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THE
Volume V.
BICE INSTITUTE, HOUSTON, TEXAS, APRIL 9 1920
Number 20
MM CLAIMS E!C EM OF THMK
MEET, SCORE B. ^.-63 HUE-54
KLOTZ OF RtCE SMASHES SOUTHWEST RECORD
FOR JAVELiN THROW-D!STANCE 173.6 FEET
Soft Track Stows Down Speedy Lindsay, Hargis and
- Aiexander. Dyer, Ktotz and others showed up wet).
The track team didn't have the bear-
ing of a defeated team at atl on iast
Saturday night, for it had indeed won
a mora! victory. The Rice men display-
ed more true guts on this occasion than
one could expect from norma! human
beings. They had to go up aaginst sev-
eral disagreeable elements that have
always been associated with the school
at which the meet was held, and be-
sides, the weather conditions were not
the sort that our men had been accus-
tomed to at their own practicing ground.
The continuous sandstorm was a ter-
rible drawback to the team. However,
Rice will get another chance at Baylor
before the season is over. Speaking of
guts. Rice made a 23-foot broad jump
and a foul was called because a spike
touched the ground in front of the take-
off. This ruling was a little disconcert-
ing, but Rice went ahead and took first
and second anyway.
Toward the latter part of the meet
Baylor had Rice down with the score
of 50 to 30, but when the relay came
up there was a chance for either team
to win the meet, and, although we are
not mentioning any names, we would
advise the readers to get some infor-
mation on the amount of guts displayed
in that last heart-breaking event. Sen-
sation had a place in the meet, too. The
more interesting features were the last
lap on the two-mile run, the hundred-
yard dash, the javelin throw and the
relay. The first looked like the begin-
ning uf a quarter mile run for Ri<*3 and
the end of summer for Baylor. The
second looked like unheard of marvels.
The third, which broke the Southwest
record, drew the remark from a by-
stander, "pretty good for a kid," and
from Johnny, "thank you." And the
fourth showed how some men will fight
for love of their school.
The results of the meet were.
120 high hurdles—Jackson, Baylor;
McGee, Rice.
100-yard dash—Lindsey, Rice; Wolf,
Baylor.
One mile—Kiefer, Baylor; Duncan,
Baylor.
Shot put—Dodson, Baylor; Alexan-
der, Rice. R
THE CAMPANILE OF
THE PAST AND FUTURE
There will be published in June of
1920 a volume of the Campanile which
is to be taken into the homes of the
men and women of the Rice Institute
as the memoirs of their year at school.
Its contents can never be altered, its
impression never erased, and its influ-
ence never avoided. It is to be pre-
served for years, to be shown to our
friends, parents, sisters and sweethearts
for years to come, and finally will be
the book from which our children will
gather the impression of the manner
and character of living that we, as stu-
dents of Rice in 1920, lived.
Why then, shall this student body of
nearly six hundred members, be humili-
ated, and made ashamed to show the
year-book of the school of which they
are so proud, to their mothers and sis-
ters, because it contains pictures and
jokes that the perverted sense of humor
of a very great minority of the- men
have mistaken for "pep" and "spirit."
Is it fair that the majority shall be made
to suffer for the coarseness of texture
and unreHnement of sensibilities of a
very few misguided students? Is it just
that you be made to try to turn two
pages at once to avoid showing your
sister or your mother a particularly dis-
gusting and revolting example of Bow-
ery wit? Don't you think the Campa-
nile would be the better off without
such material?
There is no use to beat about the bush
concerning this matter. It is generally
accepted that certain portions of the
year-books of the past would have been
better unprinted, and because some
one originally felt that, to make a book
interesting, It was necessary to rake
about in the mud and muck of school
life and produce all the sordid details
of the rottenest parts in the apparent
guise of a regularly accepted thing, the
subsequent editors have lacked the mor-
al courage or their sense of the general
Htness of things has been so perverted
that they have continued a practice that
la fundamentally bad, upon the very
surface of it. „
Let us hope that the Campanile staff
*
Upper—Slime McGee Running
Hurdles.
Bottom—DePrato Goes Over.
Pole vault-—Split between Sitton and
DePrato.
440-yard dash— W"lf Way!"'" H"r
tan, Rice.
High jump—Split between Coleman,
Hinckiey, Alexander, Rice; Sitton of
Baylor.
Discus throw—Dotson, Baylor; Alex-
ander, Rice.
220-yard dash—Wolf, Baylor; Lind-
say, Rice.
Broad jump—Hinckley, Dyer and
McGee of Rice.
Two miie—Hargis, Rice; Clement,
Baylor.
Javelin throw—Klotz, Rice; Poliard,
Rice.
Reiay—Finished for Baylor by Wolf,
for Rice, Goss, Dyer, Lamar and Har-
lan.
COMMUNITY HOUSE
TO BE READY BY FALL
Mr. Masterson, chaplain of the Com-
munity House, was asked to give this
paper a few ideas concerning the new
Community House that is to be built
soon. He declined, for he felt that
things were not certain enough as yet,
to permit him to make a public state-
ment. Undoubtedly it is the sincere
hope of the Rice students that the build-
ing will soon be under way, for every
one of them realizes the changes for
the better that have taken place here
since the present Community House was
built. It is a constant source of com-
fort and good cheer to the lonesome
boy or girl and they voluntarily turn to
it when trouble comes their way. The
Community House has made It possible
for the men and women to get together
and exchange ideas, and to start new
precedents that speak well for the fu-
ture. Few are those who have not at
one time or another benefited by the
kind personal services rendered by Mr.
Masterson or Mrs. Blake. It shouid be
the desire of the men to know them
both and make them feel that we ap-
preciate the interest they have taken in
ua and in our School. If you want to
talk to two sound Christian people, go
over and make yourself known.
MRS. BLAKE AXXOUXCES LATEST
SPECIALTY.
The Community House renders real
service to Rice students. In April Mrs.
Blake is going to have the first big
birthday cake for all those born in that
month, regardless of the year. It may
help those present to find out the age
of their "would-be's" when the candles
are blown out. Everybody gets a slice,
and for those who are absent another
cake will be cut in May.
of '20 will be graced with finer taste,
greater refinement, and less of the low-
brow element in the publication of the
year-book.
RICE GLEE CLUB TO
TOUR SOUTH TEXAS
Albert Thomas to Manage Trip—Dean
Caldwell Grants Week Leave for
May.
Seven months ago Rice feit the need
of a Glee Club and soon discovered a
member of the faculty who had the in-
genuity and the talent to put it across.
Mr. Draper, having acquired consider-
able experience in that line at the Uni-
versity of California, was not balked by
the reputed obstinacy of Rice groups at
being molded into useful bodies, and he
soon set to work. Seven months of
practice has furnished Rice with a fair
froup of singers, but there are yet some
who have not enlisted. Compiied fig-
ures show that Rice can easily produce
a Giee Club of eighty members, if they
would only be willing to appear for
practice. A representative group, mak-
ing tours, would certainly awaken col-
lege spirit and outsiders wouid become
interested in our abilities.
The Giee Ciub is now a success,
thanks to the steadfastness of Mr.
Draper. An itinerary has been arrang-
ed by Manager Thomas, whereby the
club wiii play daiiy for a full week. The
tour wiil be made about the first of the
month of May. There wili be picked a
first team of about twenty men. Merely
worth wiil be considered in the choos-
ing. With such soloists as Itandail and
McGee, instrumentaiists as Miiis, "New
York" and "Shorty" and the famous
quartette, a good program may be of-
fered.
Mr. Draper wants every man who can
carry a tune to come out before the
team is picked. Don't let the fact that
you've had no practice keep you out.
We need the best that Rice can afford
to represent the school. Any one who
can play a stringed instrument is urged
to be there. It will require oniy a short
time to get into shape.
It is the desire of the Sopho-
more Ciass to have the strength
and ability to take up and carry
on works that wiii positively pro-
duce profitable results for Rice.
We know that we wiii not have
the:j until m have tl.a
respect, confidence, and co-opera-
tion of all individuals or bodies
with whom we are to deal. There-
fore, we desire that the Fresh-
men of '23 wiii overlook seem-
ingly unpleasant actions that have
appeared on the surface of things,
and will investigate the true worth
of our class as a part of Rice. We
desire that the Juniors wili heip
the Sophomores to elevate thetu-
seives and wiii co-operate . with
them in their efforts to promote
the good wili of Rice; and that
the Seniors wiii give us the bene-
fit of their experiences in dealing
with problems that have confront-
ed Rice studeuts in the past. The
class furthermore desires the in-
terest and co-operation of the
Facuity. of the Administration,
and of the Trustees of Rice in alt
attempts that it may make toward
the performance of constructive
work.
If these desires can be fulRiled
it wiii be the hope of the Sopho-
mores Ciass that Mice may become
a recognized leader in athletics, in
art, in science, and in literature;
and that Rice students wilt ever
be subject to the precedent of the
givipg of true service to Rice in
pry manner of means; and that
whote interested public wili
only think of Rice as a unit that
embodies ideas and commits acts
that are good and instructive. And
we will hope that the name Rice
will be associated with friendship
as well as with scholarship, and
that the school wiil not struggle
for a great name but that a name
of greatness wiil be thrust upon it.
THE PART OF THE
"R" ASSOCIATION
tN HELPING RICE
It is the desire of every loyal Rice
man and woman to see Rice grow, ex-
pand and develop into one of the fore-
most schools in the country, and in the
fulfillment of this desire there has been
some attempts on the part of individual
students to bring new men to Rice. This
has been the cause of the present
growth, and Rice is greatly indebted to
these personal endeavors of men in the
past. But what of the future?
In the past a large per cent of Rice's
best athletes have been first-year men.
who, after playing a season of footbalt.
or possibly a season at each sport, then
have failed or dropped out of the school.
As new men have come In this has not
had a noticeable derogatory effect, but
the coming season, and the next few
years, present a problem of a different
sort.
(Continued on page 61
own USE TWO HMO
WME0 MITCES10 A & M<
DYER PWCHES GREAT
GAME; HAS NO SUPPORT
Rice Ho!ds Aggies Down
in Second Game; Score
Rice 0 A. & M. 3
The Aggies tool: the two-game series
from the Owls to the count of 9-3 and
3-0. The first game, at College Station
on Tueseday, proved a stug fest for the
Farmers, piling up nine tatties white the
Owts were cornering three.
The second game proved a faster af-
fair, the Owts holding the hard-hitttng
Aggies to three runs, although unabta
to bring in a single talty. The team
played good ball Wednesday, and the
loss of the game can be charged onty
to superior piaying on the part of the
College Station tads. However, the lo-
cat men expect to come back stronger
in the return series.
TEMPLE CLUB BEGUN:
DALLAS ORGANIZES
Move for "theater Rice" Jnangumted;
Similar Clubs to Follow.
Beginning with *vim, the movement
for "Greater Rice," the Tempie men or-
ganized a society iast week, the Temple
Ciub. The object of the ciub is, white
taking care of all students from Tempte
now at the Institute, to keep in touch
with the high schoois, especially the
graduating classes, and endeavor to
bring to Rice students who wiii not fail
in their work, and at the same time
possess the quatifications of good ath-
letes, good iiterary men, good speakers,
etc. In short, to bring either good men
and good students to Rice or to bring
none at ail.
With the same idea in view the Dallas
lowing officers: President, Fred Har-
gis; vice president, 8. A. Sheiburn; sec-
retary-treasurer, Banks Upshaw.
The officers for the Tempte Club are;
President, Hiii C. Cresham; secretary-
treasurer, C. E. Wadetnan.
THIRD TERM OFFICERS
ELECTED BY SLIMES
Plans for Annual Boat Ride Cadet Way.
,, Grant Chosen to Lead Freshmen.
On March 19th the Freshman Class
hetd a meeting for the purpose of elect-
ing officers. The officers eiected were
as follows:
President—Jack Grant.
Vice President—Catherine Dutton.
Secretary—Mary MacKenzie.
Treasurer—John Hornbuckie.
Archie Batjer and William Hair were
put on the Elective Board.
At a more recent meeting of the class
ptans for a boat ride were discussed,
but nothing definite was decided. A
committee was appointed for this pur-
pose.
DANCE AT COMMUNITY
HOUSE ON APRIL 5th
To start off the good times after East-
er there wiii be a dance at the Com-
munity House next Monday night, Aprit
5th. The orchestra is engaged and
those in charge of the dance promise a
"rip-roaring" good time—such as the
Community House always affords—and
wc know what that means. So, boys,
make your dates, and girls, put on your
Faster "togs" and join in the good time
next Monday night!
XOTHF TO STtDHXTM DESHMXG
THE I'OStTtOX OF MANAGER OF
THH CO-OP FOR XEXT YEAR.
The Hoard of Control of the Co-oper-
ative Store will receive applications for
the position of Manager of the Store for
the 1920-1921 session. The position is
open to both undergraduate and gradu-
ate students. Alt students desiring the
position should make a written appli-
cation. stating the amount of time that
they expect to have to devote to the
work, their previous business experi-
ence. if any, and such other Informatlen
as would aid the committee in making
a choice. Any applicant desiring fur-
ther information regarding the position
will find any member of the committee
glad to talk it over. Application should
he turned in on or before April 21.
192(1. to either the Registrar's offlca or
to E. A. CAIN.
Sec. Co-op Board of Control.
OWLS USE IWIK
10 smtMits
LOHSIAXA ])YER SHOWS GREAT
STUFF—RICE ERRORS COSTLY.
Mann's Gang Puts Up Plucky Fight.
Jinx Visits Owl Roost.
Starting with a rush that promised
weii for the season, the Owts ran into
rocks eariv in their race for the base-
batt pennant in the Southwestern Con
ference. Taking the fust game front
Austin College in reat style, t hey fell off
the next day and dropped the last of
the two-game series to the visitors.
Hoping for better luck in the next clash
with Simmons, Mann's crew met defeat
at the hands of the Cowboys in two
games handrunnlng. The (earn didn't
have the form they displayed against
Austin, and a fain) K-ttth-ncv to ccttipeto
for errors brought us our defeat.
The oniy feature of the season has
been the bait piaying of the lanky Louis-
ianiati. Eddie Dyer, in aii the games.
Pitching a game of bati seidom scon in
coitege circles, Eddie put it over Austin
the first day, and to make it look nicer
he lined out three safe hits and a hornet
as a bonus. Displaying afi the stmt that
the pros boast of. Oid Cagiati has d.
cidediy copped ai! the honors of [he sea
son.
The men have been a little erratic in
their form, and the abundance of error-
is responsible for the results to date;
however, Mann f^'pects to pull tin^t
back into shape for a whirlwind finish
this season.
HORRORS!!
Horrorscope Arrives
It came in a iong brown envelope of
the ominous iegai size—^yesterday. And
it was addressed merely to the editor
ol. the Campaniie. In the hopes of find
ing a check from some out-of-town pa-
tron thpt r.Ti}*ht irength?r. the Cum;...
nite's modest exchequer, the editor
opened the envelope hurriediy. Inside
he found a short unsigned note and a
smaiier enveiope marked. "Horror-
scope." The short note called the a!
tention of the editor to the fact that
he is honor bound not to read ttrn Hot
rot-scope until it is ready to send in (<.
the press, and under no conditions
shouid he revise, abridge, censor, or
tamper with it any other way. "This
ye re's Horrorscope," the note went'on,
"wiil he the best yet. It don't slight
none of the boys; and if some more of
them qualify in the coining eiection.s, i
wili maii you a miid posteripl." The
tetter bore the postmark of Evanston.
m.
lor tl^e past three .-at'.- the Hot-tor
scope has come into the editor's hands
in just this mysterious way. it sho<):.l
he well worth looking forward to.
TEXAS U. GLEE (TUB
RENDERS PROGRAM
The University of Texas Giee rinh
rendered a very excellent program at
lhe University Ciub on last Friday eve-
ning. The difficult and delight ful open
itig number. "The Wandering Singers,"
showed to best advantage the very thor-
ough training and co-ordination of the
entire club. Irving \Y. Jones, adjunct
professor of music at. the University and
formerly of Wisconsin, deserves much
credit as a capable Clee Club director.
"Exhortation—Xegro Sermon." sung
by Mr. Povner, soloist, and Messrs.
Hooton King (formerly of Uicei. Par);
and EHedge. brought the house to a
roar. The instrumental septet gave fre-
quent selections, winch were weli re-
ceived.
The personnel of the Texas t!lee Club
includes First tenors: Davis, Hoot en,
l.auren'tf McGee. Oakley, Poyner; sec-
ond tcHo-.s Hoone. Camp, Horton.
Lewis Pond. Smith: tirst basses: El-
ledge. Go'hnwrt. James, King. Park.
Wilson st'eond basses: Gardner. Ctack-
ier. Ho:'an Hornaday, Smith i ll. H. t,
Smith J.'t.
J. C. TIDDEN TRAIN-
ING CASTE FOR
Y.W.C.A. PLAY TO
BE STAGED SOON
Critics said that the Y. W. C. A. play
last year was the best piece of amateur
theatrical work ever produced In Hous-
ton. We agree with them. The play
to be presented this spring is "Cousin
Kate" lining up a bunch of seven Rice
students as players. We advise investi-
gation on your part as to the caste of
characters.
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