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VOLUME vi
MCE INSTiTUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, FEBRUARY U, 1921
NUMBER 20
MCE F!VE PREPARE
TO GO TO A. AND M.
Coach Cawthon is devoting ait his
energies to conditioning the Owi team
for their second ciash with the Texas
aggies. The two games wiil be played
in College Station next Thursday and
Friday nights. A. and M. has a some-
what better record so far than Rice
has bnt dope is never reiiabie and the
Owis are exceedingly anxious to be
revenged for the defeats they suffered
at the hands of the Aggies earlier in
the season.
The recent field trip taken by the
Rice five proved disastrous for our
championship ambitions but the team
is determined to regain the ground
lost. as much as possible. Both Texas
and Baylor took two games on the
trip but Rice defeated Bayior eartier in
the season and Baylor defeated Texas,
so there you are. Basketball is becom-
ing largely a game of chance and fore-
casts are impossible.
Ali the students who can possibly
spare the time and the fare are urged
to accompany the team to College Sta-
tion and back them up in their play-
ing. The Rice chess team will meet
the A. & M. chess players there at
the same time.
REGULAR MEETMGS
OF WRITERS CLUB
BEGM TUESDAY AT 3
Dr. Axson Offers to Give His
Time to Develop Local
Writing Ability.
GALVESTON Y BEATS
FISH BY 3 POtNTS
In the Hotly Contested Game
Lead Constantly Changes.
Three little old points represent the
margin of defeat or the freshmen at
Galveston last Saturday night, the
final score being 29-26. The game
was fierce all the way, the lead chang-
ing back and forth, with the result
in doubt until the final whistle.
Swartz started the scoring with a
goal from the middle of the court and
from then on it was anybody's game.
The first half ended 10-9, with the
"Y" team in the lead.
The freshmen came back strong In
the second period and took the lead
due to sensational goaling by Willis
and Sanders. This lead was held un-
til the final five minutes of play when
the "Y" team staged a great rally
and forged ahead to a three point vic-
tory.
The freshman line-up:
Willis and Sanders, forwards. Mc-
Kean center, Campbell and Swartz
guards.
The Writers' Club was re-organized
Tuesday afternoon, under the direc-
tion of Dr. Stockton Axson, who or-
ganized the club last year, and made
of it one of the Hvest and most thor-
oughly practical of the campus liter-
ary societies.
"1 have the desire to be of any
assistance that 1 may to every per-
son interested in writing." said Dr.
Axson. "The Writers' Club enjoyed
a very successful period last year, and
prospects look very attractive for this
year."
AH tpembers were asked to begin
a short story or a play at once, and
dates for reading future manuscripts
will be announced iater. It is abso-
iutely voluntary.
The next meeting wiii be Tuesday,
Room 311 A. B., at 3 p. m„ and at I
that time Dr. Axson will qxpiain the t
purpose of the club, decide the time
of future meetings, and Will take up
some of the leading short story writ-!
ers who emphasize construction.
As a man whose chief interest is
iiterary construction and criticism, Dr.
Axson is an admirable director for
such an organization, it is stated.
WULUS [S CAPTAIN
OF FISH GOALERS
TRACK WORK BEGMS
SCHEDULE !S G!YEN
Long Distance Men Hard at
it—Everything Is
Ready.
The track team for this year was
cailed together on Monday to organ
ize and to get training orders from
their coach. A very iarge bunch re-
ported to the meeting and track suits
were given out to the men going out
for iong distances. Coach Arbuckle
asked the iong distance men to work
out about three times a week unti)
the track work couid be taken up by
aH who wanted to train. There were
not enough suits for everyone and the
freshmen were asked not to report
for work untU two weeks by which i
time the athietic department wiil have i
enough suits for them and any one
eise wishing to work out throughout!
the whole season. In two weeks track ,
practice wit) be in fui) swing, each!
participant doing his best toward!
heiping Rice to have the best track ;
team in the Southwest.
The foliowing schedule of the track
season was given to The Thresher for
publication:
April 2, with Bayior at Houston.
Apri) 9, with Texas at Austin.
Aprii 16, with L S. U. (not certain)
at Houston.
Aprii 23. S. M. U. at Daitas.
Aprii 30, A. & M. at Houston.
May 7, Texas Intercollegiate Meet
at Houston.
May 14, Southwestern Conference
Meet at Waco.
Every date available is tailed and
this means that the schedule will re-
quire a lot of training for the par-
ticipants of each meet.
PLANS MADE FOR
NATIONWIDE TRACK
MEET AT CHICAGO
SHMIOFSERVKE
KNEED OF WORLD
At an interview Coach Arbuckie said
that at the National t'oilegiate Meet-
ing at Chicago In last December, pians
were made for a nationwide track
meet, probabiy to be heid on June 11
or IS. The purpose of this is to de-
termine the intercoliegiate champion-
ship of the United States. Only the
winners of the State or Conference
Meets win be eiigibie to participate
in this meet. A committee was ap-
pointed to seiect the place. for hoiding
the meet and it .-is thought that it
wi%;be heid in Chicago or'Some other
place in the middle West. Rice is
iooking forward for representation at
this meet through Lindsey, Harian,
Dowel[ and perhaps others.
Sherwood Eddy Makes Last-
ing Impression on Student
Body.
ADDRESSES ENURE STUDENT'
BODY !N AMPHITHEATRE AND
TO THE MEN IN COMMONS.
CLARK TO TALK
TO BUSINESS CLUB
World Known Expert on Com-
merce and Trade.
Noel Wiiiis of Hydro, Okiahoma,}
was elected captain of the freshman
basket ball team last Friday just be-
fore the team departed for Galveston, j
Willis plays a forward position on ;
the freshman five and is a sensationai
goaler as well as a clever floor man.
His graduation into "Varsity" class
next year should strengthen the Rice
five. Here's luck to you, "Slime."
SEVENTY-TWO FOREIGN
STUDENTS AT L. S. U.
Chess Team to be Chosen
To Represent Rice at A.&M.
FRESHMEN VS. HUMBLE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
The freshman cage team will play i
Humble High School at the Rice gym.'
Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p. - m.
Everybody out to yell for these scrap-
py "slimes."
CALENDAR
Saturday, February 12.
11:30 A. M.—Engineering Lecture—
Ryan—Amph.
8unday, February 13.
9:30 A. M.—8ervieet Community
House.
3:00 P. M.—Tagore Letture* City
Auditorium.
Monday, February 14.
12:30 P. M.—E. B. L. 8. Meeting.
1:30 P. M.—Otrts' Qym etasses.
4:30 P. M.—t-yte Lectures Untver-
atty Ciub.
7:30 P. M.—Rice Forum.
Tueaday, February 16.
12:30 P. M.—P. A. L. 8. meeting.
7:00 P. M.—Bustness Men's Ctub
meeting. c,
8:00 P. M.—Samurai Rice—Majee-
tie party.
Wedneaday, February 16.
12:30 P. M.—Y. W. C. A. meeting.
4:30—Watkin'a Lecture—Inetitute.
7:00 P. M.—Pre-MeH. Ciub meet-
)ng.
Thuraday, February 17.
12:30 P. M.—Y. W. C. A. meeting.
Riee-A. A M. basket bati game,
Cottage Station.
Riee-A. A M. ehaaa meet, Cottage
Station.
Frtday, February It-
H:S0 P. Mr-Qtrta' Tannta Ctub
meettn).
1:!0 P. M.—Qirta' Oym etaaala.
me*A. 4 M. basket bait and
ohaaa meet, Cotiege Statian.
Rice wiil be represented in the
chess match with A. & M. by the best
five of the following players: Marcus
AcheBon, John Beshara, Paul Bushong.
Ernersto Gonzalez, Van Haile McFat'
land, Frank Sherry, Harold Taylor
and Clarence Wademan. The names
of those who make the team will he
printed in next week's Thresher.
Their relative positions will be decid-
ed this week. They wiil go to Col-
lege Station on Feb. 17, with the bas-
ket ball team, and will play Thursday
and Friday nights there.
Dr. Axson at T. C. U.
To Deliver Lectures
Last week-end Dr. Axson visited
John Tarleton CoHege at Stephenville,
Texas, where he spoke. This week-
end he delivers a course of lectures
at T. C. U. in Fort Worth.
DR. A. H. FLICKWIR TO
ADDRESS PRE-MEDS
"Some Problems of Civic
Sanitation," to be
Topic.
"Some Problems of Civic Sanitation"
will be the subject discussed by Dr.
A. H. Ftickwir, prominent Houston
physician and city health officer, be-
fore the membership of the Pre-Medl-
cal Society in the Commons at 7:30
p. m„ Wednesday.
Dr. Fllckwir served with the navy
during the late war and has been con-
nected with the United tOates Health
Bureau and the City Health Depart-
ment since his return. He was a
leading factor in the government fight
against social diseases and did much
to have the government hospital lo-
cated at Camp Logan.
Important questions wili be discuss-
ed at this meeting. Full attendance
is urged.
Baton, Rouge, La., Feb. 9.—The Lou-
isiana State University now has a to-
tal enrollment of 1,039 pupils, repre-
senting 19 states of the Union and 24
other countries. Of the total number
enrolled 813 men are men and 226
women. These figures do not include
the enroliment of the demonstration
high school or the short courses for
home demonstration agents.
The states represented and the num-
ber of students from each are as fol-
lows :
Alabama. 5; Arkansas. 2; California,
3; Georgia. I: Illinois, 1; Indiana, 3;
Kansas. 1: Kentucky, 2: Louisiana.
S91: Massachusetts, 2; Mississippi,
21: Nebraska. 2: New York, 7; North
Carolina. 3: Ohio. 3; Oklahoma. 2;
Tennessee, I; Texas. 3; Total 9H7.
Other countries represented are:
Barbadoes, 2: Brazil, 12; British
West Indies. 2: Canary Islands, 1;
China, 1; Costa Hica, 2: Cuba, 2;
Equador, 1; -England, 1: Greece, 1;
Guatemala. 1; Hawaii. 2; India. 1;
Japan. 1; Mauritius, 4; Mexico. 6;
Nicauragua, 1: Peru. 4: Philippine Is-
lands, 9: Porto Rico. 12: Salvador, 1;
South Africa, 2; Total. 72.
EDWIN G. C0NKLIN
AT RICE MARCH 7TH
Professor Edwin G. Conklln, the dis-
tinguished bioiogist of Princeton Uni-
versity, wiil be giving a course of
public lectures at the Rice Institute
during the week beginning March 7th.
FRESHMEN DEFEAT
ALPHA RH0S 12 TO i
In what reminded one of the rough
est grid-clash of last fall, the Fresh-
man Cagers defeated the Atpha Rho
basket ball team last week to a tune
of 12 to 1. Captain Willis and Schwartz
did stellar work for the freshmen;
Dyer and Boettcher piayed wet! for
Alpha Rho.
RALPH ADAMS CRAM
AT RICE FEBRUARY 25
Mr. Ralph Adams Cram, Lltt. D„ LL.-
D„ of Messrs. Cram and Ferguson,
supervising architects of the institute,
expects to visit the institute the last
week in February, it is hoped that
while here he wiii be giving several
public lectures, the program of Mich
will be announced later.
(By JOE BENSON.)
Ansel H. Clark of the United States
bureau of foreign and domestic com-
merce will be the guest of the Busi-:
ness Club of the Institute during the
latter part of the coming May, atj
which time he will confer with the
authorities of tile Institute concern-
ing the institution of courses in for
eign trade.
Mr. Clark is at present touring the
country for the purpose of promoting
closer '.relationships between business
men and the government in the matter
ol foreign trade relations, ttte Bu-
reau of Foreign adn Don&stic Com
merce is one of the largest commer-
cial organizations in tjie worid. having
representatives it) every important
trading center in the world, and
branches throughout the United
States. The organization of the bu-'
reau is capable of meeting and soiv-
ing almost any problem that an
exporter may have to meet, and is
ready and willing to offer this serv-
ice to the industrial organizations of
the country.
When bis present itinerary is com
pleted Mr. Clark will rest for a week
or so in Washington, and then start
on a tour of the larger America!) uni-
versities iti the interest * of schools
of commerce and particularly courses:
in foreign trade work. He will prob-
ably start out in the eastern schools
on account of their nearness to his
ohme office, hut after this he will j
come down lite Atlantic states and
then across the South. Only the more
important colleges of the country wit!
he visited and his southern route will
probably include eGorgia Institute of
Technology, Auburn. Tttlatie. Hii e and
Texas.
Mr. Clark was scheduled to talk to
the Business Club on his present trip,
but a crowded schedule made it im
possible. However, on his next trip
he will give the club a talk similar!
to that delivered before the Hotary
Club of Houston last week.
The Business Club will meet Tttes-'
day in the Commons.
v"
BUSINESS CLUB OF-
FERS FUTURE PROGRAM
The Business Club is at last able
to announce somewhat completely its
program for the year. In securing
speakers for the organization it has
been most pleasantly received by the
business men of Houston, all of whom
have expressed their willingness to
co-operate in every we; possible to-
ward the success of the organization.
However, the club has been exceed-
ingly unfortunate in the planning of
its program for the first of the year,
tt being so.,that a postponement or
two rather disorganized the schedule,
and the subsequent absence from the
city of the scheduled and postponed
speakers threw the scheme into a
somewhat chaotic condition. The club
has endeavored to secure men who are
among the best posslbte material for
speakers on different types of busi
ness, and considers that it has been
extremely fortunate and successful In
this. Some of the men approached
for an engagement admitted frankly
that they were highly honored at be-
ing invited to address the club but
did not consider themsetves enough
of the speaker type to fill the en-
gagement; in every case, however,
these men have assisted in every way
(Continued on Page 4, Column S.)
(By Brittain F. Payne.;
"ldeaiistn must supplant material-
ism and love must be substituted for
hatred if the great social and indus-
trial problems of the world arc to be
' solved." declared Sherwood Eddy. au-
! thor, phitosopher and lecturer, in hi-
< address before the student body in
the physics amphitheatre and th" < ,,]))- t
mons, l-'riday
After telling of the vast f hant^ -
taking place in the world today, ii"
showed how social principies fhn it-
applied to the present industrial proi)
lem, saying:
The Social and Industrial Problems.
"The crucial fptestion before the
world today is the sociai and indus
trial problem. It is convuising Eu-
rope. It must be faced by America;
&Md it wiii never be settled until it is
settled righ'. What are the founda
tions upon which we may base the so
lution? There art' certain eternai
principles of truth and of right that
are grounded alike in reason, in con
science, and in experience. Some of
them have been voiced by the gr^at
phiiosopbers. some of them have been
taught by great moralists, ali of
them were taught and exemplified ex-
plicitly and implicit iy by Jesus of
Nazareth in the great principles of
personality, brotherhood, service, tilt
erty, justice, accountabiiity, summed
up In tho a!! inelugirf p! inc!ple
]ove."
The World Problem.
Mr. Eddy said that just as France
had passed through the period of the
guillotine and emerged a clean re-
public. so will Europe pass through
the red terror of holshevism with the
satne lasting gains The whole of
Europe is thinking and thinking hard.
We have hardly been required to
think thus tar. but as surely as night
follows day. we, here and America,
will have to think and soive our prob-
lem. The question is. shall the
change be accomplished hyuevolution
or revolution?'
"What the worid needs infinitely
greater than an e<mal distribution of
wealth, he said, "is the equality of
opportunity. Oniy one in a thoustfnd
have an opportunity tor an education
in a university of as high a standard
as Rice Institute, while 6nly one in
two hundred and fifty has an oppor-
tunity of a college education of any
kind."
The Need of Food.
Examples of the suffering of Karop-
ean students were given by Alt Hddy.
In the University of Vienna, the next
highest paid professor receives a sai-
ary of $285 a year. Students of th<
satne institution are trying to live on
10 cents a day. Tuberculosis is sweep-
ing Central Europe, children, ten
years of age, look to be infants of two
years, In some, cases whole famiiies
are trying to iive on less than a doi-
lar a day. in Armenia, many young
girls, not over eight years old have
been violated. In China, more people
will die of starvation than in the next
six months than were killed in the
world war. The world needs food.
America's barns are bursting and yet
more than six millions will die of
famine this year.
The Need of Peace.
Every country visited by Mr. Eddy
has been in the midst of a great na-
tional crisis. Russia Is In the depth
of revolution, unrest Is prevalent in
Egypt, Japan Is crying for democracy.
India is on the verge of insurrection,
and Ireland Is turbulent. The great
dynasties, the Bourbons, the "Roman-
offs. the Hohenzollerns, and the Hnps
burgs, have disappeared from Europe.
All of the great autocracies have
fallen and we see emerging from the
debris more than a dozen free repub-
lics. But, peace has not come. Fight-
ing and misery are prevalent in every
corner of the earth.
The Need of God.
The third great need of the world
is God. Even In the eastern portions
of the United States, the heart of Pur-
itanism. there Is a great moral laxity.
Materialism will not futflll the needs
of the world. Love must be substi-
tuted for greed and profit.
Mr. Eddy left Houston Friday night }
for Dallas to address the students of
Southern Methodist University. From
Dallas he went to Norman to lecture
at Oklahoma University.
RANNDRANAIH
TAGORE SPEAKS
HERE FEB. 13IH
Considered Genius of Age, at
Auditorium Sunday.
By Mrs. Laura Wood.
The fact that Tagore will appear n,
Houston at the City Auditorium. Sun
day afternoon, February I:', at
i o'clock, has aw akened much interest
in the great man. In his raft- and tta-
I tionality. in his writings ;;nd his pub-
lic work.
Rabindranath Tagore was born ir
'Calcutta. India, in IStSl His father,
himself a great spiritual leader.
the son of a maharaja in a family dis
tinguished throughout India tor many
centuries. He is an Aryan of Aryans
not a drop of blood of the yellow or
brown races flows in his veins It is
sometimes necessary to remind the
American that the Hindu is just Hs
much of a white man as he is. The
Hindu, though an earlier suit race, i-
purelv Aryan, shoving pure Aryan
features of the most clear-rut and r-
fined type, the hurnette complexion
being the result of many centuries of
life in the tropics.
The great vcrsatiiity of Tagores
genius makes him an outstanding fig
ure iti the world today. He has reach
ed heights of excellence in every de-
partment of literature poetry, drama
ess.iys. short stories and novels, lb
has to his credit over li.H) volumes,
showing creative genius and great
originality. 'He is remarkable in that
he combines in himself the traits r!
the Hast and the West in a sttpci dr
grce. He is a contemplative phi)
osopher. a mystic poet, and yet he is
a man who can do things, an organizer
who tan make his dreams come true
He has demonstrated his practical
ability in bis success as an educator,
a social and poiitical reformer, ''and
lecturer.
Principal Works.
Since receiving the Nobel prize for
Idealistic literature in 1913. Tagore
has gained an unprecedented interna
tlonal reputation as a poet and a matt
of letters, causing a great demand for
his works in English translation. His
best known works are: "Oitanjali,
(Song Offerings), "Sadhana. the Reai
ization of Life," "Sacrifice." "The
Postoffice." "The Gardener." "Stray
Birds," "Fruit Gathering," "The Hun
gry Stones." "Chitra," and "The King
3f the Dark Chamber."
Tagore's tdeat Sehooi.
In 1902 Tagore founded an open-air
dchool on his estate. Shanti-Niketan
(Abode of Peace); there were only
three or four children, his own young
son being among the first students.
There are now over 200 students and
more than 20 teachers.
"1 decided to found a school," said
Tagore. "where the students could
feel that there was a higher and a
nobler thing in tife than practical ef-
ficiency ... It was to know life It-
self well."
In pursuance of this ideal, a stmtII
dumber of pupils (not over eight or
ten! live wtth a teacher in a small
house on the estate. Corporal pun-
ishment. harsh words, and fault find-
ing are not allowed: teachers and stu
dents are like friends, or like older
and younger brothers, l^tve Is the
great force used to tnake the children
good and happy, and under the love
and guidance of Tagore and his teach
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