The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1918 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHER, MAY 4. 1918
Page Three
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[Editor's Note:—We print the foi-*
towing communication which was hand-
ed us, with the same intent in which we
think it was written, not to benefit us
specialty this year, but in interest of
the university and the students of next
year. There is no malcontent on our
part or that of the author as. we think,
to arouse any trouble, for it is not in-
tended to be muckraking. The admin-
istrative mistakes of which it makes
mention, we think have been acknowl-
edged. and the plea for information
concerning the coming year is nothing
more than shouid be expected in view
of the conditions this year. Therefore,
we print it because we feel that we are
in a position to know from the student
; sentiment that such information given
I out now wouid insure a more success-
ful year and satisfied student body next
year]:
F@n° Hike Mesa
The Leopold & Price military depart-
ment carries big stocks of Army Uni-
forms and dress accessories of the
better grade
Kuppenheimer O. D. Khaki
Uniforms at $17.50
Kuppenheimer O. L). Serges
at $35.00 and up
O. D. Reefer Coats (Wool tined) regu-
tar $18 and $20 values reduced
to $14.40 and $16.00
Army Shirts at $4.00 and up
Stetson Army Hats at $5.00 and up
Other Army Hats at $2.50
Spiral Puttees $2.50 and $4.50
Canvas Leggings $1.50
"The Kuppenheimer House"
of Houston
509 Main, Opposite Rice Hotel
TEXAS AGITATED OVER
EJECTION OF STUDES
The year that is to foilow—what sort
of a year wiii it be made for Rice In-
stitute? Will the administrative evils,
that have so undermined the iife of the
University for the past seven months,
be remedied so that the coming session I
may be a success? Wiii the people]
who have come to doubt the vaiue of
a university training at Rice be con-
vinced that the year 1917-18 has been
an administrative mistake—rather than
a true example of what q year at Rice
really means?
In the hands of a few men there rests
the responsible duty of assuring for
this University a successful year in
1918-19. Uniess the extreme eviis that
have injured Rice this year are removed,
the year to come can be beneficial
neither to students nor to institution.
"The powers that be" shouid convince
the people who are interested that next
year will be vastiy uniike this.
The military plan for Rice was un-
tenable for a university; the stiff -
neck, honor-Questioning, undemocratic
attitude that was made the very back-
bone of the whole system made the
permanence of the scheme an impossi-
biiity; and if it couid have continued
as it was first undertaken, Hie few sad
humans that would have remained in
the toils until today wouid be a type
that no university would wish to ac-
knowledge as its own product. The
goal of this inapplicable system was
the maximum amount of militarism—
because our Nation is at war. The re-
suits of the system were making every
man disgusted with what was useiessly
iniiicted upon him as "military train-
ing," placing before the "cadets" a most
astoundingiy inefficient, aribtrary, hap-
hazard system that was never intended
or hinted in the Government R. O. T. C.
requirements. This caused many men
to stop their university education, some- :
thing which was directly in confiict !
with the war interests of our Nation.
And aii the time this was going on, was
there any observance by the University
Commons of the food conservation
measures that were then being foiiowed
Texas University has been consider-
ably agitated over the recant expulsion
of severai prominent upper-ciassmen
who were concerned in the publication
of an anonymous paper on Aprii 1.
The sheet, caiied the "Biunderbus," has
been edited annuaiiy on Ait-Foot's Day
since 1914, atthough it has been con-
tinuatty under the ban of the facuity.
Published prlncipatty for fun and mirth
the editors neverthetess took the op-
portunity to make pubiic complaint
through it for at) the grievances of the
year.
In this respect it took on somewhat
the aspect of our own "Red Tape" but
with quite different results. Hut,
strange to say, none of the "kicks" reg-
istered were directed directiy at the
military features recently instaiied in
the University. Most of the troubtes
were inter-frat difficuities and protests
against co-ed domination of the school.
As a reward for their action four
prominent men are suspended from the
University, two for a month and two
untii next September. This removes
a star debater from Texas' team, tain-.:
a basebai) man off the squad and ruins
a degree for a third.
Petitions signed by groups of imii-
viriuai students asked for teniettcy.
The students' council met and adopted
resoiutions asking tha<t the sentenced
men be allowed to return to school.
Just now the case is not finally decided.
5KILL. Courtesy,
Modem Methods and a
rea) df&Mre fo are
as necessary as enter-
prise in optica) work
nowadays. We have
these —at your ser-
vice!
CLARK & CO.
AT 9)8 1EXAS AVENUE
SkiH, Courtesy, Service
and Experience
Coma
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your
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Henrichs' Pharmacy
Phone Hadley 44, fannin and Eagte Sts,
TIRAS' MODEL BARBER SHOP
M. T!RAS. Proprietor
7W03E CL45.SK COLLEGE OV71S
OPEN NIGHTS STRICTLY SANiTARY '
914 TEXAS AVENUE OppoiH. Rtce PRESTON 1962
Schaeffer Photo Supply Co.
L. & [RONS, Manage!
SLfPPL/ES ,4AfD
The Work
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MILfTARr EQUIPMENT
Carried in Stock and Ordered Specially
Hamilton Bros.
Mc%er.y, Men'.y
Haffer.y, TaMorj
by nearly ali hotels? Xo, no) at "
Were the women being- given instruc-
tion in, or facilities for, ited Cross
or iirst aid work? Xot one hour of jn-
struction;not one item of equipment.
And were the academic standards of
the University improving? The rec-
ords show that the standards of she
academic work was lower than it had
ever been. And in the miiitary dtiii
itseif. was there any progress made,
anything really teamed? Hatdly; in
January the "instruction" was begun
again just a^ it had started more than
three months before. Was the evii
given prompt administrative attention .'
Was the mistake acknowledged and cor-
rected? Well, let us see.
Xow, this is not argument; it is not
criticism—it is simple descriptive nar-
rations. Four months- four months
and Other Things—ware required be-
fore any marked changes were made in
the system. And the changes that have
been made—the huik of the rituai was
thrown away; the "Code" was con-
demned—and reason now played a part
in shaping that code; the hours of re-
veille, drill, et cetera, were charmed,
re-changed, and changed again; there
was begun a course of military instruc-
tion lectures that was supposed to have
been in existence for six months. Many
changes have been effected, but—has
there been any change in the reaily fun-
damental part of the system? Has
that mincingly, lofty, vivisectionist at-
titude toward the students been ai-
tered? Not materially!
This year Rice should have been a
university with a military feature; in-
stead, it has been a university that fea-
tured the military. One high Commit-
tee—distinctly martial—has had con-
trol of every student's every action; a
disgustingiy inefficient miiitarism has
been allowed to permeate the entire
university—with an effect that we ad-
mit only to ourselves—and the error
has not yet been fully corrected. A stu-
dent caiied up before the "Trihutmi"
cQiites not to a hearing, not to a triai
but to a sentence; a sentence that is
sometimes just. He is intimidated from
the very start of the proceedings; he is
made to feel that he is considered gui)
ty untii he proves his innocence- and
even they may not be a)towed to offer
any proofs; if he is permitted to say
anything, his honor is often questioned:
he is treated more like a barbarian
criminal than a coilege student who is
as yet only accused of a violation of the
regulations. To make a iong story
-short—many of the actions of that iofty
"Trtbunai" would have been scorned
for their injustice by the hardest men
of the old Inquisition. And no official
assurance has yet been given that next
year, and the other years to fotiow. wiii
be different from this year; no official
steps have been made to insure that
people shall not judge Rice institute by
what they know of this troubled year
at the institution.
It is this ironciad, ungenerous, even
unjust and arbitrary attitude that has
so injured Rice; it is that, which has :
caused many to grieve for the institute
—and many others to leave it; it is that,
which must be removed if the welfare
of the university is to be safeguarded,
and democracy be yet an entity here.
A grave mistake was made—there is
nothing culpabie in that; but there cer-
tainly should not have been so much
deiay in correcting'*the error. It never
shouid have been necessary for four
months to pass before the gross eviis
were remedied. Why has the destruct-
ive inHuence been so iong permitted to
endure? Cannot we be assured that
the frightful mistake will be corrected,
and that Rice will be restored to the
place it formerly had in the hearts of
ail?
Let those who can, assure us ali—
and the mat-informed public—that Hie
shaii know no other year iike HH7-1S.
that men may stiii took to this univer-
sity as a happy environment for aca-
demic advancement; that the years that
are to come will ha iike those that have
gone before—happy chapters in the
history of a noble institution. Let there
be a fuit statement of the pian for next
year, so those who come may know to
what they are coming better than did
we iast September.
Fir^t Brigade Cavalry
Sakowitz Bros, are amp!y prepared to
undertake the eompiete equipment
of any student joining the
First Brigade Cavatrv
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 1918, newspaper, May 4, 1918; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229815/m1/3/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.