The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, November 6, 1931 Page: 3 of 6
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Morgue Witnesses Queer Sight as
Rice Leaders Come Back to Life
fumy, trovnmm«, tm
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39 Co-eds Gel
Invitations To
Literary Clubs
Thirty-nine co-eds yesterday re-
ceived invitations to become members
from the three Rice literary societies.
As all manner of rushing is strictly
forbidden on the Rice campus, the
only aifalr which came under that
caption was the joint literary society
tea given on October 19, at which the
Elizabeth Baldwin, Owen Wister, and
Pallas Athene Literary societies enter-
tained.
Definite announcement of which lit-
erary society each girl receiving an
invitation pledges can not be ascer-
tained until next week since many of
the invitations overlap.
Actual initiation into membership in
the clubs does not come until after
the February examinations, since each
society has scholastic requirements
upon which membership depends.
Those who received invitations yes- a fleeting moment, and although they
terday include: Becky Meyer, ' Sylvia , are now forgotten, they talked over
Norsworthy, Emilie Tarrar, Julia} 'he glory that is past.
Green, June Greer, Edwina Weiss, i There was^Merle Comstock, captain
Elizabeth Neathery, Audrey Moody, Sue | °f l'!e fooTtSall team in '27. Bush
Green, Mildred Hutchison, Alice Rich- Jones, who captained the big Blue and | place cards
ter, Collier Cooke, Jeanette Rose, Glay machine in '29, and a host of hall.
Emily Stalnaker, Roberta Woods,
Dorothy Johnson, Cat^rin^Dtom*, | filmdfoId Kiss Test
Supplants Old Game
Last Saturday night, Hallowe'en, saw
strange goings on at The Thresher's
downtown office, for there Is The
Thresher morgue. The morgue is a
small dark room in which are kept
pictures and cuts of all the great and,
near great that have appeared in The
Thresher since its inception as the
Rice student newspaper.
The morgue of a great newspaper
nowadays is a somewhat impressive
department, generally row on row of
great filing cabinets with their ac-
companying elaborate index system. In
a college paper there is no need for
such a system, and herein lies the ro-
mance. The cuts of past and present
great ones are all together in one
small room.
| The men and women whose pic-
tures make it up, many of them, have
passed out of university legend, and
they are no more the talk of every-
day campus life. On Saturday night,
however, spirits of all returned for
other football immortals back once
again in varsity uniforms.
Jack Glenn, alias Or. Theo Bald
Blinkus, former head yell leader and
editor of The Thresher and Campanile,
was on hand to romp around as v.as
Gus Cranz, another head noise man.
Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett was on hand
—looking as he looked when Rice was
founded almost twenty years ago.
There was W. M. St mulish, who for-
merly worked on Rice publications,
and now is president of the Alumni
association.
Not only athletes, editors and fac-
ulty members were turning uneasily on
marble slabs—cold as ice—on that
night.
Former stagers of "Rice Nite," mem-
bers of the dramatic club, debaters,
members of the original literary so-
the rice thresher
Miss Durham
Heads German
Club This Year
we saw you
tuesday...
Lenore May Durham, junior student j The second string Owl band started
from San Antonio, was elected presi- off the dance with plenty of vim,
dent of the German club at a meeting j vigor, and vitality, but these timid
held iit Autry house last Friday i-ve- ' persons who lend their presence only
ning. after the other fellow goes in, waited
Miss Durham discussed the club's , until the poor guys were nearly ex-
j plans for the year, and announced that haunted. However, it was great while
! a German play is to be staged by 'il 'asted.
' members about next March. Printed
programs, giving dates of meetings for
this year, and application blanks for
new members were distributed among
those present. Programs will lie avail-
able at the German office.
Amerman Tops
Pre-Law Ushers
In Open Forum
On our tour of inspection, we spot-
ted ex-editor of The Thresher, EL-
: BERT "SLIME" TURNER simply turn-
ing all the girls' heads with that fas-
cinating smile of his.
MARTHA STEWART, m a becoming
piano. Refreshments
cieties, ex-presidents of the students' j at the
association, and even men and worn- j served.
en who made names for themselves as (
scholarship winners were here. Definition Gi
outfit, graced the affair, and so also
Rhodes Dunlap played a selection jjqbERTA WOODS- cutting architec-
of eere-
ven by
who once ruled Fish Foi* Gvitl W oi k
jl classes at Iiico;
And—acting as masters
monies—were those
over the hardest of
meaning none other than professors
of bygone days. They arranged the !
in the spirits' banquet
Winifred Freeman,
Hortense Born, Mary Louise Blohm,
Becky Stover, Adele Drinkle, Mary
Cavitt, Charlotte Cammack, Sarah !
Street, Madeline Freeman, Mary Lou-
ise Giraud, Betty Rogers, Rosamund j
Strozier, Mary Hutchison, Margaret j
Moss, Kathleen Wilson, Kathryn Pear- j
son, Henrietta Hutcheson, Margaret I dflnces durln8
Zenor, Henrietta Cargill, Agnes Cox,
and Mrs. Malcolm Lovett.
A new kind of kissing game is be-
ing started in Houston by Loew's State
theater. This promises to be the rage
among students and others between
the year. This new
game makes the old "post office" pas-
I time appear a bit smackless.
Texas Fan Cheers
Wrong Team at
Station
To instructors it means "Pay Ticket".
To freshmen it mean- Present
j Tense".
To the uppei\ lassmen it Means "Past
Tense" or "PasTiuie", according to the
: individual's way of thinking.
Everyone lu general regards it us
meaning, "Poop Tout".
The catalogue lists it as Physical
: Training".
As a crow might fly, a distance of
perhaps half a mile separates a fresh'
Package From
Home Brings
Rush in Dorms
Special to The Thresher.
AUSTIN, Nov. 6.—Steer fan.-, were nian chemistry student from the dress-
| giving their team a rousing send-off ing rooms. But slimes at Rice have
j at the station Friday, and the commo- such small ears and wings that they
I 'The blindfold kb. «" b hf ~ ^ W ^
the lively boys and girls are calling it. | was f^bit ],<e but a derin« °wr hills and bayous, a struggle
It all started in New York where "The Somebody was a bit late, but <i , oversize or undersize fie loaves
Guardsman" is playing at the Astor of a^heeHnXrounUwhi^ and lot'ks that chan«° combinations'
i theatre and is sure to spread all over : n midst of a cheering group which , fresuman |ias seldom
the country and Houston where the j yelled encouragement and felicitations , ....
By LAWRENCE COURTNEY
rn„ accomplished more than the tying of
i picture is playing this week at Loews t0Jfe ^parting wamors . shoestring by the time someone
: State. j When the excitement had1 (subsided ] {oots (he sjren
i In this high blood pressure romantic 1 ®nd the late-comer had opportunity Aft . „ lJaijt)D i1p rt.uorls „n
comedy the hero disguises himself and 'to 8lance at his fellow-pepsters, he on<' '°n« «• .'«*■ 111 " on
tempts 'his wife into a flirtation. The I was shocked to find himself hemmed the field as PlaVful as a -vounk! horse'
Everybody out! Everybody out! | stor£ and picture enda with audiences I in by the dusky sheiks and belles of -Yet horses are not forced into prac-
ture lab, freshman?
Since LEE'S boys had the day off.
"BABE" FARQUHAR ambled all over
the place.
RICHARD SHANNON, that melody
man, and PAT QU1N, the boom-boom
boy, did their little bit too, and in a
big way.
LOUISE "FLUCEY" RAG AN ran a
close second to ALICE LYNN "RAH
RAH" BOYD, in handing out the lines
to unsuspecting males, and when
Speaking of "lines", we can not fail to
mention one of our up-and-coming
freshmen, little KNOX BANNER
(adv.), who has such a hosl of
"lemnies" as his command.
GROVER GEISELMAN. talking up
the Engineers' ball, while he pilots
some little freshman through the mob.
The Greeks had a word for it
GEORGE ROHRER'S eye following
-we had to peep 'round three couples
to see—but we knew all along it wa*
PEGGY SOULE, pretty brunette
ALICE JANE WALL, the little gal
with the big "IH-drbwn-yoti-om"
laugh
And we'll see you ——
Five New Members Accepted by
Pre-Law Society After Tryotit
Five new members have been ac-
cepted by the Pre-Law society, fol-
lowing the last tryout, according to
Bob's got a package from home! And ; left in doubt as to whether the wife
a wild rush takes place to Bob's room, | really did know that she was kissing
where a royal feast is presently held ' her husband.
if the package contains food, the thing j As most Rice students do their kiss-
craved by all dorm men. The pack- J jng in the dark anyway, it is- our guess
age may be from home, that place that ! that the percentage of guessing will be
isn't so bad after all, and which seems | nearly perfect, but it is not a bad
better than ever to the average fresh- game to try
man about this time of year. | Girls bUndfo,d th ^
Or it may be from the trusting lit- 1
negro jticing football (according to Webster's Reuben Albaugh, president. F. F. Cal-
.« ,m dictionary). ("Little Joe" Kocurek houn, William O Huggins Jr.. Jack
vice
Sam Houston college, local
school, whose team was departing on dictionary).
the same train as the Steers for a j interrupts to say that Notre Dame had
game with Texas college at Tyler Sat- four horses once upon a time -playing
urday. [ in the back pasture.) In a week or
■ ' ! two, there will be several dead horses
Dr. Case Addresses Annual;on our p- T field-
Women Voters' League Meeting Wel)- after the colts arrive, they start
— T _ ** i- ■ . . ... In to plow up the dirt. The details of
Dr. Lynn M. Case, instructor in his- '„ . „„„ , „
Roberts, Bob Ford, and Fred Ault
were those chosen.
The only requirement for member-
ship is that those desiring entrance
into the society make a three-minute
speech before members.
the struggle are too horrible to relate
tie girl he left behind him" who incil 1 Versa' wi,h two remainin« actin« as , tory at the Rice Institute, Tuesday ad-,in detaiI. 0nly one thing holds any
dentally won't be so trus'tlne when ijudges Everybody starts getting mixed dressed the annual convention of the roal ple(lsure-the final siren. Most of
sheWishes high school S L heH^ the crowd and th" kissin* test Texas League of Women Voter, at the boys,ore too "Poop Tout" to en-
vear of college tooj or is she even!'8""' „ £ , 'Galveston on Democracy and World joy it.
now? Oh well, it really doesn't matter ! UP°n sufficient proof of accuracy in j Peace. The proceS8 ,lf dressing is familiar to
us long as she sends some cake, candy, 'the test to Loew s Publicity depart- i Dr. Case presented a discussion as; the male students, and is of no import
i-ookies, or something else for Bob to jment aPProPriate prizes will be of- to whether democracy fosters world to the girls; so let's not go into that
eat. 1 fered- Aside from that, it is a good | peace as well as observations on "the
It helps the appearance of the old iidea to 'earn to identify the right kiss inadequacy of the American system of Fountain Pen Hospital—Names en-
nlInmnnn, a lr,i uihon nnu V,o«, r,n anyway. If you don't think so, go down ■ democracy which hamDers nn effective
,
allowance a lot when one has no anyway. It you don t think so, go
laundry bill to include; so the laundry Ito Loews this week and see this ultra-
package is in hlgK demand and favor smart P'cture.
■vith those away from home. Even
ine way postage is saved sometimes
when the family turns the address
card over and puts enough postage on
it to send it home again. It is under-
ttood, of course, the family is respon-
sible for postage back to the Institute,
.and then there is always tKe chance
of a package or two of cigarettes being [
included. 1
Gene Chambers, Institute mail man, Captains of only four Rice teams
' discloses raiher surprising figures when this year have been chosen so far.
he states that only about 40 per cent These are: basketball, Jake Hess;
of thee daily-jnail goes to the dorms.
Startling, isn't it? But the Adminis-
trative department and the library con-
tribute most of the! incoming and out-
going mail. The library is responsible
democracy which hampers an effective graved free on pens and pencils
, peace policy." purchased here—601 Kress Bids-
if
Columbia Professor States That
Teaching Standards Are Lower
NEW YORK.—(IP)—A lowering of
economic standards in the teaching
profession has been caused by over-
feminization and a lack of adequate
publicity in the school system," Dr
Wi I la rd S. Elsbee, associate professor
ot education at Teachers college, Co-
lumbia university, said in a survey on
"Teachers' Salaries," released by the
Columbia Bureau of Publications.
Such subjects as: "England's Aban-
donment of the Gold Standard", "Rus-
sia's Emancipation of the Woman", and
I
"The Point in President Hoover's Re-
cent Suggestion To End the Depres-
i sion, Relative to the Bank Created''
I were ill order at the last Pre-Law
j meeting. All this because several can-
i didates for membership in the organi-
zation desired to show members that
they were awake to current topics of
more than passing interest
The roster of the club has now
reached its quota
Of business attended to during the
session, none was more important than
appointment of Earl Anierman us
chairman of the committee to super-
vise at Open Forum meetings
Initiation of new members will take
place at a date in the near future, to
be announced by A! Moody, chairman
of the committee in charge of this
feature of the club's ."early program.
Henry Holflen reported progress in
his arrangements |i. have a spcakvi for
the lie*! ii'gul.u meelii'n;!,. N*. u -
l>et I"
Y.W. Meets in Husk Settlement
On Invitation of Service Bureau
Rusk settlement, with it-, courteous
wide-awake Mexican interest group!.,
was the scene Thursday evening of th-
Y. W. C. A bi -monthly meeting. .Vat -
garet Elkliis. music 'chairman, bcii:,'
charge.
Following a brief husiue ■ ■
a musical program was t• r-
ing advantage of Mr. Walt< t- W Wh '
son's invitation on !>ehali of the H-■ i--
lon Social Service bureau, persons
present received a general idea ..f the
type of work .which is. In in- earned
on there
A few students Ir'ait Rice Sijai.'sh
classes ventured to express themselves
In that language, and the visit, was
concluded with serving of refr< -h-
ments
Horned Frog Band Plans Journey
To Chicago World's Fnir in HKl.'i
Special to The Thresh* i
FORT WORTH. Nov. 6 Plans .
beinn made by the Horned Frog band
of Texas Christian university to make
a trip to the Chicago World's Ian in
1933. A committee from the band r
now working on tentative plans with
several groups which will assist m
sponsoring the trip.
page
Spanish Trip Subject
For J o h u son's S peech
"Mi Viaje pot Espana" was the sub-
ject discussed by Harvey Johnson, in-
structor of Spanish, at the meeting of
the Spanish club, held recently at
Autry house.
Mr. Johnson studied in Spam last
summer, and made many remarks of
interest to students of Spanish who
were present
Miriam Knodel, accompanied at the
piano by Marguerite Hemze. rendered
several popular songs
A discussion concerning the club pin
was led by the president, Olivia Gon-
zales A sterling; silver pin priced at
SI.50. is being considered
Texas Christian Mas Addition of
Students in 19:!1 Enrollment
■SjHepwl to' Tt'W ViMmMt i
FORT WORTH Nov i,. Kirroilmen.
in Texas Christian university for the
I a 1,1 term, ii. according to K I>
Tucker,; legistrai' ' Of 111i■ tei'at ij v;
enrolleil in clay ela.-w .md ISO iii. thj:'
in wly iinatlgoiaied nigh' ('|ifisc>t. |'n-
rollinent for fli> fa!i si'itiseiimu" ofcl&llt'lr!
year w:. TOSH
*GLIDt
R.IGWT INTO
TOWN",
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O ^ c L O C K
Only Four Rice
Team Captains
Nilmed So Far
track, Richard Baldry; tennis, Jake
| Hess; golf, Reuben Albaugh.
Hess was elected captain of last ;
; year's basketball and tennis teams', but i
, ran afoul of the scholastic rocks. As , '
for most of the packages handled, too. a courtesy he was named leader (or j
In all, there are from twenty to thirty the coming season. Hess served as
pounds of mail carried away from the I captain of the tennis team in 19.'J0, and
Institute every twenty-four hours.
Around Christmas mail to and from
the dorms increases. Although few
packages are mailed above the usual
number, many more than that num-
ber are received, and there must be a
letter sent home for money to make
the trip. In fact, every family can
safely expect a letter just before the
holidays even though one was received
as recently as three weeks ago.
Monday is a large day for the mail
man because he takes no mail to the
postoffice on Sunday. He makes two
round trips on other days, though, ex-
cluding holidays. He carries about 390
letters a day each way in the van fur-
nished by the Institute for this pur-
pose and used for anything else when
the need arises. Of the 350 letters,
comparatively few are unidentified, and
if they are, it becomes a matter for
Uncle Sam; so they are returned to
his care. All letters are technically to
me address; so theft makes over 86,000
letters to one addregp in about nine
nonths. What a life! And personal
letters are a great nuisance anyway!
Plans For Operetta Discarded
As Glee Club Announces Concert
According to an announcement of
officials of the Rice Olee club, plans
or their operetta have been discarded
In its place they will present a con-
cert, December 4, under leadership of
Walter Welschoff, assistant director
of the Houston Symphony orchestra,
and the . new director of the Rice Olee
dul).
Hie concert will include four or
five numbers by the entire club and
several numbers from individual talent
vlfliln Mm ojub.
that year was high-point man in
Southwest conference basketball scor-
ing. He is a senior. One of Hess' am-
bitions is to win the National Inter-
collegiate tennis meet next summer.
Baldry in 1930 was Rice's one-man
field team, scoring 21 points in the meet
with T. C. U., and scoring a tout the
same against other conference teams.
He is a senior at Rice, and takes part
in the following events: Pole vault (his
favorite), broad jump, high jump, dis-
cus, and javelin. He also participates
in other track events to a lesser ex-
tent. Baldry's ambition is to be a rep-
tesentative of America in the Olympics
decathlon. He holds two track letters,
having helped the Owls considerably
in- winning the conferelfce title last
year. •
Reuben Albaugh helped win the con-
ference title in golf for Rice in his
sophomore year. Last year Albaugh
was a junior, and Rice was forced to !
relinquish the title to S. M. U. Al-
baugh holds two golf letters and is
the only returning letterman.
Last year the football team voted to
let Coach Jack Meagher name a leader
before each game. The cross country
team has not yet named its captain.
And in baseball, Ray Hart, captain-
elect, has turned professional and is
no longer eligible for athletics at Rice.
Thresher Workers Make FUe
Of Cuts, During Summer Months
Workers of Th* Thrasher this sum-
mer made a complete file of all cuts
belonging to the student newspaper.
Cuts may be borrowed by students or
representatives of other publications
desiring to do so, upon signleg • re-
ceipt
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