The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1924 Page: 2 of 6
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THE THRESHER :: HOUSTON, TEXAS
THE
Member Texas Intercollegiate Prwa Association
A weakly newspaper published by the students at Rice Institute at Houston, Texas
Entered as second class matter October 17. 1916, at the postofflce in Houston, Texas under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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Jack Glenn
Robert Vaden Logsdon
. . .Editor-in-Chief
Business Manager
HE GOES
THROUGH HELL.
Cartoonists, narrow-minded old fogeys and cynics are wont to
describe the college youth as a fluttering self-centered somebody.
All right, let them; but we can disagree if we like.
The Thresher does disagree. Eleven hundred Rice students al-
ready are neck deep in work, work of a kind that nine-tenths of
their critics couldn't handle. Eight hours of mental labor is more
exacting on a person, mentally and physically, than eight hours of
larm work. And the average day's work for a Rice man or woman
is eight hours.
Proud of his school, confident of his own ability, the Rice# man
toils and toils to live up to his school's and his own standards.' And
when the inevitable difficulties begin to pile up, he often becomes
frantic. There are times in every term of school that a college
man goes through hell, however bold a front he may maintain.
The one big spectre to a college man is the query: "Can I make
good?" To fall down is to see himself disgraced in his own eyes,
is to lose confidence in himself for all time. To avoid this he toils
and slaves, and "raises tain" to relax during the few hours recrea-
tion. Because, he knows that President Lovett was right when he
said: "The only man who doesn't have to explain his college ca-
reer is the man who gets his degree."
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INTIMATIONS
OF IMBECILITY.
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr., were walking down Olive
A veilue in Heaven.
"Dickie," said the
return to earth, let'?
"You're temporarily insane,
at Rice!"
I
OWL SPORT
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other pervert, "when we're reincarnated and
cause a commotion at Harvard."
Loeb answered. "Let's raise hell
The University of Chicago had its Leopold and Loeb, and Rice
Institute has had its Charles J. Black.
There is little parallel possible between the two murderers con-
victed by a Cook County court and the Houston youth, former
student here, recently indicted for alleged blackmail by a Federal*"
trraml jury. !
Leopold and Loeb were graduate students at Chicago, where
'.he.v attained brilliant scholastic records. Black, twice dismissed
from Rice for deficiency in his studies, could not re-enter here.
The two Chicago youths were contemptible, but Black deserves
pity. His evident imitation of Dickie and Leo was feeble, bungling
and in bad taste. Both cases merit oblivion.
* * *
But no scandal involving a university will ever get oblivion.
The very winds would scream out the guilt of a college student,
were there not roaring district attorneys enough.
And what do their roars mean to the great masses who don't
iwn toothbrushes ?
Those legal wails are interpreted to mean that colleges are the
devil's own invention for training his servants. And the result ?-
parents punish their children for the sins of the occasional college
criminal by depriving them of an education or, worse still, expos-
ing them to the contagion of a school endowed by a religious or-
ganization.
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RARE
KNEES.
A pretty little co-ed in green rompers went pat-patting through
the cloisters. Another wore sox and showed bare knees! !
And forthwith sprang up a censor. "Too daring" and "Carrying
hazing too far" and comments of that sort were heard; not many,
but a few.
Now what in the world was wrong with that?
Isn't the nude feminie form the most graceful and beautiful of
■ od's creations? Why, then, blush at the exposure of a little of it?
Rut that isn't the point; the girls' forms were not on display.
1 hat was a hazing stunt, pure and simple. You know how a girl's
■ ••gs look and so do I, and we've both seen more than those
Freshman girls exposed. But it was funny to see them in kid
clothes. R broke down snobbish dignity, promoted the laughter
and frivolity that breeds friendship. The why of Slimesses wear-
ing green ribbons and green sox is the same as they why of the
shirt tail parade.
-Maybe it didn't meet with universal approval, but The Thresher
was glad to see a class of Sophomore girls with spirit enough to
"start something," and a Freshman class of girls with good fellow-
ship enough to live up to the spirit.of Rice traditions.
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RICE
HEISWOMEN
One of the major problems at Rice Institute is what to do with
the co-eds. Sweet things, and unavoidable, they flutter around
the scientific males more and more each year. Off the campus
you scarcely hear of them. It isn't fair.
Of course it is nobody's fault. Rice had to be started some-
where, and the start happened to be from the science end. That's
why we as yet haven't a fine arts building, with pianos banging
and songsters shrieking and alleged artists daubing paint; and
that's why the co-ed must be off the campus at 5 p. m., because
she has no place 011 the campus to stay.
The philosophical thing to do, of course, is to make the most of
it. The cynic may laugh at Pollyannaism, but nevertheless the
look-for-the-bright-spots philosophy has been the salvation of
many a tormented soul.
And maybe the Owl girls could better their own condition a bit,
if they cared to try. How about basketball, and volley ball, and
tumbling and golf? They do at other universities. Rice could be
as proud of her "Heiswomen" as she is going to be of her "Heis-
men"—110 reason why the hes should monopolize athletics.
Interelass competition, with matched games, lots of fun for the
real girl. Not, of course, for the candy-coated type with flabby
body and brain.
Coach Heisman is director of athletics. He likes girls. He has
a fertile mind. Maybe he could map out an interesting, unsotenta-
tious, beneficial, non-interfering system of sports for Rice co-eds.
That's an idea.
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SARCASM
Is there anything more despicable than a too-sarcastic prof?
Sarcasm can be funny, in small doses. Overdone, it causes some-
thing akin to nausea. Too much sarcasm is a positive stamp of
egotism and conceit. Th$ smirk of the sarcastic man is tanta-
mount to an announcement that he must hurry home and put in a
session before the mirror. It's unbearable in a student, but in a
prof—Gawd!
NO LOAFING
The Heismen are coming—and they
are worse than the Campbells.
The Heismen have been tugging at
the leash for nearly a month. Some-
thing is going to happen Saturday
when the opening whistle blows. And
if Sam Houston loafs half a second,
it's going to happen to them.
* *
OLD CLOTHES
The Heismen won't look as good as
they will next week. Because, the first
big order of new sweaters were all too
small and had to be returned, and the
new order ddin't arrive in time. At
the last minute the coach had to order
numbers sewed on the old jerseys.
However, "clothes don't make the
man."
* * *
SIGNALS!
Coach ordered a complicated score
board constructed. It was done. Then
he said, "Here, Chambers, see if you
can dope oui a system to run it."
And Business Manager Roy Chambers
has been taxing his brain ever since
in an attempt to get a system of sig-
nals that will keep the board accurate
at all times. If he succeeds, he will
have filled a long-felt need.
* * *
HITCHING PLACE
At the big games, automobiles are
parked as far back as the Main Boule-
vard circle. There is a three-acre tract
between West Hall and the bayou that
would make an ideal parking space.
Why not use it? One or two men to
direct cars into it would make a hit
with the people.
* * *
CONCRETE
South Texas floods have hail a habit
of taking off the bridge over the bayou
every few months. A new concrete-
base bridge has been constructed,
arched and with banisters. Traffic to
and from the atretic field ihis fall is
heavier than ever before. It takes a
concrete bridge to hold the Owls like
Heflin of the varsity and Adams of
the Slimes.
* * *
TI NE IN
Yes. Ontogenes, the games will be
radioed.
Adjust your deceiver, twirl your
amplifying dial, tune out all the jazz
atid listen in—if you're physically un-
able to be there in person. Tell the
folks at home to wear the headgear
beginning at 3:30 each Saturday.
Broadcasted from the press box, play
by play, every move that is made, by
Rice's own radio station.
* * *
t'N SELFISHNESS
Some of the choice halfbacks are
going to be out of the game Saturday.
The list may include Hochuli, Madden
and Woods. Isn't it funny how these
sweet players are so brittle ? They
say it's because the good player will
sacrifice himself to advance the ball,
thereby endangering himself more and
more. Football is a great game, but
an exacting one.
♦ * *
TWELVE BERRIES
You can make the trip to Fort
Worth to see ihe T. C. U.-Rice game
for a total of about $12. Seven-fifty
round trip to the Dallas Fair. Dollar-
fifty on to Ft. Worth. Three dollars
grub, game ticket, root beer and cig-
arettes. The band must go if nobody
else goes. But at that price a special
train should go. That will be Rice's
first Conference game.
* *
FIVE GAMES
That bunch of Slimes led the varsity
a merry life Tuesday afternoon. The
scrimmage was a mutual benefit af-
fair. The varsity used it to prepare
for an eight-game schedule, and the
Slimes for a five-game schedule. The
Green Owls have four home battles
and one long trip. Coach Nicholson
la giving them the low down on real
football.
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OLD FACES
Sam Houston is bringing two lace*
to Rice Field who will not be alto-
gether strangers. They are Tidmore
and Weatherford, last year of Heights
High School, Houston. They will play
some of their old school mates and
their old Central High rivals on the
Rice grid.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1924, newspaper, October 3, 1924; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229991/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.