The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME
RICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 24, 1924
NUMBER
RICE BUCKS CONFERENCE
Rice Topics
AN WITH the dance—but it was
" hardly possible. Ask any one who
elbowed around in the commons last
Saturday night.
A SWARM of ants—that's the way
it looked in a bird's eye view from
the little balcony in our beloved hash-
house. A crowding, chattering group
of perspiring individuals, occasionally
finding opportunity to sway their
bodies to the strains of the music that
was ringing through the hall—that is
what they were; and they were not
all Rice students. Some were not
even connected with Rice in any way.
* * *
npHERE was considerable dissatis-
faction following the dance. First
there was the distracting confusion,
due to the crowded condition. Then
there were the strangers. Many stu-
dents protested.
# * *
rPHERE were few girls; there were
many "stags." Dancing partners
were at a premium. If you can imag-
ine a game of hide-and-seek in a sar-
dine can, our meaning is obvious. The
only real difference is that all the
sardines belong in the can.
* ♦ *
II7HY not resort to the "card sys-
" tem" and allow only those outsid-
ers to attend who have secured cards
from their friends at Rice? This sys-
tem has been used in the past and
ccrtainly could be put into effect now.
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WE ARE waiting for another "stunt
night."
* * *
BIG BILL McVEY and all you Y. M.
C. A. officials, how about it? The
first one was fine, and everyone en-
joyed it. * * *
TN OUR opinion, it's really a fine
-*■ thing when a group of the fellows can
get together and enjoy an evening of
fun in such a manner. It helps create
a feeling of good fellowship that is
not to be found just anywhere.
* *
A ND there is always a good time to
be had when a program is carried
out entirely by "home talent." The
fun does not lie wholly in the program
—and that is part of the good time.
* * *
T ET'S have another one soon—and
then more.
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k GRIPE about last Saturday's
game—Tony is up in the air and
has sworn a terrible vengeance upon
part of the rooting section.
* ♦ ♦
rpHE reason is that a number of
Rice rooters—in giving expres-
sion to their enthusiasm—saw fit to
"say it with flowers." The flowers
came out on the raw end of the deal.
rriHEY were trampled under foot.
-*■ They were broken in two—broken
blossoms. They were deliberately and
ruthlessly sat upon by hundreds of
feet that came sliding over the edge
of the grandstand after the game.
* * *
A ND now Tony is sore—justly and
** terribly enraged!
♦ ♦
MAY he give full expression to his
anger if the performance is re-
peated.
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rflHE band is going. A great many
students are going. All on a spe-
cial train, bound for Fort Worth,
where it will be up to the Owls to win
their first Conference game of the
season. * * *
THIS is T. C. U.'s second season in
the Conference. Last year they
gave everyone—including the Owls—
a surprise by defeating the blue-clad
warriors, after Rice had romped on
the Texas Aggies.
* * *
ARE we going to be surprised again
this year? Eiser and the rooters
who are going are just expecting to
see the old team fight for their share
of the glory. All they have is all they
can give, and that is what we are
expecting. Fight will help immensely.
Support will help a lot.
* *
rVGRYONE who can should make
the trip. We must win our first
Conference gamel
AND then—TEXAS—Gr-r-r-r!
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LOVETT MUM ON
VITAL ISSUES
Prexy Won't Discuss
Serious Losses
To Rice
Can the faculty of Rice Institute be
made replete in a day or even in a
week, or a month, or a year as a result
of losing such members as Dr. H. A.
Wilson and Dr. A. L. Guerard last
year ?
Does the faculty need additions or
is its present number sufficient to
keep it up to its standard of being
unexcelled in the whole world? From
the viewpoint of an observer the first
of these two questions will be an-
swered in the negative since the trus-
tees of Rice are not being rushed in<
selection of new faculty members if
3uch are being sought for.
The last query should be answered
according to later developments result-
ing if any definite action be taken by
the Board of Trustees.
It is generally conceded that Rice
Institute was singularly fortunate in
having Dr. Wilson at the head of the
department of physics and Dr. Guer-
ard as professor of French, Dr. Lovett
believes. To obtain as capable men
as these would require a world-wide
search to be carefully executed in a
manner which would be a time ques-
tion of several months if not of a year
or more.
No Hurry Necessary.
Rice is able to employ the best pro-
fessors that the world affords, so the
question arises, why hurry?
If the trustees do not intend to add
to the faculty it is to be supposed
that the latter is complete. Whether
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Pre-Med Society
Of 30 Members
Now Established
The Pre-Medical Society of Rice has
become a fact.
Last week premature plans were
drawn up for the organization, a com-
mittee appointed by temporary chair-
man C. G. Turner, met to draw up the
final plans Monday night, and Wed-
nesday the entire society was to meet
for the election of officers.
The number of charter members is
expected to run about thirty. The
membership will not be limited to this
number however and any student that
has his interests lying along the lines
of medicine is permitted to enter.
The purposes of the organization
are to foster interest in the work and
help bring medical students to Rice.-
They will serve the pre-meds in much
the same way that the Engineering
Society serves the engineers.
This is a revival of the old pre-med
society that was - abandoned several
years ago.
READY TO FIGHT
Coach John W. Heisman, who sends
his blue-clad Owls into their first Con-
ference game of the season at Fort
Worth, Saturday. T. C. U. will furnish
the opposition.
DISCUSS CONRAD
Noted Houston Writer
Will Talk Here
Clara Ogden Davis, Houston corre-
spondent of the Galveston News, will
address a meeting of the Elizabeth
Baldwin Literary Society, Monday,
November 3, in the Faculty Chamber,
on the subject of "Joseph Conrad."
Mrs. Davis will cover the life and
works of the great Polish novelist,
giving a critical appreciation.
Well-known thruout the Southwest
as a newspaper woman of distinction,
Mrs. Davis' discussion promises to be
thoro and decisive.
On a recent European tour she ob-
tained tliC luat iillelvttw ill liu
granted to the press prior to his
death on August 4.
But Mrs. Davis was red-headed.
Told in London that it was impos-
sible to see the great man, she cre-
ated a sensation in British journalism
circles by. obtaining an immediate in-
vitation to visit Conrad, following a
shrewd wire.
Driving around and talking in the
neighborhood of his beautiful country
home at Bishopsbourne, near Canter-
bury, England.
Mrs. Davis wrote for the News an
account of her interview with Con-
rad, dispatched from Vienna, giving
some of the Pole's philosophy of later
life.
The London Daily Mail carried an
account of her feat.
Mrs. Davis, recently back from Eu-
rope, is now on a fishing trip with her
husband, Burton Davis, of the Houston
Press.
Fred W. Johnson, '23, is now clerk
in the cost department of the Texas
Company, 1021 9tfc Street, Port Ar-
thur.
MUSIC LECTURER
EXPECTED
Race's Heart-Language
Will Soothe Wild
Breasts
By D. B. Flint.
Music lovers of Rice are awaiting
with interest the working out of a
program of lectures to be given under
the auspices of the Rice Lectureship
in Music during the present academic
year. The lectures will be accom-
panied by concerts to be given by em-
inent musicians, according to infor-
mation given by the president's of-
fice Monday.
The last lecture and concert of the
Lectureship series were given by John
Powell in the city auditorium on April
4, 1923. "Music and the Individual"
and "Music and the Nation" were the
two subjects about which Powell built
the thread of his discourse. He showed
by means of many illustrations and
comparisons the reactions of mankind
and animals to "the celestial charms
of symphony" and how "the heart-
language" of music can soothe sav-
age breasts and becalm the raging
fires of fury.
Music and Emotion
"The purpose of music," he said,
"is to communicate rather than to ex-
press feeling."
How music affects the ideals and
emotions of a nation were also
pointed out by Powell in the second
part of his speech. He advocated a
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Urges Noise Making
To Aid in Slaughter
Donald Bartholme, recently ap-
pointed yell leader for the Freshman
games, announced that the Slimes
will be seated on the south side of the
field in the regular places for the
game Saturday.
"We're gonna be in there light be-
hind our team," the yell leader said.
Friday at 12:30 a Slime pep meet-
ing will be held in the amphitheatre
for the purpose of getting the Slimes
in practice. Bartholme says that there
will not be an assistant.
"Every Freshman absolutely must
be there and help support the team,"
he continued. "Terrell is going to be
hard to crack, and that team of ours
needs our support. We'll have to yell
like hell!"
Owls To Assault
T C U Frogs
With Rice Institute's cohorts numbering over a hundred, the
Owls will swing into their initial Conference game Saturday after-
noon in Fort Worth against the Texas Christian University
Horned Frogs.
— The Rice team will number 24
£ijjQQgg ACTORS men' anc* these, together with
RICE WINS
A telegram received from
Dallas at press time states that
the Rice Institute tumbling team
shared honors with Mississippi
College for first place in acro-
batics; also won a prize for
tumbling. These prizes carry
with them a monetary award
of $275.00.
Dramatic Club Names
Three Casts
Casts for the fall productions of
the Rice Dramatic Club were decided
on at a meeting held Monday night.
The bill to be presented on Novem-
ber 20 and 21 consists of three one-
act plays: "Last Masks," a tragedy
by Schnitzer; "The Double Demon,"
a comedy by A. P. Herbert, and "Pan
in Pimlico," a fantasy by Schapinelli.
"Last Masks," directed by Hyman
Plenn, has in the cast Tom Rather,
Tom Rice, Jack Glenn, Adele Roensch,
J. I. Campbell and the redoubtable
Donald Barthelme.
"Pan in Pimlico" includes Bert Hit-
son, Ed Hertzberg, Joe Lucky, T. B.
Stubbs, and a girl yet to be selected.
Professor Drummond Anderson and
Lady Jack Dies will be directors.
"The Double Demon," directed by
Ohauncey Stewart with the assistance
of Rosalyn Zucht, Will have Mary
Trammel, Cecil Franklin Miller, Helen
Clarke, Celeste Jones, Ruth Blackwell,
Jack Dies, Marjory Lockman, Flor-
ence Eversberg, Jacqueline Prescott,
Katherine Dutton, Mary Freeman, Be-
atrice Harrison.
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Owl Rooters To
Parade In Fort
Worth Saturday
Cheer leader Rooster Eiser will
load his gang of rooters on the choo-
choo cars tonigl t at 10 p. m. and
speed away for Fort Worth, where
it's up to the Owls to beat the T. C.
U. Horny Frogs Saturday afternoon.
Forty-two band members are mak-
ing the trip. Rice is to have a real
rooting section on hand. About 125
Owl students have already consented
to go cn the special cars that will
carry them to Dallas. From Dallas
they may get to Fort Worth by sev-
eral methods—mostly legitimate.
No special ears will return. It has
been arranged in such a manner that
the students can spend all the time
they want in North Texas without
having to worry r.bout the 'fate of
their tickets.
Grand Central station tonight. Train
leaves at 10 p. m.—arrives in Dallas
at 6:40 a. m. Band to parade the Fort
Worth streets at 10 a. m. Saturday.
Big time. Gotta win. Everybody be
there!!!
SHOOTING ENDS WILD PARTY ON ROAD IN N E A R TRAGEDY
BULLETIN.
A prominent Senior engineer
is wounded and three ambitious
Slimes look twenty years older
as the result of a shooting esca-
pade on the Richmond road Mon-
day night.
The shooting occurred about 10 miles
from the Institute on a branch of the
main highway.
Wound not Fatal.
It was thought at first that the
Senior had been fatally wounded, but
an examination revealed that the bul-
let had gone through the flesh on
the left side, damaging no vital or-
gans. The Freshmen fled In terror
and returned to the Institute, dusty
and frightened, several hours later.
They had walked and run some 15
miles, over prairie, through mud and
swamp.
A committee of influential Rice stu-
dents arranged matters so that Hous-
ton dailies did not publish accounts
of the affair.
Investigation Held.
Tuesday night the Students' Asso-
ciation investigated and held secret
session with the Freshmen, who are
said to have given an accurate de-
scription of everything that happened.
No report of the investigation could
be obtained from Roy Chambers, pres-
ident of the Students' ssociatoin.
The motives thai the students could
have had for being ten miles out on a
lonely prairie at 11 p. m. are rather
vague. It is thought they were out
to steal apples, although a popular
opinion is that that a knitting party
was on their schedule.
The Senior is recovering.
* * *
nPJIS is a lonely road," said a state-
ly Senior as he turned his coat
collar up over his ears to ward off
the chill air. rt'We will have to be
careful. Robbers may be on this high-
way. Besides, you know our motive.
No one must ever know. This affair
has been planned for you, so be care-
ful no one spoils it."
The Senior stepped a little harder
on the gas and the little Ford shot
forward.
Three eager Freshmen talked ex-
citedly 1n the back seat. Their eyes
fairly danced. Excitement was in the
air. And oh, how they had been wait-
ing for this night I
"At last. At last," breathed Slime
Shive in heavy, excited gasps.
They passed another Ford. A hand
waved at them.
"The signal," cried the Senior, and
stopped his car. The Freshmen tum-
bled out and ran toward the other
Ford.
They stopped abruptly—frozen to
their tracks. A man had stepped from
the car and was glaring at them—a
revolver in his hand. Suddenly he be-
gan swearing. The Slimes backed
away.
He was cursing them. Such lan-
guage. Every dirty name in the
world. "Gawd! help us—what's that
he's saying about his wife?"
"—And I'm going to kill every
damned one of you!" He raised his
arm and fired.
A report—another—another, and
the Senior dropped, shrieking with
pain.
Liperty-liperty-liperty-Iip! Down
.the road went the Slimes, the enraged
man at their heels, firihg with every
step. Four blocks they ran, and then
disappeared. The Slimes had gone—
flown away into the damp blackness
of the night.
"Pile that dead in the
Ford and let's beat it back to town,"
the man directed a negro companion.
The latter objected strenuously at
touching the supposedly dead man,
but finally did, only to find the Senior
breathing.
♦ *
WELL past midnight two tremb-
ling Freshmen creeped into the
dormitories.
"Shlve," one of them remarked in
tremulous tones, "never again for me."
"Correct," replied Holt. "I'm thru,
too."
"But where is Murphy?"—this from
Shive.
"Gawd! I dunno. I ran a mile with-
out looking back. Murphy will have
to take care of himself."
They entered the dormitory. Ex-
citement reigned supreme. The news
had spread, and if was feared Chap-
man would die. The Slimes were
deathly pale and could hardly walk.
They kept muttering over and over
to themselves: "Never again."
Chapman was brought back to the
dormitory, very much alive, but suf-
fering.
At 1:30 a. m. Slime Murphy, dusty,
his trousers torn, his shoes muddy,
hobbled into his room, his face drawn
and his mouth twitching. He was as-
sured that the victims would recover.
Everything had been straightened out
for the moment, although serious con-
sequences might follow.
The Slimes, reassured, went to bed.
A S Tuesday's sun peeped over the
campus and changed darkness to
light, three Freshmen lay in their
beds in East Hall, rolling and tossing,
and muttering in their tearful slum-
ber: "Never again. Never again."
the Owl band, consisting of 42
members and a flock of Rice
rooters, will endeavor to see the
Blue-Grav well under way to-
ward Conference honors.
In view of the fine showing made
by the Rice eleven against the Louis-
iana State University Tigers last
week, hope runs high that the Owls
will down the Christians in a neat
manner. The Frogs have opened their
loop season, and with a team of for-
midable proportions, the Owls will be
forced to stretch to open the season
with a clean slate.
Frogs Strong.
T. C. U. showed to a dangerous ad-
vantage against the Oklahoma Soon-
ers not long ago, and provided the
Fort Worth team is in the same fin.'
fettle, there is considerable doubt as
to the outcome of this week's tilt.
For Rice, much is at stake, and it
will behoove every student able to
make the trip with the team to get
into Cowtown for the opening loop
tilt.
According to advance dupe on the
Rice team, the Owls will present a
lineup considerably changed from
previous games. Improved showings
by hitherto untried men, and some-
thing of a slump in the form of erst-
while stars have prompted Coach John
Heisman to work a shakeup in his
ranks.
Shakeup Expected.
It may be that the changs is a fac-
tor in a new style of play Coach Hois-
man will adopt against the Christians,
and then again it may be that Un-
original combine was more of an ex-
periment. At any rate, it is safe to
say that the Owls will be strongest
where the greatest strength is needed.
Cheer Leader Howard Eiser has
rounded up his likeliest followers to
Fort Worth, and the Owls will not
want for support from the stands, he
promises. The special Owl section ac-
companying the team lias been ar-
ranged, and over 100 students are be-
ing counted upon to make the trip.
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Jamais On Ne Dit
Chile Con Carne
Selon A. Eyquem
In Chile, chili con carne is an un-
known quantity.
This important fact, together with
several other interesting bits of in-
formation, was gleaned from an a i-
dress given before Les Hiboux. at
their meeting at 8 p. m. Tuesday, by
Augusto Eyquem, assistant in Spanish.
His subject was informa 1 He
treated several incidents in his Chil-
ean memoirs.
A letter from Dr. Albert I,.on
Guerard, southern branch of the Uni-
versity of California, was read amid
breathless silence.
Misses Flossie and Freda Smith
gave a vocal duet.
Members indulged in the game of
"Fruit Basket," in French.
Four new members were initiated—
fed worms.
New members will be entertained
with an old-fashioned Hallowe'en
party at Autry House, October 31,
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