The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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THRESHER, HOUSTON, TEXAS
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THE THRESHER
F!FTEEN FOR FMHT!
QATURDAY night's game was a tragedy, there
A weekly newspaper published by the students of ^ is no disguising that. But it was not an ir-
Rice Institute, at Houston, Texas. I reparable one; we aren't out of the running yet,
by a iong shot. The team that played that sec-
Entered as second-class matter October 17,1916, ond game was not a championship team, but it
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REPORTERS FOR TH*S ISSUE ARE:
H. B. Nenix Virginia Atwell .
Virginia Atwell
A. B. Ellis
L. Ehrenfeld
Alma Nemir
Halley Wear
JANUARY 28, 1921.
S. M. U.'s PROPOSAL TO WITHDRAW FROM
THE CONFERENCE.
THE recent action taken by the students and
* coaching staff of Southern Methodist Uni-
versity, which, if receiving the sanction of the
university authorities, will result in her with-
drawal from the Southwestern Conference, is
quite iamentable in many respects. S. M. U. is
was just as far from being Rice's basket bal!
team at its best. In Friday night's game it was
a championship team. It fought coolly and
steadily and savagely from whistle to pistol shot,
and it was simply a perverse Lady Luck that
tipped the balance one point the wrong way at
the last.
We are neither a psychologist nor a basket
ball expert, and we are not going to try to ex-
plain what happened to Rice Saturday night. But
anyone who has followed any form of sport
knows that such times of demoralization come
to individuals and to teams. One came to the
football team in the Texas game, but they came
back fighting harder than before. The basket
ball team is coming back just as strong.
Texas is going to feel the reaction from those
two A. and M. games tonight and tomorrow
night. She will be braced up from that Bay-
lor defeat, and she will be no easy mark; we have
yet to see the Texas team that is. But the Owls
are coming home with those two games and with
two more from Baylor. Anyone who watched
the two Baylor games here, and the first A. and
M. game, knows that they have the stuff to do
it; anyone who knows Rice's spirit after a de-
feat, knows that they will have the morale.
There was one good thing even about the sec-!
ond game: It showed A. and M., Houston, and}
best of all, the men, just what sort of support the
students are giving that team. A. and M.'s band
and rooting section responded magnificently as
A. and M. always responds, to the S. 0. S. after
the first close game; but neither Rice's band nor
her spirit suffered from the comparison. The
worse the score got, the harder the rooting be-'
Midnite Memo*.
b s
Some people we thought stopped
being kids several years ago were at
the Soph Kid Dance. But then, per-
haps it was their second childhood.
A certain senior announces (on
every possible occasion) that he has
five ones cinched this term . . .
What we can't understand is how a
man with enough sense to make five
ones at Rice hasn't enough sense not
to brag about it.
"Tempus
to Rice.
mess-hall
a verv vouiig college—several years younger
than Rice—and her every step should be watch- jcame. It was never better than in that hopeless ,
i <-n -ri + c M T' [last ten mmutes. That sort of a spirit will be
ed careful,y. that S. M. t, has m her bnei g^es for Rice long after the confer-
career had with each year a much stronger forgotten who took the '21 basket ball
group of athtetics, is quite apparent. When we 'championship, but it's going to do a lot right
were younger, we piled up about 135 points in here and now to keep us contenders for that
a footbaii ciash against her. This season with same championship.
our verv strong machine, we were unable to ; are sti" in the scrap. Remember there are
^ istiil two more games with A. and M. That team
make rg6^e than 10 points. Evidently they At its best, nothing but
accumulating more and better athletes. A, and M. at hom$%ill have a ghost of a show
The objection made to the one year ru!e is of stopping it, and we don't think that they can.
foolish. The theorv is advanced that S. M. U., Showing the team that you stil! believe in it, that
having a verv smal! student bodv is not allowed than anything else to put it at its best and
, ° ' , ,, , vou are behind it, as strong as ever, wtll do
to play freshmen, and consequently must send ^ ^ ^ ^ere through the big test at College
in ha!f a team against the whole team of the g^tion. It's a real team, and don't you let any-;
universities having iarger student bodies. body forget it. If you keep up your end, wheth-
But S. M. U. must remember that her stu-ierwewinornot, A. and M. will know that there
dent body is larger than ours and still we man- a sure-enough fight when it s all over
age to stay in the running.
Better it is to be defeated always at the hands : . ^ .
- ^ ^ ^ AS THE SENIORS approach nearer their de-
ot the most able than to conquer the inefficient. A , .
S. M. U. has little to gain in withdrawing from " ""'side calls upon their
the conference. She certainly has much to lose, become more numerous. The last week is
We hope that our sister institution of Texas will frantic rush about caps and gowns, about
not take such a rash step. arrangements for all the activities attended on
that season of the year. At this critical stage
of their college career they are most distracted
Five
classes
week.
3 a. m
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THE SENIOR EXAMS.
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from classes and studies. The exams are never
easy, but at^his summer period they are even
harder and especially for the scrambling senior.
Oftentimes the senior finds himseHLgoing to the
banquet with the big possibility of not hearing
in
THREE CHEERS FOR THE 50 CAMPANILES.
WOULDN'T it be great if each average-sized
*' city in the state was represented by a city
club at Rice ? Boys that you have gone through
high school with, would be here and you wouldn't
have to go down to the "Circle" to think over!the familiar words, "By the authority, etc.,
your troubles and tell them to the winds; for the j Dr. Lovett's unforgettable voice.
boys that have already gone through "thick and The profs who are "fortunate" enough to have
thin" with you would help you get rid of them. [Seniors on their class roll have to do some rapid
A . i i + work between Friday afternoon and Saturday to
And the campus would be filled with boys that! ^ ^ j grades to the office in
you wouldn t have to report to their rooms to be !
introduced to. But the only way this can be j There is surely some remedy for such a con-
brought about is by advertising and boosting dition of rush and uncertainty. It has been an
Rice as the great school that it is: by placing swered by some of the Eastern schools in a
such literature into the hands of the Seniors and very obvious manner. Simply this, seniors be-
The new community house is being
"started next week" agqin.
Fifty per cent of the boys asked to
join the Y. M. C. A. said: "What do
) get out of it?"
Coiiege spirit does not include self-
ishness;
The main reason they didn't build
a balcony in the Rice gym is because
they planned to have classes for co-
eds.
The comedian who aaid,
fugit" had evidently been
One week till mid terms.
Having viewed these
dances from a horticultural viewpoint
we cannot help saying that the peach-
es who used to be free-stones are now
clings.
labs, a week . . . Three
a day . . . Six dances a
..Five dollars a dance.. .
each night . . .
Railroad fare home $7.32.
L. 8. U. has raised herself in Rice's
opinion some 500 per cent within the
last six months, 450 of it within the
tast six days.
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Our girt is gloriously beautiful. We
love her. But d—n that bird that
sits by her in the library.
There are two classes of girls at
Rice—the kind you can hug the first
night and th# kind you can hug the
second night. The second class in-
cludes those who will get sore about
this.
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Another thing—is the Tatler Maga-
zine the official organ of the Rice
Tatler Club?
S. M. U. wants to withdraw from the
Conference. Says her student body
is so small she needs the freshmen
on her teams. Rice is the smallest in
numbers of all conference schools.
Do we want out? Do we?
However, smallness doesn't always
refer to numbers.
Juniors of the leading high schools of the state,
that would show Rice to be what we already
know it to be. We are very glad that this great
work has been at last taken up by the students
of the school. Already The Thresher has begun
to send out editions to any address given them
by the students or any one eise that is interest-
ed in the welfare of the school. But listen! Have
you heard what Mr. Wademan, business man-
ager of the '21 Campanile, is going to do? He
has given to the student body fifty copies of
the Campanile to be distributed throughout the
leading high schools of this and adjoining states.
Now, if your high school is "up" among the lead-
ing ones, it will be sure to get one, and if it does,
we are sure to get new slimes and slimesses. Per-
haps your old pal is not coming down with you
because he does not know about the school, but
when he sees that annual, he'll sure come. Let's
all give three cheers to the management of the
Campanile.
—H. B. P.
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The enthusiasm of students and Houston peo-
ple for the basket ball this season is such that
any school might be proud of. The athletic man-
agers are highly pleased at the financial results,
Mid every one else with the spirit.
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Remember the team in your prayers for to-
nite and tomorrow nite are two of the hardest
games.
gin their last siege with Old Man Finals a week
before the under classmen take their stand.
That gives a week, at least, to profs and stu-
dents to clear up difficulties of any kind and
leaves the student free to enjoy the culminating
pleasures of his college life, whole-heartedly,
with a free and untroubled mind.
The exams would get more undivided atten-
tion because they would come far enough ahead
to avoid the disturbance and excitement of THE
week. A man could write his chemistry formu-
las without a confusion of dance programs run-
ning through his cranium.
Clemson College of South Carolina works this
system with entire satisfaction. There is no
eleventh hour disappointment, a man knows
where he stands long enough ahead to not be
cast down at the last moment.
The complete abolishment of June exams for
seniors has never met with favor, but there is
no sound and unprejudiced reason which could
oppose this proposition. Better exams, happier
students, freer profs, more brilliant festivities;
four good reasons why the senior should have
an earlier exam schedule.
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Do the girls fail to respond to any privileges
granted them? Well, go see how they tum out
for their gym classes and you'll change your
mind.
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All of these inter-club basket ball teams mean
more materia! for coach next year, also more in-
telligent rooters behind the team.
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Say, are the academs dead? They fail to
show any life so far as clubs are concerned.
STAHSHX.
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(Not copyrighted but guaranteed un-
der the Poor Food and Drugs Act of
June 30. 1906. Readers are fully priv-
ileged to use these datas in orations,
debates and explaining expenses to
dad.)
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One hundred per cent of all sopho-
mores have at some time or other
passed most of the required freshman
course.
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Every third year January has 31
days.
According to Dr. Chew Glasscock
98 per cent of all native born Span-
iards have a speaking knowledge of
at least one of the Romance Lan-
guages. The remaining 18 per cent
die In infancy.
Twenty-five of every 20 girls are
addicted to the use Of candy and of
this number 24 are Incurable cinema-
tograph fiends.
Fully 50 per cent of the parents in
America are women.
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All girls belong to one of three
classes—those who have been kissed;
those who have not been kissed and
want to be; those who have not been
kissed and don't want to be.
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Ther ratio of the efficiency of stu-
dent assistants as compared to that
of regular professors is as 6000 to 1.
Particularly is this true in the math-
ematics departments.
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Recent labial examinations by male
college students shows that practical-
ly all college girls have at one time
or other used their lips for oscnla-
tory purposes. '
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Ten per cent of all American wives
married to their husbands because of
their physical strength. The remain-
ing 90 per cent married their husbands
because of their mora! weaknesses.
(For more exhaustive treatises on
any of these subjects refer to Web-
ster's Essay on "Words" and "What
a Young Man Should Kno^" by Mary
Roberts Hardrind.)
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