The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1957 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume Forty-Four—Number 27
HOUSTON, TEXAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1957
It's True!
Easter Holidays To
Begin Today 6pm
BY FRED SRISMAN
Easter holidays, the most peripatetic of all the regu-
larly scheduled holidays, begin Thursday, April 18, at 6:00
p.m. and classes resume at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 23.
Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday are five dol-
lar days, with all the implications and privileges thereof.
Perhaps the most funda-
Shakespeare Play
To Be Spectacular
BY JOAN FEILD
"I hold the world but as the
world, Gratiano—a stage, where
every man must play a part, and
mine a sad one."
So' says Antonio to explain his
melancholy in "The Merchant of
Venice." Shylock then viciously
claims a pound of the merchant's
flesh as payment of a debt and
calls forth Portia's famous "The
quality of mercy is not strained
... in this well known Shake-
spearean drama to be presented
April 28 and 29.
The Grounds
The grounds between Lovett
Hall and the Physics building- will
Rice Day to Fill
Alums With
Memories, Food
Rice Day, an annual Rice
Alumni production, will take
place April 27 in the stadium.
The activities of this day, de-
signed to fill the alums with
memories of their days at Rice
and to renew their acquaintance
with the beauties of the campus,
will have a carnival air. .
Included on the program are
carnival rides for the kiddies, a
trained dog act, and carnival
booths which will open at 3:00
mentally religious of all the p.m. A fried chicken dinner to
holidays for which the insti-
tute dismisses its classes, Easter
curiously enough takes both its j
name and its date from an an-
cient pagan festival.
The name itself, "Easter," is
derived from "Eostre," the Teu-
tonic goddess of dawn. Further
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be given at 6:15 will end the
festivities.
Ticket prices will be $1.50 for
adults, $1.25 for students (over
12), and $1.00 for children (under
12). They may be purchased
through literary society alumnae,
class agents, and other alumni
groups.
Memorial Center
Plans Expanded
BY DONNA PAUL MARTIN
Construction on the Student Memorial Center should
begin about commencement time, according to Mr. Harvin
Moore, architect. Plans for the building have been greatly
expanded since their initial development last fall, Mr.
Moore revealed. Bids will be let on May 1.
i New plans for the Memor-
2 PROFS TAKE LEAVES
FOR RESEARCH WORK
Two members of Rice's facul-
ty have announced that they will
take a semester's leave of ab-
sence next fall in order to develop
research _projects._
. . Dr. J. E. Kilpatrick of the
be used as playing area. Viewers | chemistry Department will leave
will see spectacles undreamt of j about the firgt Q.f June tQ begin
before on the Rice campus
work at the University of Ley-
torches blazing from the heights • den in Leyden> Holland. He wil]
Federalist party. Most of his
work will be done in the library
of Congress and the Harvard
University Library but his trav-
els will take Dr. Phillips and his
family from Maine to' North Car-
olina.
Rice has no system of "sab-
batical years" during which a
of the cloisters, love
played "from physics lab win
d o w s, Elizabethan daredevils
scaling the heights of the Lovett
Hall balustrude, etc. The show
will undoubtedly prove to be a
most delightful and most color-
ful exhibition of Rice architec-
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faculty member takes a scheduled
scenes j do regearcj1 "jn statistical mechan- : leave of absence. Instead, Rice
ics with the support of a Gug- j faculty members are awarded a | Hall, make
genheini Fellowship. Dr. Kilpat- period of absence to explore an j (Continued on Pa^e 2)
rick's family vvill accompany him : approved research project.
Four-College
Bicycle Race
Set April 27
Final approval has been receiv-
ed from the Dean's Office with
regard to the inter-college bi-
cycle race. The date has been
set for Saturday, April 27, at
1:00.
The entire school is invited to
line themselves along the route
of the race, which will be held
on Campus, to cheer the members
of their choice team.
Participating colleges will be
H^nszen^ Will Rice, Wiess, and
Baker. The team from each col-
lege will consist of ten men, with
two alternates. Each member of
the team will ride one lap.
The race route is as follows:
Start at the gym; ride to Lovett
one circuit of the
ial Center include two floors
and a basement. The main
floor features a large ballroom
forming the body of a "T" shape
with a kitchen and snack shop on
one wing and a lounge on the
other wing. The wall's between
these sections slide back provid-
ing room to seat 700 people at a
dinner.
When the snack shop, ballroom
and lounge are jointly in use,
there is a smaller "permanent"
lounge which will be maintained
for the students at all times
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to Holland. He plans to return
about Februai'y 1 in time for the
spring semester.
The history Department will
be without the services of Dr.
Edward H. Phillips for next
S.A. Amendments rai;'s_«,"e/lans
to tour the New England and
Middle Atlantic states in com-
pletition of his research project.
Dr. Phillips' project is a study
of the early National and Fed-
eralist periods of American His-
tory with special emphasis on the
Given Approval
By GINGER PURINGTON
Four senior members to the
Honor Council were elected Mon-
day, and a slate of S. A. consti-
tutional amendments were given
the okay by Rice student voters.
In an election originally sched-
uled for March 25, but reset be-
cause two candidates had sub-
mitted petitions that were im-
properly filled out, Frank Ryan,
Jim Ebanks, Tim Stevens, and
Matt Gorges, were elected to the
Honor Council posts.
The Constitutional amend-
ments were for the purpose of
adjusting present student gov-
ernment to the new college sys-
tem.
Debaters to Attend
West Point Tourney
Rex Martin and Roy Hofheinz
will represent the Rice Institute
$t a nation-wide debate tourna-
ment April 24-27 at West Point
Military Afjtdemy on the sub-
ject, "Should the United States
discontinue economic aid to for-
eign countries." Selected from a
five state district competition at
Denton last week, the Rice de-
baters will compete with 36 teams
and it will mark the first time
that Rice has been invited to the
event.
College Names
Harry Wiess, A
Man. Was Rice
Humble
Builder
Rondelet Plans
By MARC SMITH organizers of the Humble Oil
As chairman of the building and Refining Company, and- he
committee of the Board of Trus- j was connected with this corn-
tees, Harry Carothers Wiess was pany until the date of his death,
one of the persons most re- i He became a charter trustee
sponsible for the building pro- j of the Princeton University, and
gram that Rice students and j later, a term member of the cor-
faculty members may see around j poration of MIT. In autumn of
j -.j them now. Long hours of .patient j 1944, Mr. Wiess became a life
x /MJ (111(1 I work, study and planning, after Trustee of the Rice Institute re-
his day's work was through as j placing the founder's nephew,
President; then Chairman of the j Will Rice, who died. In 1946, he
Board of Humble Oil Co. were I was elected Vice-Chairman to the
Negotiations are underway to
have the dancers and singers
from Theatre, Inc.'s production
of "The King and I" entertain at
the Rondelet pageant. It is un-
known at this £ime if the plans
will materialize. Annita Fite is
in charge of arrangtements.
Many activities are planned for
the Rondelet weekend of May 3-
5. Rice will be host to honorees
from neighboring colleges and
universities and will honor them
at a reception Friday, May 3.
Saturday morning all women
students are invited to attend a
coffee given by Mrs. Houston -in
honor of the Rondelet royalty. A
luncheon that afternoon is plan-
ned 'at Cohen House for the en-
tire court.
The pageant will be .held on
the lawn near Cohen House that
afternoon at 4 P.M. The dance
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needed to make these plans a
reality. *
Mr. Wiess, son of Capt. Wil-
liam Wiess and Mrs. Louise
Elizabeth Carothers Wiess, was
born in Beaumont, Texas, on July
30, 1887. After two years at
Lawrenceville School, he entered
Princeton University in the
autumn of 1905, graduating as a
civil engineer in Jun# o# 1909.
On September 29, 1909, Harry
Wiess was married to Miss Olga
Keith of Beaumont, whom the
OKLS later chose as their name-
sake.
He Was Employed
He was employed in 1910 by
the Paraffin Oil Co. of Beau-
mont, and was elected president
in 1912, holding that^office until
1917.
In 1917, Mr. Wiess came to
HoustoA as oife of the original
Board of Trustees and served in
this capacity until his death.
Rice Stadium
Mr. Wiess was one of the main
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HARRY C. WIESS
Helped Building Plans
Hanszen College
To Host Tea Dance
And Open House
By DON PAYNE
The Hanszen College will open
its doors to members of the
Mary Gibbs Jones College, in-
vited guests among the faculty,,
and friends of members of Hans-
zen College at an Open House-
Tea' Dance on Sunday afternoon.
April 28.
The College will feature ar.
! Open House for invited guests
! from 3-5 on that Sunday. The-
j Open House will begin in the
master's home, and College mem-
' hers will be on hand to take
those around who wish to see
th facilities of Hanszen College.
Open House
Guests may visit any of the
rooms throughout the College,
and also the Ha«szen „ College
Commons.
At 5 p.m. Hanszen College will
present a combination Open
House-Tea Dance to which all
the members of the Mary Gibbs
Jones College will be invited.
Larry Steele and his orchestra
will provide music for dancing,
and refreshments will be served
in the Hanszen College Commons.
The dance will conclude at 8.
Masters Home
Members of both Jones and
Hanszen Colleges are also in-
vited to visit the master's home
between 5 and G p.m.
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Master-
son will be on hand throughout
the afternoon with the officers
of the College to greet the guests
at Hanszen House.
Committee chairman for the
planning of the event include
Wes Pittman, refreshments; Bob
Fri, invitations; Dan Weston,
parking; Bob Murray, service;
Bob Griffin,,music; Bruce Mont-
gomery, publicity; Ken Goodner,
decorations; Earl Singleton,
clean-up; Vic Baldridge, guuled
tours.
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1957, newspaper, April 18, 1957; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth231057/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.