The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1929 Page: 3 of 6
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RICE SOCIETY
Yke nwwwt «* MIm Anita
and Mr. Malcolm Baker, ml.
of Qui class of mm a -
recently. The wedding la to
fea as eeVat of the early fall.
IV" |fiff Amu Ooraeltna attended the
University of Texaa summer eehool
during the rammer month*. *
' W§. Mtas Jeeele Robinson visited a for-
• ;i mer schoolmate In North Carolina
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' Among the graduates of the class
K of '19 who will attend the Medical
Branch of the University of Texaa at
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Galveston during the coming year are
James McCarty; Steven Foote, John
Rose, and Karl Karaaky.
John Roos, '89. will do work toward
hie M. A. degree at M. I. T. in Boston
this year.
Don Sturges, a June graduate, is now
conducting classes in the School of
Business Administration at the Y. M.
OA.
The date of the wedding of Miss
Dorothy Boettcher, '20, and Mr. Harry
Duckett, a graduate of A. and M. Col-
lege, has been set tor October 23rd.
Miss Doris Hutton will spend the
coming year doing university work at
Paris, France.
Midshipman'Nate Simpson of the U.
8.. Naval Academy was a visitor on
the campus this week. He was a for-
mer member of the clasB of '29.
Miss Cathryn Walker was a visitor
In Ban Antonio and oorpns Chrlstl
during the month of August.
Among campus vsisitors the past
week was Salvador Madefo, a' former
member of the Institute.
Misses' Madeline Jacobs, Katrlna
Smith, Agnes Oullen, and plutt HU
son have returned from summer vialto
in Europe.
Miss Lynn Foster, president of the
B. B. L. 8., returned recently from a
delightful visit in Honolulu.
Miss Evelyn Bpley, '29, entertained
recently with a bridge party at Sweet
Briar Farm, honoring Mrs. Sam A
Merrill, a recent bride. Mrs. Merrill
was formerly Miss Bernice Ludeau, an
Institute student.
Miss Kathryn Logue visited Miss
Betty Stewart at Saranac, New York,
In the early summer, and later took
a trip to the western coast with her
family.
Misses Mary Talllchet and Lily Rice
spent the summer months In Estes
Park, Colorado.
Miss Edna Wiseman has returned
to Rice after a years absence.
Miss Annie Say, Qualtrough spent
the summer months In Beaumont.
MATRICULATION AODRKM TO
THI CLASS OP 1988.
Ladlea and Gentlemen:
At two seasons of the academic
year I am always optimistic, namely,
the beginning and the end. I may say
a little near the middle, but the open-
ing and the closing always find my
cheerfulness going strqng, though per-
haps not quite to the elevated point
attained by the newspaper corre-
spondent who wrote that John Castle
had been aboldentally shot while hunt-
ing, that one of the shots waa fatal,
but that his many friends would be
glad to know the others were not seri-
ous.
Monday morning, September 88rd,
1912, at the first public meeting held
on the Rice campus, the original
Freshman class, the Class of 1918,
, was received in the Faoulty Chamber,
and a matriculation address was read.
In like manner each of the next
fifteen entering classes assembled,
and listened, said the undergraduates,
to "the same old speech." Last au-
tumn an unavoidable lapse in the se-
j rles oocurred. I am therefore all t&e
I more grateful for the privilege of
speaking to you, Ladies and Qentle-
men of the Class of 1933, and I trust
that b&fortf leaving the room you viii
give me the pleasure of shaking hands
with you, for this also is an old Rice
tradition, and Is, as a matter of fact,
the principal object of this meeting.
An Undergradute, Simpkins.
It Is written that there was once
Among the summer campers in
Michigan was Miss Marjorle Dunn.
Mr. Reginald Tucker, former prom-
inent member of the Dramatic Club,
is attending Texas Uniersity.
Miss Marjorle Marshall was a trav-
eler to New York urlng the summer
months, going by way of the S. S.
Shawnee.
Miss Felide O'Brien made a short
visit to Miami Beach, Florida.
(XANMER CLUB WILL
BREAKFAST SUNDAY
Students Plan to Undertake
New Program lor
Year
The Cranmer Club will hold Its first
corporate communion service Sunday
morning at Palmer Church at 7:80
o'clock. Breakfast to be served follow-
ing the service will honor Rice fresh-
men.
The Cranmer Club Is ,a Rice organ-
isation of Episcopal students that Is
as old as Rice Itself. In the past It
has operated from Autry House under
the direction of a student pastor, who
haa been responsible for the work un.
dertaken. Last year this position was
filled by Rev. Charles Sumners of St.
Stephen's Church, Houston, who was
extremely popular both In the club
and on the campus.
For the coming year a change of
plans has become necessary. Cran-
mer Club will now co-operate with
Palmer Church and will work with the
Rev. Peter Cray Sears of that parish.
There will probably be no student pas-
tor at Autry House—In fact th£ Autry
Houte will' be slowly stripped of its
religious connections. The Cranmer
Club this year will have to stand on
Its own feet, arrange its own pro-
grams, and adopt Its own platforms
without the guidance of a student pas-
tor. Dr. Sears has evinced a consid-
erable interest in the club during the
past few weeks and is now being as-
sisted by the Cranmer cabinet In shap-
ing definite plans for the organise,
tion, so that Palmer Church and the.
club will share the benefits.
The regular weekly meetings of the
Cranmer Club will be held at 6 o'clock
eery Sunday evening for supper, al-
though no definite plans have yet
been made. At present, it is being
urged that everyone who has had any
connection with or Interest in the
Cranmer Club be present at 7:30 next
8unday morning. The officers of the
olub and the club cabinet wish to
meet as many of the new students as
possible.
Hlatery and Ail
The late Lord Acton, a
Catholic In religion, a Oladstonlan
Liberal In politics, Regius Professor of
Modern History in the University of
Cambridge, one of the most erudite
men of his generation, at a dinner
of the Historical Society which he
founded at Trinity College, Cam.
bridge, told the following story:
"1 was once with two eminent men,
the late Bishop of Oxford (Stubbs)
and the preeent .Bishop of London
(Creighton). On another occasion I
was with two even more eminent men,
the two most learned men In the
world—I need hardly tell you their
names—they were Mommsen and
Hacnaok. On each occasion the ques-
tion arose, who was the greatest his-
torian the world ever produced. On
each occasion the name first men-
tioned, and on each occasion the name
finally agreed upon, was that of Ma*
caulay."
Acton, Stubbs, Creighton, Momm-
sen, Harnack—It was an imposing
jury. And to have sat In those com-
panies of three you might have given
each of your ears in turn, so there is
some temerity In dissenting from
their judgment, but I do not think
Macauley the greatest historian that
Dal glorias1
greater glory of God"—It haa received
reverent recognition on every diplo-
ma issued by this Institution.
Religion came early in the experi-
ence of the race. In the life of the
Individual It comes first and last.
Your religion you will not negleot
here. Houston is rich in churohes.
A number of them have been estab-
lishing new congregations in the
South End and also in the more im-
mediate violnty of the Rice campus.
OtherB are proposing so to do. All
of them are Interested in the students
of this institution. As an institution
we are not identified with any one
of them. As individuals we welcome
them all. All are in one way or an-
other based on the Bible in whole or
in part. And in my judgment the Au-
thorised Version of that Book has
been fittingly described as "the most
majestic thing In our literature and
the most spiritually living thing we
inherit.'
You differ from most youngsters
I have known If you have no trouble
with the Bible. That need not disturb
you. All my life long I have had
difficulty with the Bible, and I still
have difficulty with! it. But there is
occupation a plenty for all of us in
living up to what therein gives us no
difficulty, and Mark Twain helped us
all when he said: "It Isn't the things
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lagree the phUooopklc and the
scientific mind, Aristotle was among j
the first of men to disentangle the
mutual relations 6f philosophy, art,
and the scienoes. Many of his original
contr,ibutlona to knowledge have
never been displaced. He lectured
twice dally, in the morning on tech-
nical subjects, and In the afternoon
on popular ones. He was not pre.'
possessing in personal appearance,
but always punctilious in matters of
dress. For his own time he was vir-
tually a university in himself and his
lectures covered practically every
known subject under the sun. from
philosophy to politics, ethics and log-
ic,to physics and physiology, meta-
physics, poetry, and the principles of
literary criticism.
I have taken a rather roundabout
way to bring before you the great
subjects, History, Art, Religion, Phil-
osophy, and Science. These subjects
are the warp and woof from which
you will weave your own liberal edu-
cation. Or, if I may change the meta-
phor abruptly, the first four Philos-
ophy, Religion, Art, and History, con-
stitute the harp of the humanities.
It is a harp of a thousand strings, and
as musical as "the barp that once
through Tara's halls the soul of music
shed." In our day, Science Is at play
on all its strings, tuning them to new
keys and new harmonies, moving
them to new melodies and new arm.
phonies, awakening them to new re*
lations of the human spirit and the
mystery of the universe.
Greet Teaehera.
But without the living voice and the
written word most of us in this bnal.
ness might just as well forsake our
looms and hang our harps on the watt.
Indeed, every one who has ever had
to do with such an enterprise as you
are about to undertake will tell you
that the success of the enterprise in
bis case was due, above all things,
to the influence on him of a few
great teachers, a few great subjects,
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ever lived. Nor am I keen on super- J I don't understand in the Bible that
latlves of this sort, though Macaulay worry me; it's the things I do under-
himself waB. But the story is true,
and a good one; you kuow Macaulay
through his Essays, his History of
England, or his Lays of Ancient
Rome; superlatives usually start ar-
guments which are sometimes profit-
able; and I have later use for the ob-
ject of this one, as shall presently ap-
pear. I doubt If any one ever knew
and loved literature better than Ma-
stand.
„ Philosophy and Science.
If Milton was the poet of Protes-
tantism, Dante was the poet of Ca-
.tholicism, in Morley's characteriza-
tion, though, some haev sought to find
in the Divine Comedy a Protestant
cryptogram. It is, however, with a sin-
gle phrase of Dante'b, and a famous
one, that I am concerned here, "II
maestro dl color che sanno." He said
„ „„„ ca5ia^new and ,ove" literature.
an undergraduate named Simpkins J lng down the Faculty Chamber i of Aristotle. "The master of those who
who wearied his acquaintances with ' ff.w years Bg0, the Present Chief j know." Just as Homer was the father
such questions as these—"Why were , of the United States, remark- of poetry and Thucydides the father
lng on the care with which certain j of history, so was Plato the father of
of our local records were being pre-; philosophy and Aristotle the father of
served, expressed regret that the early science. "Life without the spirit of
we born? Whither are we tending?
Have we or have we not innate con-
ceptions?" until they said wben they
spied him in the offing: "Why was
Simpkins born? Is he by any means
tending hither? Would that he had
either an Innate or acquired concep-
tion that he is a bore!"
We may all fear the trail of Simp-
kins and the trial he was to his
frigids. Nor would an yof us willingly
invite his fate on our own heads. Yet
we should by no means shun Simp-
kins. I certainly did not bring him in
here just to throw him out. On the
contrary, I should seek his society.
He faced, even as we face, three facts.
We are here. Neither we nor the
civilisation In which we live can stand
still. We have ideas. The old and
solemn questions he ffcised are' ques-
tions of high seriousness to all of ua.
Upon their answers depend most of
the happiness and some of the mis-
ery on this planet
PALMER CHURCH PROGRAM
Holy Communion 7:30
Palmer Chruch School 9:30
Morning Service 11:0ft
Vespers *• 5:30
Cranmer Club meeting 6:00
The first communion in every
month is a corporate commun-
ion, and will be, as in former
years, sponsored by the Cran-
mer Club.
Of Faerie lond yet if he" more inquyre,
By certaine signs, here set in sondrle
place,
He may It fynd.
Spenser, F. Q. ii. Proem.
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A large part of your business here
for the next four years Is to find an-
swers to Simpkins' and similar ques-
tions. A large part of our business Is
to help you on your way to your own
answers to such questions. It is not
our business to tell you what to think.
It is our business to teach you how
to think, to transform you, as far as
that may be possible, into independ-
ent thinkers, by teaching you how to
think, how to test, and how to apply
your own thinking.
It stands to conscious reason and
common sense alike that your part in
the process cannot be passive. The
process is a dynamic one. It calls tor
the action of study, attention, concen-
tration, and application on your part.
Accordingly, it calls you to hard work
—the most joyful thing in this world—
to the work that "works with work
upon work," like compound interest,
on "the things that are and that shall
be and that were aforetime." And the
process yields returns a hundred fold.
For such fruitful endeavor several
avenues are open to you, no one of
which, I repeat, affords a royal road.
They are old trails of adventure ana
discovery. Certin aspects of them I
propose to bring briefly before you,
in terms of provinces and personali-
ties of the Intellectual life with which
you already have some familiarity,
and incidentally I may have a thing
records of his own univen^ty were
Incomplete and that ho himself had
never kept a diary. You would od
well to keep a diary; and in a clear
hand. In good handwriting there 1b
no virtue of character, hut there Is
consideration and courtesy in It. It is
simply an act of courtesy to others
and an act of consideration for your-
selves that you write a hand legible
without effoTt to yourselves and to
others. You will certainly write notes
on your lecture courses that you your-
selves may wish to reud at least once
again, and you may write letters to
others who perhaps would wish to
know what you thought you had writ-
ten.
I quote from a London Diary, kept
in the last century by Lord Carlisle -
"November 29, 1862. — Breakfasted
with Macaulay. He thinks that,
though the last eight books of Para-
dise Lost contain incomparable beau-
ties. Milton's fame would have stood
higher if only the first four had been
preserved. He would then have been
placed abfive Homer."
Like those of most men, Macaulay's
opinions of men and books change
from time to time. One day he "can-
not conceive how any person with the
least pretension to taste" can doubt
that the proper order of greatnerfs
among the poets Is Homer, Aeschylus,
Milton, at another time he places
Dante first of all "artists who have
operated on the imagination by means
of words;" while on still another oc-
casion he accords Shakespeare the
primacy, and we read in the entry of
Carlisle's Journal for May 27, 1851:
"Macaulay gave a list of six' poets,
whom he places above all others, in
the order of his preferences: Shake-
speare, Homer, flante, Aeschylus. Mil-
ton, Sophocles.' Other estimates of
this Mnd you may find in Trevelyan's
Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay,
one of the three best biographies in
the English language.
'3 Religion.
At the time of the founding of the
oldest colleges in this country the
end of all education was, in the words
of John Milton, "to know God aright
and out of that knowledge to love
him, to imitate him and to be likp
him;" "the chief end of man" being,
in terms of another wefllknown hu-
mafa document, "to glorify God and en-
joy Him forever." It was an austere
ideal of education. It has, I should
like to think, lost none of its power
on our people. In the declaration, "Ad
inquiry," sail] Plato, "is not worth liv-
ing." "If we properly observe celes-
tial phenomena," said Aristotle, "we
may demonstrate the laws which reg-
ulate them." "Rather," said Demo-
critus, "would I discover the cause
of one fact than become King of the
Persians," an avowal made at a time
when to be king of the Persians was
to rule the world.
Plato was a mathematician, Aristotle
a biologist. Both were college presi-
dents. The world of ideas they di-
vided between them. It has been di-
vided between them ever since, and
we are ail said to be born either Pla-
tonlsts or Aristotleians. The present
year marks the twenty-two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the death
of Aristotle. Combining In remark-
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