The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1920 Page: 2 of 6
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THE THBESHEK. HOUSTON. THXAS
THE THRESHER
A weekly newspaper published by the students of
Rice Institute, at Houston, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter October 17,1916,
at the Postoffice at Houston, Texas, under
the Act of March 8,1879.
Subscription Rates.. $2.50 per year, 10c per copy
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Thresher Office..Room 104, Administration B!dg„
THRESHER STAFF 1920 21.
H!H 0. Gresham. '22 Editor-in-Chief
Fred D. Hargis, '22 Buainesa Manner
R. B. Upahaw, '21 Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.
Carter Otey, '23 News Editor
Lncy Zimmer, '21 Aaaociate Editor
Margaret BiackweH. '22 Assistant Editor
E. O. Arnoid, '23 Sporta Editor
B. F. Payne. '22 Exchange Editor
E. O. Arnold, '23 Feature Editor
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
B. F. Mayer, '22 Circuia" .onager
F. H. Guffy, '22 Aaaiatant Circulation Manager
Ciinton L. Dutton, '22 AdvertiBing
J. P. Fielder, Jr., '22 Advertiaing
REPORTERS FOR TH*S ISSUE ARE:
R 8. Bickford L. Ehrenfeld
Archie Batjer Aima Nemir
Virginia Atwelt Louise Moore
Allan Bioxom Fanny Biack
DECEMBER 10, 1920.
DEFENSE OF INTRA MURAL FOOTBALL.
(Contributed and Published by Request.)
fXTRA-MURAL football should not be abolish-
ed. It should be most heartily encouraged;
for it is the only form of student activity that
lias so far proved successful in arousing rea!
class rivalry. The Freshman and Sophomore
game of this year showed a vast improvement
A DISAPPOINTING FEATURE.
I?tTE THE MOST disappointing feature of the
football banquet was that only 18 letters
were given. The Thresher maintains that 19
shouid have been deait out, which means that
our cheer leader shouid have received one.
It is true that it is not a tradition to give the
cheer ieader an "R" at Rice, but our university
is new, and we are making our traditions each
day. We couid not have a more worthy tradi-
tion than that of giving a letter to the cheer
ieader, who works quite as hard with his root-
ers as the coach does with his warriors. At
night, after dinner, one can hear the cheer iead-
er patientiy giving instruction to his rooters in
the art of cheering, leading them through new
yells; endeavoring to get them to sing, and many
other features, the recognition of which goes
for naught.
For the Texas game it was the cheer leader
who worked for weeks ahead of time, planning
for the new stunts he was to spring, and had
not a thing happened which has heretofore
been criticized, the affair would have worked out
happily. In the beginning of the year, it was
the cheer leader who planned the parade before
the Baylor game, and led us again after the vic-
tory as we voluntarily followed. It was this
spirit that set the band a-going, later unearthing
our drum major and his Owl strut. Our parades
continued because of his unceasing energy, and
Houston became interested and marveled our in-
creased college spirit. The great day at the
Salesmanship Club was the natural outgrowth
of what had already been nearly perfected. And
it was the cheer leader who went to the Sales-
manship Club and led the members through Rice
yells, and as a consequence they brought their
band to the next game, and followed U3 with
"Yea, Rice!"
It was the cheer leader who successfully man
Midnite Memo*
"Down with the MH-boarda.'
Sure, and down with the board biiia.
—Providence Tribune.
The Threaher might have aaid that.
We are told that Protestor* Chand-
ler, Ford and Maxwell Are going to
open a Rice garage.
On the builetin board, January 3:
"Several rooma in the residential halts
are now available. Apply at the office
of the Bursar."
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over those blindly staged affairs of previous
years and the enthusiasm and class spirit ex-;aged that special train to College Station, and
hibited both before and after the game was in
deed extremely gratifying. The attack made
on Inter-Class football in the last issue of The
Thresher was entirely unfair and unjustifiable.
Of course football is rough, whether intra-
who led us in our rooting, until the A. and M.
Batallion came out with an editorial commenting
upon the superior quality of our pep, in face of
the smaller enrollment, which we have.
A co-ed school is hard to handle in this re-
mural or otherwise, but there are few things gard. Half of the school lives in the city, many
^ rarely worth w^iiie that aren't worth a risk. The
statement that more injuries were sustained
than in an intercollegiate game, that the teams
were not properly coached or groomed, that the
players were in ignorance of the rules, and that
the feeling of rivalry was fiercer than in an in-
tercollegiate contest is not true.
i aniPl'riHT
serious accidents; one a broken arm, the
a wrench of an old injury received last year in
high school. The other injuries mentioned oc-
curred during preliminary practice: One, a
broken collar bone, sustained in a fall, the other,
a broken toe caused by the use of ill-fitting
shoes.
Roth teams were well groomed and coached.
Duf to the observance of intensive training, the
mm. as a whole, were in excellent condition.
In fact, a number of them had been in training
the entire football season. Both teams had been
practicing daily for three weeks, which is fully
as long as the varsity team has before the first
game. The fact that the new plays demonstrat-
miles away from the men's halls. It is impossi-
ble to drill the one half with the other half. They
can not be called to drill practice as readily; not
accustomed to discipline, it is hard to follow or-
ders.
At any rate, no one will doubt that the cheer
leader has worked and worked well.this football
ngM
says to you, "Well done, go6d and faithful serv-
ant." If it is then the mark of distinction placed
on a servant of the university by the students of
the university, the students have quite as much
right to bestow it, as any athletic director. If
then the coach hesitates in giving one, the very
least the Student Council can do is to vote this
"good and faithful servant" an "R" at its next
meeting.
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THE ACTION OF THE BUSINESS CLUB.
THE RICE BUSINESS MEN'S CLUB is suc-
R cessfully organized and bids to become one of
the livest societies on the campus. The action
that they have taken regarding the Rice cham-
ber of commerce seems prophetic. While heart-
Whenever we see a boy quitting
school to marry, we always want to
remind him that "Lips, however rosy,
must be fed."
"It Pays to Advertise."
Is that the why of sHk stockings and
short skirtB?
"All succesaful men count their auc-
cesses by their failures."—R. E. Goree.
Well, in that case there might be a
big bunch of aucceases packing their
trunks in a few daya of we do not get
buay.
Eighteen men got letters. And nine-
teen men deserved them. A letter is
a sentiment, saying that a school rec-
ognizes and appreciates a service one
of its students has rendered. What
is a m°re piece of felt? Shorty, you're
an "R" man, too.
Six a. m. may not be so early, but
when twenty Sophomores give you ten
counts to get up, put on some pants
and grab your ankles, it seems very
early.
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"That new elevator dance, is very
popular. There are no steps to it, just
a cinch."
Why not call it an "automobile
dance"?
For strictly private reasons we are
not giving any Christmas presents this
year. However, we do not intend to
set a precedent In this matter and it
shouid in no way interfere with the
plans and customs of our Mends, ^
LANDERS COMPANY
PRICE REDUCTION
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Fashion Park, Campus Toga, Langham High Makes:
To heed the clamor for lower prices our entire stock of fur-
nishing goods is offered at greatly reduced prices. Houston's
finest and most complete stock offers you unusual buying
facilities.
We Gladly Cash Your Checks
405 MAIN ST. SCANLAN BLDG. 1006 PRESTON AVE.
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FOMNcnr.
Foresight is better then Hindsight. Better a pound
of ceution than a ton of regret. This bank is here to
serve you, and to enable you to take care of your
money with intelligent and expert Foresight
GUARANTY
"Houston's, Bank of Service"
ed during the game will be considered by the;"" " the men refused
knowledge of football from previous experi-
ence; quite a large number having served on
various high school teams from two to four
years. As for rivalry, surely the spirit they
showed was not of the malicious, brutal kindj
for neither team was penalized during the
game.
rally to the formation of such an organization.
This action is indeed commendable.
The idea that the Students' Association is a
chamber of commerce was advanced and that the
Student Council as the directors should appoint
or otherwise get into action the "commerce"
idea. Rock bottom seems to haye been struck at
To say that "heroes of the varsity .gridiron last, and we may look to the council for the per-
shrink from class football" because of the jfection of the scheme.
roughness of the game is hardly fair. Almost We can not permit the good work to die out,
to a man they want it to continue. go nobly begun at the Salesmanship luncheon.
If there is something wrong with Intra-Mur-
al football, instead of considering the abolition
of it, why not get to the bottom and remedy its
ills. Perhaps the most direct cause of the injur-
ies was the inadequate supply of equipment. Sev-
eral men went into the games unprotected by
shoulder pads, and the majority of players wore
shoes discarded by the varsity squad as unfit for
Use. This difficulty should be easily overcome.
Indeed it would be far easier than finding anoth-
er inter-class game which would be necessary if
football were tabooed.
There is nothing that can take its place, as a
sport, as an incentive for class spirit or as an
indication of dependable material on which the
varsity can rely on for next year.
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The honor system is based on the personal
honor of each individual student. Polish yours
up, regard the self-irpposed rules of the Student
Association and you will be a representative stu-
dent of Rice. You may not be entirely respons-
ible for the amount you have learned, but you
are completely responsible for the amount that
goes on your papeh ^
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Will the band be Rice's only musical success ?
The Girls' Chora! Club died in '18. * The Glee
Club aeems to have died this year. The songs
have little or no support. The situation is in-
deed lamentable.
The Chamber of Commerce is the organization to
continue it. We must become "snappier" Rice
boosters, in an effort to bring better material to
college, and the chamber of commerce is the or-
ganization to stimulate it. We must work in-
cessantly for the closer eo-operation between
the students and the citizens of Houston, be-
tween the university and the high schools, of the
city and even of other cities, and the chamber
of commerce is the only organization to develop
and keep going such all-important business. It
can exert its effort to securing us a Rice song
so much needed, it can send out workers to
"rush" promising material at the inter-scholastic
contests, it can place "scouts" about the country^
speakers over the state, and in any number of
ways do beneficial service to the academic com-
munity.
Judging, then, from the idea dropped at the
Business Men's Club, the council is expected to
take action regarding the chamber of com-
merce. We anticipate it with interest."
Fdf some str&nge reason, the Majestic and
other theatres have not had such w4arge repre-
sentation of Rice couples this past week or so.
Funny, isn't it?
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These bobbed-hair girls can sympathize with
the boys on these cold days.
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What Is Air?
j^FORE 1891 every chemist thought he knew what air is. "A
mechanical mixture of moisture, nitrogen ar.d oxygen, with
traces of hydrogen and carbon dioxide," he world explain.
There v.as so much oxygen and nitrogen in a gi*ven sample that he.
simply determined the amount of oxygen present and assumed the
rest to be nitrogen.
One great English chemist, Lord R^yleigh, found that the nitro-
gen obtained from the air was never so p :rc as that obtained from
some compound like ammonia. What was the "impurity"? In
co-operation with another pronRnrnt chemist, Sir William Ramsay,
it was discovered in an entirely new gas—"argon." Later came the
discovery of other rare gases in the atmosphere. -The"air we breathe
contains about a dozen gases and gaseous compounds.
This study of the air is an example of research in pure science.
Rayleigh and Ramsay had no practical end in view—merely the dis-
covery of new facts.
A few years ego the Rcserrch Laboratories of the General Electric
Company began to study the destruction of filaments in exhausted
lamps in order to ascertain how this happened. It was a purely
scientific undertaking. It was found that the filament evaporated
—boiled away, like so much water.
Pressure will check boiling or evaporation. If the pressure within
a boiler is very high, it will take more heat than ordinarily to boil the
water. Would a gas under pressure present filaments from boiling
away? If so, what gas? It must be a gas that will not combine
chemically with the filament. The filament wo: Id burn in oxygen;
hydrogen would conduct the heat away too rspidly. Nitrogen is a
useful ga3 in this case. It docs form a few ccn pounds, however.
Better still is argc.n. It forms no ccrrpoundj at c*'.
Thus the modem, efficient, gas-RHed lamp appeared, and so argon,
which seemed ti c most useless in the woild, found a practical
application. "
Discover new facts, and their practical application wiil take care
of itself.
And the discovery of new facts is the primary purpose of the
Research Laboratories of the Cener&l Mcctric Company.
Sometimes years must elapse tefore the practical application of a
discovery becomea apparent. as in the case of argon; sometimes a
practical application follows item the mere answering of a "theoret-
ical" question, as in the case of a gas-filled lamp. But no substantial
progress can be made unles3 research is conducted for the purpose of
discovering" new facts.
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