The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1951 Page: 1 of 6
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VOLUME THIRTY-NINE — NUMBER THREE HOUSTON, TEXAS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1951
At Forum
Intercollegiate Sports
To Be First Topic
"Have Intercollegiate Athletics Left the Campus?" will be
the first Rice Forum Committee's first program of the year.
Tuesday, 8 PM, in the BJondren Lecture Lounge is the time
and place.
Wide publicity on the intercollegiate basketball scandal, the
West Point episode, the drop-
ping of intercollegiate football Mr. Phillips believes in sports,
by several colleges, and sports- but not the present system of in-
writer Arch Ward's suggestion that tercollegiate athletics which he says
coaches be rotated annually from is opposed to education and should
school to school has aroused much bg ab0lished.
interest in this subject .. „ ' , v- *■
_ . . . , Mr. Hermance has pet loves,
Four men have been chosen to ex-
press different viwepoints. They physical education and intramurals.
are Cecil Grigg, Rice backfield Mr. Martin will express the stu-
coach; Dr. Edward H. Phillips, His- dents' viewpoint and changes he
tory Professor, sports fai^ and Rice thinks should- be made. Mr. Grigg
Hot Stove League sponsor; Gilbert will give Athletic Department's side
Hermance, Professor of Physical of the issue.
Homecoming Plans ROTC Units Name
Center Around
Aggie Game
Education; and Howard Martin,
graduate chemical engineering stu-
Neel Garland of the Forum Com-
mittee will be head linesman for
dent and Sports Editor of "The the discussion. There will be a ques-
Thresher." ' * tion period following the speeches.
Student Council
Three Named
To New Finance
' t '
At the meeting Wednesday night,
Hal DeMoss, Student Council Pres-
ident, announced the appointment
of a new three-man financial com-
mittee to serve under John McClane,
Student Association Treasurer, who
in turn will be responsible to the
Student Council. They will handle
the three-fold duties, formerly rest-
ing on the Treasurer, of classes, lit-
erary societies, and student organ-
izations. he three appointees are
Walter Baker, Leonard Albert, and
George Miron.
Hal DeMoss and Martel Bryant
were elected to represent Rice at
the Sportsmanship Committee meet-
ing in Fayetteville, Ark. on Octo-
ber 8.
Rice Band Needs
Interested Frosh
Those freshmen interested in the
Rice Band, who signed Band cards
during registration, should contact
Mr. McNeely at once in Senior Com-
mons any day at 4:30.
The cards which the freshmen
. signed at registration have been
lost. Since it is impossible for Mr.
McNeely to get in touch with in-
terested freshmen, • he urges , that
they report to Senior jQommons at
the earliest date possible.
Students Needed ■
In Advertising
Students are needed to work for
the advertising department of Rice's
school publications. Anyone inter-
ested in tfiis woi?fc should see
Georgia Hjnk as soon as possible
in the Thresher office.
Swimming Team
To Meet Monday
Jack Davis, coach of the swimming
team, has announced a meeting of
the swimming, team at 7:30 Moftday
night in the Fondren Library Exam-
ination Room. - j
Student Officers
The homecoming festivities at
Rice this year will take place on
the weekend A&M game, November
17.
The Homecoming Committee, ap-
pointed by the Student Council, and
headed Dick Wilson, has set a tent-
ative schedule for the week-end ac-
tivities. First on the schedule is a
bonfire on the campus at 6:30 Friday
at which the school and the alumni
are to be present. Following at 7:30,
a reception will be given for the
alumni. Afterwords, they will at-
tend the Alumni Dinner at 8.
Saturday's festivities will begin
with a breakfast for the alumni at
8 in the morning. During the day,
booths will be set up on the campus,
sponsored by the, literary societies,
in honor of the classes being espe-
cially recognized this year at Home-
coming.
Committee chairman Dick Wilson
stresses the point that these plans
are tentative, and further announce-
ments will be made later.
Jeff D. Chalk, a graduate student Commander. His command consists
in electrical engineering has been
appointed Battalion Commander of
the Rice NROTC unit. He holds the
rank of Midshipman Lieutenant
Senior Follies
Dates Moved Up
To Dec. 7-8
Senior Follies dates have Jbeen
changed* from December ^4 and 15
to December 7 and 8 because the
Music Hall is available on the lat-
er dates, according to Ronnie Weiss,
Follies Director.
The following list of committees
has been released by Weiss: Pub-
licity, Neel Cotten, chairman, and
Les Spencer, Bass Wallace, Martel
Bryant, Fred Durrance, Ruey
Boone, Neal Lacey, and Bob Scott;
Ticket Sales, Lee Duggan; Pro-
grams,, Ben Gantt and Bill Collins.
Technicians for the production
will be Dan Daggett, Eddie Soniat,
and Bruce Vernor. Assisting Weiss
with the production will be Billy
Burkhalter, senior president, and
Margaret Blau, senior vice-presi-
dent.
The deadline for signing up for
Follies acts is Saturday, October 13.
There is a booth in the Lounge
where .all interested persons can
sign up. •
Since the Follies will be present-
ed in the Music Hall this year, a
large supporting cast will be need-
"ed for some of the production num-
bers.
No special talent will be needed to
be in the supporting cast except the
sacrificing of a little time.
Student Ticket
Sale For Three
Games Ends Today
Student tickets for the SMU and
Texas games and guest tickets for
the Navy game must be purchased
at the Field House box office^by 5
o'clock1 today^ No student tickets
for SMU or Texas games, no guest
tickets for the Navy game will be
sold after 5 today.
Guest tickets for the Navy game
are $3.60; student SMU tickets,
$1.30; and for Texas, $1.20.
Unsold student tickets ,for the
SMU and Texas games will be re-
turned to those schools for sale in
Dallas and Austin.
President and Mrs. Houston
will hold their annual reception
for all freshmen and new stu-
dents at 5 p.m. Sunday, October
7, at the President's home on the
campus.
VA Checks Will
Be Delayed
Several Weeks
Veterans attending Rice this Fall
under the GI Bill should make cer-
tain that they have funds of their
own to tide them over several weeks
since GI subsistence checks may be
late in coming, VA said today.
VA added that it is doing every-
thing possible to keep delays to a
minimum. It has even gone to the
extent of suspending, for the time
being, those administrative proce-
dures not directly related to the
main job of getting veterans into
training. But despite all efforts,
some delays are bound to occur this
year. It is possible that some checks
to veterans who enrolled this Fall
may be delayed as late as December
first.
Checks will be sent throughout
the months of October and Novem-
ber.
Dr. Nielsen Is New
Philosophy Professor
By Bill Hobby
"What is needed today is not a blanket condemnation of
Communism—for we can learn something from it—but a real-
ization that it challenges the religious tradition of the Western
World for 2000 years. The stark materialistic determination
that has given rise to Communism, Nazism, and materialism
in our own culture threatens ~
the dignity of man and our
whole spiritual experience."
Such is the belief of Dr. Niels C.
Nielsen,, Jr., the shy, soft-spoken,
and thoroughly charming man who
is Rice's new Professor of Philos-
ophy and Religious Thought, The
newest addition to Rice's Philosophy
Department, Dr. Nielsen holds the
rank of Assistant Professor.
Dr. Nielsen, who graduated from
George Pepperdine College in '42,
comes to Rice after nine years of
teaching and studying at Yale,
where he got his PhD last Spring.
A Methodist himself, Dr. Nielsen's
approach to religion is an objective,
historical one. That is, so far as an
"objective" approach is possible. He
qualifies the word with quotation
marks.
Religious courses are on the in-
crease all over the country, says
Dr. Nielsen, as colleges find out that
it s possble to deal wth the subject
on a non-sectarian bass.
DR. NIELS C. NIELSEN
go contrary to science, for that way
lies superstition. Science cannot
supply the values by which we live.
of three companies of three platoons
each.
The three company commanders
with the rank of Midshipman Lieu-
tenant are Charles H. Marchand,
Teddy K. Sampsel, and Cal D. Hill.
Also with the rank of Midshipman
Lieutenant is Charles W. Howe, the
Battalion Executive Officer. Neel
Cotten of Dallas, with the rank
of Lieutenant, is cojnmander of the
Drum and Bugle Corps.
Company Executive Officers with
a rank of Midshipman Lieutenant
(junior grade) are John W. Blake-
more, James W. Christopher, and
James F. Nowlin, Jr. Ben Gantt, Jr.
serves on the Battalion Staff with
the rank of Midshipman Lieutenant
(junior grade).
The nine platoon leaders with rank
of Midshipman Ensign are Richard
S. Allen, Hairy R. Beaudry, Jack
Davis, James H. Depenbrock, S. G.
Pappas, Christopher M. Partridge,
Gordon L. Redd, Alfred R. Thomas,
and Richard O. Wilson. Midshipmen
Ensigns on the Battalion Staff are
Alfred A. Hoffmar. and John A.
Ryan.
Robert E. Mann has been appoint-
ed Acting Cadet Battalion Com-
mander with the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel. Second in command with the
rank of Captain is Peter S. Steiger-
wald, acting Cadet Battalion Adju-
tant.
Richard D. Steed and Everett Mor-
ley are acting Commanding offi-
cers of Companies "A" and "B",
respectively, with fhe rank of Cap-
tain.
In this, their first year, the Army
ROTC is appointing its cadet offi-
cers on a rotation basis. New ap-
pointments will be made every five
weeks.
Fifty Candidates
For Yearbook
"Beauties" Chosen
Fifty contestants for Campanile
beauties were selected last night by
a committee composed of outstand-
ing students on the campus. These
girls will be invited to semi-final
judging Sunday, October 14, at Sal-
lyport Stage. At this time a panel
of outside judges in no way con-
nected with .Rice \*nll pick the 25
girls they consider most beautiful.
These 25 candidates will have their
pictures taken at Gi'ttings, and their
(( Our problem,,is to keep science and pictures will be mailed to an out-
It should not be the purpose of (jjgnj^y 0f man gj^g by side, side judge selected by the yearbook
a. religion course to convert anyone,
but rather to inform them: In the
past, American education Ms sought
to guide the college student to ma-
turity in other fifeKte, but not in re-
ligion. The college student is matur-
ing in all fields," he says.
What of the place of scence in a
technological society? Does it con-
flict with philosophy or religion ?
AjMording to Dr. Nielsen, their fields
do not overlap. "We don't want to
Science can provide us with the data, ptaff. This judgewill pick the 10
but the nature of man falls within
the realm of philosophy."
Dr. Nielsen's plans for the fu-
ture include a book to be published
soon base^ on his doctoral disserta-
tion. Embodying his historical and
objective approach to religion, the
book will attempt to give just such
a treatment to the dfferences be
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girls whose pictures will appear in
the 1952 Campanile.
The committee that selected the
original 50 girls was composed of
the President of the Student Asso-
ciation, the Senior Class President,
the Editor, and Business Manager of
the Campanile, the Captain of the
tfootball team, and the presidents
of the 8 literary societies.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1951, newspaper, October 5, 1951; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230876/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.