The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1924 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHER :: H OUSTON, TB XA8
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The holiday season witnessed sev-
ers) marriages of more than ordinary
interest to targe circles of Rice
friends. One of the most notabie of
these was the marriage of Miss
Esteiie Streetman and Marion Lee
Lindsay which was solemnized on
January 1st at the home of the bride's
parents, Judge and Mrs. Sam Street-
man. The spacious rooms were con-
verted into a charming floral setting
accentuating the green and white
bridal motif. Dr. J. W. Mills of Beau-
mont, officiated, and attendants in-
cluded Mrs. Hiram Opie Clark, Jr.,
and Miss Flora Streetman, sisters of
the bride Misses Nadine Pillot, Rob-
bie Lindsay and Anah Marie Leland;
Mesdames Walter Brown Baker and
J. D. O'Keefe; Messrs Eugene Lind-
sey, Sam Streetman, Jr., Edwin Dyer,
Jennings Bryan, Mclvor Streetman,
Edwin Lindscy, Hugh Le Roy Bell,
and H. O. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lee Lindsay
have gone on a wedding strip and will
be at home after February -first at
Beaumont, Texas
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Another marriage of interest to
Rice students was that of Miss Meriel
Sherwood to Erich Wellington, which
occurred on December 29th.
Plans for an elaborate ceremony to
be solemnized at Christ Church were
changed at a late date because of ill-
ness of members of the wedding party
and the service was read at the hnm:
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Sherwood, which was in beauti-
ful floral adornment for the occasion.
Dr. Peter Gray Sears officiated and
attendants included Mrs. Arthur
Stockdale of Mexico, Misses Josephine
Morrow, Betsey Sherwood, Dorothy
Rateliff, JBara Ford and Elinor Sher-
wood. <
Mr. and Mrs. Wellington left on
January 4th for Los Angeles where
they will make their home.
Miss Louise Masterson was honoree
at a novel dance at the Country Club,
last week, with Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Sharp entertaining. The Rice biue
and gray predominated in the decora-
tions and .the lights were hooded with
Owl shades. Parks Brothers orches-
tra furnished the music. At 11 o'clock
a buffet supper was served to about
250 members of. the younger town and
college sets.
* * *
Open House was observed at Autry
House Sunday afternoon from 4 to 6.
A most delightful musical program
was rendered by members of the
Treble Clef Club. The Cramner Club
members^who were hostesses for the
function, served a buffet supper.
Malcolm Lovett, '21, returned to
Harvard Thursday to resume his stud-
ies after a holiday visit with his par-
ents, Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Ode!! Love'tt.
* * *
Personals.
Miss Nell Harris spent the holidays
in Palestine.
* * *
Miss Vivienng Reinhart, ex '24,- a
Wellesley student, visited with friends
on the campus Thursday.
* * *
William Abbey, ex '25, visited at
Rice Thursday en route to Princeton
where he is now a student. *
* * *
Miss Margaret Sanders visited in
Beaumont during the holidays.
* * *
Miss Elizabeth Hutchinson was the
week-end guest of Miss Martha Scott
* * *
Misses Camille and Harriet Gi-
rardey were the guests of friends in
Waco for the holidays.
* * *
Miss Edith Raney is now a student
at Texas University at Austin.
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Co-Edna: "How can you stand !y
ing in bed so late, every morning?"
Ed: "I don't. I'm no contortionist.'
The State Interscholastlc League
Basketball Tournament will be held
at Rice this year, instead of at Aus-
tin, where it was held last season. The
dates of the tournament have been
announced as February 15 and 16, and
the tournament wH! take place at the
Field House.
Arrangements have been made for
housing facilities in the dormitories,
for those who wish to stay over both
days. Sleeping quarters will be free,
but the visitors are expected to bring
blankets, since these cannot be fur-
nished by the Institute. A moderate
charge will be made for meals in the
Commons.
Six of the nine teams will be elim-
inated the first day of the contest and
these need not remain unless they so
desire. It is probable that very few
will leave until the entire tournament
is over with, however, since the Rice
students will strive to entertain them
in every way possible.
High school athletes from all over
the state will come to Rice, and Owl
scouts wil! no doubt have their eyes
wide open.
Since Rice and the Texas Aggies
play a series of basketball games on
the same dates that the high schoolers
wi!l decide their state championship,
the visiting athletes will have a
chance to see some classy basketball
contests.
Last year the Interscholastic track
meet was heid at Rice and the stud-
ents entertained the visiting athletes
for several days.
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The Owls are Wise
< Birds. They send their
clothes to the
Peart Laundry
"Go thou and do like-
wise."
4604-6-8 MAIN STREET
Phone Hadley 7060
2nd Intramural
Track Meet to
Be January 29
The second interamura! track meet
of the year will be held on January
29th, according to an announcement
by CoaehCsAshcraft.
It is the plan of the Owl speed
coach t6 stage one of these interclass
contests every month during the re-
mainder of the term. The meets give
Ashcraft a chance to see how his track
materia! is developing and they induce
more students to come out for the
cinder path sport.
There has been but one intramural
track meet this year. This was held
last term, with the Sophomores vic-
torious and the Freshmen taking sec-
ond p!ace. The Junior and Senior
classes took third and fourth p!aces,
respective!y.
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MEM tDESBM
The first meeting of the Les Hiboux
for the new term will be held in the
Autry House, Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock.
This meeting promises to be very
interesting as well as important, as
new work for the term wil! be dis-
cussed. The c!ub is planning to have
several open meetings and lectures.
The roll call requirement of the
members is that each member in an-
swer to the roll call must give a short
original verse of four or five lines,
either serious or humorous.
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Dignified Soph: "I sure had a
fright last night."
Siime: "Yes, I saw you with her."
PING GRID
MEN IN SHAPE
Whan the Owl grid coach assumes
his duties next fall ha Is going to have
on hand a group of candidates well-
conditioned and ready to start train-
ing with a bang. Coach Ashcraft, who
bosses Rice basketball and track, is
keeping the 1934 grid candidates in
shape with workouts on two nights a
week in the Institute gym.
The first workouts were held this
week. Monday night a large number
of gridsters reported to Ashcraft for
their first hour's training for 1924
football. An hour's workout, from 7
till 8, is the time prescribed by Frank-
lin D.
Tumbling and wrestling will be the
chief forms of exercise that the Owls
wil! use during these practices, which
will continue throughout the re-
mainder of the school year.
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OWL BAND MAKES
FIRST SHOWING
OF SECOND TERM
The Owl band made an excellent
showing at the city auditorium and
at the Y. M. C. A. this week at the
two basketball games with Texas
Christian University.
Director Ander had his men in good
shape, and rendered music which those
present considered excellent.
At the first practice of 1924, he!d
last Monday, 30 men reported for roll
call. The band only lost four men
who can easily be replaced. In the ab-
sence of the director, President Chat-
ham put the men through a good prac-
tice to limber up stiff fingers and lips
and to pep up th esquad.
Practice wil! be held regular! y each
week throughout the basketbail sea-
son, and the band will be present at
ai! home games.
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VMSItY MfEMS
FUBHttBtMCBtS
Coach Franklin D. Ashcraft's var-
sity basketball five trounced his S!ime
quintet last Saturday to the tune of
46 to 14.
Five periods of ten minutes each
were played and each period saw a
different combination on the door for
both teams. Ashcraft sent in every
man on both squads before the game
was over. He had a chance to see the
work of the various candidates under
Hre.
Although there were several out-
standing weak spots in the varsity or-
ganization, it showed aggressiveness
and strength and at times played
some fast and reaily good basketball.
Some of the men did not show up as
wel! as Ashcraft had expected, white
others gave him a little surprise with
their ability and speed.
WiUis and Hopkins showed we!! for
the varsity, while Prafka and Crain
did good work for the Freshmen. Joe
Sharvin was another siime who
showed up weii.
The game was fairly rough, four
of the varsity's points being scored
from foul throws.
The first combination that Ashcraft
used against the slimes was made up
of Fitch, Morris, Hopk&is, Ray and
Willis. They worked fairly well to-
gether. McKean looked good in an-
other combination.
DeWitt Sanders refereed the con-
test, which was played in the Rice
Gym. A crowd of about thirty-five
dormitory men witnessed the affair.
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have every reason to hope. The Long-
homa undoubtedly had one of the
npat successful seasons that they had
experienced in a iong time.
Yet, although the Owls are hope-
ful, they are prepared not to expect
too much of a strange coach working
with a strange band of candidates the
first season.
Since the percentage of football
"bustees" was smaller this fall than
ever before, the Owl family is pretty
cheerful as to Rice chances on the
1924 gridiron.
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Second String.
Canvasser—-"Is the head of the
house in?"
Mr. Meek—"Yes, my wife is out."
Matty—I wonder if Professor Kid-
der meant anything by it.
Charlie—By what?
Matty—He advertised a lecture on
"Fools," and when ! bought a ticket
it was marked "Admit One."
Mrs. Fuss—You think only of your-
self! What have you ever done to
save other men from suffering and
misery? *
Mr. Fuss—What have I ever done!
didn't I marry you?
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"Give me a log with Mark Iiopkins at one end
of it and myself at the other,'" said, in effect,
. President Garfield, "and I would not want a
better college.''
But if Mark Hopkins was an inspired teacher, it
isjust as true that James A. Garfield was an inspir-
ing student.
Sometimes Garlield's praise of his professor is
quoted in disparagement of present day faculties
—the assumption being that we as listeners are
sympathetic, all that we ought to be—and that
it is the teacher who has lost his vision.
Is this often the ease ?
It is the recollection of one graduate at least
that he did not give his proiessors a chance. Cold to
their enthusiasms, he was prone to regard those
men more in the light of animated text-books
than as human beings able and eager to expound
their art or to go beyond it into the realm of his
own persona! problems.
This is a man to man proposition Each has to go
halfway. Remember, there ard two endsto the log.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1924, newspaper, January 11, 1924; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229971/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.