The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 23, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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THE WTHRtSHER
Volume 3
BICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, MARCH 33,1918
Number 11
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i OUt OF LAST YEAR'S VETERAK8
ABE BACK TO START
TEAM OFF.
New Aiaterial Lookit Fair—Exantu Play
Havoc With Athletics—Pitching
Staff Appears Promising—
Infield Seems Safe.
Along with the spring and the flow-
ers and other pleasant things came ex-
ams, but now that the slight unpleas-
antness is over, probation or no proba-
tion, it's time to think of what is going
on out yonder Inside and on that cin-
der track. Every afternoon you will
find a goodly throng of young athletes
running riot over the most excellent
baseball diamond and a sprinkling of
scantily clad track team aspirants set-
ting a good foundation for their future
training.
The baseball club is very much of a
gamble 'til lexams are over, and there
is stiil a gamble „fhis season because of
the preponderance of new and untried
material. From last year's fast team
there are left four letter men—two
pitchers and an outfielder and an in-
flelder.
Hathorn, "Jabo," has pitched win-
ning ball for several years, and in this
his fourth year should be the best in
the State. Atkinson, as a beginner last
season did some stellar work and is
certain to be steadier this year and a
mainstay of the pitching staff. Hey-
wood, T. O., last year's leftflelder and
present captain, has been brought in to
Hist base and in' romping around Lh^t
highly important keystone in a very
satisfactory manner. It is his third
season with the Owls and l^s good base-
ball sense assures the team of a good
leader.
The other veteran is Bell, last year's
third baseman, and a good man any-
where on the team, just the man to
baiance things up and fit in where
most needed.
Coach Coombs worked diligently in
his short stay and succeeded in teach-
, ing the new and old men many points
that will help to win games, inside
baseball. The pitching staff is safe
enough with the two old men and Mor-
gan, a transfer last year, who is show-
ing great form in practice. The infield
is possibly not as brilliant an aggrega-
tion as last season's, but with Heywood,
Bell and several very promising Fresh-
men will be a steady combination.
Nash and Harlon are showing up ex-
tremely well and a number of others
who are putting up a close race. In
the receiving department the team will
not be lacking. Mathewson, who did
good work in a great number of games
last year, and Gerlach, a new-comer, bid
well to keep their part well up to stand-
ard.
In the outfield the present prospect!?
most reliable seem to be Milton, Hey-
wood, Dewitt Thomas, Bailey and Vil-
big.
The result of exams show Starkey
and Harpon, a fast infielder, claimed by
the probation rule, but on the other
hand Mathewson, Bell and Bailey freed
from the same restriction; so the team
came through as well as could be ex-
pected.
The schedule of collegiate games
opens next week with Howard Payne
here for a two-days' series, the 25th
and 26th, and 8. M. U. the 29th and
30th. A one-week trip will be made
thl-ough North Texas, playing Trinity,
8. M. U. and T. C. U. If this trip can
be negotiated successfully the Owls, will
stand high on the percentage ladder, as
they have always been good home
teams but poor travelers.
Both our old rivals, Texas and A. &
M., will be played, although partiality
is shown the Farmers with both a se-
ries here and at College Station, where-
as only (he Houston series Is scheduled
with the U. of T. These teams will, of
course, seek especially to down the
Owls, but all the teams are weakened
more or less this season, and Rice cer-
tainly stands an even chance, which if
Mm FunatK
TQ BE HEU MAIM
M1HTABY CAMP FOB COLLEGE
MEN UKDEB DRAFT AGE WiLL
BE CONTINUED.
Athletic and Military Features to Be
Combined—V. 8. A. and V. S. X.
Officers to Be in Charge—
HOO May Enter.
The following announcement came to
The Thresher office from Edward
Capps, president of the Junior Platts-
burg Summer Military Vacation Camp,
and a professor in Princeton Univer-
sity. This camp should be of primary
interest to college students. The per-
sonnel of the organization shows its
close relation to the educational institu-
tions of the cpuntry. President Lovett
is himself on the Advisory Board:
The Junior Plattsburg.
Plattsburg, New York, will again be
the scene of great military activities in
the summer of 1918. Although the
government summer training camps
have ail been abandoned since the
declaration of war, private Initiative
acting upon the suggestion of Major
General Leonard Wood led to the es-
tablishment last year of the Junior
Plattsburg. This has now assumed na-
tional proportions and has definite))'
aligned itself in its program with the
military efforts of the colleges and uni-
versities of the country. The honorary
president is President Edmund J.
James of the University of Illinois; the
Advisory Board consists of twenty-five
college and university presidents, rep-
resenting leading institutions in all
parts of the country, headed by repre-
sentatives of the army and navy in the
persons of Colonel Tillman, Superin-
tendent of the U. S. Military Academy
at West Point, and Rear Admiral
George B. Ransom. The direct man-
agement is under the control of an ex-
ecutive staff, of which the president is
Professor Edward Capps of Princeton
University, and the managing director
is General Edward C. O'Brien, U. S.
minister to Uruguay and Paraguay un-
der President Roosevelt. Colonel Ira
L. Reeves, United States Army in active
service, president of Norwich Univer-
sity but on leave of absence during the
period of the war, is the director of
military courses at the Junior Platts-
burg Military Training Camp.
The training is assimiiated as far as
possible to that of the regular U. S.
military and naval camps, combined
with practical special features which
have come into prominence in connec-
tion with modern warfare, such as
aeroplane ground work, hydroptane,
motor boats, topography, military ap-
plications of civil, mechanical and sani-
tary engineering, as well as the study
of the science of farming and food con-
servation. All the technical instruction
in military and naval science is under
the direction of officers of the regular
U. S. army and navy, recommended by
the departments in Washington. - The
commandantgyill be a regular army of-
ficer of high rank, and West Point and
Annapolis discipline and ideals wili
prevail.
Since the Junior Plattsburg is estab-
lished for young men under draft age.
the training will not be intensive, as
in the old Plattsburg. Special atten-
tion will be given to organized athletics
for the periods of recreation, under the
direction of Mr. Fred T. Dawson of tha
athletic department of Princeton. The
general entertainments, as well as the
informal life of the camp, will be un-
der the direction of Rev. Ralph B.
Pomeroy of the General Theological
Seminary of New York. The musical
director is Mr. Felix Lamond of the
Trinity Church, New York. Provision
has been made for six hundred cadets.
MEEDS EXEMPT
EM DRAFT EES
WAR PEPABTMEKT SAYS THAT
STUDEXTS OF HIGH STANDING
MAY HXtSH COLLEGE.
Conference at Washington determines
That Engineers Are Assets of the
Future—Former Students
May Enroll.
Rice Institute has recently been in-
cluded in the Nation-wide list of schools
which were affected by a conference be-
tween Secretary Baker, Provost Mar-
shal Crowder and officials of the en-
gineering societies held December 8,
1917, relative to exempting engineering
students from military duty. In order
to enable such students as are making [
best records at technical institutions to
complete their courses the war depart-
ment has had modifications made in the
selective draft regulations which will,
under certain conditions, permit an en-
gineering student to remain at college
and comptete his training. These men
are viewed as military assets of the fu-
ture, and although being exempted from
the present call, they wili be piaced on
the "inactive list." As soon as they ;
have attained the science degree they
will be at once^admitted to the great !
i engineering school of the war and al-
lowed to put their knowledge to prac-
{ tical and patriotic use.
! The steps nece%&ary to accomplish ;
i this are an appiication to Washington I
' accompanied by a recommendation by
! the faculty and approved by the chief i
engineer. Physical examinations are'
. taken at the local recruiting station, j
and the student becomes a private in
the "Engineers Reserve Corps."
} Several Rice men have already re-
; sponded to this opportunity to finish
i their technicai education, and quite a
; few R. I. buttons have been replaced !
! by the more dignified engineers' castle.
The regulation also applies to former
! engineering students who have entered
i the service by voiuntary enlistment or
draft. They may be trenst'erred to the
eniisted engineers' reserve corps for the
! purpose of completing their studies,
provided they have been in good stand-
i ing at the institution and have made
{ good records in class work and are will-
I ing to bear the expense of the transfer..
It is possible that this ruling may aifect
: several former Rice students..
IX FEELING WAR SPEECHES
SECRETARY OF AGRtCULTURE HOUSTON AND
FRENCH LiEUTENANT FRESH FROM WEST-
ERN FRONT ADDRESS STUDENTS
Secretary Ta)ks on Education and the War, While Lieuten-
ant Perrigord Gives Touching Pictures of World Strug-
gle. Speeches Wilt be Long Remembered.
Two speeches were given to students "Lieutenant Perrigord- he is ' nothing,
in Rice on March 13 that wiil long be The '"tl'vi't"") does not count. My
remembered by every one that heard
them. One of these was given by Sec-
retary of Agriculture David F. Hous-
ton. and the other by Lieutenant Paui
Perrigord of the French army.
Coming in the very middie of term
men do not know that I ant )i^ in this
great Nation—talking1 don't wish
that they should know. Titty think !
am here to assist in the training at the
camps; but the secretary of wt. he
! stty 'Lieutenant Perigord wilt taii;.' and
iso Lieutenant Perigord. ymt wiil par-
don, wili taik." Ami h<- ialh-ti. With
examination week there was slight con- the clear annunciation of hi: mother
fusion on hearing that the distinguished
visitors would meet the students at 11
o'clock in the morning. Nevertheless,
the examination scheduie was speeded
up so that at 11 practically every cadet
tongue, with a siighf 'race of accent,
this young man. his face already pos-^
Messed of that spirit nai determination
reuniting from long confiict with the -
iegions of autocracy, in. a few great
words brought the war home to the
and co-ed was in the physics lecture students, making them realize more
' poignantly than ever before the awful
ness and magnificence of the strngsri ;
A reception was lieid for the two no- . being waced
tables eariier it) the morning, at which
the members of the faculty and a few
friends met the secretary and the sol-
dier.
Mr. Houston was introduced to the
students b) Air. Lovett, who spoke in
His talk was not along a certain
tine. Going from Kaiserism to woman
suffrage, to the battle of Verdun, ami
to many other points, he touched the
things just as. they Welted up from his
breast.
"You Americans,' he sant. "fx i ore
praise of what the secretary is doing t this war, came near .worshipping <;w-
man ideals. The poison of the German
and has done for Texas and the Na-
tion.
cttlt was penetrating your very iieiti-.
Von were deluded, hut now yon ar<-
"Work, work, work," was the ad- awakened. Because you saw the many
monition given the students by the wonders in the.scientific woiid wtth tiie
braud of Germany upon them, yon
Washington man. "1 hope," he said,
"that you are not the sort of students
made a fighting chance, will be a credit
to the Institution.
The schedule:
March 25-26—Howard Payne at
Houston.
March 29-30—S. M. U. at Houston.
April 6-6—Trinity at Houston.
April 9-10—yA. & M. at College Sta-
tion.
April 15-16—Trinity at Waxahachie.
April 17-18—T. C. U. at Ft. Worth.
April 19-20—S. M, U. at Dallas.
May 3-4—Texas at Houston.
May 7-8—A. & M. at College Station.
LIMLE WILL TEtCH
)! MM COLLEK
Haylor Patter Gives Rice Prof. Big
Boost—Lingle's Record Includes
Prize Winnings and Writing tp of
Several Poetry Volumes.
thought that whatever was German was
good."
who heiieve they can get mora out of Hight here the lieutenant gave ' -
the college atmosphere than the enrri- pression to an epigram that <lte.\ a
cuicum. Imbibing the atmosphere isj'^rst of applause. "Let me tell M-u.'
, , .. , , ha said, "kultur may product* a s< icn-
ali right so long as it does not serious- , . ,
ttat, but tt wili never produce a g< n-
iy interfere with your work." j t -m ,
Mr. Houston then spoke ot the co!- j Continuing, the officer hade America
lege man and woman, and of their im- not to grow too confident am) too op-
portance in tlte future of the Nation, i^mistic ot success. You are yet a
... , ! baby as a military Nation," he warned
The education of women, an American , * .
Hut this will not be for tone. Von
institution, he said, was to be one of doing great things in your training
the greatest assets of this country. j camps, bat you are. still weak, in the
After a few humorous remarks on s trenches we never speak of I his. war
Washington, the secretary concluded j except in terms of victors. '1 his vie-
, i tory may be long in coming; we belleve
hts talk by noting the progressiveness ) ^ .
j ft will be, but with America and France
of Texas, particuiarly in educatlonai
lines.
'It is difficuit," said he, "to
(From Baylor "United Statement.) }
Mr. Roy P. Lingle is a member of!
the faculty of Rice Institute at Hous- i
ton, Texas. He wili be on the facult)
of Baylor COHege during the summer
quarter, 1918. Mr. Lingle is considered
by those who know him as one of the
strongest young men now working In
English in this country. He is not only
a popular and successful teacher, but
a writer of abiiity. He did his under-
graduate work at Princeton and his
graduate study at Columbia.
At college he was a member of the
editorial board of tha "Princeton Ti-
ger." He won the Biddle assay, the
prize for the best short story In the
Nassau Literary Magazine, and the
Baird poetry prizes. He graduated
from Princeton with honors in Eng-
lish. At Columbia he studied with
Charles Sears Baldwin, who is one of
the most eminent and successfu! teach- !
ers of college composition this country
has produced.
Mr. Lingle is a writer of creative'
ability. As yet he has not offered much
of his literary productions for publica-;
tion. He has done special articles for
the Philadelphia Sunday Ledger and
Ladies' Home Journal, and Is the au-
thor of several short volumes of chil-
dren's verse, published anonymously by
(Continued on page 3.)
keep up with the progress of the Unit-
r-
ed States, but it is ten times as diffi-
cult to keep pace with the develop-
ment of Te^as." In this ootnnection he
fighting side by side it. is inevitable."
Lieutenant Perigord then touched on
the love and friendship existing between
the American and French republics,
saying that when the time came for the
French to give over a sector of the bat-
tel front to the American troops, uotii-
mentioned his past relations with two i ing would do hut that the Sammies
other State institutions of learning, the I sliouid have the Lorraine sector. Lor-
secretary having he6h president of ! **R'ne is the old home ot Joan ot Arc
Texas University for a number of years.
! and is, according to the lieutenant, the
best loved province in France.
"I cannot keep abreast of the progress! -The best war speech 1 have ever
of the State," he remarked. "Develop- j heard." said the officer, "was those few
meats that were new a few years back words spoken by your General 1'erish-
are now laid on the shelf by Improve- ! soon after the first American troops
..... , j, ! arrived. Standing before the tomb ot
ments that far excel! their predeces- ,
La layette, the general piaced a wreath
sors. Here he mentioned Rice as one; upon it, saying, Lafayette, we have
of the aspects of the rapid development come.' "
of Texas. ! Following came a brief but biood-
Closlng here the secretary was fol- recital of the immortai strug-
lowed by Mr. Lovett. who said that he ^ ^ ^"un, where the defenders in
had the distinguished honor to present
Lieutenant Paui Perrigord, of the
French army. It was then that a small
quiet man, ciad in the horizon blue of
the heroes of Franco, arose from his
seat, laid a long, glittering sword on
the table before him, and began to
speak. And the words that this man
uttered will live long In the conscious-
ness of his hearers.
"I speak for France," he said.
horizon blue turned back the oncoming
hordes of the crown prince, living
through a veritable hell of shot and
shell. The lieutenant's face was lighted
by a radiant exultation as he spoke of
the bravery of the defenders of Verdun.
In closing, the officer spoke of the
many decorations on his coat. "They do
not mean that Lieutenant Perigord is
braver than his comrades. They mean
that he is lucky. In the trenches we
are all brave. Lieutenant Perrigord—
he is nothing. It is for France that we
fight."
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