The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, March 25, 1932 Page: 1 of 4
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IMM PEOPLE CANT BE WRONG—THEY SAW THE LAST ENGINEERING
SHOW—THIS YEARS LETS ALL GO ALONG!
17TH YEAR
Sophomore
Edition
VISIT THE RICE INSTITUTE SEVENTH BIENNIAL ENGINEERING SHOW
ON THE CAMPUS, 2-10, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 15-16.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1932
NO. 24
Eight Phi Beta Kappa
Initiates Hear Address by
Dr. Arthur H. Compton
Hahn, Robinson, Wilson
Bloom, Dunk, Hooks,
Mickle, Tindall
Chosen.
Delivers Public
Lectures on Phases
o f Modern Physics
Grades Emphasized
Rice Chapter Admits
Engineers, Mods
&> and Laws.
Eight students have been accepted
into Phi Beta Kappa, honorary schol-
astic society, and were initiated Thurs-
day in the faculty chamber.
New members are: Joseph Williams j
Hahn, Beaumont; Henry Evans Rob- |
iruson, Dallaj; Ralph Woodrow Wilson, J
Irving; Manuel Gordon Bloom, George j
Gilbert Dunk, Mrs. Ava Turney Hooks,
Marvin Maurice Mickle, and Maxine
Tindall, all of Houston.
Initiation exercises were held yes-
terday afternoon at 5:30, followed by
an informal dinner in the Cohen house
at 6:15.
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, professor of
physics at the University of Chicago,
delivered the annual address as the
chief speaker of the evening. He had
just completed his series of three lec-
tures at Rice Wednesday afternoon.
Students are selected on grades and
their versatility of interests during
their college careers. The society em-
phasizes literary and cultural interest,
but the Rice chapter has a special
provision whereby engineers, pre-
meds, pre-laws, and students in other j
courses may be admitted.
Bandmen to
Play Easter
In Services
Selections to Be Given
For Engineering
Show.
sfe7eD,fse,^tZ Traffic Is Neighborhood Cinder Meet
Problem at At Rice Field Saturday
Eng'g Show Successor to Relay Event
Concert Is Planned
Defend Class A Honors
In Harris County
Contest.
DR. ARTHUR H. COMPTON.
31 Entries Open
Fire in Girls' Net
Club Tournament
Pearson, Dawson, Schill,
And AllnoCh
Favored.
THREE IMPORTANT TALKS i Thirty-one entries in the girls' ten-
DELIVERED BY COMPTON. nis tournament swung into action
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, the noted Wednesday. In the upper half it is
, . f , , ■ w' , quite probable that Kathryn Pearson
physicist who takes a 250-pound ap- and Lois Dawgon win fight for the
paratus for studying cosmic rays with ; right tQ play jn the finals while the
him all over the world, completed his j iower half the battle, if prophesy
series of three lectures at Rice Wed- I counts for anything, will be between
nesday evening with Cosmic Ray and , Gladys Schm and „ u„ Allnoch.
Atomic Nuclei as his subject. , In the first found pairings are; Kath.
After his series of lectures on Mod
Playing in citywide Easter services
Sunday morning is the next thing on
the program for members of the Owl
band, according to Douglas Ragland,
president. All band members have
been invited to try out for a massed
band that will hjgpdle the religious i .j
music. A number of band men will
be selected to take part.
Throughout both afternoons oi the
Engineering show, April 15-16, the
band will play a series of concerts. It
is possible the band will play a con-
cert the second night of the show,
also.
One or more concerts are planned
for the band in May, to be given
downtown, and to be open to the
public.
In May the band will enter the
county contest as "defending cham-
pions." The band last spring won
first place honors among Class A Har-
ris county musical organization^
Other appearances of the band this
spring will be at the May fete and at
commencement exercises. Senior med-
als and the Grace award for the best
all-around bandsman will be presented
at the annual banquet at River Oaks
country club in June.
Many Hours of Work for Accident Is Fatal
WILLIAM HUDSPETH.
Co-eds Name
Three Dukes
For May Fete
Students Without
Recognition.
—
Fin a n ces Budgeted
I —>
! 1* r o g r a in Preparation,
Publicity Stunts
Take Effort.
Though the public in general doesn t
realize it. work on Engineering shows
is not merely one of planning exhibits
and then constructing them, but also
consists of many hours of work for
j those who seldom get any recognition
There are many things to be done
; which are also as vital to a successful
i show, if not more so, than exhibits
themselves.
Visitors must be pleased and made
; to feel perfectly at home. The very
trying job of budgeting finances must
be remembered. Explanatory programs
' must be prepared and advertising must
be prepared and advertising must be
obtained for those programs. The ar-
rangement and location of the many
exhibits must be determined and made
efiective, and the traffic must be
To Freshman Who
Drove Car in Races
91 At hi ctcs, Including
Entire Varsity and
Slime Teams,
Enter.
iBraeey Huns Dashes
• * a.,,-
I :
I 2 0 - Yard Hurdles Arc
First on DuyV
Program.
The T 'eXUs Neighborhood A thiol |e 1
1 club meet occupies tin;- spotlight p\
, the- track program for .ill T<?x.;,s .itji-
lelt tomorrow when the second an
ROBERT F.N GELS.
era Physics at Rice, Dr. Compton will
fly to Los Angeles, where he will start
a 20,000 mile jaunt over the globe in
the interest of his study. The tour is
made possible by the Carnegie found-
ation and Chicago university.
Tuesday afternoon the visiting pro- !
fessor demonstrated his machine be- I
ryn Pearson vs Rosalie Winterhalter;
Marguerite Heinze vs Nadine Zirbel;
Virginia Barnett vs Reveris Eaves;
Christine Atkinson vs Alice Blazek;
Lois Dawson vs Etoile Barker; {Cath-
erine Hornor, bye; Margaret Taylor vs
Blanche Taylor; Susie Buford vs Ruth
Henderson; Gladys Schill vs Evt^New-
man; Mabel Rulfs vs Ruth Provine;
Psychologists to
Present Varied
Display as Exhibit
routed so that there will be no "bot- \ .
tling up" of the crowds. Then too, the p 11"| ()"p I C I ) | i kc
whole thing mtffst be put before the ** " Jv-C
-j . e mm public in the form of news, stunts, and
Uurk, S COtt atld Moers publicity. It is the men who do this
Complete Line of ' work who rt'aHy make the show run
| smoothly.
ItOyBlly. This management organization is of
course headed by the general man-
With the announcement of the three ' ager, Benson Wells. In charge of dis-
remaining dukes, the Woman's council play, he has placed A1 Fanestiel, from
has completed the personnel of royalty | ®oos]e. C^ek Fanestiel has been lay-
for the May fete, to be held the first
week in May.
fore a small group of instructors and Ina Boyd vs Mary Nagai; Lalla Lee
students at Rice.
His Tuesday lecture was on the sub-
ject on which he gained his prom-
inence—"What is Light". He pointed
out that Isaac Newton believed that
light came in streams of particles.
Others have said that light consists of
waves. Compton said that light con-
sisted of both particles and waves.
The Monday lecture was given on
"What Things Are Made Of". Thurs-
day he delivered the chief address at
the annual Phi Beta Kappa luncheon
at Cohen house.
Batte, Treasurer,
Ehlert vs Keel Jordan; Helen Allnoch
vs Iris Bellows; Metta Tomlinson vs
Gertrude LeVinson; Miriam Knodel vs
Kay Jackson; Elizabeth Mitchell vs
Olivia Gonzales.
In doubles Gladys Schill and Kath-
ryn Pearson, Miriam Knodel and
Lalla Lee Ehlert, Marguerite Heinze
and Blanche Taylor, Sybilla Stillman
and Christine Atkinson, Susie Buford
and Metta Tomlinson, and Margaret
Taylor and Helen Allnoch have signed
to enter. Girls will have until Monday
to enter the doubles meet, the only re-
quirement being payment of tennis
club dues.
Asks Dramatic Club Communion Service
Members Pay Dues j observed Sunday
"Unless members pay their dues, r>v rranni ri„U
the Dramatic club will, be unable to "j VjIttUUJCi V^IUU
present its spring producton," an- —
nounces Helen Batte, treasurer. "Dues JRice Students Invited to
are $3. ~
"As yet only a small number have
paid dues, most of the members being
of the opinion that it costs very little
to produce a play and that the club
needs no funds.
"It is absolutely necessary that dues
be paid sometime this coming week.
Joseph Aleo and I will accept dues on
the campus."
A nnualSportDance
Of PALS Thursday
At University Club
The Pallas Athene Literary so-
ciety it holding its annual sport
dance on "Thursday, March. 31,
from 10 to 2 o'clock at the Uni-
versity qhib. Joe Gill's orches-
tra will ffcrnish the music.
A blue, orange, and white color
scheme is to be carried out. The
wall will be hung in attractive
panels bringing, out those colors,
. and the windows will have
orange, blue, and white awnings.
Bids are (2 a couple and 91.80
a stag bid, and will be placed
on sale in the sallyport in the
near future.
Attend Palmer
Chapel Easter.
Corporate Communion service and
student Lenten offering, a national
custom, will be observed Sunday
morning, March 27, at 8 a.m., by Cran-
mer club in Palmer chapel. Following
these Easter services, a club breakfast
will be served in Autry house.
Students are also cordially invited
to attend the Palmer chapel Easter
service at 11 a.m. Special music is the
feature. There is no afternoon meet-
ing of Cranmei' club next Sunday.
For the second year, twilight serv-"
ices* in Holy Week were held from 7
to 7:20 p.m. last Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday. The Rev. Allen Person
hopes to make this an annual affair.
Electric Boys Take Owls, 5-3.
Thursday afternoon, the Rice Owls
dropped a close 5-3 decision to the
Houston Power and Light club team
in the second encounter between the
two club* this season. Nelson Russell
led the Owl hitters with two blows.
Hie Power team got to "Smokey"
Kleamer for all their runs in the first
six innings. Frank Terranclla pitched
scoreless ball the rest of the vay.
President Jo Beth Griffin announced
j that Percy Burk was chosen junior
dtike, Kelly Scott sophomore dukei
* mrii i while Richard Moers will do the hon-
I ublic tO See Yellow and ors for the freshmen. William Hud-
Blue Give
Gray.
ing his plans and is certainly capable
of making them effective when the
time comes. To the burden, and it is
indeed such, of directing finances,
Morgan Jones is quite energetically
applying himself. So far Jones has
kept departments out of all difficulty
in monetary matters.
BY ELLIOTT G. FLOWERS, '34.
speth had been selected senior duke i t . ■. > ... . , . , _ ,
, . , _ , 1 Bearing the brunt of this depression, speedway. As the Rue freshman
last week, as was Dave Garrison, king, i, „„ - , ., 1 , / , , , '
, , : talk , R. C. Bearmann has the program rounded the north turn, his stripped-
The complete royal family includes: plannecl and thoU(?h a(ls
are hard to down Buick skidded limi he crashed
:Mar,ha S!tTart a"d Dave Garrison, t> he<8 ttinR thcm, E. Mitehcll through the fcnw. As the car aver_
! queen and king; Marcelle King and „iohl thai r)ilTie„ltv hrnlcikrt .steering wheel
nual names get under way tit .-Rive
lieid wuh the 120-y.ird InndJe ).'(jee :ti
li p Hi.
Ninety otii ii.nk and held itius, tin'
cream of both 'college and liuflwUiol
j tenuis, will vie for hot-lot's on rt pro;1.-• sr-
.consistii11*. ot sixteen events fl'nftnS
Due to the fact that the Rive wIsiK
have been abatrdoned this year, ffis
meet is the ptenuer spoitutg event on
the pie.conference schedule of tl-..
Owl,v and other coili'ge athletea,
Ed Ne.srst.i, FlaIonia's one-mari trai,:!-.
team, is buck to defend the title ho
won for his home town last yea;
single handed. lie has, reached 13
feet, 7 inches in the pole v.mil. and is*
improving in the javelin, high jump,
and discus steadily
A wire Thursday advised Coach
Ernie Hjertberg that "Red" Oliver and
Charlie Casper of Texas Christian uni-
versity's strong track team were com-
| ing down for the Saturday meet
In addition, Coach Hjertberg has:
_ announced that his entire varsity and
freshman teams wj^enter They will
Rice Freshman, 19, Killed .enter the meet as representatives of
• their elulrs and not under Owl colors.
Claude Bracey. former Owl sprint star
j and candidate on the 1SI2S Olympic
j;| I team, is entered, as is Earl Davis, the
Death rode with Robert Max Eniiols. * report flash
A special feature event will find
Rice's sprint relay team conference-
record-holders, taking on ,i team com
posed of Bracey, Davis,, and two uth ,
speedsters, probably including Oliver
In Crash at
Auto Races
When Junk Car
Overturns.
lit, of 1317 Res well street, Houston, as
he started the course in the weekly
"junk car" race Sunday at South Mam
Teams have been entered from Goos<
Creek, Somerville, El Camp", and
„ . , , I stated the other night that difficulty turned the broken steering wheel | ^oac^ Crawford.« ttu st.ns 11 ot > Sam
Headed by George Rohrer and his j W.llJWV Hudspeth, senior duchess and ' expericnced in the previous shows tn pierced his- chest and caused almost j Houston leachers college ...I Hunt,
assistant, Henry Holden, the Psychol- | duke; Mae^Tuttb and Percy Burk, | traffjc utinf? wil,
not be encountered instant death. t'r"' '' 11
ogy section of the Engineering show : duchess and duke for the juniors; Mar- , ycar. Mitchell also is in This i« the second tragic death to Houfon alJn.haf. ,ar^
plans to present to the public and to 8aret Zenor and Kelly Scott, sopho- charge of parkinf! automobiles during take a Rice student awav from his col- up toi parlM-',pol,on'
the intelligentsia of Houston a galaxy more duchess and duke; Sara Street : ^ $})ow E„is Turner is publishing lege work this year Liust fall Wesley
of color, noise, and what-have-you ex- and R'ehard Moers, freshman repre- : ,, h as different papers will Dishroon fell as he was washing win-
periments and demonstrations. sentatives.
With whirling disks, colored lights, Stella McNeir and
and mirrors, they will attempt to show
what is and what isn't. There will be
a color mixture experiment in which
the gullible public will be shown that
yellow and blue give gray and not
green. There will be weird colored
shadows. Another of the color experi-
ments will be binocular color vision, by
which one sees colors not actually
present but formed in the brain.'
Colorblind tests, apparatus to give
the field of vision, and non-sense sylla-
bles will all be found. Tuning forks
will produce various tones for the ex-
periments on tone and hearing.
Negative after-sensations of move-
ment will be demonstrated. A subject
looks at a rotating spiral and then at
papers
i take, dows on a downtown building and was
, , , Md130 Louise Among hard jobs that are not con- killed instantly
Slimpin^ have been selected to supply . s|defed as 8Uch by 0utsidersi U th#t After having entered Rice last year,
the occns,on « | „f painting all the signs which explain but having left before completion of i
exhibits. To this endeavor, Haylett the term, young Engles was enrolled
O'Neil has elected himself, and if we Rain as a freshman this year He
___ , _ire t() judge froni some of his previous graduated from Jefferson Davis of
PrOVlllC Barrv work, the work should be of expert Houston in 1930. He was making his
' o i calitire. The problem of power dis- m,y through college carrying a long
J. 11 f ll e r, o O ll 1 C tribution has been turned over to two PuPer route in South End
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 4 p.m. Burial tliiok plae<
wit and humor for
jesters. Maids for each class were
selected last week in class elections.
YWt <f \ very ahle senior electrical engineers,
. W .Vj.A. Ullicers H A. Martin and A. J. Mangum. It
Sims, Elkins, Beman
White Chairmen of
Committees.
Officers for the 1932-33 cabinet of
a person's face, alternately. The per- the Y. W. C. A. were elected at the
last meeting at the home of Mrs. J.
son's face will seem to swell. Would-
be baseball players having trouble
hitting the small ball might find this
helpful.
Then of course there will be the cat
and the puzzle box experiment, in
which a cat liberates itself from a box
locked with a tricky catch.
Students assisting in the presenta-
tion of this section of the show are:
Anthony Aucoin, Etoile Barker, Leon
Taubenhaus, Eldridge Ryman, Howard
Calvin, Sam Werlin, Ed McClanahan,
R. L. Johnson, Claude Newberry, Joe
Kocurek, Elliott, Flowers, Henry Ja-
cobs, George Illes, Sybilla Stillman,
Awilda Steves, Katherine Hornor,
Adele Drenkle, Elizabeth Davis, and
Lois Patrick.
Favreau Teaches Club
To Play French Bridge
Members of Les Hiboux, French
club, learned to play bridge ill French
at the regular meeting held Wednes-
day evening at the Autry house.
Mr. Favreau, French instructor, and
one of the club sponsors, taught mem-
bers to bid in French. Conversations
at the tables were carried on entirely
in that language.
A short business meeting preceded
the card party. Plans were made for
staging a one-act play to be put or. the
latter part of April.
M. Glass, 1639 Milford street. They are
as follows: Ruth Provine, president;
Ruth Barry, vice president; Helen
Turner, treasurer; Peggy Soule, re-
porter; Elizabeth Sims, social chair-
man; Margaret Elkins, worship chair-
man; Esther Beman, music chairman;
Doris White, foreign relations.
The new cabinet met with old offi-
cers last Monday to outline plans for
the coming retreat to be held at Casa
del Mar March 31 and April 1. Plans
will be up to these two men to keep
the available capacity of the different
sources of electrical energy within its
limit.
Though all of the above men are
striving to the utmost to do their re-
spective assignments with as little help
as possible, many of them arc requir-
ing or are going to require the aid of
everyone along about "Show time".
Don't be afraid to offer your services,
because they are really needed.
Senior Embarrassed.
at Hollywood cemetery under the di
rection of Wall and Stabe He is sur-
vived by hs lather, two cousins, ami
an aunt, all of Houston
The meet is the outgrowth ol the
Rice mentor's plan, which received
official sanction from the amateur as-
sociation last year and is designed to
build up futtw Olympic prospect* front
Texas The scheme center, about the
idea of keeping boys who are out of
school in competition and in good con-
dition for future years
Netmen I'lav
Baylor First
8 Netters in
Rice Witters open their conference
I schedule of dual meets Saturday
liigfiins-t the Baylor university Beats
at Waco Captain Jake lless,- Quitai
Connelley. and Wintluop Carter of tlwt
rji ■ * M ranking four made the trip Henry
I R1 111 s VI PPt Holdun is sick with an attack of in-
1 C I111I.O ITXvvt (luetwa and Freddy Alter, sophomore
racqueteer of San Antonio, will cum
Facing a field" of nationally famed >> «« the quartet making the trip
The three Houston newspapers sent tennis stars. Rice's four ranking stars Tuesday morning at 10...«>. March....
photographers to take pictures of the jn both men and women's classes have ,he °wl netters mcot '"mois m a t ua
outstanding exhibits last Friday after- j been invited to participate in the an- meet on the varsity courts. I lis m,H
noon. N. P. Barton Jr. was also on nual River Oaks Invitation tennis tour- 'las '3cen moved up to an eat ler perio
hand to get a few "shots" for the Cam- narnont starting next Tuesday, in order to allow the lue an ^ay
panile. March 29. i four t0 pla-v thoir f,rsl round matches
One of the more or less supposedly Tire Rice boys are headed by Cap- | l^0<" NETMEN, Page 3)
dignified senior engineers suffered ex- tain Jake Hess, one of the best singles
treme humiliation in being caught; players in the southwest. The other
, .. -r„. Swimmino onrmor somewhat without. It seems that two three are Henry Holden, Winthrop
at 6 p.m. to be followed by campfire of the reporters were very charming Carter, and Quinn Connelley. These
r 1 11 J ...L_n n** nnri hmra Ufi mno ciien nnrit: iiu t
and leap year dance.
On April 1 there will be a sunrise
worship hour at 6:30 followed by
breakfast at 8. At 8:45 there will be
a constitution meeting, at 10 a calen-
dar meeting to plan next year's cal-
endar, at 11 ;30 installation of the new
cabinet, and at 12:30 lunch.
Pre-Law Informal
Dinner on March 31
Reuben Albaugh, president of the
pra*law society at Rice, announced at
the laat meeting that the club will en-
tertain with an informal dinner March
31, preceding the P. A. L. S. sport
dance.
Plana now are under way for the
pre-law dance, scheduled for April 20. State railway commission.
young ladies, and when they arrived boys will meet such aces as George
on the scene somewhat unexpected, Lott, Ellsworth Vines, Witmer Allison,
aforesaid senior was without pants. Karl Kamrath. and Martin Buxby.
We can understand how a freshman The Tennis club will have four en-
would meet the situation, but how does 1 tries in the feminine matches. This
a senior? You should have been group includes Gladys Schill, Kathryn
there.
Pearson, Helen Allnoch. and Margaret
Taylor. The women's field includes
some of the fastest racquet-swingers
among the fair sex in the state.
Every one of the Rice entries has ;
had training under Mercer Beasley,
Tulane coach, and Lee Smith, former
Neff Accepts Baylor Presidency.
Special to The Rice Thresher
WACO, Maiyh 25. — Pat M. Neff,
former governor of Texas, has ac-
cepted the presidency of Baylor uni-
versity. Mr.1 Neff is permanent sue- and present tutor at River Oaks.
cessor to his late friend, Dr Palm- — —
or Brooks. j Dunlap In Recital.
For several years Mr. Neff has acted Rice's own musical artist, Rhodes
as chairman of the board of directors Dunlap, was featured in a musicale
of Baylor university. He is a promi- arranged by the Tuesday night club,
nent Baptist layman, at present on the 1 presented at 3:30 p. m. in the Museum
of Fine Arts, Sunday, March 20.
Freshman Thresher
Appears Saturday
Due to the fact that next Fri-
day, April 1, is taken as an
unofficial holiday by all Rice
undergraduates, the Freshman
Thresher scheduled to ap-
pear on "that day will not be on
the campus until Saturday, April
2, Ernestine Kone Cantrell, fresh-
man editor, announced today
The Sophomore Thresher is
the third of the scries of spe-
cial editions of class issues to
make its appearance this year.
It is a parody on the Dallas
Morning News. The remaining
issues are the freshman paper.
April 2, and the Co-ed edition,
April 8, of which Jo Beth Grif-
fin is editor.
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