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Schneider ·To Appear Here
VOL. XXI
For Two Bach Anniversary
Recitals On February 3, 4
Prologue's New Edition
Contains 'Quality Work'
With Poems And Stories
Violinist Alexander Schneider will appear in two recitals in the
Playhouse on February 3 and 4 celebrating the 200th anniversary of
the death of Johann Sebastian Bach.
A Review By RALPH NASH
Prologue makes its second ap­pearance
with a well-balanced
collection of poetry, fiction, and
criticism. (ED. NOTE: The issue
will hit the campus on Mon., Jan.
23).
Schneider, who has studied un­der
the famous Spanish exile and
music master, Pablo Casals, will
play the six Solo Violin Sonatas
and Suites of Bach. Curtain time
is 8:30 p.m.
Tickets for the two concerts
may be purchased from Dr. Ger­hard
Herz. The price for students
is $1.00 and for the general pub­lic
$2.40.
Schneider apparently enjoys a
brilliant reputation for his Bach
renditions. His execution of Bach's
Sonata in G minor, Partita in B ·
minor, and Sonata in A minor at
Sanders Theater, Cambridge on
November 23, 1948 was highly
praised in newspapers in France,
England, and the United States.
Herz Enthusiastic
The Christian Science Monitor
said: "execution and intonation
were of such an impeccable sort
as gave no chance for discussion
outside of approval and praise.
The Boston Daily Globe wrote;
" . .. this is a rare experience. He
has an amazing facility in
phrasing ... and in keeping the
rhythms alive and pulsing."
Dr. Gerhard Herz, music in­structor,
is enthusiastic over the
approaching Bach celebration,
with Schneider at the violin. He
expects a quick sellout for the
recitals and urges all music•lov­ers
to get their tickets as- quickly
as possible.
Speed Will Offer
Architect Course
The Civil Engineering Depart­ment
of Speed Scientific School is
initiating a program in Architect­ural
Engineering beginning in the
third year of the regular curri­culum.
Some of the courses tentatively
selected to be included are build­i
n g construction, architectural
drafting, pencil sketching, history
of architecture, mechanical equip­ment,
cost estimating, speclfica­tion
writing, architectural design
and working drawings.
"With two years basic engineer­ing
in Speed School the student
should be better qualified to
take up architectural subjects in
the third and fourth years and
finally arrive at Architectural De_­sign
in the fifth year," said Mr.
C. K. Warner. An attempt will
be made to couple the aes­thetics
of architecture and the
practical aspects of structural de­sign
but the emphasis will re­main
on the engineering phase of
building design.
Electives Are Offered
At the present time, elective
courses in architectural building
construction are being offered to
interested third year engineering
students. It is hoped that the en­tire
option will be in effect by
next fall.
Student Trip Off
The student trip to St. Louis for
the U. of L. vs. Washington Uni­versity
basketball game on Feb­ruary
6 has been called off. The
change in plans is the result of
the cancellation of the return
train due to the coal strike.
Plans are now in the making for
a student trip to Owensboro for
the U. of L. vs. Evansville game
on February 15.
These trips are sponsored by the
Pep Club and are for the benefit
of the students. The Club tries to
sponsor at least two big trips a
year, one for a football game and
one for a basketball game. Special
rates are obtained for students.
The Pep Club states that it is go­ing
all out for the students to give
them a better program of events,
but that without students coope­ration
future trips will be unlike­ly.
The average quality m us t
· compare well with other stu­dent
magazines: yet fortunately
Prologue can claim merit not only
for its balance or its average, but
also for some works of real qua­lity
. . Thus the magazine is at
least partially fulfilling its es­sential
function, which is to dig
down and come up with the best
writing that is being done on cam-pus.
,
Robert Withrow has found a
real subject and shaped it deftly
in his short story "The Fountain."
Now the minister and now Albert
stands at the center of attention,
but both characters illustrate the
central problem of belief, in its
dawning and its fading, and ulti­mately
the significant experience
is Albert's.
This story, incidentally, in com-
TKE SWEETHEART CATHY BARRA beams as dance chairman
Tommy Bell presenfs her with a loving cup at the TKE formal
last week at the Madrid. Cathy's daie, John BuxtonJ is on her right.
Teke dates received miniatur' loving cups for dance souvenirs.
Dem's D, ance Will Honor
Varsity Basketball Team
The University of Louisville varsity basketball team and their
dates will be guests of honor at the Young D emocrats annual Mardi
Gras Ball on Saturday, February 18.
This dance, on the night of the
U. of L. vs. North Carolina State
game, will be a victory dance for
the team and will close the season
for them.
for the team, Dr. John W. Taylor
Bovard Clayton, and Les Shively.
Other guests will include Mayor
Charles Farnsley and some of the
deans of the University.
The dance will be a climax of
the Mardi Gras Festiball which
will include a parade, banquet,
luncheon and cocktail party . The
celebration will be held on Feb­ruary
16, 17 and 18.
mon with other fiction, employs
the technique of the quiet close
more effectively than the others.
Raymond Malbone's "The Deli­cate
Princess" is a similar story in
its embodying of a central pro­blem,
although definition of the
problem is difficult.
Poems Lack Subjects
His young man in search of the
question apparently hopes that
the formulizing of the question
will remove the stone of pain; re­gardless
of this, the stone by its
constant presence lends form to
Malbone's story, and becomes, if
not an entirely adequate symbol,
at least more than merely an ex­tended
metaphor.
Other stories seem in one way
or another less successful. Charles
Cooper's "Fragment" remains just
that, and "Handlebars", while its
technique usually manages to
skirt the pools of sentiment, is
limited by its worn-out subject.
Douglas Hackett's "Visiting
Judge" can show passages of fine
rhythm and sensitive observation,
but the experience related seems
not quite as significant as it is
intimated to be.
Among the poems a lack of sub­ject
is again frequently as crip­pling
as a lack of technique. Thus
in Lucia Rivers' poems, "Crusoe
on the Island" shows a significant
subject fully imagined and fully
stated and is thus.the 'Q.est of the
four, although "Poem" at least
matches "Crusoe" for neatness
and precision ; something has hap­pened
to "The Isolationist" and
"Identity" seems doomed to be
an exercise, though a successful
one.
(Continued on page 5)
Dean Oppenheimer
Boclc from 1Cincy1
Dean J . J . Oppenheimer of the
College of Arts and Sciences of
the University of Louisville has
just returned from the sixth an­nual
meeting of the American
Conference of Academic Deans.
The meeting was held in the
Netherland Pfaza Hotel, Cu\cin~
nati, Ohio.
The meetings of this conference
are intended to provide opportun­ity
for academic deans of liberal
arts colleges to meet together, to
share their experiences, to ex­change
views, and to discuss pro­blems
with which tlie office of
the dean is chiefly concerned.
According to Dean Oppen­heimer,
the majority of the dis­cussions
were devoted to pre-pro­fessional
curricula, and the poor
percentage of applicants that are
accepted into professional schools.
"One of the reasons that the
percentage is so low," said the
Dean, "is because the professional
schools' requirements are so low,
thereby making it possible for
large numbers of students to sub­mit
applications."
He spoke of the U. of L. Law
School which only requires sixty
hours for entrance as an excellent
example of this situation.
MAJOR GENERAL WILLIS H. HALE, commanding a"''""'"
Ninth Air Force, third from left, is shown conferring with Dean
J . J. Oppenheimer, Major Hugh Ray, and Dr. John W. Taylor. The
general was on a tour of inspection of the new AROTC unii on
campus ~his week.
Ninth Air force Chief
Inspects Campus A ROTC
The facilities of the University of Louisville's Air ROTC were
inspected last Monday, Jan. 16th by Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, com­manding
general of the Nineth Air Force and his staff.
General Hale's command tour
also included a meeting with
President Taylor, Dean J. J. Op­penheimer,
and Dean R. C. Ernst.
Major Hugh Ray requested all
cadets to be exceptionally alert
and to reflect the highest stand­ards
of military courtesy and con­duct
during the General's visit to
this campus.
Reports are that General Hale
was well pleased with the facili­ties
taken over by the Air ROTC
and the progressive strides that
are being made by this new out­fit.
Among the General's staff were
Lieut. Col. H. Bledsoe, director of
the Air ROTC, Major S. Howell,
Air Inspector 9th Air Force, Cap­tain
0 . E. Winn, Director of Sup­ply,
9th Air Force, and Captain J.
Dannial, General Hale's personal
. aide.
General Hale stands high in Air
Force circles, and has the distinc­tion
of being 19th on the Air
Force promotion list. The General
was war-time commander of the
7th Air Force.
Thu~~ston To Talk
About Sma II Mags
Dr. Jarvis Thurston will speak
on "The Problems of the Little
Magazine" at the next meeting of
the Humanities Club to be held
on Thursday, February 16.
He will discuss the problems
that arise in the publishing of
small magazines and the trend of
such publications at this time.
This lecture is the second in a
series that is being sponsored by
the club in the hope of encourag­ing
interest in the humanities.
Other programs will include:
Dr. Edmond Schlesinger speaking
on "The Humanism of Francesco
Filelfo", March 8; Mr. Walter
Creese on "Studies in Campus
Architecture and Painting", April
5; and Dr. Berta Sturman on "C.
S. Lewis Without Milton", May 3.
·Students To Send
Team To Western
With Pep Rally
A rousing pep rally will be held
on February 3 before the team
leaves for the U. of L. vs. Western
basketball game, announced the
Pep Club members this week.
The rally, to be held around the
Cardinal bus as the team prepares
to leave for Bowling Green, will
begin at about 9:00. The definite
time will be announced on the
loud speaker. i
The purpose of this rally is to
give the students a chance to
show their appreciation for the
outstanding record of the team
this year and to give them a send
off to the important game.
All students are urged to at­tend
the rally since the team will
have only twenty-five rooters at
the game. This is the number of
tickets allotted to the University
st}.ldents.
(See Sportscope, pg. 6)
Playshop Selects Dramas
By O'Neill, Stone, Vance
For Spring Productions
Selections of the plays for the University Playshop's spring
productions to be presented on February Z3 and 24 were announced
this week by president Charles MacDaniel. The selection committee
has chosen two professional plays and one student play.
University Group
Hires Don Hill
To Boost Sports
The University Associates, a
group of citizens devoted to the
expansion of athletics at the Uni­versity
of Louisville, announced
recently that they had hired Don
Hill, Louisville free-lance radio
announcer, to the newly-created
post of executive secretary.
According to Mr. Hill his objec­tives
in this post are: to raise the
membership in the group from
four hundred to one thousand; to
centralize in his office the sale
and promotion of tickets for all
U. of L. athletic contests; and to
organize a Good Will Committee
to recruit athletes and entertain
them when they are invited here
to look over the University.
The University has also an­nounced
that it will sponsor Mr.
Hill's broadcasts of Louisville's
games with North Carolina State,
Seton Hall and Villanova on the
eastern invasion January 25, 27,
and 28. In addition to these he
will broadcast the Morehead,
Murray, and Western games
under the sponsorship of the Uni­ver&,
ity.
Gives Needed Publicity
"It will cost the University one
thousand dollars to broadcast the
six games," Hill said. "But the
school feels the publicity will
draw more fans to its future home
games and more than make up
for the cost. To my knowledge,
this is the first time a school has
ever sponsored an athletic pro­gram
on the air."
Through these broadcasts Mr.
Hill will also be able to give some
much needed publicity to the
University Associates.
They are The Long Voyge
Home, by Eugene O'Neill, The
Card Players, by Delbert Vance,
and Devil Take A WhiUler, by
Weldon Stone.
Commenting on the selections,
McDaniel said, "We are very hap­PY
with the choices made by the
selection committee. I myself am
especially happy over the fact
that we are doing Vances's play.
"This indicates that our organ­ization
is serious in its intention
to present student plays. Some
people thought that we had aban­doned
our student program. This
should prove we haven't."
Publicity Director Needed
Casting for these plays is still
being held backstage in the SUB.
Dick Clay is the student director
for the O'Neill play. Warren
Oates is directing Devil Take A
Whiiiler. Ralph Schulz has been
tentatively scheduled to direct
The Card Players.
Director Dick Clays says, "It
seems that some people are afraid
to come back and try out. Every­body
likes to act, including me.
I would like to see a lot of people
try out for these plays."
Secretary-Treasurer Betti e
Hunn urges all students who are
interested in drama to join the
Playshop. "We have plenty of
jobs for everybody," she said
"Even if people don't want to get
up on the stage, we would be glad
to have them come back and help
us build sets. We also need a pub­licty
director."
McDaniel stressed the variety
of the plays to be presented. The
Long Voyage Home is one of the
one-act sea plays that, first made
Eugene O'Neill's reputation as a
dramatic craftsman. The play,
which deals with a group of vaga­bond
seamen, was made into a
motion picture several years ago
by John Ford.
Stone's Is Prizewi.l'1.nei
Sociology major Vance has had
two previous plays produced by
the Playshop. He also wrote the
satirical skit which was done on
the boat ride last spring. Card
Players deals with a highly tense
situation which develops among a
group of H-Hour awaiting soldi­ers
on a troop transport.
Davil Take a WhiUler is a prize­winning
play by Weldon Stone,
Associate Professor of English at
University of Louisville. The play
which took first prize in the 1936
Mid western Folk Drama Tourna­ment,
deals with the "fine pretty
whittlin" of Lemuel Skaggs, a
Bunyanesque character of the
Ozarks.
New Cashier Cage
To Speed Payments The degree offered will remain
a Civil Engineering Degree but
with such a background, a grad­uate
should be better pr-epared to
do graduate work in the structu­ral
designing field.
Interested students should con­tact
the Dean of Speed School or
any of the Civil Engineering De­partment
in Brigman Hall.
A trophy will be awarded dur­ing
the evening to the four' grad­uating
seniors on the team. The
presentation will be by either
Governor Earle Clements or Lieu­tenant
Governor Lawrence Whe­therby.
The executive committee of the
RDC hopes to make this award
to the seniors on the team an an­nual
affair and will have the
dance near the end of the season
from this year on.
The University students have
been invited to attend the Ball
by R. K. Walker, chairman of the
program. It will be held at the
Highland Post Legion in Strath­moor
from 9 until 2. Music will
be provided by Logan Collins and
Orchestra.
Russell, Webster Entertain
Audiettce At AA UP Forum
TWO are shown with ice star Mur­ray
Galbraith above ready for the Laiin "Rumbalero", a number
from the 5th edition of the revue now at the Armory. Bobby
Blake, jive sensation on ice, will visit the SUB Monday at noon
with some of the girls. Reduced student tickets for the show for
Sun., Mon .. and Tues. niles can be had ai Mr. Troyer's office.
Three dollar tickets will go for $2.25; $2.50 tickets ai $2.00; and
A new cashier's cage will be set
up during registration of Arts &
Sciences and Law School to facil­itate
the paying of bills, recently
announced John M. Houchens, re­gistrar
of the University.
A special table will be reserved
TALKING OVER THE BAND CLINIC with U. of L.
E. E. Lyon, third from left, are visiting directors K. V. Bryant.
Princeton Ky.· John Farris, Maysville, Ky.; aud Paul Lyon. Jen­kirus,
Ky.,' brother of the 'Marching Cardinal's' director. The cllnl.c
luted two days.
Band Clinic Produces Ideas
Two-hundred band directors
and students from all over Ken­tucky
went home fUll of new ideas
and new music after the two-day
Kentucky State Band Clinic held
at the U. of L. last Friday and
Saturday.
Gleaming brass instruments and
colorful uniform displays filled
the SUB auditorium, while infor­mal
concerts and demoDStratkma
livened the Clinic sesaiODs held in
the PlayhoUM. J'ourteell .mlbit-ors
had displays in the SUB, and
top-flight band men lectured and
gave demonstrations during the .
Clinic. Two special concerts were
given of nearly 100 new pieces of
band music composed during the
past year.
The Band Clinic next year will
be held at the Unversity of Ken-tucky
while U. of L. will be host
to the Kentucky State Choral
Clinic.
The evening's entertainment
will include a floor show, grand
march, the coronation of a kmg
and queen and free food for
everyone present.
Tickets, reservations, free tran­sportation
and further informa­tion
can be obtained by calling
SH. 4448-R or any member of the
club.
Thorobred Wants
Proofs Returned
The Thoroughbred staff has
asked every student who has had
his picture taken for the Thor­oughbred
to return his proofs
within three days after receiving
them, or sooner if possible. This
is absolutely essential. The proofs
JllUSt be back in that time if the
A & S schedule is to be kept up
to date. 1
Anyone who has' not already
had his picture taken should go
in on his allotted day to the sec­ond
floor of Stewarts between the
hQurs of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
The best times to have them taken
are early in the morning or from
2:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon.
There will be no make-ups.
Students should not go to have
their pictures made in groups, as
too many students at one time
will only clutter up the depart-·
ment and caUM delay. Fraterni­ties
and Sororities are especially
asked to comply with this request.
Still welcome are complaints
and criticism to the yearbook
lltaff. Anyone wishinC to expre11
a gripe is invited to come to the
n.o,o ....... office and dJic:ul8
it with the edHan.
..
There was a touch of the comic
in the second A.A.U.P. panel dis­cussion
of the question "Are the
Liberal Arts Outmoded?" held in
the Woman's Building on January
11.
When the discussion opened, Dr.
Harvey C. Webster, moderator,
promised to let most of the talk­ing
be done by the other three
members of the panel-Dean A.
C. Russell of the Law School,
Dean Raymond Meyers of the
Dental School, and Dr. Hampden
Lawson, director of admissions to
Medical school.
But he had to do a fast re-take
when Dean Russell delivered,
with appropriate voice inflections,
a humorous jab at one of Dr. Web­ster's
loves-poetry.
Said Dean Russell; "Is poetry
good pre-law? No. It it teaches
to read intelligently, it's wonder­ful.
If not, it's a lot of hooey."
The audience of about 45 people
burst out laughing. Dr. Webster
seemed momentarily stunned, but
he rallied bravely and said, "It's
just as important for liberal arts
to teach a person to be a good
human being as well as a success­ful
professional man."
Liberal Arts Important
Dean Russell countered with,
"What is a good human ~eing?"
Said Webster, "A man who, if
married, is a good husband, who
votes intelligently, and who em­ploys
his leisure in peaceful and
beneficial pursuits, I would define
as a good human being."
Dean RU88ell closed the repar­tee
with the p~ shot, "To be
able to. read and write I consider
important. I auume a man can
aet aloq with other people."
But all of the teachen qreed
on one poJnt; namely, that the lib-eral
arts are indispensable to a
professional man.
Said Dean Meyers: "I urge den­tal
students to take some cultural
subjects instead of so much na­tural
science. I would like for
them to take thirty hours of Eng­lish
instead of six. To be success­ful
in dentistry, a man needs to
be a well-cultured individual,
have a good personality, and be
able to get along with people."
Everyone Inviied
Said Dr. Lawson: "The base of
medical science is ' broaden~g.
Health involves not only biology,
but also environment. To be com­petent
in medicine, a man has to
know something about man and
his relation to his environment.
Liberal arts will help him learn
this.
"(Literature) will increase a
student's knowledge in general of
other people, and will help him
find out how other people think,
feel and act."
Said Dean Russell: "In the legal
field, we deal with ideas ... the
successful lawyer is the indivi­dual
who has an accurate com­mand
of the English language . • . .
we want students who can write.
"Lawyers ought to have a broad
educational background, not part­icularly
information, but knowing
the processes of how to use in­formation.
"I'm for the liberal arts as long
as they train the mind of the in­dividual
to use information."
After the 40-minute discussion
ended, members of the audience
were permitted to ask questions.
Dr. Webster closed the meeting
by Jnviting everyone to attend the
next panel discussion, which will
be held Wednesday, January 25,
on the second floor of the Wo­man's
Building.
$2.00 iickei& ai $1.50.
Student Counci I
Selects Delegates
For NSl Congress
Three delegates to- National
Student Association Congress, to
be held August 24 through Sep­tember
1 of this year, will be
chosen at the next meeting of the
University Student Council on
Tuesday, January 24.
The delegates will be chosen
from among the interested mem­bers
of the student body. Appli­cation
should be in letter form
and be taken to the USC office
on the second floor of tqe SUB
before the 24. The letter must in­clude
the student's qualifications.
Those wanting to be delegates
must also appear at the meeting
where they will be interviewed
and discussed by the group. H. D.
Gardner, president of the USC
will appoint the delegates, recom­mended
by the Council members.
To piM:ua Problems
The representatives are being
chosen early this year in order
that they can become well orient­ed
in the purposes and function­ing
of the NSA Congress and be­gin
working with the NSA pro­gram
on this campus.
Two other delegate.; the presi­dent
and vice-president of the U
SC will also attend the congress.
It is being held in order that the
students in the NSA may discusa
the problems of importance ~ ed­ucation.
M. Thurston's Poem
Is Chosen for Text
Paratrooper. a poem written by
Mrs. Mona Thurston of the Eng­lish
Department, will be publish­ed
this spring in an anthology to
be used in Introduction to Poetry
classes in colleges throughout the
country.
This poem, originally published
in the Kenyon Review in the
summer of 1945, was chosen by
Morgen Bloom, professor at the
University of Minnesota and edi­tor
of the text book.
The book is a collection of con­temporary
American and English
poetry which was chosen princ­ibly
for its quality and the use of
expanded metaphors.
Pep Club Sponsors
New Cheer Contest
A cheer contest is now being
held . by the Pep Club to find
four original cheers to be used for
the basketball and football games.
The clubs will award two free
tickets to the U. of L. vs. North
Carolina State game for the four
best cheers, which will be selected
by two USC members, two Pep
Club members and the cheer­leaders.
The best type of cheers are
"short and snappy", emphasized
Lenny Pinn, chainnan of the con­test.
All cheers should be taken to
the Dean of Men's Office before
February 11.
It will be placed temporarily in
the alcove on the first floor of the
Ad Building. This cage will be the
last stop in the registering line
and will be immediately preceded
by the billers.
It is hoped that this will speed
up the paying of bills and save
the students the trouble of going
to the Service Building. The cage
will remain in the Ad Building
for only the two days of registra­tion.
Another change in the usual
registration program is that the
students tearing off the white
cards will be on the third floor
this year. Here the freshmen and
transfer students will be separat­ed
from the other students.
This has become necessary in
order that the new students can
get their ID cards and appoint­ment
for physical examinations
without slowing up the others.
The changes are being made to
"save time and trouble lor the
students" said Mr. Houchens.
"T~is office is here only for the
purpose of serving the students."
Foreign Travel Chances
Explained At IR<;: Meet
On Wednesday, January 25, the
International Relations Club will
present a program on the oppor­tunities
for students traveling
abroad.
The program will consist of
various student and faculty speak­ers
who will explain to the audi­ence
ways and means by which
students may qualify for one of
these trips.
The meetinc will be held in
Gardiner a.D. Room 105, at 12:00
noon. Students not already mem
bers of the I.R.C. are cordially in
vited to au..d..