The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1929 Page: 4 of 4
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WITH THE ENGINEERS
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High Pressure
"Willis Is reported to have lost ten
pounds In the "Turkish Bath" during
boiler inspection. Monday. (We won-
der why Mr. Willis spent so long in
the boiler.)
Ye editor avers us how these Juniors
ain't seen noihln' yet. Wait "till they
l'ire that boiler In the annex this week.
We shall wee.
Sez John liailey after half an hour's
struggle trying to fill the centerbosinl
hIoL on a sailboat with water. "Say
E1UII0, lias this thing got a hole In the
bottom?"
Slime: H« do yon make steel woo!?
Junior M. K.: Shear a hydraulic
ram, of course,
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Mr. Pi ■nningtmi says that he hardest
i t (if i i'.;'i! o'dot k classes is when
us "de.'f Tour her" laavvs that last
i !• m' tna>1 and rushes <ut to meet
■ i!., ■ ;vi'l finds that M.'ir.eone els©
. • ' ■:>l Ills and < )tue< in late.
I'! their liJCE XITE
kit «r<> mnKiux prwit headway and hid
■ • •• tilfow. If you tniss it
■ Mil always reftfijji i'.
T it. w. • .1- .idditlonat pay from
■hulie him donate..
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
• ' < annoying persons
- rMine around pulling
' ti all their friends
' 1 uf dtsnqacerting
■ referring to the,
ia^e. lately laniejit-
ap* happtly forgot-
proper we
l: wi were always nn-
ifh intelligence tests.
Mi in formation that the
1 answer" fiend is
the answers to his
tions or he would
THE GUY IN THE
GREEN GLOVES
WELL FOLKS, it looks that war
TO ME and 'pears as how there
AINT NO rest for the wicked.
HEKE I was just getting comfortable
AND UP jumps trouble and I
GOTTA DO some more hollerln'.
IT DO look funny that we
CANT GET but sixty LOYAL
STUDENTS Ol"T to u majs meetin'
SPECIALLY WHEN there is some-
thing
IMPORTANT TO talk about or iB it
TRI E THAT you are all dead and
DON'T CARD anything about what
HAPPENS OUT here.
IS THERE something elso needed
OX THE campus or Is there some
REMEDY YOU can suggest.
HOW ABOUT some of you people
WRITING IN a suggestion or two
AND MAYBE we can get something
done.
I TALKED to a very prominent
ALUMNUS THE other day and he
SAYS THAT we are so used to
SAYING THAT Itice fight never dies
THAT WE expect Rice fight to step
OCT AND do things for us just as
IK IT were a tangible person and
COULD DO it for us.
HERE IT is Spring Election time
AND EVERYBODY sound asleep
AND NO competition even threatened
DON'T YOU people care anything
ABOUT STUDENT activity or is it
that
YOU JUST dont know anything about
THE WAY things are done around
here.
LETS WAKE tip and take a look
around
II YOU dont know and are atall
cu rlous
JUST LET out a holler and we'll fur-
nish
INSTRUCTION GRATIS. Are you con-
tent
TO LET just a few run your affairs?
MAYUE THE Spirit is willing but the
FLESH IS weak. Anyway think It
over.
I'VE GOT too much Rice NIte on my
MIND AND this dont make sense but
NEXT TIME maybe I can get an idea
ACROSS TO you in simple English.
Talks On Television
Given Engineers
An extremely interesting talk on,
"The Physical and Psychological Prin-
ciples Underlying Television," was giv-
en Friday night, March 29th, at the
Taylor school auditorium before an
audience of about two hundred per-
sons.
The talk was sponsored by the Hous-
ton Section of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers, who were for-
tunate in getting Dr. Perrine of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company for the occasion.
Speaking In non-technical terms and
using freely the appropriate smiles to
illustrate his meaning, he demonstrat-
ed the equipment necessary for a suc-
cessful television system of the Bell
Laboratories type. For the purpose of
explaining the operation of the scan-
ning disk used, he used a small scan-
ning disk placed before a projection
machine and driven by a small motor.
When the disk was turned by hand
the scanning operation was easily no-
ticed, ami when turned by the small
motor, a subject placed immediately
in front of the screen was illuminated
In the same manner as it would be in
an actual television outfit. Then, by
using other suitable apparatus and a
lantern slide, a picture was thrown
upon the screen just as it would be
when using a television receiving set.
In demonstrating his talk he used
for the purpose of illustration one of
the largest photo-electric cells ever
built and a large neon lamp which
could be used to reproduce the varia-
tions in light intensity which when
viewed at a receiver with the proper
equipment would produce a picture ap-
parently like that 'seen' by the photo-
; Ih Uu
■m.
ill n
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■ I bf
i'ji- kind ut' questions
. And laiw they ask
. i are at the soda l'oun-
iI.nisi? drinking a coke,
mi say. "What Is the
number that can be
I'.ree digits?" You spill
floor. When you are
I' nodical Library enjoy-
iM<>n*i-ly. they sit down
ami -IV, "Where is
1; : 'i-?' Could anything
itliig? Then when you
"'y .-landing In Sally-
y butti into the con-
■ w lib a malicious leer,
i think you think when
so it goes. For tlii*
■ ! then people. They're
Let questiohaires and
1 tests come and go, they
Tl.< thing is bred in the
in. Their only concern
any people ill at ease
ii .Hiring abruptly liow
mm the Sun. Nothing
.vasperating than such
JUST THE PLACE AFTER THE DANCE
Orange Palace Dining Room—Bender Hotel
BEST WISHES TO YOU OF
ED DUGGAN
EARL STONECIPHER
mi tww
electric cell it the tnuuMttttac end.
Slides were used to show the usual ar-
rangement of apparatus used in a tola-
vision station.
These talka are free to tha public
and anyone Interested In them are In-
vited to attend. For Information about
future talks, get in touch with anyone
in the electrical engineering depart-
ment in the mechanical engineering
building.
FEED MAHAFFBY, JR.
DEFINITIONS
Sexs Something everybody thinks
about but very few have had any ex-
perience.
Loves Why bring this up ?
History: Dignified bosh.
Dictionary: The most obscene book
in any language.
Life: A great thing if you don't
weaken.
Neck: Ditto.
Exam: A measure of what you
don't know.
PERCY HOLT
Consult'Me On All Higher
Mathematical Problems
H. 8073
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Tlit Atumns* of the Elisabeth Bald-
win Literary Society la honoring the
graduating members of that club with
a Bridge luncheon at River Oak*
Country Club, April 6. The entire mem-
bership will be guests.
Bach year It is the custom of the
graduate members of the B. B. L. B. to
give some unusual form of entertain-
ment at a dinner party for the Senior
members of the club. Last year, the
affair was given at the Faculty House,
the theme of the luncheon was the
future of the individual Seniors, car-
ried out in most unique manner-ways.
STUDENTS SPECIAL BLUEPLATE LUNCHEON
AND YOUR CHOICE OF TEN VARIETIES
TRY ONE TODAY
Me^NdfioQejieliiit
Across From the Field House
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the fellow that shout*
"Kill the umpire;'loudest,
usually wouldn't hurt
a flea. oroinarily he's
just gotten all hot and
bothered and neeos
nothing so much as an
ice-cold coca-cola and
the pause that refreshed
Millions have found
that this pure drink of
natural flavors, with its
delicious taste and cool
after-sense of refreshment,
makes a little minute long
enough for a big rest.
The one who pauses to
refresh himself laughs at
the overheated fellow.
Tht Coca-Cola Co.. A that*. Gs.
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PAUSE THAT REFRESHES
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ut. to discompose the
ilicniaus'Jty having them
. - in their own answers,
tifins of these moclt-Soc-
I iii admit of any answer,
. > ' i are determined not
.■mil decide to hazard
;i guess
' ■ y S11
i1 ill's fli
tiny ar
111' <ll.itf<
rim ret
.111-1 i.r answer la hasty and j
• ! K it necessarily will be,
•■■i ; if ih* answer accldently
in ' niblaneo of Intelligence,
ut. satisfied with It, and lm-
v tart a bloody argument, it
111)v In- pefeelyed that an in-
■itiiiity to rn.ik" a correct reply off-
ii 'iid to (my of these queries would
hardly Ii" sufficient to gain anyone the
reputation of n mental hobbledehoy,
but the fart, remains that having un-
answerable questions continually ask-
<•(1 one Is lu time, detrimental to one's
self-respect. The oxact location of the
Hhortest verse In the Bible may be
fondly contemplated by every true
theologian, hut It Is by no means a
fit subject for sidewalk talk.
Various methods of throttling these
persons who apparently read nothing
In the newspaper but the tiny space
fillers at the bottom of the column,
and jjossJbly Platinum Polnts^have
HiiKiWted themselves to us. The paiiP-
ful experience of former1 martyrs in
this work seems to show that there is
only one way, of which there is a
classic, case on record. Several peo-
ple had planned the downfall of this
foolish question addict, and when he
came up to spring the usual, "How-old-
was-Napoleon • at-Waterloo?" Someone
promptly forestalled him by saying,
"Where is harfakftri?" Everyone, in-
cluding the victim, looked blank, and
the bait hud been swallowed.
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Hover $450,000H
STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS SOLICITED
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please/"
Imag ine tht govern orallsetfor asolid evening of
comfort in his cozy old library—and finding that
the women folks had "modernised" it with trian-
gular sofa*, conical armchairs, and July 4th rugi!
Now, imagine you bought some cigarettes,
and discovered that they were supposed to do
almost everything in the world except jvhat you
bought them for, i.e., uHitfy your Uu* for to-
bacco. Maybe it's the modern idea, but—oh,
well, let's talk about something else!
Chesterfields, now. They satisfy. Their only
"specialty" is high tobacco quality. Friendly as
your most comfortable armchair, as foil of flavor
as your favorite book. A splendidly made and
blended cigarette. And—maybe we #fd old-fuh-
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1929, newspaper, April 5, 1929; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230135/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.