The Cardinal News
Dedicated to the Advancement of the University of Louisville
VOL. I. No. 20. LOUISVILLE, KY., MARCH 11, 1927. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
General Alumni Body Near Realization
SELECT OFFICERS,
O. K. CONSTITUTION
TUESDAY MEETING
Organization Work Con-summation
of Long-
Desired Dream.
Organization of a General Alumni
Association of the University of Louis-ville
is near completion.
Representatives from the various de-partments
of the University have
adojlfed as Constitution and By-Laws
which will be submitted for the ap-proval
of the General Association at
a meeting to be held on Tuesday,
March 15, at 8 o'clock in the evening,
in the Alumni Rooms in the Library
Building on the Campus.
There will be an election of officers.
A ticket submitted by the nominating
committee has been mailed to every
alumnus in the country. Out-of-town
alumni may vote by mail; local alum-ni
will cast their ballots Tuesday
night. Herbert Boehl heads the nom-inating
committee’s ticket. Nomina-tions
may be made from the floor.
Esther Metz, Louisville’s outstand-ing
soprano, will offer a vocal program
accompanied by Mrs. Walter H. Shack-leton
at the piano.
Colvin Urges
More Contact
With Faculty
In a talk to the student body at the
general assembly last Friday in the
Playhouse, President George Colvin
urged that a sympathetic understand-ing
be created between faculty mem-bers
and students.
Mr. Colvin told the students that It
was his wish that they come to regard
their instructors as their friends and
helpers and not as some far-away, un-approachable
body. He also exhorted
that a more democratic spirit on the
campus and in student activities. He
said that he wanted the time to ®me
when the question of "what a man is”
would be paramount, and not “who
he is” and "whence he came.”
Prior to Mr. Colvin’s talk, Dorothy
Baringer arid Thelma Dolan entertain-ed
the audience with a vocal rendition
of several popular musical numbers.
Survey Reveals U. Grads
Leaders In Many Fields
Recent questionnaires mailed to
7,000 alumni preparatory to the launch-ing
of the $2,000,000 endowment fund
campaign, have revealed that there
are more University of Louisville
graduates engaged in the medical pro-fession
than in any other vocation.
Those practicing dentistry constitute
the second largest number, and those
engaged in the practice of law come
third. The tabulation of the answers
received were supplemented by Uni-versity
records.
A list of graduates of noteworthy
achievement included, it was said, the
organizer of the Boy Scouts of Amer-|
ica. a Solicitor General of the United
States, a Speaker of the House of
Illinois, two generals in the Confed-erate
Army and a colonel in the
Union Army during (he War Between
the States, three- former presidents of
the American Medical Association, a
Governor of West Virginia, the first
reader of the First Church of Christ
Scientist, a president of the National
Dental Association, the founder of the
Filson Club, the director of the labora-tories
of the- Rockefeller Institute of
Medical Research and a scientist inter-nationally
known for biological re-search
in the field of dentistry.
• Following is a summary of alumni
activities, compiled from several thou-sand
questionnaires:
Government and Law—Seven
64 In Ambitious “Romeo
and Juliet” Production
While "Romeo and Juliet,” the fourth
regular production of the University
of Louisville Players’ thirteenth sea-son
of play producing in Louisville, is
the most stupendous offering .under-taken
since the opening of the Play-house,
on the Belknap Campus last
season, it is no more unusual than any
of the productions which have been
given annually in the past at Mac-auley’s.
Since 1914 the University of Louis-ville
Players have been giving what
established in 1922.
The Macauley productions included
"You Never Can Tell," "Mice and
Men,” “A Scrap of Paper,” "The Ad-mirable
Crichton.” “Trelawney of the
Wells’,” "Temper and Temperament,”
a bill of one act plays including “Six
Little Feet on a Fender,” "Altruism,”
"Bushido,” and “The Lost Silk Hat.”
“The Chinese Puzzle," and "The Bonds
of Interest.”
In 1918-T9 the Work Shop in the
rear of 119 West Broadway was open-ed
and the majority of the productions
were given there.
All the Macauley productions were
given at themendous expense and yet
so generous was the patronage that
the Players always made a profit on
the attractions, much of this profit
being shared with the athletic asso-ciation.
“Romeo and Juliet,” is given now
with the idea of breaking even, the
PAUL DRUIEN
were known as major productions. As
the popularity of the Players gre the
number of major productions were in-creased
until the present scale of five
major productions in a season was
Student Sale For
Romeo to Start
Week March 14
The student sale for the pro-duction
of Shakespeare’s “Ro-meo
and Juliet.” to be given in
the Playhouse by the University
of Louisville Players on March
24, 25, 26, will begin Monday,
March 14. Tickets may be ob-tained
at the box office in the
Playhouse. All reservations not
paid for will be put on sale at
the box office. « ,
The management also requests
that all money collected for tick-ets
and all tickets not sold be
turned in to the box office on
March 21.
Three Bad Men Succumb
to Greasepaint Glamor
The Three Bad Men and their alter
ego, swart of beard, strong of arm,
have succumbed to the glamor of
grease paint. It is to marvel and to
utter a pious interjection. What
“Pop” wills, God wills.-
It has been bruited about in the
coca cola cafes that fringe the campus
that the Heroes of the Bulging Biceps
have been stung into action by the
example of a poetic thespian who has
recently been awarded a notable role
in a famous play. Since the day of
Pop’s pronunciamiento, this young
man has achieved an unparalelled suc-cess
in art and amour. It is even said
that The Bad Men, swart and strong
as they are, desire to emulate this
megalamaniac mime. With such idle
chatter do the youths of the day amuse
themselves, to give savor to their in-sipid
slops, and to make them forget
the scarcity of potable liquids.
In the days when Rabelesian heroes,
like the Three Bad Men devoured two
pounds of raw beef steak sprinkled
with gun powder for breakfast, and
chased it down with a gourd full of
juniper juice, such mummery might
have been looked at sidewise. But not
today.
As one of the Bad Men explained in
the sanctity of his dressing room:
"Athletes of today are different from
the ruffians of the last century. We
don’t wear size seventeen collars and
number five hats anymore. Why. look
at Tunney. He reads books and tilings.
And as for going on the stage, even
an old gorilla like John L. Sullivan
did that. And so did Jack Dempsey.”
So did Little Lord Fauntleroy.
And so have Pop and Jake and Unc
and Marty.
FACULTY, STUDENTS AID FUND DRIVE
Committee to
Be Instructed
On March 16
There will be a mass meeting of
the Faculty and Student Committee
for the $2,000,000 endowment fund
campaign next Wednesday evening at
7:30 o’clock at the Dental School at
Brook and Broadway.
There are thirty men on this com-mittee,
which is composed of students
and faculty members of every depart-ment
of the University. Bennett M.
Brigman, dean of the Speed Scientific
School, is chairman. The purpose 0$,
f
the meeting will be to outline a plan
whereby all students and faculty mem-bers
of the University may participate
in the campaign. President George
Colvin and Mr. Richard Bean, presi-dent
of the Louisville National Bank
and chairman of the local endowment
drive, are scheduled to speak.
The members of the committee fol-low:
College of Liberal Arst—University
Campus:
Dr. Karl Holzknecht, Faculty.
Fred Koster, Senior.
Elizabeth Nall, Senior.
.Billy Keller, Junior.
Ruth Robinson, Junior.
' Calvin Gray, Sophomore.
Ruth Glover, Sophomore.
George Ragsdale, Freshman.
Catherine Harcourt, Freshman.
RICHARD BEAN
LAUNCH LOCAL DRIVE APRIL 22
CIVIC ENDOWMENT
CAMPAIGN FOLLOWS
NATIONAL EFFORT
Intensive Period To Be Of
Nine Days’ Duration;
Bean Chairman.
Mr. Richard Bean, general chair-man
of the University’s $2,000,000 en-dowment
fund campaign, has announ-ced
that the opening date for the
local campaign has been set for April
22 to continue through April 30. This
civic campaign, limited to Louisville
and immediate vicinity, is to follow
the national alumni campaign which
starts March 22, with a series of open-ing
dinners throughout the country,
and which lasts through April 15.
Final selection of chairmen of the
various committees for the Louisville
campaign will be completed and pub-lic
announcement of their appoint-ments
made during the next few
weeks, according to Mr. Bean. The
plan of organization for this drive in-cludes
the selection of a chairman of
the foPowing committees: preliminary
gifts, special gifts, publicity, speakers,
faculty and undergraduates, arrange-ments,
and men’s and women’s divi-sions.
The chairmen of these various
groups will he chosen by Mr. Bean
and the University authorities from
the leaders in the social, business and
professional life of Louisville. Each
chairman will select team captains,
Adath Israel
Gives Books
to U. Library
The University Library is in receipt
of “The Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics,” a brand new set of books con-sisting
of thirteen volumes, the gift
of the Temple Adath Israel to the
University of Louisville. Rabbi Jos-eph
Rauch presented the books in be-half
of the Temple. They were re-ceived
last Monday by the librarian.
Miss Schneider, and may be seen on
the library shelves now.
This encyclopaedia is said to be the
most recent and comprehensive work
of its class, and it contains articles
on all religions, ethical systems and
movements philosophical ideas and
moral practices. It is one of the many
valuable gifts which the Library has
received from the Temple Adath Israel
during the past two years. Most prom-inent
among the books donated re-cently
by the Temple are those on
Hebracia and Judaica.
7,000 Alumni Lining Up
Behind Endowment Drive
Reports received from all parts of
the country show' that within a few
weeks the 7,000 alumni of the Uni-versity
of Louisville will be lined up
and ready for participation in The na-tional
campaign for the University’s
$2,000,000 endowment fund. William B.
Pirtle, general alumni chairman an-nounced.
The alumni campaign is to
be followed by a civic campaign lim-ited
to Louisville and its vicinity.
Within the past %veek great strides
have been made in effecting a strong
alumni organization outside Kentucky,
Chairman Pirtle said. In many in-stances
local alumni of the University,
including Dr. G. S. Hanes, Dr. F. T.
Fort, Dr. Virgil E. Simpson. Dr. J. R.
Wathen, Dr. G. A. Hendon, Dr. W. A.
Jenkins and Dr. William E. Apple-haus
have met alumni in State con-ferences
and urged graduates to get
behind the $2,000,000 effort.
Oklahoma in Line
Chairman Pirtle said that the State
of Oklahoma has been one of the first
divisions to complete its line-up of lo-cal
chairmen under the leadership of
Dr. L. A. Riely of Oklahoma City. The
following Oklahoma chairmen have
been appointed: Dr. J. S. Fulton,
Otka; Dr. Frank McGregor, Lawton:
Dr. T. S. Chapman, McAllister; Dr.
E. E. Rice, Shawnee;’Dr. D. D. Rob-erts,
Muskogee, and Dr. Clarke Hen-dershot,
Tulsa.
In the Western States officials at
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Welcomes
its
Scholastic
Basketball
Guests
Louisville, Ky.
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