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THE THRESHER, MARCH 3?, 1919
THE THRESHER
A weekly periodica! published by the
students at the Rice Institute at
Houston, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter October
17, 1916. at the postoffice at Hous-
ton. Texas, under the Act of March
3. 1879.
Subscription Mates.
Per Copy 10c
l'er Term 50c
Student subscriptions provided for in
Student Association membership fee.
Business Office, Room 104 Administra-
tion Building.
Joe Shannon issue Editor
Paul Hobb Managing Editor
Maurine Miils Associate Editor
Craham Peck Business Manager
Ward Beit Circulation Manager
Anna Shirmer Asst. Circ. Manager
W. H. Molor Athietic Editor
Issue Reporters.
J. F. Jungtnan J. R. Peterson
1'arkman Johnson Leon Hromborg
H. A. Cain W. H. Moore
A. L. Thomas Ruby Souti)
1'rancis 1'oote Louise Foreman
rstat'y Clarke Wier Titiie Hirsch
i'aul King L. Latuar
H. E. liebert
a rebate of 6 and 10 per cent in addi-
tion. Many give along with the rebate
sums of money to support school un-
dertakings to better conditions.
Rice needs the co-op, therefore, it is
the duty of the present Student Counci!
to investigate conditions, make plans,
and if possible to have the co-op ready
for the students when they return to
Rice next fall It is not too late to
have the plans so perfected that this
may come to pass.
—Contributed.
1920
THE STt !)E\TS' (OCAC1L.
The- members of the Students' Coun-
cil are tetting a great deai of grass grow
under their feet. And grass grows fast
at this time of year, because the days
an- fast, Hying; toward the end of the
academic session. To date but few im-
portant matters have been settied by
l ite Council.
What is the Council going to do about
thw making of plans for the manage-
ment of the Thresher—and of The
Campanile? At present tile manage-
ment of each publication is in a hap-
hazard condition.
Spring elections are not far off. At
neither of the elections of the past has
the constitution been adhered to. inas-
much as that document provides for the
election by the classes of an election
board to take charge of the balioting
operations. The Council should imme-
diate!;' proceed to instruct, the classes
as to this procedure. The election wiil
come off on the last Monday in Aprii.
Definite figures in regard to the pay-
ment of the blanket tax should be com-
piled, and the entire blanket tax mat-
ter should be settied, particularly in re-
gard to next year.
— 1920
There can be no Question about the
aaitude which the Juniors take regard-
ing the new spirit of lower class rivalry.
Absolute neutrality has been declared,
and holds, even to a great degree in the
Clean sport cannot but be admired
and must prevail. A class that has
been noted from its beginning for its
stand along this line cannot tolerate any
breaking of a record for fairness of
which it is justly proud.
Moreover, the class which early
earned and has always maintained the
name of being the pepperiest group that
ever struck Rice do admire the abdomi-
nal spunk that the newcomers have
lately acquired and enjoy seeing some
reat wholesome stunts which can be put
by freshies. Whether the tricks get by
is up to those directly concerned. It
is up to the Sophs, to manage their own
affairs. The Juniors would like to see ,
the Sophs, retaliate in some manner ,
equally as wholesome. There appears !
hi he some real college spirit for the !
future, coiiege feeling grows from ;i-'
valry, but fair play must govern and '
"prep" school ideals be transformed.
—Juniors
THE CO-OP.
For several years the older students I
at nice have been hoping for a co-op. !
One of the main instructions given the
student council on its formation last
spring was to start a co-op at the earli-
est possibie time. Since that time, be-
cause of military regime and other mat-
ters that had to be attended to first,
the planning for a co-op. has been neg-
lected. Now it is again coming before
the studetfts for consideration.
The iirst and foremost reason that
nice should have a co-op. is so that we
may have some means of getting the
books needed in class work at the time
they are needed. In the past many stu- jMay.
dents have been forced to wait weeks
because they could not get a text-book
and thereby were thrown behind in
their work. In one course now being
given at Rice, the students who entered
from the army at the beginning of the
second term have not as yet been able
to purchase a text, with the result that
they are far behind in their study and
are missing many of the essential points
of the course.
Whenever a student needs a new
book he is at present forced to spend
between an hour and an hour and a
half on the street car and then runs a
big chance of not be4jig able to get the
desired hook. If Itice had a co-op. this
needless waste of time and of the dime
car fares, which is not much for one
trip, but soon reaches large proportions
when the number of trips necessary for
each student is considered, would be
saved.
Another side to the co-op. that should
not be neglected is the opportunity it
offers for students to work. At a Uni-
versity in this State students earned
$1,500 in one year working for their
co-op. Rice could not employ this much
labor in the co-op. at the present time,
hut it could pay enough to help several
students meet their expenses.
As to the amount that would be actu-
ally saved on books it is impossible to
say. However, most co-ops. sell books
cheaper than bookstores and then give
THE COM1NH B! KCTtONS.
It is high time that the big guns of
Rice politics be limbering up for action.
Scarcely more than four weeks He
ahead, before April 28. the day for stu-
dent elections to be balloted. Too much
mere murmuring is audible when loud
voices should be heard. Procrastina-
tion shall not cause the lack of enthu-
siasm that was evident in the student
elections at the beginning of last term.
The Thresher wants to see no repe-
tition of the shameful scarcity of initia-
tive and responsibility, or willingness to
assume affairs in generai, which marked
the January eiection, not only on the
part of nominations, but at the poiis
themselves. True, the newness of
thiugs, the seemingly unsurmountabie
wail which the returning men had run
into and the total ignorance of how
things ought to be by some new men,
itt a measure explains what is past. Ail
eyes are turned ahead—toward the near
future.
Let the stormy campaign of a year
ago be but a starter for the one which
will be launched this year. To attain
this three things are necessary. Nom-
inating parties must get busy, no time
can be spared as the petitions must be
in the hands of the secretary within
three weeks. Ambition and aggressive-
ness on the part of the nominees is ab-
solutely necessary—a few stump
: speeches and a statement of platform
! with some real competition to add
spice. None of this-one-man-to-an-oflice
stuff. Popular interest by everybody
; counts most. Choose your man and
! stick with him.
Section 1 of Article VI of the Con-
' stltution declares that: "There shall
be appointed at a time convenient to
the classes an election board of eight
members—two to represent each class
and to be appointed by the class which
, they represent, ^te first appointed
; Senior member slwR act as chairman,
j The duties of this board shail be to take
I charge of the campaign, to manage the
j voting and count the votes." So far
: nothing has been done toward the or-
ganization of this board. It is a matter
that must be attended to by each class
I and immediately.
i Officers to be elected must be nomi
nated by petitions signed by at ieast
twenty-five members of the Association,
and aii petitions must be in the hands
of the secretary of the Association ten
days before the date of eiection. This
ieaves less titan three weeks for the
nominations to be in.
At present there are a great many
more members in the Student Associa-
tion than there were at the time of the
January elections. There is no reason
why there should not be greater enthu-
siasm shown than over any election yet
held. These elections are going to be
more important titan any Rice has yet
witnessed. They are the first real try-
out of the student system. All others
heretofore have been mere appoint-
ments for some brief period. The elec-
tions of a year ago never had any real
value, unless they taught something of
the pep. that needs to be shown in those
to follow.
Without a doubt the Juniors will be i
the controlling element in the elections
as in everything eise that concerns the )
welfare of Rice. As the coming Seniors !
of 1920 they will be eligible and wili no
doubt fill most of the important offices.
Section 2 of Article VI, which enumer-
ates these officers, follows:
Sec. 2. The President, Vice-President
and Treasurer of the Association, the
Editor-in-Chief, Assistant Editor and
Business Manager of The Thresher, the
Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor and
Business aMnager of The ThreshefT.AHe
Member-at-Large to the Student Coun-
cil, and the yeil leaders shail be elected
on the last Monday in April.
All Honor Council members (exccpt
the Freshmen members) and remaining
members of the Student Council neces-
sary to make up quotas of the Sopho-
more, Junior and Senior classes shall
be elected on the second Monday in
or, a mere slab of bronze, remains to
be decided. It is time to think.
Class '20——-
LOYALTY TO MCE.
(ByJ. Tom Rather. Jr.)
The other day a Rice student was
questioned concerning the payment of
the blanket tax. The reply was that
the student did not Intend to pay the
tax, that he did not at all care about
such things, that all for which he was
coming to Rice was to get all he could
out of the courses.
An utterly selfish and most despicable
position to take. Rice has no room for
those who express such sentiments.
That student is attending this school.
That student Is attending a university
indubitably great, and beyond question
bound to be much greater. He Is com-
ing to this school without the expen-
diture of any money for tuition or other
fees such as are an inherent part of any
other school of consequence. A great
university of the first rank has been
built in Houston, Texas, and that stu-
dent is reaping the benefits of that
buiiding. The student is getting a great
deal for nothing.
Whom is the student to thank for
the buildings of incomparable beauty
housing this University?
Whom is the student to thank for the
solid education in letters, arts, or sci-
ences which he Is getting?
Whom is the student to thank for the
privilege of sitting at the feet of some
of the finest instructors in the land?
Whom is he to thank for all these
things, to whom shali he give return?
For return is due.
He cannot pay, the founder by whose
benefaction that student now profits.
He cannot pay the trustees who are
watching and planning with utmost care
the growth of this institution. He can-
not pay the faculty.
To whom shall he give return? He
shail give return to Rice, to the spirit
of the school, he shaii do all in his
power to make this great university
greater. That is the only road open to
him who is not grasping and selfish to
the last degree.
Each student should think RICE, be-
lieve in RICE, live RICE. If not, he
should leave Rice. This is no place for
him.
Class '20
-Class '20-
LHST WE FORGET.
Is Rice going to have a memorial to
her heroes of the World War? Are the
praises of the men who paid the sacri-
iice and made the service to humanity,
which lately was so lauded and already
being crowded out of the limelight by
new ideas of seif-advancement and ego-
ism; are these praises to remain unsung
except in the hearts of the present gen-
eration? Is tradition alone to be the
message to be relied upon to carry on
to the Rice of the future the records or
the mention of the first important oc-
currence in the annais of her history?
Some tribute, fitting to the subject,
the occasion and the dignity of Rice
must be made. Furthermore, it is time
that some thought be given the mat-
ter. In a little more than a year the
participants—those who came in active
touch with the war will be gone from
Rice.
Miraculously enough there was not a
single Rice man of the^more than a hun-
dred who went "over^here" who paid
the supreme sacrifice. All of our gold
stars are for men who succumbed on
the way.
But we need a memorial not alone
for those whose fortune it was to pay
so dear, but for the real spirit of pat-
riotism of which Rice can be justly
proud. Whether it be a monument fit-
ting the general architectural scheme
Two weeks ago, people came out from
town on Sunday afternoons and after 5
o'ciock other days and picked pansies.
Nothing was done! A student might
appear wearing one pansy in his (or
her) buttonhole. Everything was done!
The flowers belong to the public, not to
the students.
But Tony had a talk with Dr. Lovett.
Then—two ladies came out from town
and picked pansies. Everything was
done! The students picked pansies.
Nothing was done! Tony said that he
and Dr. Lovett had discussed the af-
fair and had decided that the students
might pick a few posies. Tony is kind!
He likes people to admire and appre-
ciate his flowers! He works from Au-
gust till May on them. So, students,
treat this great privilege kindly. Pick
but a few flowers and pick them care-
fully. Now, that you are given an inch,
do not take a mile.
Juniors
THE CAMPUS.
Attention should be called to the
habit of walking on the grass and wear-
ing bare paths across the campus. If
we must waik on the grass, let's not
walk in the same place all the while,
and thereby avoid making "cow-trails."
If the students themselves take no in-
terest in maintaining the beauty of the
campus we certainly can't expect to keep
it.
Another matter that needs attention
is the breaking of campus lights. The
t'erquency of this occurrence in dormi-
tory vicinity leads certain persons not
unconnected with Institute affairs to be-
lieve that such acts are "committed
with malice aforethought." It would
be a good idea, therefore, to watch
which way you throw your rocks.
1920
TRACK.
With the beginning of the new term
a general spirit of unrest and longing
for excitement is prevailing on the cam-
pus. It's about time some of these ex-
cess spirits were vented upon the cinder
track and baseball diamond. For the
first week only a few scantily clothed
young men have been stepping around
the rim of our gridiron, but this week
will begin a new order of the afternoon
and the after-effects of " 'tween term"
good time wiil be done away with.
"Jack," our field barber, and rubber Is
fixing up the track for the training work
so that it will be a joy to put a spring
in your pace, and put the ground be-
hind you. We'd like to see a bunch of
these husky boys try out in the weights,
as there's every kind of a chance to
make good in this line this year. Re-
member, it isn't so very long before the
up-State track meets, and Rice has got
to show up well. Look what we did to
make A. & M. look sick iast year with
only three contestants against over
three times that number. You don't
know but what each one of you may
have the stuff to break a State record
or at least make good on our squad,
and do your "bit" for Rice. Get in
touch with your dormitory athletic
managers and make this, your effort,
better than a stall.
1920
BASEBALL.
Due to a number of setbacks there
will be very little if any intercollegiate
baseball this year for Rice. A lot of
promising material was on hand and
the general hope of a good team could
have been realized, the powers that be
have decided against It, and so we will
miss those games. This does not mean
that the intra-mural games will not take
place. On the contrary, every baseball
fan and loyal supporter of his "dorm"
has got to get out athd make his team
the winning one. Here's some inside
baseball that you've seen, heard or prac-
ticed. and who knows but you may b
tn the big leagues yet?
The spring pep Is enough to make
anybody want to get out In the open
and have a try at the national pastime.
At first sight it would seem that the
east wing had the largest number of old
men from past teams, but there Is yet
to be reckoned the large percentage of
Freshmen in the other two dormitories
from which several good players will
no doubt show up. So get behind the
team of your dorm, and make the other
fellows acknowledge your side the best
on the campus.
J uniors
Along with the big prospects for a
championship football team next year
cotues the need for improvement of that
section of Mother Earth on which the
falling is done. The Held is being cov-
ered with a new, thick layer of fresh
earth so that a new green Held will
greet the fans in September, and the
mud of the past will remain in the past.
The other field is aiso being taken care
of so that the intra-mural work will be
carried on with success. These prepa
rations indicate considerable athletic
work in the near future.
Juniors
OWL LITERARY CLUB
IS AGAIN REVIVED
Temporary Officers Elected Until a
Complete Reorganization Can
Be Ejected.
Like the Phoenix rising out of the
ashes of his traditional forefathers, the
few members of the once best and most
active of the students' organizations
the Owi Literary Society, were called
together by the former president. Paul
F. Bobb, on Wednesday night, March
21, 1918.
It was agreed that Mr. Bobb preside
until a day when officers could be more
representiveiy elected. Mr. Bobb, then,
called the small group to order, so that
various reorganization committees
couid be appointed. Mr. J. Frank Jung-
man was appointed chairman of the
Publication Committee. Mr. Edgar A.
Cain was placed in charge of the Ways
any Means Committee. After a Ion;
discourse, the chair decided that Mr
Jesse R. Peterson was capable of tak
ing over the management of the Initia-
tion Committee. The remaining busi
ness was attended to in the ordinary-
passing of time.
Old times were discussed when the
iiterary societies ran the affairs of t
campus. None of the leaders of the
students dared not to belong to one of
the societies. Then, it was shown that
most of the mem that stood the highest
amongst the students were fellow-mem
bers of the society. The society ad-
journed, after it was decided that each
committee have its work completed be-
fore the next meeting, on Wednesday
night, March 28, 1919.
DR. TSANOFF GIVES
TALK TO Y.M.C.A.
ON RECONSTRUCTION
Tuesday evening Dr. Tsanoff spoke to
the discussion group of the Y. M. C. A.
on the reconstruction of society. He
asked the question, "What moral Idea
ought to be behind a social reconstruc-
tion?" Dr. Tsanoff went on to say that
no matter what the external organiza-
tion of a society was, if the internal or-
ganization or spirit was not right, that
the organization wouldn't amount to
very much. He stated that the external
effect of the war was great, but the Im-
portance lay in the moral idea behind
it all.
Dr. Tsanoff said that the chief moral
idea in the present situation was the
brotherhood of man, as exemplified by
the Samaritan spoken of in the New
Testament. He also stated that the
golden rule should be the language of
politic and government. He said that
there were more Important things in
life than feeding and clothing ourselves.
That everyone should have the same op-
portunity to rise as we. We should not
use other men as machines, whereby we
may gain something for ourselves. He
said that our error was regarding man
as so much property, as they are so re-
garded by factories in which articles are
turned out with the least cost to owner
and not with the least sacrifice of hu-
man happiness.
Dr. Tsanoff stated that to change the
present conditions you would have to
change those conditions on the inside,
and that this was, harder to do than to
form a league of nations, or to change
a monarchy to a democracy. He said
that question was not will it work, but
how many want it to work. This will
determine its success.
-—— J u niors
The Death of Our Hopes.
Examination days are come, the saddest
of the year,
With failing Fish and worried Sophs.
and Seniors sad and drear.
The class rooms and the labs are closed,
the Sophs have gone away,
And in the exam, room students toil
through all the live-long day.
Where are the facts, those last hour
facts, that late at night we
crammed? ?
Those dates, those rules, those lecture
notes into our heads we jammed?
Alas, they all are lost and gone from
memory away,
And we must make our farewell bow—
for we Hunk out today.
—Ig. Nutz.
1920
Freshmen of 1916-17 were alive.
What about the "Fish" this year?
SOPHS FEAR FISH.
Juniors settle trouble.
Tree's *SerMce RecorJ
Albert Leon Guerard, B. A. (Paris).
Strenuous overseas army service has
not kept Rice professors from definite
iiterary work. "La Revue de Paris" of
July, 1910, contains an ably written ar-
ticle by Albert Lion Guerard, professor
of French in the Rice Institute, who has
been in France since November, 1917.
In "L'Avenir de Paris." Mr. Guerard
discusses the monuments of the French
capitol and compares American and Pa-
risian styies of architecture. Our crit-
ics, "rigid and artiHcial by plan," stant
out clearly against the preserved beau-
ty of the old French.
The Hrst impression that the Ameri-
can receives from Paris is that of har-
mony. The author warns the French
that "une vigilance de tous les instants"
will be necessary to protect their Paris,
the "viile-saion," from hideous modern
building attempts.
In August, 1917, Mr. Guerard went to
Leon Springs, where he was made lieu-
tenant. He was placed with the 116th
Engineers and within three mdnths was
in France. In a short while, because of
his unusual ability, he was transferred
to the French Liason, and it is known
authoritatively that his work has been
of great value to the French govern-
ment. In a letter to Dr. Lovett, Mr.
Guirard states that the time of his re-
turn to Rice is most uncertain. For
the present he is stationed at Paris.
Mr. Guerard is a native Parisian. He
received his degree from the University
of Paris and later was appointed
"Agrege de I'Universite de France."
After his work there he taught in the
State Normal in Paris. Before coming
to Rice he was instructor in Romanic
languages at Williams College, and as-
sociate professor of French in the Lee-
land Stanford Junior University.
During his stay at Leeland Stanford
Mr. Guerard wrote "French Prophets of
Yesterday," which was received by crit-
ics as a thorough and artistic treatise
of French religious thought under the
second empire. His English is pure
and idiomatic and his style has the
added epigrammatic charm of the
French. Besides this book, the Rice In-
stitute library has two others by Mr.
Guerard, "Five Masters of French Ro-
mance" and "French Civilization in the
Nineteenth Century."
/former R/ce ,<4rc/:#ec% w? France
%%%/: A E. K /France ^ Crea?
Source (^^rcA#ec%urg/Vnferes%
W. W. Watkln, of the department of
architecture, recently received a letter
of unusual interest from a former
fourth-year Rice architect, Lieutenant
Lloyd J. White, who is still with the
A. E. F. in France. Lieutenant White
entered the service at the outbreak of
hostilities, in April, 1917.
His letter reads as follows:
111 Eng. A. E. F„ France,
A. P. O. 797,.
My Dear Mr. Watkin:
While I have the time I thought I
would drop you a few lines. I have
traveled quite a bit since I last wrote
you. I have been all over Riviera and
over most of Southern France, Nice,
Monaco, and all that country. It is
simply wonderful in color and architec-
tural life. The richly colored houses
set against a foliage of evergreens.
Johns makes an ideal pictures and the
whole thing, as it is, between the blue
of the Mediterranean Sea and the snow-
capped Alps—simply carries away your
breath.
I have been to Paris^our times and,
of course, you know what you can see
there in the way of architecture—from
the statellness of the "Notre Dame" to
the gilded bridge of Alexander III. . . .
I also went out to Versailles for a
couple of days, and went through the
Palace of Louis XIV.
It has been indeed an education in
itself to have seen all these things and
places that I have studied about. Also,
I have seen the cathedrals of Tours,
Rheims, Orleans, Siens, Briarre, Aux-
arre, Fountainebleau and a number of
smaller ones. But all were very inter-
esting. Some were good and others not
so pleasing.
I would like to take another month
or two and do nothing but study them,
but my military duties are always in
the way, unfortunately.
I have applied for permission to go
to Beaux Arts Architectures in Paris,
and hope it "goes through." This di-
vision is booked to stay here three or
four months longer, so if I can "land"
that, it will be a great thing.
I am able to speak French pretty
well now; well enough to carry on most
any kind of a conversation, and to un-
derstand nearly all that is said to me.
I have secured three volumes of very
valuable books that show much of Im-
portance in French architecture and ex-
cellent plates. A French school teacher
gave them to me absolutely for noth-
ing. I know they would cost not less
than $100 even over here. He Is a very
interesting old chap, and does not seem
able to do enough to show his grateful-
ness to the Americans.
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