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·HE CARDINAL Official Student Newspaper of the University o! Louisville
VOL. 3 LOUISVILLE, KY., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935 NO. 29
Peace Convocation at Playhouse Friday
JUNIOR CLASS I DID THE WAR TO END I Flexibility Feature
TO HOLD PROM WAR END WAR? In New Council Plan
IN GYM APRIL 18
First Event of Kind to Estab­lish
Campus Tradition,
Hope
TO HONOR SENIORS
A new University of Louisville
social function will be inaugurated
Thursday evening, April I8, when
the Junior class of the College of
Liberal Arts presents the first
Junior Prom, in honor of the
senior class.
It is hoped that the Prom, one
of the outstanding social events
of the year at most major univer­sities
of the country, will be made
an annual affair of similar prestige
here, according to Herbert Qay,
president of the class.
The dance will be in charge Qf
the junior class officers. Clay is
general chairman. Rita Beall,
vice-president, is in charge of
music. Secretary Jean Jones will
supervise decorations. Bob Fu­gate,
treasurer, is handling promo­tion;
and Frank Melton, sergeant­at-
arms, is publicity director.
The dance will be given in the
gym on Belknap Campus. Special
features are being planned in honor
of the Seniors, including a grand
march to start at ro o'clock and
to be led by the junior class offi­cers.
Music by one of Louisville's
prominent dance bands will start
at 9, with "Home Sweet Home''
scheduled to be heard at 1 a. m.
While the dance is being plan­ned
primarily as a farewell to the
seniors, members of all classes
are urged to attend. The ducats
are 7 5 cents, couple or stag.
In Review
Emmet V. Mittlebeeler
A Peace Convocation of unusual Constitution Drawn by Dr.
nature has been set for Friday Hodges More Liberal in
morning at 12:30 m the Play- Scope
house, as U. of L. 's part in a
"National Peace Strike Day." A new more flexible constitu­The
event is to be observed in tion for the Liberal Arts Student
many universities throughout the
United States by vigorous student
demonstrations.
It is perfectly natural that our
higher educational institutions
should be foremost in the fight
for peace and civilized standards
of international relationships.
The nationalistic parasites who
challenge common sense with pa­triotism,
national defense, pre­paredness,
and all their stock of
shams and hypocrisies, are at best
selfish and mercenary. They are
juggling by implication the lives
of countless millions of young per­sons,
among whom college stu­dents
form a conspicuous part.
The struggle to remain at peace
may find you uninterested. But
if the struggle fails because of dis­interest,
far more serious conse­quences
will force you to wake up
a.nd measure the result of your
own folly.
· This is your own convocation.
Attend it.
-Editor
Law School To
Hear Dean Harno
Dean Albert J. Harno, head of
the University of Illinois School of
Law, and author of several nation­ally
studied legal textbooks, is to
speak at a public lecture in the
University of Louisville Law
School Friday night at 8: oo
o'clock.
Dean Harno is a graduate of
Yale. In addition to his present
position, which he has held since
I922, he was formerly dean of
Washington College. He is also
a former president of the Associa­tion
of American Law Schools. He
is now chairman of the committee
on Uniform State Laws of the
Illinois State Bar Association.
An open invitation has been ex­tended
to all interested, especial­ly
attorneys, alumni and pre-legal
students. A reception and smoker
will follow the talk. •
Council has, upon request of the
Council, been drawn up by Dr.
Henry G. Hodges, professor of
political science.
Dr. Hodges' constitution gives
the Council power to appoint and
control various committees. The
old plan leaves the determination
of this function to By-Laws
wherein the committees are named.
Seven members constitute a
quorum under the plan and a two­thirds
vote of these will be suf­ficient
to amend it. Under the
old plan, ten members were re­quired
to be in favor of an amend­ment
before its adoption.
Greater flexibility is offered by
allowing the Council to designate
such organizations and groups as
it sees fit and in allowing them
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Wallace, Millikan
On K. E. A. Program
President Kent, Hornberger,
Miss Schneider Have Ac­tive
Parts on Bill
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of
agriculture, will be the principal
speaker on the Kentucky Educa­tion
Association program this
morning at I I : I 5 in the Memorial
Auditorium.
Dr. Robert A. Millikan, world­renowned
scientist, will speak at
8:35 p. m. Friday at the Audi­torium.
1
Several members of the U. of
L. faculty will take part in the
program. President R. A. Kent
will speak at 2 p. m. today in the
Seelbach Hotel on "New Trends
in Accrediting Colleges."
Dr. A. W. Hornberger, head of
the department of chemistry, will
address a gathering Qf chemistry
teachers at 9:30 Saturday morn­ing
on "High School and College
Chemistry for Medical Training.''
Miss Evelyn Schneider, libra­rian,
will lead a bird hike in
Cherokee park Friday morning.
CONVOCATION SPEAKER
E. Ollie Mershon, Jr., will speak
at the Peace Convocation tomor­row
at I2 :3<;> at the Playhouse.
Freeman~ Others
Promoted by Council
Action on those members of
the faculty whose contracts expit:e
at the end of this school year was
taken by the Board of Trustees
of the University at its meeting
of April 8. The budget for the
neftt year was adopted, and will
go into effect July I.
Dr. Ellis Freeman was pro­moted
from associate professor to
professor, with indefinite tenure.
Dr. Freeman came to the U niver­sity
in the fall of I929, having
completed his work for his Doctor
of Philosophy degree at the U ni­versity
of Frankfurt-am-Main. He
was appointed associate professor
in 1932.
Dr. Robert Kutak was reap­pointed
assistant professor in the
department of sociology and social
work.
Dr. R. E. Loring, first appoint­ed
last summer, was renamed as­sistant
professor and acting head
of the department of physics.
Mr. F. W. Stamm was reap­pointed
assistant professqr in eco­nomics.
Dr. R. E. Haswell was reap­pointed
assistant professor in the
department of English.
In the School of Medicine Dr.
Arch E. Cole was reappointed as­sistant
professor of anatomy, Dr.
Continued on page 6
SPEAKERS ARE
BAUER, SEEBODE,
AND MERSHON
International Relations Club
Sponsoring Chapel in
Protest Against War
PEACE INTEREST GROWS
Joining the nation-wide protest
against war and preparation for
war a committee of students have
called a convocation Friday, Apnl
I2 at I2:3o at the Playhouse.
Richard Seebode, Chester L.
Bower and E. Ollie Mershon, Jr.,
representing the citizen, the ia.:ul­ty
and the students, will address
the meeting on the general topic
"The Menace of War.''
Dr. Seebode, pastor of the First
Unitarian Church will speak on
the "Causes of War" Mr. Bower
of the Department of Sociology
will continue the discussion in
presenting "Possible Means of
Averting War." Ollie Mershon will
tell "What the Student Can Do."
According to the committee in
charge, this convocation bas been
called because of a growing in­terest
in peace among the students
of this campus.
Dean J. J. Oppenheimer will
preside.
Picnic To Replace.
Campus Carnival
All-University Affair to Be
Held Early in May by
Council
An all-University picnic, to be
sponsored by the Student Council,
and to be held early in May, will
take the place of the Campus
Carnival this year, according to -
Gil Adams, general chairman of
the committee in charge.
Definite plans for the date and
program have not been completed,
Adams stated.
One assured event on the bill
will be the faculty-student base­ball
game. Other games and ac­tivities
for the whole student body
EIGHTEEN YEARS will be planned.
AGO, IN April, 1917,
the United States en­tered
the World War
with the ostensible
purpose of making the
world safe for de­mocracy,
of preserving
the sanctity of iriter­national
agreements,
uLEAGUE ROOM, MAY CARRY OUT TRADITION
For the past two years, a
Campus Carnival sponsored by
University organizations has been
given in May. Side-shows, con­cessions,
and athletic events made
up the program. Plans for sub­stituting
the picnic for the carni­val
were made by the Student
Council at its meeting April 9·
and of. promoting the freedom of
the seas. Not one of these three
was of any vital importance to
the great mass of American citi-zens.
Now it is widely recognized
even by conservatively-minded in­dividuals
that our· desire to pro­tect
the British and French in­vestments
of certain American
busmess interests had far more
'to do with our participation in
that conflict ~ any altruistic
intetttion to do the world a favor.
It is difficult to find any person
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With the work on the new re­creation
and "lounging'' room in
the basement of Gardiner Hall
nearing completion, the suggestion
has cQme ·from several alumni that
the new room be termed the
"League Room;' after the League
Room of the old college which
occupied a building at I I 9 W.
Broadway before the removal of
tbe University to Belknap Cam­pus
in 1925.
The League Room of the old
College of Liberal Arts holds
many memories for old grads of
U. of L. It occupied a. central
position on the first floor and,
since in those days the college was
much smaller than at present, it
served as a general get-together
place for the majority of the stu­dents.
Loafing iri the League Room
was the outstanding tradition of
the old school. It was here that
students gathered before classes,
after classes, and often during
classes as well. It was here that
the first little groups were formed
which later hatched into the so­rorities
and fraternities of the
school today. It was here also
that "Pop" Martin recalls holding
rehearsals of the first Players' pro­ductions.
The old grads of the League ·
Room approached by the Cardinal
hold so many fond memories of
their gathering place that the
Cardinal has asked Ruth Wilson
' secretary to President R. A. Kent,
and a prominent League Room
alumna, to tell its readers some
of the good times she remembers
in the old school. An article bv
Miss WiJson will appear in next
week's edition of the Cardinal.
TEST YOURSELF ON
LAST WEEK'S NEWS
I. What is the significance of
Stresa, Italy?
2. Who is Edward J. Kelly?
3· In what country is Danzig
located?
4· What United States Sena­tor
is advocating coinage of
silver to the ratio of I 6 to
I?
S· Who is Alejandro Lerroux?
(Answers on page 3)