The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 9, 1927 Page: 4 of 6
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FOUR
Huntln' season Is here and all the
Nlmrods are after the frame The us-
ual Influx of huntln' stories Is also at
hand. Here're a few too good to
keep:
Pete Spencer was the victim of the
first pot shot. Pete answered all
queries as to his limp last week on
the grounds that he'd fought a wild-
cat. Not so, Bolivia!
Seems as though Pete was mean-
dering around the San Jacinto River
country in search of the elusive
quack-quacks when night fell with a
crash. Our sheik could no longer see
to pursue his game, so he betook
himself to the shelter of n nice live
oak tree, from which the moss hung
In Kreat profusion.
Now, Potf was tired and the moss
looked rather Inviting, so Pete shins
the tree and perches on a limb to col-
lect enough moss for a mattress. On
the second Erasp of the grey trailers,
Pete also seized a screech owl.
Bear in mind, dear reader, that it
was darker than all get out by this
time. HRd that the owl, as owls are
apt to do, objected to being seized,
llf dug his talons into Pete's arm,
and screeched for all he was worth.
"Yowie! Wildcat!" yells Pete, out-
screerhing the owl, and promptly
tumbles off his perch onto the hard,
cold ground.
Baker Armstrong is no mean shot
in the field of Bice huntsmen. Twen-
ty (wo decoy clucks bear witness to
the fact. And this is how it hap-
pened :
Bake went hunting, as oollitch boys'
will do, and in the cold grev dawn
his heart was gladdened by the sight
of a nice little flock of ducky-ducks,
floating placidly on the surface of the
hay.
\rniBtrong wiggled closer for a nice
hot. Tii* dew was very wetting,
but what cared Bake with buck — I
rneiin duck—fever in his veins? At
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last he got close enough. He raised
up and took careful aim, then unload-
ed his shot-gun.
Much to his surprise, none of the
ducks seemed to rise, but they all
turned quietly over on their backs
and floated tummy up.
Bake's jubilance was somewhat
quieted when a menacing figure rose
from the blind nearby, and inquired,
"What In hell are you sinking my de-
coys for?"
Our man of money, Mr. John T.
McCants, is also a duck chaser. He
even played hookey from school last
Tuesday a week in order to get a few
shots in where they would do the
most good. There ought to be a jok-
er In that somewhere, but there isn't
any to speak of.
Mr. McCants merely told his B.iA.
300 class that, there would be a roam-
in' holiday on Tuesday, because he
would be busy. The roaming part of
it was right, for he roamed far afield
in search of an unsuspecting mud-
hen. He wasn't so busy though, if
the three measly specimens he
brought back are any indication.
Well, It was this way:
Turkey was 45 and 50 cents a pound
down in the markets, so Mr. McCants
decided a luscious duck or a goose
would go fine. Thanksgiving Day
wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a
fowl of some sort, and even if the
family did have to pick birdshot from
their teeth, they could be thankful
that they didn't have to every day.
So Mr. McCants spent two pound?
of turkey for 25 shells and went hunt-
ing. He's a good hunter, as any stu-
dent who owes bills can testify, and
he got his man—I mean his duck—
::11 three of them.
The current, report that they were
of the mud-hen variety can not be
verified, and whether or not they went
nicely with the cranberry sauce is
still a mystery.
Koenig also went a-ducking and
claims he shot 1" of the birds. He
brought back1 a feather from each
one to prove it. and we have no rea-
son to doubt his claim, although the
feathers all look strangely alike and
match up almost perfectly. Koenig
says all ducks are twins, that's why
you can't tell their feathers apart.
Nami gets the final line of bird
shot. ITe hunts his thrills in a West-
ern story magazine with a pillow un-
der his head, and prefers chicken to
ducking any time, If the chicken is of
the flapper variety. He also informs
us that his favorite portion is the
neck. That's our favorite, too.
Let's hope, he doesn't pot-shot us
for a return favor.
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CHICAGO UNIVERSITY
STUDENT IS WINNER
BYNNER POETRY PRIZE
New York. N. Y. (By New Students
l News Service)—Sterling North, of the
University of Chicago, is winner of the,
Witten Bynner poetry prize, in the
annual undergraduate, contest. (Irace
Hazard Colliding, Edgar Lee Mast-
ers, and Witter Bynner judged the
| poetry of students in all parts of the
j country. North won $100. Marian
! Staver, Barnard College; and Lucia
. E. Jordan, Smith College; each won
$25 prizes.
Honorable mention, in order of pref-
; erence, was given Rhea de Coudres,
Brown University; Marshall Schacht,
Dartmouth College; Walter Evans
Kidd, University of Oregon; Margaret
Hebard, Smith College; Karen Dillig,
Carnegie Institute of Technology;
John Bryon, University of Virginia;
Ernest Erskilla, University of Mon-
tana; Gladys B. Merrifield, University
of California; M. Hazel Harris, Uni-
versity of Minnesota; and Donald
Wandrei, University of Minnesota.
Entries for the 192S prize must be
mailed by May 15. 1928.*" Only under-
graduates may compete, and the
poems submitted may be one or a
group, but of not more than 200 lines.
THI THRgSHtR—HOUiTON. TtXAt
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The Girls' Room! What a flood of
reminiscences those words bring to
the mind of any Rice Co-ed. It has Its
store of traditions as colorful and
full as any portion of the Campus.
It attempts to fill the space in the
co-ed's life that the dorms do for the
men. Of course, the attempt tails,
but it is much better than nothing at
all, and the girls of Rice have come,
through 'he years, to love tlu room
and to add, each session, something
to Its history.
Often the dean has bud io curb
the high spirits of the "trH or to
censor Sinue prank but unnajly the
girls have run the room and done the
job remarkably well, or so it seamed
to them.
The girls room resemble;: the Eng-
lish nation In that It has a ft of un-
written laws. The first. Is that Fresh-
men must stay on one side and use
only the wire lockers. Nc-\er must
they have the effrontery to cross the
Invisible line that separate? the two
domains. Not until her siphmore
year can any girl have the pleasure
of powdering her nose or combing her
hair in front of one of the funny mir-
rors marked "for longs" or "for
shorts" and ornamented with the
class numerals,—'25, '26, '27.
One of the most important things
in the room is the great wall clock,
with its pendulum swinging ever back
and forth . It is usually approximate-
ly correct, as far as the time of the
day is concerned, that is, generally
speaking, (and you'll notice that
we're generally speaking; in fact the
only time we're not is when we have
to resign in favor of a prof.) The
girls are still firmly convinced that
the hands of this clock move faster
than thjit in the Physics Amphithea-
tre.
Our Lady is quite a character in
the room . On cold days, the co-eds
always feel sorry for her as she sits
near the lily pond with her hair
combed beautifully, but absolutely
without clothing of any kind.
A couple of years ago some of
the girls decided that the lady really
ought to have something to protect
her from the elements—and proceed-
ed to make her a lovely dress of
black and white striped material with
a hat to match. The costume was
really very pretty but the authorities
decided that it was insulting to offer
the lady clothing and the dress was
removed. Ever since the lady hsis
sat there, winter and summer, quite
guiltless of any apparel.
The chairs and the lounge in the
room are showing the ravages of
time, (as well as of the co-ed), and
badly need refinishing, but they are
comfortable and always well filled.
Often three girls occupy one chair,
if the girl in the middle is popular or
chairs scarce. The tables were not
made for seats but never-the-less have
their degree of popularity. These
tables also make very good stages
from which to exhibit the latest ver-
sion of the Kingachu or Black Bot-
tom.
Originally, the room was intended
as a study hall, but it has degenerat-
ed greatly from its first purpose. Now
it is absolutely impossible to study
there—only those girls who don't
want to, but feel they should—at-
tempt studying there. An open book
is conscience salve, at least.
During the first half of every hour,
the room is reasonably quiet, but as
sure as the hour is past, the voices
become an ever rising crescendo till
far into the next hour. On the ex-
act hour the noise is always loudest
and the room full. Every girl has to
talk and of %jur.sp no one is content
to listen. Hi
Bight now the main topic for con-
versation is Betty's bay shore party,
for the Girl's tennis club. When
friend meets friend the question is,
are you going to Betty's?
PRINCETON STUDENTS
FAIL IN ATTEMPT TO
GET MUNICIPAL VOTE
Princeton, N. J. (By New Students
News Service)—A long fight on the
part of The Dally Prlncetoriian to win
for the student the right to vote at
municipal elections, a fight begun
when the franchise was denied at reg-
istration time, has ended with the re-
fusal of the county elections board to
reopen the case. Consequently, a bit-
ter fight for the Princeton mayoralty
passed without the student elector-
ate's participation. And so far as the
state of New Jersey is concerned,
students of voting age have not the
same privilege accorded the town
half-wit.
Whether the politics of the mayor*
alty fight had anything to do with a
desire to keep the students from vot-
ing, is not clear. Presumably the op-
posing candidates stood with the col-
legians. But the election board de-
cided that the residence requirement
of five months had not been fulfilled,
due to summer absences, and on this
grounds denied use of the ballot
The Prlneetonlan carried on the fight,
and produced a statement from Pres-
ident Hibhen giving it as the Univer-
sity's view that despite holidays, stu-
dents are regarded as resdents for a
| year at a time. The board remained
j unconvinced, and the students also.
But the board had the final word.
PATHS TO PtODUCE
SCIENTIFIC MOVIES
Harvard University has definitely
entered the field of visual education
through the medium of motion pic-
tures. As a result of a oontraet be-
tween Harvard and Pathe Exchange,
Inc., of New York, the university will
prepare series of pictures dealing
with different scientific subjects, to
be known as the Pathe Science se-
ries.
The contract, which extends over
a five-year period, was signed by
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Har-
vard, and Elmer Pearson, first vice
president of Pathe. As Pathe has
been co-operating with Yale Univer-
sity through the distribution of the
Chronicles of America" series for
four years, this contract means that
Pathe now has the co-operation of
the two oldest universities in the
United States.
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OXFORD UP IN ARMS
WHEN MOVIE CAMERA
APPEARS ON CAMPUS
New York, N. Y. (By New Student
Service)— American universities,
sometimes irked by incongruities, but
on the whole happy when their cam-
puses are made the scenes for motion
pictures of alleged collegel ife, or
filmed for "educational purposes" per-
haps will wonder why Oxford is up
in arms over a similar situation.
Oxford is to be filmed "in order to
acquaint mankind with what Oxford
stands for; what Oxford is and has
been; to set forth in foving pictures
the essential spirit of Oxford." To all
of which The Isis answers with a
snort. "There is no valid reason why
we, who at the moment compose Ox-
ford and all that is in it," says the
student magazine, "we should allow
ourselves to be depicted as the
trrumpery actors in a roseate spec-
tacle for colonial nincompoops." Isis,
besides having a constitutional objec-
tion to publicity, is pained by the
scenario. It is entitled "The City
of Youth," and based ona book writ-
ten by a woman—a woman, mind you,
writing of Oxford—about twenty
years ago. It is "a sentimental love
story about a young don, with the in-
evitable ending on the chancel steps."
And that, says Isis, is not Oxford
today. Of course nothing can be done
to prevent "the latest atrocity", but
the voice of the students hopes that
"if we have been the first to protest,
we shall not be the last."
The feminine part of the Rice Insti-
tute student body is very attractive
according to Mr, Helm but, calm
yourselves girls, he Is married. Mr.
Helm Is, however, much impressed
by the physical equipment of Rice,
the personnel of the faculty, and the
aims of the Institute. Before com-
ing to Rice he was connected with
state schools, and he notices the de-
cided differences In tone between the
state schools, without complete free-
dom, an^ Institutions like Rice.
Mr. Helm comes to Rice from the
Pacific coast, although careful observ-
ers will notice a slight twang in his
speech which marks him a native
Texan. His undergraduate work was
completed in the Oregon State Agri-
cultural College while his graduate
work was done at the University of
Oregon wljere he taught for several
years.
A Freshman told Mr. Helm the
other day that he thought other stu-
dents were superior to those at Rice
because of the climatic conditions of
Houston! This amused and Impressed
Mr. Helm as well as the remark of
a Junior who told him that she
thought the work required at Rice
was considerably heavier than the
work required in many other univer-
sities. Mr. Helm admits that Rice
does require lots of work but says
that she has built up a high stand-
ard which she must maintain. Another
student told Mr. Helm that It took
ten minutes tor her to start thinking
and he says that she Is a good stu-
dent!
Judging from the Freshman parade
Mr. Helm thinks Rice has an abund-
ance of school spirit of a kind, but
seriously that Rice gives good sup-
port to the football team. He believ-
es the enthusiasm shown over games
won is a very wholesome thing for
Rice.
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