The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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THE BICE THRESH88
ESTABLISHED 1916
The Thresher, official newspaper of students at the Rice Insti-
tute, Houston, is published weekly the last two weeks in September
and from October to May, inclusive, except during examinations and
holiday periods.
Entered as second class matter, October 17, 1916, at the postof-
fice in Houston, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip-
tion price: By mail, one year, $2.00. Payable in advance.
Campus office: 104 Administration Building. Downtown office:
1513Vfc Austin, Phone Capitol 0216.
l?J7 Member 19)1
Associated Golle&iate Press
Distribu ter of
Gollebiate Di6est
GENE SISK
■ , Editor .
BILL ROODE
Business Manager
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FRANCIS COLLINS
Assistant Editor
. JACK HANKS'
Ass't Business Mgr.
EDITOR
J. 26294
PHONES
Downtown Office
Capitol 0216
/ BUSINESS MANAGER
J. 25335
Juno 2-3: Issue Caps and Gowns*
8 a.m. to 5 frffiu Thrwhw office,
MM A- ft
June 3: Banquet, 7:30 pan. at San
Jacinto Inn.
jtiuie 4: American, 10 sum. to 2 p.m.,
Rice Roof, Eddie FlUpatrlck and
orchestra.
June 5: Baccalaureate Sermon, 9
a.m.. Chemistry Courts.
June 6: Commencement, 9 a.m..
Chemistry Courts.
President's Garden Party, 5 p.m. to
7 p.m.. Academic Courts.
Final Ball, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., Bice
Terrace, BUI Bardo and or-
chestra.
New officers of the Bice Y.
were installed at Palmer
Chapel l^fedtjasday afternoon in an im
pressive ceremony.
Mary Virginia Hail, retiring presi-
dent, gave the charges to Barbara
Myers, incoming president, Evie Matt,
first vice-president. Mary Petrie, sec-
ond vice-president, Betty Fitch, sec-
retnrv, Mildred Eberspacher, treasurer,
and Sarah Cotropra, reporter.
Mary Petrie responded to the charge
on behalf of the officers, and Joanne
Storm responded for the club mem-
bers. Lorene Garrison furnished the
music for the processional and follbw-
ing service.
Barbara Myers has appointed the
following members of her cabinet:
Martha Clark Smith, program ehair-
mani Joanne Storm, publicity chair-
man: Jessie Belle Schmidt, social
chairman: Jean Rote, social service
chairman; Mary Aline Earhart, library
chairman: Helen Sullivan, telephone
chairman; and Juanita Foster Eliza-
beth Steele, and June Willrich, public
affairs. 1 l| limWH I 1
The full cabinet and lesser com-
mittees are not to be chosen until the
opening of school next fall.
Get your watches, clocks, bracelets,
chains, etc., from B. O. Krelter, Kress
Bid*. Lobby.
PEIPAY, MAY 80, 1938
SILL SARS^O
(Continued From Page 1)
EDITORIAL STAFF
Barbara Myers ,
Ethel Blooiiiiicld ... .. ..
Joanne Storm
Dorothy Pike .
Norman East
Louis Jacobs
Henry Dunlap
Ruby Le'e; Bfesiky
Billit* Byors. Martha Farmer
C'barli-s Uodd Richard Bunks, Irving Shapley.
Robert Murphy .
Reporters Mary Jane Weyrich, Gordon Oldham,
Blewetl Chenault, Vlinn ('.erber. Irl Mowery
Murphy Join's
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It V S I N ESS
(), D Wvatt
(.'l.uide
J errs ; Morohev.■
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am
S T A F F
Associate
president, who announced that the
dunce committee Had secured Bill
Bardo and his orchestra, al >n« with
his variety revue, for the Final Ball
from 10 to 2 on June IS at the Rice
Terrace.
Bardo will come here straight from
! his engagement in the Century Room
: of the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas. His
: reheatra will, be one of the finest to
jplav at a Rice dance this year.
Will Perry, chairman of the cap and
gown committse, stated that caps and
mwiis would be issued to seniors on
June .2 arid 3 from 9 a nt. to 5 p. m.
•<ach day in the Thresher office, 104 A.
H. A charge of $3.50 is made for the
u>e of the caps a^td g*>wns. This
amount must be paid at the time the
Can and sown is obtained.
Cruse also urged that seniors pay
their class dues $5.00, covering the
cost of the American, the banquet, and
the Final Bull, immediately to anyone
loi the live members of the dance corn-
'mittee, A. R. Mace. Bill Rhgde. Harold
Hack, Herbert May. or Cruse himself.
Sports The functions will start on the night
of Friday, June It at, San Jacinto Inn
it 7(30 with the annual banquet. This ;
Pratt, |-,imc,ut.t is f[,r fpniors and their dates
only The following morning from 10
Earlv Bird '• ! • dntil 2 P m. the Senior American
will hold sway on the Rice Roof. Eddie
orchestra,
Managing Editor
Associate Editor
Copy Editor
Copy Editor
Copy Editor
Editoralist
Literary Editor
. News Editor
LiiiSiliiS Society
Juhn Naschke.
Nancy
Fitzoatrick 1 and his
who
op! ned this week on the Roof fof'
Business Manager 'vnulnr. engagement, will play for this
Sales Promotion da tips which annually is one of the
Advertising Manager oti-tstanding of ilie affairs. Anyone
may come to this as well as to the
"i7. Final H. 111
BE GOOD ALUMNI, SENIORS
■' i.'i.U iltlii. h'jTS i ;ri •;,ra i.*.. • ,ii u* . i: ii .■ i ,c'i.,:! !
anii unns rupe, inerawr qi im,\ ciuss ul a^iana now '*• • — v ' *r
ie executive board of the Alumni Association. The §§l,n-
,, n , <• T. i, ,, , , ,,. i MtSfi Monday atternc.i.n the seniors
. R. Mace. Sam Cj use, jBlU Rodgfcj L'.<l Ptancis. W ll- w« ^ rec,,jvc(j j}r Edaar Odell
I nveli. president <if Hice Institute. at
flu President's Garden Party. Only
Seniors and their oarents lire invited
it) this function The Final Bill 1 Mon- !
day night will close the exercises.
Dn Sunday. June 5 at !):00 a. iri in
~ tin Chemistry Courts the Baecolaur-
l.a.,t Monday ni^lit at tlie Autr\' Mouse I atlended a meeting ■ ,.s« Sermon will he preached by the j
a.i"Og with seven other members of tile senior class, Wt^ldon Caba- v Br. Jo?eph Richard Sizoo.
iiKs, cxi-ctitive secretary of the Alumni Association. Clarence Wade- At the same time and place on Mon-
ma.tii In:-inei president of the Alumm Assoeialion and member of d:.v. June ti the Commencement ad-
thi- class of '21. and Chris Pope, member of the. class of '32 and now %v,tl lrt' delivered by Dr. George
a member et the i
a nio|||]jVc|n' .A.
Ham Baird. Billy Re.ed. llvirnld Rack, and inyseit.
The meeting was in emmeclinn witlt the alumni's ;'Build a Build-
in;.- ' pi'ogratn ui-iginafed in 192K. There are few of the seniors that
.iiiything in detail a'ljoul this program uijE ihe alumni. In 192S
• iuring the term of Mr, Wademan as president of the association, the
iJ mini decided to d<> sono-iliing really worthwhile for Rice Institute
iu show Hieir appreciation of the training they had received. Each
alutijiui was asked to pledge what.' he was able, to do toward a fund
>•! ■ a'i.einally at aV.>out .So<M).0(Mt ||r a building'to fimsh the east side
of tie. quadrangle, attaching on 1o the Aduanistration Building ;(> d 'he toli..win« year served as a
, /-nil i .i i : niissio'iijirv in South India. From 1911
1 lie depressK.in lolloweil and as a r<-sult the program planned , ,r,.- , , ,,
... , i .; i ,-. , , •, i , ' ,„V.L |#i llii'i he was mnuster of the rirst
ougmall',, act onimfl t< \\lnch Ihe Junff v, uula be completeti in 1942. njJjMmh Walden ifpf) W. and frorn 1917
Could not be folkiwi rl At iKe'present tunc tile fund lias reached • . 1904 served as minister of the -See-
8.'!2,OD0. In an elfort In complete this fund ihe Alumni Association -nd Church. Somervillc. N. J., which
plan's 1o put through a drive. ^Uirling With the present senior class he left to become minister of the New
aral ineluding ail .durimt and other es-students of Rice, between Avenue Presvterian Church in
now .mil fhe animal Homecoming, which will be held next October D c A ycar ilt:o ht' '''ft
22 at the ffiri:e ,of the Riee-Texas football game, that will be ealcu-
lateii lo'tmisii: Ihe fund witi.'m ti n iwore 'yeiirsi'' v.;
NEW YORK
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iC:aitima H 1- nun Page 1)
a..
fill!...
; Washinctoh to lake: charge of the Col-
legiate/Church :bf St Nicholas, in . New
York. During the war he, served over-
fcvely 'vllimw' June iiI Ihe p|ffi||||, to take what 'oas as ae Army chaplain in Y. M. C.
,i,nl he ean in this. As Mr. Cabuniss said. "'Good alumni are made A service. He is a member of the ;
w h ile theV' ;iVre sJudenis, nol afttif I hey get out of school." Everv- -A-nu". ii'jm Archaeological Society, and .
on, 1* now that the vounger an alumnus is. if is probable that the lJss ,jl '!"? C.'"s'n']s Nat.onal Press clubs
. , , Washinglon. Dr. Sizoo's books m-
n vail be .ible to contribute Anyone can, make a pledge of $10 l,lu(1(, -Abrahani Lmc.oln. A Heritage '
.•■iUioul iiMssing it f rom his salary, however. 'J hat Sum will n"' M1d H.,pe.' "William Jennings Hry-
.eiioiiUit, 'I:.,) linueii, if all alumnK or - a Rood portion of Ihen'i^-each an," ''Where Abraham 'Lincoln Went;
< .'.ait ri bill ted what Thi:y'"would1; it, Wiiiukllje casyrtd obtain thi* neces- *t| Church," "The Kingdom Cometh,"
:-ary lutuK * "The Faiths of the World and Our
ftyery aiyjimus shordd i.e preeui to take part in .loini; something !,
v.svrt'h.while for bis ahnaymater; VVliile at Rice,.no student/pays any %*" Pn7?~
,,, , • ,, , K,S®I . 1 . • •. dent. Norltn, was borh m Concordia,
tmlion .Hire Institute anntuillly spends over SMO per student just Kansas April. x ,871. He -firaduuted. •
to Opij'Htt the School i"he aiuount s^ent, by the school during tinder- j Bachelor of Aits from Hastings Col-
.graiiiliife veal's thus amounts to a: liargi:; sum, The mont<tary angle, lew m 1893. and received the degree,of
j>eci:'fjSjEiri|y the ' chief reason . for want- Doctor of Philosophv from the Univer-
iny to1 ■'lielp : the ItLsUfute. f| we who have been through Rice •si,y■ Chicago in 1900, studying later
and fibl.oned (ieureo.s1 wish lo see our school retain its high standing, lllF' ^"'honne, Paris.
Colorado Col-
our decrees retHin their value and importajice to us. we will '.have • ll?'\0Ia',v Do<,"j
'7, . , , rtV, 1 1 r 11 t i'W '>• Daws nv 1920, and he received
to see that n eonimues to grow. The burden of the growth of 1 ; tj,c, SMni(,
seiiool is on the alumni, As >-et this group is cb.nipa'ratively young 0f
degree from the University
fj 1- 'he folibwrng year In
and unable t(;r do large things individdally, but collectively it is: pos- .j i9'12 Columbia University gave him the
si hie for them to do eonsiderahle. 1 ! degree of Doctor of Letters. Dr. Nor-
Pledgo ttards will be distributed to seniors someti.he before Co.ni-:!'lntlwf S^f^' §'£r^ ^Hbtings
4 "m v, 4l 1 , f t ,f / , . ^ Collect', 189.5-96; Follow in Grt'ek at
inencement. lurn them in with a pledge if possible, tf not lef the lh(< university of Chicago 1896-99- and
officers of ihe tdumni know if you would like: to take advantage of Professor of Greek at the University!
this opportunity later to: do Sflhiething for the school that has done of, Colorado since, 1919. He'served as i
.10 much for you. Let till of us who are seniors' now begin to lie good,' acting President o'f the University of
tlumni,
WOLCOTT -
fC'mUinicd From Page 1)
v.'.jii ihe junior A A. U. 4-10 cham-
pionship. Ivan Jones will .compete in
•sjie two flashes with Steaklev and may!
ion the 440 flash These two dash men
1 an one two iu ihe 22!) of the eohfer-
erice meet. Sleakley'.s Us!'lime is 20.8
Mcohds. II he can repeat or bettor
I hat he will he a threat lor the first
place honors
Calvin Bell, star Owl middle distance
man who won both the mile and half
mile in Ihe conference meet, will run
Colorado in 1917-18. and has been
--•Gene Sisk. President since 1919. In the year 1932- j
J3 ho was Roosevelt Professor of;
American Life and Institutions at the
Patterson will compel,., in the 440- •V"™'™* "< Berlin and in 1934 was
vard hurdles m Ihe A A L!. meel The We,1 lecturer at the University of
Rice captam has nevvr been beaten North Card^in.-r Dr. Norlm is an
in this event, holding the present A. 'tc,',r 1,10 of F;"T' n,trust^
A. U. championship. In the fntcrcol- lt"' Carnegie Foundation for the
legiiil.es Patterson . will compete With ■.«« Teaching, member of
Wolcott in the highs and lows. These fh' "ola K«nOTl nnad of various
two hurdlers form one of the greatestlo,1Pnrtl f,nd ^ueational societies. Be-
|H-ir of tiinber toppers eVer running to
get her.
Sanders, who is expected to be back
in too shape by the time of these
meets, will run his 440-yard specialty-
Paul set a new
4?f seconds flat
sides contributing to popular and
i scientific journals he has published the
following books: "Integrity in Educa-
tion and Other Papers," "Fascism and
Citizen.shi(i." "Hitlerslm M- Why and
Whither," "Nationalism in Education."
conference record of has edited and translated into
1937 in winning the, English works t)f Isocrates, ' ' ''
only Hie, latter. In the confereutie meet ' cen-fe'rcrtce'-tjti'h'rter milei This year K© J ^ • ••«, ' •• TTTT
, J , 111 . 1 1 ,i ! Watches repaired and regulated in
he set a new *co,d of 1 54 2 and j hurt his leg and had hot had the op- j ^ h#|I|% Nf| ^ ^ , (o 2
Brunson believes he caii better that i portunily to round into top form by j weeks. Ft will B. O. K. If from B. 0.
easily ' the conference meet, ! Krelter, Kress Bldff. Lobby.
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Enjoyed Serving you this season,
Will welcome you back this fall—
Serving1 Bice Students for the Past 10 Years
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