The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1920 Page: 2 of 4
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THE THRESHER
A weekly newspaper published by the students of
Rice Institute, at Houston, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter October 17,1916,
at the Postoffice at Houston, Texas, under
the Act of March 8,1879.
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THRESHER STAFF 1920-21.
HUi C. Qreoham. '23 Bditor-in-Chief
Fred D. Hargis. '3! Buafness Manager
K. B. Upahaw, 31 Managing Bditor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Ga<4ar Otey, '3! Neva Bditor
Laoy Zimmer, '31 Associate Editor
Margaret Blackwell, '32 Assistant Editor
B- O. Arnold. '39 Sports Zditor
B. F. Payne. '33 Exchange Editor
B. O. Arnold, '33 Feature Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
B. F. Mayer, '22 Circu!af-<t -.onager
F. H. Gaffy, '22 Assistant Ciro^ition Manager
CMnton L. Dutton, '32 Advertising
J. P. Fielder, Jr., '22 Advertising
REPORTERS FOR THiS ISSUE ARE:
!t H. Bickford L. Ehrenfeld
Archie Batjer Atma Nemir
Virginia AtweH Louise Moore
Allan Bioxom Fanny Black
DECEMBER 17, 1920.
THE
pEW
YEAR.
-THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR," says the
* author of "Shakespeare and His Times," was
spent by our laboring ancestors in festivity and
froiic. Young women carried from door to door
a bow! of spiced aie. They also exchanged
clothes with young men, which was termed mum-
minm, or disguising, and when thus dressed they
went from cottage to cottage, singing, dancing,
partaking of good cheer, and playing the ancient
game of blind man's bluff."
Yuletide has been held as a sacred and joyous
festival by countless nations, for as far as his-
tory can carry us we find the early races holding
a mid-winter festival and rejoicing in the birth
of the New Year. In the long, long ago man wor-
shiped the sun as a source of warmth and light.
To him it was a God. Before long, however, he
discovered that it had a birthday and that it
lame nearest to earth when the days were short-
est. When he wanted light and warmth for him-
self he built a fire. He thought fire was an em-
blem of the H"n hfumc aot<-mnw..h;p and fire-
TT IS TO BE NOTED with deep rqpret that in
1 the past few weeks, due to financial difficul-
ties, several Rice athletes have been forced to
ieave school.. Casting aside intercollegiate af-
fairs, they have entered the more serious game
of earning a living.
Rice will feel keenly this loss, not only in the
basket baH, baseball and track teams during the
remainder of this year, but also on the football
field next season, for withdrawal at this time
renders the men ineligible should they return
next fall. ^
This is extremely unfortunate, for Rice is at
the stage of her development where she cannot
afford to lose her athletes. Immediate steps
must be taken to prevent the repetition of any
thing of this kind in the future. Rice athletics
must be protected.
It has always been said that life at Rice was
regulated by three standards: (1) Scholarship,
(2) scholarship, and (3) scholarship. This is
quite true, and indeed it is with great pride that
Rice students realize this. A university cannot
progress normally without athletics, and ath-
letics cannot progress without athletes. That's
assured. The logical thing is to look out for the
interests of our athletes.
There are numerous means of assisting neces-
sitous students of very high scholastic standing.
Surely they do not add more glory to the name
of Rice than the athletes. Furthermore, men in
training have more work to da than other stu-
dents and less time in which to do it. Besides
keeping up the required class work, they must
devote a certain amount of time to practice each
afternoon, and in accordance with training regu-
lations must retire at an hour much earlier than
does the average student. For this reason it
would be impossible for an athlete to attempt
any kind of remunerative work in town.
"For distinguished service on the football
field—"
Those are impressive words and in presenta-
tion of a football letter must have meant almost
as much to those athletes as the presentation
of a D. S. C. by General Pershing, for m^itorious
service on some distant firing line. After all, the
spirit is the same. An athlete and a fighter are
moulded from the same clay. It takes courage,
and downright earnest grit to battle through a
game with the odds against you; but they never
lose heart. They are game to the finish. And in
spite of an icy wind and rain-soaked garments,
the team plays on. In spite of aching limbs and
fight always with one
The faculty's motto:
paas!"
The students' motto
place like homo!"
B
Rico picks winning football
240 boys. That's beeaut
like Doe Bruder of Heights High
So live that yond friends can con-
scientiously defend yon—but never
have to.
The sweetest thing we can imagine
is a statue of our girl carved from
rock candy.
R
"Procrastination is the thief of
time." True; and many of as now
wherein it is the thief of a col-
lege education also.
One good thing about every woman
is her own opinion of herself.
Everytime we go to meals in the
mess-hall we recall that passage of
Scripture which reads: "And he said,
Let there be grub-hounds', and there
were grub-hounds."
This is the final issue of the term.
If God (and the proffs) see fit we'll
be with you again January 3. If not,
we'll see you next September. At
any rate—may Santa Claus fill your
stocking.
The big holiday job:—Explaining to
mother and dad.
"People who live in glass houses
should not throw stones." True. And
likewise people who live in ice houses
should not throw hot water.
May there be no final exams, in
heaven.
R
The thirty-four Chinese students
who are attending the Unievrsity of
Wisconsin this year recently cele-
brated their native "Fourth of July,"
commemorating, the ninth anniversary
of the birth of the Chinese republic.
Among the leaders in this was L. H.
Muller Kung, who is a direct descend-
ant in the seventy-seventh generation
of Confucius, famous Chinese philoso-
end of December, wH9)HH^W^^^HSnearest,
homes were decked with branches, evergreen
trees were brought from the woods, and boots
were ranged beside the hearth. The sacred fire
called the yule log was then kindled, and every-
where this mid-winter festival was celebrated by
special religious ceremonies and general rejoic-
ing. Animals were sacrificed, blood was sprink-
led, last year's harvest was laid on the ground,
and various offerings were made to the gods and
goddesses, with the hope that they would serve
as a charm to bring prosperity and fertility in
the coming year. The ancient tribes of Ger-
many, Gaul and Birton, and even in darkest Eu-
rope, the Romans celebrated this mid-winter fes-
tival hundreds of years before the birth of
Christ, with special rites and customs of their
own. These deeply rooted observances could not
be crushed and consequently they were trans-
muted and sanctified by the Christian church
into the beautiful festival that keeps the world's
heart young and human. Thus came about the
spirit of thankfulness and rejoicing with which
we greet the new year.
This year as we take down our 1920 calendars
we will no doubt say, as did our pagan ancestors
many centuries ago: "The days will begin to
lighten now!" The nights begin to decrease and
the days to increase, and as the old year leaves
we look forward with new hope, for the worst
is over. Vast as were our problems of 1920, even
vaster will be our problems of 1921. As we enter
the first month of the new year we eagerly close
the gates to the Temple of Janus with the fond
hope that they may forever remain closed in
universal peace and content. During the year
1920 we all have made many, many mistakes;
but with the new year we start again with a
clean slate. "To make mistakes is human, but to
profit by them is divine," says the philosopher,
and well may we profit by our mistakes of the
past. For do we not grow by doing, and not by
thinking, of our thoughts and feeling of our feel-
ings? In the year 1921 and the years to come,
there will be many tasks to perform, many prob-
lems to solve and many difficulties to surmount.
We can only ask that the same far-seeing and
human spirit that has thus far presided over
our destinies will guide us in the future. In the
same spirit that makes the Yuletide season what
it is, we take this opportunity of expressing our
thanks to our readers. As you put mto anything,
that much will you get out of it. Out of the in-
terest you have taken in this year during the
past year we hope you have derived an equal
persona! pleasure. Your appreciation has made
this paper's issuance a congenial work to us of
the staff. May the new year be replete with
success and happiness for you, and may its end
find a bigger and better Rice Institute.
-It-
Co-op stationery would make a scrumptuous
Christmas gift.
And so they have received recognition fpr
their grim determination, for their hard work
and the many days when they were too sore to
walk, when they hobbled about on a cane or
simply stayed in their rooms, too, "all in" to
leave. But a football letter is only a sentiment,
and strong healthy men cannot live on sentiment.
They need something more substantial.
If some of our athletes are having difficulties,
it is our business to help them out. There are
various possibilities waiting to be discovered.
Everybody get busy and somebody's bound to un-
earth a plan. We owe our athletes whatever aid
iye can give them, an dwhenever they need it.
They help Rice out of her athletic difficulties
and turn about is fair play. Let Rice do her
share, too. Show what's back of that name.
R—
THE GROSSEST NEGLIGENCE.
THE grossest negligence is apparent in atten-
1 tion regarding medals and sweaters due "R"
men. The football sweaters for the team have
just arrived, and are admirable in every respect.
But football men are not the only athletes due
this considerable. Last year after the basket
ball season receipts for sweaters were given the
men who had made letters in that sport, which
read, "Good for one sweater," and signed, "P.
H. A." The sweaters have never arrived, and
the dream of the basket ball team has not ma-
terialized. *
The basket ball squad practiced faithfully
every night at the Houston Y. M. C. A. court,
from 8 until 10 p. m. last season. There is posi-
tively no reason why our quintet should go on
the floor this season with no sweaters over their
shoulders. They were promised for the team of
last year, and they should have been delivered
last year. If such negligence continues no one
can say just when they will arrive. And, inci-
dently, there is no reason why football men
should receive sweaters and track, baseball and
basket ball letter men go without this award.
Likewise the fobs, which it has become a tra
dition every "R" man is entitled to wear, were
never given the men who made their first Letter
last year. This is a matter of gl*ossesf negli-
gence, and*Tve must correct it at once, if we wish
to bring better athletes to represent Rice on the
diamond, track and court. Quite !o& enough has
the matter been allowed to drift by. The con-
stitution of the Students' Association provides
that a committee shall be appointed by the presi
dent to award, in conjunction with the athletic
director, all letters, medals, etc. This negligence
may be laid at the door of the council, as well as
at that of the athletic director.
It must be corrected at once; we cannot ailow
it to continue.
R
Sim the pledge in ful, or your grade will be
lacking on your card. Then put "Merry Christ-
!! ja*t to make Mm fed ml
Fashion note: "For your evening
gown I advise you to bay a piece of
broad silver ribbon, pass it twice
around the waist and knot it at the
side."
Nevertheless the evenings are cool
occasionally.
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"They shall not
Theres
New Year greet yon with motet*
CO.
Houston's Best Store for Men
and Boys.
405 Main—Scantan Building—1006 Preston
The
First Nationa! Bank
OF HOUSTON
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DEPOSITS
$23,M0,0M.M
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264 Suits Have Been Added to This
Special
Sate of Suit*
Reduced From $55
33s
$70 $75
Take Advantage o( Hit
This special price sale has met with such popular de-
mand in the short time that it was held—that it
prompts us to continue for those who were unable to
take advantage of this unusual opportunity.
With the replenished assortments and addition of
lots mean a new selection of fabfics, weaves and col-
ors for every style and size requirement. But we urge
prompt action. The values are even greater in this
new selection; every suit a standard qualiy make, made
^choicest weave and tailored in amart styles for men
and young men.
AO.
A-aH
EH
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1920, newspaper, December 17, 1920; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229873/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.