The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, June 12, 1916 Page: 2 of 6
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strain. but we deny, we emphatically
deny, that we then or at any other time
ever allowed our mind to wander as
they imply that we did. We beMeve,
however, that the Campanile editors as
a rule tike our editorials: anyway, here's
hoping they will think welt of this one.
EDITORIAL
Front time to time this column bus
been tilled with sermons, personal opt-
ions and student discussions, and now
we are to fiii it for the iast time. We
are nearty through. Hut which of the
many things that we might say should
be said and which shouid not is hard
to decide. However, there is one
thing at least about whith we
wish lo say something, and that
is ourselves. Herhaps it is not good
form to congratulate oneself, at ieast
not openly, and we have noticed that
the seif-congratulator is seldom inter-
rupted by others desiring to offer their
ft'ticttaiiuus; tut! nevertheiess we do
look back on ottr work with some satis-
faction. Xo! that we have [tot made
mistakes, or reaii/e our shortcomings,
or fail to see opportunities for improve-
ment in our work. Hut the oniy people
who make no mistakes are dead ones,
and there are few things done by live
ones that couid not be done better. To
some 'l ite Thresher is but a four-page
sheet to be. gtanced at and thrown aside,
but to the editors, its creators, each is-
sue has been the expression of news and
ideas which run lite whoie gamut of
eoliege feeling.
(if the many things that might be said
of 'he graduating class, what they lmve
done for Rice, what Mice has done for
them, and what they will do for the
commonwealth: of what has been ac-
complished during the past year and of
the glorious possibilities of the coming
one; and 31 RTt ttie" outer tnnureu
thoughts ami feelings which come rush-
ing back as we review our coilege life,
we c;m nive no outward expression with-
out the appearance of saying trite and
banai things, go we moraiixe for the
iast ritite and close with oniy a sugges-
tion of the thoughts that might be
voiced in this at once our swan song
ami valedictory. We have preached ottr
iast sermon. We are through. And
after ait. we are glad of it.
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The iong expected Campanile has at
)as! made its appearance and the stu-
dents are enthused over their first year-
book. It is a handsomeiy bound voiume
of about two hundred pages containing
a eoiiipiete record of events during the
toliege year, and a summary of the
most important activities of the preced-
ing three years. The fuli page views
of different parts of the Institute build-
ings are exceptional)) good and show
oft' Mice's beautiful architecture to the
best advantage. The art work in the
book contributes largely to its good
showing, and Mr. Clede, the art editor,
is to be complimented upon the excet-
lence of the decorations and the many
full page drawings that the voiume con-
tains.
Athletic and social eveqts were writ-
ten up in fuli. and all clubs and socie-
ties in the Institute were well repre-
sented. The literary work is of a high
order and especially is Miss Kalb's
dedicatory poem excellent. Taken as a
whole the book is a splendid record of
the school year and will be valued by
all Hice students, both now and in the
years to come. The editors, Mr. Ervin
Kalb and Miss Elizabeth Kalb, and the
business manager, Mr. W. M. Nathan,
are indeed to be complimented on the
splendid result of their year's work.
As was expected, the Campanile con-
tained a take-off on The Thresher. In
the hack of th book appears a page that
is made to appear as if it were cut from
a copy of The Thresher. The imitation
is very clever, but we hardly believe
anyone will think it is a literal copy of
Thresher matter. They pull the age-old
pun on our name, and print an editorial
on "Everything." probably a burlesque
on the one w-e wrote on "Nothing" some
time ago. We confess tha%* "On Noth-
ing" was written under terrible mental
THE t'EAKH W !H.
The Class of '16 has on several oc-
casions given us material for these edi-
torial columns by carrying canes, wear-
ing caps and gowns, or being candi-
dates for degrees. Now we take one
last opportunity to discuss them. The
eyes of Houston and of Texas are on
them. Everybody Is asking. "What are
they going to do?" but we of the Rice
Institute are most interested in "What
have they done?"
They are the real pioneers of the
school. Atone and unaided, with no
precedents to fall back on. they started
things going so that the second class
to enter found a real college. When
they got here, with something besides
buildings and books and professors and
people to listen to the professors talk.
The class of '16 adopted the Honor
System which has proved to be such a
successful mode of student government.
They made a bold entry into Intercol-
legiate athletics. They installed vari
ous societies. Credit is due to some
Senior for almost every student activ-l suicide which civilized Europe has in-
ity now flourishing at Hice. Some of [dieted on Itself?
the strongest men and women in the Long ago. after a great battle iti
coiiege have come from this class - the
most earnest students, the best ath-
letes, the most capable leaders.
Hut greater than these tangible, ma-
terial things, is the atmosphere they
have given the place. They have set
standards of dignity, studiousness. and
ioyaity that can never be forgot. The
influence of the examples set by the
lirst student body of ltice will be far-
reaching. If what they have done is
to be a measure of what they wil! do.
success is assured to the class of '16.
not change. It changes very slowly, for
better or for worse. Vice and idteness
destroy the teaat efficient; war and in-
dustrial negligence tend to destroy the
best, and Hke the seed is the harvest.
But the angle at which human na-
ture looks in human institutions may
change and change very suddenly. Na-
tions may undergo a process of conver-
sion to good or to evil, even as an in-
dividual. A great wrong dies In the
moment of its highest triumph. When
men come to see it nakedly, even as
the prophets have seen it. that wrong
must pass away. And the greatest of
all wrongs is that embodied in col-
lective murder, the idea that crime be-
comes a virtue if compassed on a large
scale with the sanction of the State and
the blessing of the State church.
Just for a moment we may glance
into history, touching a few points here
and there. Let us go back first to the
beginnings of Europe, when our race ran
wild in the forests of Germany. Hut
that Is not far back. We are very near
the beginning now. In history's long
perspective, these days of Napoleon and
Kitchener, of Hismarck and Beaconstleld
will take their place along side of these
Caesars and Moses and Homer, of Tris-
megistias and Ozyntandias, the dark
ages of war. What better evidence do
we need then that found In the common
SENIOR DINNER GIVEN
AT BRAZOS COURT
Teh-mams of ( ongiatulatton Were Re-
ceived from Many Xotahles.
Thursday night, June 8, at the Brazos
Hotel Court, the Senior Ciass gave a
farewell dinner, this being the opening
event of the festivities planned by the
class. The dinner proved a most en-
joyable affair, telegrams of congratuia-
tlons being received front severai no-
tables. Those present were the Seniors
and a number of invited guests, includ-
ing Dr. and Mrs. Lovett.
IS WAR ETERNAL?'
DR. JORDAN'S THEME
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fathers who, kept out of the wars in In-
dia, in Hurntah and South Africa,
stayed here and buiit up the London
slums." The slums of the great cities
of Europe are buiit up by those war
could not use. They slide down the
lines of least resistance into the great
hopper they have themselves buiit, and
at last there remains a siunt population
of men who could not earn their livhtg
in any part of the worid. The best are
lost in war and the sons of the feeble-
minded weakly take their place. This is
a Moorish proverb, "Father a weed;
mother a weed, do you expect the daugh-
ter to be a saffron-root?" Father of
the slums; mother of the slums, do you
[expect the son to be a British yeoman?
This is the iong cost of war—the last
cost, the sacrifice in greater or less de-
gree of those whose life creates the
nation, and the toss of the long widen-
ing wedge of those who should have
been their desendants. The destruction
of the strong is the primal function of
war, and in the long run only those
nations survive which have had least of
it. The downfall of empire through the
ages means the progressive destruction
of those whose energy made empire
possible. The present war must show
its effects for a century, in the physical
decline, and more or less in the mental
and moral decline of the great nations
of Europe. The idea that any perma-
nent physical, moral or spiritual values
are inherent in war is one of the ex-
ploded notions of a world's childhood.
The imperative word of science is: "Like
the seed is the harvest."
The other argument for war reads
like this: "There has always been war;
human nature demands it; human na-
ture does not change; war, then, will al-
ways be." ^
It is not true that human nature does
which our ancestors, the In-Group. were
victorious over some forgotten Out-
Group, the feast of rejoicing took place.
The wise men of the In-Group ate the
brains of the Out-Group sages to ac-
quire their wisdom. The young men
of the In-Groups ate the hearts of the
Out-Group heroes that their courage
might pass over to them. And the halt-
starved common folk, our ancestors—
yours and mine—ate their fill I t out the
accumulated mass of human bodies.
Hut some one rose and said that all
this was wrong. It is a degradation of
the efforts*!?!' the gods whose noblest
work was man. How do you know that
eating brains gives wisdom or eating
hearts gives courage? That is tradition,
to be sure; men have always believed it,
as they have believed many other
things. But that does not make il true.
And even if it be true, that is not the
right way to gain wisdom or courage.
It is all wrong, and it will bring its
punishment.
Th"!,)? jtt^v ,took up the old argu-
ment. There had always been battle
feasts. It is a demand of human na-
ture. and human nature never changes.
There would be Stfo reason for war if
the feasts were given up. And in peace
men would grow soft and gentle, wisdom
and courage would decay. You cannot
tight unless you mean to kiit.
So they disposed of hint very readiiy.
He was oniy one man. But his words
sank deep, and if we can beiieve the
ntmsiest of traditions, the greatest of
cannibai feasts was the iast. This we
know, that the feast had passed away
before our ancestors were able, to make
any history.
I pass over the long period of the
worship of many gods, and the gods
which must oe appeased by human sac-
rifices, and when the prophets, in their
age-long struggles with the priests, had
done away with these, the sacrifice of
anitnais followed in its turn, and in due
season it too passed away.
There arose a young man who spake
as never man spake, of human free-
dom, and divine love and of brother-
hood among men. The record of his
words is far from complete. Those
who had never heard him recorded his
sayings in a tongue not his own. But
there was something In his words
which compeiled the attention of the
world. God is the father of ail men.
and all men are brothers. Each has
the right and the duty to make the most
of himself. Each has the right to speak
in prayer to his father, and this he can
do in his own closet or on his own
mountain or whenever it may he with
no intervention of a holy priest or a
holy city. There were many other
things which he said, but It was all
permeated with the idea of the holy
freedom of the human soul, and the
feeling of brotherly love and the co-
operation of the kindly affectioned.
But the conception of the day of
democracy and peace his words fore-
shadowed dazed the time servers of his
day. It is recorded that,
"Those whom the Light did blind rose
angrily,
And nailed his body to the cruel tree,
But He resented not, nor bid them nay,
Because that He had seen God face to
face."
He wsts but one man among thou-
sands, and they disposed of him very
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easily. But some part of his words has
failen into the heart of every one of us.
We see the affairs of ttfe at a different
angle. And this is true in some degree
of every man and woman who lives on
earth today.
But the selfishness or men obscured
even his teachings. The priest was still
at outs with the prophets, and the right
of private interpretation was dangerous
to the institutions men had built up in
his name. So it became necessary for
the sake of the church to extirpate the
heresies which had sprung up around it.
On the green in front of one of the
colleges at Oxford they built two great
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