The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1921 Page: 4 of 4
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PAGE FOUR
THE THRESHER. HOUSTON, TEXAS
Did you know that the new Commu-
nity House will include many loveiy
feature* for the girts? The cafeteria,
which proved such a Messing to piris
in the past two years, is to be con-
tinued, and in addition there wiii be
a private dining haii in which parents
or friends may be entertained at iunch
or at afternoon tea.
On the second fioor there is to be
a study haH and rest room for the girls.
aii furnished in white wicker and biue
cretonne, containing aicoves and
desks and tables for study, and chairs,
iongues and big comfy chairs fpr re-
pose.
There are many other items of in-
terest about this nice, new place, bnt
we will tell you of them later. Just
ask Mrs. Blake or Mr. Masterson about
the services and dances which are to
be held over there and you'li see how
lovely it is.
FOOTBALL EQIUPMENT
20 Per Cent Discount to Rice Students
C. L. & THEO. BEMNC CO., he.
909 MAW STREET
"We Treat Your Clothes White"
BURKHART'S
Laundry & Dye Works
in prose or poetry. To be recogntaed
as great they have only to be read.
They provide the refreshment and re-
pose required by the active, creative
spirit of man no less than the body
that sustains it. * * * To facilitate
your appropriations from these great
spiritual resources we are this autumn
doubling the capacity of the library
of the Rice Institute, for Rice must be
a reading, reflecting race."
Poetry and religion. Mr. Lovett show-
ed then, are "Mood relations." save
in their attachment to practical affairs.
"In its relationship to practical af-
fairs," he said, "the religion of Chris-
tendom has this year several signifi-
cant anniversaries. Dante was buried
In 1321 in the habit of St. Francis.
St. Dominic died in 1221. The two
orders of Friars, the Dominicans and
the Franciscans, * * * each have this
year anniversaries—the one of its en-
tering into England and the death of
its founder, the other of its first great
chapter meeting, when some five thou-
sand members assembled at the little
church of Portiuncula '
Dr. Lovett sketched the work of the
Friars and their Influence on learning,
politics, philanthropy, literature, art
and scholarship. The Franciscan dom-
ination of architecture is MM, he
pointed out, in the plans of Autry
house, now being completed just out-
side the campus as a memorial to
James Lockhart Autry by his wife.
Dr. Lovett was warm in his praise of
the friendship of the Autry family, of
which a son, J. L„ Jr., graduated from
Rice tast autumn, and a daughter, Miss
Alia May. has just entered her Fresh
Laundry goes out every day. Leave bundies in
second floor debating room before 5 o'ciock.
HMtBtNT LOVtTT OtVM
MATmeULATtOM AOORM*
(Continued from Page 1.)
ship, not oniy in erudition and in in-
vestigation, but in action and expres-
sion, "has at the Rice Institute so
austere a reputation. Rice must be a
writing race."
Another commemoration of Interest
to this institution is the three hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the birth
of Kepier, December 25,1571—the man
of science, differing in every respect
from the Frenchman writer, said the
Speaker. "The supreme achievement
of the one may not unworthiiy be
placed beside the supreme achieve-
ment of the other," he pointed out,
however. "Montaigne's three books
of essays occupy In any commentary
on human nature a piace comparabie
with that of Kepler's three laws of
planetary motion In the history of the
heavens.
He pictured Kepier as providing the
foundation for modern astronomy, yet
failing in the end to satisfy himself
as to the mathematicai reasons for the
laws which he discovered. "Any so-
calied science becomes more worthy
the name as it becomes more mathe-
matical in form." he deciared. "Kepler
knew and could use the mathematics
of his day. Newton went farther be-
cause he was abie to invent the mathe-
matics he needed. If Einstein catches
a more sweeping view than Newton's.
it is because he is borne aloft by the
more powerfu) and perfect machinery
of modern mathematics. Aii three,
and the giants among their peers, were
driven by an unresting and insatiable ! mat], year.
inteliectuai curiosity that would not! equity gtad to know." hej
]et them go: each for himself 'ottnd "that other reiigious com-i
the most durable satisfaction of human , ^unions have simitar estabtishments
life and the most desirabie form of,j„ contemplation, for white we have
human service to reside in the satis- r^joi^d h, our freedom from
[action of that ceaseless inteiiectuai poHttcai and ecciesiasticai affiiiations
of aii sorts, we have as often said that
we can conceive of no university in
FELLOWS—We
proud
demon-
ShotweU's
Feature Hat
strated your confidence in u
the extent that we may riyhtfu!-
!y My: "The Rice Store."
College Men's Suits
In Tweeds and Herringbones
$35 $45
Best Quality Light Weight
LAB APRONS
Wiil Protect Your Clothes
Sold by
Flanagan
Chem. Lab.
THE CO-OP
!curiosity. Accordingly, it) science as
! in scholarship, ltice must be a reason
i inn. researching race."
Continuing to a discussion of Dante
; and the reading of poetry, the presi-
^ dent mentioned the keeping of other
anniversaries of the year—Keats and
Gray and Scott; "The Anatomy of Mei-
at. holy," from Robert Burton, first
appearing in 1621: the fahtes of La-
Fontaine, "who was born at Chateau
Thierry exactiy three hundred years
ago. and the Arabian Nights, first
transiated into English by Sir Richard
F. Burton, whose centenary faiis in
the present year."
]y
whose life there do not appear the,
energy and enthusiasm, the affection i
andthecaim, that weassociateinone
way or another with reverence, pa-
riotistn. politics and reiigion I have
aiways confident])' believed, if Rice
were a reading, writing, reasoning
race, Rice wouid be a righteous, reiig-;
iousrace." !
Finaiiy, said he, Rice must be a,
ruling race. In this connection he re- :
caiied the anniversaries of Marathon,
Thermopyiae, Artcmisium, Salamis,
i Piataea—"victory, defeat, draw, vic-
"Above aii, he added, "we have been t topy, victory for the Creeks." Yester-
reading, writing and talking 3*)"ut (]gy 24()U years ago, he said, Athens
Dante, the sexcentenary of whose geiebrating the decisive victory}
death, on September 14, 1321, has 'ate- neighboring Salamis. He pointed out
that the Greeks in those times werej
HELLO FELLOWS!
Did you know that the sporting page of
the Post is aiways iuH of accounts of the
latest athletic events oi interest.
Walk over to the dormitory office and get
a copy.
Jake Henry wiM take care of your subscrip-
tion for you.
THE HOUSTON POST
Snappy Sport News Just After Sunrise.
been ceiebrated the world over,
in these Dante commemorations
Rice has piayed its part through the
contributions of the Students Associa-'
tion to the permanent memorial being!
estabiished both in italy and America,
and through the seven public textures
of Messrs. Axson. Caidweii, Conkiiu.
Hvans. Guerard, Tsanoff and Walker
which wiii appear soon in a uesv Rice
institute pamphiet."
Anyone who fiils his head fuli of^o,^, at distant bayou's
great poetry wit) soon come to be con- guiding hetms
tent with none but the greatest ot Qf Houston's commerce, industry and
fighting the battie of modern civiliza-
tion as wetl as their own.
In eniiogue. Dr. Lovett offered this
sonnet:
Facing the City from the Approach
to Rice.
A shim'ring gleam of grey and green,;
and doubly lined
Oneithet-side with shelt'ring oaks and
stately eints.
brink, the
prose. Nor are there any rutes for the
recognition of these truiy great things'
s
TYLE-
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That's
insiders
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2ND
RICE
414 MA!N
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a suit purchase.
cotiege man
lit a -tones-HnH'mnn Suit You'H find Style
iiidQuatityatapieaxinKprice.
Fv.-ry new sty!<- that
tnir! s(.-:t.-on is imbodied
riitn'!'f)tK's. C!nh Check
in a price range of
is considered good
in our Tweeds. Her-
and Penci! Stripes
H's N
ECKWEAR
The New Narrow
Rot] Brims
Originated by
CoHege Men
4-5-7
The Ones That
Tie in smai! knots
Just tike you
Like them.
A COBPORATKW
A. JONES P. S. HOFFMAN J. D. MASON J. F. BERLY
trade, consigned
Through chann-rdeep to shores of'
seven seas. HehinJ,
A teni.ie of the mind, benigniy over-
wheims
With tight and beauty aii the human
spirit's reaims,
Between, the happy homes of Hous
ton's humankind.
') ye that biazed the traiis across the ;
Texas main,
And reared those shining towers above '
the prairie's sod,
Assured of hope that neither faith nor
ioveisvain;
Know titat we tread in faith the for i
ward path ye trod;
K et:. as ye strove in iove, we strive
tite goal, to gain
Of freedom: seek as ye through truth!
our way to Cod.
R
ENGINEERtNG NEWS.
First
The
Nationa!
OF HOUSTON
Houston, Texas
Bank
CAPITAL
SURPLUS
DEPOSITS
$ 2,000,000.00
$ 500,000.00
$23,000,000.00
LIBRARY GROWS
DURING SUMMER
Tite resignation of Mr. Lyie and Mr.
Hart, together with a large registra-
tion of i'resitnieu. are responsibie for
iltrecnewmembersoftheengineering
faculty. Mr. Yerges and Mr. P. H.
ilt.derwootl will offer courses in draw-
ing. Mr. Witters will he transferred
from mechanical engineering to elec-
trical engineering subjects, and Mr.
Itietert wiil take over Mr. Waters'
I former work. Mr. Underwood, like Mr.
Waters, is a Ric^ 1917 graduate. Since
leaving schoo) he has been employed
by the General Hlectric Company. Mr.
Dietert is a graduate of Iowa State,
but. has lately been empioyed by the
Westinghouse Company in their tur-
bine and marine factory at South Phil-
adelphia. The other members of the
facuity and their ^ork remain un-
changed. These three new instructors
bring the total number of strictly en-
gineering teachers up to ten.
R
Several new pieces of equipment
have been Installed by the mechanical
engineering department during the
summer. TheyincludeaBrlnnelhard-
ness testing machine, a brass furnace
and simple foundry equipment, a wood
turning lathe, new benches for weld-
ing and handwork, and lighting and
venttlation Improvements In the base-
ment shop. The laboratories have
been repainted and plastered, and In
the annex the work of installing mo-
tor-driven centrifugal and triplex
pumps has been completed.
With the addition of twenty-two hun-
dred upt-o-date books and periodicals
during the summer months, the library
has been forced to extend Its boun-
daries and open a second department
on the first fioor of the administra-
tion huiiding, in the room formerly
used as the boys' study room. Re-
served books, reference books and
periodicals, bound and unbound, are
stored here. Miss Sarah Lane '19 is
in charge of the downstairs section.
Miss Ailce Dean is acting librarian.
New and larger book cases are ex-
pected to arrive soon for the use of
the new department, which Is at pres-
ent employing temporary equipment.
The library wiii not interfere with
the use of the room as a study hall.
It Is hoped, on the contrary, that Its
facility will be Increased in this direc-
tion, as there will be more quiet and
readier access to the library shelves.
WELCOME .
MCE STUDENTS
SOUTH END BARBER SHOP
Your Patronage
Highly Appreciated.
As You Get Off the Shuttle.
1014 EAGLE
THE BRAZOS HOTEL
You — Stop There -
there and make it
home in Houston.
rates are reasonable and
the service the best.
- Eat
your
The
J. K.
Manager
J. A. KHBLER
Proprietor
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1921, newspaper, September 23, 1921; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229895/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.