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VOLUME THIRTY-NINE — NUMBER EIGHTEEN
HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBBUABY 15, 1952
RONDELET
Spring Festival
Set For May 3
The 1952 Rice Rondelet will be held on the weekend of
May 3 this year, Chairman Paula Meredith announced today.
Plans are now being made by the Rondelet Committee for the
traditional May Fete and Dance which will highlight the week-
end honoring representatives from other Southwest Conference
schools and Rice's own Ronde-
let Royalty. The May Fete pa-
geant will be held on the cam-
pus, but a location for the dance
has not yet been decided upon.
Plans are being made for the dorm
open house, the luncheon, and all-
school reception.
Tentative dates for the election of
Rice's Rondelet Royalty have been
set. An all-school election to choose
the Queen and two princesses will
be held on Monday, May 3. The fol-
lowing Monday the classes will elect
their Duchesses and Maids.
Members of the Rondelet Commit-
tee in charge of the arrangements
are Chairman Paula Meredith, Wom-
en's Council representatives Beverly
War<^ and Janet Work, Student
Counci> Representatives John Mc-
Clintock and Neel Garland, Engineer-
ing Society Members Bill Fowler
and Charles Jacobs, Architecture
Society members Bill McMinn and
Bob Stavely, and Gordon Redd,
Chairman of the Dance Committee.
' Anyone interested in working on
Rondelet is asked to contact any
member of the Committee.
Faculty Rating
Poll To Be Held
Monday, Tuesday
Rice students will have an oppor-
tunity to rate their professors on
fifteen traits during the annual
Student Council Instructor Rating
Poll next Moday and Tuesday, said
Hal DeMoss, President of the Stu-
dent Association.
"v All instructors will pas out rat-,
ig sheets which wil lallow the stu-
dent to express his opinion of his in-
structor's knowledge of the sub-
ject, "preparation, enthusiasm, as-
singments, quizzes, speech, and
other qualities.
The poll is designed for the bene-
fit of the instructor who might see
in it, through clear, intelligent
marks, ample reason to alter and
improve his methods of teaching,
according to DeMoss.
"Honesty and intelligent cooper-
ation will aid the instructor, the
school, and the student, and will
help, to perpetuate the faculty eval-'
uation program which we have here
at Rice which is found nowhere
else, in the Southwest," said DeMoss.
Four Lits To
Sponsor Dance
Tomorrow Night
Le Rendezvous, an informal dance
^sponsored by the EBLS, CRLS, VC
LS, and SLLS, will be held tomor-
row night at the Elks Hall. Music
will be provided by Karl Doerner
with dancing from 9 til 1. Admis-
sion: $1.75, stag, $2.00 drag.
A feature of the floor show is to
be the crowning of "Le Roi du Ren-
dezvous". Candidates for the crown
have been conducted by various
campus organizations. Voting is to
be conducted at the door; a stag
ticket entitles the fearer to one
vote, a drag ticket has two votes. ►
Bob Warren and Gordon Redd
have nominated by the SLS; Fred
Kongabel, the Engineering Society;
Dean Moore, the Sextant; Bill Col-,
lins, the Rally Club; Leonard Childs
VCLS; Chuch Howe, OKLS, Tom
Taylor, PALS; T.F. Arner, EBLS;
Dick Wilson, OWLS; Teddy Montz,
the Architecture Society; Hal De-
Moss, CRLS;. Jim Watson, AICHE;
and Hardy Dean, MELLS.
INSIDE THE
THRESHER
# Press freedom is important on
the campus, too. See excerpts from
an important article on this sfabject
in "The Editor's Corner" Page 2.
• The Film Society's Spring
schedule of films is listed on Page 3.
#Mary Anne Johnson turns me-*
dieval in Arthurian Idyll on Page 2.
Young Republican
Club Organized
At Rice
Rice's first official branch in 6
years of the Young Republican
Club is being organized. Its organi-
zation has been cleared through the
administration. When the ten char-
ter members required by the Stu-
dent Association Constitution for all
campus organizations are found the
group will draft a constitution and
submit it to Student Council.
An organizational meeting will be
held at 307 Fondren Library at 2:00
on Sunday, February 17. Those in-
terested in participating in the
.group's activities on campus and
off, particularly those wishing to
be charter members shiuld plan to
attend this meeting, or to call
James Metzger or Doris Neal.
The Rice Chapter of the Young
Republican Club will be affiliated
with the national group and is be-
ing organized under Mr. James
Friloux of the University of Hous-
ton. Mr. Friloux is« national com-
mitteeman for the Young Republi-
cans. The Texas chapter is at pres-
ent backing Eisenhower, though the
chapter is being organized to sup-
port the Republican nominee when
chosen.
Contract Awarded
For High Voltage
Lab Building
The construction contract for the
new Rice High Voltage Laboratory
has been let and construction will
begin immediately, it was announced
last week by President W.V. Hous-
ton. The building, which will house
the 5,500,500-volt Van de Graaff
Accelerator, will be located on the
present site of the parking lot next
to the Physics Building. Construction
is expected to take nine months.
The $253,820 contract was let to
the Texas Gulf Construction Com-
pany. .
The Van de Graaf, central feature
of the laboratory, will be housed in
a 70-foot tower. The machine was
acquired when Rice was designated
by the Atomic Energy Commission
for advanced study in the field of
nuclear disintegration.
Rice alumni did much of the design
work on the new structure. The
architects were alumni George Pierce
and Abel B. Pierce. The structural
engineer was Walter P. Moore, an-
other alumnus.
Bonner To Talk
On Van de Graaff
Accelerators
«*
Dr. T. W. Bonner, Rice Physics
professor, will deliver a talk on
"Nuclear Research" with Van de
Graaff Accelerators" at Barnard
College in New York City before a
conference of -300 physics teachers
from all parts of the country, Bar-
nard is the women's undergraduate
division of Columbia University.
This conference will be held at the
same time as the convention of the
American Physical Society at Colum-
bia.
Career Tours
Begin Monday
Rice's 1952 Women's Career Conference will open Sunday,
February 17, when Mrs. A. Axelrod, former Assistant United
States Attorney, will deliver the keynote address at Cohen
House at 4 PM. After the address the guest lecturers will
be introduced to the girls.
A new feature of this year's
Conference will be tours of
various -institltions to srpple-
ment lectures on the various
professions.
Beginning at 1 PM Monday two
tours will be run simultaneously.
Mrs. Lois Deshotels, Placement
Counselor of the Humble Oil Com-
pany will take those interested in
stenography through the offices of
the Humble Company. At the same
time Mrs. Rose Matthaei of the Am-
erican Society of Medical Technolog-
ists will conduct a tour through the
Hermann Hospital Laboratory.
At 3 PM the same day, there will
be a tour and question period for
girls interested in advertising, con-
ducted by Miss Lauri Schutt of.
KTHT. Also at 3 PM, a tour through
KTHT's modex-n kitchen will be con-
ducted for prospective housewives by
Mrs. Clara Irby, Home Economist Dowden's office.
for the United Gas Company.
At 1 PM on Tuesday, a tour will
be conducted through five Houston
schools for girls interested in teach-
ing. At the same time, Mr. George
Rosenberger, of Sakowitz Brothers,
will lecture on department store buy-
ing as a career. At 3 PM Tuesday,
tours will be conducted for girls in-
terested in interior decorating and
journalism. Mr. Eugene Buttrill of
The Houston Post will conduct a
tour through the Post building. Miss
Helen Sprong will conduct a tour
through her decorating shop.
All girls who plan to attend tours
should meet at Sallyport a few min-
utes before the scheduled time of the
tours. Any girls able to supply trans-
portation are asked to turn in their
names to the Program Chairman of
their literary societies, or to Mrs.
Dowden's office. Anyone who has not
signed up to attend a conference may
do so by signing the lists in Mrs.
World Population
Rising, Says Bennett
By BETTY McGEEVER
Dr. M. K. Bennett, Rice's visiting M. I). Anderson Professor,
began his series of three lectures'on "Population, Food, and
Economic Progress" Tuesday night in the Lecture Lounge with
a lecture on "A Thousand Years of Population Growth."
Beginning with the statistical theory that man can increase
at the rate of three per cent per
pear thus doubling its popula-
tion every twenty-five years,
A & M Student To
Spe'ak On India
An A&M graduate student froih
India will show films and speak on
his native country in the Fondren
Library Lecture Lounge at 7:30
Monday night. Mr. John Koratha, a
Nansen Fund Scholarship exchange
student from South India will be
the speaker.
Draft Boards Now
Have Test Scores
Scores on the December Selective Service college qualifica-
tion test h§tve been mailed to local boards for the 19,571 col-
lege students who took the fifth test.
Registrants can obtain individual scores from their local
boards.
Complete statistics reveal that 61.3
percent of those taking the Decem-
ber test made a score of 70 or bet-
ter. This is slightly lower than the
percentage passing on the first fqur
tests. Of the approximately 340,000
who took the first four tests, 63 per-
cent made a score of 70 or better.
Educational Testing Service offi-
cials have released the results of a
sample survey they made on the
first four tests held last year.
The sample of students indicates
that in engineering, physical sci-
ences, and mathematics the percen-
tage of candidates passing the test
was well above average, 68 percent
in engineering passing and 64 per-
cent in physical sciences and mathe-
matics passing. ^
Students in humanities, biological
sciences, and general arts tended to
be in the middle bracket, at or near
the 63 percent average.
Students in business, commerce,
agriculture, and education (includ-
ing physical education) did not fare
so well, with those passing ranging
from 42 percent of the students in
business and commerce to 27 percent
of the education students.
The lower percentage passing the
fifth test has been attributed to the
fact that most of the men taking the
December test were lower classmen.
Mos of the less scholastically apt
students are concentrated in the
freshman and sophomore classes and
a very large percentage of those
enrolling each year in the freshman
class nevei1 get beyond the first or
second year. They drop out because
of scholastic difficulties.
The deadline for making applica-
tion to take the sixth test is March
10, 1952.
Under Selective Service regula-
tions, local boards consider students
for deferment on the basis of test
score or class standing. This eli-
minates a possible penalty on insti-
tutions which maintain higher en-
trance requirements than others.
The local boards are not compelled
to follow the criteria, but classifica-
tions are subject to appeal.
Dr. Bennett stated that the rate of
population increase has actually not
only been slow but very slow, and
devoted his lecture to explaining
why the increase has been so slow.
Using a chart with diagrams of
the opinions of the most competent
scholars about the increase in num-
ber of people populating Europe
from 400 years B.C. to the middle
of the 20th century, Dr. Bennett
pointed out that if these can be
trusted, the population of Europe
was twice set back, once through-
out a period of 500 years between *
200 and 700 A.D. and again in a
period between 1300 and 1400 A.D.
It was probably not until the 16th
century that the population stood
at a level as high as that at the end
of the 2nd century. Included on the
graph was a line showing what
would have been the course of Euro-
pean population- growth if it had
increased steadily at the rate of
less than 1/7 of 1%, a rate which
would double the population every
five centuries. This, however, is just
Europe. Willcox and Carr-Saunders
have made a survey continent by
continent, resulting in a picture of
population growth since 1650.
Dr. Bennett, with the aid of one
of his Seminars at the Institute,
has made a computation of the totals
population growth since 100 A.D.
He pointed out that credible evidence
of the accuracy df these computa-
tions was fairly easy to get from
recent surveys but evidence was
harder to obtain as the survey delved
farther into the past.
Dr. Bennett showed a second chart
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