VOL. XIII. RICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, SEPT. 20, 1927 NO. 1. Rice T opics New Chapel Will Dope Favorable MAYOR HOLCOMBE'S warning that the destruction of any property or the injury of any citizen during the annual Slime parade would end all Be Big Addition To Three Teams parades and similar events should be borne in mind by all students. • • • The regrettable incident at the Donation of Mrs. Neville Complete Texas, Southern Methodists, and Aggies old Scanlan building has placed the In Every Reipect Appear Conference's Best student body of Rice Institute on pro- bation with all of Houston, and only by practicing the most meticulous re- Construction work on Palmer Chapel, joined to the Autry With the football season's opening game less than a week re- gard for the rights of property and House by a long arch-way, will be completed by Thanksgiving, moved, the old dope bucket is being poured full of forecasts which inhabitants of the city will the stu- some dark horse will spill in one glorious upset. Strong teams dents ever win bank the confidence of according to architect William Ward Watkin. Houstonians. Work on the new structure adjoining the Rice Campus was are forecast in every Conference camp with the exception of Rice • # • started in June and has advanced steadily during the intervening and Arkansas, and when it comes to picking a champion, S. M. V., Texas and the Aggies are not bashful in their predictions. The destruction of property should three months. have no place in college life, but va- Given to the glory of God and in memory of her brother, Edwin S. M. IT.'s ponies seem to have nothing to worry about as far rious occasions during the year re- Palmer, Palmer Chapel is being erected by Mrs. E. L. Neville as as material is concerned. With Gerald Mann and Redman Hume . quire the sanction of city officials. a towering tribute to youths of today. in the backfield, the Mustangs have as strong a triple threat com- Unless students make an attempt to History of the gift which has made the new addition to Autry bination as ever, in fact it is the same. Their greatest hole to fill regain the trust of such officials, sev- House, the meeting place of Rice stu- ______"ill be that left by Cortemglla' eral annual stunts established by tra- dents, possible, is one short in length who single-handed checked more op- dition are going to suffer seriously. but rich in sentiment. ponent* drives than any man on the • • • Edwin Palmer, in whose name the DRUM MAJOR FOR squad. The absence of this all-con- Such stunts are indeed important, chapel is being erected, was drowned KRANZNAMEDTO fen-nee man may mean the difference for they serve to bring Rice closer to while nobly endeavoring to save his between the title and .Second-best. Houstonians. The tremendous crowds sister's life. At the time of the mis- SUCCEED BENNETT RICE BAND SOUGHT Dawson, Saunders, Hooks, Howard, that turn out for the Slime parade fortune, Mr. Palmer was a student of Love, Wray, Heed, Lynch. Knieff, and bear out this statement. an Eastern coffege. Fincher are experienced performers The Episcopal chapel will be en Was Freshman Yell Leader Hoffman Will Head Group upon whom coach Morrison Will de- tirely for Rice students and will not j pend for holes through which the ^NOTHER YEAR finds the Cam- 1 During Past Year For Coming Year panile coming out some three comprise a parish of the pplscopal flashy Hume will dart A crew of be- faith. months late. Acting for the Student's Associa- "A bigger and better band than tween sixty and one hundred picked Mrs. Neville has endowed the Pal- • * • i ver before" was the prediction made m'*n from which to choose eleven to mer Chapel for music, speakers and tion, the Students' Council has ap- do battle royal on the turfed field The tardiness of the book is deplor- by Hill Grace when questioned about general upkeep. A large pipe organ pointed (Jus Kranz cheer leader to hasn't dimmed Morrison's smile in the able, and seems to be about to be- is to be installed in the new structure the horn-blowing prospects for the come a custom established by repeat- succeed Sam Bennett, who resigned coming year. "We have lost very few least. and Mrs. Roy Wilson will continue to from the position just before the close Morrison can well afford to smile ed precedence. give her services as organist. Mrs of last year's hand men, and the al- • # » of school last spring. most intact membership from the old now for prospects are bright. Mann Wilson has been organist for the Au- is conceded the position of all-confer- The book is getting off to a good try House chapel for the past three Kranz held the position of Fresh- band otgether with such players as will undoubtedly come in this year ence quarterback unless something start this year, and it is to be hoped years. man cheer leader last year, and was like a cornet, appears in a rival camp. that it will be in the hands of the A special quartet has been secured, to have been assistant cheer leader will in all probability give Rice the largest band she has ever had." Man was the trickiest broken field students before the end of the schol- Autry House officials state, for the this year. He has had considerable runner in the conference last season astic year. choir of the new chapel. experience in the work, and is fully Two bass players of last year were besides passing and kicking accurate- • * • Rev. Francis M. Osborne, Autry capable of handling the job. lost through graduation, and one cor- ly and boasting plenty of speed to The Thresher has no arbitrary reg- House pastor for the past year, will According to Walter Boone, presi- net ist, Crawford, has transferred to •skirt the ends when desired. On top ulations to suggest to the Student be in charge of Palmer Chapel. dent of the Students' Association, the Texas University. of these qualifications, he was a heady Council, or other controlling forces, The new chapel, a large, airy struc- action of the Council in appointing Probably the biggest gap to be pilot who knew football as football devised to insure the appearance of ture, is being erected by the Tellepsen Kranz without holding a special elec- filled this year in the ranks of the should be known, and victory and the annual on time. It is merely our Construction Company and was plan- tion was taken after due considera- band is that left by the graduation Mann were synonomous in the Mils- ! desire to exhort the entire Campanile ned by Cram & Ferguson and William tion indicated this as the best move. of Jack Henderson, drum major. It is tang camp. staff to see that the work is done Ward Watkin, supervising architects I It was necessary that some action be not yet known who will carry the Hume too, seems to be an exact re- when it should be don% of Rice Institute. j taken at once, since the cheer lead- baton this year, and it is hoped that (Continued 011 page 4) 1 ——• R «r's work begins immfldlatoly with ("Courtesy Houston Post-Dispatch] suitable applicants will come forward JN YEARS PAST The Thresher office the opening of school, and the time re- and offer their services. rt is seems to have been considered a quired to hold the election would cause Captain Merle Comstock, of El desirable that tlie drum major be the "pep" season to ne seriously Campo, Texas, who will lead fairly tall, straight backed, and that convenient adjunc» t* to• the library. Wonder Dog Visits handicapped by a late start. In ad- the Rice Owls on the football lie may have had previous experience Its attractions were many: one dition to this, only one candidate is field. in handling the baton. It is essential could smoke, swear, play bridge, and Bunch of Warblers in the field at present, and by merely R that he be able to do the "Owl Strut", Editorial Sanctum put one's feet on the table. appointing him to the position the ex- made famous some time ago by the <* * * Forty-eight students signed up for pense and trouble of.printing a ballot first • Rice drum major. Final Friday morning the Editor was sit The fact that the lounging, loafing the Rice Glee Club Thursday and Fri- and holding an election is eliminated. 50-50 SEASON IS selection of a man to fill the position ting in his study cogitating on mat- public interfered seriously with the day at the desk placed in the Sally- It is to be clearly understood by all will probably be made in about two ters of scholarship and finance, when work of the staff seems to have oc- port. In addition, to these, eleven members of the student body that the weeks. the door swung slowly open and in curred to very few of the individuals action of the Council is not arbitrary, NOW INDICATED Grace has bought forty dollars other members are in prospect. strolled Cop. the Wonder Dog. making up that• extensiv• * e group. since any objector to the appointment worth of new music for use this year, Robert Whinery is at present con- is at liberty to present the usual pe- BY OWL GRIDMEN including Sousa marches, concert "Hello, old friend," she said, as she It is hoped that greater consider ducting the affairs of the warblers, tition nominating another candidate numbers, and waltzes. He has also daintily lifted her right hind paw for having held the .position ot vlce-presi- tion will be shown this year. Per- and. in case this is done, a special had constructed two large cedar lined the Editor to shake. "How's every- sons. riot transacting definite business ent in the organization last year. Red- election will be held to select the Rice Doped as Conference cabinets in which the uniforms were wine, president, was lost by grad- thing down on the farm?" in the office shoul* d• no•t loiter there. cheer leader. kept through the summer, insuring uation. Bennett was advised by the doctors Dark Horse; Men them against fading and damage by "Still agricultural," answered the If such consideration is not shown, Though nothing final has been done to refrain from undertaking the cheer Display Spirit moths. Editor. "Did you have an enoyable measures to exclude undesirables will toward securing a director for the leading this year, his physical condi- Due to insufficient funds, the band vacation?" be made necessary. Club, in all probability Mrs. Spencer, tion being such that strenuous exer- Coach Heisman is shoving the squad will be unable to make the trip to "Not. so very. In fact, my dear, the a local teacher of voice, jyill instruct tion is dangerous. Feeling that, if of Rice gridsters througthrough .aan inten Loyola with the football team. It will, summer season was simply rotten. the singers. Mrs. Spencer has been he should attempt to direct the root- sive system of scrimmage against the however, be on hand when the Owls Why, there wasn't a soul in town heard by many Rice students over ing again this year, he might not be Loyola formations this week in prepa- invade Austin and Dallas later in the that is, none of the crowd 1 am accus- AUTRY HOUSE HAS KPRC, and has had considerable ex- able to carry through the entire seas- ration for the opening scrap with season. tomed to run around with. And the perience in directing choirs. on. he tendered his resignation about I o'Shaughnessy's Wolves at New Or- At the banquet on June 4 the food- phew! Even Goop Hart would Among those who sang in last two weeks before the close of school. leans. following officers were elected to have turned down some ot the dishes NEW APPEARANCE year's glee club who will be In the Moreover. Bennett is working in town Prospects are not extremely bright serve this year: Henry Hoffman, j | have had set before me since school club this year are Bill Grace, bass; this year, and would hardly have for victories in all of the large games president; Bob Talley, vice president broke up. However, that point has Improvements totaling several thou- T. P. Blackstone, baritone; George time for the work. this season, but a spirit that bodes ill and William J. Grace, secretary its recompense, for my figure has im- sand dollars have been made in the Kintf, tenor; and Robert Whinery. for large scores is present. A degree treasurer. In addition to these three proved wonderfully under my en Autry House this summer, greatly L. W. Humason, one of the best solo of pep and enthusiasm is evident in officers an executive committee forced diet." Here she passed an ap- changing the appearance of the gen- tenors in town, is a prospective mem- DR. LOVETT TO DELIVER the line and backfield that, promises ! consisting of three members was proving paw over her slender flaufts 1 eral "stomping grounds" of Rice stu- ber. It is also hoped to secure the 16TH MATRICULATION much. chosen. "I suppose you are mighty happy to dents. membership of two members of the The squad is no larger than usual see all the gang back again." the Ed- A new fountain, frigidaire equipped, faculty, Radcliffe and Jost. ADDRESS WEDNESDAY this year, and the material is about THRESHER TO APPEAR itor encouraged her. has been installed in the Autry House Whinery has made tentative ar- the average of liice material. Two rangements with Gene Lewis, man- j "Well, yes and no. It. seems that canteen with the present size of the According to an announcement j squads of men have been taking the FOR SECOND TIME ON ; we never get things in just the right canteen reduced to ohe-half of its for- ager of the Palace theater, such that | posted on the bulletin board Friday brunt of the scrimmage in the recent if the club is a success performances I morning, the sixteenth matriculation ' nightly affrays. One is composed of FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 ; quantity. All summer 1 am lonely mer size. The compactness of the can- laud blue, and all winter 1 am so rush- teen assures less wasted energy and will be held at that show-house, the address of the Rice Institute will be Blackstone, Williams, Crain. Allnoch, club receiving a certain percentage delivered by President E. O. Lovett n The second issue of the Thresher ed with social activities that I can't, greater efficiency. the Smith brothers, Thomas, Garri- really enjoy having all my friends of the receipts. the Physics Amphitheatre at 9:00 will not appear until Friday, Septem The entire building has been repaint- son, Nami, Vines, Hooper, Koenig, .around. Each one wants to appro- The first meeting of the club was a. m.. Wednesday, September 21st. Boone, Bennett, and Ogg. The other ed and floors scraped and polished. ber .10, It was decided to publish the | prfate all my time, and it saddens me held Monday, September 19, at the Classes at that hour will be dismissed bunch of pig-skinners include Powers, first issue at about the time classes Old furniture has been completely Autry House. In order that all students may attend. Braden, Murray, Payne, Hyde, Carmi- to disappoint them. That sort of renovated, with two red cushion rock- The matriculation address is a maj- chael, Kalb, Roberts, Knipple, Berger, started .since distribution on Friday, thing is just what makes me feel all ing chairs in the men's lounging room or event in the opening days of school, Davis, Da Camara, Jones, Franklin, September 16, would be impractical, cut up right now, for just a few min- attracting the most attention and re- Something we have often wondered when "Prexy" welcomes the students, and Schoenfield. Captain Merle Com- and an appearance on the next reg utes ago Merle asked me to meet him ceiving the most comment about: does Nigger Jack take care who are thus permitted to profit by stock is still nursing an infected shin Mar day of publication, September at the bayou bridge this evening, and A newly constructed entrance to the of Prexy's overworked arm after the his sage advice and scholarly instruc- when this article is written and has 23. would be too long after the he went off swearing and tearing his lounging room annex affords acces- big hand-shaking at the matriculation tions. At the end of his address all not appeared in uniform. Phil Abies, opening of school. hair when I told him 1 already had a sibility to the canteen for students address? students file past to shake his hand Buddy Kendricks, Armstrong, Clives, Getting back into the regular sched dinner date wth Dusty." now dressed for a public appearance. in greeting. Sikes, Correll, Allen, and Carroll are ule will necessitate the skipping of The Wonder Dog stopped and stared The removal of the dining room It looks bad when, after a girl has It is requested that, the first two among those reporting and being used next Friday, hence the publishing of silently out the window. Then she adjoining the cafeteria affords 20 feet contracted a cold, the fellow she has rows of seats be held In reserve for as alternates on either of the above the secon dnumber on September 30. seemed to remember something, and of additional counter space for the been running around with shows up members of the faculty and the board squads. Coach Nicholas also has a The longer tnie between th two issues rose to go. Autry House Cafeteria. Many new blowing his nose and speaking in a of trustees. Students will please re- bunch of freshmen gridsters working is also necessary for the organization "I heard that there are two slimes cafeteria fixtures and utensils have deep base voice. frain from occupying these seats. (Continued on page 3) 04 an editorial staff. just moved in down the hall a way. I been added to the celebrated "coffee expect I had better go look them over. house," since its last use during the Their trouser cuffs may need chew- past scholastic year. ing. and I mustn't let the business New curtains and draperies afford stack up on me. So long, old man." a striking background of blue and And, her pink tongue protruding gold. | Belts Swing Freely in Slime Parade between parted lips, she trotted grace- An additional meeting room has fully out the door. been added to the second floor of the i mHiimiiiiiitMiiHimitiuHiiHmiiimiiiiiimmiiiHHiiiimmiHUiiiiiiitiiiiHiiiiiittiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHmiiiiiititiiiifiiimiiiifiiimiiiimmtaifttiiiiii Autry House. The picture machine "Yea, Rice! "Run, Slimes." Whack, The parade started from Main and ment, the slimes were permitted to the race, setting a nice stiff pace for It is to be hoped that this year's box has been removed from the bal- siss, bang! Lamar at 8:30 p. m., and ended at the enter the Majestic Theater by way of he freshmen to match. College Night goes off a little more cony of the second floor and a door cut Down a long line of belt-swinging, flagpole about an hour later. More the stage entrance, trot across the Street cars were chartered to take smoothly than the last one. Last, year through the south wall permitting ac- exhorting Sophomores the class of *31 of the race was run Indoors this year stage, and pass out the front..,' Unfor- the slimes to the start of the chase, someone had a phone call, and many cess to the room on the south side raced madly Saturday night In the than before, since many business tunately, the line got broken some- and sophomores saw that they herald- of the freshmen though Mr. White of the building without entrance Into annual Slime parade. houses and theaters were visited where before the Majestic was reach- ed their coming with plenty of nolRe. was the principal speaker of the the main room of the second floor. Thousands of Houston people Rolle's, Sakowitz Bros., Shotwell's, ed, and only part of the slimes were After the parade the freshmen gath- evening. 6ld and new students alike are be- thronged the streets to see the reek- the Rice Hotel, and several theaters run through. ered around the flagpole at McKinney, ing welcomed to the newly renovated ing freshmen run the gauntlet of were in the line of march. By a spe- Wortham and Thompson, slime where they were ied in the school Famous last lines: "but he was too meeting place of students ot Rice. blood-thirsty second-year men. cial arrangement with the manage- cross-country men of last year, led yells by Cheer Leader Gus Kranz. strong for her.". >•'15, i; PAQE 2 JSSSSSSBM^SSSSILS^ !| H l&fl who it very greatly inter eated in Bio* activities, it is stated. i. SMtat Cmcitor 1 A similar wnieHni was held list t i •DAY AT year by the Houston Lions' Club. The THE members of this club have recently expressed their desire of doing their Miss Ethel McConnell has been The Houston Lions' Club will ob- bit toward thl" season a suc- placed on the Rice campus by the serve Rice Institute day at their next cessful one tor Rice athletes. ira« Baptist Church of Houston as a gen- regular meeting, tomorrow, at which n A weekly paper published by the Student* of Rice Institute during the month* of October, November, Deoember, eral student councellor. Miss McCon- time Rice football coaches and all let- Accidents will kill 800,000 in the January, February, March, April, May, and the last two weeks In September. nell graduated from Rice in 1925 with ter men have been invited to attend next ten years, according to safety a Entered as second class matter October 17, 1916, at the postofflee In Houston, Texas, under the Act of March 3, a Sue record and is still well known the noonday gathering. men. You'd think people would learn 1879. by the majority of upper classmen. The principal speaker of the occa- to quit trumping partner's aces pret- ______. — - , „ - - ______Last year Miss McConnell taught sion will be either a Rice Alumnus or ty soon.—Sims. j. c. MCNEILL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF biology in Athens College In Alabama, GAYLORD HART BUSINESS MANAGER but Rice seems to nave drawn her MENTON J. MURRAY MANAGING EDITOR back to Houston. She has been given an office in the Autry House through the courtesy of the Episcopal diocese, THE SPIRIT clination nor use. The course objected to may and is anxious to meet every student. WELCOME be a foreign language, a third year of science Miss McConnell's line of activity OF ENTHUSIASM. outlined for the coming year Includes COLLEGE MEN! On Thursday, September 15, four hundred or the hated Math 100 which some students practical as well as spiritual interest, freshmen registered at Bice Institute. On the seem to be constitutionally unable to pass, but and the field is by no means limited ROSTONIANC following day about twice as many upperclass- the objectors are all equally vociferous and con- to Baptists. men signed up for courses. vinced of its uselessness. R LJ Shoes forM^n ^ Old friends were greeted; new acquaintances For the past fifty years American universities The fellow who tossed a piece of found; Slimes put in their proper places. A spirit have been steadily reducing the prescribed lemon at "Ham" Davis in the mess Await You of youthful enthusiasm prevailed, and the courses and steadily increasing the optional hall discovered too late his foolish- ness in supposing the affair closed cloisters, after three months of drowsy quietude, ones until today the average student iB free to when the Galveston egg had tossed a awoke to the bustle and hum of student activity. choose almost anything he likes within very single piece back. Til© scholastic year 1927-28 has begun. broad limit.s Rice Institute has rather more pre- Optimistic though this period of matriculation scribed courses than most institutions but even may be, it differs in few respects from registra- here a student has practically unrestricted tion days of years past. Each September has liberty of choice after he has completed his witnessed the same merry return of students freshman and sophomore years. glad to get back into the harness. The purpose of this editorial, though, is not to THE The lasting qualities of this spirit of enthusi- consider the wisdom of the requirements that asm, one year against another, constitute the our faculty has chosen to impose, but rather to TO primary forces determining the success or fail- consider whether or not certain knowledge and WARWICK ure of each scholastic year. ideals should not be common possession of all If the spirits lasts, student activities, both aca- those who come out of a great university. Spe- $10.00. demic and extra-curricular, attain certain de- cialization is good. It is what makes the effi- DRUG gress of success not always the highest, per- ciency of our modern, industrial civilization pos- " Om Windows Tell haps, but all crowned with a reward for honest sible, but co-ordination and unity of purpose are STORE endeavor. also good and if specialists are to unite in volun- Our Story " I! the spirit lags these same activities are tary co-operation, they must have, at least in a marked with the stigma of failure or work half- measure, the same background and be animated BOSTONIAN SHOE STORE heartedly done. by the same ideals. Drink at S. S. SLATER—in charge. Let us make the spirit endure this year as Specialists are what the American universities never before in the history of Rice Institute. are producing today and whether these special- 524 Main Street Rice Hotel Bldg. ists have anything at all in common, except pos- Our RICE VERSUS sibly a desire for a good standard of living, is THE UNITED STATES. questionable. Men like Mencken say they are Fountain 4lllllllllllltlllllll|||||||||||||||||||||||Hl||||||||||||||||ti||||||||||||||||||||||||||!i||||||||||ll||||||||i|||||||||||||tl|l!||||||||||||||||||||tl||||t|||||ll|||||||||||||||i|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Constitution of the United States has producing narrow technicians, vapid, uncreative | IIIHIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIII|lllllll||||l|||l|||||||||i|||l||||||||||l||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||i|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| = been in existence since 1787. Since 1789, when pedants, self-centered "go-getters" interested eleven of the original thirteen states of the only in their own aggrandizement and effete 1'nioii had adopted its provisions, it has been dilettantes. We would rather not believe these We deliver to your room S minutes after you amended but eighteen times, including the ten accusations. They are unpleasant, most un- phone us. amendments known as the Bill of Rights. pleasant, but unfortunately they are in part true. It is the document upon which the machinery The function of the university is to discover Phones of our government operates and which guaran- and train those who will be the leaders of so- On Main Street at Preston s = tees all the rights and privileges of the true ciety in various fields of human endeavor, but Hadley 8822 11 democratic form of government. when these leaders graduate, prepared to lead Perhaps the most unique and striking feature society in diametrically opposite directions, they Hadley 8823 |I|I of the Constitution is its comparative briefness. are a hindrance rather than a help to social evo- I i lution. When an educational system is produc- It can be read from beginning to end in less I S than half an hour. And this document, it must ing ministers in its theological schools who re- be remembered, controls and unites some 115,- gard the conclusions of science as so many sharp 000,000 citizens of the country. axes at the root of Western civilization and re- The Constitution of the Rice Institute Student search workers in its scientific schools who re- Association was framed and written some ten gard these same conclusions as the hope of years ago. Since the original document was Western civilization, there is something wrong; SECOND adopted by the student body at large, it has been when still more illogically it is producing men amended and changed countless numbers of side by side in the same classes of economics times. who regard the accumulation of personal wealth NATIONAL The document, in its present form, cannot be as the chief aim of life and men who regard the read in less than a day's time. It contains con- accumulation of such wealth as a crime against tradiction after contradiction, and has been so society there is something very much amiss BANK changed that it is but a bare similance of the indeed. original work. The civilization of the twentieth century has Main at Rusk This constitution, collected as nearly as pos- richness and variety and an almost limitless pro- sible by last year's administration into one com- ductiveness, but has no coherence or percepti- pact volume, provides for democratic govern- ble goal. In this respect, the civilization of the = § ment for the Institute student body. Supposedly Middle Ages, with all its bigotry and supersti- it is the document which sets forth the govern- tion was its superior. As someone has said, they Capital $1,000,000 ing principles of the student organization. It at least knew what they wanted. We apparently controls and unites some 1300 student citizens. do not, but joyfully embrace all manner of con- Surplus $750,000 Saybro Last year's election disqualifications illustrat- tradictions. ed forcibly enough the ineffectiveness of the Our thinkers are aware of these contradic- '-.-undent constitution. The squabble was settled tions, the only question is which of the many UNIVERSITY SUITS only In turning back to the minutes of a meet- sets of ideals that confront us shall we make "Growing with Houston" ing in .1922. The constitution itself could not be our guide. It may be disputed, but in the large interpreted to cover the situation. those ideals are regarded as soundest in any age Fashioned as Rice Men In its present condition the Constitution of the that are most characteristic of that age, for they Student Association is very clumsy and ineffec- indicate the course of social evolution whose want them. tive, and may be expected to cause trouble in progress may be impeded but never stopped. the future if something is not done to remedy it. There are three distinctive of the present era: New oxford gray shades; two- and President Walter Boone and his Student Coun- naturalism, humanitarianism and critical mind- cil could do no better a bit of work this year ed ness, and combined with tolerance. It is the RICE STUDENTS three-button coats; silk linings than re-writing the constitution. Certainly there duty, we believe, of every university in America We are always glad to and sleeves; moderate price. is pressing need for such an lyidertaking. and the world to conserve and advance them by have you visit If the Constitution of the United States can infusion among their student bodies. On the We know what Rice Men want. perform its functions adequately with a short whole, we believe, they are trying to do this, but our Store. document, there is every reason to believe that more often than not they fail by virtue of the the constitution of the Student Association extreme objectiveness of their instructors and "Books for could be made to do so. the freedom allowed students in choosing their Otherwise students may expect conflicting courses. It is impossible to have any of the EverybodyV $35. and $45. opinions. Such tends to corruption of student above-mentioned attitudes in mind without a morale and disruption of the school's politics. rudimentary knowledge of biology, psychology, Exclusive Agents for Hickey-Freeman history, economics, philosophy and anthropol- PILLOT'S MATRICULATION AND ogy. These we maintain are essential. We do and Society Brand Clothes REQUIRED COURSES. not plead for an inflexible program of studies, BOOK STORE Another school year has begun and with it the but merely for a common background that will 1014 Texas Ave. complaints of students forced by the iron clad give objective and significance to whatever & fiiiiiiiiiiimiiitiiitiiiiiiimiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiililiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitimiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiii s laws of the catalogue to take courses for which branch of technical training the student may liiFiiiiiliiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiitiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiititiiniiiitiiiiiitii they maintain they have neither aptitude, in- elect to pursue. .! 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PAVILION FRIDAY NITE | TEXAS SPORTING GOODS CO, INC I PLAY IN Y TOURNEY i The Houston Sporting Goods Com- 3100 MAIN ST. pany has offered a silver loving cup *• Friday, September 23, marks the In- 1 Morris Appell and Ed Beckenbach, to the singles winner and will award auguration of Friday night dances Bri Rice tennis stars, liave entered the medals to the winning double comb- which last, year proved a drawing at- CANDY- Houston fall tennis tournament with nation. traction to both Rice and Senior High If It's in the Sport Line-We Have It play scheduled to start on the splen- School students. did-conditioned Y. M. C. A. courts to- Officials of the Houston Y lay stress morrow. on the fact that the tourney is open Friday's dance is sponsored by a WHITMAN'S group of Rice students and will be Up to Sunday more than 40 players to all men and boy players in the city. held at the End o' Main dance pa- —And— had already officially entered the lo- Entries may be turned in at the Y vilion. cal competition which is believed will tennis courts club house or at the Placards placed in bulletin boards Houston's Largest and Most Efficient be featured by sterling play. Houston Sporting Goods store. The tournament was originally throughout the Institute brand the Other Distinctive Gilts Sporting House scheduled to start Monday but open- approaching affair as a football dance. R ing day has been postponed until The Paris show king says that Am- PHONE FAIRFAX 1700 Wednesday in order to Kiv^others fcan shoes for women are built on Ignorance of the law excuses no P%NUi HAD. 2800 AND 8100 807-9 FANNIN ST. opportunity of entering. the wrong principle. Ah, but the In- one—but knowledge of the law con- The tournament is open to any man terest remains perfect.—T. 8. fuses every one. sssJr II T.L i TH1 THRESHKR—HOUSTON, TEXAS n i • _ _ _ as aas B M. ' his lines white with the Acgiaa, but vital spark which distinguishes a foot- him in an Apollo oontest. He is sure stop opposing drives. Davis was a the call of his *i«" Mater became WHERE THE CONFERENCE ball player from a mediocre player. to break into several games this year. line plunger last season, seeing some strong and he returned to Illinois lor •QUADS PLAY SATURDAY Tiny has Improved immensely in the Thomas is a red-headed kid whose service In the backfleld. imi a two-year period of coaching work. past week and will possibly be one of thatch is a fair indication of his abili- Kalbe has received a lot of bally-hoo The Aggies again hid for bis servioes, RICE vs. LOYOLA at New Orleans. the star linesmen this coming season. ty on the grid. He has broken passes because' of the record which his broth- and Rothgeb reported back to Texas TEXAS vs. OKLAHOMA SOUTH- Hooper and Nami are other lines- and end runs with remarkable con- er made at Rice. So far he has not for another period at College Station. WEST STATE TEACHERS at men who are showing up well, while sistency and stopB holes in the line justified serious consideration for a His resignation last spring was fol- Austin. Franklin, Jones, Kendricks, and Hyde with the same determination. wing position although he Is Improv- lowed shortly by the Athletic Coun- TEXAS AGGIES vs. TRINITY at are all possible candidates for hole- The other backfleld candidate* are ing rapidly and may take on enough cil's announcement that he would as- College Station. makers and hole-blockera. more or less known to the school. All- scrap to hold down a wing next year. "You nailed him. Bee how easy It sume the role of Assistant Athletic SOUTHERN METHODIST vs. In the backfleld there seems to be noch was a regular performer last was. You should have been a yard \11 in all, the squad doesn't appear Director at Rice. NORTH TEXAS STATE TEACH- a set of double per,formers: Braden, year, although injuries kept him from

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Earle, etc. ad Infinitum represent the leading the team? Hunt is probably brilliant prospect tor this season WM China really hasn't awakened yet, More fellows are ran over by mm DOPE FAVORABLE— former squad men reporting, both the moat irresistible driving back is more or less ruined in the grim Round (Continued from page i) says a professor ot history. But gosh, from the rune below on the ladder rrom Varsity and Freshmen. the conference. A life else red-hoi Rook crossing crash. Captain Abo professor, what a dream die's having. than slip down the ladder. plica of Mann In his actions except A new Coach in hie person of Clyde coal with the punch ot a pile-driver Kelley and Bob Hailey lost their lives that he isn't weighted with the care Littlefield, former Varsity athlete will and legs working like piatoaa on the at that time and Coach Merely Jen* ot running the team and thus should have the job of bringing the gridiron transcontinental limited Jiut about nings is hard pressed to find as able be even more brilliant action. This warriors of Texas into condition al- characterises Hunt in action. He has men to replace them. A new Captain will be his second year in Conference though Doc Stewart has been using the faculty of instilling the same driv- has never been elected, the Baylor circles and will probably be a history ing spirit nto his team-mates. Jelly eleven refusing to do so and choosing making one for the S. M. U. Junior. his summer camp at Kerrville tor a conditioning grounds. Mr. Littlefield Woodman, Bikes, and Collins are let- rather to be guided In victory or de- Texas has the makings of a team ter men who will back up and assist had a tough row to hoe with a confer- feat by the spirit of Kelly who lost second to few in the Americas. Vet- Hunt in his drives, and an almost per- his own life In aiding another to save ence schedule calling for the most im- eran men for every position will have fect array of letter men completes the his. The pyschological value of Kel- portant games away from home. to tussle strenously to keep stalwart roster. Colgin is practically the only ly's example is hard to estimate at 8. M. U. at Dallas, and the Aggies at ma Freshman graduates from replacing man not to return and he was unable present, but a Conference Champion- . College Station, call for them. A dual-captaincy will be tried to make the school this year. Bart- ship under a spirit captain is a very this year with Rufus King, the plung- more than ordinary thought when lett, Hale, Lister, Deffebach, Wylie, likely possibility. The will to win is ing fullback, as one leader and big Ox one regards them thoughtfully, es- Sprott, Rektorik, and will return or most frequently strengthened by such Higgins, tackle and end, leading the pecially when such a tough piece of rather have returned. a wonderful example ot leadership. meat as Vanderbilt is sandwiched in line in battle. Joe King, Sewell, Es- The Frosh have also advanced s Among those who chose to be tes. Baldwin, Beular, Rose. Wray, Tin- between and the whole meal s ex- pected to be consumed in six weeks oral star players. Evall, Seovell, Con- guided by "Abe" rather than a sue- j ner, Ford, Reynolds, Rees, McCul- over, and Alsabrook are the most toiigh, Allen, Brown, Cox, Beaty, time with little or no indigestion. cessor are Keyes, big fullback, Wler promising from past showings. The Washam, quarter-back and broken Hughes. Wllbanks, Phillips. Burnet, The Aggies are as optimistc as first two scintillated in the line while field flash, Naylor, Boone, Smith, Adleta, the two McLemores, Wliitsell, usual, and why not wth Joel Hunt Conover and "Pinky" shone in the lil hackfleld. Lucas, Slade, Bullock, Burch, Reed, Riley, Taylor, Mitchell, Hale, Griffen, Perhaps the Aggies greatest loss was Coach Rothgeb who is with us as Rowand, Pruitt, and Potter. line mentor at Rice this year. He was Arkansas is not receiving much con- QA feather-weight touch the greatest single factor In instilling sideration in Conference circes al- line fight that The Aggies will be see- though she entered a strong squad is all this pen requires— ing for several years. A great line- last year. For financial reason the man himself, his spirit and fight pro- Razorbacks have never been able to IP YOU PROPOSE . to get a ducing power wll be lost to the Ag- schedule a complete Conference sched- new Fall suit that has long wear and ates this year, and Coach Bassett who ule, and so are usually ineligible for is replacing Mr. Rothgeb, will find the the flag. Fayetteville is never a pay- good looks handcrafted right into it- Stop Pressing! shoes he fills are enormous ones to ing proposition being too far and too Get it here. And own a Pen step into. small a town to make the gates which that stays in Perfect Trim, T. C. U. 1J,. Rice, and Baylor seem to football demands, so Coach Schmidt or we Make Good Free* form the second group of contestants has to be content with travelling when although dark horses have been and where he can, with the result The new model Parker that he usually doesn't do much but KUPPENHEIMER Duofold introduces pressure- known to win before at great odds, and the season is yet young. All three unexpectedly wallop several strong Is less writing —and stays in GOOD CLOTHES •' v! perfect order.We agree your schools were unfortunate in losing ma- teams and get itttle or no credit for first cost shall be your last. t e r i u 1. Graduation removed the it. No hand can distort its T. U, stars, Death the Baylor bright His team fought the T. C. U. bunch point — yet it yields to any hopes. and Scholastic Ineligibility to a finish last year and lost the de- LEOPOLD & PRICE style of writing. mined its black face on Rice. Still cision after a nerve tightening scrap. i We spent 35 years on 47 with such odds against them, there is He also has a goodly number of vet- 509 MAIN ST. major improvements. Made no gloom in any camp. erans back but as usual comparative Ii f 1 • sixteen million Pens. Own The Horned Frogs are faced with data on the squad is lacking due to y-$ patents on Pens and 12 the task of replacing the Carson lack of games previously played in T on Pencils and Desk Sets. broth.ers, Clark, and a number of oth- conference circles. ers. Captain Wilson, Parrish, Akers, We discovered how to About twenty candidates reported Grant, Reynolds, Morgan, N. L. Clark, combine capillary attraction ' this fall with seven letter men lnclud- Melton, Jake Williams, and Eddleman /Wk. A-n-t , r.«.,«i-l.l with gravity feed. Thus a i ding Captain Coleman. Cowger, Win- will bear the brunt of all Frog attacks feather-weight touch starts j ters, Rose, Shaw, Miller, Donathan this year with the veterans "Rags" ink-flow; the light balanced i are all former letter men while re- Matthews, Acker, Steadman, Palmer, weight of the Pen is almost ! serves reporting are Wren, Kirby, Thompson, and Toler lending their enough to keep it writing. Posey, Terhune, Geise, Taylor, Moore able assistance. Barrels are now of Parker i Kills, Adams, Van Sickle, and Cra- Permanite -Non-Breakable The Frogs will bear watching this baugh. — 28$ lighter than rubber year. Although it was Jonny Wash- formerly used. They come in mou who kicked the field goal that jewel -like colors—J ade, Lac- enabled them to defeat the Oklahoma quer-red, flashing Black, Aggies last season, the above men- 'Sou it urithJXaivert'' Mandarin Yellow and Lapis tioned men played an important part Lazuli Blue—all black-tipped. in the victory. 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