The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1926 Page: 2 of 4
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THE THIiESHER :: HOUSTON, TEXAS
THE
A Weekly Paper Published by the StudenU a( Ri !n«titul .
Entered as second class matter October 17, 1SU6. at the tnietoffiee iti Houston, U'WH. under
the Act of March S. 1S79.
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Society Editor
BIDS TO BE ISSUED
FOB SATURDAY DANCES
(Continued from Page 1.)
mor Club and the Junior class, attend-
ed the session. Madden and Boone
were present as disinterested parties.
The system of bids will be fully ex-
plained at the dance in the Commons
Saturday night, at which time Rice
students and town visitors may make
application for admission cards, which,
once issued, will l e permanent unless!
revoked by concerted action of the I
two committees. j
"It is the purpose of the new rul-!
ing in regards Saturday night dances j
to restrict attendance of non-Rice stu-|
! dents,v A1 Brasliear states. "RIcps
| students will have no difficulty In get-1
ting I heir bids. Town people cart
make application only when vouched
for by a Rice student."
Each bid will be signed by Mrs.
BUk*. after the applicant has been
approved by the committees. The
bid will be non-transferable. A fine
of fB.OO will be aueued the bolder
of a bid if it is found in another per-
son's possession at a danee, and tbe
invite will be permanently revoked if
the rule is broken a second time.
The dance committee will meet
every Friday to consider new appli-
cations for bids.
Bad conduct at the Saturday night
dances positively will not be permit-
ted. The committees do not blame
Rice students for past bad conduct at
the weekly struggles, the blame for
such being placed on outsiders. The
system of issuing bids will limit the
number of town people, and will make
the dances truly representative of
Rice.
"It has been the charge that Rice
co-eds do not wish to attend the Satur-
day dances," Brashear declared, "their
reason being that too many outsiders
KKl'ORTEKS
Beverly Fonville
Cherry Schwart*
Douglas Scott
P. A. Honey
Felide O'Brien
Dr. Theo Bald Blinkus
lone Spence
Made!in Jacobe
Charline Lallier
Grace Felder
Wendell Hamrick
IS THERE ROOM
FOR CRITICISM?
Two of the oldest coaches in point of service in the football
business this season failed to win a single conference game.
Alonzo Stagg at Chicago and John W. Heisman of Rice are the
men.
Whether the alumni, lettermen, and students of the University
t.f Chicago are considering ousting Mr. Stagg, we do not know.
But if the time-worn custom is followed out, Mr. Stagg's long
period of service at Chicago seems near an end. Whether such
action is justified, again we will not attempt to say, for we do not
know.
But we do know a few things about conditions in regards John
W. Heisman, OUR coach.
Rice Institute's grid team suffered a disastrous year of activity.
Three losses by score of 20 to 0 to Texas University, Southern
Methodist and Texas A. and M„ and a 9 to 7 defeat at the hands
of Baylor University placed the Owls at the bottom in the con-
ference.
Criticism has been heaped upon the shoulders of Mr. Heisman.
The Thresher believes this criticism has been entirely unwar-
ranted.
No coach in the country could hare taken the men J. W. Heis-
man had at his disposal and formed a winning aggregation. Our
plavcrs were serving their first year on a varsity eleven in a real
he-man's conference. They lacked that something that comes
with having real he-men charge into them and knock them for a
loop. They lacked that football soul that distinguishes a winning
team from one that loses.
Coach Heisman and his assistants worked as no other coaches
in tin conference did this fall. Their hearts arid souls were in
tln-ir task. They turned out a creditable team, at least.
But no bunch of sophomores can be expected to beat veteran
elevens, such as other conference members put onto the field.
Our men, striving to do their best, were just not equal to the task,
and the coaches, Mr. Heisman in particular, should not get the
blame for such.
Our team was well-drilled ; it worked plays with precision. But
that fighting soul, so characteristic of a winning eleven, cannot
come with only one year's work. At the start of next season's
race ok; varsity will come back 100 per cent better than it was
at the close of the Turkey Day game,
But, getting back to the point, if there is fault to be found, do
I."'; heap criticism upon Mr! Heisman. He is the last person to
criticise. '1
The Thresher believes that criticism should be withheld en-
V:viv. Neither the coaches nor the players themselves are at
fault. For every player must serve his first year on varsity. It
v .ist umoi runate that so many sophomores-were on the squad
■ 'lie timo.-
.. e Mr. Heisman and t he men a fair chance—surely they
and all Rice vili. forget that the season of 1926 saw
Co losses;
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teat an atmosphere of public dance
kail. With the ifRtein of restricted
attendance, they are assured a con-
genial group of students of the insti-
tute.
"Need of such action has long been
felt, as any Tom. Dick or Harry up-
town could attend. The floor has
been crowded with town stags, who
usually do not know how to act in a
gentlemanly manner."
The bid system was in force sev-
eral years ago, and kept the Saturday
night dances purely Rice. Mrs. Blake
personally Issued the bids.
"Tbe dances then were most order-
ly," she stated to a Thresher reporter.
"I am confident that the revival of
the system will be met with hearty
enthusiasm by all Rice.
"In order to continue our Saturday
dances more Rice students must at-
tend, and bring their Rice girl friends.
This is not imperative, but desirable.
BEDBK WHX MAWM4....
SLUR CAGE OUTFIT
Coach Joe Bedenk, assistant grid
mentor, will handle tbe slime cage
team this winter, F. D. Aahcraft, vars-
ity basketball director, has announced.
Bedenk coached the freshman aggre-
gation last season, and turned out a
strong quintet.
The slimes will play several Houston
high and Independent quintets this
year.
Town men will make the stag line
complete. They always do."
The committees will not police the
dance floor. It will see, however, that
order is maintained. The sole pur-
pose of the new ruling Is to eliminate
tbe undesirables. Otherwise the
dances will continue to function as
heretofore.
The admission charge of $1.00 will
not be changed.
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Wlic fir fur: i- Howe Walker interrupted .his lecture recently
'i ciNptv.-.s i.;s oj.j.'lion to a compulsory course in mathematics
<• v.iiml an opinion shared by many of the students and quite a
lew of the ins.trt.ctoi - of the Institute. In most universities, as at
Rice, ail .students are required to take and pass a course in elemen-
tary mathematical analysis. We can see no reason for present day
< ducat< rs stressing this subject so greatly. Why should a student
be forced in tak<- mathematics any more than French or chemis-
iry or history?
Occasionally there ought to.be found students having a natural
mathematical bent' who prefer to take courses in higher mathe-
i laties. But it'is clearly i-vident that the science of mathematics
•s repugnant to the great majority of college students. They
weal and pore over complex math problems for many hours a
week during their Freshman, and all too frequently Sophomore
and Junior years. To them mathematics is a sore thumb, a rancid
pill, a grindstone hung around their necks to sharpen tffdr intel-
lect. It is a pretty sai'e guess than more students bust Math 100
than any other course on the Freshman curriculum.
Though Rice is an engineering school, the academic students
Jar outnumber the engineers. Since engineering students expect
to make practical use of mathematics in later life, it is no more
than proper that they be required to take mathematical courses.
Rut why saddle academic students with a load of theorems and
formulae, the tedious learning of which will avail them nothing?
The advocates of compulsory mathematics claim that this study
is necessary to make the student think and reason. This seems to
imply that in all other college courses no. upe of the reasoning
faculties is required. If someone will kindly suggest just where
such courses ought to be found the aforementioned will undoubt-
edly be swamped with registrations. Or will an additional nine
months of math prove such a great boon to the student who has
been running the gauntlet of algebra and geometry for the past
four years at high school? We wager that three-fourths of the
students entering college, if freed from the shackles of mathe-
matics, would elect other courses which present far more interest-
ing fields of study to them.
If mathematics is to form such an indispensible part of the
curriculum, would it not be better, as Dr. Walker suggests, to re-
quire only one year's study of this subject irrespective of whether
the student passes or fails? Or if any subject is to be made
compulsory why not let it be biology, the study of life in which
everyone of us is most vitally interested. But to compel every
student to pass a course the knowledge of which will never be of
use to him in. the office....or in the drawing room is an unbearable
imposition.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1926, newspaper, December 3, 1926; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230061/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.