The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1942 Page: 2 of 4
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Honor System
Honor Council regulations are compromise measures. They represent
an attempt of the student body to answer the question *Which, are more
important—the interests of the individual or of the group?" in regard to a
particular campus situation cheating on exams.
Obviously we value acceptable grades, or no one here would trouble
to attain them, either tby fair or foul means. They must continue tff denote
hard-won, scholastic merit if Rice is still to inspire four hundred strong each
year. On the other hand, should we expel a student, possibly change his
whole life's course, because his solitary slip failed to pass unnoticed?
The answer is equivocal. The keynote of our honor system is pre-
vention. When we sit in alternate seats and rows, or when we freely stroll
from the room during a quiz, we are acting in accordance with regulations
which we, the students, form through the medium of an elected board of nine.
Consequently, these rules remind us of our part within aur system} their ex-
istence often forestalls temptation to abuse them.
The directions for taking tests are on the bulletin board. Read them
carefully. Full cooperation with your Honor Council will insure us all that
Rice still makes its appear to the "scholastic best" of every person, for he
can f(now that his record speaks for itself as the deserved result of effort.
The institution or the individual? Both!—M.O.F.
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Education or Training
Harper's Magazine for September, 1932, printed an article by Albert
J. Nocki "The Disadvantages of Being Educated." The article has lain in
oblivion for the past ten years, and now emerges in an anthology of essays
being used this year in the Freshman English course.
The article is provocative of much thought, especially in these trying
days. Mr. Nock draws a fundamental distinction between what he terms
"training" and what he terms "education." For him, training consists of
teaching an individual to perform a given task 7ve^—be it that of repairing
engines or of drawing blue-prints for a building or a bridge. But for Nock,
the same attitude that the individual assumes toward building a bridge
should be the one that he employs in solving all problems that come before
him, namely, blind reliance on what he has tbeen told and on what he knows
others to have dons, before him. This, concludes Noqk, is the ideal existence.
To quote him, "Training induces the exhilirating sense that one is doing
what others "do and thinking the thoughts'that others think1."
We live in a cynical age, and it is easy to conclude with Nock that
real education has no place left in the world. He attacks education as "send-
ing individuals out to shift for themselves with a champagne appetite amid
a gin-guzzling society." For him, education "leads a person on to ask a
great deal more from life than life is willing to give him; and begets dis-
satisfaction with the rewards that life holds out."
But Nock completely fails to recognize the dynamic nature of our
society. If all men were simply trained, as Nock would have them, progress
as we know it would cease to be. Nock discourages thinking, and thinks our
universities, should do likewise. The educated man may not be satisfied with
life as easily as the trained man is, but is this a valid reason for concluding
that man should not strive toward a better life here and now? Nothing great
was ever accomplished save by striving toward it when it was not to be had,
and unless men continue to stride, the stagnation that society will fall into will
be greater than we have known since the Dark Ages.—O.J.C.
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Scrap Showing Disappointing
Last week the Scrap Drive officials sent an urgent request to the phys-
ical education department of the Institute to the effect that as many helpers
as could be rounded up, should report to the Coliseum Sunday morning.
Of the several hundred freshman boys taking Physical Training, only about
fifteen even troubled to volunteer for this worthy cause. Of those fifteen
who signed up, only two showed up.
Many persons who had put in a long, hard Saturday spent all day
Sunday driving trucks or loading scrap, while Rice freshmen, having at-
tended two or three morning classes Saturday, refused to respond to their
government's plea. In contrast to the ignoring attitude assumed by our stu-
dents, the University of Houston had a very good representation.
Upperclassmen as well as freshmen should he scored for having* con-
tributed little scrap (if any) to the pile on the Institute campus.
It seems that such action or lack of action should be reproved by the
entire faculty as well as by those patriotic citizens who aided in the collec-
tion Sunday. It should, however, be noted that the Scrap Drive will not end
until this coming Sunday evening and all interested in helping should con-
tact the Texas Defense Corps Headquarters. Students should not bypass
this opportunity to aid their country. A little later may be too late J—S.K.D.
Buy War Bonds and StampsI
tires end money enough to ma
the long trek, to New Orleans last
week for the Tulane game. Dan Bui*
]#rd and Cttaton Quinn were ae
trying to get dates at the Puppy
House Club ... Smitty and "Daddy"
Murphy are rumored to have had a
corking good time . . . Betty Scott
fairly beamed with pride as Bryant
was escor|ed across the field by
those good looking Tulane cheer
leaders . . . Incidentally in regard
to Miss Moor eg we f^el it our duty
to announce that she is no longer
"pinned"—she sent the Texan and
his pin back to Austin a couple of
weeks ago . . . Courtney latched
onto a female stag in the Roosevelt
bar . . , Bolo got off in Baton Rouge
on the way back with only 67c in
his pocket to see his Louisiana heart
throb—was it worth it? . . . Jack
Wilson caused a great deal of con-
cern in the Jung Bar when he failed-
to observe "sour time" at the ap-
pointed hour. Just as the New Or-
leans police were about to dispatch
the riot squad to comb the French
Quarter it was disclosed that he
had been asleep at the Roosevelt
. . . Back on the home front it is
said that Ella McAshan is absolute-
ly breathless in contemplating her
coming trip to College Station.
What does this guy Pennington have
that some good Rice boy isn't bound
to have? . . . We know for a fact
that the Wayne Bowman-Audrey
Johnson-Phillip Smith triangle is
no longer a triangle. That's your
cue, Wayne . . . The Wroxton House
held its monthly committee meeting
Monday night and before the shout-
ing was over Margaret Powell had
spent $9.90 in phpne calls to Ithaca
and Camp Swift. That's a pretty
expensive way to keep those boys
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GUtb NoumI
The Menorah Society is holding a
social for all Jewish students at the
home of Mrs. M. H. Jacobs, 2714
Ruth, this Saturday evening begin-
ning at 8:30. The party is being
given in honor of all the new offi-
cers and chairmen. Every member
or• prospective member of Menorah
is extended an invitation to attend.
to my colleagnes, I with
a problem of musical in-
terpretation that bears heavily on
the approach of the critic. I refer
to the relationship of drama to
music. X am not trying simply to
reopen the Rossini-Wagner dispute,
for the problem really involves the
field of orchestral music as well as
opera. So-called musical "purists"
hold that music should be enjoyed
for its own sake, and that alone;
not for any necessary meaning at-
tached to the music. They exclude
drama as a possible component of
music, and offer the symphonies of
Mozart as supreme monuments of
non-dramatic composing.
I concur that music of this type,
written solely as non-dramatic
music, must be listened to as such;
any attempt to endow it with "dra-
matics" is disastrous. But to gen-
eralize on all music from this ex-
ample is equally disastrous. Thus,
to attempt to eliminate the very
definitely dramatic elements of
Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel" or
Dukas' "The Sorceror's Apprentice"
in to miss half of what the composer
had to say. Such selections should,
in my opinion, be listened to with
as much emphasis on the re-creation
of the spirit of the
as on the technical
of the music itself.
The same problem applied to
music is even more engaging. The
songs of Brahms and Schubert we,
it is agreed, free from dramatics,
and artistically-minded singers take
heed of this fact. But what of opera,
the form of art that combines drama
and music most outwardly and in-
tentionally? Again, Mozart offers
the "purists" operatic arias that
stand as well out of the opera as in
it. No one becomes disturbed if
Lucia goes mad to the tune of a
delightful cavatina, but then Doni-
zetti was not, in this instance, writ-
ing dramatic music. But to fail to
recognize the dramatic element of
music that successfully attains its
purpose is to be blind to the possi-
bilities of musical and dramatic co-
hesion. Thus, the great "Immolation
Scene" from Wagner's "Gotterdam-
merung," the third act of Puccini's
"Tosca" or the intensely-moving
death-scene from Verdi's great
"Othello" aye shorn of the greater
part of their effectiveness if no con-
sideration is given, be it only in the
listener's mind, to their dramatic
setting.
The Baptist Student Union will
hold its annual-conference in Dallas
beginning today. Final plans were
drawn up for the Houston represen-
tation to the conference at a coun-
cil meeting at Autry House Thurs-
day.
All members of the Canterbury
Club are cordially invited to attend
a social meeting at the home of
Carolyn Wells, 3736 Del Monte
Drive, on Sunday, October 18, at 6
p.m.
The Presbyterian Student Asso-
ciation met Thursday at noon at
Austry House. Idell Boelsche gave a
devotional. Plans were discussed
then for the Barn Dance which is
planned for tomorrow night in Mac-
gregor Park.
The Girls' Club met Thursday at
1:15 at Autry House, where plans
were made to enter a team in the
intramural basketball league soon
to be formed. A bicycle party spon-
sored by the club Thursday after-
noon was very successful.
miss elizabeth thompson
whose marriage to F. Buchanan
Sloan, Jr., will take place October
24, was entertained with a luncheon
at the Empire Room last Monday
given by Miss Peggy Johnston.
Wednesday Mrs. J. B. Spiller and
Mrs. Elton Rhine honored Miss
Thompson with a luncheon $t the
Junior League. Miss Betty Lou
Johnson gave a kitchen shower
Thursday night for Miss Thomp-
son. Tomorrow afternoon Mrs. E. V.
Boteler and Mrs. Harvey Shepherd
will entertain with a tea for the
bride-to-be.
tomorrow afternoon
the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary
Society will gather for an informal
party at the hoifte of Betty Lee Se-
cor. The new pledges of EBLS will
entertain the members with a buf-
fet supper next Wednesday night
at Edwina Breihan's at six thirty.
misses carolyn and
Elizabeth Knapp honored Miss
Bette Jeai^ Reistle with" a spinster
dinner Wednesday night, Thursday
night Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Reistle en-
tertained at the Empire Room for
the wedding party after the re-
hearsal. Miss Reistle's marriage to
Ens. George Foster Pierce, Jr., will
take place Saturday night at Trin-
ity Episcopal Church. Miss Mattie
Ann Reistle will attend her sister
as maid of honor. The other brides-
maids will be Carolyn Knapp, Eliz-
abeth Ann Pierce, and Nancy Reis-
tle. Mr. George Pierce, Sr., will be
best man and the groomsmen will
be John Tomfohrde, Jimmie Ander-
son, Virgil Everette Harris, Jr.,.
Dick Dwelle, Starke Taylor, and
Lawrence Prehn.
Jlettesti, ta the Cdito*
year and the distaste it left among
the students.
The Thresher
Entered as second class matter,
October 17, 1916, at the post office
in Houston, Texas, under the act of
March 3, 18?9. Subscription price:
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Editor ,.*r. Jim Hargrove
Business Manager Virgil Harris
Editor's Note: The following let-
lers are printed verbatim as they
were received. They do not jieces-
sarily reflect the attitude or opinion
of the Staff of the Thresher.
Editor,
The Thresher
Rice Institute
Houston, Texas
Dear Sir,
, We should like to bring up a sub-
ject which has been a matter of con-
cern to most of us who have been
readers of the Rice publications for
any length of time. We refer to the
periodical reviews of the Owl by the
Thresher and vice versa. Such re-
views are anything but constructive
and we feel that both publications
would profit immensely by aban-
doning this mudslinging policy that
they have followed in the past. In
the first place it is not in the sphere
of these publications to be reviewing
each other. No other publications
of note waste their time and space
with such petty bickering. Further-
more such reviews never accom-
plish any constructive purpose and
serve only to disgust the readers
since they nearly always reflect pro-
fessional jealously. We need not
look far to illustrate this point.
Many of us remember the Owl's
annual review of the Thresher last
This year we, notice the Thresher
has again taken it upon itself" to
pass judgement on the first issue
of the Owl. It doesn't matter
whether we agree or disagree with
what is said. The fact remains that
the Thresher and the Owl can serve
the school better by forgetting such
ideas and concentrating on the news
of all of the students on the campus.
After all these are publications of
the students and Editorial staffs
should realize the students are in-
terested in news and not publication
feuds.
Sincerely yours,
Jimmy Winters
Jim Shepherd.
(Ed. Note: Mr. Winters and Mr.
Shepherd evidently either did not
read carefully the Thresher's re-
view of the Owl in issue Number 4,
or else they wilfully misinterpreted
what was said.
The statement of the first para-
graph of that review cannot be con-
strued in any way to continue or in-
stigate any policy of "mud-slinging
. . . petty bickering . . . publication
feuds ... or professional jeal-
ous (l)y." In that first paragraph
we stated that "it was our first de-
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