The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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Today Last
Day To Hav<
Pictures Mad
Student Weekly Publication
The Rice Institute
vol. xvni
For Alumni
Noveraber26
Day Will Be Climaxed By Tea
Dance After Baylor Game-
Faculty To Speak
Rice Alumni will harken back
Saturday, November 26, for their an-
nual Homecoming festivities which
Will begin with an important business
meeting, and be climaxed following
the Rice-Baylor game by a Tea-dance
at Autry house;
President W, M. Standish announces
that a prominent faculty member will
speak, and that an election of two
members to the Executive board will
take place. Candidates are: Harvini
C. Moore, '27; Elbert Turner, *32;
Malcolm Graham Baker, '29; and Mrs.
Flora Streetman Lindsey, '29.
The schedule of the day is arranged
as follows: 10:30—Business meeting
in the Physics Amph.; 12:00—Lunch
at Cohen house, at 50c per plate; 2:30
-Rice-Baylor game; 5:30-7:00—Tea-
Dance at Autry house, 25c per per-
son.
A unique feature of the business
meeting will be the awarding of a
number of tickets to the game, To
both the alumnus and alumna who
have attended the most regular meet,
ings of the Association this,.year, will
go one free ticket. Also, eacn alumnus
and alumna who has married since
graduation and has brought the better
(or worse) half along, will receive a
pasteboard gratis.
The second issue of the Rice Alumni
News is off the press and is being
mailed this weeki Present campus
news is featured for the first time,
and the main story is Pete Maniscal-
co's account of Jimmy Kitts' athletic
work at Rico.
Rice Special Leaves At 11
Pep Rally To
Be Held At
Science Body
Will Gather
Here Friday
Five Rice Faculty Members To
Bead Papers At
Meeting
Five papers will be read by mem-
bers of the Rice faculty at the fall
mtfcting of the Texas Academy of Sci-
ence which meets Friday and Satur-
day in Houston.
Two departments will be represent-
ed. -Three papers will be read from
the physics department and two from
the biology department.' The topics
are as listed below:
Dr. H. A. Wilson, "A Large Cobalt
Steel Permanent Magnet."
Mr. S. Harris, "Rotation of the
Electric Discharge in a Radial Mag-
netic Field."
Dr. L. M. Mott-Smlth and L. G.
Howell, "Airplane Cosmic Ray
Measurement."
Dr. M. A. Stewart, "The Flea in
Texas and its Economic Importance."
Dr. Edgar Altenburg, "Genetical
Views on the Origin of Life."
Rice Institute, Houston Scientific
Societies, and the Houston Chamber
of Commerce will act as hosts to the
, society, ard the headquarters will be
at the Lamar hotel. A very inter-
esting program has been planned, and
some of the most noted scientists of
the state will be present to give
papers.
Registration of members and visitors
will start Friday morning after which
the main meeting will be held in the
physics amphitheatre.
ouse
Hundreds of Rice Students To
Follow Grid Team. To
College Station
Hundreds of Rice students and sup-
porters will leave Houston tomorrow
moming for the Owl's Armistice Day
battle with the Texas Aggies at Col.
lege Station. A special train carrying
the Rice rooters will leave Grand
Central station Friday morning at
eleven o'clock.
Rice spirit was at a high pitch Wed-
nesday as the last plans were an-
nounced and being completed for the
giant pep rally to be held at the
Autry house at 7:15 tonight. The
lawn will be especially lighted for the
occasion and the rally promises to be
one of the largest and most spirited
of the season, according toC Wiley
George.
George, Pot Quinn, John Dore and
the Rally club staff are handling ar-
rangements for- the meeting.
Mr. J, T. McCants will be the prin-
cipal speaker of the evening. Coach
Jack Meagher and his feathered tribe
will be among the honor guests, with
the Rice band furnishing the mus-
ical background.
It has been reported that the yell-
leaders have a surprise speaker up
their sleeves for the rally. When
questioned George would neither af-
firm or deny the statement but prom-
ises a snappy, bang-up time fur all
Rice .boosters.
The train arrives there at 1 o'clock
and returns shortly after the game—
about 5:30 p. m. Tickets are also
good on the train leaving College Sta-
tion at 3:25 a. m. Saturday. This
arrangement will make i,t possible for
students to stay over for the Aggie-
Rice dance Friday night.
Round trip tickets are on sale In
sallyport for $1.50 and will also be ob-
tainable at the downtown station. I
Tickets for the game may be pur-
chased for $1.10. By students hold-
ing blanket taxes and for $2.20 to all
other students.
Star Back Ready To Go
Lee's Owls
To Play For
Big Affair
Photos Will
End Today
Rice Seeks
Revenge For
Last Defeat
Tom Driscoll Will Be Missed
New Plays Learned
By Team
Dance Starts at 10 and leasts
Coach Jack Meagher is going to ajfkid I;#!
a host pf determined ambassadors of
Students Are Urged To Have, good will to Kyle iield Friday to .>«
Pictures Made Now At 1 if the Aggies won't picas? return !hc
Autry House ! seven points they walked off Rice Field
' with last year. The Owls claim it
Today will be the last day for Rice i wasn't honest of the Farmers to walk
'students to have their picture made! off with the points after they had been
Until 2:30—Bids Are
$2.00 Per Couple
for the campanile, Robert Blair, edi- j treated so nice and everything while
tor stated. All students who hove not they were nero; :>o the Birds dwided t'O
j been photographed should go to 'the ask the Aggies if they won't please
_ ~ Autry house immediately and have'turn them again.
Every detail has been airanged for tlioir picture taken, since there can course, now the Owls h-m* u
the Engineer's Ball which will be held bo absolutely no extension of time. sneaking notion that mavbe the i< !.( w.
: tonight at the Houston club from 10 Last pjiday wa.s originally sehed- at College Station iiien't s.. nic •• deal
to 2:30. Lee Chatham and his Rice ulrd to be the final dav for the photo- wl,h :,nd mil-V not W- in v alt th«ir ;
1 Owls will furnish four and one-half hut duc to {h(. comparative- i ^ nt a!1 *"
j hours of distinctive dunce music. Rui )y s„u,|j mjmber of students to avail entire post week ii -urine ..ut <«ntv new
McBride, colorful blues singer with themselves of the opportunity. Wed- convincing arguments that the Aggies
nesday and Thursday of this week
were set aside by tl>e editor to wind •;
the band, will fco on hand to render
several vocal numbers. j
According to the committee in1 up the picture making.
charge of the dance, the Houston club. The price of the pictures ha, bee-
is the most beautiful club in the city , rcduced' from $!!.00 to §§75 with a 50
available this year, with a dance floor; for, extra ruts, .photo-"
which is unsurpassed by tiny club in j g^plijs;! being
Houston.
can't 'resist-
Ve semi-formal. "Wear a tux if yojl' which
! happen to have one: if not then come
■ in what you have'1 officials advised
: the students late Wednesday.
I Since the special train to College
Station does not leave until 11 o'clock
the following day, everyone will have
Kelly Scott, triple-threat halfback j since. Last Saturday against Arkan-j ample time to catch up on lost sleep
of the Owls, will be ready to go sas, Coach Jack Meagher tried him I Friday morning1. j
against the Aggies tomorrow. Scott's ;/or a fcw minutes and things jock rosy..
t,„„„ ... , . ., ,, I Rice will have available the two vet
knee was injured m the Southern; ^ halfbacks. Scott nnd j Thrnsh
Methodist game and he has laid off cr Friday.
Many New Plays
KMzii.g thin, his aggregation ha?
ji'.'lJci'iV'woll'-.scioutyci during , lt . p'tr-
tqadi JMi -i ."hot:
fijiS "fpopl' t'hie w«|0k teachm;.; IS ' 'oris'.
■ ... i i , ■ plavH'io; -'.pr.hgiio'ii,:th:' ^ :■-■■' Tt*
niruie on the secon ! , .iv*- .. . , .,u
,, .,■ , ■ . , t-trtline stiuiid il/i.s licet: ; '■"•-e.i
door (,f the Autrv .house l.,y R,<ui.,nde ;il„ v..,.. cJt-
i„, >, . , . / i■ ,,,.■, TI ■: | ■■ Y,- CCUIUI Mi Jj jfl r> f 1 I tl.n I
:■■ . , Students who have their photo P'tl m .- i >e end has run-
present: Tnero is no reason why ati m,.i„ .u.. ' ' , , ,
unnsn-d'v 1-irce crowd shou'd not -it , ' tiiiueo' (liv, j >: .of^-'emervt ..ha-,, showed last
unusual,> lar^t .c cwd .>hoii.,I not at- , ^ t,)e {jiCt. (,f t-;11,j(l,,rci() , , ,:j. ! ^owi-.g, U|> tietter
end since,i tho price t% year has Traxmi). ; Fi^t,, ,l!so .hould be-A,,, Scrunmaee
been reduced to $2.00, Gtover Geise.- 1(-iu,m.(i t'hrjt' .'o.ftice.'1 :■>'1 '• S-i'tli rraee and - ate
man chairman of the committee BJa.r stf-ted that work on, the year ,d9n NichoKon and tw Metier
sl!ltl ' ! hook is-progressing' rapidly arid;; : h,>o doing a i)k- |ot «,,i taking ihe
Members musf .secure their bids' sufficient number of students ha\i j,l, , , { Cantain T. m Un-coll at full-
from Douglas Raglund. financial man- their pictures made today a repro- .back: Nicholson has looked especially
agcr for the dance. The affair is to sentative Campanile will be published'! giwd and fi'vos promiw of.d-;.ing things
Early 'returns from tkiket sales iri- ! studios
dicate tbiit a record Crowd will ho
is- promiKed on tirhe.
Talks Given
b ttc r i
.15ij!*
Satire Prize
ToBeGiven
Award of $1000 Will Be Made
« By American Magazine To
Undtergraduate
A prize of $1000 is being offered by
the American Magazine for the best
satiric contribution either literary or
artistic.
Tho contest is exclusively limited
to undergraduates of American uni-
versities and closes officially on
March 10, 1933.
Literary contributions must not ex-
ceed 1000 words in length, and non
prize winning material of merit will
lx> purchased at regular space rates.
Students should address all manu-
scripts to Americana, 1280 Lexington j all outsiders. The orchestra and place
avenue, New York. will be decided by the committee
Rally Club j Methodists
Plans Dance Will Meet
Band-OWLS
Plan Dance
jFrvtdny Thu-Owls'.-hoiw;* -.vei
j i"s tii :h'\ tori:
fciisio grinder.
Tom Driscoll Out
'. Meantime Tom Driscoll h-j.; hcjm
'[tO'h.fc'iii'Si'iiig'Ifriiin .the,: iivi«i,i v., i ,. -
^11 lit li'l I* "'ived in the Arkansas t'ani i , t <«t-
' ' trrday; ; Prosjioels for lus: 'gei.'iin;: iiitc,
j'; .' ■. . ' -Ai..,,; r - ny ,.f :h« three remaining parties look
, Ilrivanntz Speaks On Russian"^1"'*' The Rice. fcapt...n is
| Engineering Projects -- ! Ullt '.'I" 1,ho°'J of
ii..-
Otlier Papers Read
HirWW'fW '^''ecr.'oti. the bench
'"iirJess ii-'itii'Ae?;
. Hk3i> :;(tf«'n the senior en- ,^jj ^ . Jf,l lfch: „
vutieers enjoyed. three interesting talk, ,h( T r v , Vll , , )lh „
i','n Seminar' .underhas
uround
Committee Named To Arrange
Details of Affair To Be
Given November 26
Work" was started Monday night on
the annual Rally club dance to bu held
Oaks Country Club
* November 24
Rice Students Expected At]
Conference in Austin, on
November 18
'lion, 'localise tht A-.
j'lcle::1: li.'iV.e uri:',.:,.':::.!1;1!1:.;::V,
11 tit op., t.fie,fi<. IU.
iiil'tio 11ill- fliuun t
chaiinian.sh p of J, W. Bonner. r . . v . .
Affair To Be Given At River H>-aker, II. G. -=.
presented ;a, paper upon borne hnm- ^ ^J
eer.ng Projects m Russia, telling of the ^ ![e ai,;c()l,itn;,u.
mimens.ty ot the operations and of tl.e l ,
| difficulties encountered at. the povver-
Prelirhinary wor!c on the Band-O. | plants and the metallurgical plants
W. T, S. dance to be held at River built l,-v lh<> "ussian govern-
Oaks on November 23, got under way "'•■Alwnui'um, i(„ Properties and Uses,"
this week. lire's Owls have been en-; was the subject (if the second speaker.
gaged to play for the dance. , R- W. Beatty, who t()ld of the history of ..
Bids for the affair will be $2.00 and 1 ohiminum front a laboratory Curiosity | \V 0()( IS I
be divided equally IU> f*. i"!'1
Bob Hannon as the chairman to j the Methodist Student conference which I Kotwoei'i the two organizations. The I The wr«u ElJi!
srvil SL-SSSE ;tai - - -
Joe Kocurek, John Cook, Frank Hur- ! ,As fe^u,rcs of ,thf. n™ua,1, . , .
Ipv anH Dnnnlrl 1t,lcrc Wlli inspirational addresses by buy now uniforms tor that organiza-
This Rjd°yclubaffaii^i.s designated i P™mincnf Methodist leaders and min- tion.
as the "break- training" dance conclud- , open discussions of many of the | r>,;0).,,1ions nPe boin„ workerJ
ing the grid season at Rice. It is given £,y arncs^quest for'a dleper I'but will be kept secret until the r.lght i Seminar this- week du > to ih
toe. open.
Many Rice students are expected to
be among the hundred delegates that
this year on November 26, President j will be chosen from the various colleges
Jimmy Fite appointed a committee with (and universities in the state to attend j t|-,p proceeds will
two organizations.
- r M5.-..1 J — — !
As features of the annual conclave ! Mterary 'fund and the band portion to was presented by J F Aridorsi;® wh".'
compared the euiciency, deperid;ibifi!>' '
•I a'nd advantages Af^st, ani-di'ivrh equip-
ment with ih.it of electric apparatuii:
upj, Theie will be no meeting of Eugi- |
Wood
Soph I;
allied
eat It't*
Resignat'pti o('-.I;mik> Sottt
;lIceon(ecl at iMet'iinu <>(
Class Weducstljn
is
Rice Faculty Hold 131 Degrees
From 75 Different Institutions
on the Saturday of the last football ,
game and the Rice Owls are the guests i: sn1c*-re rehgtous experience j «>f the dance.
of honor among the youth of today. ; William Long. band president.
The dance will bo a semi-formal at- j T1«* confet-enee will open with a ban- I , mon to on
fair and ,hc admi^ion will be ^! h„ M-t ^ with the O. W.
epnleience settnon V.-ill be delivered on L S, 11 pi >>-"ntatives- Jack Van
-! Sunday morning, , thrndy aVi.i f,e(ni Tanbehhaus,1 decot'a-
' T'10 ,n™,pla" fterjalnlng ,mws Do,.,,'as R:, gland, refreshments;
egaWs will be employed as lodging and • ' ,
l.r. akfust will be furnished free while ! A ^h.aw, tickets; arid
i delegates will be expected to provide ! Soule. publicity.
| for their own transportation and ad-I—
holiday Friday.
Young Women's Auxiliary
Holds Business Mectinu
Tlie Rio- ■y<imig \V-.,!iicn ... u-x h.ir,
held an Important .bushik's auvtin-
at (he home of Blaru-ht- jTayloi1 !&:;•
Monday. Probh-tus v.-rre bt'iJt.tgl I. ut
,l;ty the. prr'sidtrit: " Toftirivii^'
Gardner Mntis'icld arid discitKfiii.il by the im.ii,-
I bers.
Banquet Of Pre Law
Society Postponed
The Pro-law banquet scheduled,, for
last night was postponed until Tues-
day night, Noveffiber 15. The affair
will he held at the Ye Olde College
Inn at 7:30.
Alvin Moody, Jack Reeves, and
Howard Calvin compose the commit-
tee in charge of the arrangements.
Lee M. Sharrar, Houston lawyer and
former Rice faculty member, will
make the principal address of the
evening.
By LEON BRESKY
While the scholastic excellence of
Rice Institute has been spread far and
near, the merits and qualifications of
its faculty havo been comparatively un-
heralded.
According to the latest catalogue is-
sued by the Institute, the faculty for
the present academic year is composed
of 94 professors, instructors and fellows
who hold 131 various degrees from 73
different institutions of higher learning.
Twenty-nine of the 131 degrees con-
ferred upon members of the faculty are
the coveted Doctor of Philosophy
awards while 10 of the total number of
degrees that Rice faculty members hold
are awards that have been granted by
foreign institutions of learning.
As is to be expected) Rice ranks first
in the list of colleges and universities
that have conferred degrees to present
faculty members, for 22 of the 131
awards have boen given by the Insti- j ditional expenses
tute. The fact that Rice is often called | - —~—
the "Harvard of the South" may be 1 - T jV i .
partially explained by the fact that 11 | Ul". l jCcll' OpeflKS At
of tho degrees now held by the Insti- ... o •
Armistice session
degrees now held by
tutc's faculty have been awarded by
the Massachusetts institution of higher
learning.
Princeton and Cornell have each
awarded 5 degrees to the members of
the faculty while Ohio Wesleyan, Chi-
cago, Wooster, Pennsylvania, California,
Tech, Illinois and Texas have each con-
ferred 3 degrees to members of the In-,,
stltute's present faculty.
An interesting feature of the present
faculty of Rice la the fact that all of
the important 'Institutions of higher
learning of the state, S. M. U., Texas,
T. C. U., Texas A. & M„ and Baylor are
included in the list of universities and
colleges that have conferred degrees to
the Institute's present roster.
Sammy Caused Terrific Battle of
Rice and Aggie Students in 1917
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Citt;i|''U> rtr-rii;:! I at? • ii t
Woiiiij- ;irdt iuvi-ti; ':.. r.
l-'-i-au.so who felt i. (i : .ii. i'o
,?perat.{,in el; tho1 >rloyijiitr:.:; i.'; A t
homI.i\tnontiog ki • (i I , ,
Allen and £d WiVlitmis ! j'-led-v
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By WILLIAM POLLARD
r\r !- • -XT XVT . I Sammy, or to be explicit, Sammy II
Ot nice Y. W. C. A. is the lineal dependent of a doughty
old bird who. although living only a
Dr. F. S. Lear, assistant professor of
history at Rioe, was speaker at the
Armistice Day meeting of the Rice Y.
W. C. A. held on Wednesday, Novem-
ber 9, 1932, at 5:30 in the reading room
of St. Paul's Methodist Church. Carolyn
Foulks sang for the gathering.
Eppie Quicksall, treasurer of tho or-
ganization. made a report of the money
made by the club at their bridge party
held at Autry house on October 27.
Mary Jacqueline OUphint and Alberta
Riesen, secretary, were hostesses at the
meeting.
few short weeks, made glorious his-
tory way hack in the days when Rice
was young.
In 1927 Sammy I was constructed By
architectural students and served as a
mascot at basketball games. One
night, at a name with A. & M. in '17,
support, of: the .cJnrir't, i-v
tq :,:lVIisKWo'ods. '■.hnd :as ;;
On the night of January 19 the Owl: accepted the promotion
I th.«|
•ph'ijiV'Ves,
lit she.-r,
ViHSfca
Protective Association, with thirteen president.
charter members, arrived at College j From what Thresher rep,,i ter-- have
Station. Two of them, dressed in been able to tineovev, the Houston
khaki, assumed authority as sergeants co-ed is the first girl ever to hold tho
nnd made n midnight inspection of office. of president of ifhy class at
tho college dormitories. They search-! Rice Institute. Rice has a tradition;
ed over 400 rooms but returned to;t„ elect a girl vice president of oach
Houston empty handed, dismayed at class, but this year's fitnuipe turn of
not being able to locate the bird. 'affairs give Miss Woods the new
A detective was stationed at Col- j honor.
Sammy's charm failed and Rice was lego Station and on January 30 the; A vice president will not be elected
defeated. He was left in solitude at
the auditorium nnd later in the night,
hilarious A. & M. students, who told
the watchman they were Rico men,
bore him gleefully off to College Sta-
tion.
Q. P. A. received a wire saying. | until George Allen has investigated
"Sammy is fairly well and would liko; tho correct procedure to follow in
to see his parents at eleven tonight." ( case of a vice presidential vacancy.
Seventeen "Daddies", two Fords, and j Plans for the sophomore I all to be
a Hudson Super#!* answered the call, held on February 9 will be started at
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