzo includes Elizabeth
Burket as Zerbina, the wily maid
who entices the irate bachelor,
Pandalfo, sung by William Meyer,
with the aid of the deaf-mute,
Scaprin, Dr. Billy Keller, into
matrimony.
This opera was performed in
the early part of the eighteenth
K. E. A. To Meet In
City April 18 To 21
Noted Educators Scheduled To
Address Teachers
Outstanding entertainment fea-tures
are scheduled for the Ken-tucky
Education Association Con-vention,
to be held in Louisville,
April 18-21, Mr. W. P. King, ex-ecutive
secretary, has announced.
Musical programs by various
state musical groups will feature
meetings Wednesday evening,
Thursday morning, and Friday
morning.
A pageant of music, poetry and
dancing; brief talks by Dr. Karl
S. Bolander and Dr. Osborne Mc-
Conathy, widely known figures in
musical and art circles; and ad-dresses
by Dr. Edgar W. Knight,
dean of the College of Education
at the University of North Caro-lina,
and Dr. G. Beverly Oxnam,
president of Depauw University,
have been planned for Friday eve-ning.
Following the Friday evening
session, a reception will be held in
the ballroom of the Brown Hotel
in honor of the newly elected offi-cers.
WECHSLER KILLED, YOSS
INJURED IN AUTO WRECK
Five U. of L. Students In Car
Smash-Up En Route
To New York
4TH FATALITY OF YEAR
Sam Yoss, a Junior pre-dental
student in the College of Liberal
Arts, is reported on the road to
recovery after having been seri-ously
injured in an automobile ac-cident
on Thursday, March 29, in
which Lee Wechsler, also a stu-dent
in the College of Liberal
Arts, was fatally injured.
The two youths, together with
Leon Hechter, Sidney Goodman
and William Pariser, who also at-tend
the University, were en route
to New York for the Easter vaca-tion
when the light car in which
they were riding struck some loose
gravel near Cambridge, Ohio, and
turned over. Yoss was thrown out
of the rumble seat and suffered a
concussion of the brain. Wechsler
was pinned in the rumble, receiv-ing
a broken neck and a crushed
chest. The boys finally succeeded
ijn stopping a truck to take them
do a hospital after a lapse of sev-eral
hours and Wechsler died five
minutes after admittance. Yoss
had not regained consciousness
vjntil Tuesday night, when he re-gained
his senses for a brief per-iod,
relapsing into a coma shortly
afterwards.
Hechter, owner of the car and
junior pre-medical student, was
only slightly injured despite the
fact that his head was pushed
Cobb To Speak Today,
Noon, In Alumni Rooms
Famous Writer Will Lecture On
“The New World
Order”
Stanford Cobb, founder and
president of Chevy Chase experi-mental
school, will speak on “The
New World Order” in the Alum-ni
rooms at 12:00 o’clock today.
Mr. Cobb has written many books
on poetry and philosophy, among
which are his “Harmonization of
Life,” and “The Genius Within.”
He has traveled extensively and
is internationally known as a
teacher and lecturer. He em-phasizes
mostly in his lectures the
new social order, and changes
that are taking place in the world
today.
Many Attend Forum on
Art of Writing, Here
A conference on the Art of
Writing, featuring such well-known
authors as Cale Young
Rice, Alice Hegan Rice, Cleves
Kinkead, Karl Detzer, and Charles
M. Buck, was sponsored by the
English department Monday eve-ning,
inconnection with the
Founders’ Week observation.
After the talks, an open forum
was held, in which many of those
present joined in the discussion of
the problems of writing. Dr. E.
B. Fowler was in charge of the
meeting, which was attended by
more than a hundred people.
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