The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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THE THRESHER. HOUSTON, TEXAS
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A weekly newspaper pubiished by the atudents of
Rice Institute, at Houston, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter October 17,1916,
at the Poatoffice 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 1930 21.
mn C. Gresham, '22 Editor-in-Chief
Fred D. Hargis, '22 Business Manager
R. B. Upshaw, '21 Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
A. D. Batjer, '23 News Editor
Lucy Zimmer. '21 Associate Editor
Margaret BiackweH, '22 Assistant Editor
B. F. Payne, '22 Exchange Editor
E O Amoid, '23 Feature Editor
Anah Marie Leiand, '22 Society Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
B F. Mayer. '22 Circu)a".ji manager
F. H. Guffy. '22 Assistant Circulation Manager
OintonL. Dutton, '22 Advertising
Jake Henry, '22 Advertising
REPORTERS FOR TH^S ISSUE ARE:
H B. Penix
Virginia, Attwet)
L.Ehrenfetd
W. E. Weidon
Chas. Schwartz
R. S. BickforU
AtntaNemir
FEBRUARY 18, 1921.
THREE WEEKS UNTIL EXAMS.
!T is a little over three weeks until finals. This
is the shortest and most hurried, and fre-
quently disastrous of the three terms. There are
more Freshman flunk-outs at Christmas, of
course, but the greatest damage among the up-
per-classmen has in the past been at the end of
the winter term.
We must not have a repetition of last year's
tragedy, when a large number of Junior engin-
eers, including soqge of our best track men and
other athletes, flunked out, and a number of
others went on probation. It is a hard term,
and there are a number of distractions to make
neglect and postponement of work easy. But
the time for putting off is over; things to be
done this term must be done now.
Eve^ student owes it to himself and his fam-
ily to do his best to make good, but the athlete
owes it also to his school. A man who, due to
his athlctic ability, adda tho achievement nf al-
ways keeping himself available for service by
creditable scholarship, in spite of the extra
calls upon his time, deserves the greatest honor
of all. A man who throws away his ability and
makes himself useless to the school by failing in
his school work, deserves the greatest censure.
Some of the biggest victories an athlete ever
wins for his college are not in front of a yelling
crowd; those victories are made possible by lots
harder fights all alone, with some books and
midnight electricity.
Accidents and losses of valuable men last
year are still felt in the track team. We can
not afford to loose any one else. The football
men, especially the promising Freshmen, must
remember that there is only one more chance to
retrieve themselves before next season if they
go on probation this term; none at all if they
flunk out. Whatever fun you may get now
will not repay you for failing your college.
Get down to business!
^—R
A. AND M.'S NEW MASCOT.
THE A. and M. College student body has prac-
* tically adopted for its mascot the "wildcat."
Texas has long had the "Longhorn," Baylor the
the "Bear," and Rice the "Owl," but so far A.
and M. has had nothing distinctive as its "hoo-
doo." The name "Aggies" is applied to practi-
cally every student of an agricultural and me-
chanical college, and so it does nat designate that
one of Texas.
The "Wildcat" is quite unique, and is very sug-
gestive. It ia, however, employed by the Uni-
versity of Arizona. Not only are the athletic
teams of that college called the "Wildcats," but
the newspaper, as well, ia so named. Inasmuch
as the two schools are separated by natural bar-
riers and soldom come in contact with one an-
other, the fact that they both have adopted the
same mascot may not interfere.
It is interesting to note, however, that the
Arizona "Wildcats," and the Texas A. and M.
"Wildcats" (if they do decide to call themselves
that) meet for a gridiron clash on October 22.
— R
GERLACK WILL MAKE GOOD.
A ICE expects Gerlack to make good in the St.
** LoUis Cardinals' tryout, as all her other alum-
ni are doing in their chosen fields. The Thresh-
er does not hesitate to place its confidence in
such a noble son of the universtiy, who has
more than once carried the banner of the Blue
and Gray to victory, not alone in baseball, but
in football and basketball as we!!.
WRITE TO FATHER NEXT WEEK.
MEXT week, from February 21 to February 27
** ia Father and Son week, designed to bring the
fathera and sona of America closer together in
friendahip and understanding. Each day ia aet
apart for the father and aon to do aomething to-
gether: the sons are to meet the father's busi-
ness associates, there are to be long walks and
talks and work and play, together. This is, of
course, impossible for the boys away at school,
so it is planned to get every boy in school or col-
lege to write to his father during this week
How often does dad get a letter, except when
son wants more money ? When you write home,
isn't it usually to mother? And how often is it
a real letter, that gives any idea of what you are
doing and thinking, of what your interests and
problems and ambitions are?
There is nobody just like mother, of course;
she is great on sympathy and intuitive under-
standing and all that. But father is every bit
as fine in a little different way. He has been
along the road you are going himself; he knows
all about problems that mother, however hard
she tries, can only guess at.
When you left high school you were a school
boy to your father; you are coming to be a man,
and his contemporary. With the changed re-
lationship, especially when the son is away from
home nearly all the time, there is often built up a
barrier of almost self-conscious reticence be-
tween a man and his father. Even when the
small boy and his father were the best of chums,
when there is still the deepest affection between
the two, as man and man they are strangers.
Yet this is the time, when the boy is first get-
ting to understand the burdens and responsi-
bilities of manhood, that the truest understand-
ing and mutual appreciation is possible.
Write to your father, as you would talk to
your best chum. Really let him inside your life.
Don't think he won't appreciate it and that he
won't respond. If you will give him a chance,
you will find that he can furnish a deep under-
standing friendship that is one of the rarest and
most precious things in the world.
R
Drama is the highest development of the play
instincts of man, recognized by all psychologists,
biologists and socialogists as a necessary factor
in life. The presence of amateur drama in our
midst is highly commendable and should be en-
couraged by every student.
R
The fish are said to be biting, and we know the
flowers are blooming on the hillsides and the
plains about Houston. Take a day off and go
fishing and get your soul limbered up for a long
and glorious summer.—Houston Chronicle.
We wish we could.
R
Houston would be the best place to which to
remove the State University. However, in Rice
Institute the Pink ^Buttercup City already has
the leading institution of learning in the coun-
try.—Chronicle.
R
Those who went last night to the jazzy-jazz
revue declared their money well spent. Tonight
is your last time to kill three birds with one
stone.
R
"Patronize home industries" has long been a
familiar saying. Keep it from being like most
and follow it. Go to the Y. W. play tomorrow
night.
—R
Spring is here as the buds both in the trees
and on the cloister testify. But don't let "spring-
time thoughts" interfere with studious ones.
ARE
U
PLAYMG SQUARE
DM) YOU COME ACROSS
With the
SALESMANSHIP CLUB?
HAVE YOU AT LEAST TWO
TICKETS FOR THE Y. W. PLAY?
HAVE YOU PAID YOUR
CLASS DUES?
ARE YOU READY
FOR THE FMAK?
The outstanding fauit with Rice is
that there aren't enough giris here
for aii the boys to have one ail the
time.
R-r- -
The oniy objection we have to Sales-
manship Revues is that they come
but once a year. A few dorm kids
had decided that the cost woutd not
justify going, but when that poster
was put on the mess hail baicony
there was a rush for front seats and
opera giasses.
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The two biggest scandais of the
week are that Dr. Gtasscock was seen
skating on the sidewaik with a fresh-
man <co-ed and that Dean Caidwetl
was seen waiking home with 12 cab'
bage heads in his arms. Dr. G. teaches
the romance ianguages whiie the dean
is an instructor in economics at Rice.
We like to think ourseives a con-
noisseur of beauty and we wish that
certain co-eds would iaunder their
faces in order that we might know
whether to add their photos to our
coiiection or not.
The baBebai) squad has reported
for duty. There has been quite a bit
of pessimism in regards to our pros-
pects for a good team. Some of this
has been made public off the campus.
The most certain way in the world
to get defeat is to admit defeat in
advance. It's true, between me and
you, that Rice hasn't a great number
of star baseball men, but with an early
start like this, a coach such as Pete
Cawthon, can develop amateurs into
first-ciass players, provided the men
are properly encouraged to work for
improvement. Dope waB ever unre-
liable. Are.,we going to have a good
baseball team? Hell, yes! !
Another pleasure we hope to derive
from Tuesday's being a holiday is the
relief from those matinee ticket
scalpers.
Not casting My reflections, but
when we endow our university we
shaiistipuiate that the 46 buildings
ali be completed before a single stu-
dent is registered.
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Carry that horseshoe all day today.
The togni a) <H M
We often read about certain "eds"
who go hunting on week ends, but
we never hear of what they got
Question: What is it these fellows like
to hunt?
)EHY BHD SEZ:
Gymnastically speaking from a cai-
isthenic standpoint we say, "on with
P. T. for the Co-Eds."
Judging from persona! observation,
we do not believe that steps on trol-
ley cars are any longer necessary.
The only political views sothe wom-
en have are photographs of the candi-
dates.
R
"Circumstances Alter Kiss."—Puck.
Nay, stranger, calm yourself.
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!'m raving in a mad-house cell;
I writhe and beat the ground;
in all the place, ! beg to tell,
No madder man is found.
For i tried to see the "Pageant, "
"Travatia," "The ^Minstrel Show."
I was nothing but a counter jade—
I didn't have the dough.
I took Marie to see "The Snob."
Lucilie to "Watch Your Step."
I went with Sadie to "The Misleading
Lady,"
With Sue to "Fun o' Pep."
I bought a box for Schumann-Heink,
I was getting awell, you see,
.When deMumgon, hit me,
And fnyMhbtA^theymfned me.
So, I'm raving in a mad-honae and
I hear the watchman tail
How he learns the hits of Houston
Whiie pacing paat my ceii.
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A woman ia like a cigar, you can't
teii the filler by the wrapper.
Recent culminations of events tend
to prove ottr contention that it takes
one woman 20 yeraa to make a man
out of her aon and just 20 minutes for
another to make a fool ont of him.
Thassaii.
TMtS HWP W'"$ A, MX Of NON-
SKtOMACAtMM).
A Texarkana editor aaya that if
men would look women in the eyea,
which they ahould, there wouldn't be
ao much beefing nboat abort dreaaea
WHZN OHMK *MTS OHMK.
A thought for today—Do you re-
member that old song. "They Are
Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii?"
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We WWKrwn Cwmpariatn
Showing
New Spring Clothes
Featuring Young Men * Style*
Houston's best store for men and boys is ready with a
magnificent assortment of New Spring Clothing for men
and young men. New pencil stripes, chalk lines, club
checks, handsome colorings and all wool materials.
C!othing of the Finest Quality Sold the "Landers Co."
SmaH Profit Way—Prosperity Is on the Way—
Dress Up to Meet it Now.
MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SWTS
Knox—Stetson—Schoble Hats
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