The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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MCE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, DECEMBER 7, 1923
NUMBER U
e;
We believe in aigna.
If loyalty hadn't prevented, The
Thresher would have predicted a T
C. U. victory last Tuesday. On that
date "ChoHie", the little good luck
Owl captured by an A. & M. gradu
ate and presented to Rice just before
the A. & M. game, died.
* * *
The Thresher takes pleasure in
complimenting the editors of the Rice
Owl. The first college humor maga-
zine in Texas, The Owl has grown
until it ranks with the best in the
country. "Rice Topics" says that in
all sincerity, and in the same breath
asks just what was the significance of
that splotch of color on the cover
page? For once the choicest fruit
was at the bottom of the basket—the
best work was inside the book.
The editorials in The Owl always
are good. The editors "ignore" un-
solicited criticism but quite inconsis-
tently devote half a page to a reply
to a voiunteered criticism.
In The Thresher's opinion (said op-
inion, incidentally, being entirely un
solicited by The Owl) the most appro
priate thing in* their last issue was
the illustrations between the editor-
ials.
* * *
The Thresher has an error to cor-
rect, or in the immortal words of the
Houston Chronicle—"Our Mistake."
"Irene" jumped on the registrar,
unfairly it seems. Those Campaniles
are in his cioset awaiting the presen-
tation of blanket tax receipts by stu-
dents of 1921-22. The record of re-
ceipt holders was lost. Alumni hold
ing such receipts should present them,
before their property in storage dis-
integrates from sheer oid age.
* * *
"How much do you want, one page
or two ?" This to The Thresher from
a Campanile representative.
"Oh, we don't care, whatever you
want to give us," this from Tha
Thresher.
"Give you? It's going to cost you
$25 per page; didn't you know that?"
Twenty-five dollars to get pictures
of the school paper's staff in the
school year book. Following that
policy the band probably wil have to
pay, and the P. A. L. S. and the E.
B. L. S. and the Engineering Society.
All right. The Thresher will pay
its twenty-five, if The Campanile will
pay a bill for $19.80 hereby tendered
by The Thresher for Campanile pub-
licity so far this term. Thresher ad-
vertising rates are 60 cents per col-
umn inch; we'll be glad to handle
Campanile publicity at that rate in
the future. Turn about is fair play.
* * *
"For Rice's Honor" went over big at
the Thanksgiving game. The Thresh-
er's attention has been cailed to the
fact that Ben Mitchell was not given
credit for writing the words of the
song. Tardily, yes, but emphatically
nevertheless. The Thresher desires to
complimentMr. Mitchell for the ex-
cellence of the song. The words are
more than rhyme; they possess a cer-
tain beauty which gives the music its
lasting quality.
* * *
Director Ander, secretary Water-
man and about 31 of the other 32
band members are in arms against
The Thresher.
They have a legitimate gripe. That
was an old picture of the band, but a
new engraving would have cost $15.
The Thresher already was "in the
hole" more than $50 on that issue.
Some weeks ago The Thresher said
"If something is printed that you can
find no reason for, see if you don't
think some high school student might
be impressed by it." That, band
members, is why we printed the old
picture, rather than none at all.
"If a man is truly great he need
not; shout it from the housetops;
neWs of his greatness will inevit-
ably spread to all the worid."
! * * *
When nature takes the first sthb at
a mtn, robbing him of the essentials
every human has the right to expect,
he ip tempted to hand his sword to
Nature and admit forever his defeat.
But—when a man thus handicapped
makes good, even beyond the vast
majority of more fortunate ones, he
commands a thousandfold more re-
spect and admiration than any normal
man upon whom fortune smiles.
It's "hats off" to Joe Simmons, Rice
Slime and gentleman—two of the
greatest honors in the world!
TO MMMt FM
!V At*
Asa Crawford Chandler, Ph.D., In-
structor in Biology at Rice and the
author of a number of books and
magazine articles on biology, will sail
for Calcutta, India, on January 1,
where he wiil take UR work in a medi
cal school of India. His successor at
Rice has not been named.
Dr. Chandier is regarded as one of
the foremost biologists of America.
He has conducted extensive surveys
into the mosquito and human para-
site conditions of the south, and has
been a ieader in fighting these dang-
ers.
RICE ALUMNUS
ON ANTARCTIC
EXPLORATION
Down in the museum of the Rice
biology department, you can find,
in many bottles of preserved speci-
mens of insects, spiders, caterpillars,
and the like, labels bearnig the words,
"Collected by George Finlay Sim-
mons."
This young man is now on the three-
masted schooner "Blossom," wander
ing southward through tropic wters
to the lonely islands of the far South
Atlantic, there to collect specimens
of rare species of birds, fish, and rep-
tiles, and to make motion picture
films of plants, birds, and animals in
their native environment.
Mr Simmons, who is leading this
expedition to the South Atlantic and
Indian Oceans, was once a student at
Rice Institute and an assistant in the
Biology Department here.
At the age of 16 or 17 he was pub-
lishing in the Houston Post articles
on local bird and animal life; and be-
fore his entrance into the Institute
in 1915, some of his writings had ap-
peared in nationaMy hnown maga-
zines, such as Bird-Lore, Wild-Life,
etc.
Two Years at Rice
He stayed at the Institute only two
years, but during that time he became
a biology assistant, made the collec-
tion of birds' eggs now to be seen in
the Physics Library, and went on a
three weeks' trip into Louisiana with
Professor Julian Huxley (grandson
of T. H. Huxley), who was at that
time head of the Institute Biology De-
partment. In Louisiana, the two made
a study of the habits of the then little
known Louisiana Heron, later pub-
lishing jointly an article on their dis-
coveries.
Later he made a study of the birds
and fishes of the Southwest Texas
coast, and his published work on that
subject brought him national recog-
nition in scientific circles.
National Fame
His fame grew; he became con-
nected with the state game, fish, and
oyster commission; he addressed
learned bodies in eastern cities; he
was invited to join the three great
American societies numbering among
their members some of the most dis-
tinguished naturalists of the world;
and finally, he was called to become
the head of this two-year expedition,
financed and . sent out October 29,
1923, by the Cleveland Museum of
Natural History.
"Secret Society"
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At Rice Arouses
*******
Interest of Dean
Rice has a fraternity which has
caused the officials considerable
yrorry. Notice was taken of the mat-
ter when signs were found on the
bulletin board bearing in bold face
type this announcement:
"Join the L. M. G. The most
Democratic of semi-frats. See
Tom "Nick" Bums."
After investigation it was found
that the "LMG' 'was an organization
known, Homerically speaking, as the
Lamma Mu Gamma, or in Engish
terms, Loud Mouth Gang.
It is composed of students who con-
sider themselves the loudest rooters
in school. If*we!comes any and all
persons wishing to become members,
the only requirement being that they
must possess a voice which can be
heard distinctly a
Jack Glenn urgesboilermakers,
Blacksmiths, baseball umpires and
public speakers and singers to join.
WHEN; PLEASE, ig
NEXT YE AR' COAHNG?
Now that it's aii over but the shouting, and since that shouting is being
done in T. C. U., Texas U., Arkansas and Oklahoma A. & M., not to mention
Southwest Texas Norma!, what of next year?
"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things"—and the
walrus might well add that it is high time to do some things.
For purposes of policy hardly too complicated for even the dumbest of
us to understand, The Thresher purposeiy has refrained from attempting to
interpret student opinion regarding footbaii. But now the season is over:
somebody must speak, and must cali a spade a spade.
For at ieast four years Rice has kidded herself along during the football
seasons. Weil meant propaganda always has supplied acceptable alibis for
failures, and even the students themselves, mot to mention a gullible public,
have been boosted in spirits by promises of "what we'll do next year."
When, piease, is "next year" coming?
Five years ago, which is about as far back as any of the present gener-
aion of students can remember, Rice had a whopping good football team,
"it's just a question of a year or two until we will have a championship a)
most every year" they told the elated freshmen. Since that time the Rite
team has grown consistently worse.
We ail but erected a Cerracchio monument to the coach and the team
that beat A. & M.. The giory of that victory was almost entirely a senti-
mental one—based on a bitter but friendly hatred for the Aggies which
originated before our day. Looking at it calmly, broad-mindedly—just wha<
did that one point victory over A. & M. amount to? A. & M. was a good
team, a year or so ago, but this year she has a grand total of 0.000,000,000 in
Conference percentage. We didn't go into hysterics over beating Baylor and
S. M. U. five years ago when they finished low in percentages; why is heating
the tail-ender this year of such great moment?
Rice had a "one game team" this year. That can't continue; we must
either stay over the 500 mark or get out of footbaii altogether. Since we
apparently aren't going to drop football entirety, then we must take steps to
improve our record. The Thresher, along with 95 per cent of the school and
aiumni, beiieves that the best sensible step just now is to introduce a new
footbaii coach.
Mr. Arbuckle personifies in every detaii the ideal gentleman. He has
been a wonder coach, has done remarkable things for Rice. But the fact
remains that his teams haven't kept pace with their rivals, and looking at
the thing from a purely business standpoint, The Thresher urges his re-
moval without unnecessary delay.
The Thresher is willing to give Coach Arbuckle the benefit of all doubt
and admit that the slumps probably were not all due to his faults. But the
public mind is not so courteous, does not hold Mr. Arbuckle in so much per-
sonal esteem. Next year's prospective freshmen, and next year's sopho-
mores for that matter, know Mr. Arbuckle only through the utterances of the
press. These utterances have recorded defeat after defeat, often by weaker
teams, and have not hesitated to lay the blame at the coach's door. As a
matter of policy, then, to satisfy what may be called a misled public, a new
coach should be hired.
If a change is to be made, it should be done in grand style. For the
salary that is now patd th** htmd coach, and p<r r ttupti n Htttc intn ,, tou!U <n,t
a Zuppke or an Andy Smith or a Rockne or a Yost be hired? The Thresher
has no intention of trying to dictate to the Athletic Council; rather it has
absolute confidence in the Council's ability. But on behalf of 1050 students
and some 500 alumni, The Thresher urges the Council to immediate and
sweeping action.
Rice Dominie
*******
Is a "Sucker"
*******
For Salesmen
o/ Yoz/r
*******
*******
IFeDM '-RAfen
"Nothing for the public," is the re-
ply to questions about what trans
pired at the R Association banquet
held in the commons Monday night.
Officials and members of the Associ-
ation refuse to be quoted.
"Was the coaching situation dis-
cussed?" a member was asked.
"We decided not to tell."
"Are you afraid to say that you
want Arbuckle to resign, or that you
don't want him to resign? If you
were meeting for the, best interest of
the school, why all the secrecy? I
believe you're scared to say what you
think."
"It's none of your business what we
did, and we are not interested in what
anybody thinks. The R Association
can meet in secret session whenever
it pleases."
That choice bit of information is
the only verified report of what trans-
pired at the R Association meeting.
Rumors, however, say that the R men
split on the coach question, that they
voted to stage the banquet for the
football men and that they approved
the suggestion to issue an R book next
spring.
LHTEMWMM
W!H BE MABE
AT "R"BAMUET
Eiection of a captain for the 1924
Rice football team, announcement of
letters won on the gridiron during
1923, and possibly announcement con-
cerning next year's football schedule
will be the feature of the annual foot-
bail banquet to be held Saturday night
at the University Club.
The R Association will be hosts.
All the football squad and a number
of special guests will be invited.
The captaincy probably will be a
close race betwene Hale, Wilford,
Smith and Ray.
T!GER-MAR00N
CLASH MAY BE
HARU CONTEST
Fans will be entertained at a post
season football treat tomorrow after
noon when the fast Central Tigers
and the scrappy Heights Maroons
clash in their big annual battle for the
city championship ol' Houston. The
game will be played on Rice Held and
will start at 3 o'clock.
The contest was to have been played
last Saturday, but a soggy field and
a downpour of rain forced officials
to postpone the game until this week.
If the game is played on a dry Held
fans wiil undoubtedly see the most
interesting local battle of the year.
Both teams are evenly matched and
there is very little difference in their
weights, the Centraiites having the
advantage by about four pounds to
the man.
A comparison of the two teams will
show that the Centraiites have a
slight advantage on the line, while
the Maroons have the edge on the
Tigers in the backfield.
Joines and Boyles, on the Central
line are said to be two af the best
high school linemen in the state.
Joines holds down a tackle, while
Boyles shines on end. In the Tiger
backfield there is Kattmann, said to
be one of the best haifbacks in high
school grid circles. Sawyer, Biakely,
Schreckengaust, McKinnon and Hoo-
ver are other backfield men who shine
for the Gold and Black.
The Maroons boast of two of the
best halfbacks in the state. In Mar-
mion, who is also the Bull Dog cap-
tain, the Heights gang has a 10-sec-
ond, 175 pound ball carrier who is
both a vicious line plunger and a
brilliant broken-Held and end runner.
Tidmore, who works the other half for
the Maroons, is the hardest player of
either team. He is fast and is furi-
ous fighter. Much dependence is
placed in Tidmore, and he can nearly
always be counted on for a gain.
If the weather is pretty tomorrow
fans will see a great game, and prob-
ably the largest crowd that has ever
been seen at a local grid game will be
present.
Anybody
Who has anything to set),
See Rev. Harris Mastcrson at once.
He admits he is a "sucker".
The "College Padre" in the Autry
House says salesmen regard him as
an "easy mark." Life insurance, book,
automobile and oil stock salesmen,
not to mention patent medicine and
"noveity" agents, literally swarm
around the Rice Dominie.
"1 rather enjoy it," Mr. Masterson
says. "I get lots of mail, and every-
body tries to sell me something. 1
don't know who put my name on their
sucker lists; I supopse I must have
been a sucker when somebody offered
me bait. The latest influx of mail
and salesmen have sought to sell me
automobiies. 1 own a Ford, but that
doesn't convinc ethe other car repre-
sentatives that. 1 am satisfied with a
Ford. The car salesmen have been
almost as persistent as the oil stock
salesmen were a short time ago."
R!CE BiOLOBY
MUSEUM PROFiTS
FR0MC!TYZ00
Since the establishment of the Her-
mann Park Zoo, the Institute has
gained many valuable additions to its
museum. C. L. Hrock, Superintendent
of Parks, and Hans Nagel, Head Zoo
Keeper, have given to the Rice bi-
ology department all animals that
have died at the xoo.
Mkttis ubtatned for the Institute in
this way have been: a large sika buck
from Japan, a tiger cat from Mexico,
two fawns of white-tailed deer, sev-
eral armadillos, alligators of various
sixes, a Black Iguana from Mexico, a
specimen of the beautiful Mexican
orange squirrel, three flying squir-
rels, a black bear from Aiaska. a bown
bear from Europe, a Uama from Chile,
three species of kangaroos from Aus-
tralia and New Zealand, an Arixona
lobo wolf, a rare Asiatic four-horned
sheep, a Tasmanian phalanger, a
honey-bear from South America, two
baboons from *the Congo, a spider
monkey from the Amazon Valiey, sev-
eral Old World and New Worid par-
rots, many fine specimens of snakes,
including two five-foot Western Dia-
mond-backed Rattlers and'a beauti-
fuily marked four-foot Timber Rat-
tier, small birds from the Oid World,
and numerous iarge water birds from
the Gulf Coast.
At .present, the bioiogy department
has little room for its museum, but
next year, when the chemistry build-
ing is completed and more room is al-
lotted to the biologists, Rice visitors
may see a museum containing the
mounted skins of all the mammals ob-
tained from the park, and containing,
in addition, preserved specimens, al-
ready owned by the biology depart-
ment. of many snakes, turtles, frogs,
and lizards from all over America,
hundreds of bird skins, and specimens
of several hundred species of fish coi-
lected all the way from Japan to the
Bermudas, and from the Arctic to
the Antarctic.
FAMOUS
ORATOR
COMING
Charles Whitney Gilkey
To Be Guest of Rice
Y. M. C. A.
Go on—Pay it.
Be a Rice citizen.
Keep your seif-respect and
the respect of your schoolmates
by becoming a member of the
Rice Student's Association.
Don't stay an outsider.
It inciudes The Campanile.
The Thresher and admission to
ail the basketball games, track
meets and basebail games.
You can pay it at The Co-op
NOW! And now only. The
constitution says no blanket
taxes can be accepted after
Christmas.
Don't be an alien at Rice.
Either come across with your
citizenship tax or tell the Asso-
ciation treasurer why you can't.
Campus tax coilector's office in
the Co-op until December 20.
After that—too late!
Charles Whitney Gilkey. in-
ternationally famous clergyman,
educator and orator, pastor of
the Hyde Park Baptist Church
of Chicago and a trustee of the
University of Chicago, will be in
Houston January 1H. 17 and 18
as the guest of the Rice and the
Houston Y. M. C. A.'s.
Announcement of his coming
was made Thursday by Henry
B. Penix, president of the Rice
"Y". He wi!! address the Rice
student body and perhaps de-
liver a public lecture downtown
at some time during his stay
here, I'enix stated. He is one of
a number of men with national
reputations which the Y. M. C.
A. expects to bring to Rice.
Mr. Cilkey is one of the outstand-
[ ing men of the world in his particular
[ branch of endeavor. He received his
} Bachelor and Master's degree from
Harvard in 1!)03 and !'.'()-) respective?
ly. was a member of the Harvard Pif]
Beta Kappa, was student Secretary
of the Internationa! Y. M. C. A. com-
mittee in 1003-04 and '05.
Me attended the Union Theological
School in 1!)0H, the Universities of
Berlin and Marburg in 1H0K and 1!)(H).
Glasgow ami -Oxford in
He has been a university preacher
at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell,
Chicago, Toronto, Wellesley, Stanford
and Purdue universities and at pres-
ent is pastor of the Hyde Park Bap-
tist Church in Chicago. He also is
a trustee of the University of Chi-
cago.
A. R. Elliott, Y. M. C. A. student
secretary of the Southwestern Field
with headquarters at St. Louis, says
in a telegram that Mr. Gilkey is ''One
of clearest thinking, scholarly, lucid
speakers on religion in America to-
day.
"Eminently acceptable in most dis-
criminating university centers here
and abroad. His addresses are schol
arly, both in content and construction:
enticing interesting and aimed direct
ly at students' inteiiectuat problems.
His method purely educational; does
not hold decision meeting. Will bring
wider sanction to the rational con-
ception of religion students stand
for."
Houston acquaintances of Mr.
Gilkey hail him as a "big Baptist" al-
though not a "radical Baptist." ''He
is one of the greatest men in the
Baptist Church but he is broad-mind-
ed in his religion," is the way one
man describes him. "I cannot think
of a person I would rather see brought
to Rice and to Houston that Mi.
Gilkey. He is sure to captivate the
entire university, as well as all out-
siders that hear him."
(& -—-——
JARV!S CHOSEN
PRESiBENT OF
RjCEALUMM!
At the meeting of the Association
of Rice Alumni, held in the amphi-
theatre on Thanksgiving Day, the fol-
lowing officers were elected:
Dudley C. Jarvis, 'f6, Houston,
president.
Miss Sarah Lane, '19, Houston, vice-
president.
E. R. Duggan, '22, Houston, execu-
tive board.
Mrs. F. McAllister Jameson, '18,
Houston, executive board.
These two executive board mem-
bers were elected for a term of three
years as is the custom. The board
consists of six members, two of which
are elected each year for three years.
Presidents of local Rice clubs are
also members of the board. The other
members are:
J. P. Coleman, '18, Wichita Falis.
Miss Catherine Filson, '20, Houston.
Mrs. Louise B. Griggs, '20, Houston.
E. H. McFarland, '20, Houston.
The next meeting of the A. R. A.
wiil be he!d on Thanksgiving Day,
1924.
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