THE CARDINAL
VOL. I LOUISVILLE, KY., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1933 No. 31
Male High Debates
St. Louis Team
George Braden, Morton Brown
Represent Male on Subject
Pertaining to Taxation
Male High School will debate
University High School of St.
Louis, on Saturday, April 28, at
8:00 P.M. The debate will be
given in the Male High Audito-rium,
and a nominal admission of
10c will be charged. Male High,
represented by George Braden
and Morton Brown, will uphold
the negative of the subject, “Re*
solved that 50% of all state and
local revenue should be derived
from sources other than tangible
property.”
Leonard Tanner, a member of
the University High School team,
was formerly a student at Male
High and a member of the Male
High Debate Club. The debate
between the two schools was ar-ranged
by him.
Male High’s team is approach'
ing the end of a very successful
season. It won six contests and
lost two, and in addition, went to
the second round of the state tour-nament
at Lexington. Two years
ago, the team lost to Berea in the
finals of the state tournament.
The team is sponsored by the
Male High Debate Club, and is
coached by Professors George T.
Ragsdale and A. R. Gerhart, fac'
ulty advisors of the club.
Admission receipts will be used
to help defer the expenses of the
visiting team.
CANDIDATES FOR KING, QUEEN OF CAMPUS CARNIVAL
A friendly and spirited contest to elect a King and Queen for
the big Spring Carnival Celebration to be held on the Campus, Friday,
May 12, is under way.
Nominations for King include Woodford Brown of K. A. Fra-ternity,
and Edward Nicklies, sponsored by the unorganized students.
Entries for the election of the Queen include Frances Haynes of Chi
Omega, Edith Christie from unorganized girls, Duddy Straeffer of Pi.
Beta Phi, Doris Jones of Kappa Delta, and Kathleen Edinger of Sigma
Kappa.
The candidates securing the most votes in the form of five cent do-nations
for the Campus Carnival General Fund, will be elected. Votes
are now on sale at the Cardinal Office.
Plans for the Carnival are progressing at a healthy pace, indicat-ing
one of the biggest days at the University, with all organizations
cooperating. Epsilon Omega has announced the entry of one float
and seven cars in the big down town parade. Atta boy; Epsilon
Omega, we are really going to town.
Frances Haynes
Dulcenia Straeffer
Ed Nicklies
Doris Jones
Edith Christie
Kathleen Edinger
MAYOR HARRISON COMMENDS
CITY’S FINANCIAL STATE
MAYOR HOPES FOR STILL
FURTHER REDUCTIONS
AH Current Bills Of Past Fiscal Year Paid Despite Lowered Tax Rate;
Louisville Almost Unique In Enjoying Liquid Condition.
The City of Louisville is one
of the few cities in the country
which can of a liquid finan'
cial condition,"’ said Mayor Wil-liam
B. Harrison in an interview
with a Cardinal reporter, Tues'
day. “The fiscal year, ending Aug'
ust 31, 1932,£ was brought to a
close with aIL current bills paid,”
he continued.
Mayor Harrison said that out
of every $2.20 collected by the
city, the public schools receive
sixty-three cents, while the Uni-versity
of Louisville receives five
and threeTourths cents. Of the
estimated tax receipts for 1932,
which total $7,718,522.90, the
schools are to receive $2,266,582.-
50 and the University will gain
$206,870.62.
Louisville’s tax rate of $2.20
ranks among the very lowest, the
Mayor said, of all cities in the
United States. Of twenty-six
cities having a population of 200,-
000 or over, the average tax rate
was found to be $2.77. Louisville
ranks
_ twenty-third among these
cities in this respect.
The bonded debt of the city, ac-cording
to Mayor Harrison, which
is $28,338,532 or $92.08 per cap-ita,
is also comparatively low. In
a survey taken of twenty-eight
cities with 200,000 or more inhab-
Sappenfield Elected
Vice-President Of
Physics Teachers
Dr. J. W. Sappenfield, head of
the U. of L. Physics Department,
was elected Vice-president of the
Kentucky Association of Physics
Teachers at a meeting April 22 in
the Physics Building. Other offi-cers
elected were as follows: Pres-ident-
Professor James G. Black of
Morehead State Teachers' Col-lege;
Secretary and Treasurer—
Jarvis Todd, of the University of
Kentucky.
The Association was entertain-ed
by sound films of the Physical
Sciences in the University of Chi-cago.
In addition, comparisons
were made by the body of final
examinations in Physics in the va-rious
Kentucky colleges.
The meeting was terminated
with luncheon at the Ship.
DR. DAVIES CHAIRMAN
OF DIVISION OF BI-OLOGICAL
SCIENCE
The Twentieth Annual Meet-ing
of the Kentucky Academy of
Science will be held in Lexington,
Ky., on Saturday, April 29. This
meeting will take place in the
Civil Engineering and Physics De-partment
at the University of
Kentucky.
The Academy was founded in
1914. Its object is “to encourage
scientific research, to promote the
diffusion of useful scientific knowl-edge,
and to unify the scientific
interests of the state.” It is affili-ated
with the American Associa-tion
for the Advancement of
Science.
The early part of the morning
will be spent in more or less min-ute
business transactions, after
which the general session will be-gin.
At this time, papers will be
presented on the following three
groups of subjects: Division of Bi-ological
Sciences, of which Dr. P.
A. Davies, Acting Head of the
Biology Department of the Uni-versity
of Louisville, is chairman;
Division of Physical Sciences and
Mathematics;’ and the Division of
Psychology and Philosophy.
Under the Division of Biologi-cal
Sciences, the following papers
will be presented by men from the
University of Louisville: The or-ganization
center of the amphi-
O’ROURKE ELECTED NATIONAL HEAD
DEAN OF DENTAL COLLEGE
HONORED BY ASSOCIATION
Also Fellow Of
New York Academy
At a meeting of the American
Association of Dental Schools,
which is composed of the Deans
and faculty members of all dental
Colleges of the United States and
Canada, Dean O’Rourke of the
School of Dentistry of the Univer-sity
of Louisville, was elected
President-elect of the organiza-tion
at its annual meeting in Chi-cago
this week.
Dean O'Rourke has been active
in the work of this association as
it bears upon higher education.
He is the Secretary-Treasurer of
the Curriculum Survey Commit-tee
which is surveying dentistry
and dental education for the pur
pose of constructing a dental cur-riculum
which will cause gradu-ates
to be more able to meet the
dental needs of the public. This
survey will be continued for an-other
year as they have recently
received the second grant from
the Carnegie Corporation for its
support.
Dr. O’Rourke is also a EgMow
in the New York Academy of
Dentistry of New York City, and
a member of the International As-sociation
for Dental Research.
DEAN ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF
K.E.A. BRANCH
Dean Oppenheimer of the Col-lege
of Liberal Arts was elected
President of the Department of
Colleges and State Teachers’ Col-leges
of Kentucky Educational
Association at a meeting held
April 13, at the Brown Hotel.
U. L. Entertains Woman’s
Division Of N. A. A. F.
WARD-BELMONT PRE-SENTS
BIRTHDAY CAKE
The University of Louisville
entertained the woman’s division
of the National Amateur Athletic
Federation with a tea held in the
alumni rooms Tuesday, April 25.
A birthday cake was presented to
the association by Ward-Belmont
College of Nashville. Approxi-mately
a hundred representatives
of the Federation were present.
Miss Threlkeld, Dean of Women
of the College of Liberal Arts,
was the representative of the Na-tional
Association of Deans of
Women.
The hostesses were: Mrs. Ray-mond
Kent, Mrs. Francis Miller,
Mrs. Adele Brandeis, Mrs. Lafon
Allen, Mrs. John W. Moore, Mrs.
Hugh Leavell, Mrs. Joseph Bell,
Mrs. Neville Miller, Miss Emma
Woerner, Mrs. E. H. Heller, Miss
Sarah Blanding, and Dean Hilda
Threlkeld.
SHERWOOD VISITS
WASHINGTON
Dr. Sherwood was the guest of
the Carnegie Endowment for In-ternational
Peace at a conference
in Washington April 25.
RADICAL DEPARTURE FROM
GRADING SYSTEM URGED
Would Lessen Number Of Examinations And Relieve Stress Of
Students, Employ Comprehensive Examinations And
Essay Type Questions
A novel and rather radical de-parture
from the present system
of grading college students has
been worked out by Prof. Earl C.
Bowman of the department of ed-ucation
at DePauw University.
Professor Bowman advocates
complete abandonment of the
present system of grades, thus get-ting
away from the highly com-petitive
scramble for high marks
and the resultant slipshod work
which it permits on the part of a
large portion of the students.
The new plan requires a stu-dent
to take a comprehensive ex-amination
covering the first year’s
work in the division in which he
expects to major. It is necessary
to pass this test with a high de-gree
of efficiency. Additional
courses or outside coaching would
be necessary in preparing the stu-dent
to pass this examination if he
should fail it the first time.
After the student qualifies for
work in his chosen field for major-ing
he would not be subjected to
any other tests or examinations
International Relations
Students Speak Over
Radio On Far East
DISCUSS SINO-JAPANESE
SITUATION
Some of the Students of the In-ternational
Relations class, con-ducted
by Dr. Henry Noble Sher-wood,
spoke over the radio on
April 19 concerning the Sino-Jap-anese
Situation. The topics dis-cussed
were “Why does Japan
want to control Manchuria?” by
Fred Weitzen; “How has Japan
gained control of Manchuria?” by
Elizabeth Stine; “What is the po-sition
of China?” by Dorothy
Leanheart; “What has the League
done?” by D. H. Daniel, Jr.,
President of the club; “What atti-tude
has the United States tak-en?”
by Sarah Haley, and “Has
Civilization Lost or Won?” by
Bill Smith.
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Engineers’ Ball
At Madrid
Tonig|ht!
Queen to be Chosen
It Won’t Be Long
Until the Carnival
Will You Help?
—Surber