The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1928 Page: 1 of 4
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Rice T opics
jyj EMBERS of the Rice Glee Club
should take heed of the fact that
the organization hag two engage-
ments to All during the next two
months, and should co-operate with
those in charge to make the coming
concerts successful.
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A very creditable performance was
staged by the club last fall, but since
that time the attendance at practice
meetings has fallen off to such a
marked extent that it was found nec-
essary to postpone one of the con-
certs from March to April in order
that the singers might be gotten in
proper training for the event.
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No doubt there are many in the
school possessed of vocal ability who
have not yet offered their services to
the club; these should come for'ward
with their assistance. They will And
that considerable effort has been
made to assure them entertainment
at the regular meetings, and the in-
struction, under Mr. A. H. Wiggins,
director of the club, should be of
permanent value.
Junior Prom to Be
Gala affair; Most
Formal of Season
pHE securing of Earnest W. Schultz
as freshman coach in football and
other sports at Rice Institute marks
another step in the advance to a new
era In Rice athletics.
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The Thresher predicts that such a
time is now at hand, and that no
longer will there be the slightest jus-
tification for anyone's calling Rice the
"sick sister of the Southwestern Con-
ference," as has been done in the
past.
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TKg-.fetter part of the basketball
season has found interested ' eyes
turned on the able performance of the
Institute team all over the State, with
wondering comments on what might
have been had Coach Daugherity ar-
rived in time to get the men in
proper training for the opening of the
season.
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This is but uxe besinntug, and It Is
our firm belief that Rice teams will
perform as creditably in all other
branches of athletics. The acquisition
of competent coaches and able assist-
ants, the recbgnition of the confer-
ence regulations regarding scholastic
eligibility, and an entirely new atti-
tude of fighting to win rather than to
make a fair showing will all combine
to produce athletic teams of which
the student body may well be proud.
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The athletic material on hand is,
likewise, encouraging. Very few men
will be lost from the football squad
of the past season, and of those who
remain there are several whose possi-
bilities were just beginning to be re-
vealed at the close. Some of the
outstanding performers on the basket-
ball team are Sophomores, and the
Freshman squad is probably the
strongest in Rice history. Baseball
and track prospects are very bright,
and many good men will wear Rice's
colors in these sports in the spring.
GIRL SONGSTERS POSE
FOR CAMPANILE PHOTO
FRIDAY, AUTRY HOUSE
Last Friday afternoon at Autry
House melodious voices (we are con-
sidering their musical sources) were
heard to exclaim; "Do we have to
take off our hats?" "I'll freeze with-
out my coat." "Let's all open our
mouths." "I ought to stand in front
with my little stick," this last from
Mrs. Swinford. The Girls' Glee Club
posed for the photographer.
It is hoped that those who prom-
ised faithfully to come out for Glee
Club after exams will not forget that
the club meets every Friday, 1:15
p. m., at Autry House.
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PALMER CHAPEL SERVICES
FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 26
11:00 A. M.
Processional Parker
Venite
Benedictus es Domine
Woodward
Hymn Heinlein
Anthem, "Come Great Spirit"
Scott
Doxology „
Response, "Greek Lithurgy"
Recessional Smart
6:00 P. M. G
Processional Morley
Gloria
Magnificat Downes
Response West
Anthem, "Tarry With Me...
.... Baldwin
Response, "GreeM Lnthnrgy*
Recessional Bambridge
Mrs. Roy Wilson, Organist
Mrs. J. F. Spencer, Director
PLANS NOT DIVULGED
Two Orchestras to Play for
Dance; Bids Obtainable
In Sallyport.
The Junior Prom, the outstanding
social event in Rice's calendar, will
be held at River Oaks, March 1, be-
ginning at 10 p. m. and lasting until
2:30 a. m. March 2 being a holiday
provides the desired time for recuper-
ation.
As is customary, seniors who paid
their junior class dues are admitted
without charge. All socially inclined
juniors should keep this custom in
mind while debating whether to part
with the sum of $7.50, this year's
junior dues. Every junior attending
the dance must pay his dues. Bids
are $4.00 for stags, $7.50 per couple.
Henry Beissner, general chairman
of the prom committee, was reluctant
to give any information concerning
plans for the dance. On one point,
however, he was quite willing to talk
at length—the class' urgent need of
more money; consequently, a plea to
juniors to pay their dues promptly.
The prom committee is anxious to
put the dance over in big style, and
to do so must have the financial
backing of the junior class.
The meagre information given out
at present concerning the affair it-
self is this: There will be two or-
chestras, Lee's Owls and another or-
chestra, the latter playing first. There
will be an appropriate setting, tempt-
ing refreshments, and favors for the
ladies. The matter of decorations—
simple, elaborate, kind of theme, etc.
—is still concealed behind meaning-
less hints. We have a hunch, how-
ever, that this is bound.to leak out
pretty soon. (Watch this space.)
In the meantime, juniors are urged
to patronize the desk conveniently
placed in the Sally-Port for the pur-
pose of raking in the cash.
Junior prom committee: Henry
Beissner Jr., general chairman; Ray-
mond Powers, finance; Frances
Gieseke, refreshments; Madeline Ja-
cobe, patrons; Earl Koepp, decora-
tions; Danny Allnoch. music.
LECTURMECITAL
TONIGHT BY JOST
To Have Assisting Artists;
„ Nock to Speak.
Widespread interest has been
shown in the announcement of the
lecture-recital to be given by Mr. John
F. Jost, of the German Department of
Rice tonight at Autry House. Mr.
Jost is a well known tenor and has
appeared a number of times before
appreciative Houston audiences.
Mr. Nock of the English Depart-
ment is to present an introductory
sketch dealing with German music,
after which Mr. Jost, accompanied by
Mrs. Rowland Tracy and Madame
Julian Blitz on the piano and M. Jul-
ian Blitz on the cello, is to offer a
number of selections from Shumann,
Schubert and Mendelssohn. One of
the features of the program* is that
most of the selections are composi-
tions taken from the work of the Ger-
man lyrical poet, Heinrich Heine.
Klopstock, "the German Milton," and
Goethe, however, are to be repre-
sented.
The fact that the program is to be
for the most part in the German lan-
guage should not bring dismay to
Rice students who would like to at-
tend but who know no German, for
the English translations of Mr. Jost's
songs have been made by the students
of the German Department and are
to' be distributed in the audience.
The program is to begin at 8
o'clock. There will be no admission
charge. The public is cordially in-
vited to attend.
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AUTOMATIC 8TUOY CLOCK
University of Wisconsin.—(C. N. A.)
A clock which dictated the hours of
study, and declared to be the first
mechanical contrivance of a pioneer
in "efficiency experting," has been re-
stored to its former condition.
It was used by John Muir in I860
and 1864. It was set by him to per-
mit a certain time for study tor each
course. When the time was up a
wheel cut in two sections wottld col-
lapse and the book Muir was studying
would fall back into its stall through
the collapsible top, and another book
would be pushed up to take its place.
ANGELL CRITICIZES
VOTER FOR FAILURE
TO USE OWN MIND
Forum Speaker Proves Most
Entertaining; Contrasts
U. S. and Britain.
Those Rice students who journeyed
through the rain Tuesday night to
hear Norman Angell, noted English
political economist, lecture on "Poli-
tics and the Main Street Mind," came
home wet but well repaid for their
brave venture. Mr. Angell, speaking
for the second time to the Houston
Open Forum, held a large and appre-
ciative audience, which filled the Tay-
lor School Auditorium, for more than
two hours of animated interest with
his wit, irony and political philosophy.
"The little Britisher," as he has been
called because of his small stature
and marked English accent, carried
a "punch in both fists" and fearlessly
criticised everything from present-day
American democracy to the traditional
theories of education.
Among other things, he warned his
audience that present-day education
is misdirected and that its function
is misunderstood. Education, he
said, should develop the faculty for
using the knowledge one already has,
not for getting new knowledge. The
acquirement of facts is not education,
for very often great learning is coup-
led with the greatest stupidity. Wis-
dom, he declared, does not consist of
knowledge or learning, but rather of
the capucity for making use of wh- *
one does know. At this point Mr.
Angell referred to the Prussian war
lords of 1914. one of the most highly
educated classes in the world. It was
their astonishing stupidity, the speak-
er said, which put Germany in the
predicament which she found herself
during the war.
It is this inability to make sensible
use of knowledge, the speaker de-
clared, which permits tiie inefflcien
pies and corruptions of present-day
democracies, The voters do not
think. They are swayed by senti-
ment, tradition, prejudice and im
pulse. He said that the "Main Street
man," or "Rabbitt." is very acute and
sagacious in his business affairs, but
thoroughly stupid in politics. He
showed how the patriotic citizen be
lieves his country's armaments and
wars to be purely defensive, while a
school boy's knowledge of history
should show him that most of them
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RICE FIVE MEETS
PONIES AND FROGS
IN FINAL GAMES
Owls Invade Foreign Courts
To Battle for Present
Standing.
The Rice Owl basketball team will
journey to Fort Worth and Dallas
over Friday and Saturday to finish up
their season' schedule on foreign
Coors.
Friday, tonight, the Owls will meet
the T. C. II, basket heavers in Fort
Worth, and the resulting contest will
be close, as the Horned Frogs will
be fighting to avenge a one-point de-
feat which Rice handed them in Hous-
ton not so long ago.
T. C. NU. has a strong defensive
team and one that holds its opponents
to small scores. For this reason, the
Owls will have to fight from the cen-
ter of the floor, as well as by crip
shots.
Tomorrow night, the Owls go to
Dallas for a contest with the lofty
Mustang crowd, who are now resting
securely in second place in Confer-
ence standings.
Captain Grant and his team will
find a sweet revenge if they succeed
In whipping Hooks, Allison and Com-
pany. The Ponies ran rampant on the
Auditorium floor earlier in the season
and chalked up a 12-point win over
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Schultz Is Named
Freshman Coach;
Is Illinois Grad
ARCHI-ARTS HAVE
SUCCESSFUL BALL
SPITE DOWNPOUR
Friends, Romans, Country-
men Appear in Gala
Costumes.
W0RLEY ELECTED
HEAD OFA. S. M. E.
First Year of Student Branch
At Institute.
GLEE CLUB WILL
SING IN APRIL
Date Changed for Heights
Appearance; Other Plans.
The date ror the concert to be
given by the Rice Glee Club at
Heights auditorium under the aus-
pices of the Heights E p w o r t h
League has been moved up to some
time in April, according to a state-
ment made by Robert Whinery, pres-
ident of the organization.
Previous plans called for the con-
cert to be presented early in March,
but attendance at practice meetings
has been so poor lately, said Whin-
ery, that it was deemed advisable to
postpone the event in order to be as-
sured a good performance.
A call is being made to members
and those who aspire to membership
to attend the meetings of the Glee
Club regularly. These practice ses-
sions are held every Tuesday night
at Autry House, at 7 o'clock. Re-
freshments will be served at the next
few practices, which entice the sing-
ers to be on hand.
Arrangements are being formulated
for the appearance of the club at St.
Paul's Methodist Church, the direc-
tor of the club, Mr. A. H. Wiggins,
being in charge of the choir there.
This will probably occur in March.
Mr .Wiggins states that he will give
a weiner roast for the organisation
at the end of school. The picnic will
be staged at Mr. Wiggins' home on
the b&yon in Park Place, where those
who attend may find diversion in
boating and other pastimes. Those
who wish will be allowed to bring
their girl friends.
W. E. Worley, senior engineer, was
reelected president of the Rice Insti-
tute branch of the American Society
MechanicaUplngineers at the spring
(fiecubn Jielci Tata WeeTi.'
J The retiring secretary-treasurer, G.
. Nevill, was ineligible for re-elec-
tion since the rules of the club state
that this office must be filled by a
junior at the time of election. The
position went to R. W. Keeling.
Ernest O. Ross was chosen student
representative of the governing
board. .1. II. Pound continues as hon-
orary chairman.
Officials of the club state that this
is the first year that there has been |
a student branch at Rice Institute! j
Heretofore students have been allow-
ed the A. S. M. E. student, card if
they wre members of the Rice Insti-
tute Engineering Society.
The branch has a promising mem-
bership and is filling a real need by
providing actual contact with the
practical end of mechanical engineer-
ing.
Three inspection trips were made
during the past term: one to a local
cotton seed oil company, another to
the Imperial Sugar Refinery at Sugar-
land, and a third to the Houston Tex-
tile Mills.
The governing committee has out-
lined a tentative schedule for this
term which includes movies, speak-
ers, and additional inspection trips
to local plants. Freshmen and sopho-
mores are eligible for membership,
club officials state, and are invited
to investigate these meeitngs.
FREUNDSAUDIENCE
VERY APPRECIATIVE
German Prof Tells of Post
War Conditions.
In spite of a downpour that might
easily have dampened the ardor of
less enthusiastic merrymakers, the
seventh annual Archi-Arts Ball, held
at River Oaks Country Club Tuesday
night, was a most successful social
affair.
A veritable horde of consuls, sena-
tors, charioteers, centurions and glad-
iators, accompanied by every known
variety of Greek maidenhood, braved
the elements to attend the annual
dance given by the Architectural So-
ciety, an event that has come to oc-
cupy a major place on the social cal-
endar of the scholastic year.
The scene was that of a- Pompeiian
court, with a colonnade at one end,
through which could be seen Greek
villas facing a sunlit bay, across
which Vesuvius erupted ominously.
The entire ballroom of the Country
Club was decorated with these
painted scenes, anil it might be inter.^runt4t * final
esting to mention that the length oft
these painted scenes totalled two hun-
dred and fifty feet.
Don Rico's orchestra from the La-
mnr Hotel furnished the music for
the occasion. The dancing continued
well up into the small hours of the
morning, after which many of the
revellers womu uo'uouCu uatc i «i- |
OUTSTANDING ATHLETE
To Assume Duties Here Next
Fall; Now Attending
Coaching School.
1 lie ranks of Illinois-trained ath-
letic mentors at Rice have been
swelled still further during the past
few days, when Harm-st \v Schultz
accepted a position as freshman coach
in football and other sports at the
Institute.
"Peanut" Schultz was an outstand-
ing linesman on the University of
Illinois football team during the past
two seasons, and has played every
position on the football field with the
exception of half and quarterback. He
started his football career at Geneseo
High School, ir. Illinois, where he was
noted for his ability as a kicker. He
is, in addition to being a grid star,
a very capable performer in baseball,
basketball and track.
Schultz will graduate from the Uni-
versity of Chicago Coaching School in
June, and will assume his duties at
Rice next fall.
As yet Schultz's signed contract has
not been received, but great confi-
dence is felt that he will agree to the
terms that have been offered. The
Athletic Council is very cautious
about publishing information concern-
ing additions to the coaching staff
arrangements ha\e been
Completed, and the publicity that has
been given the. probable acquisition
of Schultz is generally regarded a*
assurance that the negotiations will
be successful.
Coaches Roltigeb and Daugherity
are ■ both graduates of Illinois T'nl
versity, and in his basketball work
' if. - ie- ,-d •>■
assistance of a
same style of
play who would take over the fresh-
matt cage squad Should be a very suc-
cessful arrangement for the Hire bas-
ketball couch, as should Schultz'''
varied experience in fpoihall make
ill in extremely tillable in handling
tlie green feo'hall material for Coach
Ho ' uouOt
ferred modes of transportation as j that institution The
primitive as their costumes to the ! man educated in tli|
stalled automobiles that many of them
found waiting for them'outside. How-
ever, no reports of Greeks wading
home in the dawn have yet been
heard, so ii is to be supposed that
all eventually got home in a more
comfortable fashion.
The grand march was led by Milton j Hothgeb.
Mcfiinty and f.'ui"i Dreape^j MeGiufcy
is president of the Architectural
Society. j
The dance commit tee-was composed
of Claude Hooten. George King. Bill
Morgan, Henry Hoffman. Milton Mc
Ginty, A. J. Kohoe, F. A. Runion, Bill
Richter, Frances Vesey. M. J. (lani-
milf, Mary Elliott, Bob Talley. H. H.
Cunyus, Jack Shannon and Tom Rain- |
bolt, A word of praise Is due George j
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MEMBERSHIP OF
P. L. A, INCREASED
Pre-Laws to Have Campanile
Picture Made Today.
King and Bill Morgan for the effective
decorations, and the Architects will
no doubt miss the services of these
two wTien staging their ball next year.
Speaking before a very appreciative
audience in the Physics Amphitheatre
Sunday afternoon. Dr. Max Freund
painted a very vivid picture of politi-
cal conditions in post-war Germany,
in the first of his series of three lec-
tures.
Germany today though not outward-
ly favorable to a republic form of
government, is gradually coming to
that stage, in the opinion of Dr.
Freund.
The popular Rice professor present-
ed his subject in a most unbiased
manner and won the admiration of
his entire audience. Dr. Freund cited
the German presidential election of
1926 as an example or the growing
popularity of the republican form of
government, however, pointing out
that the election was not a victory of
principles but rather ofne of an indi-
vidual. Von Hindenburg, a most pop-
ular Individual in Germany, won over
his seemingly unknown opponent,
Marx, by only one million votes out of
a total of thirty million.
Next Sunday, Dr. Freund will dis-
cuss economic condition in post-war
Germany.
EVANS DISCUSSES
MEXICAN AIR MAIL
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Chamber of Commerce Offi-
cer Talks to Los Buhos.
Mr. T. L. Evans of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce addressed the
Los Buhos, at their meeting, held on
February 17, at Autry House. The
subject of Mr. Evans' talk was his
last two trips to Mexico, one by air-
plane, with the Houston "good will"
flyers and the other with the post-
convention tour of the Realtors. The
latter trip took two weeks and the
itinerary Included many Mexican points
of interest, both from a commercial
and historical standpoint.
Mr .Evans sponsors as many of
these post-convention tours as pos-
sible because, in this way, hundreds
of people from all parts of the United
States are enabled to become ac-
quainted with Mexico who would oth-
erwise know nothing of our neigh-
bor. Following this same line of rea-
soning, Mr. Evans stressed the need
for a greater knowledge of the Span-
ish language among Americans, and
especially Texans. because it is im-
perative that we understand these
Latin Americans.
"If all Americans could only come
to know the people of Latin. America
as I do," Mr. Evans said, "there would
be no need for 'good will* expedi-
tions." Mr. Evans lived in Mexico
for thirteen years and has many
friends south of the Rio Grande.
The proposed air mail route that
would connect Mexico City and New
York, by way of Houston, Tampico
and New Orleans, was also touched
upon by Mr. Evans, who says that
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Five new members were voted into
tiie Rice Pre-Law Association at its
recent meeting Monday night
George L .Downs, .lack Ogg. Herbert
Varner, Charles Hamilton, and Carl
lllig Jr.
The club voted to secure a page in
this year's Campanile and decided
that a group picture would be taken
Friday at. 5:30 p, m. at the Eidsnn
Studio.
The program for the evening con-
sisted of initiation talks by four
members recently voted Into the
«lub. Ed Duffle discussed the sub-
ject of "Workmen's . Compensation: "
13. M. Carothers presented an inter-
esting phase of Mexico's I/aw Prob-
lems; .1. Garza spoke on the new ex-
periment being tried by England as
a consequence of the "Railway Act
of 1921 of Great Britain;" and J. T.
Wagoner concluded the program with
a discussion of the recent "Oil Laws
of Mexico."
The turnout for the meeting was
very encouraging. Besides old mem-
bers and new members present, vis-
itors included J. G. Lawhon, A. P.
Schoenfield, W. S. Cleaves, and Mr.
Downs.
Next meeting of the club is sched-
uled for March 5 at which time a
prominent Houston lawyer will ad-
dress the association.
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CONVERSE BANS COSMETICS
Converse College.— (C. N. A.)—
Girls of Converse College. Spartan-
burg, S. C., are abiding by the rule
put through by the student body that
the use of rouge and lipstick be ban-
ned.
The action came on the suggestion
of Mary W. Gee, dean of women. The
vote was unanimous.
8TUDE BULLS FOR LIVING.
Ohio State University.—(C. N. A >
Russell Mosler is a law student at
Ohio State by day and a policeman by
night. Hosier was a policeman first,
however, and he became interested in
the Btudy of law through watching
court procedure.
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