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RICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, FEBRUARY 26, 1926
NUMBER 19
Rice Topics
THE Co-eds. with their propensities
for diluted journalism, will have
the opportunity next week to show
readers of The Thresher how well the
girls succeed whenever they under-
take anything like this.
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There is no doubt In anybody's mind
but that the jfirls will live up to the
more or less unenviable reputation
that they have gained by their efforts
in the past.
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The female staff of writers, with
their warped ideas about literature,
never fail to concoct a sheet that
makes very amusing reading.
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That the Co-ed Thresher, due to ap-
pear next week, will continue in the
traditional vein, is a foregone con-
clusion.
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DR. SLAUGHTER'S departure for
the Orient next Tuesday will de-
prive Rice, temporarily, of one of the j
most popular lecturers on the facul'y. |
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IJrs. Tsanoff and Arrowwood will j
take charge of two of his classes and i
the other will be turned over to the j
students themselves.
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On his return next fall, Dr. Slaugh-
ter will resume his lectures in the
various courses.
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The change provided by the work i
in China is expected to work an im- j
provement in Dr. Slaughter's health. |
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A hearty spirit of co-operation is j
springing up between Rice and j
the downtown newspapers.
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Reports of Rice sports, lectures, or-i
ganizations, and general activities!
find their way into the big dailies and j
usually occupy a more or less prowi-i
nent place.
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Newspaper men all over the coun-
try are finding interesting articles
and news stories in the happenings of
university campuses. The papers of
Houston are proving to be in accord
with this general tendency.
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Hardly an issue appears without
some reference to a Rice event or
movement.
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The Rice Athletic Association Pub-
licity Bureau is working hand in hand
with the daily papers of Houston and
further support has been promised.
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Friction that may have prevailed in
the past seems largely to have dis-
appeared, and those with the interests
of Rice at heart are looking forward
with pleasure to the indications of real
co-operation in the future.
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fHE literary reputation of the In-
stitute is at stake! Unless some
of those that claim to have literary
ability come forward with some proof
of their claims the deluge of printers
. ink from C. I. A. and other similar
places will so blacken the blue and
grey that it will be unrecognizable as
such.
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* All of which is to urge students to
submit their gems for the annual
T. I. P. A. contest. All sorts of ar-
ticles are needed. Short stories,
familiar and formal essays, poems and
one-act plays are to be submitted'in
general competition. News articles,
editorials, feature stories, etc., are to
be used in the Thresher competition.
Other contests will permit the Cam-
pinile to get into the fun.
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Incidentally, prizes are being offered
for "the winning articles in each de-
partment, so that those who refrain
from writing for the regular columns
of the publications because they con-
sider their time too valuable to be
donated gratis may be encouraged
to enter the contest as professionals.
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As all articles must be in the early
part of March little time is to be
lost.
Juniors Honor Seniors With
Prom at River Oaks Monday
The ballroom of the River Oaks
Country Club will have the appear-
ance of a Spanish garden Monday
night when the class of '27 gives the
Junior Prom in honor of the Seniors.
The dance will be a formal one, in
contrast to the recent costume affairs
that have taken place, and conven-
tional attire will be the order of the
evening.
Lee's Owls will be in charge of the
music from St to 12 when the Virgin-
ians will take over the melody making
end of the program. In view of the
fact that Tuesday, Texas Independ-
ence Day, is a holiday, the dancing
will continue until 3 o'clock.
The Prom committees, under the
general leadership of Walter Fondren,
report varying stages of progress.
Bids will be received by only those
Seniors who paid their Junior duec
last year. The same ruling will apply
next year to those who fail to con-
tribute to the Junior coffers this year.
Ben Bellows, at the head of the
finance committee, will be on hand
to collect Junior dues up until Mon-
day.
Jesse Madden is in charge of dec-
orations and is to see that the hall is
properly dressed up Monday night.
Arrangements have been made for the
music through Ewell Strong, chair-
man of the music committee. Refresh-
ments are under the control of lJeurl
Hooker, who will he held responsible
for anyone starving to death on the
floor.
Frank Gordon is handling the bids
and programs. Seniors should get
their bids in the Sallyport. This
year's Junior Prom, being held for
the first time away from the Com-
mons, bids fair to be an epoch-making
dance in the history of Rice.
NET MEN TO RESUME!
ACTIVITIES
Six Dual Meets to Be Held
During Spring
Activities of the tennis squad will i
be resumed next Monday when regular I
practice will get under way once!
more. The squad is made up of six|
varsity players and four Slimes, any
one of whom may be displaced by'
school players who make a better
showing than the present members of
the squad.
Practice will be held at the Y. M.
C. A. courts under the supervision «&f
Stuart Coleman, who will watch and
direct the work of the players when
possible, though he cannot put in his
full time at coaching.
Six dual meets wil be held during
the spring, and a final conference
tournament will decide the champion-
ship. p
The time and place of the confer-
ence tournament have not been an-
nounced, but rumors have been circu-
lating to the effect that it may be
held here at Rice.
The results of the dual meets will
not have anything to do with the final
standing of the teams, but this will
depend entirely on the showing made
in the conference tournament.
The prospects of the team are not
as good as might be, and unless the
players show unexpected ability this
year's team will probably not be up to
the standard of preceding years. This
is due to the fact that the team is
a new one, all of the old players hav-
ing been lost in one way or another—
by graduation, transferring to other
schools, and, in the case of Sloan, by
an effort to preserve his eligibility as
long as,possible.
No member of this year's squad is
capable of playing as good a game
as did Fitch of last year, but it is
believed that Captain Beckenbaugh
and Barr are fully up to the standard
of last year's players.
The members of the squad distin-
guished themselves on the exams, for
not a single one became ineligible by
them.
• Slime Nethery was lost from among
the ranks of the tennis players, but
he had not been able to become one
of the four Freshmen who are on the
regular squad.
The schedule of meets is as follows:
April 10th—Baylor, here.
April 17th—Texas University, here.
April 24th—S. M. U., here.
May 1st—T. C. U., Fort Worth.
May 3rd—Okla. Uni., Norman.
May 8th—A. and M., here.
YELLOW, SHEET TO
APPEAR
Hill Assumes Perennial Role; Is
Editor-in-Chief.
The Co-ed Thresher, journalistic en-
deavor of the feminine element of the
institute, will make its third annual j
appearance March 5. Martha Frances
Hill, also editor of last year's issue, is
the editor. Mary Trammell, who held
the same position last year also, is
business manager.
Ethel McConnell is managing editor.
The rest of the staff was to have been
appointed at a staff meeting Wednes-
day morning. A call has been issued
for all co-ed journalists or would-be
journalists to offer their services. As-
signments will be bestowed upon them
by the editor.
Work has already been begun on it
and is progressing rapidly. It prom-
ises to be a good issue, with lots, of
things of interest to everyone,
The idea started in 1924, when the
co-eds, under the editorial leadership
of Sybil Marie Denniston, marshaled
their forces and astonished the student
body with eight pages of co-ed litera-
ture. Martha Frances Hill was the
literary guide last year.
CAMPANILE CAMPUS
EDITOR
Harvin C. Moore Gets Good
Job on Yearbook
Announcement comes from Camna
nile headquarters of the appointment
of Harvin C. Moore, well-known lit-
erary light, as Campus editor of the
1926 year book.
Moore will be in charge of one of
the most interesting and important
departments of the book. He will
have a number of assistants.
Moore Is well known at Rice for his
literary talents. The Thresher has
been the recipient of some of his crea-
tions this year. He is also connected
with the English department "at the
Institute. He is a Junior, and a mem-
ber of the band.
Several important changes have
been made In the organization of the
Campanile staff this year, it Is an-
nounced. The staff has been held
down somewhat, but from now on will
be allowed full reins. The Campa-
nile's downtown office is a whirlwind
of activity. Announcement of other
staff members who are now hard at
work on Rice's year book will be
forthcoming soon.
John W Returns
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To Rice After
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Short Vacation
Coach John W. Heisman returned to
his office in the field house and was
at work Monday—despite the fact that
Monday was a holiday. He arrived in
Houston on Sunday from Miumi, Fla.,
where he had spent two months or so
on a vacation.
Heisman is returning to his coach-
ing nearly two months before his con-
tract with the institute calls for his
return. He stated before leaving that
he was wiling to put in extra time if
he had fairly decent prospects of hav-
ing a team.
Spring training will begin next
Monday at 3:30 sharp. All candidates
should be present at the field house
at that time. Equipment was being
issued all this week to prospective
footballers.
After Monday Bedenk will coach the
linesmen at 2:30 and Heisman will
coach the backfield men at 3:30 each
day of the spring. This is the theo-
retical plan worked out thus fax-. Of
course, if the men are unable to get
out to the field at this time other
arrangements will have to be made.
This idea is hoped to work out O.
K. as Coach Bedenk, besides being line
coach of football is also head base-
ball coach and has to meet this team
each afternoon. Therefore he must
coach the linesmen at some other time.
Coach Heisman reported that he
had enjoyed his stay in Miami and had
gained some five pounds while there.
The Thresher reporter never made in-
quiry as to the progress of the reai1'
estate, and the coach's purchases and
sales of the watery lots.
Heisman did not have a great deal
to say as to his expectations for a
team next year. He seems to be afraid
that his condition concerning the team
may be similar to that of the Irish-
man who fell from a 30-story building
ani remarked as he passed the fif-
tet nth floor, "Well, all's well so far!"
There is another big set of examina-
tions in June and the best that Ricej
can do is just hope for the best and
keep prodding the Freshmen football'
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BASEBALL OUTLOOK
PROMISING
Pitching Staff Excellent;
Conference Boasts
Good Teams
The Rice Owls baseball nine is a
very promising bunch of champion-
ship hopes. The team that Bedenk
will put forth to do battle with the
rest of the conference and the out-
side world in general is of such a cali-
ber that it would be able to whip
the socks off the rest of the confer-
ence such as it was last year.
But alas! alackaday! it is rumored
that the conference as a whole is vast-
ly superior in the realm of baseball
than last year. So our little embry-
onic team may not show up to its full
merit. But at any event the team will
be of superior quality to any that
Rice has possessed for some years
past.
There are now nineteen men out
regutej^. That means that there are
practice for two complete
teams as well as an umpire. With the
close of the basket ball season next
Friday night three more men will be
out for regulation training. These
three are Borchow, Grant, and Calvin.
By simple addition this will give a
squad of the sum total of twenty-two
members, no more or less.
The Owls can boast of an unusual
pitching staff. In fact more than a
third of the total number of candi-
Slaughter Leaves For China;
To Return to Rice Next Fall
RICE CLOSES SEASON
FRIDAY
S. M. U. to Tangle With Owls
At City Auditorium
February 26
Friday, February 26, marks the
close of the 1925-26 basket ball sea-
son at Rice, at which time the local
ouintet matches skill with the S. M. U.
Mustangs, at the City Auditorium.
Three games played last week were
chalked upon the loss column for Rice
as far as games won and lost are con-
cerned.
Baylor defeated the local squad
31-26 in a fast game in which Strick-
land of Baylor was high point man
with 13 points. Meeting S. M. U. for
the first time this year, Rice was de-
feated by a score of 29-9, Allison of
S. M. U., high point man, pilling up
a sum total of 19''points, enough to
defeat Rice single handed.
In the Rice-Texas game, Texas re-
versed the story of their first meet-
ing by winning over the local five by
the score of 27-10. Nevinger was high
point man for the game with seven
points while Esquival, Joe King and
Olle of Texas, each scored six points
for the State Five.
Morris played a good, consistent
igame for Rice as usual, keeping the
opposition on their guard at all times!
as a result of his speedy field Work. I
Borschow, star forward, did not make'
the trip to Austin because of an in-;
jured lip. Rumors are out that the |
star forward has to take coffee for!
breakfast, soup for dinner, and malted!
milk for supper, all through the gravi-
tational assistance of straws.
MONDAY IS DAY FOR
BLAZERS j
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Seniors to Wear Blazers On
Mondays; To Be Measur-
ed for Caps and Gowns
Monday has been selected as the
official day on which Seniors are to
wear their striped blasters and other
distinctive garments, according to. I
Kmmett Goodrich, president of the 1
Sen'or class. This does not prevent
them from wearing their blazers at
any time they desire, however
The decision was made at a meet-
ing of t.he class of '26 in the physics
amphitheater Thursday noon.
Committees for final Senior activi-,
ties were also appointed.
Measurements for caps and gowns!
will bo taken at a desk in the cloisters :
on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday!
of next week, according to Bert Hit-;
sou. chairman of the caps and gowns j
committee.
Almost the entire class attended
the meeting,
dates are pitchers. There are six reg- j
ulars and two relief pitchers—almost j
enough to give one for each inning—,
who are eligible to play. And the
great thing about it is that there are
no intervening examinations to make
this statement false as a fickle jade.j
The two chief standby® of the pitch-
ing staff will be Abies and Wood
(both off probation, thank God!), and
a couple of the others have seen serv-
ice on Varsity teams of the past.
So it is very likely that the student
body will not be greatly disappointed
in baseball this year. No spoofus, the
men are all eligible!
FRESHMAN UNCOVERS BUCK ART IN PHYSICS CLASS
NO EXAMS NOW TILL JUNE
Probationer* Remain On Pro Until
End of Year; Cards
Out In April
There will be no exams in March,
April, or May for Freshman or pro-
bationers, according to reports ema-
nating from the office.
This is in refutation of current
rumors to the effect that probationers
will have a chance to come off pro
before the final exams in June. They
will continue on pro and take their
chances with the rest in the general
deluge the first week of June.
Cards will be sent out to the abovp,
however, at some time during the
month of April. '; :
Once again have students of the in-
stitute witnessed a manifestation of
the black art. Once again has the
triumph of mind over njatter been
clearly demonstrated to the satisfac-
tion of 260 skeptical studes. Once
again has Doc Heaps, assistant pro-
fessor of Physics, class of '60, and
originator of the infamous "I make
'em you bustem" Quiz, given one of
his impromptu exhibitions of the black
magic of the Occult to a class of Slime
hairy-ears, architects, and other
skimpwits taking Physics 100.
It all came about in this way. Dr,
Heaps had just about finished his
lefctuMt bn. The Application ,ctfyDop-
. Pises' principle in preventing Stewed
Prunes from becoming Shriveled. Thi
snores of 231 members of the class
were blending perfectly in simple
harmonic motion, when suddenly
Slime Sofar, who was listening at-
tentively (to the snoring), blew his
nose at exactly the same pitch, thus
producing what we physicists call a
resonance. This phenomenum remind-
ed the Doc of the" marvelous experi-
ment to be described herein.
Doctor Heaps produced a stand
from which were suspended by strings
of various length four steel balls. He
then requested that all members of
the class not unconscious concentrate
on one particular sphere. The remain-
der of the class was disturbed from
its slumber by the grumbling of a
Slime hairy-ear who was asking how
in heck he could concentrate when he
bad left his T-square at home.
i Heaps, the great mystic, retired be-
hind the long table, affixed his hyp-j
notic eye on the now quivering sphere,;
and commanded it in the unknown
tongue to move in a frequency of 34, a
wave-length of 19 and aepecific grav-
ity of 9. The ball obeyed promptly,
just as it had been ordered. Then to
expel any doubts, he repeated the
same amazing feat with each of the
other balls in turn.
At the conclusion of the demonstra-
tion he walked proudly from behind
the table and demanded if any mem-
bers of the class were so learned as
to be able to explain this remarkable
manifestation of the triumph of mind
over matter. Several bright children
offered complicated theories, all of
which were disdainfully rejected.
At the end of the lecture, Professor
Heaps was approached by Will Hor-
witz who hailed him as a second Kara
and presented him an attractive con-
tract for his appearance at the Tex-
an and Iris theatres. The great mys-
tic was also annoyed by a crowd of
destitute ex-shieks who offered him
second hand Arabian Nights costumes
for his act at ridiculously low prices,
all accessories included except a
harem.
But Doc Heaps' dreams of being a
matinee idol were soon shattered. An
over-inquisitive Freshman, not quite
so dumb as the usual variety, peered
behind the long table and discovered a
cleverly concealed air hose and bulb
which the Doc was carefully pedalling
at well timed intervals. The prying
one then immediately proclaimed his
discovery, and broadcast the news that
the fake was not a triumph of mind
over matter but rather of sole over
matter.
Dr. J. W. Slaughter, instructor
in sociology, philanthropy, and
civics, will leave Rice Institute
for China next Tuesday. Dr.
Slaughter has been granted a six
months' leave of absence from
the Institute and also from the
Houston Foundation, of which
he is director, and Jefferson
Davis Hospital, of which he is
also head. He is also secretary
of the Houston Community
Chest.
Dr. Slaughter will sail from San
Francisco for Han Kau, China, where
he will lecture at the Central Chinese
University. He will, of course, fol-
low a general course similar to that
which he conducted at Rice—social
science and social welfare.
Besides being connected with the
university, Dr. Slaughter wil) make
a survey of the City of Wu Chang.
He is conducting three courses here
now: Sociology 300, Philanthropy
500, and Philanthropy 510. The
Sociology will he taken over by Dr.
Tsanoff, professor of Philosophy.
Philanthropy 510 will he conducted by
Dr. Arrowood, instructor m e>h .
tion. And it is rumored that the 500
class will l.e turned over to the man-
agement of the students themselves.
"The trip to China will be the ac-
complishment of one of the dreams
of my whole life." Dr. Slaughter is
quoted as saying. "The matter was
first broached to me last fall when
Bishop Roots of Han Kau was a Hous-
ton visitor."
Dr. Slaughter will not, be worried
with interpreters while in China, as
he speaks English and Chinese with
equal facility.
He intends to return to |j;ouston
and the institute next September
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BRIDGEWATER GETS JOB
Will Handle Publicity for Engineer,
ing Show
Lyle fashion, head of the Biennial
Rice Engineering Show, announces
the selection of Jack Bridgwater to
handle the publicity for the show.
The need for publicity in the daily
newspapers of Houston as well as in
some outside papers culmiated in the
appointment of a publicity head.
Publicity in all forms is planned for
the show—in print, by radio, and by
the old familiar conversational
methods.
The show will be held some tine
toward the last of April, The date
will be arranged so that the visiting
high school athletes, attending th
annual High School Athletic Meet at
Rice field, may get the full benefit of
the triumphs of science, etc., over
something else, etc.
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PLAY TO BE GIVEN OVER
Deacon's Hat Will Be Presented at
Autry House. March 5.
The Deacon's Hat is being worked
up again for its third presentation
which will be at Autry House on the
afternoon of jifafeb 5.. This third pre-
sentation is being given for the Art
League, which is entertaining a state-
wide delegation of artists at that
time. Presentation of the play will
follow a brief talk by Peter Vincent
of Galveston tattle Theatre fame on
Little Theatre Arts.
The spring term plays, to be given
late in April, are being selected by
the committee, and announcement of
them—their date and place of pre-
sentation wil be made later.
SOLITARY SAL 1
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So DR. Slaughter IS
C oin& TO China —
EVEN AT THAT, HE
can't away
Rice — .
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