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THE THRESHER
Vol. 1
RICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, JUNE 12, 1916
NILAND IS ELECTED
EDITOR OF CAMPANILE
WILL TAKH THH MA<K OF MM.
TOMHOHRDH. WHO HHMMMM OX
\<<(HXT Oh ILL HHALTH.
htniot < iwss Atiopts Plans for Next
Yeat s Annua]—Executive t otn
tnit'.ee Wi!I fOntroi Finan-
cial Policy.
At a tneeting of tite Junior Class on
Tuesday, May 3ft, J. E. Niland was
etected editor-in-chie)' of next year's
Campaniie to take Tontfohrde's place.
Mr. Tomfohrde was forced to resign,
as he stated in a tetter to the class, on
account of iit heaith. The news of his
resignation was received with surprise
and regret by the class.
Mr. Nitand is a poputar and wett-
known member of the Junior Ctass. He
is president of the Riceonian Literary
Society and a member of the Thresher
staff. No doubt is fett of his abitity to
put out a good annuat.
A ptan was recommended by a com-
mittee for the distribution of the Cant-
panite profits for 1H16-17, and was ac-
cepted by Ihe ctass. It provides that
the editor-in-chief and the business
manager be given 35 per cent each of
the profits, and that the remainder be
distributed among the rest of the staff
according to the services rendered. It
is provided that in case of a deficit, the
executive committee shatt take measures
to cover such deficit, and that if they
so desire, they can provide for a nomi-
nai additional amount to recompense
the staff in some measure for the serv-
ices rendered.
The executive committee witt consist
of three seniors and two members of
the facutty. The editors and business
manager wiit lay out a pretiminary ptan
for the annua], and wilt submit it to
the executive committee for approva).
THH WtKXHHM IX THH IKTHH-MM !KTY HHHATK AX!) OHATOHM Ah (OSTHHT
No. U
MILLIS WILL BE
EDITOR OF THRESHER
J. H. Xiiand.
Hishcth Howe.
X. Rayzor.
H. B MiMis,
OWL MEN WIN THE DEBATE, RAYZOR FIRST PLACE:
JUDGES RENDER NO DECISION IN ORATORICAL CONTEST
MILLIS AX]' HAYZOH, FOR THH OW LS, DHFHAT XATHAX AX!) MARKHAM OF THE RM HOXUX-
XILAXH AXI) MILLIS IH\H)H HOXOHS )X THH OHATORH AL (OXTEST
-,\IISS ROWE.
RH H IS FOR PRHI'ARKHXHSS.
The Owt Literary Society won the
third intersociety debate. The debate
was the feature of Literary Jubiiee
night, with the largest attendance, per-
haps, that has yet been present for any
students' titerary competition. Jubitee
exercises were heid in the facutty cham-
ber Friday evening, with Dr. Robert
Granville Ca]dweti presiding.
Eugene Russet) MUlis and John New-
ton Rayzor were the victorious repre-
sentatives of the Owis. The$* defended
the negative side of the question, "Re-
solved. that harbor and waterway im-
provements shouid be made by the
States instead of by th<! United States."
Mr. Rayzor was dectared by the
judges to have made the best speech on
the winning side. Dr. Caldwetl present,
ed him with the handsome Shotwetl gotd
medal, given by WiHiatu ]. ShotweH of
Houston.
Speakers for the Riceonian Society,
uphotding the affirmative side, were
Wittiam Max Nathan and James Philip
Markham, Jr.
Each of the speakers had a brief re-
buttat. Mr. Nathan made the opening
speech and had the tast rebuttal. Mitiis
opened for the negative, and had the
first rebuttal. Markham fallowed Mii-
tis both in the first speech and in re-
butta), white Rayzor was next speaker.
With Mitiis' acute reasoning, and Ray-
zor's sptendid mastery of teiiing points
with which to crush the arguments of
his opponents, the report of the judges
was anticipated by many of those who
heard the debate.
M. H. Foster of the Houston Chron-
icie, Judge H. H. Parker of Haker,
Botts, Parker & Garwood, attorneys,
and Superintendent ]'. \Y. Horn of the
city schoots acted as judges.
This was the second victory in the
intersociety debate for the Owis. Mr.
Mittis was one of the winners in the
1!)14 contest. Nathan and Markham
won for the Hiceonian in Htla.
Foitowing a brief intermission. Dr.
Caidweii introduced the speakers in the
trianguiar oratoricat contest. An un-
expected condition arose when the
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Where Rice Institute stands on the
"Tjues ton of national ptettarv^taess wan
ctearty indicated on June 3 when a
targe number of the students, and a
target- proportion of the instructors
joined in the big down-town parade.
The Institute band was one of the
severat bands in the parade, and won
much praise both for the music it pro-
vided and for the fact of its being pure-
iy a votuntary organization.
Dr. Stockton Axson was one of th'
speakers at the City Auditorium before
the iarge audience that crowded into
the huitding at the conciusion of the pa-
rade.
SPLENDID CELEBRATION MARKS FIRST COMMENCEMENT
DR. JORDAN ADDRESSES CLASS ON "IS WAR ETERNAL?
DR.-SEARS PREACHES THE- HACCAMUREATE SERMON
BROOKS )S MAXAOIXO HIUTOH.
MARKHAM HI MIXHHS. MAX.. MISS
SUA,[VAX. ASSO. EDITOR.
Executive (ommitto- of Xine. Reprc.
sen!inn the Three Literary Socie-
ties. Setects Member of the
" Staff.
Hugene R. MiHis wii) be pitot of the
Thresher next year. He was chosen
editor in-chief hy the incoming execu-
tive committee at its first meeting. Fri-
day, June !!. This committee consists
of the nine members etected. three from
each of the institute titerary societies.
S. Raymond itrooks was oiected man-
aging editor for lfttH-17, to succeed
Mr. MiUis, who heid down litis position
since the inception of The Thresher.
J. P. Markham was re-eiected busi-
ness manager, and Miss Until Sullivan
was re-e)ected associate editor. C. S.
Brodbent. a new man on the committee,
was named circuiation manager, white
J. N. Rayzor, just eiecteii to the staff,
was chosen for athietic editor.
Mitiis, Hrooks and Rayzor are com
mittee members front the Owi Literary
Society. Markham, Brodbent and Har-
grove represent the [{iceonian Society,
while the Elizabeth Baidwin members
are Miss Suitivan. Miss Elsheth ttowc
and Miss Ruth DaUgherty.
With the pubiication of the present
issue, t he contro) of The Thresher
passed out of the hands of the first staff
into those of the second staff. The re-
tir^ttg members are the three seniors.
W. At. Standish. the first editor-in-ehief:
C. H. Wooten and Miss ituth Hobinson
and J. P. Niiand, this year's circuiation
manager, who wii) next yea)' he editor-
in-chief of the Campaniie.
GRADUATES RECEIVE
THEIR DIPLOMAS
E. B. L. S. ELECTS
NEXT YEAR'S OFFICERS
Miss ]{))(]) ])attghetty Was (hoscn fot
President.
At the nteeting of the E. B. L. S. on
Atonday, May 21), officers for next year
were elected as follows:
President, Ruth Daugherty.
Vice-President, Adele Waggaman.
Secretary, Altine Ellis.
Treasurer, Verner Benton.
Various committees were chosen and
the year's business put in shape. This
meeting concluded a very successful
year for the society, during which Miss
Margaret Schuttz was president.
Exercises Take I'tace Sunday and Mon-
day Mornings—S)te< ia] Honors
Are Awarded to
Students.
ADDRESS, "IS WAR ETERNAL?'
Hy Dr. David Starr Jordan.
Dr. Jordan spoke extemporaneously
it) substance as foilows:
Every great wrong dies in the mo-
ment of its highest triumph —when men
come to see it nakediy. its doom is
DR. AXSON ADDRESSES
YOAKUM GRADUATES
Dr. Stockton Axson, head of the Eng-
tish literature department of Rice, deliv-
ered the commencement address to the
graduates of Yoakum High School on
May 26. The graduating class consist-
ed of twenty-six members. While In
Yoakum Dr. Axson was entertained by
O. L. Cain's parents.
As a final merrymaking of the year,
the Junior girls witt entertain the Senior
girls with a boatride on Tuesday, June
13. The trip down the channel wit!
be made on the Virginia earty in the
morning and the day witl be spent in
Bay Ridge at Miss John's summer
home.
Even as the first Senior Ctass at Rice
began its academic work in the whirt of
schotarly activities incident to the in-
augural ceremonies in 1!)12, so did it
end its career in the splendid celebra-
tion of the first commencement, Sunday
and Monday, June 11 and 12. With his
last recitation over, the )ast credit
earned, the graduate received iron) the
Institute that addition to his name
'which wiit confer upon him a distinction
throughout his iife, in whatsover tand
he may be, and in whatever station of
iife he may attain, no matter how high
it is.
The two principa) ceremonies of com-
mencement were the baccalaureate ser-
mon Sunday morning, and the address
by Dr. David Starr Jordan and the con-
ferring of degrees Monday morning.
At it o'clock Sunday morning the aca-
demic procession formed in the lecture
ampitheatre court. With Dr. H. A.
Witson, F. R. S., as marshat of the pro-
cession. Dr. Lovett and Rev. Peter Gray
Sears, rector of Christ church, marched,
foiiowed by the trustees, the facutty and
the seniors, through the physics build-
ing, down the physics cloister, out upon
the quadrangle, to the administration
cloister, down this t-ioisfer to the ally-
port. The president, the trustees and
the faculty and Dr. Sears mounted the
rostrum, while the seniors took seats on
the front rows in the audience. Other
students and a number of visitors from
Houston composed the rest of the audi-
ence. A choir of students stood just
outside the cloister, to the left of the
speaker.
The first number on the program af-
ter the procession was the singing by
the choir of the Latin hymn "Veni Cre-
ator Spiritus." The choir then sang
"Lord of AH Being, Throned Afar. " In-
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brother organisms the animals and
plants, "Like the seed is the harvest. "
Fact] generation is the reproduction of
those who were its actuai parents, it)
the business of making armies, those
sealed. The prophets of the worid are'who are strong. hardy ami hearty, with-
not foreteiiers of coming events, but of'out hiemish. so far as may be are sent
coming inspirations. They can see to-
day what a)l men must see tomorrow
the cheapness of gtory. the crime of in-
justice. In advance of their time, they
feel the reaction inherent in human na-
ture, when men come to uaderstand.
There are two current arguments
which are used to uphoid the war sys-
tem: The tirst is that—war is the source
of nationai virility, of nationai power;
the other is that war is eterna).
Let us glance for a moment at the
first of these. It has its origin in the
confusion of bluster with power. In
alt time war-making has assumed the
name of patriotism and its reckiess over-
riding of justice, taw and common wet-
fare has been identified with nation!)]
strength, whiie the concentration of at)
effort on the singte object of victory
tends to confuse a)) moral values. The
desire for victory-at-any-price has been
one of the chief obstacies in the path
of human freedom. In the pursuit of
victory-at-any-price. as in the case of
peace-at-any-price, the wise man wishes
to see the price iists first. If the peace
he gets is the real thing, with ali the
blessings of mutual trust and co-opera-
tive etTort, he shoutd not be ]ong in de-
ciding.
The state of war is one in which a))
taw is siient, the mora) law witl) ihe
others. Whatever, the prima] motive of
war, its every act is robbery or murder.
Its temporary effect is mora) degrada-
tion and the degradation of nationai
aims.
Its permanent effect is the towering
of manhood, the extermination of the
high-spirited, the brave and the strong,
the very elements in the nation which
make success in war possible.
It is a )aw of biotogy that tike pro-
duces tike among men and among our
to the front. On the fieid of slaughter
these are taken tirst. "Send for the
best ye breed," has been the immemo-
rial cat) of war. and the nations which
respond to it breed from the second best.
It is a Spanish proverb, Lions breed
lions: a brave man has brave sons."
I was in London at the beginning of
the war. 1 saw the men from Oxford
and Cambridge, tine, upstanding fei-
)ows: every athiete inciuded —men tike
Honald Poutton and Kupert Brookes,
who feii it) Flanders before the slaugh-
ter was ha)f begun. 1 saw the men from
the other Eng)ish universities. the
picket] ha)f miiiion." as my oid friend
Stead used to call them, the men who
command whiie the worid must obey."
I saw the still stronger young feltows
frotn the universities of Scotland, ail
coming down to he trained at Aidershot,
the unrelurning brave" of the Aisne ant]
the Yser."
And as these men driited in the Lon-
don parks, on the grass around them,
smoking cigarettes, iay the 150,000
more or ]ess of the youth of London,
those whom war cou)d not use.
These were undersized for the most
part, but that is nothing. A )itt)e man
is just as good as a big one if he is as
weii put together. He may be a better
soidier; he is not hit so often. But
these men of London were very badty
put together-*--]oose-jointed, shambling,
knock-kneed, Hat-footed, suffering frotn
adenoids and pyorrhea, saturated with
gin. and shot through with vice—the
army had no use for them. "You can-
not go to France nor Flanders," said
Lloyd-George. "You are useiess under
a strain. You stay here in London and
become the fathers of the next genera-
tion. even as your fathers and grand-
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< (H:\ER *TO\t: tS LAID.
Without any of the ceremony which
was ptanned for it, the laying of the
corner stone in the new Residential
Max' tot ^n'Tooh' t!7:rte *i<tst 'tri'untt).
Xo pubiic notice whatever was lakea
of it. and probabiy only a vwy few
knew that there was to be a corner
stone piaced at ali. There were seated
up within the stone a Bible, Pamphiet
No. 1 of the present series, a descrip-
tive booklet of the institute, No. 1, \'ot.
1 of The Thresher, and the pteiimittars
announcement of the institute fur the
fifth academic year, liclti-l?.
C. W. LOKEY HEADS
THE HONOR C0UNCH,
is ( hoscu < hairnntM for Xe\t Yt-ar by
the Retiring < "unt il.
Mr. Ctareuce W. Lokey has been s<
iecteti hy the retiring Donor Council as
chairman for next year's Councii. The
Honor t'onnci) constitution provides
that the retiring Council shati elect the
chairman for the next year and that
the man selected must be a senior whet)
hoidiug office. Air. Lokey was not on
the Council this year but was unani
mousiy agreed upon for next year's
chairman. Lokey is weli known at the
Institute, having entered in ]{tl3. He
is a member of the Ow I Literary Society,
president of the Y. At. C. A. and an
honors student in mathematics. His
home is in Lubbock, Texas,
^—
FINALS ]N TENNIS
TOURNAMENT PLAYED
On Friday afternoon tire i'tnals in the
tennis championship matches were
played on the Institute Courts.
Chandter and Hfrey defeated Ha-
thorn and Coteman by the decisive
scores of 8-2. 6-2. Chandter and llfrey
played a good, steady game. Chandier
using excellent judgment in the ptacing
of his shots.
Miss fa mitie Waggaman won the
championship in the girts' single by de-
feating Miss Bonart 6-2. 6-1.
The winners receive the silver loving
cups offered hy the Athletic Association
for the winner of the championship in
doubles and sitigtcs for both men ant]
women.
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