The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1919 Page: 2 of 6
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j*age Two
THE THMK8HER, MARCH 37, M19
JUNIOR ENGINEERS
ENJOY TRIP TO B!C
CEMENT PLANT
After weathering bravely & gtrenuous
and weary trip to the wilds of Harris-
burg on one of the yellow sea-eoing
derelicts provided for transportation, a
good sized bunch of students, with a
sprinkling of professors, stepped along
banks of Buffalo Bayou. After a snappy
walk with bone yards and fertilizer
plants as speed impulses, the delegation
walked into the grounds of the Texas
Portland Cement Company. In other
words, a number of Engineering stu-
dents from all branches of Junior En-
gineering, escorted by four or Ave pro-
fessors of the department, took a trip
on Monday afternoon to the plant of the
Texas Cement Company. At the office
the engineer In charge of tests gave the
students some valuable information
concerning the materials used and their
general preparation and composition be-
fore the process is begun. Then the
explanation took the form of an iilus-
trated lecture, the special adjustments
and devices embracing the results of
vears of experience.
To I'oilow the geuetai plan for process
wouiti be as fottows: The composition
of the raw materiais is approximate))
75 per cent she!) and 25 per cent ciay.
the variation between these two being
greater than 1 per cent. The shell is
wet before placing in the hopper. The
ciay is unloaded front cars and dropped
into a device similar to a water wheei
which stirs the clay and a tank of wa-
ter so as to mix them thoroughly. The
ciay, siteli and water are ail fed at a
tixed rate into a iarge crushing machine
containing large steei baits and tugs ro-
tating horixonlalty. After leaving: this
machine the thic): grayish iiouid ir
passed through a targe hot'ixontai cylin-
der and conveyed to the entrance of the
rotary revoiving cyiinder at a iow slope,
and the material is passed siowty to-
ward the Mowing iiame at the other
end. The chemical process and resuit
of this passage is a red hot mass that
is rut) by gravity into a container. A
ron\eyor bucket takes this "hot stut!'
to a . suitabie height and starts it
through another cyiinder, where the
t-roduct is cooled and reduced to about
ordinary size. The product is dumped
into an automatic scate. gypsum is add-
ed and tiie whole carried to another set
of cyiinder putverizers. In this pow-
dered state tite cement is carried by ete-
vator and store'! in iarge bins. The
inns are situated' on a spur track where
tiie cement is sacked and placed direct-
ly on the cars. This is a rough outline
of the process.
In the taboratory the headwork of
the business is found. Tests are made
after approved methods and consider-
able instructive as weil as valuable ma-
teria! is obtained which is both neces-
sary to the company and the buyer.
The crowd took its teave in a tiurry
or rain and each member got. back to
civilisation, a tired but welt satisfied
human.
Tite power for the plant operation is
furnished by a Diesel engine of weil-
ttnown type and reputation which runs
the various motors situated in< different
imiidings. This power house is well
kept and lighted and has plenty of room
for three times the present capacity.
1920
JUKMMt DILEMMA.
A Soph. CriMc)*m.
Vou Junlora Aren't playing square.
You are so unquestionably neutral that
we can't tell whose side you're on."
A Fish Criticism.
You Juniors aren't playing square.
You are so unquestionably neutral that
we can't tell whose side you're on.
Class '20
Tact.
Postscript on a Freshman's exam:
"The Lord loveth a cheerful giver."
AD PERSONALS
1920
tTTTtXtiM AXD H TS.
Definitions again:—
"Bachelor girt—A fresh, very fresh,
edition of the old maid.
Bridal—Also spelled Bridle, and
means about the same thing.
"Co-education—Fair warning.
"Coquette—An expert huntress who
does not eat game. Her snares are usu-
ally set in the cloisters.
"Dancing—Triat trips.
"Diamonds—Sparkling essentiats in
the making of matches.
"Easter—The feast of bonnets.
"Echo—The only thing in nature that
can get. the better of a woman. It al-
ways has the last word.
"Engagement—The spirited preface
to a tedious volume.
' Miss—A hit if rich, young and pret-
ty; amiss, if otherwise.
"Sweet Girt Graduate—One who hav-
ing taken tier bachelor's degree is ready
to take her bachelor."
—Juniors— —
Why, even the president of the Junior
etass is a Junior, and some one said the
prettiest girt is a member of that class.
1920 ,
Is the tight physics students are see-
ing caused by the new subject under
discussion or the new instructor?
1920
"Bad deeds are done not so much
from tack of sense.
As from wicked preference."
1920-
SOPH JIG A SUCCESS
SOCIALLY AS WELL
AS FINANCIALLY
The Soph. Jig. given in the commons
on Friday evening, was the first of the
social affairs which wilt tend to restore
the exclusive Itice dances to the cam-
pus. It was rather pre-arranged, but
i he tonger the time to prepare, the
smoother it. wtlt run.
It. was a sociat success; everybody
went away weit pleased. The fioor was
very wet! potished, which shows that
the Sophs, were diligent in malting the
affair one that woutd give them at! the
gtory coming to them for their hard
work. And the biggest thing that speaks
wett for the managers, James L Aut-
rey and N. D. ltockafeilow, is that they
succeeded in clearing expenses.
Dean and Mrs. It. G. Caldwell were
the onty members of the official chaper-
ones present; the others had been trn-
avoidabty detained by previous engage-
ments.
The very best music in towr^vas se-
cured for the evening when they hired
Sidney's orchestra front the Rice Hotel.
Due to custom, this is the iast in-
formal affair to be held in the commons
for the year. By the voicing of those
present it was a most fitting affair to
close the season of the underclass so-
cial activities.
Four kinds of people make up your
schools—Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores
and Fools."
1920
Ambition.
I wish I were a Fish again,
With nothing much to do,
But go to tab. just once a week
And play the whole day through.
And stand out in the cloister
And talk to all the boys.
Oh. those happy Freshman days
With all their green-hued joys.
If only Father Time
Could three years backward turn,
! And bring again those Freshman days
For which my spirits yearn—
; Then with no thought of misery,
Tomorrow's tests might bring,
; I woutd shed atl my dignity
And celebrate the spring.
! —Dig. Nutty Sr.
Juniors
I'm one of the Rice brotherhood, I'm an
old-time pioneer.
I come with the first—good-night! How
I've cursed this place, but still I'm
here.
I've studied and cursed in its summer
heat,
I've frozen and starved in its dorm,
I've followed my dreams, my plans and
my schemes.
But they burst with the tight of morn.
I came to get knowledge fgood reason),
t t'eit tike an exile at first,
I hated it tike sin for a season
And then I was worse than the worst.
It griped one like some kind of scenery,
It turned me from foe to a friend,
It seems it's been since the beginning
it seems it wiit be to the end.
—Zip.
Buy W. S. S.
RUSSIAN PROBLEMS
CLUB NEWS
LES H!BOUX.
The first regular meeting of Les Hi-
houx was held Friday at 4:30 in Room
220. Ten new members were admitted
into the club, and other business mat-
ters were discussed, after which Mr.
Chiltman gave a delightfully Illustrated
iecture on French Cathedrals. At the
close of the program the club gave a
rising vote of thanks to Mr. Chiiltnan
for the pteasure he had given the mem-
bers.
J uniors-
Those fortunate enough to have divi-
dend-paytng stock can make their divi-
dends worth more and hetp the Govern-
ment at the same time by lending
through War Savings Stamps. The
money will not be missed when invested
and when it comes back will amount to
more.
MK3K BROWN
"MICK" BROWN WINS
FAME IN FOOTBALL
Makes Only Two Touchdowns Made in
(irent A. E. E. Game Before Wil-
son, i'oincare. King George
and Others.
"Mick" Brown, a name to conjure
with at the Rice Institute. Rice, Hous-
ton and Texas remembers Brown as a
certain tittle halfback who was wont
to run circles around his adversaries
in gridiron batties on Rice Field and
elsewhere.
It now appears that Brown has been
tearing up the earth in army footbatt
in France. In the write-up betow, tak-
en from "The Stars and Stripes," the
official newspaper of the American ex-
peditionary force, Brown is mentioned
as better than Eddie Mahan in advanc-
ing the ball. Mahan was an Atl-Atneri-
can star at Harvard two years ago. If
Brown is better than Mahan, "Mick "
must be some football player.
Brown entered the army in the spring
of 1917. after he had tinished his fourth
year at Rice. He will have two gold
service chevrons on his sleeve when he
returns.
The game of which the article below
is a prospectus turned out with Brown's
team winners by a good score.
Brown made the only two touchdowns
of the game. He was the shining light
of that gpme.
The clipping was taken from a Janu-
ary issue of "The Stars and Stripes":
"Colombes Field (Paris), a large
part of which was under water during
the Seine's recent flood, will be in good
condition for the game Sunday between
the footbail teams of the 3 6th Division,
champions of the First Army Corps, and
the St. Nazaire team, Base Section
champions and one of the most power-
ful teams in the S. O. S. The St. Na-
zaire bunch bases its hopes on Eddie
Mahan, Harvard and All-American
star, and a sergeant by the name of
Brown, who is said to outshine Mahan
in advancing the ball."
., Juniors
Very Early Sunday Morning.
Petit Cloche: "I thought I spent 85
cents to see us Sophs put one over on
the Freshmen, and ! ? ! etc., if
they didn't put one over on us."
Juniors
Who witl make the '19 Campanile a
good one? The Seniors, of course, plus
the Sophs, plus the Fish, plus the JUN-
IORS.
Juniors
Who runs The Thresher? That's
simple—the JUNIORS.
Russia's Dramatic Future.
Russia's dramatic future! Has any-
thing Russian a future? you say. Can
anything good come out of Moscow and
Petrograd? What hope is there for the
offspring of hunger and demoralization,
of death and disintegration?
But the Russian mind doesn't work
that way. The future? Of course, Rus-
sia will have a future. The patience
and the endurance which trace back to
the Orientat limb of the Muscovite racial
tree witl help the nation carry on
through chaos to this distant future.
As for the present, nittchevo—it doesn't
matter!
This fatalism, however, doesn't ex-
plain the persistence of the Russian
theatre today in the forefront of our
time. Why bother with the make-be-
lieve of the play-actor when daity drama
in the raw and in deadly earnest is
more certain and ptentiful than daily
bread? Why, indeed, if your drama is
a mere matter of pastime and com-
merce! Even pastime falls under the
Terror, after affording a temporary re-
lief. And commerce is forgotten of
men. But if your drama strikes deep
into the heart of life, plumbing its sor-
rows and its joys wtth equal honesty
and with the sincerity and the vision of
the artist, then perhaps you will hold
and cherish that drama even though
Hell comes up to earth and camp in
the seats of power. At least, that is
-Class '20-
Who started up the Lit. Societies?
JUNIORS did it.
Class '20
The hardest working bunch on the
campus--JUNIOR engineers.
Juniors
The best students at Rice—JUNIOR
academs.
what the Russians have done. Their
theatre is the most normal of all their
institutions, almost the only one which
has not been undermined by the revolu-
tion.
Of the new productions at the First
studio, by far the most successfut is
"Twelfth Night," an Elizabethan per-
formance. Usually the studios follow
the precept of the Art Theatre by the
use of a vividly spiritualized realism as
their dramatic method. Here, however,
to the great joy of Stanislavosky, the
young people unfotded their Shakes-
peare in a series of simple, suggestive
scenes, fixing the locale by a bit of fur-
niture or tapestry or garden wall in one
corner, while the rest of the stage was
hung with unobtrusive curtains.
Other plays, other methods. "The
Cricket on the Hearth" is as truty Eng-
lish of its o\tnt era as "Twelfth Night."
It is done realisticaiiy, with a perfect
riot of a toy shop for Caleb Plunimer's
home. Hennlng Berger's "The Deluge,"
although the least satisfactory Item in
the reportory, has numerous American
insights. It is remarkable how these
Russians know more about every other
country on earth than all the others put
together know about them.
Kolin, Tchehoff and Olga Baklanova
—these three young players would jus-
tify the studios if they yield no more.
But there are more: Solovyeva, Vak-
htangoff, Suhatcheva and many others.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1919, newspaper, March 27, 1919; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229824/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.