CARDINAL WE ARE PROUD
THAT . . .
. . . ‘The Cardinal is a newspaper,
published by the students of the Uni-versity
of Louisville. The views ex-pressed
in it are those of students
only.”
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Vol. 8 Louisville, Ky., Friday, May 3, 1940 No. 29
Women’s League
Annual Banquet
Set Wednesday
The annual Women’s League
Informal Banquet will be given
May 8 in the Pendennis Club ball-room
at 6:30. For the first time,
all young women on the campus
and the wives of Liberal Arts
faculty members are cordially in-vited.
A record attendance is an-ticipated
despite the dinner being
$l.OO.
Ruth Davidson will discuss
“The Philosophy of Education”
and the program will include
music by the “Music School
Tonettes,” community singing, and
numerous circus acts.
The “Mostest Girls” to be an-nounced
include the best-liked girl,
the most beautiful, most brilliant,
best dressed, most loyal, and best
all-round girls on the campus. New
officers in the all-women’s organi-zations—
W.A.A., “Y”, Home Eco-nomics
Club, and the Women’s
League—will be named also. A-wards
will go to the outstanding
Freshman and Senior girl, new
Pallas Club members will be an-nounced,
and the athletic awards
will be made.
Seated at the Speakers table
will be Dean Hilda Threlkeld,
Edith Young, Women’s League
president, Ann Litkenhaus, vice-president,
Betsy Short, secretary,
Ruth Strull, treasurer; Ethel Baer,
“Y” president; Mary W. Harris,
W.A.A.head; Jean Proctor, Home
Economics Club president; Lois
Uhrig, Senior class representative
on the Women’s League cabinet;
and Grace Towles, president of the
Pallas club. Edith Young will be
the mistress of ceremonies.
Campus Log
May 3 to 9
FRIDAY
12:45 P. M.—Gardiner 205.
Y. M. C. A. Bible Class.
9:00 P. M.—House.
Phi Delta Epsilon Party.
MONDAY
9:30 A. M.—Allen Court Room.
Lecture by Mr. Henry Alsberg.
10:30 A. M.—Women’s Building
(2nd Floor).
Conferences with Mr. Alsberg.
2:00 P. M.—Alumni Rooms.
Dames Club.
4:00 P. M.—Women’s Building
(2nd Floor).
Humanities Club Tea for Mr.
Alsberg.
7:00 P. M.—Women’s Building
(2nd Floor).
Conferences with Mr. Alsberg.
Cardinal Receives Top Rating
The all-American designation
which Cardinal received from the
Associated Collegiate Press this
year, is the highest possible classi-fication
and the first such rank-ing
the paper has ever been
awarded. The previous high rat-ing
was in 1935-1936 when the
Cardinal was awarded the second
highest classification, First class
Honor Rating. Lewis M. Cohen
was editor.
Of the 406 papers judged in the
1940 critical service, from 47
states, Hawaii and the District of
Columbia, 76 were awarded rank-ing
of all-american. A total of six
publications out of this number
were adjudged the elite of the all-
Americans and rated as pace-makers.
Cardinal was in the category of
colleges over 2,500 students pub-lishing
a weekly. Among the all-
American papers in the same class
as Cardinal are Crimson and
White, University of Alabama;
Campus Collegian, University of
Toledo; Red and Black, University
of Georgia; and Ticker, College
of the City of New York.
In recognition of the honor, Car-dinal
will receive a certificate of
award.
“This honor,” said Bill Ray, edi-tor
of Cardinal, “seems in some
way to be a justification of both
our editorial and technical policy
this year. To receive this rating
after the miserable paper last year,
makes the award all the more
pleasing.” For the first time in
the history of the Cardinal, the
paper was not entered in the critic-al
srvice last year.
French Statue
Given Dentistry
By Mrs. Elbe
Mrs. Max Elbe, widow of Dr.
Max Elbe, for 25 years professor
of History and Ethics, has given
the School of Dentistry a French
metal statue showing early meth-ods
of tooth extraction, in memory
of her husband. The statue, a very
rare and valuable specimen, was
found in France by a friend of Dr.
Elbe who brought it back to
America and later gave it to Dr.
Elbe. It can now be seen at the
Dental School.
The statue depicts a patient and
the operator who is extracting the
tooth with great effort, much to
the discomfort of the patient,
forking forceps were then used
and anesthesia was not known.
The School is making investiga-tions
concerning the approximate
date of the statue, though it is
known to be over a hundred years
old.
U-K Editor Talks
At Cardinal Dinner
Recognition will be paid to staff
members of Cardinal and an a-musing
evening is in prospect
when the Cardinal holds a “Grid-iron
Dinner” at the Canary Cot-tage
Thursday, May 9th, at 6:30.
It is to be a replica of the famous
annual newspaper dinner held in
Washington where journalists
satirize the Administration. In
this case, it will be the University
Administration. Highlight of the
evening will be announcement of
next year’s Cardinal staff.
Jim Caldwell, recently elected
editor of The University of Ken-tucky
Kemal and president of the
Kentucky Intercollegiate Press As-sociation
will be the main speaker.
His subject will be “Liberalism
and the College Press.”
Of tremendous interest is the
actual Gridiron program in which
various administration figures will
be scrutinized, analyized and inter-preted.
Gold keys will be awarded
to graduating members of the staff
and silver keys to undergraduate
editors and business department
heads. One silver key will be a-warded
to the most outstanding
Freshman on the staff and certi-ficates
to others.
Lost Generation!
Why Music School?
We’ve been given up for
hopeless before. It’s more
or less the accepted stan-dard.
But a sign on the
Music School bulletin board
is the last straw. It gloated:
“Lost ! This Generation !
If found, leave it at the
Music School.”
P. S. “This Generation” is
also the name of an Eng-lish
text book. But it’s lost
too.
Press Application
Deadline Moved
To Monday Noon
The deadline for applications
for staff positions on the three
University of Louisville publica-tions,
Cardinal, Universiiy, and
The Thoroughbred, has been ex-tended
to noon, Monday, May 6,
Morton Grodzins, director of
publications, announced today.
Application blanks may be re-ceived
at the News Bureau, base-ment
of Gardiner Hall.
The Board of Student Publica-tions
will meet May 9 for the
purpose of selections and the next
year’s editors and staff will be
announced at the Cardinal Ban-quet.
Students applying for edi-torship
of the publications will
be required to make a personal
appearance before the board for
interview.
Second "Pop"
Scheduled Friday
The second U. of L. Music School
“Pop” concert, sponsored by the
Louisville Courier - Journal and
Times, will be presented May 10 at
the Memorial Auditorium at 8:30.
The program, planned to give a
cross section of the talents and
activities at Music School, will
feature the University concert
band, conducted by Ernest E.
Lyon, and includes other selections
by Fletcher Smith, baritone; Grace
Whitney, Cellist; Ruth Beard,
violinist; Dean Dwight Anderson,
pianist. The University Chorus
will be conducted by E. J. Watowa,
assistant dean, and Miss Helen
Boswell is to be Mistress of Cere-monies.
Student solos will be
featured for the first time in this
concert. All seats are reserved
and tickets may be purchased at
the Readers Service Bureau of the
Courier and Times for twenty-seven
cents.
L. A. COUNCIL ELECTION
Applications for nomina-tion
to the Student Council
must be turned in to the of-fice
of the Dean of Women
not later than Tuesday,
May 14. Petitions must be
signed by 25 students.
Norbert Fante, chairman
of the committee, said to-day
that it is the hope of
the student council that as
many organizations as pos-sible
will be represented.
The election will be held on
Tuesday, May 21.
Warwick Plans
Formation of
Forensic League
Announcement has been made
of the formation of a U. of L.
Forensic League on the campus.
All those who have participated
in varsity debates are eligible for
charter membership, including
alumni. Active members will
consist of the U. of L. debating
team and associate members who
may at specified times try out for
active membership.
The first meeting of the League
has been called for Thursday,
May 9, at 11:30 in Gardiner 305.
Election of necessary officials will
then be consummated under the
supervision of the League’s facul-ty
advisor, Dr. Warwick.
The primary purpose of the
League is to promote debating
and other Forensic activities
among the student body of the
University. Students who are in-terested
in debate but who do
not have the necessary time to
go out for full time debate activi-ties
are cordially invited to attend
the first meeting next Thursday
at 11:30.
Noted Journalist
Visits Here May 6
Henry G. Alsberg, editorial
writer, foreign correspondent,,
playwright, one time director of
the Provincetown Playhouse,
foreign correspondent in post-war
Europe, and more recently direc-tor
of the Federal Writers’ Pro-ject,
will deliver several lectures
and conduct informal discussions
with student groups on the cam-pus
upon his arrival Monday,
May 6th.
He will spend several days dis-cussing
with interested groups
the trends of current literature,
the drama, journalism, and foreign
politics. Individual conferences
with Mr. Alsberg which are to
be held in the Woman’s Building
may be arranged through Dr. H.
C. Webster, Professor of English.
His conference will terminate
Wednesday, when he lectures on
“Europe Since the Versailles
Treaty” at an official convocation
in the Playhouse.
Dean O’Rourke of the School of
Dentistry spoke in Lexington on
Modern trends in Dentistry be-,
fore the Kentucky Academy of
Science which met last weekend
and of which Dr. Homberger is
president.
Six Candidates
Eye Freshman
Sweety Honor
To be, or not to be, that is the
question current among the six
candidates for Freshman Sweet-heart
as they and their campaign
manager bedeck the campus with
enticing signs and rally their quota
of the local male population around
them in preparation for the com-ing
election. And Student Council
pres, Bill Watts, plays with the
electorial system again as only
the masculine element (class no
matter) will be allowed to the
poles when election day, Thursday,
May 9th, dawns. The six lasses
up for the honor are: Madeline
Russell, Kappa Delta; Marion
Pictures of Candidates will
be found on Page 2.
Weaver, Zeta Tau Alpha; Fay
Wilke, Independent; Hunky Rans-dell,
Pi Phi; Ann Taylor, Sigma
Kappa; and Libby Reuter, Chi O.
Election results will be an-nounced
at the Sweetheart Dance,
Friday nite, May ,10, in the Gym
as the lucky lady receives her
honors. Speculations are thick and
the race promises to be close and
hotly contested.
Swing tunes will be provided by
the Kentucky Collegians, who
made a hit impression on their
other S- C. engagement, and tick-ets
will go for the usual 75 cop-pers,
couple or stag.
Annual Release
Planned Soon
The Thoroughbred editorial
staff announced today that the
work on the 1940 Thoroughbred
is almost finished, and that the
book would be ready for dis-tribution
sometime during the
middle of May.
The staff stressed the fact that
the $2.00 balance on the subscrip-tions
will be due when the book
is received by the subscriber. Any
person who has not payed the
$l.OO subscription beforehand will
be able to purchase a book for
$3.00.
The next issue of Cardinal will
contain more specific informa-tion
as to when and where you
may obtain your copy, and de-tails
on the improvement of the
1940 Thoroughbred over that of
1939.
U of L Again Official Derby Band
The University o f Louisville
band has been appointed “Official
Derby Band” for the fourth con-secutive
year by Colonel Matt.
Winn, president of the Jockey
Club, and seems well on its way
to becoming another Derby tradi-tion.
As the sleek thoroughbreds
are parading to their posts for
the running of the famed Ken-tucky
Derby, Ernest E. Lyon will
conduct the band in the playing—
over a nation-wide hookup— of
the “Star Spangled Banner” and
“My Old Kentucky Home.” Joined
for these two numbers by U. of L.
band alumni, various senior and
Junior high band directors, and
the necessary number of ever-pre-sent
union men, the group will
include ninety pieces.
The Official Band will play from
the raised grass plot in the infield
garden and the five other bands
will be located at various adja-cent
points to alternate in enter-taining
the crowd.
The U. of L. musicians will be
“Kings for that day.” Six buses
will furnish free transportation to
the University band, there will
be a private truck and a special
crew of experienced men to handle
the instruments, and box lunches
prepared by a local caterer will be
served them twice during the day.
Incidentally, Mr. Lyon will ac-cept
band applications during the
rehearsal on May 7. —Joke!
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