The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1943 Page: 2 of 4
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Rice exes return to the campus Saturday for their Twenty-
fifth Annual Homecoming.
Despite the fact that transportation impediments make a
large homecoming of out-of-town alumni impossible, there will
still be a representative number here Saturday.
The determination of the alumni to continue their excellent
tradition in the face of so many difficulties is remarkable. This
determination for an inclusive and organized membership is
further evinced in the growth of the group from approximately
100 in 1919 to 4600 in 1943.
Welcome back, exes. You probably won't find Rice un-
changed, but we will attempt to make you feel as much at home
as possible.
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Sharecroppers Coming
Saturday marks the twenty-eighth meeting on the gridiron
of the Owls and the Texas A & M Aggies. In the past this game
has come forth with all the aspects and background of true riv-
alry, but this year much of the old rivalry formerly felt will be
missing when these two teams take to the field.
Because of the drastic changes which have occurred in
both schools, many of the students formerly enrolled at Texas
A & M are now students at Rice—and some Institute students
have been transferred to Aggieland. This fact will indeed play
its part in minimizing the rivalry which has always existed be-
tween the schools. Possibly an even greater factor is the number
of transfers who "have come to both schools from all parts of the
United States and who feel none of the school spirit or rivalry
which has been prevalent for a number of years.
The bonfire, a traditional affair before all Owl-Aggie games,
was abandoned last year, because of the dim-out laws enforced
since the war began.
In past years the bonfire rallies brought Aggie visitors to
our campus. These visits usually resulted in destruction of one
sort or another, especially in recent years.
Have you ever noticed the ivy growing on the front gate
entrance to the campus ? There is a reason for its being there—
and the reason belongs to the Aggies. Not many years ago, after
a very heated game, the Aggies burned the score of the game in
the front gate with acid, Which was impossible to remove. The
ivy was started then to hide the defaced gate.
On several other occasions our campus has been visited by
our friends of long standing. For instance, the A & M flag fly-
ing on top of the greased flag pole was the outcome of one such
visit. (It was finally retrieved by a grammar school student.)
Then there was the "red paint" incident. The Aggies dabbed
red paint on our founder's (William Marsh Rice) statute, a
monument whifc'h is very sacred to all Rice students. This epi-
sode aroused the wrath of the students and many Aggies turned
up in school the following Monday with shaved heads and bruis-
es.
The pay-off came when the Aggies stole our stuffed owl.
took it to A & M, and locked' it in the trophy case in the old Ad-
ministration Building—on the A & M campus. The student body
represented by a group of boys from the dorms, paicNr visit to
the A & M campus, retrieved the owl, and left a small pile of
rice in its place.
All of these past events have brought about a great feeling
of rivalry whenever the two teams take to the gridiron. The tie-
game last year (0-0) might serve as further incentive this year,
for there is still controversy over the question as to whether or
not Dick Dwelle was over the goal line to pay-dirt. The crowd
said yes, "but unfortunately the referee, having the final* word,
said no. Thus the game ended (0-0) with Rice feeling very un-
happy over the whole situation.
All these facts aside, the game should be a good one because
Coach Homer Norton's Farmers are out for their fourth confer-
ence win and Coach Jess Neely's Owls will be trying hard for
their second conference win of the season.
Let's see the game Saturday, and back our team. Best of
luck, Owls.—B.S.
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Morris and Sort are now just pi a.
tonic friends, or so they would have
us understand. But it may be true,
cause Smut had a date Saturday
witb his old flame, Maribel ,.. Nel-
sie and Joe, B. Lou Smith and Don
seem to be the most steady fore-
some ever . . . Many, many Rice
girls were seen at the Ellington
Field graduation dance Saturday
night—Maggie Morrison, Martha
McCollum, Jean Brock, and" Ginny
Arnold ... By the way, have you all
noticed Catherine Henry and her
George? Or can we count on seeing
them together anymore? ... Is
Gladys Jackson going to school, or
traveling this year? She's gone to
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By Rosesuury King
The second concert of the season
was presented by the Houston Sym-
phony orchestra Monday evening at
the City Auditorium, with Albert
Spalding, violin soloist, as guest ar-
tist. The program opened with the
Overture to "Rosamunde," or the
Overture to "The Magic Harp," as
it was originally written. The state-
ly chords of the "Andante" intro-
duction and its succeeding melodious
theme for oboe and clarinet led to
a brillant cadence echoed by the
strings (which seemed a bit weak
in tonal effect) and was concluded
with the famous two themes that
make any student or musical admirer
, jof Schubert agree that this passage
f. . tf ' ™ -|wa8 one of the great master's most
Jack Joplin and Harold Alhart
seemed neck and neck in the race
down Loose way, but now Harold
is trying to come best in the Ann
Martin race, not that he lacks com-
petition . . . Some romances that
budded in Austin two weeks ago,
seem to be still blooming in the
hometown. Mike, you'd better watch
the romance between Madge and
John. "True" Russ and John Mac-
kenzie sighted friends in distress,
Pat West and Janicek when the rains
came. A good time was had by all
even if the car was exhausted every
few blocks . . . Was Walter Short
trying to impress Evelyn Burke at
the Arkansas game, when he put on
his tumbling act? . . . Charlie Ha-
den and Su Tracy gazing in each
other's eyes, and it's not spring
either.
Saturday was a fine day. Since
we won another game, everyone had
an orthodox excuse for partying
Saturday night . . . The architects
l-eally threw the brawl—it was a
picnic complete with beer and lots
of blankets. Among those present
were Carl and Ada who at last seem
to have settled their differences,
Frances and Arthur, Margaret Wil-
son and some stranger . . . Quite a
few of the boys were stag, Shirley
beautiful melodies. On the whole the
composition was rather nicely played
but a general inconsistency at times
was evident between the leading di-
rections given by the conductor and
the responses from the orchestra.
The Bruckner "Romantic" Sym-
phony No. 4 in E Flat was next pre-
sented with a wonderful interpreta-
tion by Mr. Hoffmann who conducts
this work as if he enjoys each min-
ute passage and is utterly at home
in its elaborate and complicated
score. It was the composer of this
symphony of purely^absolute music
that made Wagner, for whom Bruck-
ner had a profound reverence, de-
clare recklessly that he knew of
only one comparable to Beethoven,
and that was Bruckner. The open-
ing theme, which is developed with
exacting regard to structural form-
ality, is evolved throughout. It is the
second or "andante" movement which
especially sets forth the basis for
the "Romantic" subtitle of the whole
symphony by a romanza in three
themes, and is characterized by a
funeral march in its opening and
closing passages. The famous "hunt-
ting scherzo" in the third movement
was especially well performed. The
Wagnerian finale epitomizes the
whole symphony with an impressive
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THE THRESHER
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in Houston, Texas, under the act of
March 3, 1879. Subscription price:
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Editor Bettie Lou Johnson
Bus. Mgr. Margaret Morrison
Sports Editor Mildred McCall
Society Editor Reba Bethea
Music Editor Rosemary King
Mailing Editors Jean Greenman
Betsy Atkinson
Reporters Jean Brock, Joyce
Pounds, Addison McElroy, Preston
Frazier, Dorothy Marshall, Cecille
Sass, Joan Logan, Barbara Ewing,
Dallas Hawkins, Dorothy Mc-
Cleary, Bobby Sahol.
the whole affair. He broke his col-
lar bone wringing the neck of a
chicken. We would like to know
what variety, feathered or other-
wise.
Betty Lee Secor had a wonderful
trip to San Antone to see Frank—
and now is in ecstasy ... What's this
we hear about the female wolf of
the campus being married? We mean
Jean Garrison, of course. But the
perplexing part of the story is that
Es Lindsey had a date with the
bride-groom the next night . . .
Reba finally saw Henry after a few
thousand conflicting wires and tele-
phone calls. We've seen happy peo-
ple, but never -. . . . Bricker is
home much to the man hungry wom-
en's delight. He had a date with Ma-
rie Jo Saturday to the game, and
Sunday night Evelyn entered the
picture ... It seems that the most
steady couple on the campus has hit
the rocks . . . Ella and Pete—good
luck to both of you in discovering
new fields . . . Sonny Buvens also
added some interest to Sallyport last
week—nothing like a few more rov-
ing navy men . . . Bettie Scott and
Tommy Hopkins are seen walking
to every class. Are you really inter-
ested, Tommy, or are you keeping
her from being lonesome? . . . Why
hasn't some girl latched onto Buzzy
Coles from San Antone? Really, he
is cute! . . . "Many" Pounds is se-
riously considering taking an apart-
ment in Galveston; she might as
well, commuting is no fun . . . An-
other Rice ex is coming back to the
fold, namely Bob Tull. The navy can
be thanked for this . . . And speak-
ing of men, just ask Marearet Pow-
p11 about her petite blind date—Her-
man. from Brooklvn complete with
you know what kind of an accent.
Bill Scrucgs newest picture of
Iris Hill shows diamond ring and
score. Dashing crescendos and thrill-
Glub Metal
The Ave Maria Club will meet
Thursday at 1 p.m. at Autry House.
All members are urged to attend.
Lieut. Logansgard of Ellington
Field will speak at the regular meet-
ing of the Girls' Club on Friday at
Autry House at 1:15. He will discuss
the Air WACS; all girls who are in-
terested are invited to attend.
The Menorah Society will meet
this Sunday at 2:30 at the home of
Freda Lewis, 2709 Crawford. Mr.
William Nathan, graduate of Rice
and attorney of Houston, will speak.
Dancing will follow the program.
Visitors are invited to attend.
all . . . The latest couple on the cam-
pus is Evelyn Burke and Pat Ryan.
Quotes Burke, "Better late than nev-
er." . . . Leslie Hogan still is hold-
ing out what one fault. Kisling's one
fault is ... Of course this column
would not be complete without men-
tioning "Swee.tie" Garrett and his
birthday party. Wonder why Margee
Scott claims she was the only girl
who didn't kiss him?
Paps Frazier and J. D. Goodrich
are still confused as to whose date
was whose last Sunday afternoon
. We hope everyone noticed that
the mighty 6th platoon accounted
for two of last Saturday's touch-
downs . . . We thought that those
two boxes of Whitman's Samplers
were for Murray Smyth's mother,
but not so. Ann Martin and Sara
Nan Snoddy saw to that . . . Paul
Gamble was sportin' purty Lucille
Scheld to the Rice-Arkansas game.
if any room, for improvement
The famous Hungarian Dances,
Numbers 1, 3 and 5, by Johannes
Brahms were next on the program.
When they first became popular
Brahms was accused of plagiarism
and of getting rich at the expense
of wandering gypsies from whom
he borrowed these wild melodies,
setting them down for piano and or-
chestra. The rugged theme of each
is stirring and effectual, but again
the orchestra was not with its con-
ductor in rapid changes of tempo
and mood to bring out all its possi-
bilities in this respect.
The program was concluded with
the great Beethoven violin^concerto
which is universally recognized as
the greatest work of its kind. Albert
Spalding was soloist with the or-
chestra. It is a joy to the analytic-
ally minded musician to trace in its
wonderful passages the underlying
structure of Beethoven's music. It
would be more difficult for the av-
erage music lover to do, while its
loveliness is so appealing that it
quite conceals structural perfections
and leaves one free simply to listen
and delight in its colorful beauty.
Mr. Spalding played with a great
deal of self-assurance and firmness
in his wrist control used in the work-
ings of his instrument. His tonal
qualities at times, however, showed
that he did not wholeheartedly
throw himself into his playing. The
two very difficult Kreisler cadenzas,
which strangely enough to say in
this concerto are not entirely for
showmanship, but for perfection of
contrapuntal structure as well, were
treated best. After a moment of al-
most losing himself and forgetting
to come in, due probably, or per-
haps probably not, to a severe cough-
ing later on, Mr. Spalding skimmed
hurriedly and mechanically over an
intensely important and technically
famous, but difficult passage. He
rallied himself in time, nevertheless,
for a good climax, and later re-
deemed himself in two splendidly
played encores, Bach's "Air for the
G String," and Sarasate's "Rondo
Capriccioso." • '
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PALS
held its annual formal initiation
banquet last night at 7 p.m. at the
Junior League.
OWLS
entertained Friday, November 5,
with an informal get-together at
Wroxton House to honor mid-term
rushees. Members knitted on an af-
ghan which is to be presented to the
Red Cross soon. An announcement
was made of the purchase of a $100
War Bond by the club.
EBLS
and the EBLS alumnae held a
joint meeting at 4:30 p.m. Monday
at Autry House. Hostesses for the
alumnae group were Mrs. W. Roy
Davis, Mrs. Gordon Turrentine, Mrs.
George C. Wooster, and Mrs. Coy
Mills; hostesses for the entire group
were Mrs. Scrahton Harrington and
Lawrean Davis.
The members
of the Architectural Society gave
a picnic Saturday night in Memorial
Park for the architects and their
dates.
Robert Burton
Fellow in Chemistry, was married
to Miss Clara Farwell of Burlington,
Colorado at 4 p.m., October 27, at the
Methodist Parsonage, Goodland,
Kansas. Mrs. Burton will join her
husband here sometime in Decem-
ber. h
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