The Cardinal News
Dedicated to the Advancement of the University of Louisville
VOL. I. No. 25. LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 22, 1927. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ENDOWMENT BID OPENS TONIGHT
Give Colvin Boot , Faculty Requests
PRESIDENT ‘UNFIT’,
STATEMENT SIGNED
BY 39 OF 48 SAYS
Bring 22 Charges Against
U. Head; Board Meets
Today.
Consideration of the controv-ersy
between the faculty and
President Colvin will be taken
by the Board of Trustees at a
meeting called for 10 o’clock
this morning at the University
executive offices, 111 West
Chronology
Board of Trustees withdraw
statement placing blame for un-rest
on I)r. Gottschalk, but stands
by its action in dismissing Dr.
Gottschalk on the charge of being
the cause of Campus unrest.
President Colvin makes state-ment
at secret session of Board
of Trustees and faculty, in answer
to charges brought against his ad-ministration
at three previous
closed door meetings.
American Association of I’ni-versity
Professors asked to inves-tigate
"grave injustice” done Dr.
Gottschalk and conditions at I’ni-versity.
Faculty, in suggested remedy to
board, blames President Colvin for
“unhappy condition,” calling for
his resignation and submitting
twenty-two charges against him.
Woodcock Society backs faculty
request for Colvin resignation.
Thruston Asks
Art Transfer
to University
Transfer to the Speed Museum of
the museum and collections of the
Louisville Free Public Library was
recommended by R. C. Ballard Thrus-ton,
member of the library board, at
a meeting of the library trustees last
Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Thruston, informing the board
members that he had donated a large
collection of Roman objects to the
library sixteen years ago and that
they were still stored in a warehouse
waiting for a home, suggested that
it would be a good idea for the con-tents
of the entire library museum
to be placed in the custody of the
University of Louisville.
The collection donated by Mr.
Thruston contains 1,000 pieces in all,
including twenty-two cinerary urns,
a sarcophagus lamp, wine .jars, and
other pieces valued at seven thou-sands
of dollars.
Woodcock Society Backs
Faculty Stand On Colvin
Indorsement of the faculty’s in-dictment
of President George Colvin
as the cause of the “present unhappy-condition”
on the Campus and its de-mand
that the Board of Trustees re-quest
Mr. Colvin’s immediate resig-nation,
was made by the Woodcock
Society, John E. Heller, president of
the society, has announced.
The indorsement was given by
fifty members of the society available
without a dissenting vote, Mr. Heller
said.
The Woodcock Society is the Phi
Reta Kappa of the University of
Louisville. To it each year are elected
six members of the senior class and
the reeipent of the Woodcock Medal.
STUDENTS FIRE UP FOR FUND EFFORT
Pulling for Fund Success
If the $2,000,000 endowment ef-fort
is successful, one of the hap-piest
men connected with the Uni-versity
of Louisville will be Dr.
John L. Patterson, Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and Chan-cellor
of the University for eigh-teen
years.
To the building of a great Uni-versity,
Dr. Patterson has given
almost two decades of his life. The
high scholastic standards which he
developed in the University form
a living monument to Dr. Patter-son.
DR. JOHN L. PATTERSON
Social Season Has Climax
With Junior Prom Tonight
The social season of the University!
of Louisville will reach a brilliant;
climax Friday evening, when the
second annual Junior Prom will be'
held in the Egyptian Ballroom at
Kosair. The Prom, which will be
from 10 to 3 o’clock, will be a formal
program dance with breaking on the
encores. There will be eighteen no-breaks.
The Kentucky Nighthawks,
whose last engagement was at Palm
Beach Gardens, New York, will play.
The tenth dance, which will start
at midnight, will be part of the Grand
March, which will be led by Charles
J. Robinson, of Oyster Bay, New
York, and the queen of his selection,
Miss Alberta Knoop, of Louisville.
Mr. Robinson, who was elected chair-man
of the 1927 Prom by representa-tive
committee of all schools of the
University, is a Junior Dental student.
Miss Knoop is a Junior Academic.
If hard, persistent work and prep-aration
count for anything, the 1927
Prom should be a memorable success.
Mr. Robinson has given considerable
time and attention to this greatest
event of the University social season
and deserves no inconsiderable amount
of credit.
Bids must be presented at the door,
Mr. Robinson said. Bids will be
available until six o’clock Friday
evening.
Give Carnival
For Benefit
ofEndowment
In the hope of raising money to
contribute to the endowment fund,
three students, Clarence Steurle, John
Watkins and Charlie O’Connell will
manage a carnival to be given at Ma-rigold
Gardens, Saturday, April 30,
from one o’clock in the afternoon un-til
eight o’clock in the evening.
The Cardinal’s Orchestra, aceeeded
to be the best in Kentucky, will play.
A carnival committee meeting was
held yesterday noon at which Sam
Hyman, at the request of the commit-tee,
who conceived and managed last
year’s stupendous carnival, outlined
the plans followed last April.
Joy, fun, and color are promised at
the carnival. It is belived that there
will be voting for a queen of the car-nival.
The Carnivals of 1924 and 1926
were given for the benefit of the
Athletic Association fund.
Seek Signers
For Petition
Behalf Colvin
Petitions of many descriptions be-set
Campus students this week, most
of them being outgrowths of a stu-dent
petition indorsing the principles
and policies of President George Col-vin
and declaring the belief that
“President Colvin’s removal from the
Presidency would be a calamity to the
University.”
Shortly after the quest for signers
of these resolutions in support of
Mr. Colvin began a number of peti-tions
ranging from the sublime to the
ridiculous in character made their ap-pearance.
Students opposed to the policies
and principles of President Colvin al-leged
that persons seeking signers of
Big Rally In
Playhouse to
Be Held Today
When the last shot of the campaign
for the $2,000,000 University of
Louisville endowment fund is fired,
the student body of the University
is expected to be enrolled one hundred
per cent, B. M. Brigman, Dean of the
Speed Scientific School and faculty
and student campaign chairman de-claied
yesterday.
A rally of students will be held in
the Playhouse at 10 o’clock Friday
morning. President Colvin will speak.
Under the leadership of Dean ,1.
T. O’Rourke, the School of Dentistry,
was the first school to go over the
top, every dental student subscribing
within a half-hour. The amount
pledged was $8,300.
The Law School was the next to
go one hundred per cent with a sub-scription
of $3,500.
The Medical freshmen have sub-scribed
to a man. The canvass of the
other medical classes has not been
completed.
Beginning today the campaign on
the Campus is expected in full swing.
Committee men canvassing the Cam-pus
are:
Senior Class—.Clarence Judah, Em-bert
Rice, Olivia Pragoff, Mildred
Hall, Esther Ritter, Henrietta Zell-mer,
Virginia Watts, Smith Taylor,
Annie Ferry and Elizabeth Nall.
Junior Class Katherine Pwyman,
Frances Mann, Billy Keller, Price
Starks, Leola Ditto, Bill Deering,
George Castari, Helen Anderson, Ruth
Robinson and Margaret Chambers.
Sophomore Class—Clarence Steurle,
Clarence Arnold, Marguerite Dalton,
Naomi Sengel, Elinor Parker, Kath-erine
MacDonough, Thelma Ogden
and Nona West. Freshman Class—
Carl Owsley, Robert Hazelit, Edward
Goodin, Charles Montgomery, Harvey
Jeffries, Aubrey Cates, Albert Stoner,
Horace Roth, William Ray and George
Ragsdale.
$2,000,000 QUEST
LAUNCHED AT PEP
BANQUET AT BROWN
Enthusiasm High As Inten-sive
Nine Day Cam-paign
Begins.
The intensive civic drive of the
big $2,000,000 endowment fund cam-paign
will get under way tonight at
6:30 at the Brown Hotel, when all
the workers for the local project will
gather in the huge Crystal Ballroom
for the opening campaign dinner. At
that time William B. Harrison will
announce the results of the work done
by the Special Gifts Committee, and
William Heyburn will make known
the total amount obtained by the Pre-liminary
Gifts Committee. (It was
previously reported that preliminary
gifts totalled $242,000, and it is ex-pected
that this sum will be consid-erably
increased by report of several
substantial additions.)
Richard Bean, general chairman of
the campaign, who will preside, will
present a brief outline of the cam-paign
and will issue general instruc-tions
to all the workers. He will al-so
introduce the committee chairmen
and the divisional leaders to those
present. Dean Bennett M. Brigman
will report on the faculty and stu-dent
campaign. The University Band
will play between 6:30 and 7:30 while
dinner is being served.
Immediately after the dinner the
city campaign will be on in full blast.
Beginning with tomorrow morning
the numerous workers will begin
their enormous task of soliciting ap-proximately
14,000 prospects all over
the city, aumerous civic organizations
of Louisville will assist in the work
of “selling” the citizens of the city
on the value of a municipal univer-sity
to a great and growing city. The
first roport of the workers will come
Kitty Conroy
Is Assistant
to Registrar
With the receipt of information
that Miss Kitty Conroy, matron of
the Jefferson County Children’s Home
had attended the meetings of the
Kentucky Association of Registrars
at Lexington recently and had signed
a registration card as “assistant reg-istrar”
of the University of Louis-ville.
it was learned from President
George Colvin, who was superinten-dent
of the Children’s Home before
becoming head of the University, that
Miss Conroy is to be appointed assist-ant
registrar subject to the approval
of the board.
Johnson News
Professor of
Economics
President George Colvin has an-nounced
that Dr. Charles D. Johnson,
head of the School of Commerce and
Journalism at Baylor University,
Texas, for the last five years, will be
at the helm of the Department of Ec-onomics
at the University of Louis-ville
next year.
Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Mis-sissippi
University, Clinton, Missis-sippi.
He has specialized in econom-ics
and sociology at Johns Hopkins
and the University of Missouri. He
received his degree of bachelor of
philosophy from the University of
lowa in 1921. He is well-known as
a speaker before national academic
and business associations in the
South.
The new appointee comes to the
University with the expectation of
developing a Department of Com-merce
and Business Administration,
Mr. Colvin announced.
Gottschalk Ouster to Be
Sifted By National Body
Investigation by the American As-sociation
of University Professors in-to
the alleged injustice in the ouster
by the Board of Trustees of Dr.
Louis R. Gottschalk was requested by
Dr. Leo Raub, secretary of the associ-ation’s
chapter at the unK-ersity.
“It seems that a grave Injustice is
being done Dr. Gottschalk and I feel
that the faculty cannot do more for
him,” |Dr. Raub said in a letter to
the secretary of the national body.
“I, therefore, wish to urge that the
association conduct an investigation
of the case and if possible of the gen-eral
conditions at the university.”
The probe was first asked March
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