The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1947 Page: 4 of 4
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PLAGG
THE POSTWAR INFLUX of new publications has om little
more than leave large stacks of unpurchased magazines re-
posing on newsstands. Yet a new magazine appeared last week
that we feel will make the grade.
'"47, the Magazine of the Year" is si radical departure
from any other publication. It is co-operative affair having as
its stock-holders 350 U. S. writer*,
artist* and photographers who have
contributed their dollars and pledg-
ed to give their best work* to *47.
Its stable of
bright lights con-
tains names like
Dos Passes, Pearl
Buck, C\ 8. For-
rester, Vurdis
Fisher, W alter
Lippman, Dimit-
ri Kcsset. Gjon
M i 1 i Irving
Stone and Clifton
Kadinian.
According in a
art Iclc in the magazine by
l'°:uli matt, the only other co-
operative literary venture took
place in IS in coin posed of William
Makepeace Thackeray ami several
ill' his i-onU-iiipornrie^. Hi)i,vever this
piopi,se<l pulilicat inn was dropped
bi-fore the firsi is>vu> ctune off the
11 .esse- Uvmise Tliackoray became
i'1 messed witli the idea Urn' each of
the piirtnei'- might automatically
Uvoitoe liabi. fiii- debt* inclined by
the t
I'.ii ticulaily ini.eiTfjting i> '47* s
dijf# at. the licadei'* Oigest. The
• ;hinnient of ifiafiition .ippettring On
page I states *'nnly in rare instances
•it ill tyc ) i>|.ii iPt . ci!iinien-«e ur allow
littlf
Mr.
others to reprint our work," and
elsewhere in the magazine Is found
an article entitled "The Most For-
gettable Character I've Met."
The thing that caught our eye in
'47 (whose title will change with
the years) was the portrait on the
buck cover of a gentleman who
seemed strangely familiar although
we couldn't call his name. This gen-
tleman turned out to be George
Washington painted as a present
day contemporary dressed In a pin-
striped business suit with white
collar and tie. From the article,
written like a "New Yorker" pro-
file. we learned that the puffy ap-
pearance of his lips and face in the
famous Gilbert Stuart portrait was
due to the cotton stuffed around
his gums to make up for the bad
fit of his first pair of false teeth!
Anyone as clover as that, we de-
cided, is clever enough to nialse us
spend :!5e.
raw moot coon.
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HIE LADY IN Til 10 LAKE
RECORD HITS
" !.Iclfdle- Alltlln"
Ray McKitiley (Junrmt.
' \r.nivrfvary 5?onu"
Dipab SliOfe
"I ( lose Aly Kyes"
Teddy Walters
"Open the l>oi>r, K'ieiiard"
Count Basiti
GOGGAN'S
1201 Main
F-1361
K HAVE long felt that the na-
tionally circulated magazines
contribute little in the way of
deathless prose. So we were pleased
the other day to find that Martha
Foley in her "Best Short Stories of
HMO" agree-, with us. Scanning the
story credit lines, we found that only
ope. story was taken from a na-
tional magazine. And that was from
"Esquire," no less! The rest of the
I ah'-, were taken from the smaller
magazines such as the "Yale Liter-
ary Review "
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4 I,THOUGH IT'S a hit late to get
il free tickets to the Houston
Symphony's first, nationwide broad-
cast Saturday, the office in the lob-
!'ij ft the Auditorium still has a
few docats iefi for the asking.
1'(.l the broudcasl: conductor Ernst
Hoffman has chosen to plav
►
■ 1!i-: hm Symphony N<>. -1 (which it
1 pei-rormeii -o splendidly on last
Monday's regular subscription con-
evrt K the rondo from Mozart's
j "thiffner" Serenade and "A Short
liveiture to an Unwritten Opera"
by former Texan Don Gillis, who is
an NBC stuff member in New York.
Monday, the. 24th, after a day's
rest the Symphony wijl present the
seventh subscription concert. The
program will be highlighted by one
of the most popular of all sym-
phonies- — Beethoven's Fifth. Also in
the course of the evening Miroviteh,
piar.ist, will play Liszt's Piano Con-
certo No. I, Starting the concert
relinquish t)ui court to
whom the court is
the next hour. In «wu a mart is
unreserved for the next hoar, play
ere may reserve it for an sdditWsl
hour of play.
<§) Students and Faculty may
bring a tennis guest providing
court space is available for thorn
to play. The Rice student or Fac-
ulty member must play with the
guest, otherwise a charge will bo
made.
(10) All persons not members
of the Rice student body or faculty
or who are not guests and playing
with a member of the Rice student
body will be charged a fee of $.25
per person per hour, and permitted
to play, provided space is available.
Ill) Players arc urged to bring
and use their own rackets and ten-
nis balls. Racquets and balls owned
by the Department of Physical Edu-
cation are for use of scheduled in-
structional classes, but when not
in use in these classes they can be
rented for $.25 per recquet per hour.
Care must be taken in the use of
j the racquet, otherwise a damage
I charge not to exceed the purchase
! price will be made,
, (12) Used tennis balls may bo
! checked out for use without charge,
j but they must be checked back in,
otherwise a charge of $.50 per ball
will be made.
(!|S8) I'lay and conduct of players
and spectators at all times shall
conform to the high standards of
tennis etiquette.
(14) I'lease convey any com-
plaints, or suggestions, for the im-
provement of the use and play on
the tennis court in writing to Mr,
Hermance, Department of Physical
Education, The Rice Institute.
SPRING TRAINING —
tContinued from page :!)
and X. L. Nicholson at guards, and
Gerald Weatherly at center. Wea-
therly passed B.A. last semester and
is off probation.
Juddy Helmcnmp, our pro foot?
ball player (that "pro" stands for
probation, not professional), is also
in good standing once again and is
now being converted from a center
to an end,
Scrimmages are being held daily
this week, and Saturday will bring
on another one under game condi-
tions, with all the boys participat-
ing.
POINTS
funtil
"Points of Comment" la
to give Rice students a glimpse of
the mere outstanding
ideas occurring on other
campuses. Wo believe that such s
diacuaalon will serve aa a
between the students of
those of other universities through*
out the nation.
The recent publication of an
article in the University of Texas
itudent magasine, The Ranger, has
•aused nationwide comment. a poll
nade by the editor of this magazine
■evCaled that well over 6Qr/r of the
University students admitted cheat-
ing on their examinations. The up-
roar caused by the publication of
to aa
will be "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry
Pranks" by our old non-speaking
i acquaintance, Richard Strauss.
For the rest of February's artis-
I tic events (and there'll be a lot) we
! suggest you consult the local blatts
' whefe the writers get paid.
lOOti. An uiversary of the Birth ui Alexander Graham Bell • March 3, 1947
H<
ave
tie wor
Id
a new voice
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Leslie's Fried Chicken
"THE CHICKEN SHACK"
Eat it here—or take it with you
Private Dining Room Reserved
for Rice Students —12 to i p.m.
OWL
Ili&'J (fftftttittml ii'op
lor. The Boars pulled
tight point load to too
till, kllf 'ftfljMI
"to $
to go. It was ot
tlmt Robinson wtorkod
nine points and the hall
Robinson was the outstanding
player on the floor aa he scored 81
points pacing his team. His pal
Bill Johnson chipped in with 18
points. Harmon Walters
Tom, as usual, paced the
ing with 13 and 12 points —,—
tively. Walker made 10 before he
fouled out late in the game.
Rice has only three more games
to go this season. The next game
COOPER ANNOUNCES —
(Continued from page 1)
Navy's physical and mental require-
ments.
Successful candidates will be
TrV' L"1' 1,1! given training at the Navy Supply
hese facts does not seem to have c B e> N.j.
been caused by the publication of j Pl.0,pectivH Rice K,.aduateii who
hese facts docs not seem to have , iutel.ei,ted thi(i opportunity
>een caused by the revelation ^ j ,houW communi,ate with the «0ffl-
iny hitherto un-realised facts as ce|tijn_ office of Navai 0f-
nueh as by the audacity of the ficM. p,.ocureman* Xaval Ah. Sta.
itudent editor in making such a|u DuUas Texas
ooll and printing its results. ;
That a large number of students ('
at the University of Texas cheated
on exams was a fact. It was also a
fact that most people chose to over-
look these facts and would not find
a workable remedy. It is indeed a
sad commentary on modern day
education when the president of a
state university calls the publica-
tion of facts such as these a "re-
grettable incident." It would seem
more fitting that a president of an
institution dedicated towards the
advancement of human knowledge
call the repression of such facts
"regrettable."
It is also probably true that the
editor of the Ranger misstated the
questions he asked University stu-
dents. It is probably true that he!
did not interview a large enough i
percentage of the students. But this
is not the point, the important point
is that a large percentage of stu-1
dents in certain colleges do cheat,
on exams.
It has long been recognized by
most individuals familiar with the
subject that such a condition must!
exist at such a school as Texas Uni-
versity. A large part of the student
body of such schools as Texas tend
to regard collage as a prolonged
house-party rather than an educa-
tional opportunity. Although we feel!
that our own school is not entirely
free from this type of "student,"
Rice has always used discretion in
its choice of students, and thus re-
mained largely free from gad-
abouts.
College students have never been
known as lily-whites, and students j
of the University of Texas are no
exception to this rule. Amid beer-
brawls,' blanket parties, and hang-'t
over cuts, cheating becomes almost1
a necessity to pass courses. ,
On a college campus where popu- j
larity has become the god of sue-1
cess, and the quest for education is
nearly forgotten, cheating is not
the only example of decadent per-
sonalities. At many schools today
students prefer to think that the
ladder of success has* rungs made
of Greek letters rather than of hard
work.
However, it must he understood, j
that the University of Texas is not
the only school that has these post-
war booms in cheating. On today's
overcrowded and understaffed cam-
puses cheating has almost become
an accepted fact. ,
By no means advocating sad-
panned morbidness among college
students, we do believe that fun in
moderation should be the key note
of -today's atomic age
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of the deaf. 1 le was also a trained
scientist who made it possible for
millions upon millions of people to
hear each other hv telephone.
The telephone brought something
into the world that had iu>t been
there before.
For the first rime people were able
to talk to each other even though
separated by long distances.
He frissons broadened. A new indus-
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hundreds of thousands of men and
women and he of service to everyone
in the land,
Alexander Graham Bell was a great
humanitarian, not only as a teacher
of the deaf, but in his vision of the
benefits the telephone could bring
to mankind.
Bell's vision has come true. It keeps
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1947, newspaper, February 20, 1947; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230712/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.