The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 30, 1947 Page: 1 of 6
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Council Requested to Furnish
Estimate of Number of Tickets
Needed for Fort Worth Game
Plan Submitted by Forbes Gordon to End
Misunderstandings About Tickets Is Approved
By Alfred Chetham-Strode
The student council took action Tuesday to guard against
a recurrence of last week's ticket troubles. In accordance with
the council's request last week to be consulted on estimates of
game attendance, Mr. Cameron appeared before the council and
asked for an estimate of the number of student and guest tick-
ets which would be required for the T.C.U. game. The matter
wa# turned over to the commit-
14 Students And
One Prof Named
Phi Beta Kappa
tee formed last week to investi-
gate the ticket shortage.
Forbes Gordon announced short-
ly after that lists would be posted
, on all bulletin boards on which stu-
dents may indicate their needs for
the T.C.U. game. The cooperation of
all students is earnestly requested
by the council.
Gordon's Plan
A plan was also introduced by
Gordon to be submitted to the field
house for their consideration. The
suggested plan provides that:
1) Have non-transferable blank-
et taxes with easily recognisable
pictures, (As an alternate, the
purchase of these blanket taxes
may be made non-compulsory.
2) Have a block of at least 400
visitors tickets for ALL home
games. If impossible to sell these
tickets immediately before games''
at which very large crowds are
expected, a block of 400 tickets
for student consumption should
be sold for a period of one week
—at least after the opening of the
school year. This sale of tickets
shall have advanoe publicity in
the .THRESHER. These tickets
shall be offered for sale to all for
the regular price.
3), Have guest tickets available
for all out of town games to be
offered for sale in the same num-
ber and manner as above.
A written bill was submitted by
Meyers setting up the three com-
mittees for study of the National
Student association. Although these
committees were appointed last
week, this was a definite bill clari-
fying their position and duties.
Complimented
The council is to be complimented
fof an efficient and productive
>meeting highlighted by an improved
attitude among the members and
the presentation of two proposals in
clearly written form. A continuation
of this trend in to be earnestly
hoped for by all concerned.
MacBmhwacker Expedition
of
an-
Dr. Floyd S. Lear, secretary
the Phi Beta Kappa society,
nounced the appointment of 14 stu-
dents and one faculty member to
the society Friday. The new mem-
bers will be initiated Nov. 14.
Dr. Szolem Mandelbrojt, profes-
sor of mathematics at Rice and one
of France's foremost mathematic-
ians, was selected as the first hon-
orary member to be appointed since
the installation of the society in
1929. „
The 14 members-in-course who
were selected this year are:
Roy D. Chisholm, mechanical en-
gineering student and Max Autry
schola'r. He also won honorable
mention as junior engineering schol-
ar.
John H.^ Barrett, senior academic
student" and Hohenthal scholar.
Melvin A. Dow, academic student.
Mr. Dow was given special honor-
able mention as a Graham-Baker
student, and is a Max Autry schol-
ar.
Isaac Dvoretzky, an academic
major, is this year's Graham-Baker
student.
Henry C. Geller, an academic
Max Autry scholar, also won hon-
orable mention for a Graham-Baker
student.
Walter R. Hearn who won special
honorable mention for Graham-Bak-
er student, is an academic major
ani holder of a Max Autry scholar-
ship.
Alverne'K. Hillendahl, an acade-
mic major, won honorable mention
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Coach Neely Defends Athletic
Association; Says Students
Don't Appreciate Blanket Tax
Money Taken in By Department Goes Toward
Improving and Building Student's Facilities
lifH
By Robert Mclihenny
In an interview by the THRESHER Monday coach Jess
; Neely said that to the best of his knowledge there has never
been as much strain between the Rice student body and the
Athletic association over the question of tickets to out of town
football games as there was this year. The sentiment, he felt,
1 was due largely to incorrect rumors circulated among the stu-
E. Leslie Hogan, intrepid THRESHER Fine Arts , famous Hahiii-Cusbku tribe. Kompin' Robert Mellhen-
Editor, surveys with determined calmness this scene j ny, with confident leer, and Ua 111 in* Brady Tyson, seen
of seemingly impenetrable jungle before him and his with a pipe for I He first time in history, inhabit the
brave little band. Hogan, leader of the mercy expedi-
tion to rescue S. J. MacBushwacker, sent this photo
back to the THRESHER office by Conn-dor mail. Be-
sides the two peons in the picture, natives of the
picture of desolation amid the steaming morass of
tangled underbrush far in the hither and yon land
of the Hire campus.
—I'hoto by Conn
'Mac Bushwackei, I Presume?'
Dr. Craig Will Talk on "Secret Weapons
Of Napoleonic Wars" in Sunday Lecture
Dr. Hardin Craig, Jr., associate
professor of History, will deliver a
lecture on "Secret Weapons of the
Napoleonic Wars" Sunday at 4:30
p.m. in the Physics ampitheater. This
will be the second talk in the series
of lectures by faculty members.
Dr. Craig received his bachelor of
arts degree from Princeton and his
master of arts and doctor of philos-
ophy degrees from Harvard.
He came to Rice last year as as-
sociate professor of History. Prev-
iously, he was an instructor at Ho-
bart college in New York and an
instructor and assistant professor of
History at California Tech.
A member of the American His-
tory association, the American Asso-
ciation' of History professors, Dr.
Craig also serves on the Houston
committee on foreign relations.
Naval History
Naval history is of special interest
to him in the field of History. He
instructed V-12 units in that subject
at California Tech during the war
and studied the outstanding collec-
tion of manuscripts on naval history
in the Huntington library in Cali-
fornia.
In his lecture Sunday, Dr. Craig
will follow the Napoleonic war, with
particular emphasis o the weapons
used. He will discuss the beginnings
in this war of certain weapons such
6 as submarines and mines, which in
view of their reeent use are thought
to be of mojtern development.
Dr. McKillop '
Last Sunday, Or, Alan D. McKil-
lop, professor of of English, initiated
the series of faculty lectures with
a talk en "the Early European View
of Old China." Be showed the Eu-
ropean idea of China, its develop*
ment and change through diffemt
periods. He said that early modern
Europe knew much more about the
subject of China and took a more
steady interest' than the Western
world of our own day.
To them, he continued, China was
something of a mirage or dream. To
the Middle Ages China was a land
of fabulous wonders, but before the
MacBushwacker Expedition Ordered
To Locate Source of the Blue Danube
DR. CRAIG
Asked by the Houston Chamber
of Commerce to locate the source of
Rice's own Blue Danube, for civic
as well as scientific reasons, the
THRESHER has completed the
equipage of an expedition for this
purpose.
National publicity has heralded
the mission of the MacBushwhacker
expedition. The "Boston Beagle"
said, "The THRESHER, Rice stu-
dent publication, is sponsoring an
expedition to rescue S. J. MacBush-
whacker who has inexplicably ab-
sented himself from Boston for 44
years.
"Time" magazine wrote, "As it
must to all men, rescue in the
steaming, disease-laden jungle (see
Science) bordering on the Blue
Danube (Time, May 19) will as-
suredly come to Safari ("Jack")
McBushwacker."
Staff Members
Composed of staff members of
the paper with repressed desires to
imitate one Livingstone, the expedi-
tion left the more civilized regions
of the campus Tuesday afternoon
amid a fanfare of civic and scholas-
tic praises and good wishes.
The equipment incident to such an
excursion included back issues of
"Field and Stream" magazines, an
autographed picture of Clyde Beat-
ty, and seven invitations to the 1948
PAL open house in case the lost
slimes of the class of '94 are found.
Glass beads and old Bing Crosby
records were also taken alpng to
barter with the natives.
Editor Flagg was on hand to see
that the trail blazers had their
shoes on and their noses correctly
blown, and silently, but grimly,
shook the hand of each.
Expressed- Confidence
E. L. Hogan, leader of the ex-
pedition, expressed confidence in the , to the waiting native canoes, all ex-
success of his party in its attempt
to locate the source of the Blue
Danube, and perhaps
to find the
. . . .
seven lost slimes as well as Safari
cept the art and music editor, who
tumbled into the canoes and then
discovered them.
Anthropologist to Join
The National Geographic Society
has wired best wishes and announc-
ed that its chief anthropologist will
| join the expedition at the native
| village of Iddle Kafta Du, to see if
half a century in the jungle could
| possibly have any more effect on
the seven lost "limes than four
years of Rice.
According to a map located by
Slime BolencOwiecs, MacBushwaek-
j et y>eretratcd as far as a region of
I tree-dwelling elephants, generally
I believed to exist somewhere be-
S tween the football practice field and
Sunset Blvd., where the Blue Dan-
J. McBushwacker, famous explorer
who was lost while first attempting
to trace the river's course.
Attending the push-off ceremony
were many dignatories of high rank,
including Hubert Isadore (Iz/.a)
Tightwad, Houston philanthropist j
who financed the expedition with a '
check of $12.35.
Hogan spoke briefly to the mem- j
bers of the expedition, at the sliov- j
ing-off ceremonies.,
"Men, if we want success to at-
tend this expedition," he said, "we
must throw ourselves wholehearted-
ly into it. „))e f]0ws (?) underground for an
The expedition members, obvious- j unknown distance.
ly inflamed by Hogan's oratorical
prowess, had to lie fished out of
the Danube before the party could
All Rice students who are inter-
Homecoming Will
Fete Abercrombie,
Weiss Nov. 6-8
| The third post-war homecoming
of the Rice Institute alumni associa-
tion is scheduled for Nov. fi. 7, and
The program include* a reception
and an alumni dinner Thursday, the
annual alumni business meeting Fri-
day, an open house, the homecoming
football game and a reception at
Cohen Hou.si! Saturday. The . tuilent
council will give the homecoming
dance Saturday night.
A reception outside of the Com-
mons, between South hall and the
Faculty tower, will open the activi-
ties at 7 p.m. on Nov. 0.
The highlight of the week-end
events is the Weiss and Abercrombie
dinner Thursday after the open
house. It will be held in recognition
of the generous gifts from these
families to the Rice Institute. Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Weiss gave the in-
come of 30,000 shares of stock of
the Humble Oil and Refilling com-
pany for a period of 17'a years,
valued in excess of $1,000,000, to
the Rice Institute in November, lv 4ti.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Abercrombie and
their daughter, Josephine,
$600,000 in March. 1947 for the con
struction of a science-engineering
building. This building, the Aber-
crombie Lab., is now under con-
struction. At the dinner the families
will be presented with the Associa-
tion of Rice Alumni's Distinguished
Service award.
!dents to the fact that there
would be only 500 tickets avai-
lable for the Texas pmu,
{ "They were more willing to be.
i lieve the rumors 'than us," lie. said,
| "although we told as many as pos-
sible that there were plenty of
ets to go around."
Based Estimate
He went on to explain that the
estimated number of tickets tha:
should be made available was ha !
on past experience. Actually the
limate was more than .ide-iuute tr-
eatise when sale- ended Friday af-
ternoon there were even more tick-
els . on hand than the department
had thought there would be. There
were 85 extra tickets -sent dev. i
front Austin, but none of these w*•••
touched, in addition, t: ■ uv i
many tickets tune--;; :'n l.-y students
because of the do.-' check of tick-
ets and Miinl.et "axes that the. office
finally 1 mI to stop taking them.
M . Neely also pointed out that
there were a number of students
who bought regular priced tickets
instead of using some one elses
blanket tax.
When questioned more closely
about blanket taxes, M r. Neely
said that they were an agreement
of long standing between the Ath-
letic association and t h e student
body, and that under this agreement
there were certain obligations that
each party had to meet. Explaining
himself further he quoted the state
K a V f j ,,i. ptnted in ;h£ bianket^tax and
-aid that it was the part of the
student to the pledge, which reads.
Not to Transfer
"fn accepting U>a'„ to« owner
• • agrees not •.> :~v ?fe;- "ne book
get under way.
The departure ceremonies over;
the expedition marched a short
distance, discovered and tumbled in-
Business Meeting
President Carl M. Knapp will
preside at the business meeting Fri-
day night at Autry House. The
ested in aiding this expedition are j president, vice-president and two
asked to report to the THRESHER members of the Association of Kiev
office in the catacombs under Sal- \hinini executive board will be elect-
ly port where they will be put to,ed at the meeting.
work unburdening wearv carrier ,• .. ...
rrom 10 a.m. until noon Saturday Contest
pigeons,
or any coupon titer- i.i for
money or gratis, Vi hi* 1 <•*
agreement cancels p
granted ..."
He pointed out m fit, vi
the fact that some schooii ■■■
a fee as high as $15 a r tie
privileges, the *3.80 piu* 70
tax that Rice students pay is
than reasonable since it given
one the right to attend all
and ruimbcv n f
i t h er
this
ecu;"
mere
each
home
el he:
Some Friction
morning, there will be an open house things,
end of the 17th century counter-
revoution had taken pace.
came a Utopian view of China as a
great and ancient empire. Thus the
18th century came to have a double
picture of China—as a land of fash-
ionable oddities and as a land of
ancient wisdom and sound social
ethics.
Althoufh China is now diagnosed
and patroniaed instead of idealiaed,
our popular patterns of thought are
largely determined by infiltrations
from the earlier period.
Tau Beta Pi to Hold
Tutoring Lectures
Ed Jennings announced Monday
that the Tau Beta Pi society will
sponsor a series of tutoring lectures
in freshman math. Chemistry and
Physics courses.
These classes will be primarily
for the benefit of students in the
engineering sections, but all other
freshmen are urged to attend.
Present members of the society
will preside at 7:00 p.m. in Ch. L.
104 three times a week.
Starting next week, the class in
Math 100 will meet on Monday,
Physics 100 on Wednesday and Che-
mistry 120 on Thursday (those tak-
ing Chemistry 100 may be interest-
ed also.
The tutoring classy are to be
continued throughout the year a*
long as interest in them continues.
They will be scheduled on the re*
gular weekly bulletin to remind stu-
dents when and where they will
Institute Invasion of Austin Saturday
Was First for Glory, Later for Fun
by Camilla (Irobe were still Ihe same. By dark our
Early risers filled the Austin boys knew their way around,
roads Saturday morning, making Focal Point
the traffic fast and heavy. Many The focal point during the fore-
had wrecks were seen along the ■ noon was the lobby of the Stephen
highway, but none worse than that Austin hotel which back in Houston
driven by Nils Mucnrh. Hotels.; had seemed like a nice quite place
tourist courts and park benches j for Rob to meet Jane but this
were filled to capacity. Those fore- Saturday morning, the squirrel cage
sighted enough to have reserved activities of the gathering place
rooms weeks in advance had to, were confusing even to the sit-and-
share them with their pest friends, j look-oners, who were giving "He
ion the campus. Professor James
Chillman will deliver the address at
| the traditional wreath laying at the
tomb of the founder. At. 11 a.m.
Anderson Hall will be open to visit-
j ors from 12 to 1 p.m.
| The homecoming game between
Kice and Arkansas is scheduled for
I Saturday afternoon. Following the
t game, an open house for all alum-
ni at the Cohen House will close the
No Obligation
The Athletic association part of
the bargain is that it is under ou~
ligation to provide every student
with a seat at every home game,
but the association is not; under ob-
ligation to provide seats for them
at out of town games. However, it
does enter into contracts with oth
er schools in which those schools
the price of the tickets and the lim-
it didn't take long for the two
student bodies in one small city to
start rubbing against one anothgr
and creating some friction Friday
night. Rieites chtrged with the duty
of decorating Texas statues, being
bndly outnumbered, had to resort to
the very good philosophy. "If you
can't lick 'em, jlne 'em." It was
oHy hv practicing this hit of folk
lore that the committee of Rice
students escaped nn extra short
haircut at the hands of a detail of
Kappa Sigs. When the going got
tough some of the Rice boys melted
into the crowd of wrought-up Texas
students and started searching for
themselves among the stubbery. The
University is so large thnt friend
and foe look alike to the state
school, boys.
During the daylight, hours the
Institute boys were seen gal-a-vam-
ping about the city blazing trails
toward sorority houses and girls'
dormitories, They seemed pleased
to find that Texas coeds had chang-
ed to the new styles, and equally
pleased to find that their designs
went that; way" directions to the
sotiirrels.
It was and is impossible to get
that many Rice students as com-
posed the Austin crusade as ex-
cited as we were and not have a
pen rallv. Sure enough one broke
out, aided and albeted by the Rice
Band. From then on through the day
every time a pep rally wanted to
hannen, it soueht out a handful of
wearers of the Blue and Grey.
Rice students who were concerned
about the scarcity of tickets last
week were still somewhat concern-
ed to find thnt the extra seats for
the game were made by decreeing
the ratio of seat inches to students.
But despite this handicap and de-
spite the July weather, every stu-
dent felt that his yells meant yards
on the field. Though the score mny
be forgotten soon, no one can for-
get Rice's spirit.
A Cold Pear
Deep in the heart of Texas was
the cold fear that beating the Uni-
versity was a fixed policy of Jess
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1947 homecoming activities. That it on the number available to the
night the student council will sport- j Rice student body. This limit is us-
sor a dance for the student body. I (Continued on Pape 6^
Dr. Fuson, Noted Chemistry Professor.
Assumes Temporary Post at Institute
by Ciaudene Atkinson
Dr. Reynold C. Fuson, visiting '
professor of Chemistry, comes to the
Institute with a record in Who's Who
that reads like a movie script. A
native of Illinois, Dr. Fuson received
a B, A. at the University of Mon-
tana, a M. A. at California, and a
Ph. D, at the University of Minne-
sota. During this time he was also
a teaching fellow at the University
of California and assistant in Organ-
ic Chemistry at Minnesota.
On receiving his Ph. D., Dr. Fuson
became a National Research Coun-
cil fellow at Harvard, and later on
an instructor there. He took the
position of assistant professor at
the University of Illinois in 1!>27,
and by 1032 he had gained his full
professorship.
At Illinois, Dr. Fuson continued
his pursuit of achievement. He wrote
a number of widely, used text-hooks,
and added enough honorary frater-
nities to his credit to rival the Greek
alphabet. Among the honors bestow-
W on Him were memberships in the
National Academy, Alpha Chi Sig-
ma. Kappa Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa
and Sigma Xi, He was a member
of the board of editors of the Organ
ic Syntheses and associate editor of
the Chemical Society journal, In
1946 he gave the Humble lectures in
science here in Texas.
Visiting Professor
After 20 colorful years at the
University of Illinois, Dr. F u s o n
has come to Rice as a visiting pro-
fessor. He is teaching two Courses
in advanced Organic Chemistry and
Qualitative Analysis at Rice, but he
plans to "commute" with Illinois
where he is supervising graduate
research work in Organic Chemistry.
A mild-mannered gentleman with
a sharp sense of humor, Dr. Fuson
relaxes in the evening to the music
of Brahms and Mozart provided by
his next-door neighbor, M. Auberle,
professor of French at Rice.
Dr. Fuson's latest book, a revision
of his text used in Chemistry 440
at Rice will soon be published. It
will .be his fourth, text-hook since
1935.
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