EAT EAT B™ VOLUME THIRTY-SEVEN NUMBER TEN HOUSTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1949 Entered a» second class mailing matter, October 17,1916, at the Post Office, Houston, under the act of March 3,1879. Tan Beta Pi Initiates Nine Championship Game Saturday Into Honorary Society Owls Must At Least Tie To Go To Banquet Honors Student Directory New Members Cotton Bowl; Bears Fresh From Win Frosh Voting Set; Distribution Nov 28 Never before have such high stakes ridden on the outcome The Texas Gamma Chapter New Constitution Student Directories will be dis- of a Rice-Baylor game as those riding on this week's game. of Tau Beta Pi Association held tributed in the Lounge Monday, No- If Baylor should win Saturday they will have earned a tie for its formal initiations Monday, To Be Discussed vember 28, it was announced by the the Southwest Conference championship, their first in the last November 14, at Cohen House. OWLS this week. Students who paid quarter century, a long dry spell for anybody. However, if Rice Tuesday night Ralph Atmar, for their directories in the registra- The following Rice Institute Chairman of the Elections Commit- tion line at the first of school will gets as little as a tie, the fea- undergraduates were initiated: Law- tee, announced that the Freshman be asked to present their subscrip- thered flock will become the rence P. Athy Jr., Walter H. Hoff- Elections will be held on December tion blanks if possible. Those who Danse Macabre Will outright champions. Rice's man, Jack P. Kraft, Albert L. Wade, 12. Petitions for candidacy are due have not paid for a directory may Owls were co-champions in '46 with and J. Wright Wilson, senior mech- by noon, December 2, and expense buy one on Monday. Be Archi-Art Theme Arkansas, and last were undisputed accounts are due on December 10. The 1949-50 directory will include champions in 1937. anical engineers; and Gerald R. "Danse Macabre" has been an- two new features which have not Another thing of prime impor- Also announced was the outcome nounced as the theme for the 1950 Walton St., senior chemical engi- been present in previous years. tance is the fact that the Bears will of the November elections: Emmett presentation of Archi-Arts, by the neer. Also initiated were W. W. Ded- Classification of each student will represent this section of the coun- McGeever was elected Editor of the Architectural Society. The annual be designated in a parenthesis after try in the Cotton Bowl if they win man, engineer for the Texas Co. at Thresher and John Lynn became ball will take place on the first each name, by the numbers one this game, since they will have de- Port Arthur; J. G. Richardson, engi- Junior Representative to the Stu- week-end of the second term, be- dent Council. through five. Listed in the faculty feated their co-champions. neer for the Humble Oil and Refin- ginning just before the midnight The Constitution as re-written directory will be the campus office This time last week the gen- ing Co. in Houston; and L. B. Hall, numbers of each instructor, as well hour of Saturday, February 11 and will be submitted for student crit- lasting into the early hours of Feb- eral opinion had the Cotton Bowl consulting engineer for Tellepsen icism in the next issue of the as his RI phone exchange. picture fairly well settled with A table will be set up in the ruary 12. Buffet supper will be Construction Co. in Houston. Ded- Thresher. An all school Vote for served during the dance. Rice playing Tulane, but much or against the new Constitution will Student Lounge from 8:00 to 12:00 has happened in the interim until man and Richardson ate graduates for distribution of the directories, Sketches for the transformation be held. Three-fourths of all the of the newly redecorated Elk.-; Hall now many fans are sure of only of Texas A & M and Hall graduated votes must be for the re-written which will be sold for thirty-five one thing—that there will be a from Louisiana State University. cents. into the proper awesome and de- Constitution in order for this meas- cadent atmosphere for the Dance game played in Dallas January These men were selected not only ure to become effective. of Death are being drawn by the 2. Baylor's fine showing against for their scholarship but also be- Also discussed in the Student Rice Charity Drive Decorations Committee. The Pa- SMU and the big scare that the cause of their integrity, breadth of Council meeting was the appoint- Short Of Goal geant and Costume Committees are Horned Frogs threw into the interest inside and outside of the ment of a permanent senior ring planning the customary pageant for Owls at their Fort Worth home- engineering field, adaptability, and committee. Ralph Atmar, Paula The Charity Committee has an- which a number of Rice girls will coming hints of a hangup game unselfish activity. nounced with r ret that the at Rice Stadium this week. Meredith, and John Piatt were ap-f$1500 set for^ the Charit y^oa Drivl of e be selected, one of which will be The Chapter had its annual fall pointed. The Bears have had a distressing for Royal Industrial College has not chosen to reign as queen of the ball. banquet in honor of these men at habit of being extra tough on the yet been reached. By Tuesday morn- Archi-Arts is the annual costume the Seven Seas Restaurant Monday Owls, and last year the Bears held ing only about $1050 had been con- ball staged by the Architectural So- night, November 21. a favored Institute squad to a 7-7 Follies Tryouts Over; tributed, incuding both organization ciety of Rice for the purpose of tie. Practically the same players and individual donations. raising $1200 to send an Architec- will be on the field again this year Rehearsals To Start Larry Katz, finance chairman of tural student abroad for a year's in what will be a game between the committee, announced that con- study. The Senior Follies Committee has two fine senior elevens. Norton Award, tributions will be accepted at any o announced that try-outs are over The Baptists will have Stan Wil- time, although the drive officially and the acts will be put together Thanksgiving Service liams and J.D. Ison at the end slots. AFCA Medal Given over the holidays. Rehearsals begin closed last Sunday. The annual Thanksgiving Sex-vice 0 Ison is a good bet for All-Confer- Monday. Tickets for the students of the Student Religious Council was ence on the basis of his pass catch- To Midshipmen will go on sale on Monday, Decem- GIRLS PHYS ED UNIFORMS held Tuesday, November 22, at 12:15 ing, and Williams, a soph, has turn- ber 5. Those girls who have ordered the p.m. in Palmer Episcopal Church. ed into a standout of late, himself. Yesterday during the review of The Follies will be composed of a blue and gray shorts and shirt uni- The Rice Choral Club sang, and, the Midshipmen Battalion of the Baytown's Rupert Wright and Clark number of different acts in the style form from the physical education as is traditional. Dean Cameron Heronimous give the Bears a pair Rice Institute, several awards were of a variety show. They will be pre- department please see Mrs. Poin- played the organ. Dr. Albert Shir- presented. of fine beefy tackles. At the guard sented on December 10 at the San dexter by Dec. 1, 1949 to pay for key, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist spot Don Mouser and Chuck Stone The Norton Award, a presented Jacinto Auditorium. and claim your outfit. Church, spoke at the service. watch to the student receiving the hold forth with Stone especially highest mark in navigation during noted for his ability to rush an the school year 1948-1949, was pre- Supply and Demand opposing passer. Center is Gene sented to Midshipman First Class Huebner a 225 pound youngster Nelson D. Miller, Jr. of San Antonio. reared in the wake of such fine Mr. Court Norton, a local citizen Economics is a Living Science, Says Lovejoy Baylor pivot men as Buddy Gate- and donor of the award, made the wood. The man probably most re- presentation. by Wally Lovejoy sponsible for the fine showing of The Armed Forces Chemical As- I was lounging around the third floor of Lovett Hall the for the man who tends the machine, the Bruins this' year is Adrian "the Arm" Burke. Burke's great passing sociation Award, presentation of an other day, waiting to go to class, when an Economics 200 class the truck driver who delivers the syrup, the people who work in the from the man-under position of the engraved medal, a bar ribbon, and dismissed. As the bell rang and the gob of humanity burst a scroll to the midshipman selected Coca-Cola plant, che people growing T has been little short of brilliant on the basis of achievement in ac- through the doors, I heard two boys speaking to each other. the cola extract used for flavoring, on every occasion this year with the Their conversation ran some- and indirectly many others such as exception of one time—the Texas -ademic and military subjects, lead- probably never be fully answered; ership, and participation in student thing like this: the people who made the machines, game. Rice fans are sincerely hoping but I would like to try to show just the man who advertises this product, that the Blue line can match the activities, was presented to Mid- A.