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Student Weekly Publication
The Rice Institute
VOLUME XXVII
Z738
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1941
Number 2
Safety Zones
To Be Set Up
Traffic Department
Tries Compromise
With Students
The traffic engineering division
began Friday the establishment
of safety zones for Institute hitch-
hikers at Lamar and Main and at
the intersection of Outer Belt Drive
and Main in front of Autry House.
The zopes, established after con-
ferences between Earl Wylie and
Pat Nicholson, president of the stu-
dent council and editor of the
Thresher, and Mayor C. A. "Neal"
Pickett, Police Chief Ray Ashworth,
and Traffic Engineer T. E. Willier,
will be continued only if students
use them for the purpose they have
been set up, Ashworth emphasized
Thursday.
Students on Curbs
The police chief pointed out that
the zones were established to keep
students out of the streets and out
of danger, and hat cars stopping for5
Institute hitchhikers at either Autry
tr . , t -,mar aT.;i 'VTair will pull
into the safety loading zone to take
students off the curbs. Members of
the traffic engineering division
added that the zones would be abol-
ished and students liable for fines
ranging from $5 to $50 if they con-
tinued to remain in the streets to
catch rides as before. The solicita-
tion of rides is now an offense under
the new city traffic code which went
into effect here September 9.
Zones Marked
Zones at both hitchhiking termi-
nals will be plainly marked "Load-
ing Zone. Rice Students," police of-
ficials said Thursday.
The hitchhiking controversy be-
tween city and campus developed
last Wednesday when Captain Bill
Burton of the traffic department in-
formed the Thresher that students
catching rides as in former years
would be liable to fines under the
new code. The loading zone compro-
mise was worked out Thursday, Fri-
day, and Saturday, but work on the
zones was delayed by the weather.
Hurricane!
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Destroy Trees on Campus
Winds approaching hurricane in-
tensity smashed three 12-foot leaded
windows in the eastern end of the
Physics Amphitheatre early Wed-
nesday, partially flooding the upper
portions of the auditorium and
wrecking 14 lecture chairs. The
leaded windows were blown in short-
ly after 1 a.m., and chairs in three
back rows topped over by the force
of gales that reached an estimated
65 miles per hour.
Administrative officials said Fri-
day that total damage was "slight,"
with additional equipment within
the amphitheatre unharmed. Car-
penters began reconstruction Thurs-
day after all janitors had responded j
to an emergency call to clear the j
flooded portions of the auditorium
before Dr. Lovett's matriculation
address at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Damage to Trees
Elsewhere on the campus, there
was extensive damage to oak and
elm trees lining the walks and |
roads in southern and western por-
tions. Tony Martino, head gardener,
mourned the loss of two giant oak
trees near the main entrance, both
of which he estimated to be more
than 100 years old. Another casual-
ty was a pin oak planted by his own
hands in 1916,
In what Martino refers to as
zones 2 and 3, in the western and
northwestern portions of the cam-
pus, there was widespread destruc-
tion among elm trees, dozens of
w^cfy suffered the loss of branches
and top foliage. Martino said that j
four or five years would be required
to erase the effects of the hurricane
on all trees.
Workmen continued Friday to re-!
move fallen trees and debris and re-1
pah trees which lost branches and j
foliage. |
President Delivers
Annual Matriculation
Address to Freshmen
"I bank for you upon a sound body,
Sound character, and sound mind,"
Dr. Lovett tells Class of 1945
Sophs Suspended
On Hazing Charge
The Fall Committee reported Fri-
day the suspension of two sopho-
mores for a period of fourteen days
upon conviction of hazing. The of-
fense was committed in East Hall.
It was the first reported hazing
since the opening of the new term.
'1 he Hall Committee ordered the
suspension immediately aftec an in-
vestigation.
Dean Weiser said at 10 affn, Fri-
day that he was beginning a com-
plete investigation of the matter.
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President Lovett
Presents Staff
President Lovett introduced the
officers of the naval ROTC unit and
their wives last night at an alumni
dinner at 7 p.m. in the Commons.
Lyle Cashion, ex-student director
of the current drive to increase
alumni interest in Institute affairs,
addressed an audience of 100 on
progress made to date.
Glenn Miller Arrangements,
Raffle at Dance Tonight
The Saturday night dance series
continues tonight at the Elks Club,
with Walter Symonds and the
Knight Owls sharing honors with
the EBLS football ticket raffle.
This week's dance bids fair to
rival the success of the first Satur-
day night dance, with the Knight
Owls preparing to delight the custo-
mers with new Glenn Miller ar- j
langements of "Adios" and "I Don't |
Want to Set the World on Fire,"!
and Peggy Sanford continuing j
with her fine work on the vocals.
Football Tickets Raffled
EBLS is confident of a lively re- j
sponse to the football raffle, which
will be held at the date intermis-1
sion, with raffle tickets being sold 1
at the dance for 25 cents, up to the 1
last minute, President Elizabeth .
Knapp said Friday. The two win- j
nets of the raffle will receive season !
tickets on the fifty-yard line for all
home games.
The dance committee has an-
nounced that the free list for all the
dances this year will consist of the
editors, business managers, and
staff photographers of the Thresher,
Campanile, and Owl, and those nine
people only. Fellows of the Insti-
tute will not be included in the free
list, Secretary John Moragne ex-
plained Friday.
Catherine Coburn
Named Associate
Yearbook Editor
Catherine Coburn, junior from
Dallas, was named associate editor
of the Campanile today by Bob
Knox, editor of the yearbook. Miss
Coburn served on the editorial staff
of the Campanile last year and was
recommended. Knox said, by the
1040-41 editor, Kenneth Arthur.
Meetings Today
Knox also announced meetings of
both the editorial and business
i staffs, held Friday at 1 p.m. in
: rooms 201 and 202 of the Adminis-
! tvation Building. At the meeting
Laurence Judd, Campanile business
manager, outlined the advertis-
ing sales campaign and made as-
signments to his group of salesmen
while Knox discussed the theme of
the 1042 Campanile and made edi-
toi ial assignments.
All those interested in working on
either the editorial or business staffs
of the Campanile were urged to at-
tend yearbook meetings, Knox said.
"Freshmen are especially included
in this invitation," he added, "as it
is important for them to gain early
experience if they intend to work on
the yearbook in the future."
Dramatists Offer
Noel Coward Work
The Dramatic Club will offer its
annual reception for the student
body Thursday night at 8 at Autry
House. The thespians are to present
"Ways and Means," a one-act play
from Noel Coward's cycle. "Tonight
at Eight-Thirty." There is no ad-
mission charge.
Cast for the play will include
Mary Olivia Fuller, Stella Cart-
wright; Tony C a r twrigh t, Neal
Prince; Olive Ransom, Ann Tuck;
Stevens, Las tie Paul Vincent; Prin-
cess Elena, Rosemary McKinney;
Murdock, Buddy Doughtie; Lord
Chatsworth, Jim Hargrove; and
Nanny, Helen Palmer.
President Edgar Odell Lovett, delivering- the annual ma-
triculation address Wednesday at 9 a. m. in the Physics Am-
phitheater, told the assembled Class of .1945 that he banked
for its members upon their sound bodies, sound characters, and
sound minds.
"Right now you start to do your part," he asserted before
an overflow audience that packed the auditorium damaged a
few hours earlier by winds approaching hurricane intensity.
"That part can have no lower aim than to advance the thought
and the well-being of mankind."
Lift Up Your Hearts!
"You will begin by lifting up your hearts and keeping them
up. Thus I am sure you will begin with hard work and high en-
deavor. I am sure you will end with hard work and high
achievement."
Dwelling briefly upon the international situation, the
president declared that the will to justice must and will nrevail.
"To our dismay, yet to our despair, we see abroad the will to
force and the will to justice inextricably locked in combat. It is
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The will to pustice must and will prevail. &
"There is freedom a plenty in the earth," he continued,
"but how unequally and unevenly its spread! We cannot enjoy
freedom ourselves until these inequalities are ironed out. To
remove them is the business of justice."
Attributes of a Sound Mind
Dr. Lovett characterized honesty, humanity, and justice as the attrib-
utes of a sound mind. "Veracity," he said, "is the prime virtue of an honest
mind. Veracity is the mark of the making mind,—and it is the making
mind of man that has built up—stage by stage—the accepted body of hu-
man knowledge."
He declared that, the highest goal of the humane mind of the liberating
I spirit is freedom, flanked by courage, and that the humane spirit of '.he
I present day strives to prepare more and more men and women to weai the
| dignity and bear the responsibility of freedom.
Justice, as evaluated by the just mind, itself outweighs all other eoiijT'
I siderations. Dr. Lovett asserted. "The just mind is all-Comprehensive lis
I particular, it weighs knowledge and truth, freedom and courage,"
Determined (o Advance
The president lashed out at those who have prophesied 'the downfall
! of Western civilization. "They say that Western civilization is dyinu." he
continued. "We do not subscribe to the diagnosis. We confidently antici- ■
j pate the recovery of the West. And we are determined still to advance .
i the principles, spiritual values, and ideals which have animated Western
| civilization,"
"It. is the tranquil spirit of faith and hope which sustains," he de*
clared. "And from your own accumulating experience you may learn that
! individual progress in science or in religion precludes in no way individual
progress in religion or in science."
Shakes Hands W ith Each Freshman
The president, as is his custom, entered the amphitheater from IhtjSjJl
j north door a moment before 9 a.m., and began speaking without introduc£|j|
1 tion after a burst of applause from an estimated audience of 500.
It was President Lovett's twenty-eighth matriculation address sinc$|i
! the opening of thr Institute in 1912. Only on two occasions when be was
I in Europe has he failed to speak to the freshman class on the first Wedne;
j day classes are held.
The complete text follows:
l Ladies and Gentlemen of Rice 1945:
We meet in observance of your admission to the Rice Institute. That
; event is a major event, on your life line. It is as memorable to vis as it is
! to you. Your matriculation meeting is compassed about with a veritable
| cloud of witnesses. They come from the living and the dead. In spirit
; there are present all who have contributed to the making of this institution
I by work of hand, or head, or heart: here, among others, are the founder
j and the architect, the trustees and the faculty, the friends and benefactors,
j the graduates and former students, of Rice. It is a noble and distinguished
company, greeting you with the foundation's Hail forever, and forever bail.
Before proceeding with a few more or less solemn remarks. 1 wish to
• thank the gentlemen who are very kindly acting as ushers this morning:
Mr, Wvlie, president of the Student Association, Mr. Bovd. president of
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