The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 13, 1952 Page: 1 of 8
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RICE
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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 Twenty-two
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1952
PALS Sponsor First One-Act Play Group
Owls Play
Tonight In
By Ralph Williams
The Rice Owls will oppose the
Kansas Jay hawkers tonight in
their first home game of the 1952-
53 basketball season. Play will com-
mence at 8:15 PM on Autry Court
in the Rice Gym.
This year the Blue and Gray cag-
ers are expected to finish high
in the Southwest Conference race.
-The team has more experience,
speed, and height than any squad
in recent Rice basketball history.
The Jayhawkers will provide am-
ple opposition against which the
Owls can display their abilities for
the homefolks. From last year's
National Intercollegiate Champion-
ship squad Kansas has lost its star
center, Ail-American and Olympic
performer Clyde Lovellette and sev-
eral oher players.' Neverthe less,
coach Phog Allen of Kansas has
seldom tutored a team which has
not been high in the national rank-
ings.
The game will renew a rivalry
begun last year in Lawrence, Kan-
sas. On December 18 last year the
Jayhawkers downed the Owls 68-
48. Kansas went on to win the In-
tercollegiate tournament and sent
several pfayers to represent Amer-
ica in the Olympic games. The star
performer for Rice in that game
was Leonard Childs who hit the
range in six out of nine field goal
attempts. Childs and Ralph Gra-
wunder are the only players grad-
uating from last year's squad. Sec-
ond in scoring for Rice that even-
ing was the capable James "Pop-
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Kansans
Rice Gym
Last Minute
Business Occupies
Council Wednesday
• There was little business Wednes-
day night at the SC meeting. It
was announced that Rondelet plans
will be given in full next week. The
bill for the football flash cards was
approved. Lacy reported that the
TV set would be moved as soon as
drapery material came in at Fol-
ey's. The question of holding the
Freshman election . runoff at the
same time as the Favorite election
was brought up. It seems that the
Campanile does not feel there would
be a representative vote if the two
w«re held in conjunction because
there would be a predominance of
Freshman Favorites. The fbuncil
decided to hold the Freshman run-
off as originally set on Friday, and
the Favorite will be held Monday.
The main topic of discussion at
last week's SC meeting concerned
the Religious Council. Their spokes-
man (a member of the SC too) ask-
ed that the SC pay for some ex-
penses yet to be incurred. The ques-
tion was brought up as to whether
the SC was supposed to finance the
Religious Council. Most members
thought that the SC was not sup-
posed to do this," as it would be a
bad precedent to start financing
campus organizations.
Varied Plays Make Evening's Program
HONOR CONFERRED
Gloom Pervades School; Dix
To Leave Rice For Princeton
Dr. William S. Dix, head librarian of the Fondren Library
since it was opened in early 1948, has been appointed Librarian
of the Harvey S. Firestone Library of Princeton University.
As librarian of one of the four largest libraries in the US,
Dr. Dix will replace Julian Boyd who resigned to devote his full
time to the editing of the Jef-
ferson Papers.
Dr. Dix expects to move to New
Jersey and assume his new position
,in February.
In 1946 Dr. Dix came to Rice
from Harvard where he had served
during World War II as assistant
personnel director of the radio re-
search laboratory (headquarters for
the radar research in the US). Dr.
Dix's first position at Rice was As-
sistant Professor of English. Before
the opening of Fondren Library Dr.
Dix was qiute active in both stu-
dent and faculty affairs, serving as
president of the Faculty Club and
sponsor of the Rice Drama Club in
1947. -
Dr. Dix graduated from the Uni-
versity of Virginia and later re-
ceived his masters degree from the
same institution. He received his
s doctorate from the University of Dix has held positions at Harvard,
Chicago. Western Reserve University, Cleve-
As an English instructor, Dr. (Continued on Page 7)
A scene from T. S. Eliot's "Sweeny Agonist.es," one of the
PALS-sponsored Rice Player productions which will be pre-
sented Monday and Tuesday nights at the beautiful new
Autry Theater at A-House.
Tuesday Slated
For Annual Rice
Xmas Service
The all-school Christmas Service
this year will be composed primarily
of music and carol singing. It will
be held Tuesday at 12:15 in Palmer
Memorial Church, and will last
about 30 to 45 minutes.
The congregational singing will
include several of the most favor-
ite carols. "O Little Town of Beth-
lehem" will be sung as a special
number by the choir, and David
Lewis will sing "The Lord's Pray-
er."
Dr. Paul Pfeiffer will deliver a
short Christmas meditation, "The
Other Wise Man." Dr. Pfeiffer is
assistant porfessor of electrical en-
gineering.
The Rice "Y" is having a Sock
Hop in the small gym following
The Rice vs. Kansas U. game
Saturday night. Admission price
is S.50 per person.
The Stronger by August Strind-
berg, Overtones by Alice Gersten-
berg, William Butler Yeats's Pur-
.gatory, Sweeney Agonistes by T. S.
Eliot, and Browning's "My Last
Duchess" and "Sililoquy of a Span-
ish Cloister" comprise the "Eve-
ning of Theatre" to be presented by
the Rice Players on Monday and
Tuesday, December 15 and 16 at
Autry House. Curtain time for the
production is 8:15. Tickets ($.75)
may be purchased at the door or
fro many member of the PALS, who
are sponsoring the presentation.
Patsy Lee and Anne Norris are
cast in August Strindberg's The
Stronger as Mrs. Z and The Silent
One, respectively. The play is one
of the great realist's experimental-
dramas in which he uses unsymet-
rical dialogue to good advantage.
The situation involves a woman who
meets her husband's ex-mistress at
a cafe; they talk. What the woman
says we believe you will find en-
tertaining as well as stimulating.
Alice Gerstenberg's Overtones is
being directed by Mrs. James Rich-
ardson as is The Stronger. The play
was one of the first in the Ameri-
can theatre to utilize Freudian psy-
chology consciously. Again two wo-
men, rivals for each-other's hus-
band's talents, meet; but in this
play the "other self" is personified
by another actress, and you hear
the thoughts of each of the sociable
women. Eileen Reindl plays Harriet,
while Georgia Hink is cast as Het-
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Weinachtfest
Celebration Set
For Thursday
Der Eulenspiegel's annual Weihn-
achstfest, or Christmas party will
be held next Thursday at the 63
Tiel Way home of Edward Ross at
7:30.
German carols, customs and tales
will make up the program follow-
ed by German refreshments, songs,
a caroling excursion in certain sec-
tions of town.
Transportation will be offered at
Sallyport and the Girls' Dorms at
7:15. All Der Eulenspiegel mem-
bers are invited.
Martin New Frosh
Prexy; Runoff
For Veep Today
Fines Martin was elected Presi-
dent of the Freshman class defeat-
ing Wendell Hamrick in the election
held Friday, December 5. Neither
Kay Carmichael nor Jonsey Jones
received a majority; therefore the
vice-president will be determined in
a run-off, as will the office of sec-
retary-treasurer. Bob Buck and Sel-
by Sullivan are the contenders.
Ed Harris, Deedee Meek, and
Dana Phillips were elected as
Freshmen representatives to the
Student Council in Friday's voting.
Bobby Stinebaugh defeated DeWitt
Wolfe for the vacant Junior posi-
tion on the council.
John Aronson and Gloria McDer-
mitt were unopposed in their elec-
tion to the positions of assistant
business manager of the Campanile
and the Thresher, respectively.
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STUDENT COUNCIL
*
Members Chafe As
Business Plows Ahead
Due to numerous requests, this article did not appear last
week. However, because of an abundance of hot air and some-
one with nothing better to do than copy it down coupled with
a shortage of advertising for this issue, we present here the
"facts" concerning last Wednesday's student council meeting.
The meeting was called to order
promptly at 7:07 (scheduled start-
ing time was 7:00) by President
John McLane. The roll was called
with the usual response ("Here"),
topped off at the end by a short
welcoming address ("Welcome") di-
rected at the new freshman repre-
sentatives. The roll call was dis-
tinguished by the absence of both
the class "B" graduate reps. It
seems these two gentlemen, known
affectionately as "Baldy" and "Bril-
liant" were touring the Southwest
in search of post-graduation em-
ployment and were not available for
comment either before, during, or
after the meeting.
Reports f
Next on the agenda were the of-
ficer and committee reports. Harold
Lacy informed the members that
the drapes for the lounge were not
in yet (Flour sales have declined
steadily) but that when they did
arrive he would see that they were
quickly installed and the television
set moved. Florence Kessler an-
nounced that the Rondelet commit-
tee had almost completed plans for
a gala weekend next Spring and a
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