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Philosophers and Kings
An erudite Christian apologist. Dr. T. R.
Olover of Cambridge university, held In
kind remembrance nere a* a lecturer on
" " — foundation, concludes a summary
_ on the Influence of Alexander
Mat by saying, "one Is driven to ask
ler he (Alexander) was not after all
ifee world's greatest man." Alexander glad
In Babylon at stuuet June 13. 323 B.' C. On
the same day Diogenes, of the lantern and
the tub. died In Corinth.
Diogenes used to entertain the drowds
assembled at the national athletic games
by lecturing tn. them in the sunshine on
philosophy, and on such an occasion Alex-
ander came to see him. "Ask me." says
the king, "any favor you please." "Just
stand out of the light then," replied Diog-
enes, "so that I may continue to enjoy the
sunshine.1' And Alexander said, "If I were
not Alexander. I would be Diogenes."
An Oxford examiner. In the habit of put-
lng rather unusual If not absurd questions,
once inquired, "What would have been
Alexander the Great's politics had he been
allVe now?" One of the answers was. "Had
Alexander the Great been alive now he
would have been too old to take any In-
terest In politics."
Western Institutions
In his own time Alexander was mightily
interested in politics. His was the ft nit in-
ternational mind of the western world. He
sought to unite the whole world from West
to East into something like a federation of
states, and through the fusion of races to
secure the permanence of that federation.
Of such success as Alexander achieved In
giving new scope to science and civiliza-
tion. the sixth volume of the Cambridge
Ancient history affords an ample and ar-
resting account.
Diogenes, on the other hand, desired
nothing of the world but his own personal
independence, and he too was satisfied.
Some of the teneM of his philosophy we
could hardly accept, for example, music
and geometry and astronomy he neglected
as useless and needless: yet Diogenes was
certainly a contributor to the new world
that Alexander brought about, and if Al^c-
ander had not brought that new world
about, your heritage might have been one
of Eastern rather than Western civilization.
"All men are my kinsmen." said Alex-
ander, and women he held in great respect.
These ideas of dignity and brotherhood and
liberty and Independence are Ideas pecu-
liar to Western civilization. They are ex-
emplified in the history of Western Insti-
tutions, which among other good things
have embodied in varying proportions the
best of Alexander and the best of Diogenes.
Mental Equilibrium
For Instance, about a hundred years ago
(18£3), a wealthy Scotsman. Dr. James
Crichton, directed in his will that the
residue of his property should be devoted
to such charitable purposes as his widow
might appoint. Mrs. Crichton decided to
establish a university in the city of Dum-
fries and applied to the privy council of
the realm for a charter. But the four ex-
isting Scotch universities. St.* Andrews,
Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, entered
protest and, representing that their benches
were half empty and that the creation of
another Scottish university could only still
further cripple and Impoverish them,
brought such pressure to bear that the
charter was refused. Whereupon Mrs.
Crichton said, "Very well. If they will not
allow me to give you a university, I will
give you a lunatic asylum Instead," and so
founded the Crichton Boyal Institution at
Dumfries which became a pioneer in the
humane treatment of the mentally afflicted
and has always held a leading place
amongst the mental hospitals of Oreat Brit-
ain. Universities and lunatic asylums have
this in common, that they are both con-
cerned in promoting mental equilibrium.
It is of some manifestations of mental
equilibrium on your part, but at no great
length, that I wish to speak further, main-
taining all the while of course that the
Bice Institute aspires to be a university,
not a lunatic asylum.
Sound Learning
This morning I walked to the campus
without thinking about the process of walk-
ing ft* Is to say, I could walk without
thinking about walking, and therefore while
walking I was free to think of other things,
chiefly of what I had carefully thought out
to say to you and about how you might
take It. We learn to walk, become walk-
ing-machines, will to walk, and walk with-
out thinking. In like manner we are labor-
iously taught and laboriously we learn to
talk, In order to talk without thinking, as
lnded many people seem to do. Thus by
training we become talking-machines, will
to talk, and without thinking. So also with
the everyday processes of reading and writ-
ing and reckoning, by training we come to
perform these, too. without thinking.
Now In the same order of Ideals. I take*
it that one of the good reasons why you
have come to this Institution is to learn
to practice still another art so well that
you will be able to think without thinking.
I mean thereby that your powers of- per-
ceiving, remembering, imagining, and rea-
soning will be So trained to your will that,
when you will to think, these powers will
promptly come Into play with the precision
and efficiency of an economical and
smooth-running machine.
Like most succinct statements, this one is
by no means as simple as It sounds. But
if at your leisure you should take the trou-
ble to take It to pieces, its elements should
lead you to some estimate of your own
mentality, and move you, I trust, to the
liveliest of all human adventures, namely,
the exercise of that mentality in motion,
first on hinges, then on wheels. At all
events, we shall measure your sanity by
the zeal and cool-headedness with which
you undertake to Improve your capacity
and efficiency in straight thinking that alone
Issues In sound learning. For your encour-
agement I dpn't mind adding the personal
admission that I still walk better than I
talk, read better than I write, reckon better
than I think, but daily I keep on feeding
these six cylinders. The Important thing
is to keep going on, and It is this keeping
going on that I commend to you.
Hard Labor
As further evidence of your mental equi-
librium, I assume that as sanely as you
sat about the task of thinking straight, even
10 """bly you are ready to accept the
gospel of hard work, for there is no other
way, From pole to pole on this planet, It
Is the lot of men to work, and this, so far
from being a curse, Is, I think, a divine
dispensation of Providence. I congratulate
you on having occupation of your own
ehoosing In* an environment Of opportunity
so congenial to advancement ana achieve-
ment. Under preset widespread- conditions,
wellnigh the world over, such occupation
and such opportunity bring tn their train
double-fold obligation and responsibility for
adequate returns on opportunity as well
others have
tunate position In the midst of plenty of
- ■*«*-■" to do the
.. work with-
out worry, confident that i
done, you too can do, and
In the next place. If my first and sooond
would make you lovers of labor and of
truth, my third test of your sanity would
- "it the business good-
have you to go about ....
naturedly and In good humor.
good'
am left
as on occupation. Nor will you be deceived
by that mlglc word, opportunity, for op-
portunity la no bright-eyed maiden, blond
or brunette, but more often than not, comes
in the forbidding guise of Just another Job
M hard work.
You youngsters should be very hap^y over
> the
and
, something of the gny and
the gloom that can overtake an Inactive
mlna7 .end hte swift speed with which all
laWtyst, whether In letters, or science, or
~ — or iwture, or
all human t—
devastating
At any rate, I can L
' mind comparable
1 to won, "■*
cold by the set smile that will not come
off. but a cheerful disposition easily breaks
me down. The experience, I think, is gen-
erally true. And the cheerfully disposed
are more likely to take disinterested points
of view as well.
There Is an old Greek saying, that with-
out giving of pleasure there Is no giving
of knowledge.. Interest and enthusiasm,
emotional and Intuitional. If you please, at
once stimulate and enhance the communi-
cation of knowledge. "Jest and Earnest,''
said Plato, "are sisters," while child's play
and scholarly seriousness are other names
he gives to the twain. "The size of a man's
understanding might always be Justly meas-
ured by his mirth," said Samuel Johnson.
And to runner and researcher alike, a light
heart is the best of tonics.
Youth Is no time for the tears that lie
between comedy and tragedy, and the dis-
illusioning of Irony you may' well leave
to the old men in the chimney corner. You
may all live, as I hope, to be "octogera-
nlums," as Dean Hole s gardener said, but
time here and now Is by all odds the most
valuable possession you have right now.
Lost gold may be recovered, lost friendship
repaired, lost hope revived, lost character,
even, redeemed, but time once lost Is gone
forever. I am aware that In these latter
days this rhetoric also is subject to some
sort of relativity, yet even so. should the
time we are losing now ever return, It will
return far, far too late to be of any use
to you or to me here.
Science and Humanity
Life In your day Is joined to large Issues.
The whole planet is In man's hands today,
as at no other known period In human
history. To such wholesale conquest of the
planet many circumstances have contrib-
uted. Not the least among these contribu-
tory circumstances are three events, the
centenaries of which are Just now being
observed. Today at this very hour, though
there is obviously no connection between
the occasions, the British Association is In-
augurating In London (3:00 p.m. Greenwich
Time) a week's meeting in celebration of
the launching in 1831 of the first of the
naUonal associations for the advancement
of science, a far-sighted and flourishing
enterprise for fostering the promotion and
popularization of science, that has since
been emulated In many countries including
our own. And simultaneously there are
being commemorated Michael Farady's dis-
covery on August 2D. 1831, of electromag-
netic Induction, the principle of the dy-
namo. a discovery that is said to have
'freed more slaves than any revolution In
history;'' anl the birth on June 13, 1831, of
James Clerk Maxwell, whose famous equa-
tions, translating Faraday's conccpts into
mathematical form, led Henrich Hertz to
his waves. Marconi to wireless, Einstein
into some of the more intricate labyrinths
of the relativity theory, and all of us to
the security and service in radlo-transmls-
sion of sight and sound.
Look now for a moment down another
trail. I have no more than the average
mans' reading of history, but' that is suffi-
cient to recognize that never within our
national history have our people as a whole,
'of the planet taken by and large, been
better housed, better clothed, better fed,
better carried, better amused, or better edu-
cated, than now. And still there is great
distress, almost beyond Imaging, in the
earth. That all of the distress will dis-
appear I gravely doubt, that much of it
will be relieved I confidently expect. This
expectation I entertain because I know of
no time when so large a part of the wealth
of the world was being devoted primarily
to the good of the people, and I know of
no time when so many men of wealth
were laboring, as laboriously as in their
own Interests, to Improve the condition of
the poor, a condition which we have high
authority for believing may always be
with us.
Civilization and Democracy
To be sure, wealth and its possessions are
not the only powers that make for the gen-
eral welfare of mankind on this planet, but
the circumstances I have just recited should
certainly be included as fair tests of the
civilization which they say is at the cross-
roads. fair tests of pur traditional democ-
racy which they say is cn trial for Its life.
Civilization will hardly lose its way or
democracy fail, first, because both alike are
intrinsically worth saving, and, second, be-
cause so many good people are bent on
saving them. Despite confusion In principle
and limitation in practice, democracy still
prevails because it ex.ills the Individual as
the hope of his country and securcs the
closest approximation to prulty of motive
yet attainable in uovornment. By the same
tokens our civilisation may be expected to
f[o on, not because it is perfect, but because,
n the main, it is a freedom-loving, lustlce-
seeklng. knowledge-cringing civilization.
Large Issues
These things I have set before you, to
set your minds on large issues. They raise
questions on which the men 9nd women of
your day will have to stand up and be
counted. They involve Ideals to which
men and women and women will be called
on to give the blood of their hearts. Nor
will the Idealism nurtured here fall you
then: of this I have not the slightest doubt.
Our debt to the Idea of the past, in
science as well as In religion, we can pay
in no other way than by putting posterity
under similar obligations to ours. For my
own part I find nothing in science or In
religion Incompatible with striving to real-
ize ideals that have never yet been realized.
And the first payment on your part begins
today.
Great Hope
Finally, "We live by Admiration, Hope,
and Love," as Wordsworth said. To be
well thought of, to be well loved, to be
hoping well against hope, these are the
sustenance of a balanced mind, these the
wells of a tranquil spirit. I could work
without admiration and I could work with-
out love, but I have never been able to
see how I could work wttnout hope. So J
think It well for yon to plan your lives
to live lorover, the greatest hope of all.
As a boy, I had no more fear of dying
than a wild animal Is said to have, but T
had a horror of being buried in the ground.
I had been taught to pray, and that In
due time the world would literally pass
away. So. nitfktly after my prayers, I used
to pray further tn the quiet of my bed
and fervently, that the world might come
to an end before I died. I know no morr
poignant example of an ego-centric unl
verse, nor can you be insensible to the
humor of the situation. Its
spectlve I think I recognized at the tune,
but to my childhood's imagination there
seemed no other such sure escape from "
horror that has long since vanished.
The new heaven and the new earth In
whfch you live will come to an end for
you, even as the old heaven and the old
earth of your forebears came to an end fon
them. To my mind the longing for Indi-
vidual Immortality Is quite as altruistic ar>
it may be selfish. It Is of the selfish crav-
SSK'TSESm!' "u *• te"der mln
- The Good Name of Rico
Thus I have wished you on your matrlc.
ulatlon morning what I think all strong
i desire, long life, sound learning, hard
>r, good nature, large problems, great
hope. And I am here also as a represen-
tative to place In your care and keeping
as a class the good name of this Institu-
tion, and to receive in turn the pledge of
your handshake thereto. That good name
we owe to the far-reaching aspiration and
linear. to
loyalty
falling i
financial ability of the founder, to the
Intelligence of the trustees, to the disinter-
ested devotion to teaching and research on
the part of the faculty, to the character
and capacity of the students, to the abiding
and love of the alumni, to the lin-
ing sympathy and support of the friends,
of the Bice Institute. We have been ac-
customed to think of Bice men and women
as responsible, dependable, right-minded,
right-handed, right-hearted, women and
men. These aspects of rlghteousness In the
remarks I now conclude, I have ascribed
also to you, their successors, and until you
give us occasion to revise our Judgment,
we shall continue so to think of you, in a
comradeship that shall carry to the end of
the world— EDGAB ODELL LOVETT.
Movies Attract Rice Co-eds
Who Are Expected To Shine
As Clara Bows of Future
"Miss Blank, may I present Mr.
Houston?" Miss Blank bows In her
best Emily Post fashion, backs oil,
surveys Mr. Houston appraisingly, then
makes a dive for the gentleman's arms,
instinctively burying her charming nose
at the point behind his ear where for
thousands of years maidens have been
wont to whisper what is vulgarly
known as sweet nothings. Mr. Hous-
ton, his arms busy, his mouth full of
cornsilk curls, looks absolutely bliss-
ful. Suddenly she breaks loose, where-
upon he grasps her left wrist in such
a manner as to produce an earsplit-
ting howl. Then a voice from the
dark around them, "cut". Miss Blank
vanishes behind a screcn, Mr. Hous-
ton mops his brow, a brunette comes
in, and the whole procedure is re-
peated.
"What the younger generation is
coming to" may be considered an apt
title for the performance, but it is
entirely serious and within the realm
of decorum. For the movies have hit
Houston, and Geizendanner's Theatri-
cal studio on Main stteet is simply
milling with potential Clara Bows and
Norma Shearers, among whom are a
number of Rice girls.
The Hollywood Motion Picture com-
pany, an independent organization, is
planning to make a series of short
features with Houston talent. Around
the middle of the summer several
hundred girls were invited to have
movie tests made, and those proving
satisfactory were enrolled for rehear-
sal. Since then, a gradual weeding out
process has been taking place, until
now there remain two groups of ap-
proximately fifteen each.
Helen Batte, Mary Hutton, Aline
Lucy, Margaret Soule, Henrietta Hut-
chinson, Willetta Johnson, Sarah Lucy,
and Marian Seaman represent Rice's
contribution to the gelatin industry.
Whether or not all or any of this group
will be chosen for pictures is still a
matter of deep conjecture, and accord-
ing to the young ladies, much doubt.
Nevertheless,-in company with the rest
of the talent, which consists of some
of the city's fairest high school girls,
they have been faithfully attending re-
hearsals over a period of two months.
Rehearsals consist of all manner of
stage activity. Under broiling blaze
of incandescents, candidates for fame
and fortune do some astounding emo-
ting under the critical eyes of Charles
Geizendanner, and Charles Day, who
direct the company, and an assortment
of cameramen and sound technicians.
Criticism is merciless, and not of the
gentlest kind, which promotes serious
effort. After screaming in pain, laugh-
ing, crying, making love, and being
horrified for an hour or so, the girls
may be lined up for a tap dancing
lesson. Much rehearsal has made the
tap dancing fairly efficient, but verily,
two months ago the scene of some
twenty-odd girls with flying arms,
hair, and legs—none of them doing the
same thing—was a sight to receive
nomination for the Worst Mistake of
the twentieth century.
Following the dancing, there is a
short intermission for such necessities
as nose powdering and a coke, and
then each girl must sing a song in her
best warble, and her most convincing
expression. Thus endeth the rehearsal.
While outwardly facetious, the work
is entirely serious on the part of both
directors and potential Ast. And the
perspiration, shed by the girls is not
only with desire to be before a camera.
Those fortunate enough to be chosen
for the pictures will receive remuner-
ation in the form of good hard round
dollars, which in these times of "iv-
pression" isn\to be sneezed at. "Ant!
then," said Mary Hutton as she patted\
her new bob into place,""even if we 1
don't get in 'em, it's loads of fun any-
how." '
SOUTHWEST FOOTBALL
Pre-
w.
BICE — _. 1
T. C. U... 1
A. and M. 0
Texas — 0
g. M. U 0
Arkansas 0
Baylor 0
What's about to
Sam Houston, T. C. 0. vs Louisiana
State. Texas vs Simmons, Arkansas
vs College of Ozarks, A. and M. vs
Southwestern, Aggie Reserves vs John
Tarleton.
Who won—Bice 37, T. S. A. I. 0; T.
T. C. U. 33,. North Texas Teachers 6;
T. C. U. Beserves 40, Texas Military
college 0: Texas A. and M. 32, Sam
Houston 0 (practice game); S. M-. U.
9, Jefferson School of Luw 0 (two
quarters).
happen—Rloe VS
Dr. Scott Asserts Exercise Must
Be Pleasure in Recent Article
Dr. Harry A. Scott, professor of
physical education at Rice, is the au-
thor of an article entitled "What phys-
ical Education Really Is" in the current
issue of Physical Culture magazine.
In his article Dr. Scott asserts that
"to be a real value, exorcise must be
a pleasure, and not a grind."
Three illustrations to Dr. Scott's ar-
ticle show:
Chester Klaerner, baseball pitcher,
at the conclusion of his wind-up. *
Bert Mueller, with Gilbert Herrnonce
testing his* heart.
Bill McKay, post-graduate at Rice,
shown as a Field house executive.
Dr. Scott's article ends with tables
on intensity of various exercises taken
by both sexes.
Editors Explain Policies ntd
Methods at Thresher Meeting
At The Thresher staff meeting, held
Monday, editors of the student news-
paper explained policies and methods
for the coming year.
Thomas Gready, managing editor, ex-
plained how assignments would be
made to student reporters. Story as-
signments will be issued every Friday
morning £rom now on, starting today,
Gready has announced.
The following students have signed
up for The Thresher staff this year:
Kenneth Phillips, A. D. Krantz, Wil-
liam H. Gibson, Lawrence Courtney,
Peter Maniscalco, Andrew L. Ladner,
Ed McClanahan, Hallie Beth Tnllcy,
Willetta Johnson, Dick Nosier, Gene-
vieve Verlander, Katherine Hornor,
Alberta Riesen, Joe Arthur Kocurek,
Helen Elizabeth Batte, Leon Tauheii-
haus, Katy Bresky, Helen Bell, Hazel
Pace, Margaret Wright, Raymond Leo,
Whitney Reader, Corinnc Hall, Norma
Elliot. Jo Beth Griffin, Alberta Black
Louise Ragan, Mattie Armstrong,
Evelyn Parsons, Harry Vinock, Eliza-
beth Raney, Mildred O'Leary, Miriam
Knodel.
Cranmer Club Will Convene First
For Breakfast This Sunday at 8
On Sunday at 8 a.m. the Cranmer
club will convene for the first time.
The meeting will be the first of a series
of monthly breakfasts held throughout
the year.
Officers for 1931-32 are: president,
James Beeley; vice president, Mar-
guerite Stuart; secretary, Ruth Joost;
treasurer, Ed Ar^cr. Plans have been
made to hold the freshman dinner
sometime early in October.
The regular Sunday evening meet-
ings will begin October 4 at 5 p.m.
Several outside speakers have been
secured and they will feature at vari-
ous times during the year.
Dance Applications Must Reach
Student Council by September 30
Following the meeting of the Stu-
dent council Tuesday, September 22,
Packard Barton, chairman, announced
that all applications for dance dates
for the year 1931-32 must be turned
in by September 30.
■Applications should be written and
should contain information regarding
duration of the dance to be given.
Dance dates will be set at the next
council meeting, October 5.
Announcement was also made of the
dance committee as follows: Packard
Barton, chairman; Elbert Turner, pres-
ident of the senior class, Walter Judd,
councilnian-at-large, and two other
members to be named.
Walter Lehmann Judd, graduate stu-
dent, was elected to serve as .secretary
of the council.
Alumni Resume Weekly Lunches
At Texas State Hotel on Friday
Weekly luncheons as held by the As-
sociation of Rice Alumni were resumed
last Friday at the Texas State hotel.
For the first fall meeting. Hank
Grant of the 'R' association and Wil-
liam Standish, alumni president, were
in charge. Guests of honor at the
initial fall meeting were members of
the Rice administrative department and
football coaches, namely:
Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett, president;
Dr. Robert Granville Caldwell, dean;
Samuel G. McGann, registrar; John T.
McCants^-feurs^r; Jack Meagher, head
football coach; Marvin Durrenberger,
John Nlemiec, Louis Hertenberger, Bill
Morgan, John Polisky, assistant foot-
ball coaches; Gaylord Johnson, busi-
ness manager of athletics; Dr. Harry
Alexander Scolt, professor of physical
education.
Henry Holden Reaches Quarter
Finals in River Oaks Tournament
Henry Holden, Rice net ace, last
week reached the quarter finals in sin-
gles in the River Oaks Country club
tournament.
Holden was eliminated in a tough
match with Leslie Coleman, 7-5, 6-4.
The Owl net captain of last year
was a defending champion, having fig-
ured in winning the tournament's ,dou-
bles title last fall. However, paired
with Charles Sloan, Holden only reached
the semi-finals in doubles this year,
whore the twd were eliminated.
Fred Dixon Elected President
Of Rally Club at First Meeting
Fred Dixon of Houston was elected
president ol the Rally club at the first
fall meeting held recently.
Allen Chamberlin of Houston became
vice president and head usher. How- j
ard Malcolm Banner of Fort Worth is
secretary, with Bill Hudspeth of Ar- i
lington us treasurer.
Besides Dixon, Chamberlin, and Hud-
speth, the executive committee i.- com-
posed of Frank Hurley, Jack Turner,
Erie Rawlins, John Cook, and Albeit
("Busier") Lewis.
Rally club ushers thi.s year will con-
tinue to officiate at football games.
Dr. J. W. Slaughter Discusses
Gharity Relief at Luncheon Club
Discussing The Outlook of Charity
Relief in the Present Crisis, Dr. J. Wil-
lis Slaughter addressed the Salesman-
ship club at its Rice hotel meeting last
Friday.
Dr. Slaughter is executive secretary
of the Houston Community chest, and
a member of Mayor Walter Monteith's
committee on unemployment.
Pre-Laws Will Hold First Meeting
This October 1 at Autry House
The Pre-Law society will hold its
first meeting October 1 at Autry house.
As in previous years, meetings ars al-
ways held on Thursdays.
Reuben R. Albaugh, president; Earl
Amerman, vice president, and Ben
Sewell, secretary-treasurer, are the
officers for this term.
Speakers prominent locally will ad-
dress the society at intervals during
the year. Albaugh says the society will
furnish ushers for the Open Forum as
they did last year.
The Pre-Law Society will sponsor
several social events during ihe year,
the concluding one being a dance near
the end of the year.
MOODY JUNIOR PROM CHAIRMAN
Alvin Moody has been appointed
general chairman of preparations for
the Junior Prom, the most formal of
Rice social functions, which will be
held March 1 this year.
Iicrhst Is Elccted Bookkeeper
Of Three Publications at Rice
Charles Arthur Herbst, chairman of
the Honor council and a senior ;>t R><
Tuesday afternoon became book keep'.-:
for the three Rice publications for the
1931-32 school >#ar.
Herbst was elected at a meeting ol
the three business managers and the
three editor? oi Rice publications lie
has had practical experience.
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