The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 23, 1949 Page: 2 of 6
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THE THRESHER
Thanksgiving
Thank God that we are not as bad of! and seemingly friendless
as the students of Royal Industrial College for Negroes.
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Charity
Didn't quite make it. That's the way it figured.
Stadium
Goody, we're going to have a new stadium. It will seat many
more people than our present stadium. These people will pay much
more money than our present audiences. With their money we'll
be able to build a much bigger stadium. Does this sound silly?
7 iclcets
Some people have been griping because they couldn't get guest
tickets for the Baylor game. The Baylor game is the only game
this season for which all guest tickets have been sold. It is a good
sign of school spirit, as evidenced by ticket sales, that the students
have changed from half-hearted to whole-hearted support of the team
as they become certain co-champions.
Other Papers Say:
HARVARD SEEKS TO SOLVE THE MASS
PRODUCTION EDUCATION SYSTEM
The great gulf between the lecture platform and the students*
seats provides a permanent headache for all larger colleges. The
lecture system's lack of contact between students and professors has
bothered Harvard officials ever since tutorial took its place as a
major institution. Now that the post-war expansion in the student
body and lack of enough qualified men for tutorial have reduced the
use of this method to a bare minimum, the college must once again
find a way to give students personarcontact on an educational level
among themselves and with their instructors.
1 Ifree encouraging signs have appeared recently to show that
several groups are working on this problem. First, Dean Bender
announced the formation of a faculty committee to consider the re-
turn of education to the House level. One of the original purposes
of the House system, one which is much ignored today, was to provide
decentralized educational units. The committee's first proposal of
having a dean for each house is an interesting beginning as long as
the committee can expand a dean's duties beyond the present disciplin-
ary functions.
I he second sign is the struggle of a few departments, particularly
Economics and Government, to expand their current meager tutorial
program. Both these departments have taken steps this fall to
provide tutors for non-honors seniors. This expansion has been found
difficult.
All this action shows tha! the University as a whole is aware
of the importance of injecting a little informality into Harvard's
lecture system of education. Perhaps, a synthesis of the work of
these groups may provide the answer to the problem.
—The Harvard Crimson.
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Words &
Music
By Alice Flaek and E. McGeever
Of the three works performed by
the Houston Symphony Society
Monday night, with Arthur Ruben-
stein as soloist, the best by far was
the Brahm's Second Piano Concerto,
In which Mr. Rubenstein showed the
genius which has earned him the
title of the greatest living pianist.
Dissociated from his surroundings
and conscious only of the music he
was creating, Rubenstein let his re-
sponses flow into the keyboard with
liquid grace, inspiring the ensemble
and its conductor, Efrem Kurtz, to
the heights of response of which
they are capable. The Brahms Con-
certo is moving only in proportion
to the feeling, depth, and intellec-
tual power of the artist, and in my
opinion Mr. Rubenstein demonstrat-
ed his sensibilities in a shining per-
formance.
The opening number of the pro-
gram was a Bach Chorale tran-
scribed for orchestra by Harold Mc-
Donald. This chorale, beautiful as
are all of Bach's works, was ex-
quisitely interpreted by the orches-
tra.
The fine quality of the evening,
however, was marred somewhat by
the performance of Beethoven's
Symphony No. 7, which hardly came
up to the standard the orchestra has
set for itself earlier in the evening
and throughout the season. Mere
force tried valiantly to suffice for
authority, and failed miserably, giv-
ing the symphony a two out of
three score for the evening's work.
Eddie Dowling, Jane Wyatt, Ralph
Mead and their associates did a
competent job with "Time of Your
Life." They may well have done a
splendid job, a superb job, or a job
with any number of other adjec-
tives. I am not now prepared to
judge of that now.
Why don't I judge it anyway ?
Simply because I don't know what
it's about. The real brilliancy of a
performance depends upon the faith-
fulness of the play as acted to the
play as the author visualized it, or
upon the contrast between the two
points of view. I don't have the
slightest notion of either point of
view. In fact, looking for the mean-
ing of the thing almost ruined it
for me. I looked for symbols, hidden
meanings, any clue. I gave up in
desperation in the second act, and
settled myself to find out what there
was ki it for me, instead of the
world at large.
For me it had two hours of hu-
manity. Pure, almost stark human-
ity, delightful, tender, gay, sad, it
covered most of the range of the
human spirit. It was not humanity
with all of the conventions stripped,
and all of the unessentials discard-
ed. On the contrary, since the con-
ventions and the unnecessary de-
tails of life are so important, there
was a great deal of emphasis placed
upon them, in their applications and
their thwarting and being thwarted.
Perhaps I am a little unusual,
but I like to watch people. I en-
joyed myself thoroughly watching
people that night, and Eddie Dow-
ling and the rest were people, not
symbols or any other mystim la-de-
dah. They were very interesting
people, people I'd like to know, and
if they can be people like that some
more, I'm going back.
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CHAMPIONSHIP —
(Continued from-tage If
Paul Giroski seemed to-suffer from
a type of punch-drunkenness, and
Bob Winship and John Kelly also
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the Bib T is to be in top condition.
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