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the man of Rice <u$ urged to join with
the staff in making it & successful and
permanent puhlicaqon.
The young women of Rice atone and
unaided have in three short years or-
ganized and kept going various clubs
which have became very vital parta of
the student Mfe. There is a itterary so-
ciety with 49 interested members who
never miss a meeting because they are
always sure that something is going to
happen, be it merely a good program or
a good fight. There is a Y. W. C. A.
imbued with true Christian charity and
a marveious zeal for money making.
There is a giee club whose Hrst public
appearance is being anxiously antici-
pated by their feltow students. There
is a German club which recently opened
its membership to include men, more
from a spirit of generosity than from
necessity, and there are others, smaller
but equally active.
The success of these and other organ-
izations to which the girls have ient
their support, assmes The Thresher that
the enthusiastic co-operation of the wo-
men students is a s '-onirable asset.
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Is there anything about The Thresher
that you don't iike'.' If so, come and teli
us about it. We wiit receive criticisms
with the same grace that we will re-
ceive compliments, if such there should
be. If you want your criticism pub-
lished we wilt publish it, and if it is
just we wiii admit it; if it is unjust, we
wiii take pleasure in teliing you why.
If you have any article of general inter-
est that you desire to appear in The
Thresher we would be glad to pubiish
it, provided it is of a reasonable length.
We want you to understand that The
Thresher is merely for the benefit of the
students of Rice; if there is any way in
which you can he^p us to make it more
interesting we hope that you will do it
without waiting for us to ask you. Our
office is in Room 104 of the Adminis-
tration building. We will be glad to
have any student <<f Rice to call on us
there at any time.
THE THRESHER
A fortnightly periodica) published by the
Mtudenta of the ftice institute at
Houston, Texas.
Entered an second-da** matter at the
Postofftce in Houston Texas.
January, l!'tt!
m HStMMHOK MATHS
W)t.), M. STANHWH Editor-in-Chief
Ht'iiHXH MtLLtH.'.......MttnatrinKr Hditor
):t TH sri,L!\ .\X \nMociate Editor
APK!MT.\KT EpfT'HtS.
C. H, W'oo'i'MX A. TOMFOHHDE
HAVMOXD tiltWKS. iit'Tti HOiHXHt)K
BLSHHTH HOWE
HcKHSStE Circulation Mnutttn-r
J. !'. AtAHKHAM. .1 It... t msitn-Mx AOmaRer
t'. It. ])A[:i.,[Xi:...Asst. tmsiness Manager
EDITORIAL
i'iti.-. issue of The Thresher ' the first
student i<u))iication to appear at the
Rice institute. Three years in, our his-
tory iutYn gone by without a means of
voicing the opinions of the students. In
immmtratitiH this paper the members of
the staff beiieve that the time has come
when lite student body can and wiii
support a pubiication which fiiis such a
tone felt wnnt.
lite paper as piauned by the present
tnt't' is to he strictly a newspaper, and
not a iiterary mas-MXine. if the stttdent-
txxly supports the paper as weil as is
:uni<'ipn(ed. the frequency of publica-
tion wiii he increased according!;*, and
we hope that before many years it wiii
be aide to appear daity. Our present
jto)i< y is to present from an undergradu-
ate viewpoint news of student activities
an! campus iii'e. or to paraphrase a weii-
worn expression, it is to be a paper for
lite siudents and by the students. We
hint- }ziven a ureat deai of thought to
tite oi-eanixation of titis publication, and
sve iieiieve that the present pian of hav-
ing it hacked hv the iiterary societies,
represents I he iogicai mean which wii!
give a certain flexibility of controi and
stiil be thorough);- representative of the
st udent-hody.
ttaring the past term many friends of
lite institute commented on the schooi
spirit and ioyaity tnanifested by the stu-
'!- el -!)'iy, especiaiiy in support of the
footbai! leam. Those cioseiy connected
with nice know that, titis same spirit is
manifested in aii affairs of the student
iile which concern the school as a
whole. We hope that this paper wiii do
its part in fostering and developing our
'-hoot i-pirit uutii it wiii mark Rice
among the ureat institutions of teaming
in the South.
TUC LiTHHAHY MOUKTIHS.
The Thresher was organized by the
iiterary societies and it wiit be the con-
stant aim of the editors to serve the so-
rb-tins in every way possible. It is our
ambition to arouse the student, body of
!!ice institute to the importance of these
societies. It is needless to say that the
students of Rice have not taken the in-
terest in them that they should have
done, and at the present time tl{^ Eliza-
beth Bahiwin Society is the only one
that contd be said to be in a flourishing
rendition. Bo we want to impress upon
the men the importance of joining the
Owl tlub or the Riceonian Society and
of attending them after they have
joined.
The benefits to be obtained from the
societies are inestimabie. Surely every
coiiege man expects^ be a man of some
prominence, and every man of promi-
nence has occasionally to make a pubiic
speech. Now, ease in pubiic speaking
must be acquired, and the man who
haves coiiege without having acquired
coniidence in his abiiity to appropriate-
iy express his thoughts before an audi-
ence has neglected a most important
part of his education. There is no ex-
cuse for this negiect at Rice; the socie-
ties are here anxious to have every man
as a member, ready to give every man
the opportunity of acquiring the ability
to make a speech, without which he is
not iiberaily educated.
Another important service of the so-
cieties comes from the discussion of cur-
rent questions. Coiiege men are too
prone to overlook the importance of the
events of the present day. One of the
most serious charges against colleges is
that the students spend a great deai of
time upon the history of the past and
iittie at ali on the history of the pres-
ent. It is especiaiiy important that the
student today understand the events
that are taking place in the world. We
are living in an age such as the world
has never seen before# history is being
made not onty in Europe but in Ameri-
ca. Great changes in our national pol-
icies ore being made and are going to!
be made; we are facing a presidential!
campaign that bids fair to rival in im-
portance the one of 1880. The student
should understand the meaning of these
things, for what is done today wiii de-
termine the history of the future. The
Itterary societies furnish the opportuni-
ty for the students to hear these mat-
ters discussed pro and con and the op-
portunity for joining in the discussion.
The man who negiects these opportuni-
ties is doing a thing that he wiii regret
in the future.
We have not space to dwelt at iength
upon the service that the iiterary socie-
ties render. We have said what we have
more to remind the men of what we feel
sure they already know than to teli
them something they do not know. We
believe it is simply a case of neglect, of
tetting the little incidentai things stand
in the way of what is important. But
now is the time to turn over a new leaf.
We urge every man of Rice Institute to
give his name for membership in one
of the societies; ihe societies need you
now and need you badly, and you need
the societies all the time.
HtSTOMY Of THH THHKSHHH.
EXTENSION LECTURES
AM POPULAR
WtML HK (HVEN BY BR. AXBON, DR.
WH BOX AKB BM. HUXLEY.
White there have been severai at-
tempts in the past to start a student
pubiication at the Rice Institute, The
Thresher is the first which has actuatiy
appeared. The history of the organiza-
tion is as foilows: During the first
term of the present academic year two
students thought that the school needed
a paper and pianned to start one as a
private enterprise. However, when
they began to consider the setection of
the rest of the staff they decided that
such a pitbiication shouid be more in
the hands of the students, and that pri-
vate ownership of styth publications
might iater on give rise to grave abuses.
The two promoters then intended to
drop the matter, but Dr. Lovett, with
whom they had already co^SHerred, asked
that they continue their work in start-
ing a paper. After discussing the pro-
ject fully it was decided to give it into
the hands of the three iiterary societies
with the recommendation that each so-
ciety etect three members to a com-
mittee which was to organize the paper
in any way they saw tit. The following
were elected: Front the OwijAtillis,
Brooks and Standish; from the Riceon-
ian, McKensie. Wooten and Markham;
from the Etizabeth Balwdiu, Misses
Sullivan, Itowe and Robinson. This
committee met and selected the follow-
ing staff:
Editor in Chief, W. M. Standish;
Managing Editor, Eugene Mtllis; Asso-
ciate Editor. Ruth Sullivan; Circulation
Manager. C. P. McKensie: Business
Manager, J. P. Markham; Assistant Ed-
itors, Raymond Brooks, C. H. Wooten
and Misses Robinson and Rowe, who
comprise the original staff of The
Thresher.
Mr. Wooten, with the assistance of Al-
bert. Tomforde, who was elected by the
committee, will cover the athletic news,
Miss Rowe is to make a department of
the women's activities, Miss Robinson
and Mr. Brooks wit! cover att general
news. Air. G. R. Darling has been
elected to the position of Assistant
Business Manager. The editorials will
be written by Miss Suliivan, Mr. Stand-
ish and Mr. Miliis. The duties of the
other members of the staff are indicated
b^ the names of their positions.
The original committee met and after
consulting with Dr. Lovett, formulated
plans for estabiishing the newspaper,
&nd the outcome of these plans may be
seen in the present'issue of The Thresh-
er. It is our intention to issue The
Thresher fortnightly for the remainder
of the school year, and to do this we
must have the co-operation and support
of the whole student-body. We wiii give
you the best paper that we possibiy can,
but we hope you wiii bear in mind the
difficulties in the way of estabiishing
such an enterprise as this. The first
student publication of a new school can-
not expect to have an easy road to trav-
el, but we betteve we will do the best
that can be done tinder the circum-
stances. Give us your help and consid-
eration and through the cotums of The
Thresher we wiii make coiiege life at
Rice Institue more interesting and more
helpful.
WOMKX'H I'AltT IX THE PAPER.
The women of Rice whose pet hobby
for the )ast four years has been "Equal
rights for the downtrodden co-eds,"
have obtained in The Thresher a sooth-
ing rtght. The Elizabeth Baldwin Lit
erary Society has equal representation
with the Owls and the Riceonians on the
board of directors. The Thresher is a
student activity. The women as well as
The students are appreciating more
and more the cultural value of the ex-
tension lectures now being given at the
Institute. The iectures afford an op-
portunity for gaining knowledge of the
work being done in other fields beside
the one in which a student is most deep-
ly interested. He must emphasize his
specialty in his course of study, but he
may attend the various lectures given
on so many important phases of modern
endeavor and secure information that
wiii prevent him becoming narrow. The
pleasure to be derived from the instruc
tion thus given outside the regular
schedule by the members of the Rice
Institute Faculty is much increased be-
cause the student may enjoy just the
points in a lecture that appeal to him.
He does not have to take notes and wiii
never be asked for a resume on exami
nation.
The students, as weii as the Houston
public, are benefited directly by the se-
ries of lectures given each term. To
those students who have not realized
what they lose when they miss all the
lectures, a bit of advice is offered; hear
some of them and see how much knowl-
edge is to be gained in one hour, after
your academic schedule for the day is
over
As a whole, the students can appre-
ciate the time and labor the prepara-
tion costs the lectures who is giving
the course, though they do not always
express their feeling.
The university extension iectures for
the present term, as announced now,
conclude the fifth series that began last
term. The last lecture will be given
February 18, 1916, and a new series
wit! begin February 21. The lectures
are given every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday afternoon. The Monday series
includes one lecture on "Browning and
the Short Story"; "Porphyria's Lover,"
by Mr. Frederic Thomas Blanchard, and
a course of six lectures on "Studies in
Modern Drama," by Mr. Stockton Ax-
son. /
The Wednesday iectures will be given
by Mr. Harold Albert Wilson and ^tr.
Julian Sorell Huxley. Mr. Wiison con-
cluded a serious of six, January 5, when
he lectured on "Dispersion and Spectro-
scopy." Mr. Huxley began a course of
the same number on "Biology and
Man," January 12. "Romain Rolland'
was the contemporary French novelist
chosen by Mr. Aibert Leon Guerard for
the subject of his sixth lecture, Janu-
ary 7. Mr. Clyde Chew Glascock be
gins a course of six lectures on "Tra-
ditionai Foik Tales," January 14.
These members of the faculty are ali
weii known to the people of Houston as
lecturers, with the exception of Mr
Huxley, who has never given any ex-
tension iectures before. The students
who have heard him in his ciass room
lectures, however, assure the public that
he wiii maintain the same high standard
set by his predecessors. Mr. Bianch-
ard's lecture concludes his initial series
that was begun last term. The lec-
tures are all excellent, both in sub-
stance and form, and the audience re-
alize the fact before they read the criti-
cism.
they now see things in a different llght.,1 The university extension lectures,
The girls have "burned the midnight wMe Primarily for the students,
SENIORS SHOW LIFE
At last the Seniors show life. Up to
the present the; have been con-
cerned chiefly \^hh making sure the
lower classmen were aware of their
grave dignity. Now* that this soiemn
task is accomplished they are to begin
something new, for any one who has
been a student at Rice for three ses-
sions and part of a fourth, can never
get out of the habit of working—the
more work the better.
The wearing of caps and gowns may
come later; the Seniors have not an-
nounced anything about that yet, but
they seem bent upon having a distinctive
mark, anyway. The Senior girls are the
first to adopt a badge, if one may call
unbecoming horn-rimmed glasses a
badge. It is necessary that they should
label themselves as soon as possibie, be-
cause some of the Freshmen do not
know there are any Senior giris—they
have never seen any on the campus.
Now that the girls have proved them-
selves worthy of the title of Seniors,
they have become a "distinctive spec-
tacte." The giris began the stunt of
wearing amber coiored glasses Monday
and will wear them every Monday dur-
ing this term. The glasses make them
appear very studious and intellectual-
oil" so faithfully since school opened
that their eyes require the protecthm of
glasses—it may be due to theirnabit
of not starting nnt^i late—we won't say.
It has been suggested that the men
of the Senior clasM "wear" either canes
or mustaches as a distinguishing mark.
The canes seem to be much the more
popular idea, and it is possible that
they will be used as a distinguishing
mark in the near future.
The Senior girls had a very lengthy
meeting iast week. They seemed ex-
cited but the whole crowd was so mys-
terious that nothing definite could be
learned, but evidently there's more yet.
Abrupt closing of notebooks and digni-
fied silence prevails when a Sophomore
or Junior approaches. What's in the
air? "Hush money" must be plentiful,
because we can't get a word out of them.
The 12th, decorations, refreshments—
that is all we know.
The profs, had & narrow escape the
night of Coach Afbuckle's duck supper.
Had it not been %or the fact that the
wind blew the tempting odors out the
window, and not down the hall, a mad-
dened fuah would Undoubtedly have ta-
ken place by the students to better
their beans and hash fare. As it was,
a considerable uproar arose.
are an important asset to the regular
academic program for them. The lec-
tures are one of the many privileges the
students are given to improve their
knowledge of contemporary and past
teaming.
OKOUP PICTURES FOR THE AN-
NUAL.
During the coming week, January
16-22,ail group pictures to appear in the
"Campanile" will be taken. Notices
will be posted on the bultetin board,
designating the time, place and class
or organisation. Atl students are re-
quested to read these notices, as it will
save a great qmount of trouble to the
secretaries of the various organizations.
We sincerely hope that every individ-
ual will co-operate with us in every pos-
sible way, so that the pictures will be
good in appearance and that they may be
taken without any unnecessary delay.
The presidents and secretaries of the
following organizations are requested to
call at the Campanille office or to get
in touch with Mr. Nathan or Mr. Kalb
on Monday, January 17; Junior Class,
Sophomore Class, Freshman Class, Der
Goethe Verein, Les Hiboux, Elizabeth
Baldwin Literary Society, Owl Literary
Society^ Riceonian Literary Society, En
gitieering Society, Natural History Club,
Glee Club, Band, Y. W. C. A., Y. M. C.
A., Menorah Society and Architecture
Society.^
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