The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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FRIDAY, MABCH «, 1939
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W. J. Godsey—member of the Engi-
neering Society,; A. L E. E.—A senior
Electrical—known to some as Billy and
iBIiil others as Holywater—repairs radios
' for the dorin boys, and does right "well
at it (Adv't)—lives in West Hall at
the present time but tomes from Beau-
mont—a chubby little fellow who talks
more and says less than I do—likes to
dance and makes just about all of
them (not the girls, the dances) —
doesn't own a car, doesn't smoke
cigars, doesn't get tight, doesn't rave
about the girls, doesn't—etc.—what
does he do? You can't write anything
about a guy like that.
Erich Schlcser—Member of the En-
gineering Society, A. S. M, T. and the
Band,—a Senior M. E.—known as Ezry
or, more recently as Bromo—Comos
from Free port and lives 'way Up in
the tower of West Hall—likes pitcher
shows but does not drink, smoke,
chew, dance or swear—any vices to
which he may be addicted are prac-
ticed under cover.
This column is getting lousy—but
then you did not have to read it,
lemma know if you wartt a writeup—
and maybe there are others who could
do better. Nuts!
Mirror
The Junior Prom, according to all
who attended it, was one of the best
that has ever been given. Everybody
seemed to enjoy Glenn Lee's orches-
tra, which played for the dance. There
was a bigger crowd than usual at
the Prom, including several members
of the faculty. In honor of Dr. and
Mrs. Altenburg, who were there, the
orchestra played "Mr. and Mrs, Is the
Name". For Dr. Pattie, who was also
present, it played the song, "Alone".
So now the Junior Prom, towards
which very many students have look-
ed for a long time, is over for another
year.
The basketball game Saturday night
with S. Mi U. was a washout. All the
spectators were very disappointed in
seeing such a sorry exhibition of bas-
ketball as that, During the game Spot
Owen accidentally (we hope) stuck
his olbow in the jaw of Tipton, an S.
M. U. player. Evidently Spot's apology
was satisfactory to Tipton, though, for
the latter soon smiled after exchang-
ing a few words with Spot, and they
parted agreeably.
The game Monday night wi h T. C.
U. Was another sorry spectacle. It
seemed to me (even though I admit
that I am no judge of the sport) that
half of the time the T. C. U. team
seemed very vague about just exactly
what they were trying to do. The
players on the team made wild throws
both at the basket and at each other.
Consequently, the spectators were
quite disgusted with the game, even
though Rice did win. During the game
"Treetop" Kelly made an impressive
sight as he bade good-bye to his team
mates after being callcd out of the
game because of personal fouls. He
made the rounds of shaking hands
with every ona of them, since it was
I ho last game of his career at Rice.
He was loudly acclaimed by the audi-
ence as he Went to the sidelines. This
was the last game for three other
seniors: R. T. Eaton, Harry Witt, and
Henry Bollman.
Many of the lookers-on had a good
laugh when "Dusty" Boggess. the
stouter of the two referees, had to
run as fast as possible to escape get-
ting in the . way of the ball that was
heading straight for him. Between the
halves there was an exhibition of bad-
minton by Thomas Ryall, a Rice stu-
dent in Engineering from Vancouver,
Canada, and Jim Davis, a former stu-
dent at Queen's College in Kingston,
On ario. It was the first time that
many of the audience had ever seen
the game played: and evcryona seem-
ed to take a grcai interest in it. Un-
fortunately the match had to be stop-
ped before the two Canadians had fin-
ished, but it had lasit'd long enough
to give everyone a good example of
expert playing.
The other night I had a dream that
The Thresher staff had a big party and
that everybody present had a grand
time getting very drunk. 1 It seems
that we all had far too good a tim?,
though, for the police soon cams in to
arrest us for disturbing the poace. The
dream faded out just as I was watch-
ing John Costley trying to p?:-nu :cb
the police that we were pDrfic ly
•hurmlesa. I certainly hope tha: John
doesn't disturb niy drcatns liko hat
r«a!n!
And then thera is tha story of two
Rice boys who wire very tight one
hight and wo:j slopped by a cop whib
riding in their car. It happened that
they were on Main Street right oppa-
si'e the Autry House. Tha cop asked,
"What's your name?" to tha driver of
the car. "House, sir," answered the
boy. "What's your first name?" "—Uh
Why worry when you break your
Fountain Pen of Pencil? J ltd take ll
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Art Features Museum
Exhibition of Mrs. John
E.B.L.S.
Next Wednesday at the Autry House
the E. B. L. S, will sponsor a book re-
view by Mrs. A. P, MeKillop. Ar-
rangements for the review were an-
nounced Tuesday at the meeting of the
club at the homo of Mary Crain.
Miss Crain was nominated by the
club for queen of the May Fete.
By PAULINE LECHENGER
The exhibition of forty paintings by
Grace Spaulding John, which opened
at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Sunday, should be ol more than ordi-
nary interest to students of Rice Insti-
tute, It is interesting, among other
reasons, because it is the work of the
mother of John John, student In the
Engineering department at Rice.
The pictures were made last summer
while Mrs. John was touring the
West Coast of Mexico. Newspaper ar-
ticles published last summer in Hous-
ton gave a running account of the ad-
ventures she had while producing the
work shown in this collection.
The work portrays a part of Mexico
which is as yet unspoiled by the casual
traveler. Here plod the patient bur-
ros; here grow palms in patios; here
Indian women lift jars of water to their
shoulders While they stop for a gos-
sip at the ancient well heads! Students,
in architecture will be interested in the
doors and windows and overhanging
eaves of this west country as shown in
the canvasses. The arches and corri-
dors of palaces, ages old, where burros
are now stables, suggest Italy.
There is nothing blurred about these
pictures. They are definite statements
put down in a sure au ographic line.
One feels that Mrs. John is always
drawing when she paints, for she fre-
quently uses a brush line which a pen-
cil might produce.
This is most evident in a canvass
named "Chiquito Burrito". It is really
a drawing in sepia oil paint on natural
linen canvass. The little burro presses
close to the mothers side, the delicate
white accents of ears and nose suggest-
ed by a slight touch of this paint.
The large picture called "Plaza at
Patzcuaro" might illustrate the theme
of that song "Music Goes Round and
Round". The composition begins with
the well-head and goes around the
Plaza and around the walk and up the
trees and across the trees' and down a
tree and at the bottom, following the
line of burros at the bottom, comes
ou' "right here." '
Mrs. John has made four painting
trips to Old Mexico spending months
in one small village learning the peo-
ple, the patios, and the "patois". Her
paintings, show her thorough acquain-
tance with her subject matter.
Another of Mrs. John's exhibits on
Mexico is traveling the Museums of
the Western Cities. Last summer,
through the months of August and Sep-
tember, Houston visitors to the Los An-
geles Museum were pleased to find a
whole roomful cf their own local ar- ;
tist's work. |
This show will be here until!
the twenty-second of March.
Mott-Smith—
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ena, even such a commonplace one as
lighting an electric lamp. (Sic) The
electron is a bit of negative electric-
ity, or is said to have a negative
charge. Its weight Is considerably less
than that of the proton, about one
two-thousandth of it. Its shape and
dimensions also suffer from the Sams
indefiniteness.
Tlie photon Is the unjt of radiant
energy, that is it is a particle of elec-
tromagnetic radiation such as light,
x-rays, and radio-waves. A source Of
radiation, an incandescent filament,
for example, must be thought of as
sending out photons in all directions,
and these constitute what we term
electromagnetic radiation. The pho-
ton's properties are considerably dif-
f rent from those of protons and elec-
trons. One of Its pecularities is that
it has existence only when traveling
with the speed of light. It can how-
ever bo considered as having weight
and dimensions, though its weight is
not a definite unchanging quantity but
depends on its enetgy, and its dimen-
sions are even more nebulous than
those of the other particles since they
depend on where the photon is and
what it happens to be doing.
In 1932, however, two additional
such particles Were discovered and the
existence of a third "made probable.
Tho first of the newly discovered
particles is called the neutron. Its dis-
covery is credited to the young English
physicist James Chadwick, working at
the famous Cavendish laboratory at
Cambridge.
The second newly discovered particle
if the positive electron, discovered by
ft young American physicist, Dr. Carl'
D. Anderson.
The last of the Hew particles is
called the neutrino. The existence of
this particle cannot be considered to |
be nearly so well established as the;
first two. The neutrin# can bo con-
sidered to be the child of the Italian
physicist Fermi, who gave it its name,
meaning small neutron. English
speaking scientists tiled to anglicise
the name to neutret, but their attempts
met with no success.
"Thus in the space of three years
the number of atomic building blocks
that the physicists have to play with
has doubled. These discoveries are
naturally matters of great importance
for the development of physical sci-
encc, because evidently one can not
make much progress in understanding
completely the behavior of matter if
some of its constituent basic parts re-
main unknown," Doctor Mott-Smith
said.
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—Autry House," "Oh," said the cop,
jotting it down on a piece of paper.
"Rice student, eh? And where do you
live, House?" "At 6285 Main." So the
cop pulled out a city directory and
looked—sure enough—Au'ry House—
S265 Main. He then lectured the boys
and said that he was going to Write
a note to the Dean; and the students
went merrily on their way.—Or am I
crazy?
As most, of the space of the Mirror
is used in making corrections, I'd like
o make a minor correction. In the
Mirror of February 21 there was a
mistake in the arrangement of the ini-
tials of one of the better known en-
gineering professorj. I refer to Pro-
fessor Burr. The mistake runs like
his. "Professor A. H. Burr (common-
ly known to the engineers as Br'er
Rabbit) . . The mistake was called
to my atteii ion by sora? of the engi-
neers that took it rather hard that
their prof shouM be so misrepresi i-
:d. His initials are "H. A." That's
how all the engineers know and love
him.
At the Junior Prom the dear pro-
fessors were definitely on hand. There
is some hing right fine about an af-
Watchcs rr paired and regulated in
18 hours. No hiorc waiting 1 to 2
weeks. It will B. O, K. if from B. O.
Krcitcr, Kress Bldg. Lobby.
fair that the profs attend, It seems to
remove soma of that doubt In the stu-
dents' minds that is ever-present and
that is that the professors are lacking
in humanity, human nature, milk of
human kindness, or call it what you
care to. The fact appears that the
profs are rather human and are loathe
to talk shop as much as anyone else
that has a "shop". Anyone who was
disposed to notice will agree that Pat- !
tie wasn't talking about monkeys
reaching for bananas, Camden wasn't
worried about Hamlet or the story of
Job. It's a shame that we can t get
Iho professors out to anything but the
Junior Prom. Time was about five
years. iy*o that Dr. Altenburg and sev-
eral others of the Professorial St f
used to make the Saturday night j
dances. But, of couise, Time changes,
all. t
The news leaked oul, al hough' over
« week old. that Mr. Waters of the
L!. E. Department is expect:d to leave !
hi' position as Professor of Electr'cal
Engineering. It appears that sc ma' of
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