The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 3, 1924 Page: 2 of 6
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ELECTIONS.
The nuietest, calmest, most listless and forma! election was held
this year by the Students' Association. Only half of the ticket was
competitive. In all the other instances, the candidates had a cinch,
being the only one running for the office. The offices of Editor,
managing Editor and Business Manager of The Thresher were
aspired for by only one man in each case. They were the staff
nominees.
For the offices of Editor and Business Manager of the Cam-
panile, there was onty one candidate in each case. One of them
was the staff nominee. It was the tatter office and it was given to
this aspirant who is a Siime this year. Unheard of! A Siime run-
ning for and getting the office of Business Manager of the Cam-
panile—the yearbook of the Rice Institute! And he was nomi-
nated by the present staff which is composed of all Seniors, who
(to. and should know, what they are doing. Of course no mud must
tie siung upott the most worthy ability and character of the afore-
said Slime. but it is the principle of the thing. All the higher-
minded students and those who are really interested in the wel-
tare of the school held up their hands in holy horror when they
found upon appraising the ballot last Monday that a lowly Fresh-
man. a Stinn had a strangle hold upon one of the most worthy of-
fices in !h< udents' Association. Of all the boldest interpreta-
tions of tin class of '27, this takes the cake!
The most it sidious part of this gross digression upon precedent,
is the plot that was worked out whereby the 'scheme succeeded.
The whote thing was kept a secret. Even after it was too late to
circulate another petition or to intervene against him.
The other candidates and staff were mum as King Tut himself
when approached upon the matter prior to the election. No one
would say who. what, when, where, how. why, or which the next
Business Manager would be.
At a mass meeting of all the masculine element of the school to
draw up resolutions for running the election as it should be, no
voice was heard in protest of this action.
A travesty on Rice politics! A sacrilege! A Slime Business
.Mananer of the Campanile! Scoft'law!!!
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MEMORIAL.
In a letter to The Thresher several months ago. a member of the
class of '26 suggested a most admirable project. He explained that
outside of the University buildings there was no other way of
'^i. wing that a great man by the name of William Marsh Rice ever
iived. Kven the buildings haven't his name on them or any other
sign to tell the inhabitants from Goose Creek whether this is the
< ount v orphan asylum for crippled mice in Bellingham, Washing-
ton. or whether it is the annual conclave for the United Order of
( ;,iored Masons of Nova Scotia.
The Sophomore said that a tax of $2.00 on each student for one
roHegiate year would net enough to erect a good, appropriate
monument or mausoleum for this great man. Suppose $2,000 hap-
pened not to be enough ? A similar tax for five years would net
310,000 and what couldn't be built for ten thousand iron men? Is
Rice going to neglect the man who made her possible, while at
the same time she boasts of this man with empty words ?
An article in The Thresher last term spoke of a university in the
Mast that had a sally port similar to the one at Rice and every stu-
dent always lifted his hat as he entered this place as a tribute to
the Alma Mater he loved.
Why not erect a memorial for the future Owl family to look up
to as symbolic of one of the greatest Texans that ever lived and
THE greatest RICK man that ever lived.
And the way is so simple. So easy. A more worthy plan was
never before offered by a Rice student.
Dr. Lovett. the die is cast. The Sophomore Thresher has en-
titled upon you this undertaking. Will you join the men and
women of Rice, or shall thev join the forces of the Houston Press?
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HOLDING OFFICE.
In a few days captains for the 1925 baseball team and track
team wit) be elected by these two bodies respectively. Classes will
continue to elect their officials for the ensuing year. Clubs will
have or will be going to elect their officers. The new Thresher
staff will be calling for writers to sign up for the coming year
and will begin to think about a set of reporters for next year.
in short, Rice men and women will be placing some one at the
head of this or that organization of themselves.
These new officials will be vested with a more or less unlimited
power over the various interests that they may become the head
of, and will exercise their efforts for the or worse of the
welfare of whatever they hold the axe over. The point is these of-
ficers can make or break their organizations almost at will.
There can never be too much consideration and care given to
the person in whom to place the control.
If the Writing Club, for example, wanted to put on a special
program, or if the Dramatic Club wanted to stage some plays be-
fore the governor, a poor, inefficient somebody would never even
be considered for the place of authority. These clubs would not
even take a chance on there being a fluke. The best talent possible
would be obtained for the occasion.
Let them, therefore, exercise the same precaution, and debate
long and earnestly as to whose hands they leave the fate of their
respective functions. Let not their interests be jeopardized by se-
lecting an incompetent set of officers.
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CLASS POLITICS.
Matters have reached the point here where election means riot.
Antagonism between the eds and co-eds is such that when is men-
tioned the boys hiss and when a boy is mentioned the girls hias.
Neither is willing to see the other get what is logically theirs. No
girl, under existing conditions, could reasonably be president of
the Students' Association, for no girl has the contact with the
dorms that is essential for the place. But neither, in view of this,
should a boy contest the place of vice-president, for it is indisput-
able that, since the girls are here, they certainly should be allowed
one of the high offices of the Council for reasons that are per-
fectly obvious.
Nothing could so surely ruin all chances of the girls in elections
than to try to railroad an all-girl ticket. Girls are not in the ma-
jority in Rice, and such a thing would be impossible unless they
were. Aside from that, as long as there are both eds and co-eds,
there is no more reason that girls should fill every office then
that boys should.
Each group seems to have lost its sense of values. If there ere
both boys end girls in the school, then let there be both among
the office-holders. Why should there not be?
The boys carry most of the elections. There is e reason for this
outside of the feet of their majority numbers, It is e very simple
reason, end one that is essential to success. It is co-operation
among themselves. A small number of the girls here may agree,
but for a number iarge enough to carry out anything worth while
the attempt seems almost hopeless. Just before the last election,
the boys held a primary in order that they might be organized in
their voting. Why shouldn't the girla do likewise? Apparently
because the individual is unwiUing to subordinate herself to the
whole in order that results for the good of all may be obtained.
Before you rise in disgust at these statements, remember that
a house divided against itself cannot stand. Rice needs CLASS
SPIRIT.
[0Uf^EX--STUDE5
A. W. Uhl, '2!!, is now employed as
an accountant by the Bell Telephone
Company at Dallas.
f. E. Brown, '2!l. and Stewart Jum-
erson, '23, are working for the Texas
Company in this city.
Dorothy A. Stewart, ex-'25, is teach-
ing history and physiology in the Bel-
taire public school.
Ottolsenlcrh, '20, now married, is
with the Dorsey Printing Company of
Dallas.
L. Suttles, '21. is a student and
technical assistant at Johns Hopkins
Medical College.
RHiott L. Randal). '22, of 5017 Cen-
ter Street, Dallas, is the sole Amer-
ican representative of a number of
German chemical and dye exporters.
S. A. Shelbourne, '22. is a student at
the University of Pennsylvania Col-
lege of Medicine.
Juanita Foster, ex-'24, is studying
at the Baylor Medical School. Dallas.
DeaCalvin,'23, is a student of med-
icine and an instructor in organic
chemistry at the Galveston Medical
College.
F. W. Johnson, '23, is doing clerical
work for the Texas Company at Port
Arthur.
H. E. Durham is chief engineer of
the Kansas City Southern Ry., Co.,
509 Kansas City Southern building,
Kansas City, Mo.
W. L. Coleman '23 is attending
Harvard Law School
Carl F. Doehring '23 is attending
the University of Texas Medical
School in Galveston.
DeWitt Terhune McLaughlin of the
class of '23, who is on a tour of the
world, was last heard from in Kyoto.
Japan, where he was visiting at the
University of Japan.
Allen Bloxsom '23 is attending
Johns* Hopkins Medical School.
James Hearne Hughes and Joseph
The Owls are Wise
Birds. They send their
clothes to the
: Pear! Laundry :
"Go thou and do like-
wise."
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Retten are both working in New
York City. Their present address is
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M. H. Alexander '23 is practicing
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Yes. it's a BOSTONIAN—and,
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524 Main Rice Hotel
taw with the firm of Alexander and
McLarty, Hesly Baiiding, Atlanta.
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W. H. Winn *28 is with the Union
Centra! Life insurance Company of
Houston.
Lamar Cecil is studying law at the
University of Texas.
STREET -RICE HOTEL
Something New—Unlined
Fine Worsted Suits
With Vest
The fresh ideas are always quickly expressed here.
These are three-piece suts in smart zephyr weight
worsted fabrics, tailored in light construction.
Very useful and pracitcal for the young college
man who wants the best.
Main and Preston
HENRY CAVENDISH
t73!-i8M
English chemist and physicist,
of whom Biot said, "He was
the richest of the teamed and
the most teamed of the rich.
Hislast great achievement was
hia.famous experiment to de-
termine thedensity of the earth.
In this age of electricity
the General Electric
Company has biased
the trait of electrical pro-
grass. You will Had ita
monogram on the giant
generators used by
lighting companies;
and even on the lamps
and Mttte motors that
mean so much In the
home. !t ia a symbol
of useful service.
He Rrst made
water from gases
Henry Cavendish, an eccentric millionaire
recluse, who devoted his life to research,
was the discoverer of the H and the O in
HzO. In fact he first told the Royal Society
of the existence of hydrogen.
He found what water was by making it
himself and so became one of the first of
the synthetic chemists.
Cavendish concluded that the atmosphere
contained elements then unknown. His
conclusion has been verified by the dis-
covery of argon and other gases.
The Research Laboratories of the General
Electric Company have found a use for
argon in developing lamps hundreds of
times brighter than the guttering, candles
which lighted Cavendish's laboratory.
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