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Volume Forty, Number Twenty-Four HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1953

Dr. Hardin Craig Appointed Head Librarian SELAPAMPANGO

Archi-Arts Pagan Theme Is Revealed

"Selapampango" . . . Archi-Arts, 1953! Aft.er a month and a half of deliberations, the Architecture

Society has announced plans for the 1953 Archi-Arts Ball which will be held on Feb. 20 in the Palladium, from 8-12:30 a.m.

"Selapampango," god of the sun of pagan peoples, is the title. The theme will deal with

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the peoples of the Equator, liv-ing beneath the path of the sun, from the marshy jungles of Panama to the arrid wastes of east Africa. It will be the story of these people, disunited by thousands of intervening miles, but held together in a common adoration of the ever burning fire of the sun which they worshipped.

Never before has the Architecture Society attempted a theme so broad in scope or so full of potential ideas for program, costuming, or pageant. It is a carefully considered choice, however, and one which has finally evolved from discussion that started in late November.

Already the society has selected eight honore'es, girls of junior or senior standing, who will be adorned with the wierd festoons of these pa-gans living around the Equator. The

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Rice Given Live Sammy; Housing Troubles SC

Rice now has a live mascot. At its first meeting in 1953, the Rice Student Council accepted a live owl which was brought to the meeting by Keith Harvey. The new owl will replace Sammy, the stuffed owl which has been at Rice for a num-ber of years.

The problem of caring for the owl has not yet been decided. Some council members suggested keeping it in the dorms (East Hall attic), while others offered the alternative of keeping the bird in the biology labs.

The first idea would necessitate an exception to the rule which does not allow pets to be kept in the dorm," and the other requires the permission of Dr. Davies. President John -"McClane promised that the problem would be attended to im-mediately.

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Vernor To Head Engineering Soc In Spring Term

Bruce Vernor was elected spring semester President of the Engineer-ing Society last Tuesday night. The office of secretary was filled by Bernard Bieper; the vice-presidency is vacant due to the withdraw-al of the nominees.

The Society decided to award hon-orary memberships and keys to the four engineers who will speak at the Rice-sponsored lectures this spring, the first to be held next Tuesday night.

Mellowdrama Planned Next Friday, Saturday

By NANCY MOORE Wouldn't you like to visit the

lovely and romantic South Seas? Of course, you would! All you have to do is to pay 75c and cross the street to A-House. Along with your glimpse of the tropics, you get a glimpse at six luscious, lovely, ex-perienced Hula Dancers — straight from Ha-wa-luke-a-lu-a Isle. An-other special attraction will be the Harem Cuties, who guarantee to make any man's mouth water. They'll be there at 7:30 PM with the rest of the cast. *

Come and see the sexiest babe at Rice play the Vamp, Fanny Der-riere (now, you guess who it is!), and the Coy-est girl play the vil-lain. An E.B. heroine gives no Lee-way, and a real hero is always Snow-white. The hero's mother al-ways goes around in a Cloud and the young Chieftain is really a blue Blood. The half-witted old man of the island gets Moore and Moore funny as the play progresses.

Native music is provided along with realistic settings and symbolic dances (we refuse to say what they symbolize!). No more information can be given out. If you aren't in-terested by now, you aren't human. All red and blue bloods will have to come. It's like TV; you just have to watch it to keep up with reading matted, conversation, and world-shaking events. If it's psychology you want and not the appeals al-ready presented, then come to see some E.B.'s act uninhibited. They dance, they sing, and they even feel, —for once! ! ! So don't mis,g this

! collosal show. Remember—the EB-j LS MELLOW-DRAMA at Autry j House on Thursday and Friday, January 15 and 16*at 7:30 PM!

A dance will be held after the per-formance Friday night.

To the Student Body: Congratulations for a job well

done! For the second time since the formation of the Southwest Cdnfer-ence Sportsmanship Committee in 1947, Rice Institute has won the Good Sportsmanship Award'. Prior to the 1953 Cotton Bowl game the Committee held its mid-year meet-ing at which time the winner for 1952-53 was announced. Voting was conducted twice during the past year, once following the conclusion of spring sports and then again af-ter football season. Those casting ballots included' student representa-tives, school officials, newspaper representatives, and conference offi-cials. Each school in the conference was judged on its sportsmanship both on and off the field, taking in-to consideration the actions of ath-letic teams, students, alumni and fans.

The award is truly one for which we may all be proud. This is of course doubly so by virtue of the fact that we are repeat winners (first time being for the 1949-50 season). Rice students and athletic teams have consistently made a conscious effort to put into practice the rules of good sportsmanship. Good sportsmanship is something that takes only a minimum of ef-fort, and yet the rewards to be gained,, if only in personal satisfac-tion, are great indeed. For the re-mainder of this school year as well as in the years to come we should all strive to maintain Rice's fine reputation. A high tribute has been paid to us; letfe make certain that we are- deserving of such retogni-tion.

Again most sincere congratula-tions.

Very Truly yours, John McClane, President Student Association

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Junior Proni Set For Saturday; Lutz Orchestra To Play

Howard Lutz and his orchestra will provide music for the Junior Prom to be held Saturday, January 10 at the Houston Club: The price of admission is $2.75 per couple; tickets may be purchased and reser-vations may be secured at the tick-et booth in the Lounge.

Intermission entertainment will be provided by the team of O'Brien and O'Brien, Neal and Jim, respec-tively. Traditionally, the Junior Prom Queen and four Princesses will also be presented at this time. Balloting will be done on the back of admission tickets.

Historian Replaces Princeton-Bound Dix

President William V. Houston announced today the appoint-ment of Dr. Hardin Craig, Jr., to be Librarian of the Fondren Library at the Institute. Dr. Craig is Professor of History at the Institute and will succeed Dr. William S. Dix who is leaving in February to become Head Librarian at Princeton University.

Dr. Craig is a native of Massa-

Second Rice Blood Drive Slated For Thursday

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be on the campus at the Student Health Servico Thursday from 8 to 3. Bass Wallace, chairman of the drive, urged all students and fac-ulty members to make an appoint-ment by filling out pledge cards which may be obtained from Rally Club members. Students under 21 must have a parent's consent caqj signed by their parents or guardian.

Donors will be excused from one hour of class Thursday morning if they give blood during the hour, according to Wallace.

The need for blood is increas-ing, said Wallace, due to a slackening off of donations during the holidays. Donors should not eat anything except black coffee for four hours before the scheduled do-nation time.

At least 100 pints of blood are needed Thursday, Wallace pointed out. He urged everyone to help! make the drive successful. j

This January 15 will mark the' first anniversary of blood donoring at Rice. Last year, Rice students and faculty members contributed approximately 650 pint§ of blood to the Red Cross program. i

chusotts and came to the Rice In-stitute in 1946 as Associate Pro-fessor of History. He holds an A.B. degree from Princeton University and the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Har-vard. He is a member of the Ameri-can Historical Association and of the American Association of Uni-versity Professors. His particular field of study in history is contemp-orary history and British naval history, and he is the author of a number of publications in both fields.

In making the appointment, Dr. Houston said, "The Fondren Li-brary is the center of the Rice In-stitute's work in the liberal arts and humanities and is, as well, a • significant feature in the engineer-ing and scientific work. We are pleased in being able to find as a successor to Dr. Dix another active scholar to direct the policies of the library. Dr. Craig will bring to his work as Librarian a strong back-ground of understanding of the needs of those who use libraries for intensive study."

Free food, fun, and frolic will be featured at a Sophomore Par-ty at Pam Riley's, 10605 Memor-ial Drive, this Sunday at 7 PM, according to Harvey Jewett, sophomore president. To get there, come out Westheimer, turn right at Post Oak, and follow the signs.

PUBLIC INVITED

Kooistra To Open New Annual Engineering Lectures Tues. Mr. L. F. Kooistra, technical director of research at Bab-

cock Wilcox Company, will inaugurate a new annual lecture series at Rice Tuesday at 8 PM in the Fondren Library Lecture, Lounge. Entitled "The Rice Institute Engineering Lecture Series," the lectures are sponsored by {he Institute and. will bring prominent men in the, various fields of engineering' some idea of what engineering to Houston primarily to give ^ e af ter school.

FORUM

Rice Education Sized Up Tonight By BILL GORDON

"The Advantages and Disadvan-tages of Attending Rice" will be the subject of the first Rice forum of 1953 to be presented at 8 PM tonight in the Fondren Lecture Lounge by three Rice students and one alumnus.

Mr. J. D. Thomas, assistant reg-istrar, is to. be moderator of the evening.

Speakers will be Allyce Cole, edi-tor of the Thresher and Forum committee member; Pat Cunning-

ham, Rice^ senior; Bill Hanly, Rice freshman;" and Emmett McGeever, Rice alumnus and editor of the Sallyport. Since no definite assign-ments of particular aspects were made, each speaker will give his own views on the subject.

Allyce Cole mentions, "It seems to me that Rice may have forgotten that an education is not chiefly the product of memorization, and I wish to point out some factors of education a student will not find at Rice."

Emmeti 'McGeever on the

The lectures are open to the pub-i lie, but are designed especially to 'give' engineers just beginning their j professional training an opportunity j to broaden their knowledge of the ! depth and scope of engineering prac-

other! tice, according to a letter sent to

hand remarks he is of the opinion, "Rice is doing the best possible job in education."

According to Mrs. Cole, this week's forum is to be one of a ser-ies which tends to evaluate • educa-tion in general and Rice education ih particular.

Annot Millwee, forum committee member, was in charge of obtaining speakers for tonight's program; Gerry O'Keefe is student chairman of the forum committee.

all sophomore science - engineering students.

The Babcock and Wilcox Company manufactures boilers, and Mr. Koois-tra will speak from the standpoint of a mechanical engineer, according to Mr. W. B. Diboll, Assistant Prof-essor of Mechanical Engineering. A Rice gradi*ate, Mr.'E. Finley Car-ter, Vice-President of the Sylvania Electronic Corporation will speak on February 10.

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Graaff Lot No Solution.. L Around one year ago the physics parking lot was closed

that the Van de Graaff might be built. This was the origin of what has been called for that year The Parking Problem. Many ideas have been put forth during that time to cope with the problem. The most obvious—another parking lot—-was vetoed.

Students were assured that when the lot was reopened their parking problems should be at an end. The physics lot,.now called the Graaff lot, is open. The twelve months have given birth to 24 new parking spaces . . . two for every month we've waited. As we write this, Mr. Stevenson tells us that today is unusually busy. Thursdays before Christmas were light. Today the campus is full early. Apparently cars driven off the campus by parking difficulties are now returning. It is possible the 24 new spaces will be full regularly before the month is up. According to parking stickers issued each year, the number of cars grows yearly. There is no reason to think next year will be an exception. We wish to thank the Far-sighted Few for the 24 spaces.

Comparing the space provided per car in the reopened lot with the other lots on campus, it would seem that more cars could park in the Graaff lot than are now allowed for. Before the lot was opened, estimates, from reliable sources, for its capacity ran as high as 126 cars. As it stands now, 9'3" is allotted per car on the inner rows and 13'9" on the outer rims. This is most generous and unnecessary. In the Dorm lot the spaces are 9' wide, in the Chem lot 8'3". We make no claim to driving prowess. However, even we have no trouble maneuvering into the Chem lot spaces. Two of the Graaff lot spaces redivided into three spaces would give more room per car than in any other lot on the campus.

The first attack on the continuing Parking Problem is to redivide the spaces in the outer lines of the Graaff lot.

We are told that some powers interested in the entire park-in"; situation wish to close the shell road leading from the chem-istry road to parking. This in many ways would be a blessing to the students. That road is far from desirable parking space. However, we figured that the road holds 25 cars when every-one parks in a reasonable amount of space. If you block out that space, then you have absorbed the extra spaces in the pres-ent Graaff lot plus one.

Many persons on campus would like to see cars forbidden on the campus. This is a beautiful esthetic idea but totally im-practical in a city college. Build enough dorms to house, the entire student body, require livifig on campus for all students, town and otherwise and then . . . banisli all cars from the cam-pus. '

Since the money for a new parking lot does not seem to be forthcoming then the next best plan, we think would be one way parking" on all campus roads. Granted this solution is far from ideal. Naturally the students would use the road space in preference to the lots provided. But where else can we get the extra space without expending a great sum of money?

The only really obvious result of this year of written verbage, committee meetings held, and suggestions considered and thrown out is that the Parking Problem is here to stay.

( rosson Tyler, state college di-rector for Young Republican ac-fivities, has been invited to speak at a meeting of the Rice Young Republican Club, open only to Rice students and faculty mem-bers, to present to the club a clear picture of the state organ-ization and its plans. Paul Metz-ger, chairman of the group, has set Ihe meeting for 2 PM this Sunday in the Fondren Library Lecture Lounge.

The Physics parking lot is now open. Dean McBride has an-nounced that, in view of the ad-ditional parking facilities now available, parking is not permit-ted on the road between the Chemistry building and Ander-son Hall or on the road just be-yond the library. Any violation will be subject to a fine.

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examination periods by the students of the Rice Institute. Editorial and Advertising offices are in the Fondren Library on the campus.

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Joe Watt , Terry Maltsburger Fine Arts Critic * James Korges \dviser to Editor Arthur Cole Se e ice Editor Jean Donaldson W r e n ' s Editor Geraldine Lewis fiports Staff J. Fred Duckett, Norman Einspruch, Ralph Williams Political Analyst Bill Hobby Student Council Reporter Wayne Bennett Religious Council Reporter Jo Anne Hickmim Fanfare Editor Dofothylee Nichol

Rice Film Society Spring Schedule Released

All showings in Fondren Library Lounge, Rice Campus, except Mar. 10, which will be in Chem Lecture Hall. The Society is still trying to get CITIZEN KANE for May 5; if they cannot obtain permission to show it, another film will be substi-tuted.

Dues are still $2.50. If the treasury warrants, more

films can be scheduled in May up until the beginning of finals. To join or renew membership see Helen Chillman, Joe Shimck, or Rolf Sinclair—or come early to a film.

T Feb. 17 PASSPORT TO PIMLI-CO (Great Britain, 1948), with Stanley Holloway THE VAGABOND (USA, 1917), with Charlie Chaplin

T Feb. 24 CAMILLE (USA, 1935) with Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor

T Mar. 3 THE FIREMAN (USA, 1917) with Charlie Chaplin PANIC IN THE STREETS (USA 1950) with Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, and Barbara Bel Geddes

T Mar. 10 A FOOL THERE WAS (USA, 1914) with Theda Bara— Chem Lec. Hall

M Mar. 16 THE P A W N S H O P (USA, 1917) with Charlie Chap-lin OPEN CITY (Italy, 1945) direct-ed by Roberto Rossellini, with Anna Magani and Aldo" Fabrizi

T Mar. 24 TEN D A Y S THAT SHOCK THE WORLD (Russia, 1928) directed by. Sergei Eisen-stein

M Mar. 30 THE C U R E (USA, 1917) with Charlie Chaplin T H E SOUTHERNER (U S A, 1945) directed by Jean Renoir, with Betty Field and Zachary Scott

T April 7 THE P L O W T H A T BROKE THE PLAINS (USA, 1936) directed by Pare Lorentz LAND W I T H O U T BREAD (Spain, 1932) directed by Luis Bunel EASTER I S L A N D (France, 1934) directed by John Ferrio SWINGING T H E LAMBETH WALK (Great Britain, 1940) drawn by Len Lye r

T April 14 ONE A. M. (USA, 1917) with Charlie Chaplin THE FRESHMAN (USA, 1925) with Harold Lloyd

T April 21 B A L L E T MECANI QUE (France, 1924) by Fernand Leger ENTR'ACTE (France, 1924) by Rene Clair OBJECT LESSON (USA, 1940) by Christopher Young THE ROSE AND THE MOG-NONETTE (.France, 1945) FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON (USA, 1948), by James Brough-ton

T April 28 TORMENT (Sweden, 1947) directe dby Alf Sjoberg THE COUNT (USA, 1917) with Charlie Chaplin.

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"Don Juan In Hel l "

Records Initiate

NewConcertSeries The Fondren Library is planning

to test the record player in the Lec-ture Lounge on Tuesday, January 13, by presenting the following pro-gram:

George* Benard Shaw's DON JUAN IN HELL, the recorded performance as given by Charles Laughton as the Devil, Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Agnes moo^e-

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Guest Reviewer Pleased Stravinsky Well Received

By J. J . COUPLING

Monday night we had the pleas-ure of hearing the Houston Sym-phony perform, and perform well. Mr. Kurtz should be thanked for a competently played program, which was unfortunately too little attend-ed. The acoustics of the Texas ave-nue barn are bad, but not so bad as to have us deny support to the or-chestra.

The program included the f i rs t concert performance of William Rice's "Overture to 'Androcles and the Lion'*"; except for the fac t the composer is a Houstonian, I can see little point in its being played. A review could be written from the program notes supplied by the Symphony Society, but it would bear little relation to the music per-formed. The composition was too short, and as a concert piece lacked both substance and a point. Buried within it was a parody of a Strauss waltz—but to this reviewer such a parody is as sporting as dynamit-ing fish. The music was fa r more effective when played by a small group as incidental music to Shaw's play.

The balance o$ the program con-sisted of the Mendelssohn A Major Symphony and Stravinsky's "Pe-trouschka" Suite. Here the orches-tra settled down and showed the results of good rehearsing in the past. I t played well, and not just because it was on familiar ground. •Mendelssohn's music is lyrical, ajid this lyricism came through. We were spared the heavy-handed read-ing such music often receives from conductors too used to the brute force approach.

"Petrouschka" was played in hon-or of the composer's 70th birthday, and the reception accorded it makes us think back for a moment. Not too long ago no audience except a very hardened one would have thought of sitting through such a piece, yet now we find Mr. Stravin-sky well on his way to a permanent place in the repertoire of orchestras playing to very definite "public"

head as Donna Anna, and Sir Ced-ric Hardwicke as the Commander.

* The program will s tar t promptly' at 3:30 and will be over by 5. I t is informal; if you cannot stay fo r the ent ire time, you may leave early or come in late.

A series of similar informal rec-ord concerts is 1>eing planned for next semester.

tastes. Such a change is a healthy sign, when composers whose music is part of the evolution of "modern" ar t can have their works heard. Too often the only good composers are dead ones; to honor the living art-ist is to give him a chance for fu r -ther experimentation in form and ideas.

In the "Petrouschka" Suite we have a fascinating inter-play of ten-der themes and harsh, monochro-matic bursts from the orchestra. In the ballet these are used to contrast the characters—the sorrowful pup-pett dancing alone, and his rival the Moor. But the music, divorced from the "ballet, stands up well by itself. We loose the dramatic meaning of the musical terms, and see instead a conflict built up using the gram-mar of music, not that of the dance. In the music we can clearly see the influence of Russian Folk music, and Stravinsky's teachers, but even more clearly the composer's genius and mastery of orchestration. The orchestra was at its best perform-ing this Suite, which is certainly n® mean task.

One last comment about the City Auditorium* may be in order. If a new Auditorium is built, music's

»worries will be nearer an end in Houston, and local reviewers will have to devote entire columns to some other complaint: But while we have the old one, why not give it an acoustic going-over? The reflec-ting shell could surely be better de-signed, and the numerous dead spots removed. Such work would be f a r less expensive than rebuilding it, and a survey by a competent en-gineer could easily demonstrate its feasability.

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THRESHER JANUARY LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A Monthly Publication of

THE RICE THRESHER Edited By JAMBS KORGES

Volume 1, Number 3 Friday, January 9,1953

The Other Room By DALE WRETLIND

The cold slivered past him, reawaken-ing old aches in his hips and ankles and crabbed knuckles, as he stood, waiting, fac-ing the chill obscurity of the window. It skirted the reach of the laboring round-oak stove in an asbestos-tin base in the center of the low room, but it claimed the rest as its own. It hazed in a wispy draf t over the bare, plank floor. It wiped across the faded walls, leaving a gray dampness and here and there a point of reflected light in a frosted nailhead. And, he knew, it weighed on the coverlet in the other room where the doctor had now been so long, since before the night and the blizzard.

The blizzard, he reflected, coming be-fore the end of December, meant yet an-other hard winter. Boi-n in the glacial caps and hollows somewhere beyond the thin, protective tree-belt just to the north, it was early in reasserting its cold dominion. He didn't have to see beyond the frost-rim-med, swirling blackness before him to know the blizzard was burying his rusted, broken fences and sweeping bare the stubble of his fields which had been, this past year, no less disappointing than before. He sensed from long familiarity its howling triumph-antly around the roofless old silo, battering the sagging frame of the barn, piling the dry, fine snow deeply here and whisking it up there, flinging it about in that dizzying, breath-snatching blindness that promised numbing death to a man in his own yard, but leaving always, in its primeval obscurity, a little cleared pocket around the watering tank.

He turned, expectant and faintly ap-prehensive, as the door moved protestingly on stiff hinges and the stooped, bundled figure of the doctor emerged from the other room. He watched silently, wanting to speak but waiting for a sign, while the old practitioner, looking preoccupied with his chin buried in his dingy, brown muffler, shuffled across the barren planks, Jifted the • kettle from the stove, returned with neither word nor glance, and carefully clos-ed the door.

He was alone again at the window. The only sounds were those of the blizzard skirling in the twisting blackness beyond the glass, whistling w e i r d and ominous dirges under the eaves, cracking the aged joints of the isolated house, and, above the reassuring pops and hisses of the laboring stove, whispered from the corners of the room, urging him to memories of his wait-ing. -

For half a lifetime, on this same farm, he had-waited through the incredibly lonely nights, the dreary monotony of morning and evening chores, and the never-ending drudgery of every year's labor. Then, af ter death had twice entered the other room, the drudgery and the loneliness and the waiting had been his alone, and at last, out of desperation, he had married. The youngest of a neighbor's large brood, much younger, than he, she had tried but had never been able to understand or to help. Thus, through the next, the middle years, he had been in that sense still alone, and the waiting had become an end.

Now the old, long wait had merged with the other, more pressing one, new since last night when the doctor had come with the blizzard. He stood patiently, fixed by habit,

' in the keening silence, with the frost-nipped box of the room behind him, and stared blankly out into the swirling dark. And his own face stared back at him from the chill frame—the receded gray brush of his ' hair and the deep, vertical lines of his cheeks blending into the pattern of frost, and his eyes showing only as deep, black hollows in a bony frame. At fifty-two he was a figure in a cold, dead room—an image in a window pane.

He stood there motionless, listening to the storm and the ancient protestations of the house, staring into reflected blackness, reliving the dragging days of a life that had led, it seemed, from nothing to nowhere.

Then the piercing, long-expected sound

Dr. Dix

This issue of the Thresher Literary Supplement is dedicated to

Dr. William S. Dix as a token of our appreciation for his work as Librarian of the Fondren Library, and as a gesture of best wishes for him at his new post as Librarian of The Fire-stone Library of Princeton University.

The poem following was composed by Miss Helen Chillman, Fine Arts Librarian, as an expression of the Staff 's feeling when they received the news of Dr. Dix's re-signation as their Commander in Chief. I am confident that it also expresses the opinions of all of us who know and have worked with Dr. Dix. Therefore, this issue of the Literary Supplement is a Hail and Farewell to a good friend.

t Best wishes, James Korges

The Lady From Fondren By HELEN CHILLMAN

(A newly-discovered example of modern American folklore)) Oh, once I was happy, but now I'm forlorn

I weep and I rue the day I was born My true love ^ f a i t h l e s s , he's vanished and gone,

And it was Yankee sch61ars that led him right on.

Those Yankees! damn Yankees! they've stolen my man . . . I've got to replace him and nobody can!

Without him I'd not have a roof to my name, The barn that I lived in, oh, i t was a shame

With bookworms and roaches and termites and MICE . For a real highborn lady it wasn't very nice.

jl But now I've got curtains and cushions and lights,

Elevators and carrels—oh, I know my rights— The walls gleam Avith leather, the floors glide with wax,

And the books that I treasure have Texas-sized stacks.

Those Yankees! damn Yankees! they've stolen my man . t. „ I've got to replace him and nobody can!

They said up at Princeton "We're in a bad way! Now where is the hero to help save the day?"

They took out their spyglass, and they up and picks My one and my only—Two-gun William Dix.

Just how they sweet-talked him I can't rightly say, But he up and tells me he's going away,

And those Yankee scholars in orange and black Had better watch out 'cause I may get him back!

Those Yankees! damn Yankees! they've stolen my man . . . I've got to replace him and nobody can!

A whiff of his pipe was my favorite scent (Not to speak of betraying the way that he went)

He's found me some Friends that I hadn't before, But now that they've come, why, he's gone out the door.

He's a talented man; he can tell a good tale; He's the only man living can lick a white' whale;

At the thought of his loss I can't say I rejoice But I've got to admit I approve of their choice!

Those Yankees! damn Yankees! they've stolen my man ... . I've got to replace him and nobody can!

from the other room reasserted the living present, and he m o v e d swiftly to the warmth of the stove and slid the coffee-pot from behind the stack to heat for the doctor. He toasted his hands for a moment, letting the f i re draw the ache from his bones, 6ut ^t the opening of the dog? to the other room, he retreated, almost timidly, into the far , seasonally decorated corner.

The old doctor, shuffling briskly now, his muffifer hanging loose, snatched "a cup from the sideboard as he passed, poured himself a dose of the thick, black coffee, downed it, and smiled.

"She's all right, man; she's going to be all right," he said gently, "It 's a boy."

The man remained silent, but his hand lifted slowly and turned the bulff to light the Christmas tree.

Cry In A Sunset By HENRY DELAUNE

The pink gauze behind the evening trees comes for a while and goes: we will not ask why. But we will live our lives remembering that once we saw trees in thin haze, this seeing returning the flush of sun-going to quicken for us the scape of yesterday.

It was the while of shadows in the room, the while of trailing shadows. He drew one of them for his wife beside him, for Leslie whom he loved. He drew to the melody of the shadow, the one inseparable from the other now. Leslie was intense; she had known Glen this way before. From the turning disc, the tune: a tune from a turning disc, disc turning, turning, disc-turning, turning in no month, only in a mood. 1

"They called us the Punch and the Poet, Leslie. For in him there were muscles and deep colors and in me there were words and a strain of the unknown. We lived the boy-years through together, know-ing the full-faced sun and the full-faced wind, and we knew the boy-sin together. And in these years we promised to die for what we loved. But we grew to wonder about overcasts and storms, and Grant one day said to me, 'I want the full-faced sun again.' And I knew that we lived no longer in the boy-years."

"But tell me why, Glen, why the sun no more?"

"The mist came, Leslie, when Grant f irst saw his face in the liquor cup. They made him tend a bar and only his mother and I stood beneath the raining cloud with him. She knew and loved me well and we spoke of Gra,nt on nameless evenings. And once she wept to me, 'My Grant could not kiss me last night, and the neighbor said a wicked thing.' You must play the piece again, Leslie.

"The people "of Illini did remark. Grant grew to deeper darknesses and Mama King-asked me to use my words with him. T spoke and he listened: I spoke of the month of Carol, the girl on whose cheek the sun of him f irs t shone; I spoke of books and better words than mine; I spoke of Mama King whose gardens were washing away in the rains. But my words were not for Grant, not for him from whom I had learn-ed the whiteness of cotton fields and the sweetness of the honeysuckle. Only the night for Grant."

"But. tell me why, Glen, why the light no more?"

"Grant loved no thing. He pricked the sun from Carol's cheek and found no place for it again. He even pierced at Mama King. Play it again, Leslie, as he played it again and again. She went to Padre Mayne who prayed with her for him. For months they prayed while I followed Grant in ditches and, when I could, cleared the dirt from his eyes for him to f ry to see the sun again. And once I saw him cry in a sunset."

There are those who are given to them-selves: we will not ask why. There is nothing for them to take; they a re the brown leaf that calls, then crushes. But in their adop-tion of the empty shelves, they cannot sometimes know; they are mere, silhouttes

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Credo Sadly we withdraw, bidding the shallow mind to rot in its own water— And turning, we hide our features forever from those who would not understand us, From those who would harm us and who would destroy the world. We seek a refuge f rom the mass, the thoughtless and unimaginative Who follow the golden voice and the hollow promise.

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The vain and half-born ShalF take the world and make it what they will, For we, rJ , Yes, we shall not hinder them; but withdrawing from the petty existence Shall grow bitter a t the failure of the world And thereby join the vain and the half-born, Remaining as historians of our decay. The earth is finished . . . finished . . . forever in vain.

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(Cry In A Sunset - -Continued)

and comment only comes of them. Leslie leaned her head against her hus-

band's knee and he half-framed it with his hand. She felt the breath of him in partial cadence with the melody and broke the moment's hush.

"Glen, could there ever be light for him?"

"I saw it once, Les, once. Mama King found him on his kne^s one night in the stillness of moonsleep and she knelt be-side him and kissed him. And then Grant came to me and asked me for my words. Because I knew he could not love, I could not offer happiness. 'You cannot kill the whole God, Grant,' I said; 'your part alone will die. The sun is Mama King's and mine.' And I waited while the tempest twisted in his brow."

"The light, Glen, the light! Again the disc must turn."

"He asked if he could share, and, Les, the sun was in his face again! He said he'd iost *his happiness in carols of the dark and knew that he had killed their loving, too; he told of his self-hatred for his brief time with Mama Kin*?; and even asked that I forgive him. He grasped my shoulder with his arm and with no words, we walked. We did not note the full-faced sun, nor feel the full-faced wind, but-, oh, the reaching thought!

"But, Leg, it lasted only a day. For fighting the sun and Mama King and me was the little glass with dull sparkle and Grant thought that that was what he loved. On another nameless evening, the clouds crashed over his sun, clashed and crashed, and rained, rained. And I heard that Grant was dead, had died drunk at a pistol's point. The people of Illini were a hum and a noise and a crashing and clashing about the body of Grant and I pushed my way to him and saw him on the steps of the mqvie-hoiTse with that crowd about him, himself alone. And he was bleeding, Les, bleeding away the life that I had sustained in ditches. He was bleeding alone. And there was nothing left of him for the people of Illini but an attitude."

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The Rule rs A n d

The Ruled Far sets the sun in the western sky casting the glow of twilight over the mountains and the moon begins to dimly filter its light between houses in the village; and the cathedral spire is lengthened in black as to mourn the entombment ©f the cardinal in the splendor of the procession and the sad eyes which watch it. The filth is coated in the odorless vapor of moonlight, and the alleys are too beautiful. Now the slow procession of the mother, consoled by those near her with words of encouragement and of the glory of her son. But what of these; the child of her labor is dead. And the girl who loved him in spring days clear and nights as smoothly radiant as this beneath the brilliant crystaline moon. But this is gone now, dear; and the mother sees her son again beneath the altar, the last. Within the cathedral, the entombment; while young men steal the crust from a beggar's mouth for want of something else to do; and rape a passing woman, during the en-tombment. And in Rome the pope offers a mass in the name of the cardinal and wonders whether thig man was a saint. And again.the glory of the marching horses and the stuttering feet of the mourning nuns holding straight their once lit candles, now trailing a faint odor of tallow and burnt wick. My spn— And the body lies cold in the marble tomb, and the young men lie safe and warm in thread-bare beds, fatigued ,fronit their theft and rape. ™ * Welcome to paradise, my brother, we wel-come you to the host. And now the moon is dissolving and agslin the day while people gather in the square

"V to sing the dead man's praise and to buy " their daily cabbages and to gossip about the

young men who are so cruel. But who are

The Slimmy Things Horace Aguehouse was a small dappled

man with apologetically hunched shoulders and rain puddle eyes that upon close in. spection disclosed a no more important facet of his character than that he lived in constant fear of being stepped upon.' His sole distinguishing characteristic was an almost infinitesimal twitch which ap-peared in his left eyelid when he became excited, but since his life moved with the regularity of a well-trained metronome, few indeed were the times when he was lifted to the heights of individuality. "How-ever," thought Horace Aguehouse, con-scientiously placing the ball of each foot in the exact center of each successively descending black tread of the stairway, "there had been something a b o u t this morning." Nothing unusual of course, but rather there had been the smell of promise in the air. He stopped on the third black tread from the bottom and gave an experi-mental sniff. At first he encountered only the usual metronomic smell but then sud-denly there it was again—that delicious whiff of promise and expectation that made the tiny hairs inside his nostrils quiver with delight. Actually, it had been so far just like any other day. The odor of warmed-over coffee had drifted in to him from the flat directly above; Mr. Stephenvich had cursed at his patient and long-suffering wife in the one just below; and in the cub-by-hole across from his window he had seen the diligent and rather moth-eaten young man who existed in a world of long red tlines and brash blue .spots, irritably slapping paint on his palate. "Same, same, same, same, same," ruminated Mr. Ague-house in quiet resignation, but then remem-bering the smell, he brightened. It really wasn't his turn for a happening and he hoped humbly .that no one else was being deprived for his sake; but he still could not resist a shiver of anticipation.

The black treads oozed gummily to-gether and became one long brackish stream that crept sluggishly toward the door. He halted an instant before plunging into the ooze to settle the tired briefcase with

• Pooley and Sons, Solicitors, in peeling gold letters in the corner and to set his hat more firmly upon his head. Mr. Aguehouse believed in being ready for things. The setting was perfect, he noticed with satis-faction, the long lean hall was magnificent-ly dull, dirty and dark; but there was still enough light prying itself in between the multitudinous fly-specks for him to be able to see clearly. "Delicious," he thought hap-pily; and lowering,.himself into the ooze, he made his slow way toward the door savouring each anticipatory second. "Any moment now," he repeated ecstatically, "and it will happen. Any moment now and ."

"Aguehouse?" the word erupted from the second floor stair well, rocketed

»down the two flights, and fell hissing into the ooze. Mr. Aguehouse quivered with joy. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonder-ful, wonderful," he whispered to himself and turned slightly toward the volcano's mouth. There was a measured thudding on the treads.

"Agueliouse"- -this time the words dripped in fat yellow drops from the railing directly over his head "the stick of dynamite, the potent lover be careful, Aguehouse, you don't wanta' g e t carried away and pinch some nice round bottom on the bus it'd probably knock ya'

they ? I do not know, i I hear they come from the next town; but I have not an idea who they really are. Nor I. To commit such acts. The arguments continue as again the sun grows tired of sending its beam* straight and fierce through thick stained-glass onto the new-closed tomb, and begins to expand and settle heavily toward the west. Little people, carrying cabbages and thinking of the dead cardinal, and wondering about the young men. Where did they come from? But who are .they ?. \*flio? —J. K.

By ANN COE out for a month." And the raucuous laughter echoed incongruously through the musty hall.

Mr. Aguehouse raised his eyes slowly toward the brassy sound so that he could enjoy each moment fully before passing along to the next. It was all wonderfully, marvelously the same—the dirty bare feet, the wrinkled and befouled blue and white pajamas opened at the neck to show the fat black hairs curling licentiously over one another, the gross flabby face with the hanging jowls, and finally the mocking and ugly smile that parted the thick lips and' showed the stained yello wteeth. Mr. Ague-house writhed in ectasy. He had been so afraid for the last three days afraid that the man might have moved away, or might be mortally ill, or any number of horrible things. Afraid to face the thought of days passing like telephone poles out-side a car window undeviating, mono-tonous, dead. "But here he is again," thought Mr. Aguehouse delightedly, and what's more, there had been a certain tone to his insult which gave it far more spice than usual. It was rather like the delectable cherry that adoi*ned the topmost icy pin-nacle of Mr. Aguehouse's afternoon sundae, and that he always saved it until last, and one time had even wrapped carefully in a napkin and brought home to add a frivilous touch to his otherwise drab room. "This was far more important than mei-e sus-tanence," he thought rapturously. "This was food for the mind." In fact, he could already feel the seething thoughts gathering in his brain and agitating'to be recognized. Won-derful thoughts that would lift him out of the grey motony of the normal day into the golden realm of creativeness. But it

'was the image of the bus ride from his own corner to the forbidding visage of Pooley and Son that made him break out into chill bumps of happiness; for once at Pooley and Sons, he would have to push the wonderful seething thoughts into the back of his mind in favor of more boring and yet more re-numerative mental ocoupation;. and, al-though he had the entire evening to him-self, his room or any reasonable facsimile served as a paralysing agent, and he usually found himself capable of little more than bed. But the half-hour which he spent in transit was his own, and gathering ,, his impressions about him, he turned and trod carefully through the gum and out the door.

But once in the hack seat of the bus, with his Times spread neatly across his knees a*d his eyes fixed carefully on the white margin just to the left of the article on Hindustan politics, he found to his dis-may, that the thoughts refused to come. On this of all days, when he had such a wealth of recent impressions with which to. create the soul-satisfying scenes which lifted his days out of the pit of monotony. It was more than a little vexing. Of course, he did have a back fund of such scenes created after previous meeting with the man. Some of them were rather good as a matter of fact. One, in special, never failed to please him. It was the gratifying picture of the blue-and-white-pajama-man in sweat stained overalls and no shirt pulling an im-mense plow through rocky soil while he, Aguehouse, rode behind on a sort of buggy

Toothpaste and Other Things

By NANCY CONDON He melts my kiss in foaming paste The hour not half-past our love; His strength renewed is sterile now, And I, alone, preserve the taste, In sweetness turned to bitten thought Of kind farewell placed on my brow. Cool water will not cleanse my stain Nor bring relief to scalded eyes, Blind, then, in kisses, seeing now Our love disposed of in the drain.

Anthology Notice; The deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Rice Literary Anthology is

January 15. The Anthology committee has announced that no late work can be con-sidered, but that stories, poems, plays and other interesting original articles by Rice students are still badly needed. . Room 230 Anderson Hall ts the official place for depositing manuscripts, but they may also be given to professors George Williams and Willard Thorp, or to Henry Delaune, Raymond O'Keefe, and James Korges.

and cracked an enormous whip over the straining back. The only trouble with it waa that it had been used too much it was getting a little frayed around the edges, and therefore did not give the satisfying effect that it once had. But the parasite that gnawed even more at Mr. Aguehouse's bud of contentment was the realization of the time he was wasting. He could not resurrect a series of old scenes, it was true, and be reasonably happy by the time he reached the caverns of Pooley and Sons; but the knowledge that such favorable cir-cumstances came rarely prevented his slip-ping into his usual semi-conscious, self-gratifying reverie. He tried another one

the man coming to him on bended knee to beg a little money to feed himself and his wife and children, and he, Ague-house, tossing a fifty dollar bill (he had become immensely wealthy for this sec-tion of his panorama) at him with per-fectly studied arrogance and contempt. But this too, imparted to him no inner glow. In a spurt of desperation, he rapidly passed in review a few more. It was to no avail. They were all dull and grey compared to the glaring blue and white striped personali-ty of the man, and they left Mr. Aguehouse with the feeling that he had been eating his chocolate sundae with gravy instead of pistachio sauce. He decided to experiment with an environmental change, and remov-ing his gaze from the margin to the left of the article on Hindustan politics, he riveted it to the margin just iabove the sec-tion on Child Care.

And suddenly it came. But it was unlike any other creation he had ever spun

it was staggering in its import. Mr. Aguehouse sat frozen and let the idea come slowly out of the darkness into his con-

'scious and like a child with a sucker who allows himself only one lick at a time in order to preserve the sweetness longer, he grasped each small detail, fondled it, and then breathlessly fitted it into its place with relation to the preceding one. And when the entire picture puzzle lay com-plete, he ceuld scarcely believe that this soul-satisfying and creatively magnificent work was the product of his own genius. Slimy things, hundreds of thousands of them—small, black slimy things with beady eyes and shapeless squashy bodies that left trails *of slime behind them cold, re-pulsive, repugnant things, soft and popping with slime, dumb things that never ceased their slow, monotonous liquid process *• hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them covering the man in the blue and white striped pajamas coldly caressing the back of his neck and the bottom of his feet and the inside of his ears and leaving their slimy trails along his stomach and his legs and his face crawling c'easeiessly and purposelessly. And the man hitting at them and screaming in rage and repulsion when lie saw that he made no imprint on the sluggishly seething mass. Hitting again and again and fgein and leaping and running aimlessly seek-ing escape and the unescapable, black mass crawling dumbly, monotonously, end-lessly.

Mr. Aguehouse glowed with happiness and wonder, and with the complacent step of a man who has found ultimate peace and glory in a great creation, rang the bell, descended from the bus and disappeared through the obsequiously bowing doors of Pooley and Son.

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Death of the Tiger Tiger, tiger, bleeding on the Rock, Shining qpiet in swift moonlight, Dusty crimson in the sands Of Time's clouding poverty.

In somber "clouds we wander, and come* to this, «, t

As in dust we return, Miserably into Earth's eternal pregnancy, Energy in dusty negation, The clouds of our waste Within the tiger's flashing gore. ~ *

Torn from the womb, Cast into Time from the cave of solitude, Children weep in their beginning Of Death; For even thy fearful symmetry Shall bleed upon the Rock, 0 tiger, tiger, dying bright. 0

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POLITICS

Strategy, Not Tactics Topic of Ike's Meeting of GOP Leaders

By BILL HOBBY President-Elect Eisenhower is holding a staff meeting this

week—a meeting attended by virtually all officers in the new administration who will have policy-making jobs. The people attending the two-day meeting were cabinet officers, congres-sional leaders, the vice-president, agency heads and the new head of the United States dele-gation to the United Nations.

The purpose of such a meeting would presumably be to outline a general policy and philosophy of government which thfe new adminisr tration will follow. In other words, it is probably a meeting to discuss and decide matters of strategy rather than tactics.

This is in line with the President-Elect's policy of creating, so far as possible, an administrative set up which can actually start adminis-trating on January 21.

More important, it is a continua-tion of the Mr. Eisenhower's policy of setting up his government in an intelligent, rational and organized fashion. This policy was first evi-dent in the type of men he named to top posts. The appointments have been, almost without exception, men of exceptional and proven ability.

Of course it has been consider-ably easier for Mr. Eisenhower to assemble a staff of competent men because there are more competent people who are politically accept-able to the Republican party. The simple fact is that there are rela-tively few men of such proven abili-ty who are available to the Demo-cratic party for policy-making jobs.

AH people, regardless of their po-litical beliefs, will certainly welcome the return of a relatively high level of competence to the administration of government affairs. Whatever

the defeat of the Truman-dominated Democratic' Administration h a s meant, it has certainly meant the end of the enshrinement of medioc-rity in government from the presi-dency on down.

Mr. Eisenhower has in effect, re-stored a tradition that was estab-lished during the administration of Mr. Hoover and during the first two administrations of Franklin Roosevelt.

RC To Sponsor Free Movies Wednesday; Atom Explored

Two technicolor movies, "God of the Atom" and "Dust or Destiny," will be presented Wednesday at 8 PM in the Fondren Library Lecture Lounge by the Religi6us Council. Admission is free. The films were produced at the Moody Institute of Science by Dr. Irwin A. Moon.

"The God of the Atom" is the story of atomic energy and the at-omic bomb from theory to explosidh in lay language. Included in the film are close-up* color pictures of the explosions showing the shock waves. The University of California's cy-clotron is also explained, and the film includes some close-up shots of

O N B R I D G E Well, how were the holidays^

They brought some interesting new books to the Rice campus. One in particular is "When Bards Play Cards" by Gerald L. Kaufman. It is the most hilarious book on card playing that has ever been written. Ask for it at the nearest book store and see if you don't agree.

Here's the schedule of events for the Bridge Club for the next semes-ter. February 11 is the Rice Wo-men's Team of Four. It is open on-ly to members of the Literary So-cieties. On February 17 and 18 we will have the National Intercollegi-ate Bridge Championship Play-off Round. There will be a lot more about this in the future. On March 1 we will hold our annual Open Pairs Club Championships. This is open to anyone wishing to play. It will be a two session event and the first place award will be two Mas-ter Points. Of course, all during this time we will continue our regular Friday night games. This means to-night.

Let's see a big ci'owd down in the lounge tonight.

paul revoke

Religious Council To Plan Emphasis Week This Sunday

By JO-ANNE HICKMAN An All-Day retreat will be held

this Sunday at Blanton Memorial for the purpose of discussing and furthering the plans for Religious Emphasis Week. All members of the Religious Council are urged to attend. Members of the various Re-ligious Organizations who are in-terested in helping out are cordially invited.

Church. The program include* sup-per, vespers and a fellowship. Pat Moore will give a book review of the Silver ChaUce. Fred Harvey will be the speaker at the next meeting of the club on ^Wednesday, January 14, at 12:05 in 105 A.H.

The Canterbury Club will not meet this Sunday because of the retreat. Members of the club will re-ceive Communion next Wednesday at 7 AM in Palmer Chapel.

The next meeting of the Chris-tian Science Organization will be next Thursday, January 15, at 6:30 PM in 234 Fondren Library.

Members of the Presbyterian Stu-dent Association will meet with members of the club of the Univer-sity of Houston this Sunday at 5:30 PM at the First Presbyterian

Archi-Arts

the effects of the bomb-on the ships used in the Bikini experiments.

Some of the wonders of nature in color are featured in "Dust or Des-tiny." The film discusses the hom-ing instinct of pigeons, the flight of a bat guided by i^# own radar, and the spawning habits of the gr'union, a fish which lays its eggs on dry land.

Camera timing devices were used to record on a few minutes worth of film the growth of flowers and plants that develop in years. The film also shows some of the wonders of the human body: the heart, eye, and ear.

(Continued from Page 1) girls, whose identity will not be dis-closed until the Saturday before Archi-Arts, will be presented in the lavish pageant, traditional to the ball.

Eight committees have set to work in preparation for the ball, the first of which was held in 1922. Dick Braman is heading the decora-tions committee; Lee Nicholson, construction, Robert Stavely, cos-tumes and pageant; Jim Dowden, purchasing; William McMinn, pat-rons; George Staten, programs; Kenneth Campbell, contracts; and Ray Morris and Charles Tapley, publicity.

The Palladium Ballroom, recent-ly contracted by the Architecture Society, is considered one of the best locations for Archi-Arts in several years. Located on the cor-ner of Main and OST, it was form-

i erly the Texas Corral. For the past I two months it has undergone vast

redecorations and Selapampango will be one of the first dances held in it.

Tickets for the dance will be $6 and a buffet will be served.

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luekett Continues Basketball Season Rundown of 3 lore Teams

* By J. FRED DUCKETT The Ponies will be greatly aided at the ipidterm when senior

2 year letterman forward Darrell Murphy becomes eligible (he is scholastically ineligible now). Murphy had a 10.8 average in five conference games before mid-term last year.

SMU cannot be counted out once they start winning, and although suffering f r o m an overall lack of height, will be strong by the time the con-ference race opens.

TCU The defending Champion T C U

Horned Frogs, although losing every member of its starting team hasn't lain down and played dead, winning easily over Hardin-Simmons 50-43, and Abilene Christian G5-55. The Frogs will have to rely heavily on sophs, having lost nine seniors via graduation. Tommy Hill, S o n n y Lampkin, and Buddy Brumley were outstanding as freshmen, and should see much service for TCU this year.

The Frog offense will be built around 6' 7" junior center Henry Ohlen, who lettered last year, though not seeing too much service behind all-conference center George Mc-Leod. Big Hank scored 30 points in his f i rs t two games this year and looked much improved.

Operating with Ohlen will be 6'5" Ray Warren and Ross Hoyt or Richard Allen at forwards and John Swaim and others at guards. TCU's other guard spot is not certain yet, with Brumley, Hill, Virgil Baker, and Gorman Wiseman all battling for it.

The Horned Frogs will probably not be too strong this year, but the giant Ohlen will be a top player in the conference, competing w i t h Schwinger and Baylor's John Starkey for the all-conference center position.

B a y l o r

Baylor and Texas A&M cannot be expected to field f i rs t rank clubs this year. Both, although having a few stars, are rebuilding.

The Bears lost six three year let-termen, including all - conference Ralph Johnson, but have the con-ference's largest squad, featuring Starkey and eight outstanding sopho-mores. Starkey is the only returning letterman. In Baylor's recent loss to Southwest Texas State, three of the starters were sophomores. For-wards were sophs Murray Bailey, I)' 1", Ken Morgan, 5' 11", and the guards were 6' 7" soph Joe Dickson and 6' 5" 220 pound senior squads-man Lonnie Quillen.

The Bears' attack is slower than usual this year, centered around the height nf Starke'y, Bailey, and Dick-son. The speed of soph Don "Buddy" Sammon, squadmen J a c k Brown, John Parker, and Stacy Cole may help if these players can improve enough to break into the regular lineup.

A & M The Aggies will be in the same

position as Baylor, only perhaps worse. A&M was the only team given absolutely no chance to win the championship by the pre-season pickers. The Farmers have two real ball players, LeRoy Miksch, 6' 5" senior, and Don Bioford, 6' 2" jun-ior. These two players were reg-ulars last year and will be out-standing this year. They scored 18 and 19 points respectively while topping East New Mexico 68-48 last Monday. Miksch is an aggressive rebound man, while Binford is an e x c e l l e n t pointmaker, averaging eight points a game in conference play last year, though held down by Coach John Floyd's ball-control of-fense. The Aggies will have to join Baylor in running a "Kiddie Korps" of sophomores. In fact, several sophs have beaten out lettermen for start-ing positions. Best of the crop are Rodney Pirtle, Joe Hardgrove, 6' 8 V Roy Martin, Pat McCrory, and Dan Moon, with the f i r s t two in the

starting lineup. The other starter to go with

forwards Miksch and Binford" and guards Pirtle and Hardgrove is 6' junior letterman Don Addison at center.

The Aggies will again feature the Henry Iba style ball-control offense this year, which may give several of their sophs a chance to settle down, but aside from Miksch and Binford, A&M will probably not be a contender,* but is liable to sur-prise everyone, as did their football team, by fielding a winner.

The Southwest Conference pre-sea-son tournament in Dallas before the Cotton Bowl game will give fans a good look at the conference teams against each other, but from here, it looks like Rice will take the con-ference title, followed by Arkansas in second place, Texas and SMU tied for third, TCU f i f th and Baylor and A&M tied for the cellar.

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New Year Brings Announcement of Eight Engagements

By GERALDINE LEWIS Engaged couples seem to have

ushered in the New Year on the Rice campus. Returning f rom the holidays with future plans are Sher-rill Carmichael and Billy Fisk, Nor-Jean Stein and Stan Sieg^l, Virgin-ia Smith and Dean Hill, Helen Har-ris and Bob Robertson, Barbara Bush and Winford Nix of Dainger-field, Texas, Mary Ann Chisholm and Aggie Joe Galle, Florence Sloan and Ronny Sell of the University of Houston, and Elizabeth Masterson and Garry Mattingly.

December 27 witnessed two Rica weddings. Ensign ]\lartin Haest and Letty Castille were married in the morning at Holy Rosary Catholic Church which was followed by a re-ception at the Key Club. In the eve-ning Lt. Richard Wilson and M. E. Kinzback were married a t the First Presbytei'ian Church-, the reception was held in the Kinzback's home.

During the Christmas holidays the marriage of Dana Phillips and Harry Thomas was announced.

Owls in Toamey Final But Lose To Ponies, 7162

After breezing through defend-ing' champion TCU and Baylor in convincing fashion, the "hot" Rice Owls were not quite able to keep up the pace, and dropped the SWC tourney final to SMU in Dallas last Tuesday night. The final score was 71-62, but the game was much tighter than that, SMU only pull-ing away to their final score, and biggest lead of the night, in the last few minutes.

The score was t ied several times, and neither team could build up a lead of more than 3 or 4 points. The Mustangs hit an amazing 48% of their shots, and that told the story together with the fact that Rice players hit less than % of their f ree throws as well as only 23% of their field goal tries. SMU tried to gang up on Rice's great center Gene Schwinger but he still made 23 points. The difference in the game was an unknown Mustang substi-tute. Art Flinders, who scored 22 points. He found many openings in

the Rice defense, and seemed to have little trouble in driving in for lay-ups. The Mustangs outplayed Rice just as they outplayed and out-hustled treetop Arkansas the night before. 1

Rice gained the finals by wallop-ing ineffective TCU 68-49, and run-ning over Baylor 65-56.

The TCU game was virtually no contest as the Owls hit 41% of their shots, and twice led by 19 points. Big Schwinger, though playing only 29 minutes of the 40 minute game scored 21 points on 10 of 15 field goals and 1 free throw. Schwinger got able assist-ance from hustling Don Lance who scored 14 and, contributed outstand-ing receiving work along with Buz-zy Bryan. Top hand among the re-serves was little Billy Wohn, who flipped in 3 baskets in 5 tries.

Baylor was not quite the pushover that TCU had been, but the Big Blue again came through in cham-pionship style, with Schwinger leading scoring as usual with 20 points. Baylor tried putting two men on the big Swede but even that didn't work. Coach Suman sent in substitutes in teams instead of sing-ly, and the" second team more than held their own against Baylor regu-

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dominated by Rice and Arkansas in spite of SMU's victory. Schwinger and Lance together with Kearns and Lambert of Arkansas and Barnes of SMU made the first team, and in addition Schwinger was named the most Valuable player in the tournament by a wide margin./ He scored 64 points in three games, and impressed everyone with his re-bound work and all-around hustle.

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The Faculty Committee on En-gineering Lectures is composed of Mr. J. R. Simms, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering (chairman); Mr. M. V. McEnany, Associate Prof-essor of Electrical Engineering; Dr. Guy T. McBride, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; and Mr. Diboll.

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By DICK KARIG It was Don Lance and Gene

Schwinger, Tuesday night, as the two brilliant junior cagers sparked Rice to a 64-54 victory over South-ern Methodist in the season's first conference contest. Thus the Owls avenged the 71-62 defeat handed them by the Ponies at Dallas last week.

The two second year men contri-buted 52 points between them and thereby came closer to outscoring the whole Mustang team. Schwinger collected 27 of the total, with 25 go-ing to the Sudan lad.

Lance played what was undoubt-edly his best game since he donned the varsity blue. He was deadly with his one handed jump shot from medium distance, and his ball hand-ling and rebound control combined to make an All-America perform-ance for the 6'-3" forward.

SMU did not approach the amaz-ing mark of hitting 48 per cent of their shots in the game with the Owls last week. Coach E. 0. (Doc) Hayes' boys managed to dump in 16 of 63 tries, for 25 per cent. The Owls hit 24 of their 74 shots for a mark of 32 per cent.

Buzzy Bryan got the Flock off to a fast start with a crip shot and a free throw, and they were never headed. At one time the margin was extended to 15 points, while twice the Ponies edged to within 5 mark-ers after opening play.

The Owls dominated the first quarter play as Schwinger dumped in 10 pointy to lead the way. A free throw by Maurice Teague after the first period buzzer had sounded gave the Owls a 21-8 lead.

A tip-in by Schwinger as the sec-

ond quarter opened netted the Owls a 15 point margin, but following that the Mustangs got hot. In the closing minutes of the opening half, witjj the score narrowed to 27-18, Art Barnes began to find the range and dumped in three quick ones. At intermission, the score read 30-22.

Lance scored quickly on a one hander to open the third period, but three more points by Barnes and a hook shot by Bob Clayton carried the Ponies to within 5 points of the Owls. A hook by Schwinger, one-handers by Lance and Billy Wohn, and free throws by Schwinger, Teague and Monte Robicheaux quickly removed the Owls from dan-ger. Another one-hander by Wohn, following more scoring by Lance and Schwinger made the score 51-39 as the period ended.

Once again the Mustangs caught fire and with five minutes remain-ing in the game, the Owls were in trouble with only a 5 point lead. While Lance was hitting for 7 markers and Schwinger for two, the Methodists could only bucket two free throws to make it 64-52 with seconds remaining. Barnes dropped in tWo free throws to bring his score to 14 for the night, high for SMU, and end the scoring for the night.

There will be a meeting of the Rondelet Committee Tuesday, January 13 at 3 PM in the Ex-am Room-s

All men interested in varsity baseball meet Monday at 1 PM at the Lecture Room in the Rice Gym.

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Intramural Cage Playoffs To Begin Next Monday

By RALPH WILLIAMS

The championship playoffs for the intramural basketball tourna-ment are scheduled to begin next week, after each of the league championships has been determined.

The winners of the Monday league crown are the B-Ballers, who triumphed in each of their three league games.

The Wildcats have won both of their Thursday league games by overwhelming margins and they can cinch their title next Thursday by beating the winless Sky Riders.

The results of the game this af-ternoon between the Rally Club I and the Rinky Dinks will be very in-fluential in the Friday league race. Should the Rally Club squad win, it will move into a three way tie with the Little Blue and the Could Be's who have both won two and dropped one.

The Tsetse Flies can sew up the Saturday league crown by a victory over the Ropers next Tuesday eve-ning. Should the Flies be roped, that race could also develop into a three way tie between the Ropers, Rally Club II and the Tsetse Flies.

Present leaders in the handball tourney, which will end on January 17 are Dan Hart, Tom Frost, Erwin Groner, Eddie Graeff, and Eddie Stephens.

In the table tennis singles and doubles tournament, Harry Keir and Bill Berryman are dominating the piay. Keir is at the head of the pack in singles, followed by Berryman, and the two boys have also defeated all challengers in the doubles tour-nament.

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The Rice Athletic Department announced Monday the signing of George Richey as the new Owl ten-nis coach. - Mr. Richey will fill the position vacated by the resignation of Quinn Connelley this past sum-mer.

The new coach will tutor the Owl netters while also acting as tennis pro for the Houston Country Club. He has just returned from two years service as tennis pro for the Carmel Tennis Club in New York. He is currently the eighth ranked player among the United States professionals.

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A communication received an-nounced that a TISA district meet-ing was going to be held next Tues. at Prairie View A&M. Sam Houston State Teachers College said that the intercollegiate talent show had been postponed. A letter from an organization of Christians and Jews stated that they wanted Rice to support a national brotherhood week on the campus.

The only business carried over fi'om last year was the TV. Lacy said that it will be moved Friday.

New business included filling the vacancy in the SC caused by the resignation of a freshman, Dana

Phillips. The candidate in the Freshman election who was in fourth place (Jean Younghlood) was appointed.

A student who .visited the meet-ing asked that the council discuss with the Administration the possi-bility of removing the chains, on the stadium parking lot entrances to permit students. to get onto the campus more easily, and this the grrfUp agreed to do. ,

The problem of lighting the base-ment stairs of the library was brought up, and the SC als6 agreed to look into this.

The Hillel society asked and re-ceived permission to carry on a book drive to provide books for Jewish students in Israel.

By THRESHER SPORTS STAFF For the second time in four years, Rice Institute was named

winner of the Southwest Conference Sportsmanship, Trophy. The trophy was accepted on behalf of the student body by John McClane, Student Association President, in an impres-sive ceremony preceding the Cotton Bowl game.

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The trophy was formally present-ed to the student body by McClane during the halftime intermission of the Rice-SMU basketball contest in the Rice Gym Tuesday night. Par-ticipating in the ceremony were President W. V. Houston, Dean G. T. McBride, Dr. H. E. Bray, Rice

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The idea for the committee and the trophy was instituted by the staff of The Battalion, the Texas A&M student newspaper, in 1947. The honor went to SMU the first year and since has gone to Texas A&M, Rice, SMU again, and Ark-ansas, before Rice won again this year.

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