The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1939 Page: 1 of 4
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The Rice Institute
Student Weekly Publication
Vuluxnp XXIV
HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939
Number 17
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Hard Struggle Due Tomorrow Night
As Bears and Owls Both Battle
To Retain One-Tilt Loss
Only u few points out of first place In ctmfurence competition,1
the Rice Owls engage the Baylor Hears tomorrow night at the City
Auditorium. With both the Bruins and the feathered flock fi^htin^i
to keep up with the fast pace set by Southern Methodist Universi-
ty, the game should be one of the best on the local schedule.
While a defeat would not entirely eliminate Rice from con-j
sideration as a conference contender, title hopes which are burn- \tJ 00 000 Of A Second
ing brightly now would be re-
ABSTRACT BY
A fumiliur domestic process—
housewife drops an t>ug into the fry-
inn )' "—the egg crack*—and tin*
one oiie-hundred-thousandth of a sw'-
oiul exposure (levice built by Bob
Walt. Hill l'a.viu'. and Hill Bremer
stops tlu> process for the eye and
shows the shell parting under the
impact.
The second picture shows the
shell in I he last stages of falling
apart, while the egg splashes over
the pan.
The apparatus is not a camera it-
self, but produces a bright, rapid
flash for photographing with an or-
dinary camera.
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tluced to a mere flicker should
Baylor come out with the de-
cision.
Rice's only defeat so far has been
at the hands of the league-leading:
Mustangs. Baylor likewise has one
black mark, inflicted by Texas Uni-
versity.
Comparative records show that Uay-
lor run over Texas Christian by a
wide margin, while Rice had consid-
erable trouble Saturday night with
the same team.
The Frogs, however, have shown
much improvement over their early
seasfjn form. A
The Bears' loss to Texas coupled
with Rice's victory over the Long-
horns may furnish a better index of
the comparative strengths of the
teams.
Leading Buster Brannon's quintet
will be poker-faced Frank Carswell,
who is at present setting the pace
for the individual scorers in the con-
ference with 5S> tallies. Levi Crad-
dock and Placido Gome'/., two other
point-makers of no mean ability,
should also play important parts in
Rice's offensive.
The probable, starting line-ups ure:
Rice: Gomez and Craddock; Steakley,
center; and Hyman and Carswell,
guards. Baylor: Terry and Creasy,
forwards; Bryski, center; and Vaughn
and Shahan, guards.
-By F.A.C.-
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Achieved By Watt,
Bremer, Payne
DR* GARRISON i A eameia flashlight which pro-
. IS 'PIlKUSHMf ! exposure 'time of ohe-hund- j
j red-thousandth of a second, fast
In collaboration with Chester §|M| t!i„ st"1' " aml
more rapidly moVm#.'ohii'cLs, is the
Baker of the Philadelphia Quartz | t.,t,ati6h of Calm.m r|u„ members |
Company. Dr. Allen D. Garrison, as-; Bob Watt, Bill i^aync,' and Bill Bit-{
sistant profess^" of chemical engi-1 mer.
peering and physical chemistry, has ! Payne broached the subject at the
published the abstract, "The Chemi-
cal Control of Heaving Shale, Part
I," in the January issue of Petroleum
Engineer.
Dr. Garrison, who" reefc.iyed his doc-
tor's degree,from Rice in 1921, is a
member of the American Chemical
Society, Society of Associate Engi-
neers, and Sigma Xi.
The abstract is accompanied by
two data ables and eight photogra-
phic ahd graphical illustrations. It
Was formally presented at the -No-
vember !• to 1 r session of the Anicri-
ean Institute of Chemical Engineers
iii Philadelphia and published in the
December issijti of that group's jour-
nal.
Subsequent parts of the paper will
be published in coming issues of the
Petroleum Engineer.
—- ' IMI|M|I
CHARLES GREEN
GIVES TALK TO
MEDICAL GROUP
Silver (lets t Bushels
kear F. A. C„
Notice that I'm calling you dear
this time, since we're really getting
to lie a couple of old friends, and all
over a couple of math problems. Well
chum, in order that the honor of
Math 210 remain unblemished, I sat
me down in a light room with the
'■i light off and worked the "posier
posy."
Just to show you that I am an in-
dependent thinker, I did not follow
your suggestion of sittingdown in
a dark room with the light on. After j
sweating for 4 minutes and :I2 sec- j
onds by my trusty Big Bun, 1 came j
out with the following solution:
If p horses eat q bushels in r days,
q/r—buxhels per day eaten by p
horses.
t|/pr—bushels per day eaten by-
one horse.
H/q/rpr^number of days for 1
horse to eat I bushels—rpt/q.
rpt/ps—number of days for s
horses to cat t bushels.
1 always did like horses, so I hope
my solution -will help keep Silver
from going1 hungry. In conclusion,
let me say that if you're looking for
for more .popy posies, you won't have
to go any farther than the Math
Dr. Charles C. Green, Houston
physician, Friday night at Autry
House addressed the Pro-Medical So-
ciety on the "Diagnosis and Treat-
ment of Cancer,1'
He listeil the developments made in
the last generation in dealing with
cancer, and pointed out the decline
in mortality in cancer cases.
As a sequel to the discussion of
ethics which the society held two
weeks ago, Dr. Green also talked on
professional ethics, pointing out sev-
eral considerations gained from many
years of observation.
Eliott Sharp, president, announced
that an important business, meeting
of the society will be held at Autry
House February 17, the first Friday
after examination.
Camera t' 1 u 11 weeks ago, and furnish-1
ed much of the enthusiasm; Bremer j
'supplied most ft® the equipment used |
in the construction; and Watt con-1 graphing itself, but is me)ely a > flowing from a laboratory fauset to
tributod the largest! part of the work .source of light for pictures to be j stand still to the eye. Retaining the
on the assembling of the device. j made with an ordinary camera. The j visual impression ; of the flash for a
Dr. H. A. Wilson^ professor of | brilliant blue flash it emits lasts only j tenth of a second, the eve "sees" the
physics, -helped the projeH to a sue-jone one-hundred-thousandth of a see-! water nearly all the time, but ?ihCe
cessful conclusion by giving Bob the-jond, hut is so intense that it register- lit':In is reflected from the water" for
uso of a small laboratory in the iti that time on sensitive film. ! only a small -fraction of a second, the
physics building and furnishing some When sot to flash at intervals as eyv gets no .impression of '.motion,
electrical equipment from the physics rapidly as it. can, the spark jumps ! The, device , is composed of an old
department. j several times a second. Ill the dark headlight refleetbr,, a couple of iop-i
The machine does not do tile photo- room this cause 'h stream of watei ' (Turn to Page If Number 2),
SIGMA XI TO
HOLD SMOKER
FEBRUARY 17
February 17 has been set as the
ditte of the first social affair of Sig-
ma Xi, honorary scientific society,
this1 season,
The affair will be in the. form of a
smoker, at which, a five-reel motion
picture on natural science will be
shovyi. The pictures.', we're. sentfrdni
the American Museum of Natural
History iii New: York City.
March Si the society will entertain
! Dr. Alfred C. Lane, professor of
geology at Tuft.S !(!'olleg'e, Massachu-
setts, who is on a lecttlri tour of the
t'liited States this spring. Dr. Lane's
topic Mil f («• "Does' MotherEarth
Show Her Age?"
Officers (if the, society are Dr. Asa
C. Chandler. president; Dl". George
H. Kieht'er, secretary; Dr. J. ,11.,
Pound, trotisurer; Dr. Harry B|
Weiser. Dr. Hubert E. Bray, Dr. Har-
old A. Wilsoiti, and Dr. Claude W.
Heaps, executive board.
Gold Brick Excuses
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Out, Say Bernard,
* * * * *
Hargrove1 Maybe
Foulks, Jimmy Francis, Jim Tilton,:c|vair of Frt'iich Literature at, the
Butler Pei i\mill, El. Schaffer, J. 11. r,,iVl.,Soi'liolfo m France
Pearls l« Hie, O. 1>. Wyatt Bates . •
f„, , .. .. .. ;-v, , I where .Mr. J,3fHWWi;>i.s! .will- -camptate
1 nomas, Hero Norsworthy> Charles,
Mosor, Jack Hanks, Carey King,' lviri I
Hlackljiirii Smith, ,David Saunders, —: "|i|ife M|aja ^ !
Koss M.-Kee, Bob Cooke, Guy Jack- _ ^ ^ /1 it/\i iti
Siiti, William \V,iiod, Joe. M,cyeiv Frank:! V- WOKA.L uKvUl
i.ioiig,;;!1Eliot Ernst,, rt'DiiviW Farn.'S- plans to elect
"is ii; new officers
''Meeting the first Mondav altiw
club for girls ! final exam'inatiiMis at 7:80 p. m. in
hears stevens ^ cmi, win
talk monday elect, new officers and practice
! songs, according to Secretary Fran-
| "I couldn't blame London for ask- self," he said in , answer to an vfe- M.uy Lucile Stevens presented -a! ees Flanagan,
ing, and I couldn't blame Washington, spoktin question. "Nearly all of them talk on "A Family Background" at At the meeting monday night, the
'Don't Blame London
:> MM
Absolutely no excuSes will be ae
(■(■pled1 from absentees, but Harjj-roye
and Bernard might listen.
Furthermore, conditions have be
come so bad that for the "past, two
basketball games , the patrons who
came in late spent [the rt'st of. the
night AvandcViug around muttering
somt'lhinb alj.out the usehjssness t)f it
all. And it's hbrd not!:to blaiiie the
cash customers for muttering when
all they can fihd in their1 Seats} is a
row! of Rally Club members. So titrai
for the next game is 7 p. m. Satar-
day at the t'ity Auditorium.
■ And these meiubers are expected
to lie, there:; Clyde Hargrove, A1 Par-
ish, Elliott Sharp, Dick Leigh, Jimmy
BOURGEOIS
ELECTED TO
FRENCH GROUP
Recognition of his1' ^publication of
"Iialhiiies Ltmijsia.ilJtiH.es"' has resulted
in the t'lc'.ction of Andre Bourgeois
to 'membership in "La Sdriete, des
Gefis TO 'Lettres: tie Ft ane'e," -tlu So-'!!
ciety Men 'f Le,tter!s",o,f France.'.
■ Ariiuiuntfssfeent t)| :".the lu'Mivir.' 'w;ls
received ffi Mi BWi,^rooirt. F'r.tinl-'h!
ii'istructor, ''ima the president. M .'the'-
'Society, Jean Vlgllaud The r^tlUiie-
iiieut Mjf( hi(.i)itlii!ti',)iship,!;.iri the s!ii.'c,i;e,t'y,
is that the ;per'stin muftt imve writ.-i,
atnj have had published iei ug-
nized: Vy ,.French1 linjJV of lil'ttei's , as
.nieri.tio'aHis.' .
Air. Bo.urgct'ils was;' proposed for
membership', by 31V'. Vigrtaud 'And I\ r
tunat, Stiowski, who occupies the
AS PAGEANT CHARACTERS
Two Seniors, Three Juniors, and Three
Sophomores Compose Group
Of Algiers Beauties
Eight girls were named Thursday'to lake jiart in the pageant
to be presented, at the Archi-Arts Ball, sponsored tmrnially Ity tiie
Architectural Society, February 2.1. at the River Oaks Country CluBi;!
The1 girls, according to Octaviit Chambers, chairman ol," tlie
pageant committee1, are Betty Bennett,: Grnce Ellen Mclntyre,
ryellen Snyder, Lida Picton, J.banne Stortn. Mary 1 jLicilie Stevens.
Elisabeth "Wissie" Kelly, and Mary llanhah.
Betty Biinnett and Mar\- Lucile Stevens were selected frotii tlie;
the senior-classwhile two groups^of three iwij're cintsen to r.;p v-
- sent tho junior.s and sojiltoniures.
BOB WILLIAMS
BECOMES HEAD ^**:'
nr PXinvri^Dt! ' Wis-,. Ivell,\.,, aha,,
Ur CiiNlllllLlLKO Mary H^iuuh, .1 ,nJa: I'l i, u ,1.w
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Kng.ii11-eI-].nt': '.Si'i.ciel.y' '.;!:a!ti!:,:!i'',i.t.h':!'!il''ii.
liieeting Tuestitty ioghi. ;it the S,.-i;.eo .among tile nophom-'ivs.
('(oumoiis, .Bob iturcllfield :\va- lUiani'-'; ') be' i biti-s,-'ti>< ||ie i;'i -
mousiyt eireti'd vlct^presideiiti: .'while ;j o'y'.;!'!the .iibea^t'si.'s''.
the seb.i'etioii'i of i;'o!;s!.l'a'Vker, |>> i«rt^, '■i-iiij.1 I* raH''Jf'S
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discuss duama s , „
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selio' ..if jiMi A l> (Vli'JiilWj) i\l. 1
:has just leinnied irom
"inoiitii.s' stay in Scotland..
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for refusing." Thus Dr. A. D. Me-
Kiliup, p r o t'e s s 6 l; of Entflish
who returned thiij week from a
seveti months stay in England, sum-
med up the question of how good a
friend the United States should be
to the British Empire.
"No country will throw its nn-
210 textbook. Boy they arc HOmc. tlo'tal Interests Overboard for the
thin! Heh. heh, Goltlie! Away! :'silki; fj| ^lCa} fornU' a' lu',HaKl'
,. ,, , explaining it is impossible to deter-
U( e ? mino in advance the .policy which
!i':f! ,
'iV'ivf''
ear math 210 studet
My gratification went way up
when I got your letter with the cor-
rect answer for Silver's feed bag.
Willoughby Williams and Henry
Dunlap, although refusing to put
their efforts in writing, have indi-
cated to mo that they also solved
the problem, and by the same method.
Dunlap eVen checked the answer by
dimensional analysis, and got the
accurate if somewhat fundamental
result, days equal days.
Your working time is good; far
better, I admit, than mine when 1
first tackled the problem three years
ago. After your method is explained
to me, I can understand It. but I don't
(Turn to Page 8, Number 4)
England and the. United States will
follow in further world crises.
If New York were where London
is, he continued, we should do some
hard thinking and feel less superior.
Naturally England will attempt to
enlist the United States on her side.
The interests of the two countries
converge on many points, and do not
are books. It's cheaper to mail them
than to bring them back with me."
Dr. McKillop would not attempt to
i stimate the number of hours he
spent in England's second hand book-
Stores. "We have nothing like them
here," he said. "There are/a few in
Nev; York, litlt they seem meager in
comparison." Prices are so good that
the postage to get the book home
compares with the Original cost.
Most of his tinie ,\vas spent, Dr.
McKillop related, iti the British Mu-
seum working on eighteenth cen-
tury poetry. After the examinations
he will resume teaching English BOO,
a 0, and 500.
During the feverish (tjtys before
the peace at Munich, the English
diverge oil any. But the United States' expected war and Were surprised
may or may not be sufficiently in-
volved to respond WHtngland's ap-
peal.
Tipping his chair back against the
wall as he talked,^-the professor sur
when it was averted. It was hard,
though, Dr. Killop said, to form po-
litical opihions from observation.
He had vivid impressions of the
crowds in front of number 10 Down
voyed the three-foot stack of bundles ing Street, of the deadlock and tense-
and letters which accumulated on his- ness in*the air, but reported no disor-
desk during his absence from June deis. It was intensely interesting, he
until January, said, but not instructive. The radio
"But most of them I sent to my- (Turn to Page 4, Number 1)
the regular meeting of the - Club- for
Girls-' Monday afternoon at. Autry
House.
Marian j Frost offered hypothetical
cases of two college girls, using as,-
sumcd names
The' ne\t meeting will be held at
'j p. m,."February 20 at Autry House.
- ...... ., . '
CHEMISTS MEET i
ON FEBRUARY 211
musical pieces
GIVEN AT .MEET .,J
OF LES HIBorX ,
.l,A:,1K.,l:l.i:('M,i'tiNj\eiil:;.l)!(ii(li. i.t^i'.'.iM'eM^nft"H"i-- i' lllilll 111 '"
t'i . Ir„i.-,.oi1--nitviTibtili ■ "H.- Il l o f io'.v
ing u t tio- oxanonatiw.s . f ebrtevry „ ,,
1-1" at, I'll...'in A'nl.ry ..lloi'se, .i,:!,-!::;.;,.,. '•!,. , /
.. Musical nii!111'«,■ v.s were. givt-M ■ It>. — i:t t!r,, ii'I, in reneo;,.,i
fh'ree:'!'un''n'il>(''rs.!jrf;''t'.iiti eiblr ur: a" iii,ee.t~|' ':
ing Tuesday highC, ! ':'.: K% 'ii,
. , j .J i ,J. , , ■■' , Ins VwlliS'illti,'r,))lW' ipi'h i 1 ■'
Leah Mary Woodwa.d, s,r.rano, , , >( ji(g]
H'allft Mas'flellt''l,;"s,''. '':b!lt;'gl't\"; . atil O'lljiau
ietl by Mis Wtiodwaid; pia'nis'l Uur
garet Schwai tz (ilayeci linrand'-
j'lPuniponnelfef' and Chopin's ,"U'aH'/,
in A Minor"; and violinist iti'rnce
Word played. Sibelius' "Vaki Tristef'
and Shilkret's :••Plantation Dance,"
MEN TO Al'i'LY
POSITION
IN BOOKSTOUK
cyh practiced "Dawn"; aiid "I Heard
a Forest Praying," under the ditipc ^accompiniied by Mis Kvelyih' Wilkin 1
tion of Edward Acton. I sou.
Phi l.amlm 1,'psilon, honorary chem-
ical society, will hold its n«ct meeting
on Tuesday, Felit'ttafi* 21, in the
form of a luncheon.
No further meetings will be held
before .the. filial examination period,
according to Joseph Coppoc, presi-
dent.
By Towttseiid Miller
George Olsen, now playing his mu-
sic tif tomorrow for dance patrons
at the Empire Room, is the one who
started the baton twirling at oollejre
football games.
FeelihK a need for an added attrae-
,ior and started a fad that, has1 come ;
to he an instrument sidelight of the;
game.
Since Olson has utilized his iiursi- 1
cal talents to make himself a suc-
cessful orchestra; conductor! he has i
conceived a progressive! tbooty on
) dcinie'year.
pnprriv py t yrj tween-haives interniission, and ie-
■ -T i menibering a circus baton twirler
MEETS FRIDAY from bis childhood days, Olseit do-
—. , ! termined to learn the art.
A meeting ol" tl\e German Club wljl With a broomstick wtapped in
tion to go with the band at the be- , which h6 bases his I
"The inusie o't' tiiutorrovv." he say.-,
"Will undoubtedly be infliielieed by j
modern swing, just as the music of
today has been influenced by the
be held Friday at 7 :!td p. m, in Autry
House.
school colors and a retired army
drum major for a tutor, he gave
Because of final examinations, the .Michigan University the honor of
meeting will be short. I having the first collegiate drum ma
jazz of yesterday.
"1 have styled my music along the,
rising trend, toward an accent on the!
sweet melody with an undemirmit j
of swing." '
Dance First Night
After Examinations
Thursday. Februarv 11. the night
after the end of the Fehruai >
t xaminations, the first Saturdaj
night, dance of the Sprijtg term will
be held from !• until midnight at
the Junior League,
It will be a sort of "break train
ing,". d.imc. said Albert Sterling.
Jr.. ehainiian of the dance com
mittcf. The 'orchestra . has not yet.
, heen selected.
■ '.I'iss^'ci^'i^i!|-r f;(vile:a,1
iiliii lilf sfeKSt® I'rottt!
COLLEGES SPLIT
♦:u AC ADEAIk
FREEDOM issri:
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''A VfH..'.
V lfflm|iOTts 'wi the 'm'Jii'iage'i -hi|i([;
■■ |Ol'''l:he ('oiipera'l At- HtrtlO i-o till1 v
,. '"two oi; n-ore yours -h uihl In 1 s iIh 1
; mi111'I in W' iting t'tle Offict of
■ the liursar Inf.hi Febrtiary ".%]
0 l 'intide .Maei announced \\ ..-die day.
Full .detail.-, of «\perieuee. to us soil
lof study, and other tuialificaiio: for
tnis p<isiiion sllplt he included ill
! tho ■ application. No applscntion will
| hO cousiden d from a man who u ill
I'.not. 'Jmya,•>«w{>li?,h'dtwo ..yeivis of
[work l,y the ejiul of the pre.-en: ac.i-
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