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covered announcing courses offered by
Plato himself. The archaeological proj-
ect that has brought these ancient
foundations again to light was inaugu-
rated on the initiative, happy guess,
generous subsidy, and astute direction
of a wealthy, public-spirited Athenian
named Aristophron, and the timely
confirmation of Amtophron's triumph
is quite 1he most exciting bit of aca-
demic news carried by the metropolitan
press this summer, it is news, I think,
of peculiar interest to the present com-
pany, and for a further reason.
The Academy and Bice
Like seme human institutions the
Academy of Plato had in it a spark of
divinity, an imperishable idea of at)
enduring ideal. That ideal lives again
in the institution you are entering,
That dedication to the pursuit of the
good, the beautiful, and the true, a
dedication modi fed- in aspect and ap-
proach if hot in principle through
Alexandria, Zion, and Rome, is our
dedication to the advancement of let-
ters and science and art. And 1 like
to think lhat in the high enterprises in
which you are about to engage, we are
keeping faith at once with the founder
dI the Academy and the founder of the
Institute. At any rate, I have found
justified in this university community,
as: in many other university 'communi-
ties. the oft-quoted proud claim of
.Perii'lcB'lor the Athenians in the back-
ground of the Academy: "We are lovers
of beauty without extavagance and of
wisdom without loss of manliness."
The Unchanging Undergraduate
Now m the cour.ie ut these centuries
the undergraduate has undergone little
change. Hi.s is a .type that persists, a
type which a current French saying,
fit--, namely, the more it. changes, the
more it matins the ;san;ie, Cicero's son,
as his f.ith.'r Ik'iore htm, attended the
Academy ot Athens, and CictTpVson
wrote the isaihc jkort of pleas!and prom-
ise;. lb • pivM-nt-day, parent or guardian
receives-.. So liid the wandering •-.lu-
dents m the Middle .^^i's, When nyodern
univet-ilie--. like ei.th« di als and par-
iiaiiiCilfe..;V In i'.'-i:. So aiso i.oiiiem'.'n's
st ii:- in ih- titteenUt ceutury when the
Ktighsli. inrir: ot Com t played the pres-
• ■;: i t ■ ■:<:! ■ :t ( j\:ord. Camlii idge. and the
v.e'Ae'r 'diversities. So Vigain in. the
.i . v hisfci v of ttarvin'd, Yale, Prince-'
tonJ:.'.iful Virginia. So win it in the:
bu.'iy r. iij' 'days ot. your own grand-
f ■in1, .iid -o no doubl will il be in
>!-. il, \ ot v.our I'hildreti and their
t il iteii ohiidri-ri ;■ :
\ t niversity Lectureship
li',haV;t! i.ieeii led to thi^se Vibservaliontf1
on re;.dhi|i seriek . of papers recently
i c-jn 11 >Ii:■ tied which the. lutir- Sir Leslie
j-vic t 'n n wrote aiionymdusiy as a Cam-
oi'idge t)iin in the invites of. The last
i'i tie daUgliU'r, fc Virenii.
Wood, a .r|-anddauglii?:r of Thackeray.
■ km-An to you by her books, cmil the
i ill' estimates that have , Heen
made >'!•• 'hw1' writings. Her father's
::',,;iiim!v lives 1101 only in his works
Wi ic'h art-'still rtad. but hlso through a
C'limhrnlge University lee< iireship which
< av i:ii,. r,;,in'ei Theiatesiudt the Leslie
Sto; ,lvmi Leetures. etui'led ■ "Th;: N;.|>ric
.'ir'id 'i\ri;iii'i.|ii ot jtlfiliyw'sct
Mil< . % i'Jri,:ies>pi llii'iisman; ot
' '/^bridge,',. ■ appf(]jifet3: h,y i.'virilpeient
a'ltiie.rit'y 'a-,'':l)ie;:leadirig' SgJBp' sehftini;
of I-'n'i.ope. Tile. |i 'elt|n.'' hi is 'been -wide-
11 id dun' tl,i lojljt' It's
a i.i11111 l.i'.nthat' c.'a'ii M-'adily Ixi t'ar-
>-ii'«l i a vend v' i i|-e or .jacket pocket.
-,■ ii ■>'■(:..!i'ii-syrip. '-ell ic. a ;.**iii'I i:Jliy.' Pro-
'■ a.hi Fi'i:isiliai'i':-. i.v/o - hooks, f.lt Eng-
:i ■■ i.- 'A'^hi .'jpslure' I-adi'" in ||fci
-.I'll! I T'11' Ins.* m 1022, have been
i'. printed';'' • iii; riurnerijUK' English ar.ii
■\niei'j|!i:.11 teiiit'i'ijjwfc'Copies oi' Ixitli 'ljooks
■ i'" .iee( -sii.ile in the Hii.e Library A
i il.:pi'ii'.'ti i'i::i.m:i-;ihe s'(';<sii >Jd'|dJ' iiSfe*!?: 1.E0I-
ieeti'e hie uul'w: riaiiid.'the eiii'tlprnany
';:ii".i;s in die v.'iike of tlie World War-
i'/Vipr; nz/oV- hi't'J Ini M'uii.-:/'ieie.ieiI :
/ i'i . idor' il i.n.1 - ii'u rih'ii ' l&iriitlmioris
Matriculation
The undergraduate haa under -
. gone little change. .
i!!"'-!'!!i'tii if ■'
You are making your own foun-
dation# >,|l you live to survive the
foundations you make.
Yoiir foundations are in science,
in philosophy, and in religion,
.iv • • *
Keep your religion, certainly un-
til you have found a better.
■ * • • ■
A hope that you have brought
with you an inquiring mind, some
sensitiveness to spiritual values and
a will to work.
I'liunilations
I ..-! yi or j< ill iiiia l all.).:, tli.it;, 1 wish;
;<-• i; i• -i'-1':,!ii'iji.eti, i;';'pnly '"hHefly,. We
d .iVi : eiid Vi'iur. .iiitcords1 t-aridully arid
' 'e..ii:Ji'!37i'if!yf:'[t.li'i.e-V'ifi■ ."t'h.t.iViiii'' eli'r vi!i'ii:y ixi't
o.ei !'■ ii'1.1, die ii'i'ipiirtaj'i't <i:iirig fot ydti
i 'jjii;';1 i"ei-,';i'.iin inakl'- hiJKe, atid; Ihe
epi.d'a liitS.:' institutioii iii'ay-; hi.ipljst'ly
••iv • 'oi • ;• 'i nnd your work.' "Have
,i ii djiTii.iiid.if" a : i I'l'i-riinee"' a.'.ktHil (he
i.anaile!', "YcfC, sakl the a|ipliiant.
' V- i'.i"i',.i ■. '^|iii|,.! it .wiy;-:'. ''.!. .Hppe'':"",vha't's'
i;.i. i k< 11 for us ime •"Week, and'
m i 'efi;;iiislieil'." In term.':, less I'llfl-
i'.iliilVi'us-rtliiifil thi'se We hope! to sjieak
.aid '.ei'ite welj id yoiii, tail we shall
hardly: lie able to iay dni^ .'do .much fin:
vmi. i,ilitis:-: yijiti have brought with you
111 Ibi< |,-|;iet ah mtjuiring mind, some
■■ernd! ivc-ne:s to 1 spirittial; vahuis, and a
will lo'wdrk.
iV-iw' ii, a ver>, real way,, like corals
ie tin riiil', y'tVu; are makiilti vour own
foundations, though unlike the coral
you live to1 survive-the foundations you
make, Hence it may be well to take
stock lor a moment of what, we arc.
A Chemical fcompound
It has [been estimated that if you take
enough water to fill a ton-gallon bar-
rel: enough fat for seven bars of soup;
carbon for 11000 lead pencils: phospho-
rus for 2200 match-heads; iron for one
medium-sized nail: lime enough to
whitewash a chicken coop: and small
quantifies of magnesium and sulphur,
you get, apparently, a Man, That is to
say, I imagine, an average human, aver-
age in the sense the cook must have
had in mind who when a census-taker
asked her age replied "the same as
other people."- From this average there
are of course individual variations. For
instance, if differentiating with respect
to such qualities as fortitude, stamina,
and courage, I think you might expect
to find more of soft soap in the consti-
tution of the male, and considerably
more of iron In the female of the spe-
cies. But no laboratory technician how-
ever skillful and adept could possibly
fill the original prescription. "Not all
the king's horses and all the king's
men could put Humpty Dumpty to-
gether again."
An Astrophysical Comparison
Though the foregoing analysis may be
quantitatively dependable, it is hone
the less qualitatively inadequate, as I
have already intimated. Indeed the
veriest materialist, and I have respect
for the honest materialist, would admit
that we are mOre than ten-gallon
emulsions nf lead pencils, match-heads,
and six-penny nails, At the i^ame time,
the chemist I have just mentioned
would join with the physicist and the
astronomer in milking another quanti-
tative estimate of us. quite as incom-
prehensible. but perhaps less subversive
if personal pride. The staggering num-
bers I am about to employ are those
of Sir Arthur Eddington, the distin-
guished astrophysicist. If you shake
well the: ten-gallon barrel plus its ex-
liras.!:jind divide by 10 to the 27th
j power, you get an . atom. If, on the
! other , hand, vou multiply the barrel
and its extras by 10 to the 28th power,
vou get a star. Thus you locate the
average freshman about halfway be-
i tween an atom and a star, a little
ipu.Uei the atom .yet' still, afjoitt half-
; way to the star
j; * A Parable
But the iiarrel is boiling, and the plot
i thickens, ft comes to life; Life is still
j i iriystery; but the biologist is cheer-
i fully bent dn the trail of its secrets.
It is thinking, feeling, willing bar-
rel, add as such excites the curiosity
of the psychologist. It jostles other
ban-els,, and the sociologist brayely
, seeks ftir 'its :wocii-ly: a si-u-utific .slrvic-
i wire And so on through a hundred
known antics of the barrel, and as many
other avenues of specialized scientific
;.research, until wi come to the theo-
logian. fell-1 whom I have great respect,
the pioneer and hardiest of them all.
i whose business is die :deslination of
the barrel to a lietter place: beyond this
planet 'Thus llicy, parted," !shys, Bos-
: well. <)f his lather and Doctor .Inhnson.
| "Tliey are now in another,,and a higher,
'i'siate ot' existences and as they \vere
j both worthy Christian men. I I rust
I,they have met in, happiness. But 1
must <*|n,sen.e i nmhides l.-io-.weli. in
justice to riiy inend's, political prln-
r ipUis and [my mui that they have met
ii, ii .piiace, where thei'iij, is no l-orfni for
Wiling! pill"
Sl'ienc<- and Knowledge
My point in thi.s parable oi' the bar-
kI is to point out the .first of ';vour
: t'onndaiioi;ial, liameU. tli.ii way..of learn-
[ nig, Whose goal i.s km v. ledge: III our
i day and1 time, that way "begins with
science Ours is an age til science, has
>ctni said so oileii that it is like saying
lilaek 'is bjik;I? and white is vvliite. But
j,sc.! it is oec.iuse .it,-is true. You have
i,tily to think oi ladlO. tor example,
and tlie manil'old increase of power it
has lirought to the spoken Word. Thi-
iingle achi(,iveitierit tif applied scieiioe
; done has, given ( new lease of ; life to
! govc i nmem1 through public opinion
('resident Washington's voice could
'scarcely' carry , iitirtis-s Ihe Potomac:
President Koohovelt's i lirMes with ease
to the, Pacific, with literally tens of
; rnilliorts listening ill. There are other
i auspicious omens in the outlook ol this
} a icntdit age, and oui' curriculum has
: I,.-en so arranged that you need not be
i loll in ignorance ot their background.
| Reminders of that background appear
I Ho the corner stones Of the quadrangle
it, which we are now assembled, where
he who runs may read legends,alike of
scieiiee for Its own sake and science in
[ the eervice of society.
1 Philosophy and Judgment
If my first of your foundations is
fiCH nee. whose goal is knowledge, my
second is philosophy, whoso goal is
judgment Philosophy sits in judgment
on knowledge, and science itself is but
one of the many objects of philosophic
inquiry. The flrf.1 philosopher I ever
studied declared that philosophy sur-
veys the whole of time and existence,
arid the last philosopher I have read
after defines its purpose as the clarifi-
cation Of all thought. Both arc large
orders, but there are great men and
great minds in the province of phil-
osophy. It begins with the tactics of
thinking, and seeks* a unity, if such be
possible, between the thoughts within
us and the things without us, if such
there be. Throughout its wide range,
now in the realm of Nature, and now
in the realm of human nature, its ac-
tivities center in the main on three
great question#: the problem of episte-
mology, which a*ks "What Is Knowl-
edge?1'; the problem of ethics, which
asks "What is Goodness"; and the prob-
lem of aesthetics, which asks "What is
Art?"
In seeking answers to these ques-
tions, which have arisen in every gen-
eration of men and will not be put
down, philosophy would explain, for
example, why the good ltfe takes prece-
dence oyer the learned life and the
artistic life, that is to say, why, though
knowledge is good, and emotion Is good,
the good will holds unique pre-emi-
nence over both. And, by way of fur-
ther illustration, it exaniines the claims
of music as pure emotion, of mathe-
matics as applicable knowledge, and
considers the compatibility of modern
physics and free will, of relativity and
reality, and so on. As an educational
discipline, it develops within you the
faculty of forming a right judgment
and of expressing that judgment in ac-
curate summary statement. And to my
mind, this double capacity of forming
and framing a right judgment becomes
at once the best evidence and the first
object of progress on your part in the
life of thought.
Religion and Character
If my first of your foundations is in
science, whose goal is knowledge, and
my second is in philosophy, whose
goal is judgment, my third and last is
in religion, whose goal is character. The
last might very well have been the
first. Your own education in the
nursery, as indeed the education of
mankind, began wth religion, So also
did educational institutions in the
early history of our country. The
primary object in the founding of
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton was the
preparation of men for the ministry
of the church. So also it continued to
be as American frontiers forged their
way one after another west and south.
On eve'ry frontier straight across the
continent missionaries of religion built
stockades and tiollcges side by side.
William Blake, the poet, was pro-
foundly right when be said quite sim-
ply and bluntly: "Mail must have a
religion." Sydney Smith, most suc-
. cessfnl in turn iis rural pastor and
j London preacher, was also right when
[lie said: "The human animal cannot
island mow; than a certain amount of
| religion." No .man can pray all the
| time, or plow, or ply his trade, or prac-
Itice his profession, all the time. On
the other hand, no plowman, or trades-
man, or professional man can very
well avoid praying some of the time.
Your religion may be very different
from mine. It may be a great deal
j better than mine. I have not the right
nor am 1 disposed to persuade you to
I accept mine. Indeed I have no desire
j to change yours. My only desire is
lhat you keep it, certainly until you
have found a better. For, to my way
of thinking, the man who is sufficient
unto himself is sufficient unto him-
iielf only because his life has never
been joined fo large issues. The great
issues of life bring men to their knees.
A lid whatever your religion, it brings
purpose into the scheme of things, the
possibility of progress, and the pros-
i'poct of a permanent part for you in
! thai scheme, of things.
Good Wishes to the Class
- Thus, in welcoming you to our fel-
lowship. il luive expressed the hope,
j first, that you have brought with you
ah inquiring rmnd, some sensitiveness
to spiritual values, and a will to work;
,-ind, second, that hero you will ac-
quire a scientific approach to the prob-
lems of life, a philosophic temper in
dealing with them, and over all main-
tain a religious outlook. From such
an atmosphere of learning, judgment,
and conduct, we confidently expect you
lb carry a spirit, of "courtesy, benignity
generosity, and humanity.", into the
wider walks of life,
God willing, J look forward to meet-
ing you dn the Rice Commencement
platform in June, 1037, That is1 really
why you are called the Class of '37.
You enter as freshmen in '33 to grad-
uate a.- seniors1 in '37. Each year I
-,ii.V goodbye to the seniors. They al-
ways wish that they coitld start all over
again. There's not a One of your eld-
ers within the sound of my voice, my-
self among them, who would not most
Willingly be starting again with you as
freshmen, to go as far as you will go
in maintaining for the preservation of
our civilization sound foundations in
science and philosophy and religion.
Their shoulders held the sky sus-
pended: :
Tht'i/ stood, and earth's foundation*
stay.
Finally, whence came the barrel? Let
llousman answer:
from far, from ei'C and morning
And non twelve-winded sky.
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am I.
Noib—for n. breath I tarry
Nor yet disperse apart—
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have yon in yonr heart
Speak now, and I will answer;
How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
I take my endless way.
—A Shropshire Lad.
THBESHEB
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28. 1933
To Jtecord
Plays in States During Summer
Tour; Hess in
Doubles
By Hallle Beth Talley
Miss Kathryn Pearson, a junior stu-
dent at Ripe institute and well known
to all Houston for her tennis playing,
carried her sahools' banner into new
fields this summer. Accompanied by
her mother Kfithryn, familiarly known
to sport fans Kay, left Houston soon
after the close of school In early June.
They journeyed first to San Antonio
where the Texas State Tournament
was held. Kathryn and Anna Mae
Reichert of Texas reached the
finals which A^iss Reichert won by a
score of 7-5, 7-5. This tournament
placed Kathryn as the second rank-
ing player in Texas.
Chicago, the city of all interest this
summer, was their next stop, It was
here the Western Tournament, the
most important clay court women's
tournament, Was held. There were
seventy women entered and ten were
seeded. Kathryn went to the semi-
finals In both singles and doubles and
believes that she played her best
tennis in this tournament. They left
Chicago for Cincinnati, Ohio, where
Kathryn played in the Tri-State Tour-
ney. She again went to the semi-finals
in singles and doubles.
The Southern Championship Tour-
| nament was played in Atlanta, Ga.
■ Here Kathryn teamed up with Wilbur
Hess, another of Rice's tennis lights
; who did his school proud this summer.
; The two went to the finals in mixed
| doubles and were defeated by a score
of 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. They were seeded
No. 1 in the mixed doubles at Hot
i Springs in the Virginia State Tour-
| nament but because of rain weren't
;able to play. Kathryn also played in
j the West Virginia State Tournament
j at White Sulphur Springs.
Leaving the south, Kathryn went to
Orange, N. J., whisre she took coaching
from Mercer Beaijley for ten days get-
ting accustomed vo grass courts. From
here they traveled to Forest Hills, N.
Y. for the Woman's National Tourna-
ment. As luck would' have it Kathryn
in the second _rs«|«d drew Miss Helen
J;v"be, the di#wfcing ehfcmpicn at th
time and later tihJ winner—again of the
women's natloriM; championship. The
score of their gaiie was 6-2, 6-1. Kath-
tyn was eliminated in the quarter
finals of the doubles play by Mrs. Helen
Wills Moody who held the women's
championship for seven years, and Mrs.
Ryn of England who is considered
the greatest woman's doubles player
in the world. The doubles game was
played on the stadium court before
7,000 people. For a short time Ted
Husing broadcast the game. Part of
the thrill of the tournament was lunch-
eon time when lunch was served at the
club and all the players ate at one
table. Another Interesting detail was
that boys had all the players autograph
balls and sold them for $8.00 a piece.
On the trip homeward Kathryn was
at Camp Nakanaw in Mayland, Tenn.
for the last few days of camp. She
played an exhibition match there and
also played exhibition matches in Mem-
phis and Nashville, Tenn. In both
cities she was interviewed and photo-
graphed and to her chagrin now
prophesied victories for Mrs. Moody
and Ellsworth Vines.
It seems to us that it would be a
knockout of an idea to have Rice's
mixed doubles team—Kathryn Pearson
end Wilbur Hess who have represented
Rice over the country this summer
play the Texas University mixed
doubles team—-Eugenia Sampson and
Karl Kamrath in an exhibition match
at the River Oaks Country Club courts.
A small admission charge might be
made and given to the Autry House
Fund. Miss Sampson and Mr. Kam-
rath played together in the National
Mixed Doubles Tournament held dur-
ing the summer in the East.
Kathryn is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar L. Pearson, 2131 Brent-
wood Drive. She is a member of the
Owen Wisner Literary Society and was
elected president of the Rice Tennis
Club. She gave up this officc in order
to devote more time to her studies.
By JOHN COSTLEY
A questionnaire answered by 96
students, two post-Grads, and fywo in-
structors, reveals that the Owl student
body indorses 3.2 beer 77 per cent
strong, with an opposition of 13 per
cent against it! eight per cent in favor
of improving it by increasing the alco-
holic content and lowering the cost,
while two per cent refuse tp make
comment.
While 3,2 is indorsed by the 100
questioned, 38 prefer good wine, 14 are
total abstainers, 14 champion 3.2, ten
prefer home brew, ten crave Gordon's
Dry, eight would rather have Spiritus
Frumenti, two refuse to disclose their
drnking habts, one wants Bacardi rum,
and one drinks Grade A milk raw.
Fifty-one are infavor of the sale
of 3.2 on the campus and in the dorms,
whila 49 support the edict of the pow-
ers tha* bo. Seventy-three declare
that 3.2 s a non-intoxicant, 20 dis-
agreeing, seven are ignorant of its ef-
fects, and three say that It makes you
happy.
Schlitz is the favorite, with Mud-
weiser and Tronimer's White Label
runners-up for students' choice of good
beer.
While one of the instructors was
heartily In favor of serving 3.2 in the
Faculty Club, the other gentleman re-
fused to say more than "it is not very
good."
A group of Junior Engineers, after
answering the questionnaire (one told
me that he preferred frozen hair tonic)
began to discuss the possibilities of
serving 3.2 in the circulating water
fountains on the campus. Not at bad
idea for an engineer.
Why worry when you break your
Pen or Pencil. Just take it to the
Fountain Pen Hospital. They repair
all makes. Ml Kress Bldg.
Scotch Grouse
Spared As Patty
Stays At Home
Under pressure of some heated per-
suasion, Dr. Frank Patty admitted
Thursday night that he did not take
his usual trip to Scotland this year for
the opening of the grouse season. In-
stead, he occupied himself during the
summer months at his home in Ten-
nessee, where It Is said he was en-
gaged in writing his memoirs.
He Is not ready to disclose plans for
his Fall experiments as yet, but con-
veyed that he had several interesting
schemes afoot. '
a
THE GASSER—
(Continued from Page 1)
this quartet has the phone number
which will replace Hadley 1843 as the
most popular one on the campus.
It seems that the athletes, even as
few as we have, are having a tough
time getting jobs, etc., this season. We
understand that HARRY JOURNEAY,
captain of the basketball team didn't
regisver until Tuesday of this week.
JOHN BANKS was told that he was
too late because he didn't get back
from Europe until Monday. And some
body s*aid Ricc needed ends so badly.
Must be tightening up a little.
♦ 4- #
Our old friend GUSSIE McCANTS
said he surely was tickled we wouldn't
write "The GasSer" this season because
we know he and J1MMIE F1TE ARE
really seriously in love. McCants i.s
nuttier than ever about HELEN Mc-
KE1RNAN. Besides the youngster is
really wielding the power on the cam-
pus this season. Imagine one man
being president of the Rally club, coun-
cilman-at-large, and on the dance
committee all at one time. Yell, he and
Hitler, Mussolini, and Roosevelt, are
all just a couple of buddies.
BILLIE BURKE retained his title of
"lady's man" right well this summer.
He managed to alternate GRACE
JOHNSON, MARY ELLEN FLICK,
and MARJORIE BOYD at least twice
a week and had a big time doing it.
At last reports, the FLICK woman had
the inside track. The FLICK girl is
the flume that burned so brightly for
DUD WOODSON at San Jacinto this
year. But WOODSON can't take it,
and cracks down on her every chance
he gets, but she still likes him.
What we're wondering about is
whether GLENN ALLEN will be able
to be the chief entertainer to all needy
girls this season with his best best girl,
RUTH HARDY, a freshman at the In-
stitute. Maybe after football season
when HAL MICHELSON has no train-
ing to do, ALLEN may have plenty of
competition and a chance to play
hookev.
+ + *
Speaking of RUTH HARDY reminds
us that she is the protege of MAR-
JORIE BOYD, last year's campus
sweetheart. We sow the famed blonde
the other day and she certainly has
changed. Kinda, quiet, serious, and
sophisticated. Why you wouldn't have
thought it, but maybe she jUst had a
look at her freshmen co-eds who will
be the competition this year at the
dance.
"f-f-f
We certainly are glad to see PAT
QUINN and RICHARD SHANNON
combine their orchestras. They now
have the best talent In one band and
should be equal to any college dance
band in the country.
Incidentally we think the girls, should
allow free breaking at the dances for
at least a week or two. In this way
everyone will get acquainted and the
danccs will go over in grand style. Be
Get your watches, clocks, bracelets,
chains, etc., from B. O. Krelter, Kress
Bldg. Lobby.
Mire and be at the University
Saturday night and meet all the
new freshmen.
The ROTANS seem to be doing right
well we'd say. Last year Sarah got
engaged and married all in one school
year, and now sister CHARLOTTE Is
engaged, too, we have been informed.
The surprise of the summer to us
was that HALLIE BETH TALLEY is
engaged to Walter Judd, Bugg 100 as-
sistant and Phi Beta Kappa of a couple
years qgo. And all the time we
thought JOHNNY DORE had the in-
side* track. Didn't 99 out of 100 others
think so, too?
Last summer this writer dared to
come to town with a soup-strainer un-
der his nose. About three of the boys
gave us the birdie. Now we came back
to Houston and (CENSORED)
"LITTLE CAESAR" NICOSIA, EL-
LIOTT FLOWERS, and JOE ALEO all
are sporting hirsute adfornments.
YouH never keep a woman that way,
fellows. Take It from us, we've been
infprmfd that those things tickle too
much.
4 ♦ +
We understand that RUTH RICH-
TOR has kayoed BOB ILLES, a
Romeo who is going to step out and
make his debut this year.
Well MARGARET ZENOR is happy
again since "JELLY" WILLIAMS is
back in school staging a comeback,
We'd better quit, cause since Ed
McClanahan, the business manager of
this sheet, wrote the sport column, we
don't expect to have anybody read-
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