The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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Here ate name* of faculty members
who will celebrate birthdays soon:
Asa Crawford Chandler, professor
of biology, February 19.
William Gordon Zeeveld, instructor
in English, February 20.
Joseph W. Hendren, instructor in
English, February 24.
Leonard Mascot Blumenthal, in-
structor in mathematics, February 27.
Max Freund, professor of German,
February 27.
W. W. Wat kin
Of British Line
Of Architects
the short stories in this collection. But
then again you may have missed
them as we did, and in that case you
have something ahead of you. The
volume contains at least three stories
that stand out — the intense, weird,
dramatic things that they are. "Red
Leaves" deals with the clash between
the negro and Indian psychologies; the
one the slave, the other the overlord.
Faulkner is at his test in this story,
for he understands the two typos of
character perfectly. "That Evening
Sun" is equally effective in its pre-
sentation of the remarkable phenom-
ena of a negroe's fear of death. In
"A Rose for Emily" there is none of
the delving into a primitive psychol-
ogy, but merely into that of a queer
repressed woman, and it is no less
stranger.
Some of the longer stories in "These
Thriteen" have never been published.
In "Victory and all the Dead Pilots,"
Faulkner's style is of the short-sen-
tence type, much like that of Ernest
Hemingway, and like Hemingway, he
was repetition a great deal for effect.
The result is a book you will want
to read. "Adastra" and "All the Dead
Pilots" are rather tedious war stories.
However, "Victory" is a very good
| one.
Despite this slight criticism, we
would not quarrel with Arnold Ben-
nett when he says, with a good deal
of imagination, "Faulkner is an Amer-
ican who writes like an angel."
Gladys Schill, senior, and president
of the Tennis club, here is shown in
action. Miss Schill will attempt to re-
gain No. 1 ranking in the club's spring
tournament.
At the meeting of the Tennis club
Tuesday it was decided that begin-
ning Monday morning at 9 there will
be a singles tournament among girls,
and Tuesday and Wednesday after-
noon will be taken up with a doubles
tournament in an effort, to get all the
girls to play and to prepare for tht*
spring tournaments.
San Jacinto has challenged the
Rice club so it was decided to play
off the challenge early in March, as
Fountain Pen Hospital—Pens and
pencils repaired—All makes—601 Kress
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the regular tournament at Rice begins
the first of April. Captain Gladys
Schill will select a team from among
the 10 ranking players to meet the
San Jacinto group composed of Char-
lotte Lane, Charline Lane, Ruth
Hewitt, Doris Ames, and one other
girl yet to be chosen.
Virginia Barnett displaced Katharine
Hornor from No. 8 position in rank-
ing and Lois Dawson took over Mar-
garet Taylor's place in No. 3, when
Miss Barnett defeated Miss Hornor
6-4, 6-2, and Miss Dawson outplayed
Miss Taylor 6-4, 6-1.
The next meeting of the club will
be March 2 at Hermann park, when
there will be a picnic.
Glass crystals fitted, any shape. B.
jo. Kroiter—Kress Bldg.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Another in a
series of articles sketching lives of
various professors.)
• • •
Seven generations of builders and
architects have preceded William
Ward Watkin, head of the Rice Archi-
tectural department. His grandparents
were English by birth and came to
America in the middle of the last
century. There are buildings which
may be seen at present in South-
hampton, England, built by Mr. Wat-
kin's ancestors.
Mr. Watkin was born in Boston,
Mass., but on the death of his father
(when William Ward was only 5 years
old, he went to live with his mother's
people in Danville, Penn., in a lovely
mountainous region of the Susque-
hanna. Here he attended public
school.
I In 1903, Mr. Watkin entered the
University of Pensylvania where he
had a four-year scholarship. Paul
Cret, famous professor of architec-
ture, then newly arrived in America,
drew Mr. Watkin to the architectural
department at Pennsylvania. Here
Mr. Watkin took a bachelor of science
; in architecture degree in 1907.
"After my second year, I took some
time off and went to Florida where I
was supposed to get fat, but I only
succeeded in shooting some quail with
an old Confederate general. My uncle,
who was with me, was a veteran from
j the northern army so those were in-
teresting times," said Mr. Wiitkin.
I In his undergraduate days, he play-
, ed tennis a good deal and did some
j dramatic work. "I was usually cast
| in the parts of tail Englishmen and
had to be coached to achieve an Eng-
lish accent."
! In connection with his thesis on the
subject of Gothic and medieval archi-
tecture, to which he was then and
■till !• partial, he came in contact
with Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson,
associated architects, who advised him
to go to Europe for some study. He
made arrangements to work for them
as soon as he returned from Europe.
On the eve of graduation he de-
parted for Europe where he traveled
extensively. He also did some work
at Cambridge and Oxford.
In the spring of 1909, he returned
to the United States and went to work
for Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson
with whom he still is associated. Hie
first work for them was done on staff
headquarters at West Point, and on
Commencement hall for Williams col-
lege. Most of his work, however, was
done on the graduate college of
Princeton.
Work was begun in the early fall of
1909 on the Rice Institute campus and
building designs. He was given full j
charge of the design and supervision
of the first two buildings for the Rice
campus and to carry out this work
he come to Houston in August of 1910
"The Rice campus then was just a
swamp, mostly mud and mosquitoes,
and downtown Houston was not much
better," said Mr. Watkin remi-
niscently.
In the Sainton building, Houston's
only skyscraper in 1910, Dr. Lovett
invited 11 men to become members of
the Rice faculty, of which 11 Dr
Evans, Dr. Wilson, Mr. McCants, and
Mr. Watkin still are at Rice. Mr.
Watkin started the architecture de-
partment with six freshmen in the fall
of 1912, Rice Institute's opening year.
On June 1. 1.914, Mr. Watkin mar-
ried Miss Annie Ray Town,send,
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daughter of a prominent judge, in San
Antonio, and took up permanent res-
idence in Houston.
Mr. Watkin has two daughters, An-
nie Ray, who graduates this year
from a Virginia school and will be
ready next year for Rice; Rosemary,
who graduates this year from Kin-
caid; and one son. William Ward Jr.,
an ardent boy scout.
Mr. Watkin has revisited Europe
several times and expresses a prefer-
ence for and a delight in southern
France and Italy. "Visiting Europe is
not absolutely necessary to the study
of architecture but it is a very Im-
portant part of an architect's under-
standing of his work," states Mr. Wat'
kin. "The Traveling scholarship offer-
ed every year here is a splendid
thing. Every year numbers of our
boys from the Architectural depart-
ment visit Europe with very little ex-
pense. working their ways.
Fountain Pen Hospital—Our desk
sets line is complete—all makes—801
Kress Bldg.
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