The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1925 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHER
HOUSTON,TEXAS
Frogs Lose Pennant
When Owls Win Game
The Owls closed the baseball sea-
son last Monday at Fort Worth when
the T. C. U. Horned Frogs bowed
down in defeat to Bedenk's charges
to the tune of 4 to 0.
Grandpa Wood, wTio earlier in the
season was cheated out of a win over
the same club by a rally in the ninth
inning which knotted the score and
caused the contest to go twelve
frames to u tie, pitched a superb
game,
Bedenk had a somewhat altered
lineup against the Frogs, but the re-
sults were all that could be wished
for.
The hitting of Danny Bloxsom and
Wood for the Owls kept the locals in
the lead. Wood socked out a homer
in the ninth with one on to cinch the
contest.
The Frogs, fighting to remain in
a tie for first place in the conference
standing, fought heroically, but their
best did not match up to the form
displayed by the fighting Blue and
Gray aggregation.
The win gives the Owls an even
break of six won and six lost for the
season. One game ended in a tie and
another was rained out. Rice rests
peacefully and securely in fifth place.
Last Friday and Saturday in Still-
water the Owls lost to the Oklahoma
Aggies in both contests of the two-
game serie.s The loss of Hale serious-
ly hampered the play of the Owls.
Hale suffered a broken arm in prac-
tice before the first game. Under-
wood was called in from first base to
catch.
The Oklahoma team is the only
team in the conference to hold two
wins over the Owls.
OWL IMPROVES
Retiring- Editor Lauds
Successor
"The Rice Owl is passing into bet-
ter hands than it has ever been in be-
fore." These were the words of Bob
Morris, retiring editor of Rice's hum-
orous magazine. "We appreciate,"
Morris continued, as he jabbed a news-
paper with a silver letter-opener, "be-
ing on the blanket tax. It will give
Rice a comic better than ever before."
Morris refused to say any more, but
as those who \vere near remarked, he
with^ew ijllia^he Land of Buttercups.
held up one of the stone
columns of the A. B. while he was
talking to the reporter. "Morris
crowns himself with glory in his last
issue," he said.
According to McVey, next year the
Owl will have three columns instead
of two, and will be on the order of
(he last issue. This permits more va-
1 iety in cartooning, as there can now
be one, two, and three column car-
toons.
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Band Broadcasts;
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To Give Concert
Did you tune in on the program
broadcast by the Rice Band Wednes-
day night this week ? All Houston is
waking up to the fact that Rice has a
Band. The Post-Dispatch had the
boys come up there to render their
program this week. Next week new
uniforms will be issued and final ex-
ams dispensed with, then the band
begins to strut. They will be the next
organization to give a concert from
the Miller memorial, and rumor has
it that they will not concede much to.
the Mexico City band that gave a con-
cert from the same place during the
Ad Men's convention.
Charles A. Pace will be the only
member the band will lose this year,
but his graduation will deprive them
of a valuable musician. Forty uni-
forms will be issued the first of June
and twenty more held for the musical
Slimes of next year.
ENTERTAIN SENIORS
E. B. L. S. Hold Party at Scott Home
on the Bay
On Monday, May 26, the E. B. L. S.
will entertain their Seniors with a
party at J. T. Scott's home on the
bay. The members of the club will
leave Autry House promptly at 1:30
Monday afternoon.
The job of financing the party was
put in charge of Martha Frances Hill,
with Dorothy West to help her. Re-
freshment committee consists of Mar-
garet Lester, chairman, and Gene
Rhodes, Margie Thiel, Ellen Ross,
Margaret Cooper, Marie Logan and
Lara Duff. Mary Trammell was made
chairman of the car committee. Be-
atrice Harrison is general chairman.
There are 19 Seniors in the club.
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B. A BALDWIN T. A. CARGILL
ESTABLISHED 1896
BALDWIN & CARGILL
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Rafferty—
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associated locally as a consulting en-
gineer.
Mr. Rafferty, in a letter to the stu-
dent body in care of the Thresher, ex-
presses the following sentiments:
"Five of the happiest years of my
life I have just spent among you at
Rice, a span riveted strong by a
multitude of friendships, I have cher-
ished and will treasure as the price-
less gifts of a group of men and
women fruitfully blessed with human
kindness and understanding.
"Under the circumstances it is a
task and not a pleasant one to shake
hands in parting, and I would have
elected to depart as quietly as I came
among you—but I cannot deceive you.
"I am not available as a candidate
for the post of track coach recently
vacated because of my resignation as
instructor tendered a few weeks ago.
I cannot desert this manifestation of
faith and appreciation on your part,
however, and desire to assure you at
this writing that your efforts to have
me considered as your choice for the
post stir in me a feeling of gratitude.
"Progress, prosperity and peace
with victory—this is my fondest wish
for you individually as men and
women and collectively as Rice I step
out from your campus, but, may I
hope, not from your hearts.
(Signed) "J. H. RAFFERTY."
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Max Freund—
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his doctoral dissertation on the Moral
Tales of the French Academician,
Marmontel, passing into a second and
enlarged edititon shortly after its
original appearance in print.
On graduating from the University
of Leipsic he was in England for a
year as Assistant Lecturer in the
German Language and Literature at
Liverpool University College, resign-
ing this post to become Professor of
Modern Languages (French and Ger-
man) in Queen's College, Belfast, and
Examiner in the Royal University of
Ireland in Dublin, holding the latter
two appointments for six years, un-
til 1909, when Queen's College became
Queen's University of Belfast, and
Dr. Freund became Royal Professor
of German and Teutonic Philology in
the reorganized institution. This last
position he was still holding at the be-
ginning of the war, but, absent on va-
cation in Germany in midsummer, and
as a German subject, he was drafted
into military service.
Wounded
On the Galician front he was wound-
ed, and on his recovery, which has
since become complete, he was made,
in 1916, Lecturer in Modern English
at the University of Giessen, accept-
ing a year latel' his present professor-
ial appointment at the University of
Marburg.
Dr. Freupd's scholarly work embod-
ies books and papers in the English,
French and German languages. In
particular, he has been a recent con-
tributor to the "Irish Statesman," and
has in preparation for the press, to
appear in German in the course of
1925-26, a comprehensive book on Ire-
land—the land and its people—and a
more special one on the Irish Free
State, presenting further studies on
his part of the evolution of Irish na-
tional feeling as reflected in Anglo-
Irish literature.
Cazamian
In accepting appointment as visit-
ing professor at Rice, Dr. Cazamian
will be making his third visit -to this
institution. He was an officer in the
French army during the war, and a
member of the Official French Mis-
sion of French Scholars that came to
the United States immediately after
the war. In company with other mem-
bers of that Mission he delivered elc-
tures at Rice in December, 1918, and
he was again a visiting lecturer here
as recently as the ..spring of 1924.
Copies of the Rice Institute Pamphlet
in which these two courses of lectures
appeared are still available.
The Rice preliminary announce-
ments for the coming academic year
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Before Leaving
Rice has a typical taciturn Coolidge
within its confines!
And that person is one Joe Bedenk,
known on the athletic field as coach,
and off field as a ladies' man.
'Tis true. Bedenk signed a three-
year contract with Heisman early in
the week and then kept silent. The
Thresher reporter had to dig for an
hour or so trying to get him to tell
about it.
Bedenk left Wednesday for Elmira,
New York, where he will spend the
summer playing baseball wtih the El-
mira team of the New York-Pennsyl-
vania league. He patrols the out-
fields.
"Just tell any of the gang if they
want to write me, just address it to
108 Lake Street, Elmira, N. Y.,"
Smilin' Joe said.
He thought he was through. But
the Thresher reporter wasn't.
Wants a Blonde
He was asked did he intend getting
a wife while up there
"Sure, whenever I can find a blonde
under 25 and 125 who can furnish me
with three squares a day and give me
a place to flop my 'eigs,' then I'll
marry," was his reply. "I will return
September 5. And single, too," he
added.
The good-natured brute considered
the past baseball season fairly suc-
cessful, considering everything. He
expects better results next season and
in the seasons to come.
Bedenk is confident that the play
in the Southwest conference is on a
level with that in the North and
East.
"The prospects for football next
season are better than they were last
fall, in my opinion," he declared. "All
we gotta do now is just get on the
line and fight to keep ahead."
ENGINEERS' DAY CELEBRATED]
Friday, May 14, was Engineers'
day at Rice.
Among the things that were almost
ruined were the good names of Ye Old
College Inn and the clothes of new
members.
The feed was enjoyed by all and the
initiation was enjoyed by all old mem-
bers. A huge dinner was served after
which the candles on the monstrous
birthday cake were lighted. The cake
resenting such treatment immediately
blew up. Disappointment ran high up-
on the disappearance ,of such a sup-
posed delicacy.
After-Dinner Talks
After they had satisfied their stom-
achs the Engineers turned their at-
tention to their minds. Mr. Hum-
will carry two courses by Professor
Cazamian, each consisting of two'fee-
Juies and a conference per week, and
foth offered to the undergraduates,
one of these to be in English on Eng-
lish Literature, and the other in
French on French Literature.
Author
Professor Cazamian is the author
of remarkable studies on the social
aspects of English Literature, espec-
ially on the novel of the first hall' of
the nineteenth century, and, in col-
laboration wtih his colleague, Pro-
fessor Legouis of the Faculty of Let-
ters of Paris, he has published in
French this last year an elaborate
History of English Literature, his own
part covering the modern period, from
1660 to 1914. This encyclopedia and
critical work has received an altogeth-
er favorable appraisal at the hands
of literary scholars in England,
Franch and America.
Another recent literary enterprise
on which Professor Cazamian has
been, engaged is the promotion of the
" Revue Anglo-Americaine," a bi-
monthly which is being directed suc-
cessfully by himself and Professor
Cestre, also of the Sorbonne.
Prizes Awarded-
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Writing Club Wednesday evening.
The prize sonnet:
How blaek against the jade and amber
frame
Of evening skies the Campanile
throws
Its slender silhouette; the twilight
grows
And steals as softly as a whispered
name
Beneath the cypresses, which, lithe as
flame,
Lift skyward, where the first small
star now glows
Against the darkness. Ranged in
stately rows
They point my thoughts to honor and
to fame.
Rice, these are yours to offer: in your
hand
Lie wisdom's favors, stirring my de-
sire.
Knowing your fretted arch leads to a
land
Where all may worship the unwaver-
ing fire
That burns upon her altar—1 who
stand
Within thy gates to all things dart-
aspire.
phrey of Rice Institute and Bob Cunt-
mings of Houston addressed the soci-
ety. After this a picture show was
presented to the group. There seemed
to be some doubt as to the effect of
the show on them; some said that it
explained how to manufacture tiles
properly while others maintained that
it was merely a picture showing how-
to make sewer pipe.
Making new members sit in an elec-
tric chair is a very mild initial!toil
into the Engineering Society so they
merely warmed up on this one. After
that the real initiation followed. How-
ever it was evidently not so extreme
as no one died in the process.
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