The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 3, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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STUDENT WEEKLY PUBLICATION
RICE INSTITUTE
WET BLANKET: 24
more days before exams.
CO-ED EDITION
VOL. 14
HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
SUBJECT OF LECTURE AT
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
PHYSICIST MAINTAINS THERE IS NO CONFLICT FOR
THE EDUCATED
BE GOOD
OR MAMMA SPANK!
With spring elections approaching,
the student body should exercise care
and attention in the choice of students
for the various campus offices. It is
trite to urge interest in campus affairs
on the greater part of the student
body. We doubt if most of them can
be roused from the lethargy that
holds them. However, each student
should feel personally responsible to
vote in elections for members of the
honor council if for no others. Sure-
ly there is no more important and re-
sponsible position on the campus than
preserving the Honor System. Recent-
ly there has been much talk as to the
merits and success of the system here
at Rice. One hears many charges that
some members of the Honor Council
have themselves been guilty of cheat-
ing. Whether tilts Is true or not, It
has the ffct of creating a feeling of
disrespect for the Honor System.
Recently the call of spring has taken
the form of an Increase of conversa-
tion in classes typtweqp students, the
professor being ignol*ed. As a rule
these students do not bother to so
modulate their voices as to prevent
disturbing others who are more in-
terested in the lecture than in these
delightful private chats. This tendency
has been noticed In certain junior and,
senior classes particularly.
River Oaks will be the scene of the
Rice Saturday night dances from now
until the end of school. It is certain
that the latter part of this announce-
ment is right—as far as the time and
place, but as for the statement that it
vt-lll be 'Rice Saturday Night' Dance,
all DEPENDS ON YOU. The seniors
wail and mourn and nash their teeth
and cry: "Patronize Rice dances in-
stead of the University Club Dances
on Saturday night, and help the Sen-^
ior Class enlarge its gift to the schol-
arship fund." "But who wants to go
to a da^-e just to enlarge a scholar-
ship fund. 'I'm not going unless the
rest go'; or 'We passed by, but there
weren't many cars; so we went to the
University Club.'
These and various similar excuses
cause the dance goers to fool around
pasting the best part of the evening
trying to decide where to go. Now
that a definite place for the dances
has been arranged, why can't all Rico
students show a little "spirit" and go
to the designated place, make up their
minds to be In a purely Rice crowd,
mix with the students with whom they
have not been thrown at all except in
a scholastic atmosphere or in the
Sally Port for only a few minutes dur-
ing the week, and keep up the weekly
collegiate hilarity that has been mani-
fest on the Rice Campus on Saturday
nights for the lhst ten years?
Dr. H. A. Wilson, professor of
Physics in his address on "Science
and Religion" at the First Congrega-
tional Church Sunday evening, sum-
marized hia thoughts as follows: "It
seems to me, that the evolution of the
universe regarded from a purely sci-
entific standpoint, agrees much better
with the theory that it is controlled by
spiritual powers outside of and above
the ordinary laws of physics than with
the theory that it is a purely material
process."
"Real scientists," said Dr. Wilson
"are kept busy by their scientific work
and they have no desire to claim that
science gives Information on spiritual
affairs. It is the business of the phy-
sicist to study the material side of the
world as distinguished from the spir-
itual, a study of the stage on which
the spiritual powers play the parts by
which "they control its evolution and
final destiny.
"Scientific research has tevealed
many things about the material uni-
verse since the beginning of the Chris-
tian era among which is the idea of
the relative motions of the sun and
planets and their distances apart.
Through careful study covering many
years of observation science has
changed the old Idea of the earth as
the center of the universe with the
sun and moon and stars moving about
it, to that of the sun as the center
with the earth and planets moving in
orbits about it, as it too moves in its
course.
"Through much later astronomical
study it appears that the universe is
much bigger and much more complex
than was formerly supposed; much
more is happening in it; and it does
not remain the same, but is continu-
ally changing and evolving. Such re-
sults only strengthen our faith in the
power which guides the evolution of
this universe.
"After Galileo earner other great
scientific pioneers: Newton and Fara-
day are b\v( two outstanding names
here. Newjjoh- was the first and the
greatest of a long series of mathe-
matical and experimental physicists
jjjjose work has made Cambridge fa-
mous. If Newton had not done his
work, the progress of humanity would
probably have been delayed hundreds
of years. And yet, today his statue
stands in Trinity College chapel show-
ing that in that great college of re-
ligion, learning, and research, there is
(Continued on Page 6.)
Often the profs get spring fever
themselves and their lectures deteri-
orate In interest and vitality of pre-
sentation. In such cases, the students
can scarcely be blamed for being
bored—day dreaming and even going
to Bleep—lulled by a dull, monotonous
mumble.
And another thing! Bach professor
should so plan his course that It Is not
all due the first week or two in May.
As matters now stand, juniors and
seniors have little to do except at-
tend classes all year. Then when
April 15th comes so do term themes,
extra reading, special .problems, and
what not—just when every senior is
being "entertained extensively."
The Editor expresses her apprecia-
tion for the co-operation which she has
received from every source—eds, co-
eds, administration, the 'Reverend,'
and the night watchman.
There's nothing like, a pleasant aft-
ernoon with one of Horatio Alger's
books. Ask Mr. Williams—he knows.
We saw it nestling among the learned
tomes on his desk, "
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NO, 2*
RICE MAY FETE SCHEDULED
FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON
DEAN R. G. CALDWELL
VISITS AXSON CLUB
Dean Caldwell addressed the Axson
Club Tuesday on the creation of a
student benefit fund, of which about
sixty dollars per year will be avail-
able. The Dean, explaining the dif-
ference between a scholarship, a loan,
and a gift, suggested that this fund
jbe used for gifts to deserving stu-
dents in case of illness or some other
emergency. The Axson Club has al-
ready endowed one scholarship, the
Ellen Axson Scholarship, which car-
ries an annual stipend of six Jwndred
dollars.
Information has also been leceived
that the Dean will serve on the City
Library Board.
CRANMER CLUB
WILL CHOOSE
• 1 9 2 9 OFEICERS
The Cramner Club will elect officers
for the fall term, at the business meet-
ing next Sunday, May 6, at 9:30, fol-
lowing the regularly monthly corpo-
rate communion service at 8:00
o'clock and breakfast. The report of
the nominating committee will be read
at the beginning of the meeting at
which time nominees from the floor
will be in order.
Mrs. Walter W. Windson will talk
to the Cranmer Club at the weekly
meeting* of the club for the remain-
ing Sundays ot this term.
SALLYPORT
Hush . . . there's a miracle in our
midst ... a Junior Engineer pacing the
Sallyport! Wonder who Sanquinet
could be waiting for.
Hi, Spencer Scott, you big political
man—when are you going to start dol-
ing out the cigars?
Adel Wharton ... in a big hurry
again. Where t,o this time?
Qeorge Hunter . . . George, your
prototypes are all over the place—or
are you leading a double life? First
we hear of you as an incriminated
driver of a nigger taxlcab . . . then
you invade Loew-State as a black-face
comedian. How about a true confes-
sion.
Babe Hall. The Seniors surely had
a corner on the beauty market this
year.
Speedy Mersh—Fort Worth's latest
gift to the Engineering Department.
We'd like to know if any of his popu-
larity depends on being Mr. Gerke's
room mate.
Earl Koeppe deserting the arch, lab
for a stroll.
Helen Nina Scott—attractive Soph-
omore all dyked out In blue and in-
terested in what 'she's telling some-
one.
Better hurry, Bernlce, if you're go-
ing to get that letter to Sam mailed
before your ten o'clock..
Tommy Wood seems to be enjoying
his nice long vacation or else maybe
he's been working real hard in an ef-
fort to turn out a Thresher that will
outdo the last five issues.
Willis wandering aimlessly around
with Prude who's trying to get him to
register his famous expressions of sur-
prise and anger.
And Braun of Pre-med fame.
There's Joe Knipple with that girl
In the green hat.
Got to be wanderin' on to class for
no good reason whatever.
S'long.
Y. W. G A. SPSONSOR'S
BOOK EXCHANGE
Beginning May 27, the Rice Y. W,
C. A. will sponsor a book exchange at
the Autry House to receive and at-
tempt to sell old books. No guarantee
will be made but a receipt will be
given, for each book. It the book is not
sold, it will be returned. The purpose
ot the exchange Is to bring upper-
classmen and under classmen togeth-
LATE POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMNTS
Miss Julienne Sakowitz ha broken
a precedent at Rice in announcing hi r
candidacy for the office of assi:- t.urjt
editor of the Campanile. Tin- is > .«•
first time a girl has run for this i ,
tion and, should she win, sin- \\. ii :
be the first girl to edit the year lw,.-.
since the assistant editor autumn
ically becomes the editor in the fal-
lowing year. Miss Sakowitz ! -
worked actively on publication.- at. Ui
in her two years here and sin i.- ..
staff nominee.
* 4 <
Spencer fieott's name lias been left
off of the previously announced bal-
lots. He is a candidate for the posi-
tion of business manager of the Cam-
panile.
* *
In announcing my candidacy for
the position of business manager of
! the Campanile, I will only say that I
| am willing to do the hard work re-
I quired.
! Carlos Fleury '31.
C * "* * Cj
I deeply appreciate the confidence
my friends have expressed in nomi-
nating me for president of the Stu-
den^Association.
My aim shall be for a constructive
administration, one pledged to the
principles and spirit of our traditions
which after all is the central axis of
student activity.
In particular, I believe the Honor
System should be continued; that with
certain questionable practices elimi-
nated, the Slime Shirt Tail Parade
could be revived; that we could be
drawn into a more united student
body through constructive activities;
and that we must take the initiative
in building a closer interest with
Houston.
To me, the most valuable things
that we have as a student body are
the traditions which have been built
and preserved for us. Traditions are
not formed every day and this should
make us realize the importance of pre-
serving and respecting the precious
few real traditions that we have.
Egerton S. Robb.
Emerson Subject of Talk
By Stockton Axson
Dr. Stockton Axson, honorary mem-
ber of the Delphian Assembly, deliver-
ed the principal address at the fourth
annual luncheon of the assembly, held
Tuesday at the River Oaks Country
Club, taking for his subject Emerson's
essay on "Compensation."
"Now, as a man's life consists not
in the material things of this world,
of what does it consist?" was one of
the questions propounded by Doctor
Axson in the course o£ his talk. He
answered himself thus: 'Life consists
in the realization of one's own being.'
In this essay, Emerson has shed fresh
light on a subject so old It is com-
monplace.
"Jiynerson pointed out the fallacy of
1 the concession that those gaining mil-
i terial rewards are the successful. He ;
j based his argument on an entirely dif-1
\ ferent conception, one in which he t
shows that tangible rewards do not j
necessarily bring personal happiness. |
I Illustrative of his theme, tlie speak <
j er cited an impressive number of
j facts in support of the idea that even
the president must pay for living in
$<he White House, thus obeying the
j universal law of compensation.
"Old John Adams," said Doctor Ax-
! son, "concluded his business in the !
dark and left on horseback to avoid |
! meeting his hated successor. His son. I
John Quincey Adams, left in bitter- \
noss. Dolly Madison, tlie idolized \
mistress of the White House, when an
I old woman, bade a young woman ex-
| peel, nothing of life but disappoint-1
j ment.
"Andrew Jackson spent his last1
hour before the portrait of the wife;
who had been killed by the calumnies
I of his campaign. Mrs. Taylor hated the
I White House and Lincoln, McKinley.
! Uayes and Garfield left it for a brief
vacation and were brought back dead.
Wilson entered with the elastic step
ei youth and left a broken old man.
O.dy Franklin Pierce retained his 1
Characteristic buoyancy and Theodore
Moose vol t enjoyed himself, being in
..s element."
Or. Axson finished with a quotation '
■ in Calvin Coolldge. "li costs a great
. d.-al to be president."
OFFICIAL BALLOT
President of the Student Assosiatlon:
Stuart Lumkin
John C. Ridley
Egerton S. Robb
Frances W. Vesey
Vice President of the Student Assn.:
Mary Hallie Berry
Homolselle Haden
Aileen Peckham
Treasurer of Student Assn.:
David L. Garrison
Lee H. Johnson
Charles Fred Roy so
Councilman-at-Large:
Homer (Ike) Malthas
John Schumacher
Ast. Editor of Campanile:
Julienne Sakowitz (staff nominee)
Jack Scott
Business Manager of Campanile:
Russel Leu Jacobu
Tommy Lyon
J. Raymond (Zazu) Pitts (staff
nominee)
Spenser Scott
Asst. Business Mgr. of Campanile;
Fred (Fritz) Hart
Whitney Reader (staff nominee)
Asst. Thresher:
Elbert Turner (staff nominee)
Asst. Buiness Manager Thresher:
Claude M. Brookshlro
Carlos Fleury
Asst. Editor of Owl:
Jimmie Swansou
Sidney J. Wilson. Jr. (staff nomi-
nee)
Asst. Business Mgr. Owl:
Joe Allen (staff nominee)
Glenn Dupharne
J. Lawrence Tryon
Cheer Leader:
(ius E. Cranz.
All candidates must submit tin Item-
ized statement of their campaign ex-
penses, which can not. exceed $2.1, to
,f. C. McNeill on I lie afternoon of the
election before any results of the elec-
tion will be made to the public Any
mis-statement will constitute ,i breech
ot the honor system.
Y. W. C. A. WILL HAVE
REPRESENTATIVE AT
HOLLISTER MEETING
Meno Vandaveer. president of the
i V. W. ('. A. tor the year 1928-2!), will
■ go to Holllster this year. On her way
'to the conference she will stop in Ft.
Worth to visit Miss Sarah Beth Bog-
gess, who is attending T. U.
Holllster i* in theShepherd of the
Hills Country, and each summer the
Joint Y. M„ Y, W. Southwest confer-
ence is held there. Five states are rep-
resented at the conference: Louisiana.
Arkansas, Txas Oklahoma and Mis-j
sourl.
Internationally known speakers dis-
cuss these problems with the students.
Tills year some f the peakers will be:
Kirby Page, internationally known
pacifist, T. 7., Koo, member of the ex-
ecutive committee of the World Stu-
dents' Christian Federation, and Ar-
thur Hugh, member of the General1
Board of the Y. M. C. A.
Frances Cullom, president-elect for
the year 1929-1930, may accompany ;
Miss Vandaveer.
er, aud to make money. The small
commisiion taken from the price of
the book will go to the Y. W. C. A.
treasury.
PRE-MEDS AT RIVER
MAKE BIG WHOOPEE
The Pre-Mc'lienl Society held Its
first, annual Spring Frolic last Satur-
day at Magnolia Gardens on the Sail
Jacinto River. The party of about
twenty-five or thirty arrived at Mr
l>avies' log cabin about 4 P. M. Some
of the party went In swimming while
the rest stayed on the beach aud built
sand houses. One of the members of
tlie party crossed the river and killed
a beautiful specimen of a, coral snake
which he brought back to give to the
Biology department. The snake was
a delightful one, almost rivaling Dr.
Chandler's bathing suit in array of
colors.
A game of baseball was played on
th" beach with the Brown boys pitch-
ing a great game against each other
and "Uabe Ruth" Karnaky and Doc
Chandler vising for batting honors. A
picnic supper followed next at the log
cabin. Following the supper the party
went to the pavilion to dance and
made merry until 11:30 P. M. when
the journey for home was started.
The next meeting of the society will
be held Tuesday night. A speaker has
been selected and following the talk,
nomination of ofifcers for the fall
term will be in order. Visitors are wel-
come.
| Gothic Setting and Medieval
Modes to Prevail
On Saturday afternoon. May 4, the
Rice campus to the right of the main
drive will be the seiting for an affair
of rare loveliness when the Institute
presents its annual May fete. Coin-
ing on the lirsi Saturday in May of
each year this festival of beauty has
become one of the well established
traditions of rice.
Color, music, daintiness, and grace
will combine with courtly royalty to
make this more picturesque than any
former fete. An old Gothic castlo
wall with tapering turrets will serve
as a background for the royal thronu
and also add a touch of medieval
statelines.H to break the traditional
strictly modern atmosphere of the
cou rt,
Their .Majesties, Queen Katrina of
the Jloiist of Smith and King Edward
of the House of Gragg have been
chosen to reign in royal dignity. \
program featuring grace and charm,
wit aud dexterity has been planned
for the entertainment of the royat
party. At 4:45 in the afternoon the
ladies aud lords of the court will
start the procession to the throne. Tlio
ladies are as follows: Christine Pope,
duchess of the House of Freshman,
aud her maids, Marjyie Dunn, Mary
Marshall Ferguson, Carmen Lewis,
Evelyn Ifiggeubotlmu, Lulu. Bess
Johnson, Katherlne Montgomery .Mar-
garet Dunn, Frances Duncan, Virginia
fteed, duchess of the House of Sopho-
more, aud her maids, Rowena Mc-
Laughlin Martha Stewart.. Kathryu
Logue, Dorothy lHonne, Mary Louise
Moor", Dorothy Dunn, Margaret Mc-
Carthy, I'auiim Mel louald. Homo-soile
Haden, duchess of the House of Juni-
or, and her maids, Bernlce Lutleau.
Lillian llorloeti. Lillie make, Mary
Hallie Kerry, Marjorie Nicks, Hdythe
Westerfleld. Evelyn Marrs. Dorotny
Bethany, Maxnn ,le;ntes, duchess of
the house of Senior and her maids,
Evelyn Kpley, Xoiui.i Clay. Oquilla
Smith, lVverly Konviile,^Frames Sara
Giesecke. Charlotte Williams, Mnt'jori*
Hayes, Fay K(ia Mutton, princesses
Anita Stewart and Elulse Hall. The
lords are the-. Wendell Hamrick,
duke of the House of Senior; James
Swansou, duke of House >i Junior;
Charles Ward, duke of House of
Sophomore:. I'arJetuji |>oik. duke of
House of freshman ( leo Segrlst will
be court jesiei.
Flower chains will replace Use tra-
ditional Maypole in a danc by a
group of Rice's fairest co-eds. Miss
Iris Coughlin will entertain with a solo
dance. To lend variety to the oc-
casion tl|e Rice tumbling team, under
the leadership of Rivers I'atout, will '
perform.
The presentation of the cup to the
best all-round senior girl will be made,
as is the custom, by the president of
the College Woman's Club, Miss Har
rlet Joekel. The name of the recepi-
ent of the cup is known only to a
committee composed of members of
the faculty" and will be kept a secret
(Continued on Page G.)
Co-ed Cora Remarks
SUPPRESSED DESIRES
2. Smoothe furniture for silk hose.
2. Lounges in the basement for
Spring Fever victims.
3. Uncoltapslble chairs in lecture
rooms.
4. Cuts In Italian and Physics 200.
5. A new ribbon for The Thresher
typewriter.
6. English Prof date to Loina Linda.
7. Self-pronouncing names.
8. benches in Campus nooks . . . and
more nooks.
9. Mirrors for Thresher office.
10. Asst. frean ot Women for Archi-
tects.
11. A tea shop in A. B.
REV. SEARS RETURNS
TO PALMER CHAPEL
The rector of Palmer Chapel, the
Rev. Peter Gray Sears, has recovered
from a long illness which has kept, him
away since February, and he Is now
back to resume his duties at Palmer
Chapel.
In announcing his plans. Mr. Sears
said: "I have a special sermo^thls
Sunday May 5. for the sflidents and I
would like very much to see all the
students sitting together In the con
gregatiop."
Mr.- J. Lawrence Tryon announces
his candidacy for assistant business
manager of the Owl.
The Fetes are all right, but oh, my
feet.
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