The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 10, 1948 Page: 1 of 8
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THE K/CE
VOLUME THIRTY-SIX — NUMBER SIXTEEN
7WKESHER
HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1948
College Education is Forum Topic
Aggie Delegation Extends Hospitable Invitation to Rice
A & M Committee
Addresses Council,
Seeks Friendship
A welcoming Committee of
five men from Texas A & M
visited the campus Monday to
invite the Rice student body to
the college for the game there
Saturday. A special Student Coun-
cil meeting was held to receive the
invitation, after which members of
the Student Council, the Thresher
staff, and cheerleaders continued the
discussion at lunch.
Ben Wyatt, Chairman of the com-
mittee, explained that the purpose
of the visit was part of the Aggie
program under the Southwest
Sportsmanship code in an attempt to
prevent any trouble between the
schools before the game.
At A. & M. Saturday. Wyatt con-
tinued, there will be loud speakers
set up at the train station to wel-
come incoming Rice students, and
available for a Rice pep rally if they
wanted one. There will also be an in-
formation booth at the Y. M. C. A.
for the students' convenience. He al-
so said that Rice people who wanted
to find friends at A. & M. would be
able to do so in room 100 Goodwin
Hall or at the Cadet Guard room.
The activities for the weekend,
besides the game, will include a
lunch for the members of the Rice
band, a concert at 7:15 p.m. by
Xavier Cugat, and a dance in Sbisa
Hall from 9-12. Wyatt extended an
invitation to any Rice students who
wanted to stay overnight and said
that he was sure that arrangements
could be made for them.
Other members of the Welcoming
Committee, which has visited a
number of other campuses this year,
included C. G. White, Director of
Student Activities; George Marble;
George Edwards, Cadet Commander
fit the Aggie band; and Richard Den-
ny. All the students on the com-
mittee are members of the Student
Senate.
The Student *Council discussed
briefly the possibility of holding one
of the three trains until midnight so
that Rice students could attend the
dance Saturday night. No decision
was made, however.*
New Student Lounge
Will Open Monday
The Student Lounge will open Monday at 8:30 in the basement of the
$1,500,000 Fondren Library for the use of all members of the student body.
The hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Opening at the usual time, it wall close at noon on Saturdays, and open
again from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. Sunday evening.
The hours will be 8:30 to 10:00
Baptist Student
Union Convention
Held at Baylor
On Ocober t£9, twenty-four Rice
students went to the State Baptist
Student Union convention in Waco.
The first meeting was held Friday
night when Dr. Perry F. Webb of
San Antonio delivered the keynote
message, "Christ, the Way, The
Truth, the Life." Following this the
delegates Witnessed a mission pro-
gram put on by the Baylor Mis-
sions. There were about 2300 stu-
dents present representing almost
every school of any size in Texas,
including about 400 students from
Baylor.
Saturday moring there were a
number of meetings held after a
message by Mr. Maxey Jarman, lay-
man from Nashville, Tennessee.
There were t\<ffelve of these meet-
ings led by outstanding men in each
field, ranging in subjects from "Otr
faith begins in fact," to Christiani-
ty's responsibility to Labor and
Management.
That afternoon after a message
by Dr. Samuel E. Maddox, "The
Compulsion of Our Commitments,"
there was a concert by the Wreatley
Negro Choir and a series of meet-
ings for the various officers.
Saturday night the students had
a song session and then saw the
Baylor Little Theater production of
A. J. Cronin's "Jupiter Laughs."
Sunday morning the Rice group
met for breakfast in the new Stu-
dent Union building and had a re-
union with their former student sec-
retary*! Miss Ardelle Hallock:' After
Sunday school classes the students
heard a highly inspirational address,
"I Choose Life," given by Dr. W.
Marshall Craig from Dallas, which
was the highlight of the convention.
The Rice delegation included mem-
bers of every class and a few grad-
uate students.
Art Museum Show Described
As Cultural Accomplishment
Undoubtedly one of the outstanding contributions to Houston's
cultural education is the current show at the Art Museum sponsored by
the Contemporary Arts Associations. It should be of interest to Hous-
tonians for two reasons: it is the first show of its kind in the South,
and a large part of it was donated and drawn from local sources. The
Association, which now numbers, over
200, has worked hard and fast since
it was officially organized in June,
and is certainly to be given credit
for an excellent job.
Every effort has been made to
bring: the show to the uninitiated aa
well as the experienced people in
the field. Unlike most art exhibits,
lowed. An ingenious arrangement
of colored lines lead even the most
casual person from entrance to exit
through the theoretical, practical,
which let the visitor ramble at'will,
this show is planned and so set
up that a definite pattern is fol-
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p.m. Mondays through Fridays.
Opening at the usual time, it will
close at noon on Saturdays, and
open again from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday evening The snack bar and
co-operative store will not open
Monday, but will probably be open
for business by the first of Decem-
ber. However, the Lounge features
a coke box and juke box.
Woods Martin, chairman of the
Student Lounge committee of the
Student Council, stressed that there
will be no rules governing use of
the facilities, but that all' students
are expected to observe normal
rules of courtesy and cleanliness,
particularly with regard to picking
up bottles, paper, cigarette butts,
etc.
The Lounge will be completely
governed by students, under the
guidance of the Student Associa-
tion. Hence, Martin pointed out, it
will be to the advantage of all to
make it a better place. A suggestion
box will be added in the near future.
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Pep Rally Saturday
At College Station
In place of the usual Thursday
night pep rally, which will not be
held this week, there will be a cheer
practice at the College Station rail-
road station at 1:00 Saturday after-
noon.
The Rice band will be present,
with the cheerleaders, and all train-
borne students are requested to re-
main for the rally. Those traveling
by auto should make an effort to at-
tend.
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. . . Take Those Pics Now
ATTENTION ALL WOULD-BE
PHOTOGRAPHERS— begin taking
your pictures now for the Sallyport
section of the Campanile. Anything
goes, within reason of course.
Camden, Richter, To Discuss
Purposes, Ideals, of College
The next Forum program takes place Wednesday (that's
tonight) at 8 p.m. in Anderson Hall, Room 108. Dr. C. C.
Camden, associate professor of English, and Dr. G. H. Rich-
ter, professor of Chemistry, will extemporize on the subject
"So You Think You're Being Educated!"
The program originally set for
Dorm Committee
Compares Rates,
To Prepare Report
The rates in the Rice dormitories
are being compared to equivalent
rates in near-by schools, and with
the rates in local rooming houses,
Jack Cooper, chairman of the Stu-
dent Council committee investigat-
ing reported high dorm rates, an-
nounced Thursday in Student Coun-
cil meeting.
Cooper said that such comparisons
were necessary if the committee is
to be able to make any concrete sug-
gestions to the administraion later
on this year. He emphasized that
the committee was determined to get
all he facts before offering any so-
lutions.
Cooper said that if the committee
was unable to offer a solution to the
complaints "at least we can find out
the facts and let the students know
the whole situation." But he said
that would possibly take a month or
two to prepare the report of the
committee.
Just Talking
NOTICE
Students desiring train tickets
to College Station for the Rice
vs A&M game can obtain them
at the S.P. depot or at the Rice
Hotel. Prices round trip are $2.70
for the coach, which are not re-
served and $8.17 for the reserved
pullman tickets.
There ..will be three ..special
trains for the Rice students leav-
ing at 11:00, 11:10 and 11:20,
arriving at 1:05, 1:15 and 1:20.
. ..Tickets will not be sold on the
campus this year. Those desiring
tickets are requested to buy them
as soon as possible.
. . . Musicians Notice
There are a number of people on
the Rice Campus who are interested
in getting together to do musical en-
semble work. Any students or faculty
members who play stringed instru-
ments, especially the viola, are in-
vited to get in touch with Mr. Gi-
rard or with Etta Colish. This group
will not be under the supervision of
any campus organization, but will
exist only for the entertainment and
pleasure of the participants.
. . . Tickets for Junior Picnic
. . . TICKETS FOR dAshod.... RICE
The Juniors are planning a picnic
for themselves November 21st. It
will be held at Milby Park that Sun-
day afternoon.
Tickets are going to be sold for
one week only, to enable preparing
of food. The price is 75c (seventy-
five cents) and that covers the cost
of food and soft drinks. This is a
non-profit affair, and the price is
designed to pay for everything. Tic-
kets go on sale tomorrow.
. . . EB's Listen
The Elizabeth Baldwin Literary
Society gathered at the home of
Betty Jo Joplin this past Satur-
day, for a "listening party." The
girls sat around close to the radio,
drinfting cokes and eating fritos, as
the Rice Owls scored touchdown af-
ter touchdown.
Tuesday Avas set back a day due
to the scheduling of an Engineering
Society meeting for that night.
"Since the program was particular-
ly planned to be of interest to en-
gineers," said Bob Flagg, Forum
Committee chairman, "the commit-
tee voted to postpone it a night. So
it'll be Wednesday night, even if it
does conflict with the Historical So-
ciety meeting and with the A-IIouse
dance."
Flagg went on to point out that
the program was not exactly a de-
bate. "The views of Dr. Camden and
Dr. Richter about education are too
similar for that."
Yet the two men are bound not to
agree on every point of education.
It is too much to believe that the
views of a Shakespearean scholar
like Dr. Camden and a specialist of
organic chemistry like Dr. Richter
would coincide on every detail. Pos-
sibly one of the points of disagree-
ment will be on the role of the
modern college. . . . whether it is
to train its undergraduates for a
profession or for the business world,
or whether it endeavors to instill
in its graduates an "appreciation for
life."
Dr. Camden and Dr. Richter are
unique in their knowledge of the
other's field. Dr. Richter, for in-
stance, has been reading the clas-
sics and other great examples of
literature in his leisure* time for the
past, decade, while Dr. Camden once
taught Mathematics. During the
war Dr. Camden enrolled in sev-
eral courses in electronics . . . "just
because I'm interested in it," he
said.
In addition to the professors, two
students will also speak on this
question. Eleanor Sticelber, senior
academic student, and Raymond
Lankford, sophomore engineer, will
expound on the subject, "So You
Think You're Being Educated!"
It's quite possible, commented
Flagg. that the only people on the
campus who aren't aware of what
they are missing in education are
the junior and senior engineers who
will not be affected by the five yea'r
scienee-angineering curriculum. Dr.
Richter, incidentally, served on the
faculty committee that planned this
program.
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. . . Important Announcement
Mr. Plumbley will meet today at
noon in the iFeld House with all cap-
t a in s of intramural basketbal
squads. Captains from each team
should be present, or send a repre-
sentative, he stressed.
Nineteen teams have entered the
intramurals, and will begin play
next Monday, playing on Mondays,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
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