The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1919 Page: 1 of 6
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WHO
RUNS MCE?
JUNIOR ISSUE
THE THRESHER
JUNIORS
Volume 4
BICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, MARCH 27,1919
Number 8
HOB PROM 10 BE
MOMENTOUS OCCASXM
FRIDAY, MAY S, SET AS DATE FOR
GREATEST EVENT OF THE
SEASON.
Committees Appointed, Finance Pro-
gram Adopted and Everything in
Shape to Make a Success of
the Affair.
A Junior class meeting was called at
noon Tuesday to decide on the Jun-
ior Prom, to be given this year. It
was throught by some that it wouid be
a good plan to follow the precedent of
last year and give an open dance, giv-
ing aii students the privilege of at-
tending, but after a short discussion
this idea was ruled out and the class
decided to follow the old custom and
give the prom, in honor of the Senior
class. The chief argument in favor of
the later plan was that the school
should have at least one exclusive af-
fair during the season, and the prom,
affords the only means for an occasion
of this kind.
To give a prom, that wiii do justice
to the Junior class will require not a
small amount of funds. To obtain the
necessary money it will be necessary
for every Junior to pay his class dues
without hesitancy. In this respect the
boys are much luckier than the girls,
as ali the boys should receive their $60
bonus within a week or so. Why, the
money for class dues will hardly be
missed! But the girls can be counted
upon to do their part regardless of the
handicap. Therefore, let every Junior
count it not oniy a duty but a privilege
to pay his class dues.
This year's prom, is going to be by
far the best ever, because the Juniors
have been more fully selected and every
one who is on a committee may be
counted upon to do his part in giving
a first class prom. The most important
part of a successful dance is the music,
and we are promised the very best
Houston affords.' However, music is
not the only factor in a good prom., and
in consideration of this fact the com-
mittee on refreshments will spare no
means in providing an ample amount, of
delicious refreshments: neither will the
committee on decorations restrain itself
in making the commons exquisite for
the occasion.
The date of the prom, is Friday even-
ing, May 2, and it is rumored that mer-
riment will extend into the small hours
of morning.
In carrying out the prom, the fol-
lowing committees have been appointed:
Music and Floor—Edmond Hibert,
Cliftpn Shaw.
Decorations and Program—Watson
Nayland, Vera Michael.
Refreshments—Paul King.
Invitations—Anna Schirmer, Joe
Shannon.
Finance—Mary Clarke Wier, Paul
Bobb.
OVER SEAWAB WORKER
TALKS TO Y,W,C,A,
MISS MARGUERITE STUART GIVES
INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF HER
WORK IN FRANCE.
Giving Retails That Most Other Work-
ers Omit as Commonplace Made
Her Address Especially
Interesting.
Miss Marguerite Stuart, who has spent
the last eighteen months in overseas
war work, gave to the Y. M. C. A. on
March 20th an intimate sketch of her
work in France. Miss Stuart went into
the details of French experiences that
many war workers consider too com-
monplace to tell.
In France everything from A Ford
motor to a Victrola "march." in a city
of 80,000, the Y. W. C. A. hostess
was the proud possessor of the only bath
tub within a radius of 25 miles. A
plumber had to be imported from an-
other town 30 miles away when the bath
tub would not "march."
For a year Miss Stuart was Y. W. C.
A. director in a Red Cross hospital.
Part of her time abroad she spent in
teaching English to an enthusiastic
crowd of French girls.
J uniors
JUNIORS WINNERS IN
ELIMINATION DEBATE
Misses Mills and Foreman Are Tri-
umphant in E. B. I;. S. Prelimi-
naries for Wilson Cup.
The Junior- Senior elimination debate
for the H. A. Wilson cup? Yes. finaiiy
the debate was held and on Monday,
March 34, with Elizabeth Snoddy pre-
siding. This contest is the first of the
three held annually by the Elizabeth
Baldwin Literary Society to determine
to which class the emh will be awarded.
The question considered was: Re-
' solved, That the policy of intervention
by the United States is sound, and in
the development of which subject both
sides spoke well, and gave evidence of
a sufficiently accurate working knowl-
edge. The affirmative was developed
by Maurine Mills and Louise Foreman,
Juniors, while Ruby South and Robbie
Bayers. Seniors, spoke on the negative
side. When the debate was concluded,
the judges. Doctors Glascock, White and
Draper, after consultation, rendered the
decision in favor of the affirmative side.
A motion was made and carried to
the effect that the E. B. L. S. make use
of a full page iq the Campanile, and
after which this thoroughly enjoyable
meeting was adjourned.
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Organ an J -Soc/a/
The Juniors are a proud class—that
point will not be disputed. There can
be no greater crime than the hiding of
a righteous pride in self when the oc-
casion is just and the reward is fair.
There is ample cause, if the truth is
known, for the class of 1920 to be, even
at this time, more haughty and arro-
gant than any other set upon the cam-
pus. Yet being conservative in all
things and considerate of the feelings
and just dignity of others, they rather
prefer to remain in the background,
toiling and enduring, while others reap
the spoils and live for a short period
the life of the butterfly.
But let the truth, the facts be known
—pave the way for the Seniors of an-
other year. Snatch off the mask and
recognize the leaders of nineteen and
twenty.
That helter-skelter collection of
green material which gathered itself
for the first time in the shadow of the
administration building on September
20 of 1916 and which within three
months had earned the reputation of
being the pepperiest bunch that had
ever struck Rice, merited well this com-
pliment and has to this day lost none
of the old traditional pep, but being
supplemented with still stronger at-
tributes of initiative and zeal.
As Freshmen the class of 1920 first
came into prominence on the gridiron.
They furnished six regulars on the first
squad—Jarvis, McFarland, Dain, Potts,
Vance and Jackson. Of these, before
the year was out, one had been recog-
nized and admitted to be the best all-
around athlete in the State, and anoth-
er had become a four-letter man for
Rice. This was a starter. As the year
rilled on, the Freshmen occupied 13
out of 18 places on the baseball team
and 18 out of 24 on track. Seven out
of the nine Hrat places made by Rice
were taken by Freshmen. They also
furnished Mans, the tennis champion of
the year.
On intra-murals, which were in vogue
at that time, the Freshmen were com-
pletely victors. They were class cham-
pions in football, baseball and basket-
ball and were not afraid to uphold their
decisions even against the Juniors of
that year at the Fisdi-Junior football
event. Freshmen "pep" was famous
that year, quite as much in the curricu-
lum as at the grandstand.
The class football champion team had
uncovered even more material, such as
King, Green and Middleton, so that as
Sophomores the '20 class had twenty
men out for the grid. Eleven men went
on the baseball first string that year
and 18 of 25 on the track teams. More
eagerness for student activity had
grown up also, and fully forty per cent
of the membership of all forms of clubs
or literary achievements was directly
attributable to the Sophomores. The
war was on and there was no hesitancy
about answering the nation's call.
Forty-four men on the 1918 Honor Roll
were Sophomores of that year.
Patriotism, which had sapped the best
from Rice, left scarcely a handful of
Juniors to begin the present year. One-
fourth of the present Junior class had
been commissioned and were In active
duty. Yet the Juniors furnished all the
cadet leaders for the S. A. T. C. regime
and were responsible after November
11 for the plans of reconstruction and
reorganization, which brought Rice
back to a peace time basis of student ac-
tivity.
At the opening of the second term,
with many of the warriors reported
back, the Juniors came into their own.
The small number of 8enlors and the
lack of either of ability or of concern
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F!ML BALL PLAMME0
TO BE ERAN0 CLtMAX
Of SOCtAL SEASON
COMMITTEES APPOINTED AND AR-
RANGEMENTS RAPIDLY TAK-
ING FORM.
ALL CLASSES ARE COMCERMEO
Dodge Made General Chairman With
Able Assistants—Great Event to
He Third in History
of Rice.
The final ball committee: Harris
Dodge, chairman; Olivo Erkel, Roberta
John, J. Russ Baty, Cad C. Wortham,
S. P. Coleman, J. L. Autry, N. D. Roclte-
fellow, Harrison Carroll.
The members of the above committee
have been appointed by the presidents
of the four classes, and will have sole
charge of the arrangements for the final
bail, which is a school affair.
Chairman Dodge reports that plans
are maturing rapidly and that prospects
are that it will ba^the greatest finat bait
Rice has ever haa. "
This is the third affair of this sort in
Rice's history. The first Senior class
graduated in 1!)1C. A final bail was
held at that time, and another in 1917,
but the event was foregone by the class
of 1!)18, due to the fact that so many
of the students had gone to war.
The final bait is naturaily the pre-
mier sociai event of the school year.
It is the the oniy affair on which ait the
classes coiiaborate, and it is aiways
staged with more elaboration.
The bail wiii iikeiy be heid in the
commons this year. Sentiment seems
to be much in favor of holding the af-
fair on the campus because of superior
facilities, and the possibilities of out-
door promenades under the stars.
Sub-committees have aiready been
formed. By precedent the Seniors head
these sub-committees. Miss John will
attend to the refreshments; Mr. Baty,
the decorations; Miss Erkel, the invita-
tions and programs; while .Chairman
Dodge wiii see about the music.
These sub-committee chaimen will se-
lect the personnel of the sub-committees
from the underclassmen members of the
big committee.
1920
TERM EXAM RESULTS
HIGHLY ENCOURAGING
Only Thirty Requested to Leave—Many
Removed From Probation—Strict
Rule Modified.
That the results of the recent final
examinations, the many difficulties of
the past term considered, were highly
encouraging, is the opinion of Mr. R.
G. Caldwell, dean of the Institute. The
rule providing for improvement on the
part of students already on probation
was waived entirely by the committee
on examinations and standing in consid-
ering the term standing of students last
week. Under the old ruling, no doubt,
several of the thirty-seven students who
are continued on probation would have
left the Institute.
The Freshman class, as in previous
years because of its relatively greater
size, bore the brunt of failures. Of the
thirty students who were requested to
leave the Institute because of failure in
more than half of their work, the Fresh-
men furnished twenty-one. Eight
Sophomores and one Junior fell in the
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cmss SPIRIT m MCE PEP
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UPPERCLASSMEN AS WELL AS SOPHOMORES AND
FRESHMEN GETTtNG UVELY
Freshmen Start Things Rolling by Painting Car Shed—
Fish Numerats Displayed at Sophomore Dance Sequel
at Majestic.
Rivalry and clasH spirit ran rampant
iast week. All clasess are concerned,
although the chief actors are the under-
classmen. The Freshmen have been
continuously making pranks on the
Sophomores, since the first manifesta-
tion of any outburst of Frosh spunk on
March 16. This proclamation took
form in the fiaring numerals 1H2?.
whitewashed a yard high on the dormi-
tory car shed. Other pranks have been
making their appearance at regular in-
tervals since. The Sophomores at
whom all the jokes have been directed
claim to have put a stop to the rebel-
lious attitude of the abject "Fishes."
Yet the truth of this statement is hard
to conjecture, for although the Fresh-
men are meek enough when aione, and
continue to wear their "Fish" caps and
tread the "straight and graveled" path,
they talk boastfully and loud whenever
found in a group. The Juniors and
Seniors have been enjoying with keen
interest the 14&es. class rivalry.
Following theappearance of the 13 2 2
sign the Sophs, appointed a committee
of Freshmen to remove the offensive
decoration, but instead a second procla-
mation against the Sophomores in the
form of a green banner appeared tile
next night.
Tricked again, the Sophs, took the
affair into their own hands and quietly
marched a score or more of the Fresh-
men to the car shed, where diiigence
and soap and water soon cleared the
scenery of objectionable material. All
was over and the Sophs, had won their
point.
Hut the neatest trick of aii was yet
to come. Freshmen-'23. emblazoned on
a huge green banner, was the sight that
suddenly greeted tin- Sophomores when
their annual hop was in full progress
j last Friday night.
I The fiance was at its height when
suddenly the banner unfolded itself
from the ceiiing and hung suspended in
full view, apparently without the aid of
human hand. Outrage on the dignity
of the Sophomores was no name for the
mischief. When the Moor had been
cleared of the fairer sex the Sophomores
instituted methods of adjustments and
ordered the banner peremptorily r.
moved front its offensive posit!;;)!. Hat
strange enough, the Freshmen r-voltcd
at the idea and it took mu<'h suasion on
the part of the Sophs, to get one Fresh-
man to finally ascend a ladder and true
down the emblem of Fish pep. The
dance was immediately resumed hut the
Fish still maintained that they had wot)
their point.
It is rumored that, the Sophs wer<'
equally as unsuccessful in trying to put
over a trick ou the Freshmen at a Ma-
jestic party the following night.
The whole affair afforded a comic di
version for the JUNiOHS. who main-
tained an attitude of complete neutral^
ity, but nevertheless registered their
surprise and at once admiration of thu
nluck shown by the coming Sophomores
of next year.
CAPTAIN B. C. ALLEN HAZING ABOLISHED
TALKS TO ENGINEERS BY LOWER CLASSES
Lecture by Man of Experience Was
Highly Enjoyed by All—Refresh-
ments Served as Usual.
Embryo Engineers of Rice Institute
pulled off their first meeting for the
new term last Thursday night. Rou-
tine business of the association was dis-
pensed with in short order so that the
talker of the evening could be present-
ed—Capt. B. C. Allen, just discharged
from service in the Engineer Corps at
Camp Logan. He made a very inter-
esting and instructive talk on the meth-
ods used by engineers in the war and
in peace times, contrasting the two and
citing many interesting experiences front
his own life, both in the army and in
the Philippines, where he spent a score
of years in reclamation work. His lec-
ture was greatly enjoyed by all present
and his answers to numerous questions
were beneficial to ail.
Business for the evening consisted of
a report from the pin committe. The
early arrival of the engineering pins is
expected.
An assessment for space in the '13
Campanile was passed, dividing this ex-
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than ( aidwell Calls Hot)i Pactions To-
gether to Discuss Situation—Fach
Class l akes St pat ate
Action.
It hag been said that motorists on
Main Boulevard of late have been cov-
ering up their heads and seeking refune
in the bottom of their cars when thev
pass the Institute lest their eyes be
shocked by the gory combat between tin
Freshmen and the Sophomores, or their
lives endangered by stray bullets. This
statement is probably an exaggeration.
There does indeed seem to be a ten-
dency to congestion on the back seat
of various cars, where refuge is both
sought and found, but we have heard
it said that this is a common spring
phenomenon, and traceable to mote fun-
damental causes than collegiate class
rivalries. There has been trouble be-
tween the two classes—this nmch every-
body knows, either from his own experi-
ence or front reading about it. in a much
magnified and distorted version, in the
Houston papers. Some spirit of ani-
mosity is inevitable, and this spirit has
been intensified by the various "cor
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