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XXVIII
Student Weekly Publication
B ■ ' 'HIM I
The Rice Institute
HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY,
18, 1942
Number 2
Meet Bob
Captain Bob Tresch, who will lead
the 1942-43 aggregation of Owls
against their 11 strong opponents, is
temporarily out of play.
Recently sent to the infirmary
with a twisted knee, he expects to
be at practice Monday afternoon,
has no doubts that he will lead his
team against the Corpus Christi
Naval Station next Saturday.
(See story, page 3)
Sciencia Super Omnia!
Liberal Arts Dearth
Laid to Japs, Nazis
Hardly had the bombs begun to
fall on Pearl Harbor and the Philip-
pines when there arose a great
many worried speculations about
the war and its effects—regrettable
but necessary—upon the Institute
campus, and this registration week's
news shows some of this pessimism
to ibe'justified, at least in prospect.
The national administration and
the War Department are showing
commendable attention to Rice's
technical and military future, but,
as must be expected, things liberal
and academic are beginning to fall
by the wayside. No one will be sur-
prised to return to the campus this
fall and find social activities more
limited in scope and nature than
ever before, and the restrictions
placed upon these activities are re-
flected more soberly in the cata-
logue of courses for the Academic
year 1942-43.
Dr. David Potter and Dr. Virgil
C. Aldrich are gone, and will not be
replaced this year, to the great han-
dicap of the history and philosophy
departments, who will feel their ab-
sence severely.
Academes who had looked for-
ward to Dr. Potter's senior course
in southern history are regretting
this gap no less than those special-
ists, engineers among them, who
had planned to enroll in Dr. Aid-
rich's philosophy of science.
The same program of war neces-
sity which has cut the Thresher to a
four-page sheet and now threatens
the seniors of years after 1943 with
an absolute lack of class rings is
also being felt in the dropping of
other academic courses than those
mentioned above. Courses in Eng-
lish history and contemporary phi-
losophy are to be missing from this
term's curriculum. Dr. F. S. Lear
and Dr. R. A. Tsanoff, heads of the
history and philosophy departments,
are planning to take on the extra
work demanded by the shortage of
academic instructors. Dr. Tsanoff
plans to teach both sections of the
sophomore philosophy section as
well as the 400 (religion) and the
300 (history of philosophy) courses,
while Dr. Aldrich is on a leave of
absence to Columbia University;
Dr. Lear will carry his freshman
course as usual, and will conduct a
seminar in classical and mediaeval
letters, plus the American history
course formerly offered by Dr. Pot-
ter, now at Yale.
Gloomy predictions of further
Continued on prfge 4
Part-Time Work
Offered Students
The Bursar's Office announced
Thursday that all men students de-
siring part-time employment should
report immediately to apply for
such work. Certain positions are
now available, it was stated, which
will not be open later. For this rea-
son prompt response to any open-
ings is required.
0
Officers Of
Navy Unit
Announced
Newly appointed staff and com-
pany officers took the spotlight at
the Navar Building this week with
the placement of eleven cadets in
elevated positions. Assignments
were designated by Capt. T. A.
Thomson, commandant, and are as
follows: Battalion commander, M.
C. Gillis; battalion sub-commander,
M. N. May; commander first com-
pany, Jack Sims; commander sec-
ond company, N. T. Fugate; com-
mander first platoon first company,
L. R. Klein; commander first pla-
toon second company, Fox Gamble;
battalion adjutant, C. W. Sparks;
commander drum and bugle corps,
H. E. Shreck; commander second
platoon first company, G. E. Rhe-
mann; commander second platoon
second company, W. T. Sanders;
battalion communications officer,
W. R. Nisbet.
The unit is destined to be of
tougher grain this year than last,
with physical index exams being
given at present and the 200 yard
obstacle course to be completed in
a week. The first battalion review
will be held in the near future.
0
Picnic Set For
September 26
The second annual all-school pic-
nic will be held on the lawn behind
the statue of the Founder Septem-
ber 26 at 6 p.m., and new students
will enjoy their first opportunity to
get acquainted with classmates and
older students in an occasion that
bids fair to become a lasting tradi-
tion on the campus.
Harvey Ammerman, president of
the Student Association, has an-
nounced that the picnic this year
should be even more successful than
the memorable affair of 1941, when
the campaign promises of many
years blossomed into a picnic that
really did welcome the freshmen
and unite various parts of the cam-
pus into an initial social gathering.
Food will again be provided by
the co-eds, who will draw the names
of two boys and prepare lunches for
them and for herself.
Continued on page 4
1 1
PRESIDENT DECLARES
By Jess B. Bessinger
Associate Editor
President Edgar Odell Lovett, speaking to an audience of
more than 450 students and faculty members in the Physics
Amphitheatre Wednesday morning, welcomed the thirty-first
class in the Institute's history, and urged them to consider
victory in the war their first
COUNCIL MEETS TUESDAY
Student Council will meet for the
first time this year at 12 noon Tues-
day in A. B. 201, President Harvey
Ammerman announced late Thurs-
day.
The meeting will be open to the
student body.
and final goal.
"For nine months," he stated
firmly, "I have had no other convic-
tion than that the United Nations
will win the war."
President Lovett entered the am-
phitheatre and began his annual
matriculation address without an
introduction, as has always been his
custom. He greeted the incoming
freshmen with an exhortation to
share the grounds and the traditions
of Rice with those who have already
taken their places at the i Institute,
and asserted that "these acres, these
years . . . are yours to have and to
hold with us."
Illustrating his address with ref-
erences to Alexander the Great, Sir
Isaac Newton, and Florence Night-
ingale, Dr. Lovett emphasized that
their great accomplishment was a
combining of genius with common
sense, and that members of the
Class of '46 should imitate their ex-
ample: "They all worked hard, kept
hope hanging high, and did well
what they did."
As to the war, President Lovett
said, the issue is one between hu-
manity and inhumanity, and our
duty is clearly to be stated in terms
of the same issue. He assured his
audience that the trustees and fac-
ulty were attempting to hold a mid-
dle path between a disregard of
present world conditions and an all-
inclusive preoccupation with them.
Rounding out the traditional sim-
plicity of the program, Dr. Lovett
delivered an invitation to all the
freshmen to visit him in his office
at any time, and closed his address
with an offer to shake the hand of
every new student before he left
the amphitheatre.
EXCERPTS FROM THE PRESI-
DENT'S MESSAGE
Ladies and Gentlemen of Rice 1946:
At the first meeting to be held in
your honor we offer for your enter-
tainment our traditional cast of four
ushers and one speaker. There are
no flowers, no music, no prayers ex-
cept my own on the way over here
for grace to meet the present hour,
James Elected New
Secretary of Laws
Meredith James was elected sec-
retary of the Pre-Law Society at
the initial meeting of that group for
the fall semester Tuesday night.
Dick Dwelle, elected president of
the organization last spring, pre-
sided.
James will take the place of Bud-
dy Heard, who was elected secre-
tary in the spring elections. Heard
has since become a member of the
armed forces.
The organization decided to se-
cure several guest speakers to ap-
pear during the ensuing meetings
of the year.
and now perhaps yours that it may
not be long.
First Things and Last
With faith, foresight, and forti-
tude the trustees have been tending
these three hundred acres for a gen-
eration. They assembled the acres
and purchased them thirty-three
years ago for the immediate fur-
therance of the founder's far-reach-
ing plans. To the same high end and
for thirty consecutive years in the
exercise of courage, knowledge, and
skill the researchers and instructors
of the faculty have been engaged in
enterprises of organizing, building,
developing, administering, and the
like. For example, in seeding the
soil of minds they have been plant-
ing idggs, growing and testing theo-
ries, cultivating ideals, subjecting
those ideals, theories, and ideas to
hard, concrete facts, and seeking
to adapt specimens of all three of
them to fit and to transform the
stark realities of the actual world
in which men and women live, and
move, and have their being.
Thus the faculty and trustees
have been preparing and sending
forth living products of science and
learning, living exemplars of char-
acter and duty, living exponents of
training and service, living promot-
ers of invention and discovery, liv-
ing. conscientious, thinking women
and men bent on a livelihood, per-
haps a fortune, certainly a career,
for themselves, and on securing for
others enjoyment of freedom, recov-
ery of justice, attainment of right-
eousness, and discovery of trut h.
The current of their contributions,
though never torrential, has been
strong and continuous, and carries
to the four quarters of the earth
and the twelve winds of heaven.
These businesses of the trustees
and faculty were begun in times of
peace, only to be involved a little
later in war, thereafter to be con-
tinued under new conditions of
peace, and now again to be carried
on and forward in war. Their first
class of raw materials, a hand-
picked lot. of hardy, climbing fresh-
men, arrived in the autumn of 1912,
for graduation in 1916 and for un-
anticipated enlistment in the armed
forces of the country in '17 and '18.
And now, thirty years later, the fac-
ulty and trustees receive their thir-
ty-first class, restricted, as every
freshman class has been from the
autumn of 1924 on, to four hundred
carefully selected seedlings of un-
usual promise, for graduation either
normal or accelerated in 1946, but
subject to transplanting when, if,
and as the government of the coun-
try may require.
I am very happy to participate in
their" w a r m welcome, congratula-
tions, and best wishes to you, on an
occasion at once memorable and mo-
mentous alike to you and to us.
These acres, these years, and all
that they hold of strength and beau-
ty and spirit from the founder's
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