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THE RICE THRESHER
THE
a'l wRil! BflHi
ER
A weakly paper published by the Student* of Rice Institute during tn*
month* of October, November, December, January, February, Mareh, April,
May, and the last two week* of September.
Entered a* second ela** matter, October 17, 1916, at the postofflce In
Houston, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
ELBKItT TURNER, iiii
Editor
1 LETTERS to f
I the EDITOR ^
WILLIAM HUSSKLL,
WAUTKtt STEWART, "12
«;Anh\Kh KOULK. -nTi
Rush fond, 'ill;.,..j.t.;
WillMtii Johnson,: '82 ... .
Barry Tulhot, '32 ,
Kudy Uoos, .1 r.. Mil
Daniel K Stratum, '32 .
Betsy Ross, 'ill
Maxiiiw Tiniliill,
Helen Uutti!. "i!2
Thomas Ciciulv.
...Assistant Business Manager
.. Managing Editor
THE STAFF
Associate Editor
..Associate Editor
Associate Editor
i|y News
News
Society
.Society
Features
Sports
Dear Sir: Mis* Lynn Foster, who spent the | Church for a party for new students
Most ot the color of college life j summer in Europe, with an after visit i In the near future. The exact date
centers around the athletic and social In New York, the port of landing, hasj has not yet been decided.
life Of the school. It Is not the pur-! returned home. Her mother, Mrs. • • •
pose of (lie ltnlly club to usurp this j H. Foster, who went to the me- The Wee class of the First Meth-
happy part of school life but to as*' tropolis to meet her, returned with odist Church met last Sunday mora-
, Iiir In Hermann Park, where a pro-
j gram was held and au open air break*
| fast enjoyed. Plans are being made
I for a party for Rice students in the
I near future.
* • *
• A membership drive is being con-
; ducted by the Rice class of the Sec-
lond Presbyterian Church. The class
! is divided into sides. Russel Lee
Jucolie Is president; Muxlue Tlndull
vice-president; Kenneth Jones, sec-
retary-treasurer. Many social activi-
ties are being planned for the year.
sure its existence as much as pos-1 her.
slble by combining the originality aud * " *
Business Manager { j|j8 ^ut^uuiugin of those Individuals! Affairs to lie given this week in
wfho ask more of college life than a j honor of Miss Katherine Pardue,
hum-drum existence. It Is decidedly j bride-elect, Include Miss Charlotte Er-
the purpose of the Rally Club to fur-; win's luncheon at the Warwick Hotel
TWO OF "THOSE THINGS"
TJit« tH.tihnv of Rice, is ever the delight tn visitors, but - ! *• straws"-
.Hid wonderful way in which things are done here Is a perpetual pool
Of astonishment, stocked with the weirdest inefficiencies. Here are a
. tnipla of "tiifi.se filings" t.lmt lead tit" vlsimr to believe they could only
happen at Rice.
Citizens of Houston, who bad piiid good money for, Kraiidstaiul seats.
Hocked t-: Rice Field last Saturday, ostensibly to *e a football game, and
not tii join an amateur debating society They saw
SUBJECTED TO i he foot Hull ttame, perhaps, but not Until they had been
INDIGNITIES subjtsetcd to indignities which should make executives
if tin!: ui 1)letic 'association, aud persons ill charge of
ushering, hang their beads in shame
The top tier of weals in the south stands, from M y.it'd line to 4ii yard
line, had been appropriated n> • ir harum-scarum lot of high school students
,iid complimentary pass-ins who showed net the slightest tendency to re
imm'lsh' I heii seats even when the rightful owners exhibited I heir ticket
jtuibn ,i(nil demanded their sections ot the grandstand. Tlie ih'ploraide
liaraiiffiti cominued i'm several minutes, antil a few ushers ctlslied to
the !■.' etic. and In the mills'. of a great deal of unuecessarv confusion, man
t. cjci t thti usurpiijifs tlttd |ila«'e. (he owners of ticKels in t lie if proper
/.■.it ■.. Cat.you. heat it?.
""} I. . graft 'inug has ee ti .1 feature uf the fight and wrestlinK rackets
Hut that It shoiiM iiiviuli? the supposedly suiieiior ami
e lev a I liii; ' field of collegia!,.* football, is hard to believe.
It is ii preiij .pass ■vhen people eoine to liice ti,io11 a11 game*
and cannot set tlieit SPatjji without an artriiiuent
stainl much more ol the -tuft imlleil la-a Sliturdny 1'eople
will not siutie and swallow such contemptible In -!th• i•-n< >.
oped that rlgfrl'.'-WWr witc.it Kb." loot ball, on lt, own dH-ljtts,
chance to cai'Vc niche lot Itself ill, the public regard, th,,
Uikm wall; not muff the bpportunily ot creating good will
litiytjr. l.'*> giving them prompt iui<1 ready acees- u their
A VERY
PHETT V PASS
ntsh a field of activity to those men
students who would raise themselves
aud their school above the level of
the ordinary and the commonplace.
The Rally Club was the product of
the fertile brain of the Incomparable
Jack Glenn and answered, so he and
others thought, the demand for a unit
which Would do the things which must
be done tn fostering and keeping at
a high level the spirit of the school.
Glenn realized that Rice was fas(t
growing to the poiut where no in-
dividual. however versatile, could do
ail that must he done. No school to-
day that ts above the prep-school
class expects its veil leader to
shoulder the outlre load of the ath-
letic season. There is always In ex-
istence at the school a group of stu-
dents that stand reudy to assist him
in every way possible.
Rice has just emerged from a num-
ber of lean years athletically, and
stands at the threshold of a new aud
better day
long that some of the things that
existed in tlione better days are gone
now or greatly repleted, The great
rooting section that stood behind the
team and Glenn tin1 day that Rice
and Lindsay Hale ran Texas IT. rag-
lied to win III to il, that, saw T. C.
1' go down before Grandpa Woods
and the boys, and that scrapped their
way ihrough a good season is gone
now Now we see scattered rooting
sections, many of our choice seats
held l>v liiah school students. We see
Rice students scattered all up and
down the stands. We see Freshmen
reposing :n ejase in boxes like mil-
lionaires or trustees In short, we gee
a lot ot tlilnxs that we did not. see in
Wednesday; Miss Margaret Moore's
bridge luncheon Thursday; Mrs. Sam
Dunnam, Jr.'s, luncheon at home Fri-
day, and a bridge compliment Satur-
day afternoon.
I ROUND i
| RICE ... t
WITH BARRY W. TALBOT
Mi*, and Mrs. Russell Lloyd Jacobe
announce the engagement of their!
daughter, Madelln, to Jacob William
Mauler, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Mauler. The wedding date will
be announced later.
* * *
Mrs. E. 1.. Hogan, Miss Elizabeth
John and Mrs. F. T. Baldwin will en-
tertuin the Kappu Kappa Gamma
alumni at luncheon at the College
Women's club, University Club build-
ing, Saturday, October 11. promptly at hitely goes into effect next week.
12 o'clock, so the lootball plans will llt,x' week being
not lie interfered with. 1 npv®* comes.
aturday
hindig...
We don't know whose idea It was,
aud we don't want to make any state-
ments that might give someone un-
due credit, but whoever it was that
had the notion that "Rico's Honor"
would sound better U injected with
a bit of syncopation certainly should
be given some credit. Without a
doubt, the song is the most stir-
ring, spine tingling one in this part
of the country and when it was play-
ed slow It had something behind it—
sometbiug Intangible that one could-
n't help but feel. On the other hand.
| it also sounded u bit like a lament
when Ihe band played It after some
of those games in days past, We've
even heard that it sounded like a
dirge but feel that the remark is a
couraglng things? We can Imagine
nothing mors so than blurring to
make 18 o'clock class, desperately
seeking a parking place, finding it
over by the mechanical lab, sprinting
madly to 307 A.B., and THEN discov-
er that your class met the day before.
• ♦
Once again the bid system for the
Saturday night dances presents a teat
of Rice unity. Is it to be enforced
and observed as it should be? Stu-
dents should take it upon themselves
to see that the Institute dances stay
strictly Bice affairs. We do not Im-
ply that Rice men shouldn't bring
whom they want to but we do declare
that the "collegiate" high school ele-
ment as well as stray nonentities
should be excluded unless the outsid-
ers apply to the Student Council for-
bids. Rice girls who wish to have
dates who do not. attend the school
j should be Issued special bids for this
purpose.
* * *
The bid system has met with only
partial success in the past. The
The lovely tea given by the College Another Damon and Pythias illusion
Women's club Friday afternoon at the shattered! GLENN says the reason
University club in honor of Its new that he and BILL are so Inseparable
trifle disrespectful. But now that | dance committee should see that It
Rice has stopped coming out on the is enforced this year.
short end of all the scores, It. only ' * * *
seems natural that the school soug
should exemplify that "grand and I J urnottts to the pep meetings this
glorious feeling." More than likely | y«ui- have been dlscouraglug. Last
the idea sprung from the ingenuity i Friday at 1 o'elook there was barely
And RED says the bid system abso- [ ot Lee Chatham. Rice's own director, a handful of slimes In the Sallyport.
* * * Rice has always had a good cheering
As Rowe Drake remarked in this section In spite of losing teams. The
column last year, no Rice organlsa- j frMhmen #e a bIg paPt o{ these Mc.
t.lou gives as much and receives as [
little as the band.
like tomorrow, it
Hut the time has been so members and the senior girls at Rice
was an outstanding social affair of the
social season. Receiving the guests
were the president, Mrs, L. B. Wedge,
ihe officers, past presidents and char-
tor members of the club. The room
was beautifully decorated with palms
and coral vine, large candlebrn hold-
ing candles in a delicate peach shade.
is thai each knows so much on the
other.—they don't trust one another
out of sight!
LOULA BESS, smart in black,
causes palpitations in the region of
ihe stag line.
* * *
Them as has eyelashes in yard
* «
The band will cut some nifty capers |
this year when some 76 or 100 men ■
saunter across the Held dyked out In j
spicy new uniforms.
• • *
In keeping with yearly traditions, \
the editor of the Campanile states his i
publication will appear on time. Some-'
day one of these editors will startle !
the world at large. That occasions j
tlons and ought to turn out for the
yell practice. Rice has a threat of
no small size on the gridiron this year
and they have to have some verbal
hacking. Let's have a pep meeting
today that will shiver the physics
amph and then tomorrow show those
Arizonans how Textins can do It!
The ices, molded in I'rnit and flower lengths always seem to get along bet- i "le remark of "eventually—why not
design, were served on large silver
platters, with cakes embossed in deli-
cate pastel shades, Presiding at the 1
table were Mrs. K o Lovelt, Mrs. II.'
A. Wilson, Mrs, I., L Powell and Miss
Alice Dean.
Miss Frances Isbetl will enter) a in
a group of her frieiul.-- at a Hallowe'en
now?" Jack Scott is working hard to
I put the Campanile on the campus by (
,n:,i
really i
aihleUc
Hiiidu'if
Her.
WIWi
last, on*
Mi
ihiloir-
:l!|lt It' N Sis
rare
the
firs i.
Yon may iitm&'t; count Upon your fingers .t'tie major American iiniversi
lies,that allow ire. tuber;- of the fill nltv to see their football games free of
barge IliCe is one Of th,« 'utter where members Ol 'to faculty vet by
;-COt.'' free 1 !' "! 1 ' . ■ 1 r :'
t lir hleti, ns:-ocint.ion at rle close of lasl y ear Biiwlti a noble and in*
;|'iriiiir plea i.o the student couneii to raise its appropriation.
COUNCIL ro It pointed out the extra number of football games, the
THE RESCUE pressing need for funds, the willingness Of the student purse
to die for dear old alma muter. The plea had the desired
pff.i. !, tie • soilwn room il wiili l>e, oniitn.' loyally plugged the breach, anil
i r.ji - teg n • saved.
It does . eem odd that the athletic association should overlook, the
r admix - n , ol lai.ulty members, which each year costs thousands of
'.I'Miai- This i.- itbabby business, besides being poor economics. Much
I iv. -r h :•.,•<>!;. ban Rice. * hose w eekly gate receipts run into the tens
. f UuiiUMuiols of dollars, do not admit theii faculty tree, simply because
c- .11 feni it. Then what about Kite, where athletic- have always
.... i; -it lonple ol jumps ahead of the auditor?
It i- in - fair to Rice students to Bid them to ihe uttermost lartliingi
* hi.- *h« iiu 'iilty enjoys the privileges tree. At least halt of the student
body is earning its way through school, partly, or wholly
STUDENTS The raise In the blanket tax was a heavy drain, hut It was
MUST SKIMC faithfully met The faculty members, who have regular
-alurics,. are in a far better position to pay than students,
. ,,f Whom ti.'i8i. sctinip and saw- to last the year put, and enjoy a
•"'■■•v luxuries like football games
Meanwhile, of eour-e the faculty < imtlnii'-s to g..i nv Scot free
other days But the fault Is not with | bridge party Saturday evening begin-
this student body but rather the nat-
ural decline that would be expected
under the circumstances.
Kvpectins to lie able to help remedy
this condition, the Rally Club has ta-
ken over the task of ushering at the
football games for
son. The patrons
have bought season tickets are en-
titled to their rightful seats; the Rice
Rooting section is entitled to theirs,
The members of the Rally club will
wear sweaters with the Rice emblem
and the letters "Rf" to distinguish
them. For the game Saturday the
following syfttem will be fried: En-
trance to the stand will be made from
Under the stand aud only up that
ramp which is marked "STUDENT
SECTION." This will be section "F"
ning :it H:.'til, at her home, 2111 Emer-
son Five tallies of players have been
invited.
* * Uf
Miss llomoiseile lladen. who grad-
uated from Rice last year, has as her
the coming sea-: house guest Miss Dorothy Thomson of
of football who j Sftn Antonio, who arrived Wednesday.
Miss Haden and her mother, Mrs.
Henry G. Haden, entertained with a
buffet supper Thursday evening hon-
oring Miss Ruth Carter, who is at
home this winter after two years of
music study In New York City.
• #
The date for the wedding of Miss
Eloise Pardue and William Jeffries
Grace of Dallas. Rice graduate, has
been set at October 16. Both Miss
Pardue and her sister, Miss Katherine
ter than anyone else, now just con
sider EVELYN.
♦ • * | Juno 1 and there's no reason why be
Tliey say to reach for a Lucky, but cant. There is, however, the pre-
you should have seen them reach for requisite of co-operation on the part
MARSHALL, and does sho satisfy?— j ut every student who Intends to get j
ask the man who kuows her. his or her picture in the annual. The i,
„ . , photographer is at the Autry House |
lying in wait to "shoot" as many as
can crowd in. Why procrastinate?
* •
MURPHY, all decked out In a new-
tie and a big, wide smile, tags some-
one in that little dark room. Now !
what do yftu think of a guy like that? i
• *
That fellow with the complex,—NA-
THAN MILLER,—he can get soulful J
over any shade of blonde! Jas teasin',
Nat.
# * *
That undulating thatch of red be- j
Did you ever try to think of dis-
A Store you'll like.
pangburn's, whitman's,
and saylor's candy
sheaffer fountain PEN8
and imported perfumes
Lamar Drug
Co.
MAIN AT LAMAR
longs to ROWE DRAKE,
old times again.
Seems like
Throe hopeful looking souls sur-
round VIRGINIA during the intermis-
sion. No use, lads, they say her
heart Is already bestowed.
in the stand. The Slimes will sit down j ''"'due, who Is also a bride-elect, are U
behind and around the hand. Bill t0 be honorees at numerous delight-
Murphy is head usher for this sea- ful hospitalities preceding their wed-
*011 and anyone who can help hlni i
or give helpful suggestions will please I * * *
confer with him. i Assisting Mrs. Rosb WilJson at the
social or-1 '!andy ,nb'° at the annual Delphian
Assembly benefit card party Thursday
Yes, the intellectuals always have
miscroscopes before their eyes.—
Professor Albert Einstein,
!
The Student Oasis—
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Published in i9jit in- tin- ll.ii iart)
I itiwjfsiiy I'n-ss. the Mr liattisla's I
"lissentiiil.-; ol luliiiii Griunmur' con
i-fiiuiii really notable work to the 1
held ol tl-Mbook writing, being out
wtanding lor its brevity and eon
clseness tit piI'fenlation, The Hitl
book is only V5 pages in length.
I r II Gramlgenl.professoi ot j
modern language's at tlx 'Harvard I
i Diversity, penned the following in
(creating introduction to VI j Bail Is J
la's Italian work.
That IjjurOpo and America an- iiot ,
< onstliuted alike Is no news; anil one
result of Unit iinlikeness Is a con
trast in their attitude toward lorcign
tongues.
"The languages, to be sljljja'j are
widely studied on both sides of the
Atlantic—but lor different ends The;
Kornpean learns to speak, the Ameri-
can wants to leitrn I.o read. To attain
th<s laudable purpose with the least
delay, our countryman craw-s a mill
linuni of grammar.
"Now, thai smallest can be cut
down to very small compass Indeed,
if the reducing be. skilfully performed.
Selection and conciseness are the
requisites, and these virtues, it seems
to me, have made Mr. Bat 11st a's en
chiridion a model of Intelligent com
pression.
"I once wrote a German grammar
tn IS pages, but it never saw the
light. It was sold, for a. decent price,
to an enterprising corporation, which,
after paying me (but, I am sure, not
in consequence thereof), immediate-
ly went into bankruptcy.
"This was many, many years ago;
I would now give a tidy sum to see
ihill piaster® < e agu'ili. Happily.
Mr llainsta Ins not attempted and
sure 11 will pot ill iii in so high a do
gree of shrinkage. May happy fates
attend this little book."
In March. Hi-'s, an article ot Mr.
tiaifista's, entitled "Paplin out-
Moncketis Mencken," appeared in the
Washin.gtonlaii, publication of the
Washington t'uiverslty, of St. Louis.
The article begins with: "Four liv-
ing Italian writers are famous outside
Italy H Aiimmsio, Croce. Papinl.
and Pirandello All have a dynamic
quality. I'apini not least.
"I'ajijnJ is the most widely read in
Italy, especially by the youth of the
country,- who find tn his daredevil
personality Ihe only shining star to
give them light. Like the bettet*
known I)' Annunzio, Paplni Is of the
age of Impetuosity, the age which
takes everything by assault, which is
not contcntcil with peaceful victories. !
Assault may be taken as Papini's j
quality and method. He is not yet |
fifty, but there is little that he has
lert ttnaftacked. His photograph,
truly or not, shows one of the ugliest
men known; his history reveals his
early poverty. The two defects may
he the key to his violence.
"Here begins his unbridled war:
fare with mankind. Hence comes his
propensity to scorn and deride, to
protest and attack. Hence comes also
his predisposition to become a god.
Vituperation and conceit are said by
his enemies to be his sole equipment.
In any case, he is successful. Be-
side him our own Mr. Mencken is a
cooing dove."
The slang term "racket" meant
shady business more than a century
ago, and was not Invented by the
Chicago underworld.
The Rally club is not a
gnuization, though it sponsors a def-
inite social programme with its
"Break Training Dance" and other af-
fairs during the year. Neither is n a
fraternity, though It strives to pro-
mote fraternal feeling among the stu-
dent body and among the classes. The
Rally club is neither of these, It of-
fers to the tlpperclassman who would
lift himself above the ordinary run
of life at Rice a distinct opportunity
to serve his school aud make It a bet-
ter place. The programme for this
year does not end with the ending of
the football season but extends into all
of the activities of the coming year.
It Is hoped that there will be a num-
ber of upperclassmen who will make
application for membership in the
club this fall. The quota is to be in-
creased to take care of an additional
fifteen members and auy one that
would liacome one of these fifteen
should make written application to
the club through one of its members.
(Signed): Mason Barron. President,
Rice Rally Club.
were the following Rice co-eds:
Misses Carolyn Walker, Mary Harrel,
Mary Mutton and Mamie Riley. The
party, one of the outstanding social
events of the Delphian calendar, was
held at the City Auditorium.
• •
Plans are being made by the Rice
class of the First Presbyterian
GREEN MILL
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Now Has Carpet Greens
True Putting
Stop at the sign of the Old Mill
on Main Corner Southgate
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