The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1923 Page: 2 of 4
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W. M. DarUna. M .Edttor-tn-Chief
J. C. Btttw. ButiMM
R. S. Btckford. '33 Man-txing BdAor
Edttari*) D*p*ftm*nt
SybHmnrta Dannhton. 'M.... Awoettto Editor
Buford Goodwin. 'M New* Editor
Hym<tn Pieon, M A**t. Newt Editor
Ben Mitehe)). Zt Sports Editor
Mary Mtckentie. '23 Society Editor
Hatat Canaan. '25 Hoots Editor
J. H. Hughes, '23 Exchange Editor
Sarah Lane. 'IB Ex-Studea Editor
Jack Gienn. '25 Cartoon Editor
J. L. Moore. '25 Feature Editor
Busintm Department
B. V. Logsdon Ass't Business Mgr.
R. H. Hannan Circuiation Mgr.
Reportoria! StaS.
Lindsay Biayney W. R. Simpson.
THAT DAMN "Y"
No, the tittle tit!e is not new. It's
been copyrighted long ago. That
does'nt keep the rest of us from using
it, however. As a matter of fact, it
was once used quite a bit; we can
remember when it was used around
this campus.
The "M" in Y. M. C. A., doesn't
stand for "Mortality." It stands for
"Men." There are aii kinds of men.
The Y. M. C. A. is for them aii. That's
why we get the "stunt night" every
once in a whiie.
Don't make any mistakes—the Y.
M. C. A. is doing every thing it can
for you. It has organised Bible
ciasses for the good of your benighted
souts—if you wouid onty go to them;
it has brought out speakers who drit-
)ed some sensibie ideas intju yout'
forsaken skulls—if you listened to
them; and it has introduced these
"stunt parties" which are just about
the best thing in the way of cultivat-
ing good feiiowship that we have
here—if you go to them, and Lord
knows plenty of you do.
If for no other reason than the
iast one, it is up to you to give credit
to the "Y"; and white you are giving
credit, a little cash would not be
unappreciated. The various iittie
birds that are reputed to carry such
information state that the "Y" is now
in the hole a considerable sum. At the
first of the year it had some hopes
of collecting funds for a #600 budget;
now it wilt wipe its brow with reiief
if it comes out even in May.
A few collectors with more opti-
mism than common sense will again
attempt to accumuiate a few shekles
for the "Y" treasury. They are not
announcing the date of their pros-
pective sortie, because they want to
find somebody at home. If you think
the "Y" is doing anything for your
immortal ego, kick in with enough
dough to keep it in appies and pea-
nuts, at any rate.
RICE SPIRIT ABROAD
Strictiy speaking, of course, Gai-
veston is not "abroad." A coupie of
hours' drive wit! put one right in the
middle of that island. Stiiiandaii,
however, it is a pretty fair distance
for Rice spirit to travel with the
strength it manifested at Galveston
during the holidays.
On their own initiative, and with
their own resources, the former
students of Rice who live in that city
put on the (irst big Rice dance given
there. They invited the high school
Seniors and mid-term Juniors. They
had the Rice colors and the Rice Owl
prominently dispiayed. It was a very
creditable and very successful affair.
Its object was to get materia) for
the Rice student body.
In behaif of the present students
of Rice, the Thresher extends its
earnest appreciation of the work done
and the pians formed by the Rice-
Galveston Club.
Stanford University.—Twenty men
and five women have been appointed
on the Senior Committee by President
Myron Reed. The purpose of the com-
mittee is to sponsor co-operation in
student control, and to guide student
opinion in campus affairs.
S7WDEJV71S
CULFPORy
PMwrnvG co.
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LAMENT
The curfew tolla the knell of puMag
day:
The gloomy stude plods slowly o'er
the lee;
The campaa lights gieam faintly, far
sway,
And darkness cloaks my doleful mis-
ery.
Twas bat a very few short months
before
That I, with aii the confidence of
youth,
Had closed behind the Hail of Learn-
ing's door
And sought to find of Science, aii the
truth.
Tomorrow when the dawn doth come
anew
The whetting of the gruesome axe
I'li hear.
The axe which wieided by a hard-
boiled few,
Doth make the sturdy student quake
with fear.
And in the morn harsh noise wii!
cleve the air,—
The sound of hammers driving iron
naiis,
Which marks the scaffold done—the
block laid bare;
Made ready for the hopeless stude
who fails.
You wonder why I do not try to cram?
Why still I sit and moan this mourn-
ful dirge?
I cannot hear the thought of dread
exam.
E'en now my brain of dates I cannot
purge.
Tonight, as on so many nights be-
fore,
My eyes I'll dose in search of fitful
sieep.
All thru my dreams wiil dance that
ghastly score
Of spectres, garbed in books and
learning deep.
In every nook and corner wilt they
stand;
In solemn march they'll stalk around
my bed;
With rushes swift, each member of
that band
Wiil fiing himself, arms open, at my
head.
But I, as in those countiess nights
gone by.
Shaii fight them off with curses, blows
and prayers;
Shaii gasp and sob with jtortured
throat gone dry,
And beat them back tho taken un-
awares.
I've been asleep, Ye gods, the day is
here!
I've dreamed my last,—I'm aimost at
the end.
The summons knell is ringing loud
and clear,
'Tis now too late for suppliant knee
to bend.
STANF0R0 UNWERNTY
CAUFORNtA
Summer Quarter, 1923
Tuesday, June 19 to Saturday, Sept J
Second Ha!f Begins Juty 26
Opportunities to work for higher
degrees and the A. B. degree in the
oceanic climate of the San Francisco
peninsula.
Courses in the regular academic
and scientific branches, and in )aw.
Information from Office 28
Stanford University
Ca!ifomia
! shaii not iet them see I dread the
TheyH never know how much I fear
and fret;
Bat as I go I'!l atop some passing
Mead
And bam Mm for a soothing cigarette.
Apologies to Gray.—Jos. K. Keisey,
*24. ^
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HOUR LETTER COLUMN H
To the Editor:
There has been considerable merri-
ment over the fact that the Campanile
has again extended the time for get-
ting pictures for the Class section
taken. This is no joke, and is made
necessary by a very bad situation. At
the end of last term the Campaniie
posted a notice of the numbers of
students who had had their pictures
made up to that time. There had been
only a few more than half of the en-
tire student body who had been to the
photographer. Of the ciasses, the
Freshmen had the poorest showing,
with only forty-seven per cent caring
enough about being a Siime at Rice
to have their pictures made. One
might comment that this is a fair in-
dication of the amount of that in-
tangible feeiing of "class" or "school
spirit" that is talked of so frequently,
possessed by that body of under-
graduates. The others, except the
Seniors, are very nearly as bad.
There seems to be an attitude that
by having one's picture taken for the
Campanile he renders the Campanile
and its staff a great favor. This is not
the case. It makes no difference to
the staff whether students get their
pictures made or not. In fact the
fewer pictures they have to handle,
the iess troubie they must go to in
publishing the year book. The only
excuse for having such a section is
that it enabies outsiders to judge the
Rice Institute and its student body.
With an unrepresentative class sec-
tion it is impossible for others to form
true opinions of us. The Campanile
is the record of each student's life at
ice, and without a picture in the Class
section this cannot b6 complete, for in
a great many cases that is the only
trace of his or her attendance.
The Junior Ciass panels are being
made up now to be sent to the en-
graver. The Sophomore panels will be
Lest We Forget
WE ARE
Especiaiiy indebted
This week
to
Tuffly-Scoggins
(Shoes)
Foley Bros
(Shoes for Girls)
Leopold and Price
(Kuppenheimer Clothes)
The Suit Box
on Fannin
Shotweil's
(As usual)
Harris-Hahlo
An Attraction for Girls
and aii
Our Old Steadies
on
The Back Page.
They wiil
Be with us
As long as
We are with them,
No LONGER.
THE THRESHER
How Does This
Price Look to You?
Choice o/ Any
#35—M7.50L-M0
TAree-Plece -SuR
Jn ,Sfoc%
$24
'MmAaMaw" <SMe End*
Listen, Mho, while 1 give yoa an ear-
Ad of valuable information.
I've been on year trail for three
weeks about that beat up chunk
of felt yoa call a hat.
It's time yoa took a Hop and got next
to yourself. Since yoa woaldn't
do it for your own good, I
scoated around and foand you a
bargain.
There's a hat sale on at Maaon-Hoff-
man-Berly this week. They are
selling Crofat-Knapp hats at
$4.35 a throw. Yoa can't get
a better feit hat anywhere.
They come in light weights for crush-
ing, and regular weights and
Mocks. They aren't bean
models, nor jazz specials, but
just good college men's hats.
That bunch are hep to the stuff
a college fellow wants, and they
buy accordingly. You'll get a
reai hat for your money.
Now grab that war baby you've been
sporting since the armistice,
and we'H fly down for a new
lid.
IJBeAqfaMey Sen*
j Tb EplJiydpal
AnnMg/ *SaM%on
made up next week. If a person has
not had his picture made as yet, he
wiil have until the panel containing
his picture is made up to do so. That
means that there remain about two
weeks in which to have pictures taken
to appear in the Campanile. These
two weeks are the last chance, if
a student wants to be abie to take a
book home and say to the ioiks while
they go over it with him, "That's me,"
he wiii have to do so immediately.
John Hornbuckle.
A/fer—
Try tt once!
The results are won-
derful.
You have had a date,
and surprised bothyour-
seif and your girl by
having an unusually
happy time—did you
ever think of sending
flowers?
(Continuad from Page
rhymed review of the evolutionary
stagea man is said to have passed
through. Genevieve Friedenthal was
the leader of the "stant."
The girls' delegation to the coun-
cil meeting were entertained in Aus-
tin homes and at sorority houses. A
dance was held Saturday afternoon
and an enjoyable reception and sup-
per was given on Sunday afternoon.
Besides Rice Institute's Episcopal
organization, there were represented
dabs from the University of Texas,
Baylor, Southwestern and A. and M.
Those who made up the Rice delega-
tion were: Miasaa Katy Rath Strick-
ier, Genevieve Fridenthal, Hasel
Cannan, Gretehen Steele, Margaret
Stopford, Allie King, Janet Allen,
Dorothy West, Mrs. Eugene Blake,
Benjamin H. Duggan, John Horn-
buckle, and Reverend Harris Master-
son, Jr.
Cornell University.—Two orches-
tras have been retained for the IMS
Junior Promenade, Paal Whiteman'a
Collegians of New York, nine-piece
organization, and the Vokan and
Stromberg orchestra of Cleveland.
The Collegians will play intact daring
the week, while the other organization
wili break up into tow six-piece
orchestras, which have Ailed engage-
ments with fraternities intending to
entertain during Junior Week.
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way of an Eagle in the air"
H
[ENTURY after century
men broke their necks
trying to Ry. They had
not troubled to discover
what Solomon caiied "the way of
an eagie in the air."
In i8pi came Samuei Pierpont
Langiey, secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution. He wanted
facts. His Rrst step was to whirl
Hat surfaces in the air, to measure
the air pressures required to sus-
tain these surfaces in motion and
to study the swirls and currents of
the air itself. Finally, in 1896, he
built a small steam-driven model
which Hew three-quarters of a
mile.
With a Congressional appro-
priation of %$o,ooo Langiey built
a large man-carrying machine. Be-
cause it was improperly launched,
it dropped into the Potomac River.
Years later, Glenn Curtiss Hew it
at Hsmmondsport, New York.
Congress regarded Langley's
attempt not as a scientific exper *
moat but as a sad fiasco an<*
refused to encourage him further.
He died a disappointed man.
Langley's scientific study which
ultimately gave us the airplane
seemed unimportant in i8$6.
Whole newspaper pages were given
up to the sixteen-to-one ratio of
silver to gold.
"Sixteen-to-one" is dead polit-
ically. Thousands of airplanes
cleave the air—airplanes built
with the knowledge that Langiey
acquired.
In this work the Laboratories of
the General Electric Company
played their part. They aided in
developing the "supercharger,"
whereby an engine may be sup-
plied with the air that it needs for
combustion at altitudes of four
miles and more. Getting the facts
first, the Langiey method, made
the achievement possible.
What is expedient or important
today may be forgotten tomorrow.
The spirit of scientific research
and its achievements
General$Elecftric
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