The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1923 Page: 5 of 6
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THE THRESH ER :: HO US TON , TEXAS
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mdmight Memo#
It'o a wise man who know* better
than to argue with Ma wife or a traKtc
cop.
The father of twins generally Hnds
marriage a howiing success.
As a writer of Action, the man who
gets out the weather reports easily
distances al! competitors.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever-
uniess the cost price leaks out.
Many a man has been arrested for
forgery simply because he tried to
make a name for himself.
Thoughts and sights while strolling
around Rite:
A certain young lady's mother was
heard to say: "You might be able
to study if you get by yourself." A
few minutes later "Dutchy" Willford
was seen sitting in an auto alone.
Some one explain the connection,
Hop-Scotch (no it's not a drink) has
come into vogue at ttice now. Boom
Bang! Cannan wiii give instructions
to aH desirous ones.
May we congratulate the Archi
Arts on their selection of weather
for the Deep Sea bail. It certainly
creates atmosphere, buckets of atmos
phere.
Norman Hurd Ricker, Ph. D., '20,
who was with the General Electric
Co. in New York, has returned to
Houston where he 1& manufacturing
Radio Receiving Sets of a very high
order.
Mr. A. B. Swanson, instructor in
French at Rice in 1920-22 is spending
the Spring Holidays in Houston. He
is attending the University of Chi-
cago.
Mrs. Sam Hay, Jr., who was Gessner
Lane, '22, spent Saturday and Sunday
in Houston. She is P. B. X. operator
and "Information" at the Texas Na-
tional Bank of Beaumont.
Tow
S-U-I-T
Should be an "Adler Co!- :
legian."
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Other good suits—
$25 and up
NEW
S-T-R-A-W-S
*1.S5 $2,-85 $3.85
$4-85
303 Mth
Buhiiyat of a
(With apologies to Omar Khayam.)
Wake! For the hell behind yon hidden
height,
Has chased the session of the dreams
from night,
And to the tow'r of Profs ascending,
strikes
Their sleep-ridd'n ears with peals of
might.
And as it rang, the Fish who stood
before
The entrance shouted—"Open then the
Door!!
You know how little while we have to
stay,
And, once filled up, may then return
no more.
Before the last bell's ring had died,
Methought a Voice within the Mess-
Hall cried,
"When all the tables are set out with-
in,
Why lag the lazy bums outside?"
Now the New Year reviving old De-
sires,
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires,
To books and papers, and the slide-
rule wan,
But this grows stale, and soon am-
bition's flame expires.
Some of the glories of oid Math, and
some,
Sigh for the honors (?) which in Bugs
will come,
Ah! Take the crip and let the hard
one go,
And heed the warning of another
dumb.
Here, with lots of mud beneath the
feet,
A glorious chain, with rods And
transit neat,
Beside me standing in the Wilder-
ness;
Ah! this engineering course is hard
to beat.
Come crack your book, and in the mid-
night oil,
Immense your rusty mind with lots of
toit,
Those finals mean are not too far
ahead,
To send the "engineers" back to the
soil.
And we, that now make merry in the
Room,
They left, with less of cheerfulness
than gloom,
Ourselves, must we be also busted out,
Social aspirants, just when we start
to bloom ?
;
For some we loved, the loveliest and
the best,
That from his vintage rolling time has
prest, '
Have cracked their books a night or
two before
Exams—then silently they left the
rest.
I sometimes think there never blooms
sored,
As the nose to which John Barleycorn
is wed,
But redder far than that the face
shows up, '<
[When Pa somewhat about those grades
has said.
Ah! my beloved, All the chp that
clears,
Today of past Regrets and future
fears,
Old Omar K. had the jight thought
those years,
But it can't be done now on these
near-beers.
Ah! make the most of what we yet
may spend,
Before we too into the "Hats" de-
scend;
Brokes to Brokes stay in rooms to
bull and smoke,
Sans Coin, Sans Clothes, Sans
Movies, and—SanB Sense.
But see! The rising sun of morn
again,
Looks for us, and our strength is on
the wane.
This punk typewriter is almost broken
up,
So this, like all things foolish has an
end.
—By Ann Onneemus.
HS DULCY
EEC
J. K. Swinford, M. E. 1922, has been
assigned an interesting jHb by his em-
ployers, the Freeport Sulphur Co. A
tow-boat is burning Afty per cent too
much oil under its boilers, attd Swin-
ford's job is to diagnose the case and
apply remedies during a few trips
between Galveston and Tampico..
Since he has never been to sea before,
he expects to arrange Ms apparatus so
it will operate itself when necessary.
r—a '—
Elizabeth Snoddy, '19, spent last
week end in Houston. She likes her
work with the Port Arthur Red Cross
very maeh.
(The following prologue appeared
in the published manuscript of
"Dulcy," Y. W. play to be given
April 19.)
(By Booth Tarkington.)
One day the finest critic in England,
though not the best, wrote of a con-
temporary comedy just produced upon
the stage: "There was a new play
last night, which succeeded pro-
digiously . . . you laugh very much,
yet it is a wretched comedy. The
Muse stoops indeed; she is dragged up
to the knees, and has trudged, I be-
lieve, from Southwark fair. The
whole view of the piece is low humor,
and no humor is in it. The heroine
has no more merit than Lady Bridget,
and the author's wit is as much
manque as the lady's, but some of the
characters are well acted. . . A
comedy—no, it is the lowest of all
farces. It is not the subject I con-
demn, though very vulgar, but the ex-
ecution. The drift tends toward no
moral, no edification of any kind. The
situations, however, are well imagin-
ed, and make one laugh in spite of
the grossness of the dialogue, the
forced witticisms and total improb-
ability of the whole plan and conduct.
But what disgusts me most is, that
though the characters are very low,
and aim at low humor, not one of them
saya a sentence that is natural or
marks any character at all. It is
set up in opposition to sentimental
comedy and is as bad as the worst of
them."
Here is a familiar ring; no play-
wright who goes often to New York
will find the tintinnabulation alto-
gether strange to his ear, and all of
our playwrights must go there to get
for their work an opinion that the rest
of the country will later mistake for
its own. No, the Master of Straw-
berry, coming to Arlington Street in
Town, and venturing to the theater in
spite of his age, high taste and the
gout, was but following an everlast-
ing fashion when he thus sat upon
"that silly Dr. Goldsmith" and the
Doctor's new Comedy. It happened
to be "She Stoops to Conquer," this
"lowest of all farces," not a Comedy
at all, according to Mr. Walpole, who
died only some twenty-four or twen-
ty-five years after that First Night;
not living long enough, of course, to
alter his unfavorable opinion. For
if there be, indeed, any everlasting
fashion, it is the fashion of taking a
slighting view of a contemporary—a
fashion even more indestructible than
the other fashion complementary to
it, which is the fashion of taking a
ponderously reverential view of
ancient performers no longer rivals
to the unconsciously jealou^ living. !f
"silly Dr. Goldsmith" had written
"ShiR Stoopa to Conquer" seventy
years aooner than he did that low
farce might have borne a pleasanter
flavor to Mr. Walpole, who in Ma old
age asked people to remember that
he had "known Pope and lived with
Gray." He liked Gray better, and
had a much higher opinion of Gray's
work, when Gray was dead.
Approaching our point with leisure-
ly effrontery, we have spoken of "She
Stoops to Conquer," and now hasten
to speak of "Dulcy" in the same
breath. The latter is the better
comedy, if truer is better, but such
a comparison, taking no account of
history, is obviously unfair to the old
monument. "She Stoops to Conquer"
opened a sparkling vista in advance of
its own day; it was a comedy more
important for its day than "Dulcy"
is for ours; but let us follow Mr. Wal-
pole's everlasting precedent no fur-
ther than to make this admission.
Columbia University: Undergradu-
ates in the University may enroll for
training in an aviation course offered
by the U. S. naval department. The
course will prepare them for commis-
sions in the Naval Reserve force.
The !ove of Autry House is the root
of all poverty.
Leave only a short time for you to get
your Easter Cards, Baskets and Dec-
orations, Then, too. you will want to
inspect our new display of favors.
pla<e cards, store cards, programs,
etc.
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has recently been remodeled. The new
arrangement will make it more con-
venient for you to indulge your fond-
ness for the attractive and novel gift
articles which you will find here.
508-10 Fannin Street
Phone Preston 8%
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The collar is the work of the expert Arrow Collar
makers. The cuffs have buttons
or are the French link model
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a Sailor^ or impersonate
Jack Frost at the
DEEP SEA BALL
Get Your Costume at
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Do you know—
That $2,00 will buy the moat appropriate of
aH Easter Gifts—
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Can you think of anything else as appro-
priate for your Easter Gift?
TRA PS' .V/'A'.Vf/R
Young Fellows
Know the Value
of Good Clothes—
The importance of good (tress is
realized by most young fellows as
one of the surest means of gaining
success. It's a great combination
—good clothes and confidence—
they go hand in hand. Here you'll
iind models in
Kuppenheimer
Good Clothes
Designed especially for young men
who want snap and style at—
'40 " '55
Other Makes at S25 to $40
LEOPOLD g PRICE
"The House of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes"
Mr. MerchiPHf;
During the next four weeks you will be
solicited by representatives of the Senior,
Junior, Sophomore and Freshman Classes
for advertising in the
Class Issues of the
THRESHER
This means that an ad in one of these
issues will have especial appeal to one por-
tion of the student body, and especial in-
terest to the remainder.
Our Gratitude
Is due you an&we realize that we must
"say it with our business" as well as "say
it with Flowers." We realize this because
we are normal human beings.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1923, newspaper, March 30, 1923; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229949/m1/5/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.