The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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The Rice Institute
HOUSTON. TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943
Number 15
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Lecturer
Bourgeois
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taw L/iscouni uance
tomorrow Night at
The 1943 social season will be officially innaugurated Sat-
urday night at the Sice Terrace wheff the PALS and the Pre-
Laws sound a new note in Formals with their much-ballyhooed
Discount Dance. The dance will be formal, but in line with waf
economies the wearing of corsages has been absolutely forbidden
and any girl appearing with a
corsage on will have to remove
it before entering the dance.
The Knight Owls will provide the
music for dancinr which will begin
at 9 and continue until 1. At inter-
missions or any other time the spa-
cious South American Room will be
available for relaxation and refresh-
ments.
Discounts Available
The price of admission has been
set at $2.50 for couples and $2.00
for stags, but in an effort to appeal
to the more enterprising students
a system of discounts has been ar-
ranged which shotfld enable almost
everyone to get in at the discount
prices of $2.00 and $1.65.
Engineers are being admitted at
the lower price if they present,
either at the ticket table in Sally-
port or at the dance, a piece of pre-
cision graph paper signed by Char-
lie Matthews or a'ny engineering in-
structor. Pre-Meds must secure a
tongue depresser signed by Rex
Puller or Dr. Chandler; P. E.'s a
passing exam autographed by the
inimitable Joe Gallegly; architects
a reasonably accurate sketch of
Neal Prince or $5.00 worth of liquor.
NROTC boys who appear in uni-
form at the dance may likewise
secure the discount, as can all ser-
vice men in uniform and any Pre-
Law who appears reasonably sober.
As a special added attraction "it
has been decided to elect a king,
who will be given the title Mr. Re-
, duction and will be awarded with
the return of his admission price
and a kiss from three beautiful
young ladies, one from the PALS,
one from the EBLS, and one from
the OWLS. Miss Beth Hummel has
graciously consented to be the
PALS representative and Misses
Evelyn Smith and Margaret Morri-
son have agreed to do likewise for
their respective societies.
Printed ballots will be distributed
at the door and an impartial com-
mittee will carefully and unpreju-
dicedly count the votes. The P. E.'s
have named Bill Tom Closs as their
representative, the Navy has select-
ed Bryant Bradley, the pessimistic
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SAACS To Hear
Lecture Groups
The Student Affiliate of the
American Chemical Society will
meet for the first time in 1943. on
Wednesday evening, January 13. The
meeting will be held in the Chem7
istry Lecture Hall and will begin
promptly at 7:30. Two men from
the Standard Oil Company, Mr. Oli-
phant and Mr. Bedford, will speak
at the meeting and will illustrate
their talks with lantern slides.
Prior to the talks an important
business meeting^ will be held to
formulate plans for the Student Af-
filiate's banquet which is to be held
in the near future. AU members are
urged to attend. Refreshments will
be served.
Professor Andre Bourgeois, who
had been commissioned as a cap-
tain in the Army Specialist Corps
in October, has recently received
his commission as a captain in
the Army of the United States.
After graduating from the Mili-
tary Censorship School in Fort
Washington, he has been attached
as a liaison officer to a Service of
Supply headquarters at Fort
Meade, Maryland.
Women's Clubs
Sponsor Drive
The week of January 11-16 has
been set aside by the women's organ-
izations on campus to assist the
Ellington Field Post Library in its
quest for the latest fiction and books
on current events. The United
States Army furnishes the Post Li-
brary with the technical books nec-
essary but there are long waiting
lists for books like the Librai-y's six
copies of "Victory Through Air
Power" by De Seversky, and "Berlin
Diary" by William L. Shirer.
Many books were received from
the National Victory Book Cam-
paign of 1942 but most of these are
not on the current best-selling lists.
Perhaps you received some books
for Christmas which you have now
finished reading and would like to
contribute to the drive. This is your
opportunity to share your reading
pleasure.
Small But Select
Approximately 10,000 men used
the Post Library during December.
The library is endeavoring to be a
small but select one to meet the lei-
sure desires of cadets, officers, and
enlisted men.
The Women's Council, EBLS,
'PALS, OWLS, Girls' Club, and
YWCA will take charge of a table
in Sallyport during the next week.
You miy bring your gift there any
moiling between 9 and 12, or you
may leave it in the first floor li-
brary.
At the first of this week the re-
ceipts from the stamp drive which
was started by the Architectural
Society in the first of November had
reached the amazing total of $2,-
798.7.5
The Student Council is sponsoring
the Bondwagon for this. week. They
have announced that in the first
three days of sales following the
holidays over $1,000 worth of
stamps has been sold.
The Bondwagon will be in Sally-
port tomorrow until 12. All those
who want to invest their Christ-
mas money in war stamps may visit
it before that time.
Have you bought your stamps for
this inonth?
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Roy Cox, Wilder
Win Radio Debate
Elimination Finals
Under the sponsorship of the
American Economic foundation the
sacond annual series of the National
Intercollegiate Radio Pi-ize Debate
was held Wednesday night at Autry
House.'Roy Cox and Hubert Wilder
were named winners in the first
elimination. The question to be re-
solved was "Should American Youth
Support the Re-Establishment after
the War of Competitive Enterprise
as our Dominant Economic Sys-
tem?"
There were eight entrants who
registered with Mr. Thomas of the
English Department and from them
two were chosen as winners to rep-
resent the Institute. The partici-
pants were Lawrence Davis and
Neil Burch for the first affirmative,
Charles Kapner, who withdrew be-
cause of illness, and Hershel Rich
for the first negative, Hubert Wil-
der and James Saft for the second
affirmative, Roy Cox and Ed Bott-
ler for the second negative. Hubert
Wilder was chosen for the affirma-
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EXAMS STOP THRESHER
Due to the proximity of February
final exams, the Thresher will not
appear again until after the ex-
amination scehdule is completed.
Robert Russell Wicks, will de-
liver the Rockwell Lectures Wed-
nesday, Thursday, and Friday
nights of this week in the Phys-
ics Amphitheater at 8:15. All stu-
dents and any outsiders are cord-
ially invited. .
Information On
WAACReleased
A quota of 1200 Women's Army
Auxiliary Corps recruits in the first
quarter of 1943 has been set for the
Houston recruiting district, it has
been announced by Lt. Col. Chase P.
Kirkpatrick, district recruiting offi-
cer.
*
Any Institute women meeting the
qualifications as specified below,
should apply to 232 Old City Hall
Building, Houston.
The salient facts about WAAC
entrance requirements are as fol-
lows: Women, married or single, re-
gardless of race, are eligible to en-
roll, providing they are between the
ages of 21 and 44, inclusive; citizens
of the United States by birth or
naturalization; free of dependents;
of good moral character and able to
pass the prescribed mental and phy-
sical examination. No prescribed
amount of formal education is re-
quired.
Varied Opportunities
Women who enroll now are offered
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Students View New Military Plans
With Varied Reactions/ Opinions
By Jess Bessinger -
It's been more than a year since
the male , undergraduates felt the
first cold fears about the war and
their educations, but the tension has
at last been taken off, and most of
the fellows are pretty certain, at
last, as to the termination of their
collegiate careers.
The strain was too much for some,
and these left individually and with
little fanfare for the various serv-
ices. Several are well along in their
Air Force training; one has been
sunk a couple of timeB already, at
Malta fiiM. in the Atlantic.
But the rank and file remain, wait-
ing. The naval reserves and the engi-
neers still plan to complete at-least
this full year of school, but the
army reserves in general face either
immediate or shortly postponed call
to duty, and their numbers come
exactly to 100.
Our good Uncle has notified these
warriors-to-be of their February in-
duction date—two weeks after the
completion of finals, in fact, unless
they happen to be engineers—and
opinion is somewhat unequally di-
vided about the felicity of this plan:
the more scholarly are of course
talking loudly about the privilege of
completing a full semester's work,
but the majority of these are 611-
gible for a degree next month; the
greater percentage can read only
salt and gall into the army's orders
—why not two weeks before finals,
for goshsakes?
Whatever the case, campus life
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To Lecture
ThisWeek
"Living in Revolution" will
be the subject of the sixth an-
nual series of Rockwell
Lectures which will be deliver-
ed Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday nights in the Physics
Amphitheater at 8:15 by Mr. Rob-
ert Russell Wicks, dean of the
university chapel at Princeton Uni-
versity. The first lecture in the se-
ries will be entitled, "Predicament
of Human Incompetence." The fol-
lowing nights Mr. Wicks will speak
on "The Answer to Man's Self-
Frustration," and "Old Insights and
Our Major Difficulties," respective-
ly- '
In former years the lectures
have been held late in March or
early" in April, but this year they
have been moved up in order that
February graduates might be able
t6 attend. This year ig^also the first
time that the speaker nas been pri-
marily a theologian, rather than a
special scholar of philosophy. Mr.
Wicks is a theologian and an active
minister in Princeton, New Jersey.
Mr. Wicks' approach is designed
primarily for students and is much
more informal than the set lectures.
His aim is to talk directly to the
students and not to an outside audi-
ence. The sponsors are endeavoring
to work out some plan whereby
there may be an opportunity for
student discussion following the
lectures.
All the religious organizations on
campus will be asked to cooperate in
publicizing the lectures and stress-
ing the fact that they are primarily
of a religious nature this year rath-
er than philisophical.
Since 1928 Mr. Wicks has been
dean ofcthe chapel at Princeton Uni-
versity and there he has come into
contact with many thousands of stu-
dents. Previous to this time he was
chaplain at Mount Holyoke College
in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Due
to this experience he is admirably
suited to talk to a student audience.
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T. L. Evans Will
Address Engineers
Mr. T. L. Evans, manager of the
Foreign Trade Department of the
Houston Chamber of Commerce, will
lecture before the junior and senior
engineers of the Institute on Jan-
uary 15 from 12 to 1 o'clock, at the
Chemistry lecture hall. Mr. Evans,
will discuss "Our Relations with
Latin America and its Future Ad-
vantage for Engineers."
Mr. Evans has not only traveled
extensively throughout Latin Amer-
ica and South America, but lived
there for twelve years. He is well
known for his keen knowledge of the
southern countries and his fluent in-
terpretation of our relations with
them. At present Mr. Evans is con-
sul for six Latin American, coun-
tries and is secretary of the Con-
sular Corps.
An invitation to attend is extend-
ed to those interested in Latin Amer-
ica. This lecture is the third of a
series arranged by the Engineering
Alumni of the Institute for the en-
gineers.
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