Welcome Frosh Issue
THE CARDINAL
Official Student Publication of University of Louisville
VOL. 7 LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938 NO. 1
Lab Solutions
By Editors of Cardinal
The U. of L. Athletic
Situation
CAMPUS COOPERATIVES
A prizefight is billed: Slug-ger
Mulligan vs. Tony “Kid”
Wirpo. The Slugger is adver-tised
as a battered pug with
a murderous right; Kid Wir-po
as a brainy, sci<
youngster with a ligh
left. The athletic situatii
the University could be
tioned similarly: Punchdi u.
Athletics vs. Socko Academic
Standards.
Each time Mulligan and Wirpo
fight, the affair is a thrilling slug-fest,
but when Punchdrunk Ath-letics
meets Socko Academic
Standards, the battle is a miser-able
flop. The fight is oveY be-fore
a minute elapses, with Socko
winner by a knockout.
Thus stands U. of L.’s ith-letic
record in recent y<ars,
spreaoeagled so often by aca/iem-ic
standards that it resembles the
biography of a punchdrunk pug-ilist.
Almost every year for tie past
eight, a powerful freshman team
has been assembled, only to have
two-thirds of its members dis-missed
from school for failure to
come up to scholastic standards.
Whether the three hours of
hard work every afternoon during
football season should be reward-ed
by a measure of leniency in
regard to grades has been em-phatically
answered by the fac-ulty
of the University: no extra-curricular
activities can interfere
with class work.
Even last year's mediocre
frosh team, numbering few so-called
big but dumb boys, has
only eight men surviving for this
year’s varsity.
This year another effort has
been made to bring out good ath-letes.
About 25 experienced high
school athletes have entered the
freshman class. Will they go the
way of the previous good Frosh
teams of the past decade?
The master-minds of the ath-letic
ship are embarking on a
new policy. Since no concessions
are to be met in regard to stan-dards,
only intelligent athletes
are to be sought. Athletic prowess
is not to be the sole criterion, the
student must have at least a “C”
average with preference being
showed to those graduated in the
upper third of their class.
This new deal in University
athletes owes its first shuffle to
*he Buck-A-Month Club. Grid-jjn
Mentor Laurie Apitz insti-lled
the idea, patterning it after
NEW DEAN
Seniors Advise
Frosh Not To
Imitate Sophs
Seniors offer incoming fresh-men
the following advice:
Don’t think you know it all.
Only sophomores think that.
Juniors and seniors realize they
know very little.
Don! make a lot of noise to
attract attention. There are other
ways; scholastic achievement,
participation in extra-curricular
activities and a pleasing person-ality.
You are now paying for your
education. Make that money pay
dividends. Remember that only
one out of every five freshman
entering U. of L. graduate.
Your parents are still your
best friends. Maybe they can’t
read French or complete a chem-ical
formula, but they’ve lived
longer than you. You’re their
main interest; they’re gambling
on you. Keep them informed al-ways
on what you are doing.
Don’t be conventional if it
means creating habits you dis-approve
of. College students of-ten
boast of not being conven-tional,
yet they are invariably
collegiate. Good manners, neat
appearance and careful language
are appreciated as much on a
college campus as elsewhere.
Ford Lee Wilkinson
Frats Raise Standards
University fraternities have
agreed to consider their candi-dates
only from a list of “elig-ibles,”
students above the 40th
percentile on the psychological,
reading or English examination.
Furthermore, any pledge who
does not have a point average of
.75 will be dropped. Pledges fail-ing
to attain a point average of
.75 at the end of the semester
will not be initiated.
Wilkinson, New Speed School Dean,
Promises To Retain High Standards
Successor to Brigman
Former Submarine
Commander
Former Lieutenant and com-manding
officer in the United
States Navy and a native Ken-tuckian,
Ford Lee Wilkinson, Jr.,
was appointed Dean of the Speed
Scientific School during the sum-mer.„.
He will— succeed the late
Bennett M. Brigman, one of the
founders of the school.
Said the new Dean: "'I am
here only to carry on the high
standards which have already
been set.”
Dean Wilkinson plans n o
changes in the curriculum of the
Speed School, wishing to accli-matize
himself first. “After all,”
he said, “I have only been here a
week.”
“The Speed Scientific School,”
Annapolis-graduate Wilkinson re-lated,
“has a reputation over the
entire country and is a monu-ment
to the men who established
it. It is amazing, the high stan-dards
which have been attained
in such a short time.”
Pleased at the large enrollment
this semester, Dean Wilkinson
said the school’s facilities would
be taxed slightly, but that all
students would be handled ade-
Dental School
Adds 3 New Profs
For Fall Term
The School of Dentistry com-menced
it’s fall term yesterday
with three additions to the facul-ty,
Dean J. T. O’Rourke an-nounced
today.
A graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania, Dr. Grant Van
Huysen was appointed to the po-sition
of Associate Professor of
Pathology. Dr. Van Huysen spent
five years at the Rochester School
of Medicine in the study of Path-ology.
He succeeds the late Dr.
Van Beust.
Prexy, Deans
Extend Welcome
To Freshmen
“It is a pleasure to extend a
cordial welcome to all students
entering the University,” said
President Raymond A. Kent in
his official greeting to freshmen
and students transferring to the
University.
“For all those to whom this
is the first experience within the
University of Louisville there will
be a great deal to learn and many
new adjustments to make. Espec-ially
for freshmen will this phase
be important,” he continued.
“At times it will be helpful for
you to remember that the diffi-culties
arising because you are
strangers are shared by the mem-bers
of the faculty.
“It is therefore a mutual prob-lem
that we have and it can be
best solved by our working to-gether.
Let this be the key to
all our planning and action.
“I wish you all the nearest
possible realization of the am-bitions
which you have for a
successful school year.”
Said new Dean of the Speed
Scientific School, F. L. Wilkin-son:
“You and I are entering the
University and the Speed School
together. The faculty has wel-comed
me with a generous spirit
of helpfulness and cooperation. I,
in turn, wish to extend to you
fellow-beginners the same wel-come.
“You constitute the largest
class ever to enter the’ Speed
School. Your faculty considers
this a challenge and pledge them-selves
to exert every effort to
aid you in obtaining a board and
liberal engineering education. I
believe that your next four years
will be rich and I sincerely hope
that 1942 will see ninety young
engineers emerging with degrees
from U. of L.”
Dean J. J. Oppenheimer’s
greeting to incoming students:
“On part of the Liberal Arts Col-lege
it is a genuine pleasure to
extend a cordial welcome to all
incoming students.
Go To Press
Are You A Journalist?
Can you light a cigarette while pecking a type-writer;
do you revel in the fragrance of paper, paste
pots, and printer’s ink; can you subsist for 48 hours on
two hamburgers and a coke? If you can, maybe you’re
a journalist. If you can’t, maybe you’re a better jour-nalist,
The Cardinal needs journalists, well, reporters any-way.
Maybe' you want to be a reporter. If you do,
come to one the staff meetings at the Cardinal Office
next Monday. The time: 12:30 and 2:30.
Frosh Set
Enrollment
Record
With 1690 students enrolled in
the University for the first sem-ester,
U. of L. has registered the
largest Freshman class in its his-tory,
Ralph E. Hill, registrar,
disclosed today.
A total of 639 freshmen have
registered, a gain of 153 over
last year.
The total enrollment of the
University is exceeded only bv
the 1929 registration, being 168
higher than the enrollment at a
similar time last year.
Liberal Arts, tabulating an in-crease
of 88 freshmen, have regis-tered
a total of 363 new students.
Anticipating not more than 75
new enrollees, the Speed Scien-tific
School has its facilities
slightly taxed with 91 Freshmen.
Medical School has 90 Fresh-men
enrolled, a gain of two over
last year. Law School added 25
new students. Four more this
year year than last.
The School of Dentistry has
50, 10 more than last year.
Final reports on registration in
the Division of Adult Education
are not available, registration be-ginning
only last Thursday.
Total enrollment in the various
schools:
Grad. Div. Soc. Admin 5
L. A. Day '. 817
L. A. D. A. E 3
Grad. Day 33
Grad. D. A. E 6
Medicine 311
Dentistry 122
Law 44
Speed (Sr. and Fall Qrs.) 237
Music Credit 58
Music Prep 9
L. M. C. N 54
1699
Less Duplications 9
1691)
MYSTERY!
INTRIGUE!
CHILLS!
Mystery! Intrigue! Chills!
Yes, sir, it’s cloaked in mys-tery,
wrapped in intrigue and
covered with chills. What are we
talking about? To be frank, we
haven’t the slightest idea.
All we know is what Brad
Bergmann told us. He said that
there was going to be a meeting
at 12:30, Friday, September 23,
at the gymnasium and only up-perclass
men and women would
be allowed to enter.
And in case any freshman gets
nosy, he’ll run into husky opposi-tion
in the form of upperclassmen
who threaten to alter the facial
features of anyone guilty of such
an offense.
Bergmann won’t talk, so we
guess we’ll have to go to find out
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