The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1921 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 3,1879.
Subscription Rates. .$2.50 per year, 10c per copy
Thresher Office-Room 104, Administration Bldg.
THRESHER STAFF 1920 21.
HiM C. Qreaham, '82 Editor-in-Chief
Fred D. Hargls, '22 Buatness Manager
R. B. Upshaw, '21 Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Lucy Zimmer, '21
Associate Editor
HOUSTON, TEXAS
MargaW BiackweH, '22.....;/... ......Assistant Editor
B. O. Arnold. '23 . .Sports Editor
B. F. Payne. '22 Exchange Editor
E. O. Arnold. '23 Feature Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
B. F. Mayer, '22 Circulars. ..onager
F. H. Guffy, '32 Assistant Circ^ition Manager
Clinton L. Dutton, '22 Advertising
REPORTERS FOR TH*S ISSUE ARE:
H. S Bickford Alma Nemir
Edgar Blayney Virginia Atwell
J. 1. Campbeii Grace Smith
M. S. McCorquodaie
JANUARY 7. 1921.
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS.
1ME at! made one set of New Year's resolutions
" about a month ago, when we were face to
face with finals. We resolved that if a merciful
Providence gave us the chance we would never
ict the end of another term find us so unprepar-
ed. We resolved that we wouid not cut import-
ant iecture courses; that we wouid not talking in-
stead of taking notes when we did go; that we
wouid not negiect our reading assignments; that
we would not get behind with our themes; that
we would not use half an hour and some other
feiiow's brains instead of three hours and otA*
own on our math.; that we would not touch
lightly on such small matters as irregular verbs,
physics and chemistry formulas, and the blood
system of the frog; that we would not leave our
term themes until the week before exams.; that
we would not go out the night before midterms- -
in short, that we would work. They were goot.
resoiutions; the only trouble is that most of us
have occasion to make them all over again three
times a year.
We are stiH in somewhat that name chasten-
ed mood. The people who just got by, the ones
on probation, and most of all, the vacant rooms
and the empty seats, all have their influence.
There is the usual'i^ter-the-holidays reluctance
to get down to hard work, but however reluctant
we were to report at our first class, when it
came time to answer, "Here" we were mighty
giad we couid be there to say it. Now is a good
time to renew all those resolutions in earnest;
about a month from now, when basket ball and
pre-Lenten social affairs are at their heighth,
will be a still better time to remember them.
But scholarship is only one important thing in
College iife, after all. Just after your term re-
port is in, you have a pretty clear idea of wheth-
er or not you are making good in your work.
But do you stop to think of whether you are
making good all around? The New Year is just
as good a time for the student to have a general
stock-taking as for the merchant; for him to
find out just where he i$ failing and where he
is succeeding.
Are you making the most of the best chance
you will ever have to form real friendships?
Are you improving your opportunities for con-
tact with as many different groups and inter-
ests as possible among the campus organiza-
tions ? Are you devoting any of your time to the
interests of the school? Are you, first, last,
and all the time, actually and practically, for
Rice? If you are not, even though you have five
ones on your card, you are failing.
The best New Year's resolution we can think
of for the college student is to make his college
year a rich and balanced one. Resolve to do
your work faithfully and stick to it. Resolve
not to squander time; to make it count for some-
thing; if not for work, then for rest, or exercise,
or genuine fellowship, or real fun. Resolve to
make all the friends you can, to look for them
and cultivate them, not only in your own set
but everywhere that you find people. Resolve to
be the sort of a club member who does the pull-
ing, not the dead weight that has to be dragged.
Resolve to go out for any kind of school activity
for which you have any ability. Resolve to be
willing to do whatever any one asks you to do
for Rice or for Rice organizations, not to start
hunting excuses. Resolve to cultivate your col-
lege spirit, to make yourself in every possible
way a part, and a useful part of the school.
All of which, we think, is just another way
of resolving to make, both for yourself and for
Rice, a "Happy and Prosperous New Year."
TEAM'S SPIRIT OF IMPORTANCE.
THERE are few games in which the spirit of the
* team is of more importance than in basket
ball. The 1921 Owl quintet is no exception and
the support which it receives will do much to
make the season a success. A gallery of root-
ers will do more than anything else to put into
the team a fighting spirit. It is, therefore, a
matter of importance that responsibility be
shifted to the individual student for his or her
presence at all games.
Simmons College invades the Owl roost next
Monday evening. An initial victory, with a
howling mob of rooters will give the squad a
boost which will be felt throughout the season.
The schedule of games will always be given
ample publicity so that there will be no excuse
of getting lessons, where these can be attended
to in advance of the game.
With Timmons, Kennedy, McKean, Lovett,
Brown and Coleman, all letter men, to draw from,
Rice will send into the fray one of the strong-
est teams in the history of the school. The
Cowboys got the better of the argument last
year. A real Rice rally and a victory would be
: sweet revenge, indeed.
! So, Mister and Miss Student, it is up to you.
jWe have the team. Given the proper backing,
. this team will be a winner. This appeal for sup-
port is not to the student body as a whole, but
to each individual student who loves his school
enough to back its teams. Monday is the time
to work off that holiday exhuber6nce; it's the
time that counts for the rooters.
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THE CO-OP PROFITS.
Two hundred and fifty dollars of co-op profits
have been added to the incidental fund of the
Students' Association, which makes the total
amount of this fund over one thousand dollars.
The best use that could possibly be made of
this money is to boost Rice still further, make
this a "big year" in still another sense, and put
the Rice band on the map of Texas as a perma-
nent institution. The glee club should be reor-
ganized also. There is no reason why, with prop-
er training during the winter months, the band
and glee club could not make a tour of the state
in the spring term.
^ Texas does it, Southwestern does it, S. M. U.
does it; how long are we going to wait ?
: Why not ask the band directors to propose
some plans for the remainder of the year, with
an estimate of costs; get someone behind the glee
club ,and give them.out of our incidental funds
what money they need to come out"?
R
A student makes New Year's resolutions every
exam time and forgets them just as soon. Show
you have enough strength of character to keep
them this time. The second term is the hardest
of the year and you will need every bit of help
you can get.
The best part about being on pro-
bation is that yon can always get 0&
At least yoa can hope to.
Haii, Haii, the Gang's (except 64)
Ail Here!
The nicest thing about the new year
la that there haven't been any final
exam*, in it yet.
Msantwa Co-Eds.
Professors in our colleges
Are austere as the dickens;
To look at them you'd qot believe
How they've been plucking chickens.
(J. M. L. in the Chronicie.)
J. M. evidently isn't acquainted with
the professors at Rice.
Rice proffs. take a great delight
In putting us on probation:
And flunking students left and right
Fills proffs. with high elation.
Our girl is the kind that made four
ones and then cried because she fell
down to a two. You see she is going
to furnish the brains of the family
while we furnish the man-power.
By actual count the following ques-
tion has been asked 1324 times on
he Rice campus this week: "Hello!
How'd you come out?"
R
Sixty-three to seven in favor of Cen-
er. it's easy to see why T. C. U.
ilidn't try very hard to get in the
S. W. Conference.
Our girl is dove-like alright but that
floesn't necessarily mean that she is
pigeon-toed.
The campus is even prettier this
term. You see the slimes have been
atlowed to pack em away in moth
balls and wear hats like real human
beings.
fira*' AfotM #ar&er SAop
M. T)RA8, Proprietor
Those Ciassy Cottese Hair Cuts
Open IWgHts—Strictly Sanitary
914 Texas Ave., Opp. Rice Hote!
Preston 1962
Fontwo Snit VohMt
at
(Wo. They Are Not $75 Suit*)
We won't insult by telling you that we sell clothes
for less than half price, but we guarantee to sell
you the best suit in Houston for the price we
ask.
Now Spring Modeh
Now Patterns
New Coloring!
405 Main 1006 Preston
Scanlan B!dg.
"7 DOAfT KNOW" M MO DMC&4CE.
It is no Disgrace to say, "I Don't Know." A man of ac-
curate information and clean intelligence can be told by his
courage to say "I Don't Know." If you Don't Know what
to do with your money, ask us. It is our business to know
that One Thing.
GUARANTY STATE BANK
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Hermann B!dg. 206 Travis St.
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What is Vacuum!
TTF THE traffic policeman did not hold up his hand and control the
9 automobiles and wagons and people there would be collisions,
JL confusion, and but little progress in any direction. His business
is to d/rec(.
The physicist who tries to obtain a vacuum that is nearly perfect
has a problem somewhat like that of the traffic policeman. Air is
composed of molecules—billions and billions of them Hying about
in all directions and often colliding. The physicist's pump is designed
to make the molecules travel in one direction—out through the
exhaust. The molec&les are much too small to be seen even with a
microscope, but the pump jogs them along and at least starts them in
the right direction.
A perfect vacuum would be one in which there is not a single free
molecule.
For over forty years scientists have been trying to pump and jog
and herd more molecules out-of vessels. There are still in the best
vacuum obtainable more molecules per cubic centimeter than there
are people in the world, in other words, about two billion. Whenever
a new jogging device is invented, it becomes possible to eject a few
milliqp more molecules.
The Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company have
spent years in trying to drive more and more molecules of air from
containers. The chief purpose has been to study the effects obtained,
as, for example, the boiling away of metals in a vacuum.
This investigation of high vacua had unexpected results. It
became possible to make better X . ray tubes — better because the
X - rays could be controlled; to make the electron tubes now so essen-
tial in long-range wireless communication more ef&cient and trust-
worthy; and to develop an entirely new type of incandescent lamp,
one which is ailed with a gas and which gives more light than any of
the cider lamps.
No one can foretell what will be the outcome of research in pure
science. New knowledge, new ideas inevitably are gained. And
sooner or later this new knowledge, these new ideas find a practical
application. For this reason the primary purpose of the Research
Laboratories of the General Electric Company is the broadening of
human knowledge.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 7, 1921, newspaper, January 7, 1921; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229874/m1/2/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.