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CLASS Or 30 PROM
Ball Room Decorations Are
To Bo Moderaktk
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Modernistic garh will clothe the
River Oaks ballroom tonight as the
setting for this year's Junior Prom,
one of the most successful and bril-
liant social events of the college sea-
son. Perhaps modernism is not the
exact word to describe the atmosphere
for which the decoration committee
has striven. It is a modernism that
tends strongly toward the furtheriatic
and promises to be a perfect back-
ground for the formaltiy of the dance.
The Metropolitan Theater orchestra
will furnish sizzling hot music from
11 to 3, instead of from 10 to 2, as
originally intended. Appropriate food,
in strict conformance with, the decor-
ative keynote, will be served at mid-
night.
Branch Masterson reports that most
of the committees have already com-
pleted their work. The Patron com-
mittee, while not swamped with pa-
trons, haB quality if not quantity. The
refreshment committee fervently
promises "No spaghetti." The bid salfe
has been going fine, considering the
frigid atmosphere of the Sallyport,
but it is predicted that the usual last
minute rush for the bids will begin
today.
Sixteen Rice Seniors
To Be Initiated Into
Phi Beta Kappa Today
With the installation today of Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa,
Rice Institute receives recognition of'its high scholastic standards
from one of the most scholarly organizations of all time. Phi
Beta Kappa was organized in 1776 at Harvard University and
membership has since been considered one of the greatest recog-
nitions of scholarly attainment.
The tentative organization of the chapter which* will be made
permanent at the installation is as follows: President, Dr. Stock-
ton Axon; vice president, Dean R. G. Caldwell; secretary, Dr. R.
A. Tsanoff; secretary-treasurer, Dr. L. R. Ford. These four of-
ficers, together with Dr. H. B. Weiser, Dr. C. W. Heaps, and Wil-
liam Rice, Jr., of the board of trustees, constitute the Senate of
Beta Chapter of Texas for the ensuing year.
The Installatiou will be held In the
ROCKNE MAY BE HERE
TO ASSIST MEAGHER
IN SPRfflURAMNG
Notre Dame Coach Will Be
In Texas to Referee
Track Meets
BURSAR TO ADDRESS
CRANMERODBMEET
Service Leagues of City
to Be Guests of Rice
Organisation
On Sunday morning, March 3, at 8
o'clock, the Crammer Club of Rice will
be host to the Service Leagues of the
city at a corporate communion. The
tegular breakfast will follow the serv-
ice and at this time Mr. J. T. McCants
will deliver a speech of welcome. This
entertainment is an annual feature of
the Cranmer Club program, and inas-
much as the society has been so for-
tunate as to secure Mr. McCants as
speaker, it is desirous that its entire
campus representation should turn
out It is expected that the visiting
Leaguers will number over a hundred.
Mr. McCants will talk to the group
on the scholastic and religious values
. of a college education, and since there
will be a number of prospective Rice
students in his audience, he will un-
doubtedly center his discussion about
Rice. Such a speech should be of gen-
eral campus interest, and the Cranmer
Club cordially invites visitors to the
service and breakfast.
GERMAN PROFESSOR
TOURING COUNTRY
V1SITSWSTITUTE
Absence of German Studes
Here Is Surprising
To Scholar
Math 0 Clones Absorb
Annual Toll of Exams
The Math 0 classes make their ap-
pearance on the campus this week.
Organized two years ago for the bene-
fit of those who have difficulty in
grasping the intricacies of Math 100,
the classes have now become a perm-
anent fixture. Credit in Math 0 is re-
quired before the student who has
failed in Math 100 is allowed to take
the course a second time.
Under the tutorship of Mr. Smiley,
a rapid advancement is made in these
classes, and the student finds that he
is able to pursue the.regular course
with much better success the follow-
ing session. These classes meet in
P. L. 212 at 11 o'clock on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, and ill the
M. E. Building, room 205, on Tues-
day, Thursday and Saturday at the
same hour.
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Feature of the Rice Owl
A Hall of Fame graced by the pic-
tuna of well known campus peraon-
alities is the latest feature to be in-
corporated in the Rice Owl, campus
comic magazine, Bill Rlchter, editor
of tile publication, announced during
the past waek. Two full pages of
the Owl will be devoted* to this new
section. The idea la said to be "seri-
ous."
file editors have promised the Owl
for distribution early next week.
The Rice campus was viisted the
past week by Dr. Wilhelm Gerloff,
noted German author and Vice Rector
and professor of political economy of
the University of Frankfort Dr. Ger-
loff is making a tour of the United
States in the interest of re-establish-
ing a scientific alliance between Unit-
ed States and German scholars, sev-
ered during the World War. Doctor
Gerloff explained that the resumption
of scientific intercourse on a large
scale would enrich research in both
countries materialy.
Doctor Gerloff said that this plan
could be carried out best by an inter-
change of students between the uni-
versities of the two countries. He said
that he was surprised to find that
there were no German students at
Rice Institute, although there are
quite a large number of American
students studying in German univer-
sities.
Doctor Gerloff pointed out tltet the
interchange of students would lead
"not only to aeademic. progress, but
would supply each nation with an un-
derstanding of the political and so-
ciological problems of the other."
In his visit to Rice, Doctor Gerloff
was particularly impressed by the
Cohen House and the opportunity it
offered to create a spirit of active co-
operation among the members of the
faculty.
The visitor, in discussing the large
amount of ground available for the
future growth of Rice Institute, said
that this was one of the chief ad-
vantages of the American ^colleges
over those of Germany, which are
cr&mped by lack of space and re-
sources.
From Houston Doctor Gerloff will
travel to the Pacific coast, visiting
universities of that section and in-
terviewing leading bankers in the in-
terest of the German Minister of
Finance. *
TEA DANCE
PROMISES
WARM TIME
The Pallas Athene Literary Society
will entertain with a tea dance to-
morrow afternoon, March 2, from 4 to
7 o'clock at McMiliian's D&ncing Acad-
enfcy. Tickets may be purchased for
one-dollar, and will entitle the bearer
not only to admission to the dance, but
4o a chance on a genuine Orthophonic
Portable Victrola, which is to lie given
the holder of the lucky number.
This affair needs no recommenda-
tion to anyone who attended the aport
dance given by the P. A. L. S. last
year . . . that was a shining example
of the club's entertaining ability. But
beaidea the guarantee of a good time
on that account, the excellence of the
floer and the Spaciousness of the ball-
room st McMiliian's is well known, not
to mention the really warm music pur-
veyed by the Royal Tersace Orchestra,
whieh will officiate. • ' - ,
Tickets have been on sale in the
Sallyport alt this week sod will be
sold at the doer. Everybody must have
one, both ladies and gentlemen.
faculty chamber at 2:30, the ceremony
being presided over by Dr. Oscar M.
Voorhees, general secretary of the or-
der and of the Phi Beta Kappa Foun-
dation. There will be present dele-
gates from al) chapters in the South-
Central District, including Tennessee,
Oklahoma, Louisiana. Texas, and Ala-
bama.
After the installation ceremony six-
teen new members selected for scholar-
ly attainments from this year's grad-
uating class will be initiated'into the
order. The list, including nine men
and seven women, follows:
Miss Marie Ana Barreda, Laredo,
Texas; Miss Jeanette Gorski, Hous-
ton; Miss Alice Mannig Ho van. Hous-
ton; Claire Hibberd Kean, Catarlna,
Texas; Miss Charline Estelle Laliler,
Houston; James Erwin McCarthy,
Houston; James Calvin McNeill, Spur,
Texas; Waldo Forrest McNelr, Hous-
ton; George Payne Montgomery, Cor-
slcana, Texas; Miss Irene Esther
S'chupann, Houston; Miss Irma Mar-
garet Schupann, Houston; Edwin Joe
Shimek, Weimar, Texas; Miss Mary
Elanor Trotter, Houston; Rudolph
Frederick Weichert, Welsh, * La.;
Plercti McDonald Williamson, Dallas,
Texas; Thomas Qgden Wood, Hous-
ton.
These students were chosen from
the tenth of the graduating class hav-
ing the highest grades for the entire
four years of their college work.
The Phi Beta Kappa Oration, the
high point of all Phi Beta Kappa Days,
will be delivered in tlie Physics Amphi-
theatre at 4:30 in the afternoon by
Dr. Henry Osborn Taylor, one of the
greatest scholars of the present time.
Dr. T ylor, one of the foremost his-
torians, has attained great eminence
through his contributions to the his-
tory of philosophy and of ancient and
mediaeval civilization. His published
works include "The Mediaeval Mind,"
Sixteenth Century Thought and Ex-
pression," and "Classical Heritage of
the Middle Ages." These works are
philosophical and historical treatises
representing distinct contributions to
the knowledge of those subjects. The
first named book is familiar to many
Rice students as it is used as the foun-
dation of a course in Mediaeval his-
tory presented by Dr. Floyd Seyward
Lear. Dr. Taylor's oration will be
open to the public, and Dr. Tsanoff,
secretary of Beta Chapter, expresses
his wish that everyone who can possi-
bly do so will take advantage of the
opportunity to hear him.
The first move of members of Phi
Beta Kappa on the Rice faculty to ob-
tain a chapter here was made in 1927
when application for a charter was
made to the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, a
part of the national organization. This
application was approved and was
taken for final action to the National
Council which met In September?1928.
Their favorable action was the last
necessary step to be taken before the
Installation of the chapter here today.
Activities of the order pertaining to
the installation will begin this morn-
ing with a meeting\>f the visiting dele-
gate!. At 1:00 there will be an in-
formal luncheon at Cohen House for
the visiting delegates. The installa-
tion will occur at 2:80, the oration at
4:30, and the final event of the day
will be the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at
the Cohen House at 7:00. This dinner
will be informal.
Knute Rockne, famed mentor of the
Notre Dame Micks, may be here for
several days to assist Head Coach
Jack Meagher in Rice spring football
training. °
Rockne wil serve as referee of the
Texas Relays, March 29, at Austin,
and of the S. M. U. Relays March
30 at Dallas.
Mr. Rockne will be asked to stop
over in Houston on his way to Aus-
tin, or after his trip to Dallas, " G.
W. Burkett Jr., president of the local
Notre Dame alumni chapter said. "We
feel confident he will come here. If
he does, we will give a dinner in his
honor."
Notre Dame alumni are very keen
to have Rockne make his appearance
here. It has been quite awhile since
Knute was here last.
Meagher and Rockne are fast
friends. The venerable Knute was one
of the men to recommend Meagher
for the coaching position at Rice. He
regards Jack as one of the most prom-
ising young coaches in the field to-
day.
Presence of Rockne would spur the
Owl pigskin chasers to some fast and
fancy spring football work.
It is understood Christy Flannagan
of Port Arthur, former Ail-American
halfback at Notre Dame, will volun-
teer his services to help Coach
Meagher during the spiring session.
Al Sarafiny, new St Edwards grid
coach, will also be here for a few days
work with Meagher.
PLAYS AGAIN
GenevieVe White will again present
an organ recital next Thursday,
March 7, at Palmer Chapel. She will
be assisted by Marie Coughlin, who
will give some violin numbers.
The recital will be from 12 to 1, but
everyone is free to come and go M
they like. Everyone is invited.
WILSON TO CONCLUDE
PUBLIC LECTURE ON
HOT BODIES SUNDAY
"The Emission of Electricity from
Hot Bodies" was the subject of Dr.
H. A. Wilson's second extension lec-
ture delivered Sunday, February 24,
in the Physics Amphitheater.
Dr. Wilson performed many inter-
esting experiments illustrating vari-
ous points brought out in his lecture.
It has been found that a hot body
emits electricity. Apparently, air in
the vicinity of hot bodies becomes a
conductor, the charge from the hot
body passing through it and neutraliz-
ing the charge on an electroscope. He
demonstrated these facts with the aid
of the electroscope.
Iff Drf Wilson's own work on the
relation between current and tem-
perature, he found that the current
rises rapidly with a rise in tempera-
ture. This fact has been put to many
practical uses.
Dr. Wilson told of the cooling ef-
fect due to the evaporation of a
liquid. This principle i8 used in frigid
air. Similarly, it has been found by
a German scientist that there is a
cooling efect in the emission of elec-
tricity from hot bodies. There is an-
other analogy between the increases
of vapor pressure with the tempera-
ture and the increase of current with
the temperature; the curves for both
being practically identical.
The analogies in their agreement
with experimental results further sub-
stantiate the atomic theory of elec-
tricity.
The escape of electricity from hot
bodies has practical application in
wireless, X-rays, and many other
things.
Dr. Wilson will conclude his series
of three lectures Sunday, March 4.
Hjertberg is Signed
to Coach Rice Track;
Claude Rothgeb Gone
Ernie W. Hjertberg, Swedish wonder coach, has been signed to
coach Rice track athletics, according to a statement issued by Mr.
J. T. McCants Thursday. Hjertberg, who raised the Rice track
team from mediocrity to the position of a championship contender,
will succeed Claude Rothgeb, who was released at his own request.
Mr. Rothgeb's contract called for his presence here until the end
of the present scholastic year.
Mr. McCants, chairman of the committee on outdoor sports, re-
leased the following statement:
"Mr. Ernie W. Hjertberg has been employed to coach the track
team at Rice Institute this spring. Mr. Hjertberg was successful
as track coach at Rice two years ago, and for this reason his re-
turn is a source of great pleasure to his manyfriends on the cam-
pus. While he was coaching here he developed track athletics to
an extent never before attained at Rice."
Mr. Hjertberg is expected in Hous- ___
RICE FLYING CLUB
IS NOW DEFINITELY
ORGANIZED; 12 JOIN
Aeronautical School at Rice
Institute Is Said to Be
Ckief Aim
Roumanian Scholar
Comes to Study Here
Dr. F. Vasilesco of Bucharest, Rou-
mania, a fellow on the Rockefeler
board, has come to Rice to do re-
search work with the department of
mathematics. During his stay here
he is lecturing informally on the
"Transfinite Inductions." The first
half of the year he spent at Harvard
University.
Dr. Vasilesco was a delegate from
Roumania to«one df the Geneva Con-
ferences; he served also at the Ver-
sailles Conference. He received his
degree of Doctor of 8denCes from the
University of Paris in IMS.
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ton on Sunday. Since his departure
from Rice he has not been connected
with collegiate track athlotics, but has
served us coach for various track startf
of International reputation In the East.
Brilliant Record
Ernie W. Hjertberg began his ath-
letic career as a member of the old
Olympic Club of New York. Ho later
became coach of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club and the Irish-American Club
of New York, where his men won
every national A. A. U. cliamionship
and In 1908 contributed largely to the
success of the American Olympic
team.
After leaving the Irish-American
Club of New York. Hjertberg took up
the coftching reins of Columbia Uni-
versity and scored many successes. In
1910 Sweden secured him and as a re-
sult her athletes won second place to
the American Olympic team in 1912,
which was held at Stockholm, and nu-
merous dual meets from England,
Prance and the Scandinavian coun-
tries.
Hjertberg next went to Holland to
take charge of national track athletics
In that country, and his proteges again
made a very creditable showing in the
Olympic games.
It Is extremely doubtful if any coach
has ever surpassed Hjertberg's Olym-
pic record. His pupils scored ninety
individual places in the games of 1008,
1912, 1920 and 1924. Sweden won
twenty-six places in 1912 and in 1920
improved 011 this record to the extent
of four places. Twenty-one of Hjert-
berg's Olympic stare won world rec-
ords at various times and proof of his
all-round ability as a coach Is sup-
ported by the fact that his pupils have
won Olympic honors in every event
with the exception of the 100 meters.
For the two years from 1925 to 1927
Hjertberg was at Rice and did more
for track and the development of stars
than any of his predecessors. During
his Bhort stay here he developed the
cross country squad until, in the 1926
season, it walked jiway with the only
conference championship that the
Owls had won In a number of years.
India is the Subject of
Benbary's Talk to Group
Tuesday night at the regular week-
ly meeting of the International Dis-
cussion Group, th&present situation in
India was the topic of a discussion led
by Thomas Benbury, chairman of the
group.
Mr. Benbury included in his talk the
various complications of Indian af-
fairs brought about by the Brahmin
caste system, the Moslems, and the
general heterogeneous nature of the
Indian population. He attributed the
strength of English influence mainly
to the pro-British feeling of the
princes, rather than to the sentiment
of the masses.
Mr. Ernest Ross, engineering stu-
dent, is the latest. addition to the
membership of the group. An in-
creased interest in the group is man-
ifested by the attendance of several
non-members at recent meetings, and
it is probable that further additions to
the membership will be made.
The regular meeting night of the
group has been changed from Thurs-
day to Tuesday, and those interested
are invited to attend on that night.
ELECTION SCftEDULED
Officers will be elected at the next
meeting of the Rice Y. W. C. A. to
be held Thursday, Starch 7. All mem-
bers are urged to be present to par-
ticipate in the voting.
Twelve airminded Rice students
met at the Autry House lust week
and took the first step toward the or-
ganzation of the Rice Flying Club. A
second meeting of the club will be
held next Wednesday evening at 7
o'clock at the Autry House. The com-
mittee appointed to draw up a char-
ter at the first gathering has accom-
plished its task and will submit the
charter to the club for approval Wed-
nesday.
At last week's session the time was
largely occupied by a discussion of
the aims and purposes of the club,
various ones oi" those present giving
their views of what the organization
should be. It was decided that the
club's primary objective was to be the
establishment of an aeronautical
school at Rice Institute. Papers on
aviation subjects wil be prepared and
read by members at the semi-monthly
meetings, and men in the industry
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Garb of All Nations
Seen at Annual Ball
of Rice Archi-Arts
Gaily dressed .slave girls mingled
with richly gowned senoritas, and Chi-
nese coolies sat on the floor side by
side with glorious Roman warriors. A
swarthy Turk dragged a Russian
dancing girl in to eat Italian spaghetti
while an American orchestra played
jazz in a Venetian gondola.
To the Archi-Arts of Rice Institute
should be presented the Bok peace
prize, for they solved the problem of
international relations at their Carni-
val Ball last Thursday night. Flags
of the nations fluttered from the
ceiling of the River Oaks club rooms
while the scene beneath was typical
of a fete day in Venice . . . excluding
a remarkable number of characters
dressed to represent modern freight
train bums.
The prize for originality of cos-
tume should have been split equally
among the Peckham-McElreath and
Hamilton-Chapman combines. The
first two were dressed alike in bril-
liantly colored clown suits, while the
latter utilized everyday kitchen oil-
cloth for their modernistic apparel.
Marshal Sanguinet in a yard of silver
cloth was the delight of many a fem-
inine eye, and shared honors with
lone Spence, who wbs playing the
role of a harem woman.
The Archi-Arts may well be proud
of the success of their elaborate and
beautiful carnival ball.
ELECTION OF MAY
QUEEN TO BE HELD
WEEK FROM TODAY
Duchesses and Maids Will Be
Selected at Co-ed Mass
Meeting
'The Woman's Council has set Fri-
day, March 8, for the election of the
May Queen and Princesses. By pre-
cedent of past years, the Queen should
be a senior in good standing; aii
nominations must be in by one o'clock
the afternoon of March 7. The tisu;i!
mode of nomination, that of petition
with twenty names of Co-eds attached
wil te used; and they imi«t be turned
into Beverly Fonville, president 0/
the Woman's Cbuncil or left with Miss
Lane at. the downstairs library desk.
The two candidates receiving the
next highest number of votes to the
Queen wil be the Princesses of the
May Fete. The Duchesses and Maids
of the classes will be chosen at the
Co-cd mass meeting one week later.
March 15, in the Physics Amphithe-
atre at one o'clock.
This year the election of the May
Queen is being held earlier than is
customary, in order that all of the
business of the Co-eds may be taken
up in the meeting where heretofore
onljahe election of the class repre-
sentatives for the May Fete have been
elected. The officers of the Co-ed
Thresher which will come out May 2
will be elected and a discussion will
be held as to the advisability of con-
tinuing the annual selection of the
Best All Round Girl which is spon-
sored by the College Woman's Club
of Houston.
This mass meeting of Co-eds will
be an annual event in the program oi
the Co-eds' year. Its importance mer-
its the attendance of the entire femi-
nine portion of the student body.
ALUMNI LUNCHEON
TO HONOR MEAGHER
Rice Students Are Invited to
Welcoming Affair
Today at Noon
body,
asso-
for a
Members of the Rice student
the Rice Alumni, anil the "R'
ciation will gather this noon
luncheon at which Jack Meagher, the
new football coach, will be the guest
of honor. This luncheon, which will
serve us a welcoming ceremony fur
the genial young Irishman from St.
Edwards, will be. given at Foley Bre
in the dining room known as "The Lit-
tle Spanish Town." All Rice student'-
are welcome, acocrding to officials
of the Alumni Association, who art
arranging the details. Plate- v.iil In
seventy-five cents each.
Among the speakers will be Clar-
ence Wademan, president of the
Alumni Association, J. T. Mit'ant-.
who needs no introduction to Rice
students, and Col Ike Ashburn i f the
Houston Chamber of Commerce.
AXSON SPKAKS
"The Man Paul" will be the subject
of Dr. Axson's talk at the II o'clock
service Sunday morning at Palmer
Chapel. All Rice students are invited.
Co-ed Cora Remarks
A. S. C. E. NOTICE
There will be a meeting Tuesday,
March 4, at 7:30 p. m. at the Autry
House of the American Society of
Civil Engineers. All members are ur-
gently requested ttf be present, as there
will be an election of officers for the
spring semester, and there is much
business to be attended to. Spring
dues will be collected.
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(courtesy HoorroN rorr-ot ratch)
Getting a walk is a Kgfyi chance for
taking a ride.
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