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Volume V.
BICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 5, 1930
Number 14
GENERAL PERSHING
WILL VISIT RICE
Probable That He Will Make Short
Address to Student iiody,
GENERAL PERSHING IN HOUSTON
THURSDAY—WALL VISIT
THK INSTITUTE.
^
General Pershing, commander-in-
chief of the American Expeditionary
Forces abroad, will be In Houston
Thursday, February 5th. He Is sched-
uled to arrive In the city at 7:30 a. m.
At 9:30 he will drive out and inspect
the Ellington Aviation Field, this being
the main object of his visit. He win
have luncheon with the Rotary Club and
at 2:30 p. m. will be escorted through
the city on an automobile tour. Thh.
tour includes a visit to the Institute anu
the party will probabiy arrive here
about 3:30 p. nt. At 4:30 the American
Legion will present to him the citizens
of Houston at the City Auditorium,
where he wiil make an address. He wiii
later attend a bail at the Auditorium
and will depart for Dallas at 9:30 p. m.
General Pershing requested that he
not be asked to make a formal talk at
the Institute, but it is probabie that his
program will yet include a short address
to the students.
KODAK WEEK SCORES
A BIG SUCCESS
The results of "Campanile Kodak
Week" were very gratifying, indeed, tc
all members of the year-book staff.
Kodaks were very .much in evidence
throughout the entire w^ek in the clois-
ters, the sallyport ana even the labo-
ratories. The weather was ideal for
picture taking; the great old god PIu-
vius was good enough not to frown a
single time during the week. Scores oi
very clever "snaps" have already reach-
ed the hands of the editors. Dozens o,
pictures with a point are still being
turned in daily. With this continued
support of the student body all indica-
tions are that "The Campanile '20" wiii
be the biggest and best ever. The award
of 'the live-dollar prize for the best set
of six snapshots turned in to the Cam-
panile will be announced in an early
issue of The Thresher. Remember, that
the contest is still going on.
It is to be hoped that the spirit of
keen class rivalry that was shown last
week with regard to taking pictures for
the Campanile will last throughout the
year.
Through special arrangement with
Gray's Studio and Fletcher's Studio,
those students who have not YET had
their dignified pictures taken for the
annual Wiii be given another chance to
do so now. It is unfortunate that only
one class—a class that has hitherto le(t
the student body in live School spirit—
is holding back the Campaniie '20. Do
you belong to that class?
MISS LOUISE BERAUD
VISITS E. B. L.S.
Shows Many Interesting Souvenirs and
Relates Interesting Experiences
In France.
Monday, E. D. L. S. had with them
their honorary member, Miss Louise Be-
raud, who brought her mementoes from
France and told us a few of her inter-
esting experiences connected with the
pictures, sheiis, "n'everything" in the
we!! piaced suit case. She had a wei)
assorted collection of pictures, both
kodaks and post cards, as we!! as the
usual tourist folders, of ai! the places
that she had seen. Those of Verduu,
Rheims and the Rhine were particutariy
attractive. Among the post cards were
some odd ones given her by her group
of littie Y. W. girls on her "fete day."
One article of special interest was a
Herman Iron Cross, personaiiy present-
ed by the Kaiser to a German Uteuten-
ant, four times wounded. She aiso hao
another Iron Cross of lower rank that
was bought in Germany.
There were two iittie wooden figures
cut and painted by a French girt as her
interpretation of the French Red Cross
gir! and the American Y. W. C. A.
worker.
A piece of famous stained giass from
the Rheims Cathedra), bits of the
rooves of other famous buiidings, por-
tions of expioded German shells, a rep-
iica of a "Croix de Guerre," the peak
of a German heimot and the beit buckle
of a German officer with the usuai
"Gott Mit Uns," added a great deai to
her collection.
That which caused most comment
among the giris were the many pieces
of embroidery. One in particuiar was
a linen table cover with hand-ntadc lact
and embroidery whose maker began in
the first year of the war and by work-
ing constantly finished in four years.
The workmanship on this and the pii-
iow covers is so exquisite that we can
scarcely conceive of it as the resuit ot
human hands.
RtCE HAS PROMPT
ViSMN MOM JAPAN
IX WORLD Tout RICE THE ONLY
COLLEGE VISITED HETWEEN
ST. LOUIS AND LOS
ANGELES.
S. Makita, Professor in Osaka, Japan,
(-roatiy Pleased W ith Rit e—Visited
Oxford and Cambridge In
England.
Last week there was a visitor at Rice,
who, by the mere fact that he made the
university a visit, paid it a great com-
piiment. The man was T. Makita, who
hoids a chair in Ethics and Alorai Phii-
osophy in the Sijonuwte Middle Schooi,
Osaka, Japan. Mr. Aiakita is distinctive
in the fact that he is making a trip
around the worid at his own expense,
investigating the educational systems
. as weii as the universities of the conti-
nents.
j iit: left Japan for England by boat,
and it is interesting to note that the
voyage took ttfty-two days. After visit'
CO ED MINSTREL FOR
GIRLS ONLY FEB. 14
CHEM. SHARKS HAVE
PICNIC IN PARK
Y. M. C. A.
The Y. M. C. A. held one of the most
interesting meetings of its career last
Monday in the club rooms of South
Hall. The association had as its guests
four leaders of the city Y. M. C. A. and
a valuable discussion of Rice's "Y"
prospects was entered Into.
Mr. Page, director of Houston's Y,
addressed the meeting, first assuring
them that the board of directors of the
city organization would be glad to co-
operate in any way ppssibte to buitd up
Rice's Y. M. C. A. so that it will become
one of the most active of all campus
activities.
The club was then favored with a few
words from Mr. Baker, who has been
associated with college Y. M. C. A. work
for some years. Mr. Baker offered his
personal services to he!p put across a
big membership drive next fall.
Mr. Whitehead, membership secre-
tary of the city "Y," and C. W. Lokey,
Rice '17, both expressed a be!ief that a
great work could be accomplished at
Rice if sufficient interest and co-oper-
ation could be aroused from the stu-
dents.
As a result of this meeting with the
downtown organization, an arrange-
ment is being made whereby member-
ship in the Rice Y. M. C. A. entitles
Rice men to full privileges of city mem-
bership. A committee is now working
on this plan and definite announcement
as to the outcome of their work will
appear shortly.
BAPTIST OWLS
The Baptist Owls have just about re-
cuperated from the effects of that
"scrumptious" party given by Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Townes at their home in
Rossmoyne. Their teacher, however, is
still under the weather with one of
those current colds, so that a whisper
from hint seems like a loud noise.
Something original in the line of par-
ties Is planned for the very near future.
All of you men and women, with your
cat-Hke curiosity, better come out Sun-
day morning. The Y. M- C. A. Assam-
My Room at 10 o'clock.
Rsh—sh—this is a neep, dark secret.
Keep it quiet! The unknown Club oi
Chem. 210 changed their lab quarters
last Friday afternoon. A sudden explo-
sion took place and all members founu
themselves In Hermann Park anaiyzing
delicious sandwiches and hot chocolate,
made by Mrs. Dutton. H^S was dis-
ptaced by the aroma of pine needtes.
A!i chemicals were forgotten, but equiii-
brium was !ost severa! times, when
members of the ciass were thrown front
the numerous see-saws and whiriigigs.
Fifteen rahs were given for Air. Draper,
and the members wish to thank him for
the picnic. The tab disbanded at the
usual time and ai! guaranteed to be
present at every session of this kind.
P. A. L. S.
At the meeting on Tuesday, Febru-
ary 3rd, the Pallas Athene Literary So-
ciety took up the study of John Mose-
Held. Some of his most interesting
poems were read by Miss Moseiie Hiis-
wick and commented upon by her. Miss
Josephine Miller rendered a beautifui
piano golo, then the program was con-
cluded with a reading by Miss Rosalee
Hemphill.
ittg Oxford, Edinburgh, Cambridge.
Glasgow, etc., he sailed for America,
where he spent a tints at the university
communities in Boston, ^ew York, Chi-
cago, St. Louis, as weii as in other cen-
ters. Front St. Louis, Mr. Makita made
a through trip to Rice. From Houston
he left for Los Angeles, from which
point he intends to make an extended
tour along the Western Coast. Mr. Ma-
kita Wiii iater return to Japan. Rice is
proud olPthe fact that she was the ottiy
university included in Mr. Makita's itin-
erary between St.. Louis and Los An-
geies.
While here Mr. Makita was shown
around the campus, where he photo-
graphed a number of views. He was in-
terested in the Rice publication, espe-
cially in a number of the Rice institute
pamphiets containing the lecture of the
iate Privy Counciior Baron Doiroku Ki-
Kuchi, of Tokio, Japan, on "The intro-
duction of Western Learning into Ja-
pan," which was prepared for the for-
ma! opening of the University in 1912.
Gossip and Scandal of the Cloisters for
Rice Co-eds, Hut Not for the
Men.
Strange whisperings of the coming of
the famous minstrel, "Dusky Damsehi,"
are abroad. This company is one of the
most ceiebrated that has come to the
South; its circuit inc!udes oniy the
larger universities, and Rice is pccuii-
ariy fortunate in having its first appear-
ance in Texas.
The four leading characters are born
humorists, with the additional experi-
enee of years ot) the stage. Along with
them is a chorus of thirty voices of un-
equailcd metody and training.
Tito unusual feature of the "Dusky
Damsels" is that this year they are
phiying for coiiege women oniy. No
men are aiiowed. They include in thoir
repertoire mueh materia) of iocai col-
lege coior. Severai weeks ahead an
agent visits the university and gathers
up vaiuable bits of cloister and class
room gossip- -even seandal. Student and
teacher share alike in the hands of these
t.'ievet' fun pnkers.
Tickets will be on saie next week on
; the Ric- campus. The place is the Cotn-
: r. unity House. Time—Saturday at'ter-
i noon. February lith.
; The minstrel is written and directed
by Adair Lubbock.
COLLEGE NEWS
HAPPENINGS AT OTHER COLLEGES.
The Persliing-for-l'resident Room is
being championed by the students and
aiutnni of the University of Nebraska,
of which General Pershing is a gradu-
ate and was at one time the command-
ant of Cadets*,
A new armory-gymnasium, of archi-
tectural beauty, was dedicated at Okla-
homa A. & M. on January 23rd.
Through its exceilent techuicai courses,
the college has receutly jumped from
twenty-second to the tenth pi ace among
agricuiturai schools"i'n the States.
DICE USES TWICE
nan. CM
OWLS )I(<iHT EVEM1 !\< H RUT ARE
DEFEATED UY SUPERIOR
GOAL TOSSING.
Games Show Rice Sadly in Need of
Place for Practice—Team Work
vf Splendid.
Professor John A. Lomax, of the Uni-
versity of Texas, famous for his "Songs
of the Cowboy," will entertain at Okia-
honta A. & M. on February 5th.
Y. W. C. A.
"What would happen if yon resolved
against school teaching?" Miss Hein-
baugh, a National Secretary of the Y.
W. C. A., asked this pointed question
to a group of Rice Y. W. members last
Thursday. Miss Heinbaugh did resolve
against it and took up girls' work in-
stead. it Is in the interest of recruiting
for this branch that she is speaking to
student associations in the South and
West.
In a woman's age, the college woman
must have a business that challenges
her best. It must be creative. It must
be so consuming that there will be no
time left for coddilng it. Frot^ these
statements Miss Heinbaugh went Into
detail concerning the opportunities in
girls' work as it is carried on in the
Young Women's Christian Association.
A secretary deals with girls from 12 to
18—not in a specified manner, but in
every way her Ingenious mind can con-
jure up. Perhaps her largest function
is to interpret inanimate-things in terms
of personality for the adolescent girt.
The glrls'^orker has in her scope three
classes of girls: the little girl, the high
school girl, and the girl in shops and
office. Each type is a problem in Itesif.
To start these girls well on their way
toward sane, wholesome living and
thinking is the task of the Girls' Work-
er Secretary. ,
Miss Helnbaugh's most appealing
statement was that the worker among
girls remained young and beautiful
long past her allotted day.
In order to gain ciasa distinction the
Seniors of Howard-Payne the other day
"appeared in derby hats, standing col-
lars, biack bow ties, and each carried a
neat iittle cane. The giris aiso appear-
I ed in uniform, each wearing a Senior
cap. The Freshmen did not understand
just what the Seniors had in mind, and
without giving them time to explain,
conciuded that they were trying to put
something over. Therefore, they pro-
ceeded to confiscate the hats, coiiars,
ties and canes. The Seniors offered lit-
tie resistance, for they were outnum-
bered about ten to one. It was not un-
tii Friday that the property was re-
stored and the Seniors again appeared
in uniform."
According to statistics in "The
Prism," the average student of Howard
Payne spends $672 annually; its 600
students total over $400,000.
The annual footba!! banquet of
Southwestern was he!d Saturday, par-
ticularly ceiebrating the big victorv
over S. M. U.
Southwestern and Simmons Coiiege
split a pair of basket ball games at
Georgetown last Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings. Both games were lost
and won by the margin of one point.
Ray Morrison will return to S. M. U,
as director of athletics and has signed
a four-year contract. Morrison was head
coach for the ilrst two years of the ex-
istence of the school, but has been in
the army and iater head coach of Van
derbitt. He wiil be in charge of cotnpul
sory physical training of Freshmen and
Sophomores, while J. Burton Rlx wiii
continue to coach the footba!! and
basket ball teams.
Simmons College defeated T. C. U. in
two spectacular games to the one-sided
score of 35 to 15 and 36 to 16.
"SL!ME FISH POND
DANCE" DATE FEB. 16
Slime Call Upon Upper Classes to V isit
Them for an "Evening in the Fish
Pond"—Gond Music and
Good Times to Re in
Evidence.
With the coming of spring, ail feci
that innermost yearning for a pittnge in
the oid swimming hoie, and so the
"siimes," the freshest from the farms,
feeling the ca!i ntore than do their
friends, the dignified Seniors, who in
four years' time have somewhat forgot
the habits of their rustic itfe in pre-
coliege days, or the Juniors, who think
it quite prosaic to sitow delight at sueh
stunts, or the Sophs, who probably don't
know what a swimming hoie is, the
Siitues have issueti the prociamatiou.
and invite the students pf,'varsity to an
"Evening in the Fish l'ond." Alt are
qtlickiy warned, however, that bathing
suits are quite unnecessary, as it is not
to be a "wot".affair.
Xone of us have forgot, nor wiil we
soon forget, the delightful Freshman
dance of last term, and this one prom-
ises to be fttily as good. J'ark's Bros.
Orchestra is assured. The music will
^tati eariy and continue tili early tie
next morning.
Quite odd, as weii as artistic, pro-
grams, score up eight dances, two ex-
tras and two specials. The d<-corat ions
will be supervised by a most capable
committee, with Mr. Grata as chair-
in an.
So don't fait to make your date early
for Monday evening, February 16th, at
the University Ciub rooms, 8:30 o'clock.
Tickets are on saie by Messrs. Batjer,
Grata, McGee, Grant, Horubuckie and
McCuttough. "Everybody be there."
JUNIOR PROM DATE
FIXED AS AFKiL 26
Fighting for every point, struggling
tiii the iast minute, the Owls twice suc-
cumbed to the onsiaught of the quintet
front Coiiege Station. In the first af-
fair it was the matchless work of
Forbes that wou for the visitors, the j
scrapping center scoring twenty-five of!
their thirty-nine points, white the iast ;
game went to the superior team work j
and extra weight of the visitors.
It is hard to beat a team that has!
played together through ward school.
! and then high school, and that has the !
j opportunity of practicing every after- j
! noon in their gym, and untii we are!
! equipped with a gymnasium, or some,
j better means of practicing than the use ;
t of the "V" court at night, it will be'
j difficult for us to produce consistently
t winning teams.
The Aggies displayed a class of'
{ basket ball that was beautiful to watch, {
j though it made things uncomfortable
! for all of us. The steadiness and ac-}
. euracy of their passing, the hard tight- :
I ing spirit, and the fatal regularity with
! which they looped those long shoots
front such alarming distances ami
angles, ail made it a wonderful exhibi-
tion of reai basket bali, and much as
' we regret the outcome, we must admire
their playing.
The difference in weight, between out-
forwards and the guards of the visitors
made it difficult for Cotemnn and Lov-
; ett to cut up in their regular form, but
the two tight weights never stopped
scrapping, and they succeeded in slip-
ping in severa] good ones even in the
face of the five-man defense that the
Farmers used.
The Rice guards he!d their standards
as high as ever, in the face of phenom-
ena! shooting. Brown and Delia Yaile
were at ai! times fighting tile bail, and
there were few shots goaled front with-
in the range of these two men. The
iong ones could not be biocked by these
tnen. who had to remain ctose in to;
block short throws, and the scoring w.ss
lone at a distance that renders a guard
useiess. in the second game we iostj
Hrown on personals, teaving us cr.p !
pied in the early part of the gar.se. hut
Deli and Forbes down, and Kennedy
covered the rest of the ftoor in good
style.
Both games were exhibitions of real
basket ba!!. and the fact that our men
were unable to overcome the weight and
longer practice of the visitors detracts
nothing from the spirit of tight that the
Owls disptayod against such odds.
It wiii be of interest to the students
who are iooking forward to the Junior
prom to know that., at a Junior ciass
meeting on Monday, January 26th, the
date of the prom was changed from the
first Monday in May to April 26t.it. This
change was made so that the basebaii
boys could attend.
The question ot invitations also arose
at this meeting and it was decided.
1. That any Junior girl who did not
have occasion to use her ticket couid
give it to any Rice boy that she chose,
who would stag.
2. That any Junior or Senior boy or
girl could ask whoever they chose,
whether Rico students, town people or
out-of-town people.
T. T. T. T.
The T. T. T. T.'s met Friday after
noon with Miss Oessner Lane at it- r
home on Bag by Street. Miss Od<-n
Greer, who has been iii tor some time,
was able to meet with the giris for the
first time in several tnotnhs. After
taking kodak pictures and motoring
quite awhile, the girls returned to Miss
Lane's, where dainty refreshments of
chocolates and cakes were served. Miss
Rosalee Hemphili entertained with a
few humorous recitations, and at. a late
hour the giris ieft. The club members
are: Mtaxes Rosalee Hemphiit. Mar-
garet Coghlan, Gessner Lane, Frances
Foote, Oden Greer, Fannie Lee Oiiphint,
Mary Shacklett, Eiva Kalb, Dorothy
Matthews, Augusta Breed and Marvin
Hirsch.
THE GIRLS' TEWtS t LI B.
The regular meeting 'of :he Girls'
Tennis Club was heid Jrs .. .; ^ rd. Be-
cause of the res.gsA .:-r, secre-
tary, Mis* Maude C.'.: yi-rii, a new
secretary w.-.s ele;:-.' i I*:.-, program was
as fotiows: «
"What to W-.ar When Piaying Ten-
nis"—Leia KeBtMtr'.y.
' Tennis 'he Woman's Game"—Lucy
Zimraer.
The tenuis tournament has been post-
poned on account of rain. The day for
the tournament wilt be set iater, with
oniy one day's notice.
MIDXITE MEMOS.
XOTH E.
Two contributions to The Thresher
this week are not published for lack of
identification of the author or authors.
The Thresher will be glad to have a
good cartoon occasionally If some artist
wi!t produce it.
Surely cement walks would harmon-
ise with tire architecture of the budd-
ings as we!! as mud.
The main reason al! Rice's co-eds are
not brunettes Is because some of them
are blondes.
Anyway, we'll say A. & M. can piay
basket ba!l.
To become wideiy known as a great
institution of learning a school must
have alumni. To have aiutnni it must
Ilrst have students. A gymnasium would
bring more students. So wou!d a co-ed
dormitory.
And, on the other hand, the students
already here can make the old Institute
a greater sehoo!. Get In the game of
student activities—don't sit back and be
& si!ent score-keeper.
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