The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1953 Page: 4 of 8
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THE THRESHER
SEPTEMBER 28, 1953
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Seven League Boots
1 he advent of the Institute's first music course
this fall and the announcement that classes in geology
will begin the second semester are two more re-
minders of the tremendous advances made by Rice
since the end of the war.
True, ever since the school's founding back in
1912, Rice has ranked among the finest universities
in the nation. However, one of the outstanding fea-
tures of this school has been unceasing effort toward
building a bigger and better university. These two
latest additions, though at present only courses in those
phases of study, will be the groundwork for future
advances in the fields of music and geology at Rice.
1 hese, combined with the ambitious building
program undertaken by Rice since the end of the war,
present a truly remarkable picture of growth and
Campus Close-Up*
By Alcorn
development on,this campus.
The Rice student body, past, present, and future,
owe a debt of gratitude to Mrs. Sallie Shepherd Per-
kins and Mrs. Olga Kieth Wiess, whose generous
gifts made possible the inauguration of two new studies
at the Institute, music and geology respectively. The
school deserves credit for its work towards making
these new departments the most distinguished in their
field.
The gift of Mrs. Wiess established the Wiess
Chair of Geology in memory of her husband, Harry
Carothers Wiess, formerly president of the Humble
Oil Company and Vice Chairman of the Rice Institute
Board of Trustees. The Shepherd School of Music
here at Rice should be the ultimate result of the gift
of Mrs. Perkins, of Richmond, Virginia.
Only Three Years To Buy Tickets
Without too much fanfare and without the ap-
propriate trumpet blasts, the news of the Houston
World's Fair of 1956 has been released. The fair
will be the first of its kind since 1939, the year of
the famed New York World's Fair and the not too
well remembered San Francisco World's Fair.
The men who are working on the project cer-
tainly deserve the respect and admiration of the peo-
ple of Texas as well as Houston. If handled well,
and the men in charge are capable of this, the fair
would add to the prestige of the city immeasurably.
And the results of such a fair would have no small
effect on Rice.
However, not meaning to play down this am-
bitious project, we have our doubts as to whether the
time is ripe or if Houston is ready for a world's fair.
In a recent press conference, Dr. W. W. Kem-
merer, general manager of the fair, said, "The 935-
acre site is three Vimes the area used by the New York
World's Fair, as befits the size of Texas."
The plug for the Lone Star State was indeed
Be A Good Sport
Following Saturday's Rice-Honda football
Carrie.• Rick Casares, the star Gator fullback said.
"'I wish you'd tell the people of Houston how much
{ appreciate the way they treated me. They were
swell."
Although thec,words of appreciation were di-
rected to the people of Houston, it was an indirect
compliment to the Rice students and their sportsman-
ship.
And the quotation is appropriate for a subject
that will be coming up next week. In the last meeting
of the Southwest Sportsmanship Committee this past
ipring, it was decided to designate the week of Sep-
'ember 28 to October 3, as Sportsmanship Week,
it will be a conference-wide observance, and each
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EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR Dick Karl*
Managing Editor Joe T. Watt
Associate Editor Mary Anne Mewhinnejr
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BUSINESS MANAGER Gloria Shatto
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commendable, but—to one who saw the New York
World's Fair and was impressed by that spectacle, it
seems that the size of the plot is the least important
of a long list of items to be considered.
The first item that should be considered is the
number of people who could attend the fair. In this
respect, the population of metropolitan New York ex-
ceeds the entire population of the state of Texas.
Secondly, although the international situation was
precarious in 1939, the world was not so sharply
divided as it is today. The last detail concerns the
actual purpose of a world's fair. Are we approach-
ing a new age of science, industry, and architecture
that can find their expression in such a fair?
Perhaps by 1956 these points will not be the
potential stumbling blocks they are today. In any
case, we hope not. We do hope, however, that when
the fair has concluded its operation, that it will not
be remembered for the type of feature that is brought
up whenever the San Francisco World's Fair is men-
tioned—Sally Rand's Nude Ranch.
CO/TflS
Thank God for C2HB0
school is to make a special effort to emphasize sports-
manship during this week.
On the last day of the week, Saturday, October
3, all the conference teams have football games
scheduled, and it was agreed that special efforts
would be made to publicize sportsmanship during
these games. Since Rice is at Ithaca, playing Cor-
nell, our chances to do this are not too good. How-
ever, attempts will be made to stress the idea on
campus during the week.
Sportsmanship is a 52-weeks-a-year proposition,
but this will be an added incentive for the students
to put in some extra thought on the subject.
Poor Seating
It has come to our attention that several hundred
students and student guests were turned away from
the student section during last week's game with
Florida. It seems that the size of the student section
was reduced from what has been the normal allocation.
This was indeed a regrettable incident, and from
the student viewpoint, a wholly uncalled for incident.
Certainly by now the Business Department of the
Athletic Office must know how many seats will*be
needed to accommodate the students and their guests.
As a result of the lack of suitable arrangements,
the students were crowded into too small a space, and
at that, there were several hundred who were forced
to sit in the end zone.
It has been ascertained that there will not be a
recurrance of this unfortunate situation, nevertheless,
for a school that has a stadium with a seat-student
ratio of about 47-1, it should never have occurred.
By DICK
Last week, in the editorial col-
umn, I listed some of the long-range
plans for this year's THRESHER.
These plans dealt mainly with
THRESHER policy, and more than
likely bore remarkable resemblances
to some political campaign promises.
I thought that was all that would
be necessary.
But before the door is slammed
on such subjects, and the remainder
of these columns devoted to the
whirl and crunch of school activities,
there are a few more points to be
made.
For the" truly ambitious student,
there is a world of information that
can be gleaned from the pages of
the THRESHER. Although, one of
our projects for the year will be
to make it easier for the slothful,
or typical student, also locate per-
tinent information.
The newspaper is still in a pro-
cess of organization, but in this
issue one can find two new fea-
tures. One of these is a calendar of
campus activities and the other is
a column of general notices. At
least a quick perusal of both each
week, T believe, will be rewarding
for every student.
Recently, one of the Houston dai-
ly papers began running on its
front page, requests for news tips,
with suitable monetary reward for
all tips used. This illustrates a fact
that also applies to the THRESH-
ER. We cannot possibly hope to
catch every piece of news every
week. Therefore, news tips and
stories are joyfully accepted from
non-staffers. That room again is
B-45.
The above particularly applies to
organizations seeking publicity, dev-
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iously or otherwise. So stop in and
see us. The door is always open.
And in small print, it should say
here, that monetary reward can
not be guaranteed for news tips.
Something that was stressed in
our policy ramblings, and cannot be
stressed enough, is the need for let-
ters from the students. The Letters
to the Editor columns are invari-
ably one of the most widely read
pages of any magazine or news-
paper and provide an excellent op-
portunity of stirring up a hornet's
nest, aside from supplying an editor
with copy just as he has decided
that he will never fill last few col-
umn inches.
In this issue is found President
Houston's Matriculation Address,
delivered to the Freshman class last
Saturday, September 19. Do not let
the fine print discourage you from
reading it, for it indeed has a mes-
sage to not only the freshmen, but
to the rest of the students as well.
It was a timely talk, and extremely
well done.
There's one new sound on phono-
graph records that almost anybody,
can copy. It's three minutes of sil-
ence.
'Although the idea has been kicked
around as a gag for some time, an
independent called the Donham label
—after two Columbia Broadcasting
System engineers, Ham O'Hara and
Don Foster—now is out with a disk
called "Three Minutes of Silence"
and containing blank grooves on
each side.
A similar silent disk reportedly
is popular on juke boxes in Eng-
land. —From MUSIC VIEWS
News From Other Schools
To the Editor:
Like many students starting out a
new scholastic term, I made the
September rounds for the "free in-
troductory" hand-outs. Among all
the material which one can acquire
from the generous book stores and
the various tables at registration,
there was the usual calendar for
the school year. It is what has been
bothering me.
Look at your calendar—the one
that starts with September. Like
any normal calendar, it has seven
spaces across the top, and there
are five rows of these spaces,
which all means that there are
seven days in a week and five weeks
in a printer's month. But look
again; none of the months are long
enough to fill out all the necessary
spaces given us o nany month. This
month, September, parted two day3
late and by all predictable condi-
tions will end three days ahead of
time. In other words, if my calen-
dar is correct, we had to wait tw6
days for this month to start, and we
still fail to use up all our time when
the month ends early.
The rest of the year does not end
any better. October is scheduled to
start four days late, but fortunately
it will be able to get in all of its
days on time. November, just one
day shorter than October, will start
on time but for reasons unknown
will end five days early. December
is supposed to be four days off with
a late start and early finish.
Next year will start five days
late, and January has to double up
on the last two Sundays and make
February a day late. From then on
the picture gets even worse. In all,
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