The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 22, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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PARENTS ORIENTATION
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For
38 Years
Highlight Day
By HERB SIMONS
Rice's fourth annual Parent Qrientation Day will be held
tomorrow for the benefit of the parents of all freshmen and new
students. The purpose of this day is to give the parents a chance
to become acquainted with Rice's teachers and traditions. Ed
Harris, Chairman of the Parent Orientation Committee^has
announced the day's program
as follows:
At 10:00 parents are invited'
to a 45 minute orientation program
in the Fondren Library Lecture
Lounge. There will be several speak-
ers including: Dr. William V. Hous-
ton, Rice's President; Dr. Guy T.
McBride, dean of students; Dr. Jo-
seph I. Davies, associate professor
of biology;. Dr. Catherine Fischer
Drew, assistant professor of Jhis-
tory; Bill Allen, president of the
Student Association; Louis Israel,
president of TISA; and Elsa Hol-
land, vice-president of the Student
Association.
From 11:00 until 12:00 there will
be guided tours around the campus.
Guides, provided by the junior class,
will point out the main features of
the campus and give a short revue
of the history and traditions of
Rice.
Parents will then be served lunch
in the Commons, and, starting at
2:00, the Rice-Texas game will pro-
vide some very exciting entertaiiT-
ment. Immediately after the game,
President and Mrs. William V.
Houston will hold a reception in
honor of all freshmen, new stu-
dents, a#d their parents. Freshman
instructors are invited to attend, and
also students, whose parents are
unable to be here, are still urged to
come. j
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BEFORE CAPACITY CROWD
By ALAN RINGOLD
It's do or die for both Rice and Texas tomorrow afternoonJchampionship, but Rice went to
as the Owls and the Longhorns battle to stay in the running f<*the Cotton Bowl by virtue of a
1954 SWC champion. Rice and Texas have each lost a confer-
ence game, and a second conference defeat usually puts a team
out of the race. Last year Rice and Texas tied for the SWC
IKel
An
All Student
Newspaper
Volume Forty-Two — Number Five
HOUSTON, TEXAS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1954
Today For
Homecoming Queen
Today Rice students will select
from an unprecedented field of
twenty-nine candidates, the queen
and princesses of the Student-Alum-
ni 1954 Homecoming Activities. The
polls are open until 1:00 P.M. and
all students are urged to cast their
votes for what is probably the high-
est honor a woman student can ob-
tain.
The 1954 Royalty will not be an-
nounced until halftime of the Van-
derbilt game on October 30, at
which Dr. William V. Houston will
crown the new queen. Assisting in
the coronation of the royalty will
be Bill Allen, Rice Student Associa-
tion president, and Jack Shannon,
Alumni Association president.
This year, for the first time,
nominatibns were made by individ-
ual petitions. The candidates are:
Marge Adickes, Ann Alexander,
Betty Belsher, Polly Benoit, Barbara
Blake, Mary Coy, Gretchen Ferris,
Gretchen Frye,%Judy Fuller, Mary
Ann Kopriva, Sara Luger, Roberta
McKenzie, Nancy Moore, Ellen Peit-
ravalle, Lannie Price, Wanda Rag-
land, Jane Reynolds, Pam Riley,
Naomi Robins, Jane Ryba, Joan
Ryba, Elaine Schwinger, Dix$e
Sick, Ann Spears, Carolyn Turner,
La Nelle Ueckert, Marilyn Webb,
Jean Youngblood, Irene Zakrzewski.
From this list each voter will have
three votes.
An interesting sidelight to this
year's election is the fact that, prob-
ably for the first time, there will be
three homecoming queens attending
Rice at one time: the 1954 queen;
Miss Deedee Meek, 1953 queen; and
Miss Elsa Jean Holland, 1952 queen.
GALA WEEKEND
PLANNED FOR
HOMECOMING
Several outstanding social activi-
ties will be held to further in-
crease the excitement of the 1954
Homecoming weekend.
A feature attraction of the 1954
Homecoming bonfire will be the
presentation of some of the all-
time greats of Rice football his-
tory—the stars of Rice's first con-
ference champs, the 1934 team; and
the 1949 champs who were ranked
3rd nationally. Percy Arthur, cap-
tain of the 1934 group, will present
the members of his team. The 1949
team will be presented by Paul
Giroski, an all-conference tackle
who is in charge of the team's re-
union plans; and oe of Rice's great-
est all-American stars, end Froggie
Williams, who captained the '49
squad. Coach Jess Neely and Kenny
Paul, captain of this year's team,
will also be presented. Other fea-
tures of the evening will be yells
and music by the Rice band.
On Friday night, Oct. 29, follow-
ing the bonfire a free pre-game
dance will be held in the lounge.
All students are urged to attend
the dance will last from approxi-
mately 7:30 until 12 and will be
a casual affair.
Saturday afternoon from 12 un-
til gametime will be featured by
the annual open houses sponsored
by. the dorms and coordinated by
th£" Men's Hall Committee.
The feature attraction of the en-
tire weekend toward which all
other events point is the annual
semi-formal Homecoming Dance at
the Emerald and Grecian Rooms of
the Shamrock Hotel. Rice will con-
tinue the policy initiated last year
of presenting top-notch nationally
known entertainment, this year's
bad being Hal Mclntyre and his
Orchestra with star vocalist Jeanne
MacManus.
Admission to the dance which
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SWC Sportsmanship Week
Fellow Students:
This is S.WW.C. Sportsmanship Week! What does this
mean to you ? What is sportsmanship in the student body ? How
can students promote sportsmanship at the games? What is
meant by good sportsmanship between schools?
Sportsmanship Week is a time to reexamine conditions and
standards of Rice as a friendly school, one of the friendliest in
the country. This includes not only friendliness and comrade-
ship among ourselves, but also toward other students from oth-
er schools. Thus it is a valuable time to look at ourselves and
see if we are fulfilling this tradition as much as we can and do-
ing what we can to correct that in which we may be lacking,
particularly since the other S.W.C. schools will be doing the
same thing. ,
Sportsmanship is^ often conceived of as accepting a win
humbly and a loss graciously, and always shtfwing every cour-
tesy to the opponents. It is this* and more, it is a genuine desire
to make the other school feel welcome and glad to be playing
you. This can only be achieved by sincerely welcoming and be-
ing glad to meet the other students as friends and fellow stu-
dents. But it has another essence also. It is a real desire to win
by superior ability. It is only natural to have this desire, but the
important thing is to keep it on the level of good competition
with a smattering of school pride, which offends no one.
At the games the opportunity to display this spirit of
sportsmanship is best presented. Here the visible aspects of
sportsmanship, which are already well recognized, do very well.
The essence, though is not just to go through the motion but
really feel it. You will cheer our team with all your energy and
fpel disappointed over the bad breaks, but also admire the skill
of your opponents and be able to symnathize with them when
the luck comes our way. Resnect the riehts and desires of them
as you would have them respect yours on a common respect of
students.
By developing these facets of snortsmanshin, each school
will have a reauisite half toward good snortsmanshin between
schools. More than half actually, for this attitude will encourage
the other school to extend the same feelings toward you.
Rice has won the S.W.C. Sportsmanship Trophy two times
already. Let's show the conference that we can do it again, and
then again after that. Let's r-o out and beat Texas Saturday,
but leaving Texas with the feeling that they were glad to play
us and really looking forward to trying again next year.
John Alcorn Ken Paul
3ill Allen Rice Representatives,
3ill Gordon The Southwest Conference *
Sportsmanship Committee
Huxley Explains Man's Place In Evolution
By LARRY McMURTY
Dr. Julian Huxley lectured to an
overflow crowd of approximately
four hundred fifty in the Frondren
Library Lecture Lounge last Thurs-
day evening on "The Evolutionary
Process and Man's Place In It."
The crowd, composed of students,
faculty members, and numerous
outside guests, filled all the chairs
in the Lecture Lounge, plus all the
chairs and a large portion of the
standing room in the adjacent lob-
by.
Dr. Chandler, in introducing the
speaker, reminded the audience of
the days when Dr. Huxley was head
of the Rice Biology department.
He told very briefly of Dr. Hux-
ley's activities as a biologist, lec-
turer, and writer during the 40
years since he left Rice.
Dr. Huxley's lecture was one of
several he has given on his trip
through the United States, but was
not part of a particular tour or
sferies. He visited former friends
and colleagues for some five days
before continuing on his trip..
He opened his lecture by saying
that he might well have sub-titled
it, "Man's Place and Role in Na-
ture." New knowledge of this role
has been garnered through advances
in all branches of science. Truth
can never be fully discovered, but
it is through co-operate discovery
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last minute victory over the
Longhorns. The Owls find them-
selves facing the same situation
now as they did last year at this
time when they invaded Austin with
one conference defeat to SMU and
no conference wins.
The rivalry between Rice and the
University of Texas is one of the
hottest among SWC teams. Rice is
the only SWC team that has an
edge over the Longhorns in the
past 25 years. It is an extremely
slim edge, though, as the Owls
have won thirteen games to Texas'
twelve. However, Rice won last
year and has not been able to put
together successive victories over
the Longhorns since the mid-forties,
while Texas had three straight vic-
tories" over us going into last sea-
son's contest.
Texas University was picked
unanimously to repeat as SWC
champ this year, but pre-season
pickings by SWC sportswriters
have only proved light four times
in the past twenty years. The Long-
horns, which lost only four letter-
men from last year's powerhouse,
have started off with a disappoint-
ing 2-3 record, including a decisive
upset by surprising Arkansas.
The Texas line-up shows an out-
standing player in every position.
At ends are Merman Schriewer and
Howard Moon: each of them is tall,
experienced, and fast and they pro-
vide excellent targets for UT's wide
open aerial game. Both tackles,
Herb Gray and Buck Lansford, are
candidates for All-American hon-
ors; guards Kirby Miller and Ben
Woodson, arid Johnny Tatum at
center give the Longhorns both of-
fensive and defensive strength
through the middle.
The Texas backfield boasts a col-
lection of stars that any team in
the nation would envy. Pat Tolar
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10 Seniors Elected
To Phi Beta Kappa
Dr. William H. Masterson, presi-
dent of the Rice chapter of Phi
Beta Kappa, the national collegiate
hononary fraternity, announced that
ten members of the senior class of
1955 were elected on October 18 to
the first contingent of members-
in-course to the Chapter. The
members will not be initiated until
Thanksgiving. Those receiving ths
honor are:
Mrs. Katerine Snow Beutel, Jo
Ann Marie Hickman, Catherine Sue
Hill, Louis Frank Israel, Norman
Lasser, Jane Mclver Lawhorn,
Nancy Corwin Moore, Daniel C.
Redmond II, Edward Brad Thomp-
son, John Urquhart.
PEP RALLY
Something new is to be added
to the usual pre-game Pep
Rally. If plans go through as
expected, tonight's Pep Rally
will be on a coast-to-coast hook-
up on ABC. This will be the
first time in this area that any-
thing of this nature has been
tried.
The I'ep Rally will be in front
of the Gymnasum at 6:30 P.M.
Kenny Paul, Dicky Moegle, and
Jess Neely will speak, and the
Rice band will play. Immediately
following the rally, the Rice
Owlets tackle the Texas Short-
horns. Be sure and come to both
the Pep Rally and the Game.
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