The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1950 Page: 3 of 8
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THE THRESHER
Three
Annual Homecoming Festivities Planned
For Next Week-End By Alumni, Students
Plans for the three-day celebration for the 1950 homecom-
ing were announced in a recent issue of Sallyport, the alumni
newspaper. Festivities will open Thursday, October 26, with
the annual alumni business meeting, continue through Friday
with the traditional homecoming dinner and end Saturday with
the Rice-Texas football game,
the homecoming reception and olina Cotton Bowl film.
dance.
Awards and honors will be pre-
Wendell Ley, alumni president, sented at the homecoming dinner
will preside at the opening meeting Friday night, October 27, in the
of the week-end celebrations, which Senior Commons. Preceding the
will include regular business, a pro- banquet, on the lawn outside the
gram with James C. Morehead, as- Commons will be a reception at 7
sistant to the president, and Bob p.m.
Flagg, assistant alumni secretary, Saturday's activities will begin
as speakers, and the showing of with the special reunion breakfast
highlights of the Rice-North Car- in Bill William's Pioneer Room for
members of the six classes celebrat-
ing their reunions in multiples of
five years.
The annual wreath-laying cere-
mony at the tomb of William Marsh
Rice will take place at 10 a.m.,
flanked by an honor guard from
the Institute Naval R.O.T.C. After
. this ceremony there will be a coffee
in the lounge of Weiss Hall.
Special plans are being made for
pre-game and half-time ceremonies
Saturday afternoon, and after the
game will be the homecoming re-
ception in Cohen House.
Festivities will end that night
with the 1950 Homecoming Dance,
a joint affair for students and
alumni, beginning at 8:45 in the
Rice Hotel's Crystal Ballroom. The
dance will be semi-formal, and the
ticket price will be $2.50.
Parents of Freshmen To Be
Oriented November 4-5
Campus Interviews on Cigarette Tests
Number 4...THE COMMON LOON
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be silly!
think I am.0
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"ur fine-feathered friend isn't being "taken-in'
by all those tricky cigarette tests you hear so much about! A fast puff of
this brand—a sniff of that. A quick inhale—a fast exhale—and you're
supposed to know all about cigarettes. No! You don't have to rely on quick-
tricks. The sensible way to test a cigarette is to smoke _
pack after pack, day after day. That's the test
Camel asks you to make... the 30-Day Mildness Test.
Smoke Camels—and only Camels—for 30 days. Let your
own "T-Zone" (T for Throat, T for Taste) be your
proving ground. And when you've tried Camels as a
steady smoke, you'll know why...
More People Smoke Camels
than any other ilgarette!
Parents of all freshman and trans-
fer students wil have a chance to
become acquainted with Rice history
and the campus, on the weekend of
the Texas-Tech football game, No-
vember 4-5, in a program planned by
the Student Assopption.
This parent-orientation program
will include a gethering of new stu-
Hodges To Open 1950
Faculty Lectures
J. E. Hodges, Economics depart-
ment, will open the 1950 October-
November Faculty Lecture Series
this Sunday at 4 in Fondren Lec-
ture Lounge with at discussion of
"Economic Planning A Self Des-
tructive Mechanism?"
He will be followed on consecutive
Sundays by F. V. Shelton, French
department, Short View of two mas-
ters of the Short Story—Maupas-
sant and O'Henry; October 29; W. D.
Walker, physics department, Cosmic
Rays, November 5; A. Pauw, CE
department, Some Principles of Soil
Mechanics and Their Engineering
Applications to Foundation Design,
in the Physics Amphitheatre, No-
vember 12; R. A. Tsanoff, philos-
ophy department, The Philosphy of
Descrates during Three Centuries,
November 19; C. W. Perkins, Gei*-
man department, Man's Rehabilita-
tion—A Contemporary German
View, November 26.
All the lectures will be held at
-1 Sunday afternoon and will be
held with the exception of Dr. Walk-
er's in the Fondren Lecture Lounge.
These lectures are open to the pub-
lic.
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VCLS To Give Dance
In Lounge Alter Game
Prizes and fun for everybody are
promised by members of the VCLS,
who are pi-esenting their "Trick or
Treat Trot" after the SMU game
tomorrow night. The dance will be
in the Student Lounge of the library
and will begin at 11 p.m.
With blanket tax or game, ticket-
stub, the price is 75 cents couple,
and 50 cents stag. Tickets may be
purchased in the Lounge today and
tomorrow, and at the door.
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dents, their parents and members of
the faculty who instruct freshmen,
immediately following the game in
Cohen House. This part of the pro-
gram is mainly for the purpose of
enabling the students and their par-
ents to meet and know the instruc-
tors.
At 8:30 Saturday night a program
in the Lecture Lounge of Fondren
will feature talks by Dr. W. V.
Houston, who will discuss the aims
and history of the Institute; Mr.
W. M. Masterson, chairman of the
faculty committee on freshman
guidance, who will explain the pur-
pose of the committee in correlat-
ing students and faculty, and aid-
ing the students in many ways; and
a still undesignated member of the
Athletic Department.
Sunday morhihg, beginning at
9:30, several members of the jun-
ior class will lead the parents in
guided tours of the campus, explain-
ing architecture and points of in-
terest as they go along.
Neel Cotten, chairman of the Stu-
dent Council parent - orientation
committee, urges all freshmen and
transfers to write and explain
to their parents the plans for the
weekend, and convince them of the
value of attending the activities to
learn more about the school their
children are attending.
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Marrs, Harris, Etc.
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yelling in various languages, which
1 had never realized I knew, the
general equivalent of, "How could
. . . what gave you the right to
spend all our money . . . how could
you ... we don't .even like squab
. . . how could . V ; how could you
do this to us . . . how could you
. . . how". At the end of five min-
utes of my pounding around and
moaning and wailing like Medea,
Ann came out and being told that
all our money was gone and we
would probably starve for the rest
of the week, she promptly burst
into tears and was borne out mur-
muring "I'm not hungry. I just don't
want any dinner". I was lassoed and
tied down, for by then I was violent.
"Hamburger, Allyce, just 69c worth
of hamburger that's all I bought",
and to my fainting lips was pressed
a glass of the wine for dinner. Re-
viving, we all decided food was in
order and ate those hamburgers
with a relish squab would never
have received.
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The University of Houston Cou-
gars will play two games this fall
in the new Rice stadium. On No-
vember 18 they will meet the team
from William and Mary, and they
will take on the University of Tulsa
on December 2. On both of these
dates, the Blue and Gray team will
play in games away from home.
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