The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 3, 1925 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME X
RICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 3, 1925
NUMBER 25
STro^sl PLAN ATHLETES DORMITORY
rrHIS is the last issue of the regular
Thresher for a month.
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T^EXT week the class editions will
begin. The Seniors are first. The
other classes follow with their cracks
at journalism.
* *
QOME of the classes have been slow
^ in getting their staffs together.
Slime material looks pretty good. It
seems there si quite a bit of talent
among the frosh. Sophomores have
some experienced news hounds, while
the Juniors and Seniors also have
their share of the "old heads" at the
game.
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gOME interesting results are ex-
pected.
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TF present plans go through, ath-
letes at Rice will soon be cooped
up in a special "dormitory' where
they will have to take studies really
seriously. Ironclad rules will be laid
down for members of the "Athletic
Club" and those on pro will be watch-
ed with eagle eyes.
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tt will be an honor to be a resident
of the Athletes' Dorm. Those ath-
letes on pro will not be allowed to
"wear the special insignia. That is
good—it will help them to "come off."
The insignia will come to be regarded
in a light similar to that haloing the
cherished athletic letter. Present res-
idents of East Hall tower will be
asked to co-operate in the move. Many
have voluntarily offered to change
their rooms if it is necessary to the
proper working of the plan. That is
a fine spirit. It is to be hoped that
the athletes who are to be benefited
will reflect the spirit in a warm-heart-
ed, sportsmanlike manner.
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1I7TTH the spring elections coming
" on apace and the co-eds getting
prepared for their annual May Fete,
it begins to look as if there will be a
busy spring at the old Institute.
♦ * *
fflHE gridiron has taken on a "fall
appearance' once more—baseball
prospects are keeping the whole
school enthused and track has started
in earnest, so athletic interest is at a
high pitch.
* * *
1>UT perhaps it is all needed to keep
everybody from going to sleep un-
der the annual menace of spring fever.
''In the spring a young man's fancy
heavily slumps to thoughts of love."
BARNARDS TO MEET
Authorities Urge Attendance at Next
Gathering
The next meeting of the Barnard
Society will be held Wednesday, April
8, at the Autry House, at 8:30 p. m„
it has been announced. Those in charge
u ge that those who were not at the
last meeting come to this one without
fail.
At the last meeting of the society,
an informal discussion was held, and
some new and important business
matters were brought up.
ACTORS SELECT
Rice Club to Act Life of
Shakespeare
"Shakespeare's Dark Lad y," a
drama in five episodes depicting sev-
eral incidents in the life of the famous
author-playwright, has been chosen
by the Rice Dramatic Club for pres-
entation this spring, it was announced
by J. I. Campbell, manager, following
the first meeting of the club for the
new term at the Autry House Thurs-
day night.
The initial try-outs were held
Thursday night. Only one selection
was definitely made. That is Hyman
Plenn, who will play the part of
Shakespeare.
The rest of the cast will be an-
nounced later.
The date of the play has not been
decided upon. Plans are under way
for producing the drama at the Palace
Theatre, bu tdefinite announcement to
that effect has not yet been piade.
At Thursday's meeting of the club,
Rev. Harris Masterson tendered his
resignation as treasurer and was suc-
ceeded by J. B. Earthman. Th*<finan-
cial report read by Earthman was
very favorable.
HEISMAN URGES
SUPERVISION
HALLS
Plans lor an "Athletes Dormi-
tory" were outlined by Coach
Heisman at a meeting- of some
150 athletes in the baseball
bleachers late Thursday after-
noon.
Heisman explained t h e need
of such a dormitory and pointed
out how it would mean the sal-
vation of many choice gridiron
stars from probation or the
flunkout axe.
As the plan now stands, the
athletes dormitory would be lo-
cated in the tower eiftrance of
East Hall, with recognized worth
assembled in a group and abid-
ing by iron-clad rules, to be en-
forced by a proctor.
Non-athlete residents of the rooms
desired for the athletes will b easked
to change rooms for the remainder
of this year, and future years will
see a definite place for the athletes,
the idea to culminate eventually in a
special "training house" for the ex-
clusive use of those out for the ath-
letic trams.
Exclusive
Hiesnian pointed out that only
those athletes designated by the
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4 CLASS ISSUES
Senior Thresher Out
Next Week
The Senior Thresher is scheduled
to appear April 10. This issue of
Rice's weekly will mark the beginning
of class Issues for this year. Juniors,
Sophomores and Freshmen will fol-
low in the order ir.mp4 Fol!ow;r.gr
the Slime edition the regular staff
will resume its work.
Richard T. Wilbanks has been
chosen as the editor for the Junior
class issue.
Jesse Madden, Soph president, had
little to say about the Sophomore is-
sue except that his class would not be
left behind.
Slime Prexy George Murray, has
withheld his say until after the
Freshman elections held this week.
Nevertheless, the- Fresh m e n have
enough talent in sight to offer lots
of competition to the older classes.
This system of class Threshers has
been followed at Rice for several
years.
STUDENTS HEAR
F.P.MILLER
Y Speaker Desrcibes
Social Evolution
"Too many people think of social
evolution as a clockwork which has
been wound up by God, and which
runs without any assistance what-
ever," said Francis P. Miller while
addressing a group of Rice Institute
students in the Physics amphitheatre
Thursday noon. "Such people are
brakes on society, leeches on the body
politic and are dragging us back to-
ward the ages when might was the
only law."
Mr. Miller is a naitonally known Y.
M. C. A. worker and was brought here
by the Rice Y. His special field of
lecturing is in the American college,
having lectured" in practically all the
larger universities. Mr. Miller's home
is in New York.
Mr. Miller spoke of the Students'
Federation, which is a world-wide or-
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BOYS TO STRUT
ONCE MORE
Girls Relent; Queen
to Have Royal
Flush
Boys will not be excluded from the
May Fete this year, according to an
announcement by Ruth Elizabeth
Cathcart, president of the Woman's
Council.
Fvie popular eds, to be chosen by
the council, will be asked to partici-
pate as king and dukes. They will ap-
pear in "tuxes," while the rest of the
"cast" will follow out a costume
effect.
Allie May Autry, elected last week,
is to preside as Queen.
Pink
Lovely shades of rose from a deli-
cate shell pink to a deeper American
Beauty was decided upon by the Wo-
man's Council last Tuesday for the
costume color scheme for this year's
Fete. Dresses of a uniform design
featuring the ball sleeves now com-
ing into vogue, basque waists, and
bouffant skirts will be worn by the
princesses, duchesses and maids, thus
carrying out in a novel way an attrac-
tive motif. Nosegays for the maids
and shower bouquets for the other
girls of the court will be carried.
The following council members
were appointed to serve in the capaci-
ties indicated:
Margaret Thompson, decorations;
Marie Logan, music; Irene Ward, pro-
gram; Mary Louise Howze, entertain-
ment; Alice Michaux, costumes; Mar-
garet Lester and Louise Rogers, ar-
rangements.
SO LET IT BE - AMEN
And When The
dftwaf cocoes
we will STILL
BE FIGHTING
on, rice- "
PROSIT \o
Harriet Monroe
Poetry Editor,
To Lecture Here
Harriet Monroe, editor of the
"Poetry Magazine," will deliver a lec-
ture in Houston some time next week,
according to Miss Kathleen Munn,
who is making arrangements for thi
talk. The exact dayTlnd place of the
lecture has not been decided upon as
this goes to press, but will be an-
nounced on the bulletin board, early
next week.
■ Miss Monroe was the first person
to make a poetry magazine a success.
This publication was started in 1912:
and continues, due to ample backing
from the like of Charles Dawes, to
operate with no financial difficulty;
and to afford to the young and not
so widely known poets of merit an
opportunity, which would probably be
otherwise denied them, of seeing in
print the results of their own effort
and inspiration.
Miss Monroe's lecture will be free
of charge.
®
NEW LINE ORDERED
Co-Op to Have a Good Stock for
Next Year
A new line of felt goods, pennants,
etc., has been ordered by the Rice Co-
Op for next, year, according to an an-
nouncement by Bert Hitson, manager.
The order includes a complete new
line of stationery, jewelry, belts and
felt goods. A new Rice belt, designed
by William McVey, recently made its
appearance. More suggestions are
wanted from the students, according
to Hitson, who is also anxious that
all mistakes in charging, etc., that
might be made by clerks in the Co-
Op, be reported for correction.
A MERE BRUTE CAN STRUT WITH PHYSICAL
PROWESS. BUT THE MAN HAS SOMETHING
MORE—HIS BRAIN.
Athletes, this is a message to you.
Yor are on probation? You deserve to be. But do you HAVE to be?
Are you men? Are you as brave before a stack of books as you are
before a stack of enemy brawn? Have you got a backbone that will
remain as rigid during the long months when you are not playing foot-
ball as it does on the gridiron? Are you the Uue leader jtfti are sup-
posed to be? Do you have that courage, that, nerve, that invincbile
spirit that one reads about in story books? Are you willing to study?
Or are you yellow?
Yes, YELLOW. For he is the worst kind of a coward who boasts of
his physical strength and then shrinks from a little mental activity
occasionally.
The fact that you are on probation will make you ashamed—if you
are men. It will make you want to work, if you are men. It will
arouse you to that same type of fighting fury that possesses you
when you are losing a hard, all-important battle—if you are men.
But ARE YOU MEN?
The next three months will tell.
B. H. ALLEN
BRIDGES
CHASTAIN
MATTHEWS
WATSON
WILLIAMS
RICH
WESTERFIELD
ULRIC'H
BliCHOLTZ
DECAMARA
HL'SSA
WHORTON
NEVINGEK
BRUNSON
BURNS
HOW ABOUT IT?
NO EGGS: RABBITS ARE SLAIN
"There ain't gonna be no Easter
Cfcggg this year. There ain't gonna
be no eggs a tall!"
All the Easter rabbits of the In-
stitute have donated their lives to
science. Don't cry, children, but it's
the sad truth.
Eighty rabbits—forty male and
forty f e m a 1 e—were atrociously
butchered by the Biology 360 class
last week. These animals consti-
tuted the entire hope of hard-boiled
eggs for the Institute's annual
Easter festivities.
Within the next six weeks the
bodies of the rabbits will be thor-
oughly inspected and dissected by
the embroyo Meds and delicate Co-
eds. Anyone, who may so desire,
can visit the Bugs lab and view the
remains. Mourners allowed on Sun-
day from 2 to 4 p. m.
It is feared that the 100 egg-pro-
ducers ordered from Kalarfiazoo will
not reach here in time to perform.
News of their arrival will be broad-
casted, however, if thye appear to-
night. Continue to make nests in
the hedges if you're optimistic.
Satisfy the girl friend with candy
imitations.
Tennis Sharks
ToClimbLadder
For the purpose of arousing com
petitive interest among its members,
the Tennis Club has adopted the lad-
der system—a scheme by which the
names of ten members are drawn at
random by the officers of the club
and placed upon ten rungs of the
ladder.
There are, of course, more than ten
persons in the Tennis Club, but there
is only one way to enter this exclusive
Ladder crowd and that is to challenge
and defeat one of its members in a
set of tennis.
The arrangements of the names, as
they now stand, is, of course, one of
chance, but hereafter the best player
will be on top and so prove her su-
periority by defeating other members
of the group of ten. Whether Miss
Sorrells will retain this honor is yet
to be seen.
The ladder as it now stands is as
follows:
Dorothy Sorrells, Katherine Burns,
Norma Bemus, May Wilson, Betty
Moody, Mira Donna May, Freda Ra-
doff, Fleda Smith, Adele Roensch,
Rachel Waples.
BAPTISTS TO HAVE PARTY
The Rice class of the First Baptist
Church will have an Easter party at
the home of Miss Wilminor Morris,
1611 Stewart Avenue, Tuesday even-
ing, April 7, at 7:30 o'clock. All Bap-
tist Rice sutdents are invited.
FOOLS ARE SCARCE
Not Much Doing at the Institute on
April First
April the first, the day of practical
and impractical jokes, was very quiet-
ly observed by Rice students Wednes-
day. Few attempts at humor were at-
tempted, a 11 h o there w e r e s o m e
strange noises heard .in thp neighbor-
hood of West Hall late Tuesday night
and early Wednesday morning.
Most of the day was spent in re-
cuperating from the Junior Prom.
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Many Speakers Will
Be Heard in Chapel
It has been announce dthat the third
term chapel services will include the
following:
"Religion and the Student"
Dr. Caldwell, April 8.
"Opportunities for Student Religion"
Irene Ward, April 15.
"A Student's View of Immortality"
Bert Hitson, April 22.
"Ear $arks of a Worthwhile Student"!
Don Henderson, April 29.
"Student Prayer"
Mary Louise Hamburger, May 6.
"Student Apathy towards School j
Problems"—Jessie B. Hutts, May 13.
OWLS MEET SMU
SATURDAY
Third Conference Game
Will Be Played
Austin
While the tennis team is fighting
the Texas Aggies on the "Y" courts
Saturday afternoon, and the track
team is up in Austin doing its stuff
against the Steers, Couch Bedenk's
flock of ball toRsers will mix things
■ m Rice Field with the visiting .South-
ern Methodist aggregation.
Fresh from victories over the Texas
Aggies and the Steers in the opening
games of the conference—probably
the best start an Owl team has made
in several seasons the Owls should
go good against the Mustangs.
Good Shape
Bedenk's men are looking better and
better as the days go by, and if noth-
ing unforeseen happens, the team
should give ■-♦very opponent a fine
light.
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ALTENBURG BACK
Popular Biology P r o f
Returns
Dr. Edgar Altenburg, professor of
biology, returned to Rice Monday
morning after an absence of about
three months. He arrived in llous-
on Sunday night from his home in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he has
been recuperating from a nervous
breakdown aggravated by years of
intensive biological work.
Dr. Altenburg states that his rest
has aided his recuperation greatly
uid is very glad to return to his
classes at the Institute.
"I aril aole "o appreciate the balmy,
spring climate of Houston after my
visit back East, and its effect is more
exhilirating than the climate of New
Jersey," Dr. Altenburg said.
1 He was enthusiastically received
by his Biology 100 c ■ a s s Tuesday
morning.
TROPHIES TO BE
AWARDED
football Men Will Be
Honored bv
E. B. L. S.
A general mass meeting1 will be held
Friday for the purpose of awarding
the silver football purchased by th>.
Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society.
The trophy will be formally dedicated
by Coach Ilefsman to the first con
ferencc t e a ni of Rice Institute in
honor of the "HEISMEN*" of 1024.
Individual trophies will then be pre-
sented to the fourteen football letter
men by Miss Mary Jane Trammel!,
representing the society.
Those receiving the individual cup.-
are:
Harvey Smith, captain; Paul Nash.
Underwood, Heflin, Wilford, Wood,
lleyck. Morgan, McVey, Hale Wil-
liams Hopkins, Ray and Terrell, cap
tain-elect.
The cups are now on display in the
window of Sweeney's Jewelry Store
on Main Street.
SOLITARY SAL
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The 0. W. L. S. will entertain with
a bridge party at the home of Marian
Rogers, Saturday, April 11.
Mary Katherina Wright is in charge
of arrangements and Janet Allen of
the prizes.
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