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University Plays Host To First Pre-Med Convention U.L. Steps From Lower 13 To Upper Quarter
Over 10 0 Colleges In__ Southern University Pay Scale Comparison
Are Represented
At AED Meeting
Delegates from over 100 med·
ical colleges and pre-medical
schools convened Friday and Sat­urday,
February 21 and 22, at .the
Universiyt of Louisville for the
first official convention ever held
of medical and pre-medical edu­cators.
'Barretts, Well Actedi
Play Is Warmly Received ,.
By DICK COHEN
"The Barretts of Wimpole
Street," Rudolf Besier's comedy,
centered about the private life
of Elizabeth Barrett during her
courtship by poet Robert Brown­ing,
was the latest presentation
by the Little Theater Company at
the Playhouse.
Day and night unweary,­Watched
within a curtained room
Where no sunbeam brake the
gloom,
Pay Increase Ratio
Is Believed Unfair
By Municipal Profs
The conference was sponsored
by Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary
pre-medical fraternity, for the
purpose of closely cementing
medical and pre-medical sciences.
Among the U. of L. faculty mem­bers
attending were: Doctors H.
B. Lovell, C. C. Vernon, A. R.
Middleton, and William Clay
from the School of Arts and Sci­ences,
and Doctors A. W. Hom­berger
and S. I. Kornhauser of
the Medical School.
Running from Monday through
Thursday, the famous play was
well acted, nicely staged, and
skillfully directed. On the whole,
the various parts were treated
with a good deal of sympathy and
much und~rstanding.
Round the sick and dreary."
Rollo Wayne's setting for the
play was outstanding, as usual.
The entire play took place in the
room of Elizabeth Barrett at 50
Wimpole Street.
The next production of the
Little Theater will be the long
promised and oft delayed, "Julius
Caesar." Tryouts for parts will be
on Monday night, March 3, at
8:00 p.m.
With the recent pay raise which
was announced by Acting Presi­dent
F. W. Stamm, Wednesday,
February 19, the University of
Louisville came out of the lower
quarter of 13 Southeastern Uni­versities
on present wage scales.
The School has now taken its
place among the top quarter, it
was announced by Dr. Maurer,
head of the Academic Standard
and P ersonnel Committee.
Mr. F. W. Stamm, speaking for
the Board of Trustees and himseH
as Acting President of the Uni-
Debaters Entertain
Professor H. E. Setterfield,
president of A.E.D., called the
opening session to order, and Dr.
John L. Caughey then gave a
short talk on "The Natural Sci­ences
in Liberal Education."
The rest of the afternoon was
given over to open discussion on
"Problems of the Natural Sci­ences
as seen by the Pre-Medical
Teacher." Professor J. W. Ashton,
Dean at Indiana University, sum­-
marized the talks of the after­noon.
Following this the meeting
was adjoined to the Brown Hotel
for a banquet.
Left to right-Dean J. J. Oppenheimer and Dr. A. W. Hornberger of the University of Louisville. Dr.
Hardy Kemp of Wayne University. and Dr. H. H. M. Bowman of the University of Toledo.
The play. itself. serves as fine
psychological study of Elizabeth
Barrett and the instances sur­rounding
and giving impetus to
her beautiful works. It is a good
introduction to these two well
known English poets of the 19th
Century.
The University of Louisville's
Debate Team met Georgetown
College, Friday, February 14, on
the second floor of the Women's
Building to discuss problems of
religion in secondary schools.
"Should Instruction in Compara­tive
Religion Be Made Elective in
the School and Open to Parents?"
was the topic under discussion.
Georgetown
since both schools have only a
short time left in the curren t
quarter which must be devoted to
final exams.
Saturday morning, Professor
Paul F. Bloomhardt of Whitten­burgh
College, addressed t h e
group on "The Social Scjences
and the Humanities in Liberal
and Medical Education." An open
discussion on "Problems in the
Social Sciences and Humanities
as Seen by the Pre-Medical
Teacher" followed.
The summary of the entire con­ference
was given by Dr. George
H. Ruggy, M.D., Ph.D., Junior
Dean at Ohio State University.
Following the closing summation,
the convention was officially ad-journed.
;
U-L Program
For Frats
Best In U.S.
Dean Davis received word this
week that the University of Lou­isville
has been voted one of the
'institutions now having the mo~t
successful program for national
fraternities.
The report was titled "The
Where and Why of High Frater­nity
Achievement", and was com·
piled by Clyde S. Johns6n, Assist­ant
Dean of Undergraduates at
U.C.L.A. It is a nation-wide study
made by the executive secretaries
of national fraternities of 244 col­leges
and universities having such
organizations.
The secretaries were question­ed
as to what institutions have
the most successful programs or
worthy purposes for fraternities?
They were then asked to describe
why they thought so.
Molar Research
To Be Conducted
On U-L Students
Selected as a test center for a
two year research program on
tooth decay, the University of
Louisville's School of Dentistry
will attempt to discover if teeth
cleaning immediately after eat­ing
will retard tooth decay or
have any other effect on the
teeth.
The program is under the spon­sorship
of Northwestern Univer­sity,
with U. of L. chosen as one
of the four control centers. The
other three a r e stationed in
Georgia, Iowa, and at North·
western.
The School of Dentistry will
furnish 100 freshmen and sopho­mores,
who will be used as ex- ·
perimental subjects. A like num­ber
from the same classes in the
School of Medicine will constitute
a control group.
Both groups will be given iden­tical
tests which will include a
thorough physical examination,
x-ray of the subject, and dental
decay tests. The dental students
will be furnished a standard den­tifrice,
which will be used im­mediately
after any ingestion of
food.
The medical students will be
allowed to follow their usual rou­tine
of teeth cl~aning. At the end
of the first year, the two groups
are to be examined again, and the
results noted. The same procedure
is to be followed the second year.
A sum of $10,000 has been
granted the University of Louis ­ville
to conduct this research. The
success of the program will de­pend
upon the rigidity with
C~tmpus Announcer Finals Held;­Decisions
Withheld By Judges
Candidates for positions on the announcers' staff of the Univer­sity's
radio show received their final auditions in Gardiner Hall, Room
204, Tuesday, February 25, at 4 p.m.
The winners are to be announced later since the judges will re­quire
some time to make the final selections. Judging the contest were:
U-L Museum
Present
New Concert
To
The President and the Boarq of
Governors of the J. B. Speed Art
Museum annot.;nce a new series
of free public concerts. Classical
and folk music, with Kentucky
airs a n d ballads, recorded by
leading musicians and orcliestras,
will be presented at the museum
in hatlf-hour programs.
The programs will be present­ed
weekday afternoons (except
Mondays) at one, two, and three
o'clock, Thursday evenings at
seven and eight thirty for the
young people, and Saturday
mornings at ten thirty and eleven
thirty for the children.
The week will then be rounded
out with programs on Sunday
afternoons at two, three, four, and
five o'clock.
This series is offered for public
enjoyment and appreciation of
art through provisions of the
Hattie Bishop Speed Music Fund.
Ash, Crutcher
A(:C Members
Professor J. A. Ayers, English De­partment,
Speed School; Dean
Hilda Threlkeld, Dean of Women;
Mrs. Sue W. Earnest, English De­partment,
College of Arts and
Sciences; Mr. GilbertS. Ohlmann,
En·glish Department, Arts and
Sciences; and Mr. Morton Walker,
E n g l i s h Department, Speed
School.
Each finalist was interviewed
by the judges before facing the
microphone to read from a pre­pared
script. Of the 75 aspirants
auditioning in the preliminary
tryouts, the field. has been nar­rowed
to th~ following 14- candi­dates:
Elinor Rae Cherin, Mary
Jane Bachman, Bessanne Baugh,
June Clark, Doris Schmitt, Vir­ginia
Jackson, Thomas Peyton,
Chuck Fears, Tom Kampfmueller,
Bruce Goodman, M·arlow Cook,
James Muldoon, Wilson Hatcher,
and Saul M. Loeb.
Auditions were under the di­rection
of Les Shively, who will
be director of programs for the
broadcasts. He expects the radio
show to start about the middle of
March. Beamed from WGRC, the
broadcasts will be heard every
Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
Shively looks forward to a
studio on campus; but until then ,
the show will originate in the
Music School Annex as soon as it
is vacated by the move to Gar­dencourt.
Four phases of U. of L. life will
be written into the scripts of the
programs: general news, sports,
social, and scientific.
In the diffciult parts of Brown­ing
and Elizabeth were Robert
Hey, a newcomer to the Little
Theater, and Mary Snow Eth­ridge
who has done a good deal
of dramatic work outside of Lou­isville.
Miss Ethridge's interpre­tation
of Elizabeth was well
tempered and poignantly done.
Hey's role was a ticklish one to
master. He was forced to main­tain
a perfect air to convey his
feeling of sincerity.
Ever dependable. C. Douglas
Ramey gave a masterly perform­ance
in the part of the father,
Edward Moulton-Barrett. Hi s
portrayal of the stern, proud
character would have drawn
hisses from the entire audience
had they let themselves go.
Outstanding supporting r o I e s
were turned in by a good many
people. In fact, the entire cast
was exceedingly good. A humor·
ous characterization was deliver­ed
by Edward Fust, in the role of
Octavious, the stuttering brother
of Elizabeth. Equally well done
was the part of Henry Bevan,
played by Mr. Dell Roy.
Jane Bourne, in the part of
Elizabeth's rebellious sister, Hen­r
ietta, was als.o very good. Her's
was a difficult role, too, which
called on her to portray the entire
gamut of the emotions.
Other fine performers w e r e
Bill Pickett as Dr. Chambers, Mrs.
Phillip Wallwork as Bella Hedley,
Mrs. Kitty Beakes as Wilson, and
Neil Savage who took the part of
Captain Surtess Cook.
Special mention should be
made of Nugget, the golden
cocker spaniel, who was Eliza­beth's
precio1is pet, Flush. Miss
Barrett, herself, wrote of the dog,
"But of thee it shall be said,
This dog watched beside a bed
Opening the debate, the Chair­man,
Professor Harold E. Smith,
Ph.D., Eng 1 ish Department,
Georgetown College, asked for a
suitable definition. Many ideas
were expressed before an appro­priate
definition was arrived
upqn.
There was complete accord on
the necessity of understanding in­telligently
the problems of re­ligion,
and the need for recogni­tion
of each of the 256 known and
practiced faiths in the United
States. It was further agreed that
we must not overlook the reli­gious
beliefs of immigrants who
come daily to our country.
The U. of L.'s team consisted of
Chuck fears, E. S. Mather, Pat
SweenQy, Robert Tehan, Jack
Jones, Ernest Cobb, E I bert
Sapinsley, Van Bowling, and
Everett Trask. All were members
of Mrs. Sue Ernest's 211B Ad­vanced
Public Speaking Class.
They found themselves to be at
a great disadvantage because
Georgetown's team was made up
partly of four ordained ministers.
Those participating for George­town
were: The Reverend Messrs.
Elmer Palmer, Morgan Radford,
Genus Crenshaw, Gerald Harris,
Mrs. Gerald Harris, Betty Comp·
ton, and Robbie Potter.
Such professional competition
was not expected by the members
of U. of L.'s team, but they did
not allow their opponents to over­whelm
them.
Georgetown extended an in­vitation
to U. of L. for a debate
at Georgetown on the National
Debate Subject. This will be con­sidered
and prepared next term,
The opposition demonstrated
marked a bility in debating, and
from them, Professor Ernest feels
that our group learned quite a bit
about the techniques of p:mel dis­cussion
and debate.
One of the factors that grea tly
aided Georgetown in the debate
was the college's large budget for.
its debating· te-am. It is felt about
the campus that the fame of U. of
L. could be extended should an
allotment be made for a team
that could debate on an inter­collegiate
basis.
Points of view as given by an
agnostic, a representative of
Judaism, and a member of the
Christian faith, lent variety and
interest to the debating program.
A dinner, sponsored by U. of L.,
was given afterwards for George­town.
The menu, planned by Mrs.
Sue Ernest, offered something to
please the palates of all.
Final Enrollment
Totals 5,781 Highi
3,035 Veterans
La test enrollment figures re­leased
from the Registrar's office
puts the University's winter
quarter enrollment figures to
5,781 witlr the veterans being
3,035 of the total.
Dr. Hill stated , "We are getting
many registrations from the resi­dents
of the city, but the majority
are coming from non-residents.
This office is constantly busy
with the applicants for the Spring
quarter."
In comparison with last quar­ter,
there were 5,885 registered.
The answers given included a
strong cooperative I.F.C., a good
program of intramural sports,
supervision of social affairs, and
a sensible rushing system.
Premier Exhibit
Features Party;
Art Club Host
Official announcement of the
All Campus Council election held
Tuesday, February 24, shows that
Dorothy Ash and Evelyn Crutcher
were elected to fill the two posts
recently vacated by members
who were impeached due to
habitual absences from meetings.
The proposed constitution for the
All Campus Council was also ap­proved
at the polls by the student
body.
Thurstons To Start New. Magazine At Uofl
Also, the report showed that
absence of crippling regulations, -
an understanding of institutional · Mrs. Betty Justice, President of
policy toward . fraternities, ext·s t- the Art League, has announced
ance of the viewpoint of giving that the U. of L. chapter will
responsibility to members, and a sponsor a party Wednesday, Feb­good
strong advisor for fraterni- ruary 26, at the studio of Miss
ties, were important. Worden Day (artist in-residence
It was stressed in the report of the U. of L.) and Miss Marnye
that Urban universities have a Reinhart. ..
difficult fraternity life, for the A Premier Exhibition of paint­majority
of students live off cam- ings by members of the American
pus. Exter activities and services Abstra•;t Group and New Artists,
are necessary for a successful fra- which have been sent to Miss Day
ternity life. In schools in which from New York, will be shown.
the students live in the fraternity Invitations have been sent to
houses they are in closer contact members of the Art League, var­with
their brothers and lead a ious faculty members, and prom­more
closely knit life. inent fi['ures in the Art World in
Dorothy Ash received the ma­jority
of first place votes and
Evelyn- Crutcher was elected by
a majority of second place votes.
The two new representatives
were the only two candidates
whose name appeared on the
ballot since they were the only
two filed petitions for the office.
Only t~o write in votes were
tabulated, one of which was for
a present member of the Council.
There are 2351 chapters of na- Louisville. --------------------- ·~--------------~----------------
By SHIRLEY LEWIS
Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Thurston ,
professors at this University,
along with Sl}erman Conr!l'd and
Austin Warren have started, and
are the editors of a new literary
quarterly to be called the PER-
_,SPECTIVE. They expect the first
issue to come out in spring.
. Because the only media open to
writers of' serious fiction , poetry,
and criticism are the small maga­zines
like Kenyon Review. Par·
tisan. and others, and because
there are so few of them, the edi­tors
decided to remedy that lack
of outlets by publishing this new
quarterly.
Warren, English Prof •.
U·L Music Students Shift Talents T'Q Painting
The "little magazines" have
performed an invaluable service
for literature by providing an
opening for new talent, and.by
publishing serious material of a
non-commercial type with limited
appeal.
By JANE BOEMKER
Music School students have
gone artistic! Twenty-eig_ht ?f
their works are now hangmg m
the second floor "art gallery"
(hall) of the Music Building. The
idea of an exhibition of the paint­ings
by the studen~ grew _into. the
present exhibition. Contrtbutwns
came in readily. .
Marguerite Pick~tt w~ ~h1ef
contributor with eleven pamtmgs.
Her Southern Comfort. a water
color, showed a darkie in a plai_d
shirt lying under the trees. By h1s
side was a jug labeled 'th " , ,, Wl :&'8.
Miss Pickett explained that the
contents of the jug depended up­on
the spectator's feelings t~?ward
alcoholic beverages. If one lS P<?t
an abstainer .the jug holds 1t
usual beverage. If one is an--ab­stainer
it is confectioners' sugar.
(Conf~tioners' sugar ia a jug
must be a post-war product n6t
yet on the market.)
YOUDt Hone. lhD Ia tile
Midst. and WI.W HGne were other
water colors by Mill Pickett. ••
de Deux. Ballet Scene. Der Todd
und Das Madchen were among
Miss Pickett's more serious works.
Four charcoals by Pohlman
Mallalieu represented the four
movements of a symphony. Sara
Schott, another generous con­tributor,
exhibited several water
'colors that were experiments in
color.
Design for Neckwear No. 1,
No. 2, No. 3 showed what not to
wear for neckwear. Bt:illiantly
colored these three consisted-of
grotesq~e figures and designs
that were probably products of a
nightmare. In No. 3, the hand at
the tip of 'the tie is reminiscent
of "The Beast with the Five Fin­gers."
These three designs show
exact workmanship and hours of
p_atient work. John Hankins is
their creator.
The most beautiful use of colors
was an oil by Richard Schell. Mr.
Schell explained that it didn't
represent anything ia particular,
b\lt wu a "brainatonn." The
colors are beautiful shades of
blue. Their richness and beauty
make it a favorite of the exhibi­tion,
along with his other oil of a
storm on the ocean,
The most realistic painting is
Elvin Campbell's oil of a girl
sitting before a candle. Its lifelike
quality and suggested meaning
cause much admiration from
spectators. Mr. Campbell also did
an exacting pencil interior of a
chun:h.
Mal'terpiece of the exhibition is
The Miraculous Mandarin by an
anonymous contributor. The gay
color!s of the fiendish creature at­tract
the attention, and the man­darin.
itself keeps one looking at
it. It is probably the most popular
of the works on- exhibition.
Th•ese part-t~ artists are very
serio s about tneir exhibition.
The)1 do not consider it an amus­ing
11tunt, but an exhibition of
the aftistie talent of the school.
Th1! exhibition will continue at
least another week.
All four editors are quite ex­perienced
in . the literary field.
Jarvis Thurston formerly taught
at the State University of Iowa
in The Writers' Workshop. He is
now an Assistant P rofessor of
English at the University. of Lou­isville.
From 1938 to 1943, he
served as literary editor of the
Standard•Examiner. Ogd&n, Utah.
Mrs. Thurston, nee Mona Van
Duy1. and the name under which
her )!i·ork appears, also taught in
the "Writers' Workshop at the
University of Iowa. Both Mr. and _
Mrs. Thurston have had their
short stories published. Mrs.
Thurston won second prize in the
Kenyon Renew - Doubleday
Doran Short Story Contest of
1945. .
Editor Standard Examinu
Austin Warren is a Professor
of English at the State Univer­sity
of Iowa. He is the author of
(ConUDU..S em - t, col. l)
Mr. and Mn. Janrls Thurston who. lageU.. wlib Sbenaan Conrad and Au&tin Warren. COmJWise
the lditodal boucl of the uw .....-• ........,ediye", which is belag fowaded at the Uninrai.ty
of Louia'lille.
•
versity of Louisvllle, said, "We
feel that this is a sound step for­ward
because we have not done
as many institutions have, simply •
granted a year by year rafse
which has been added to a rela­tively
low basic salarv schedule
and which can be cha~r.ed regu­larly
with changes in cost of liv­ing;
but we have first established
a salary schedule which may be
looked upon as a permanent in­crense
in salary standat·ds and
not just related to cost of living."
He added that the scale is not
"absolutely fixed" and "can be
improved upon at each or nny
school."
Professors of t h e M11nicipal
College of the University are un­happy
with the raises granted,
however. They believe that the
ra ise was not fair in that salary
inct·enses gran ted to professors of
the Negro school averaged only
$375 while those given to the rest
of the University averaged abont
$500 per professor.
Minimum Is $800.00 Low
Professors of the Municipal
College have pointed out that
their minimum pay scale is set
approxima tely $800 lower than
the minimum set for the rest of
the schools of the University.
Dr. G. D. Wilson, Professor at
Municipal College, has stated, in
a letter to the editor of the Cour·
ier-Journal. "In substance this
report says to me, as one who
holds the rank of full professor at
MuniPipal, that my training -
A.B. (Indiana University), M.A.
(Columbia University), Ph. D.
(Ohio State University), and my
22 years of teaching experience­have
made me definitely inferior
to most of the assistant professors
and all of the associate professors
and professors of the correspond­ing
college on Belknap Campus,
and that my fi'nal worth can nev­er
be equal within $200 to the
lowest paid full professor in that
school."
Protests Aired at AAUP Meeting
Dr. Wilson is Vice-president of
the American Association of Uni­versity
Professors in the Louis­ville
area.
He also pointed out that in
many cases the maximum salary
for a professor in Municipal Col­lege
was lower than the mini­mum
salnry for a professot· w 'th
identical qualifications at othc··
schools in the University.
Other protests concerninf. 1 .
alleged unfair salary in ere.1~.
were aired at a recent me(:'t.iu "-'
the AAUP, many of them !Jy i ',,
fessors not listed on Munic ir: .1
staff.
Increases Mapped in 60 Days
Last January the 4AUP asked
the administra tion ana the t rus­tc:
es for a general cost-of-livin•:
increase of from six to nine hUJ{.
dred dollars. It was also request­ed
that a graduated wage sch.-d­ule
he set up for the followmg
academic year.
Wi thin 60 days the administra­tion
had worked out the schedule.
At lhl'> time, the increases were
hot up to the requc~ls of the
AAUP, but Acting President
Sl:llnm stated t hat, "the trustees,
dean, and myself felt the estab­lishment
of an adequate salary
schedule was the most important
issue."
M,·. Stamm emphasized that
''We (refering t.:> the Board of
Trustees, Deans, and himself as
Comptroller and Acting Presi­den
t of the University of Louis­ville)
believed that a salary !K-ale
should be established for each
school which would bring our sal­aries
up to, and in many instances
above, those paid by like institu­tions
in this section of the coun­try.
"We feel that we have done
this.
"We realize that salary sched­ules
for all schools are not the
same, but they do compare favor­ably
with like schools in other
systems."
He declined to comment on the
complaints of the Municipal Col­lege
professor's stating that he
had not been approached official-ly
concerning them and was not
officially informed of their dis- ' '
satisfaction with the present set
up.
Inadequacies Ironed Out
Concerning the present in­creases
Mr. Stamm continued,
"We felt we had to iron out in­equalities
in salaries which exist­ed
within the ranks of each
school.''
( ConUDued on pace t, col. 5)