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Entered as second class mailing matter, October 17. 1916. at the Post Office, Houston, under the act of March 3, 1879,
Volume Forty. Number Six
HOUSTON, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1952
CHARITY DRIVE
Houston Cerebral PaJsy
Center Chosen Recipient
Chairman Conway Jordan announced that the Houston
Cerebral Palsey Center will be the recipients $f the proceeds
from the Annual Charity Drive October 18 through 25. This
agency located at 1415 California was deemed by the Rice
Charities Committee of the Student Council as the most worthy
SCOKsMock
Presidential
Election For Rice
The Student Council, after urging
bythe Young Republicans has voted
to sponsor^ mock presidential elec-
tion. Rice students and faculty will
have the chance to express their
choice between the two major can-
didates for the presidency, Eisen-
hower and Stevenson.
The council .feels that such an
election will do much toward in-
creasing campus interest not only
in the forthcoming national election
but in government in general.
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Mexico Offers Grads
Undergrads Grants
For Study in '53
The Mexican Government,
throflgh the Mexican-United States
Commission on Cultural Coopera-
tion, offers seventeen grants to
United States students for study in
Mexico during the academic year be-
ginning March 1, 1953. Eleven schol-
arships are at the graduate level,
paying tuition and 800-pesos month-
ly. Six undergraduate scholarships
pay 700 pesos per month. Prefer-
ence will be given to junior and sen-
ior year students in the awarding
of undergraduate Scholarships.
Applications, on forms to be se-
cured from the U.S. Student Pro-
gram of the Institute of Interna-
tional Education must be filed, with
all supporting documents, not later
than October 15, 1§52.
the several charities con-
sidered. ~
The goal this year has been set at
$1600, approximately one dollar per
student. The Charities Committee
strongly urges cooperation of all
students in achieving this goal
through participation in the sched-
uled activities.
Assisting Jordan as vice-chairman
is Bill Shepard of the Senior class
with Florence White as secretary.
Allen Pierce and Pat Cunningham
are in charge of publicity. Bill Lee,
Patti Ambrose, Wayne Bennett, Bet-
ty Silvus, Martha Hodge, Judy Gar-
land, and Jack Roaper comprise the
Charitie Ball and Flor Show Com-
mittee. The Finance and Ticket
Committee are in the hands of Ann
Krachy,- Helen Bailey, Pat Kemp,
Joan Coley, Marilyn Vreugde, and
M. E. Kinzback.
O —
Academic And
Engineering Depts.
Challenged
The Charities Committee hereby
wishes to challenge the Engineer-
ing faculty and students and the
Academic Faculty and students to
engage in a touch football game on
the evening of October 21, 1952.
Rice Stadium and equipment for two
eleven man teams plus the officiat-
ing of the Athletic Staff will be
furnished. All interested are asked
to sign up in the Lounge.
—O
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Honor Council
Chairmanship
Poses Real Problem
Tonight any interested student
can drop by the Exam Room around
7:00 PM and watch student govern-
ment in action. If last Wednesday's
action is any signpost, tonight will
will see the Student Council go way
"out of bounds" constitutionally
concerning the status and method
of ejecting the Chairman of the
Honor Council.
In the proposed election by-laws,
due to come off the table and on to
the floor tonight, there is one seem-
ingly innocent paragraph that is
responsible for the mounting "Bat-
tle of the Councils." The paragraph
states that no student shall hold
"more than one major and two minor
offices and then goes fin to list the
major offices. On the surface this
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Engineer Stodents,
Faculty Invited
To TSPE Meeting
AU senior engineering students
and all engineering faculty mem-
bers of the Rice Institute are cor-
dially invited to attend the meeting
of the San Jacinto Chapter of the
Texas Society of Professional En-
gineers on Monday, October 13,
1962.
Free cokes, coffee, and donuts
will be served at 7:30 PM in the
Roost where the Professional Engin-
eers and their successors may be-
come acquainted.
Mr. John J. Ledbetter of Austin
General Counsel of the Texas Soci-
ey of Professional Engineers, will
speak on "Engineering Registra-
tion and Its Legalised Aspects" in
the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge at 8:00 PM. The status of
the "Can we Enforce the Engineers'
Registration Law?" will be of par-
ticular interest to graduating stu-
dents.
O
Travel & Study Inc.
Poster Contest
Open To Riceites
Travel & Study Inc. has an-
nounced that it will again hold its
annual poster competition in which
a seudent is eligible to win a prize
of twenty to fifty dollars for design-
ing a poster advertising student
travel to Europe containing a slo-
gan of not more than six words
around which the poster is centered.
The competition is open to all stu-
dents, both undergraduate and grad-
uate. The closing date of the compe-
tition is October 25.
Students who are interested in
earning part of the whole of a trip
to Europe next summer, -or cash,
and who fancy their own prowess in
sales rather than slogans, promo-
tion rather than poster design,
might wish to become Travel &
Study campus representatives. Fur-
ther details may be obtained from
Travel & Study Inc-> HO East 57th
Street, New York 22, N.Y.
PUBLIC INVITED
Parish To Open
Faculty Lectures
The annual fall series of Faculty Lectures will open Sunday
at 4:00 in Fondren Lecture Lounge. Dr. John Parish will lec-
ture qn "Early Religious Literature on Christianity in the
Garden of Eden."
Dr. Parish, well-known to freshmen last year, is teaching
a class in 17th century English
literature this year in addition
'Tom Jones' Arrives
At Fondren; Rare
Edition Given
"Fondren Library has just ac-
qiured a first edition of Henry
Fielding's Tom Jones in six vol-
umes," said Dr. Alan McKillop to-
day. This is the gift of Dr. Charles
S. Alexander of Houston."
"This is a notable addition to the
Library's collection of first editions
of important English novels," Dr.
McKillop continued, "Rare and
choice items of this kind are not
bought out of regular Library funds,
but are acquired through the gen-
erosity of such friends of the Li-
brary as Dr. Alexander."
0
Der Eulenspiegel
To Raise Dues
October 14
Der Eulenspiegel announces that"
as the result of a vote taken at the
business meeting held on October 1,
1952, the dues to Eulenspiegel will
return to their standard rate of
$1.50 per academic year on October
44, 1952. Students desiring to join
at the reduced rate of $1.35 per aca-
demic year should do so before the
last mentioned date by contacting
any of the executive officers. Stu-
dents will, however, continue to be
able to join by the semester for 75c.
The German Club will hold a
Listening Party, Saturday, Octo-
ber 11, from 2:30 until 6:30 at
Washburn Hall. Maps will be
posted later. Make plans to at-
tend.
MAIL & SHACK RUNS*'
INSIDE THE
THRESHER .
I
Dr. Hudson gives his impres
sions of the ^Middle East and the
inside tale of his arrest in Syria on
page 2.
# Bridge results, a challenging
hand, and commentary are found in
Sam On Bridge age 3.
Frosh Raked Over Guidance Coals Vigorously
By Emil Burger
Freshman Guidance, whatever that is, is now well under
way with section meetings every Monday night, slime caps,
and many other forms of interesting entertainment. One week
ago last Monday a section meeting was held and the Freshmen
were quized on their knowledge of the history of Rice Institute.
Here is presented some of the
easier questions that undoubt-
edly all upper-classmen could
easily answer.
"Who was the associate architect
under the late H. B. Weiser?" "Give
three Latin quotations from W. M.
Rice's tomb." "What is the inscrip-
tion on the wall beside the entrance
to South Hall?" }iName the govern-
ing board of the school, and how
many members are there on it."
"How many students graduated
from the first class that entered
Rice Institution, and when did they
graduate?"
All freshmen were required to
know the answers to these and
majny other siich questions. It is in-
teresting to note how few opper-
classmen cohld answer these qhes-
tions, even thodgh the answers are
supposed to be basic knowledge to
all. . .even slimes t
HAIRCUTS
As another part of Fjeshman
Guidance not yet revealed on these
pages, some sophomore of ancient
and honorable lineage decided that
during the entire period of Fresh-
man Guidance no slime would be
allowed to get a haircut; however
when the various R.O.T.C.'s came
into being and required haircuts,
things were momentarily fouled up..
But never*let It be said that a soph-
omore was found lacking in ideas!
It was decided that since the R.Of
T.C. boys would be depriYed of £be
privilege of letting the hair on tlieir
legs grow; therefore it is required
that the legs of those slimes (boys
only) whose classification is that of
an R.O.T.C. cadet be shaved so
that they are (and quoting now)
"smooth as a baby's face." Needless
to say, in the attempt to acquire
the desired quality of having legs
as "smooth as a baby's face" much
blood was lost due to slips of razors
which the slimes employed in re-
moving the hair.
MAIL RUN
Two other manifestations of
Freshman Guidance are the Mail
Run and Shack Run. The Mail Run
is the process in which a slime (us-
ually one per floor) comes around
to each room about 6:15 PM and
picks up any mail that has to be
mailed. He then takes all the let-
ters which he.has collected to the
mail box in frajst of Autry house
and mails them. Here the" mail is
picked up about 6:45 PM and thus
the letters which otherwise might
sleep and told that they could not
come back on the campus until six
thirty that,., morning. It was then
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Oct.
Oct.
Nov.
to English 100. He will be remem-
bered by upperclassmen for his in-
terest in the dramatic productions
on campus and his sponsorship of,
the English Department exhibit in
the 1951-52 Science and Engineering
show.
The fall series of lectures will
include:
Oct. 12 John E. Parish
"Early Religious Litera-
ture on Christianity in the
Garden of Eden"
19 Lee Hodges
"Mexican Notes and Per-
sonalities of the Struggle
for Texas"
26 Neils C. Neilsen, Jr.
"Popular, Cults and Theo-
logical Reflection in Con-
temporary Hinduism"
2 Wallace B. Diboll, Jr.
"The Operation of Auto-
matic Drives"
Nov. .9 Edward H. Phillips
"Problems of Race in the
World Today"
16 James Woodburn
"The Diamond Mines of
South Africa"
23 Richard B. Turner
"The Origins of Certain
Drugs in Modern Medi-
cine" 4
Nov. 30 Joseph I. Davies
"Sensation and the Evolu-
tion of Mind"
Dec. 7 Lincoln K. Durst
"The Search for Solutions
— Mathematics, Ancient
and Modern" .
This lecture series originating in
1913, is open to the public as well
as the students, faculty and friends
of Rice Institute.
Nov.
Nov..
Turn Left Begs
Thresher Staff To
Campanile Hunters
"The Campanile door is the door
to the left as you come in the
•Thresher office," pleaded the
Thresher staff today. "Please do
not ask anyone in the Thresher of-
fice about Campanile business for
we don't know. No, we don't take
money, change appointments, nor d<S
we know when the members of the
Campanile staff will return. The
Thresher is always glad to help any-
one about anything that it knows
about, but cannot transact Campan-
ile business."
The besieged staff added this plea.
"We have posted a card oil the door
as follows:
""The Thresher editor will be in
the office from 8-9 and 10-11 on
MWF and TTS.
Please put all copy on spike
.marked EDITOR.
©«
Please do not refer personal mes-
sages to our extension. We do not
run a messenger service. * «
Please kpep outgoing calls to a
minimum and respect incoming
long distance ^:alls _ or business
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