The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 3, 1924 Page: 5 of 6
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THE THRESHER :: HOUSTON, TEXAS
OWL BAND CLOSES GOOD YEAR
Lojrf TVtroMg'A F<3#Mre;
JHajr JEw;a&/<2 Record
Pians Laid for 50-Piece
Band Next Year;
Sweaters Are Here.
This is the complete personnel of
the Rice Band, which ends its aca-
nemie year, 1923-24.
Though the band has lost six of its
members through failure to make the
schoiastie grade, it has come through
the most successful year of its ex-
istence.
Early in the first week of school
last fall, the old band men gathered
all the Freshman musicians it could
find and eleated officers at its open-
ing meeting.
Hans Ander, fellow in biology and
candidate for the master's degree this
year, was elected temporary director.
Later he was made regular director.
Lee Chatham, who was president
of the band last year was made presi-
dent, and L. C. Waterman was made
secretary and treasurer of the musi-
cians' corps.
Right off the bat the Owl melody
mixers began to give signs of their
ability and alertness by playing for
the opening game of the grid season.
That was the first precedent that the
band set this year.
At the second game, the band blos-
somed out in its uniforms and with
Tony Martino, the new drum major
at its head, marched down the field
for the first real appearance.
On Armistice day the band was
sought by the Armistice day commit-
tee and agreed to furnish a few strains
in the parade.
The big day for the band was the
trip to Texas University a week later.
The gang o{ "moosicers" loaded on
the train with the team and went up
to Austin to pep up that losing spirit
that seemed to have hold of the team,
and stood nobly beside the majestic
Orange and White band and blared
away on "For Rice's Honor." It was a
great day for the Owl band even if
the game was lost. It gave the Tex-
a:is something to think about.
After those dreaded exams that
reaped four men last Christmas, the
band whipped into shape for the bas-
ketball season and made it a hot time
in the City Auditorium.
The band also appeared in the Mil-
lionth Bale parade, staged last month
by Houston cotton merchants, and as
usual made a hit. It marched right
down Main Street with a pouring rain
streaming down necks and filling the
bass horn.
The latest appearances of the band
have been at the recent track meets
and baseball games. Never until this
year has an Owl baseball team been
giaced with a band to pep up the men.
The final appearance of the Rice
musicians will be made at the com-
mencement exercises. At present it is
planned to put on a spring concert for
the public just before school is out, if
arrangements can be made.
A man's first kiss is not the last
. . nor does it.—Tiger.
In passing the second milestone
of your college journey remem-
ber that there are many ways
this Store can serve you in the
years to come.
Whether it be Stationery, Pro-
grams or Gifts you seek it is
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The regular Wednesday morning
chaptj exercises were led by Bert
Hitson in the Faculty chamber. Mr.
Hitson took the well known story of
Saul, found in 1st Samuel.15:13-23, as
his subject.
He showed how Saul was not de-
pendable, and could not carry out the
orders of the Lord. He failed in his
loyalty. Saul made a good start but
he did not have will power enough to
carry out his plans.
"Loyalty," said Mr. Hitson, "is
something that idealized, yet rarely
attained. It is most difficult to be
wholly loyal to anything.
"Dependability is one of the great-
est characteristics that one can have,
for not only one's success depends
on it, but aiso the world hinges on it.
" 'Stickability' is also a cardinal
quality in one's character, and is a
decided asset. In these three respects,
Saul failed to measure up to the ideal,
and it was on account of this lack of
depth in his character that he failed."
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The committee appointed by the
President of the Students' Association
met last Monday in council with the
heads of the various clubs and organ-
izations of Rice for the purpose of
laying plans for the raising of Rice's
quota.
It was decided that each club and
Organization should raise or appro-
priate a sum, not less than $10.00,
either by assessment or as proceeds
from some stunt given; that the Sen-
iors consider laying aside the proceeds
from one of the Saturday night
dances; that the dormitory men con-
sider dispensing with some Article of
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FAMOUS FOOD
Chicken Dinner . $ ^ OO
Steak Dinner . . J.
Buy a Meal Ticket—Save
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food, one meal a day for a week, or
of one meat a week for a month, of-
fering the savings in cost as their
contribution to the general fund.
The faculty is also expected to take
part in the campaign by private sub-
scription. In order that all students
may have an opportunity to share in
this work, those who do not belong to
clubs, or who do not live in the dorm-
itory, will find a desk in the cloisters
Monday and Tuesday where they may
leave their contributions or pledges.
T^he budget presented by the commit-
tee was as follows:
Student Association $100.00
Dormitory Men 100.00
Club Organizations 100.0U
Faculty 50.00
Town Students and miscellan-
eous 100.00
Total S450.00
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Fashion magazines remind us
Ladies pockets are the bunk,
So that dates and dances find us
Loaded down with all their junk.—
Mary: "Well, you haven't MM
any death notices, have you?"—Ag-
wan.
Teddy: "Who is that man wearing
a black robe, a chimney-sweep?"
Bear: "Naw, he's just a Ku Klux
Klansman from Pittsburg." —Mat-
teaser.
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Sunday, May 18
Leave Union Station:
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Leaves Galveston:
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904 Texas
Phone, Preston 602
At a meeting of the engineers of
Rice Institute last Wednesday, Mr.
H. O. Clark of the Houston Light and
Power Company gave a talk on engi-
neering as a profession.
He addressed the boys at length and
brought home to them some interest-
ing points as regards engineering as
a life work.
His talk tasted for a tittle more
than an hour. Extracts from it are
posted beiow.
"It is with a great deai of pleasure
that we extend a word of welcome to
this body of Junior Engineers who
have selected as their life work that
nobie and romantic profession of en-
gineering.
"The engineer has always been a
doer of things. He has throughout
the ages found and developed the prac-
tical ways to use nature's forces to
serve mankind and to his everlasting
glory stand the monuments of the
progress of civilization, commerce, in-
dustry, communication, transportation,
steam, electrical energy, incandescent
lighting, mastery of the art of fiying,
of submergence, generation and trans-
mission, and we might assert a num-
eration without end.
"The pure scientist has made ad-
vances by selecting some particuiar
feature of a problem, concentrating on
it and leaving out of his mind ail other
matters. But our complete engineer,
or the man who represents the engi-
neering profession of today, must be
able to see and to treat of the whole
situation at the same time. He must
be scientific, practicai, have a com-
mercial sense, he must know if, when
'Bay? t/hder f/ie
Sun"
Do Fox
VoM Do Your
Garfery?
Most of us fellows replace
our garters whenever this in-
timate elastic band rots off
us. From the number of
felts we see each day we are
convinced that many buy
straws for that same reason.
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h* has devised the means to obtain
ends in view, those results wii! be
profitable and safeworking of the cap-
ital involved. He must recognize con-
ditions which render an undertaking
economical to work and which is se-
cure to bring in a fair return.
"Eiectricai energy is the most flex-
ible form of power in commercial use
and is capable to practically every
form of service, its use has permitted
iarger cities than would have other-
wise been possible. It has made possi-
bie tall office buildings with a re-
sulting concentrated business district,
suburban residential sections at great
distances from the business center of
the city by the use of subways, ele-
vated and street railway lines of
transportation. In other words, it has
made possible the modern city as we
find it today.
"The use of electric power has cre-
ated a new era in manufacturing by
permitting manufacturers to think in
terms of greater efficiency, economy
and reliability of operation. It has
permitted them to plan the most effi-
cient manner of routing work thru
their various shops, proper grouping
of related machines and processes and
separation of unrelated processes, a
more rapid expansion of manufactur-
ing departments, elimination in alt
processes of endiess belts with their
resulting loss in efficiency and haz-
ards of operation, elimination in many-
instances of the fuet problem thereby
permitting a iarger percentage of bus-
iness to be tocated without regard to
railroad trackage which has meant
that a cheaper ptan site could be used,
thereby fitting in the iand voids and
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AUTO LIVERY
One or Four People to or from
Rice Institute, {1.00
tending towards a more uniformiy de-
veloped city.
"Electric power has permitted auto-
matic regulation of machines and
processes such as electric furnaces re-
quiring uniform heat in the produc-
tion of steel, enameling, annealing and
baking.
"The use of central station energy
rather than individual plants has per-
mitted manufacturers and commercial
institutions to keep a larger percent-
age of their capital investment as
working capital rather than be tied up
in dead operating equipment, all of
which has meant that a concern could
start business on a very much smaller
capital than if eiectric power and en-
ergy were not availabte."
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Why of course.
"With alt due deference, my boy, 1
really think our English custom at
the telephone is better than saying
'Hello!' as you do."
"What do you say in England?"
"We say: 'Are you there?' Then,
of course, if you are not there, there
is no use in going on with the con-
conversation."—The Continent.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 3, 1924, newspaper, May 3, 1924; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229985/m1/5/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.