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THE BATTALION
THE E ATT ALIEN
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THE PASSING OF TRADITIONS
Elsewhere in The Battalion this week is an editorial from our contem
porary, The Thresher, of Rice Institute, deploring the lack of tradition on the
Rice campus and lauding the passing of hazing in the Rice Institute, .Student
body, in which the editorial writer mentions the fact that hazing is ,now
found only in “our state schools that are located on God’s wide open prairies.”
We agree with The Thresher in his attitude toward hazing—we, too,
feel that student bodies of the pfist have stressed its value as a tradition far
beyond its deserts—but we cannot add our approval to the statement regard
ing the state schools “located on God’s wide open prairies.”
We have had occasion to familiarize ourselves with conditions existing
at the Houston institution and we know that hazing has not yet been cast aside
—and that The Thesher is being far too optimistic in hoping to see it en
tirely done away with in another year. We also know that it has not been
many months since authorities brought pressure to bear - on the Rice student
body and forced them to discontinue their annual ‘‘shirt-tail parade” of
freshmen through the Houston srteets—because it was too brutal and we
suspect that freshmen still spend nights in Herman Park just as A & M
freshmen receive occasional nocturnal outings.
The Thresher will do well to remember that hazing is on the wane at
all schools—those on the prairies as well as those located in the swamps—
and, while on the subject of tradition, we might also suggest The Thresher’s
mentioning such naive, antiquated and blatantly foolish customs as painting
up the stadiums and buildings of other colleges on the eve of athletic contests,
for if our memory can accurately recall events of the past fall, some students
at Rice still derive pleasure in this manner.
WHAT CTHEE SCHOOLS THINH
LACK OF TRADITION
One of the most deplorable conditions at Rice Institute is the so-called
lack of tradition and the rapid manner in which the present traditions are
being swept away. However, let us stop and analyze this statement in the
light of cold, objective facts.
In the first place, those tradiitons which are being swept away should
have gone by the board long since. The one that is most frequently cited is
hazing. Just stop in the Sallyport any time, any day, and you can hear sorpe
one say that they’re not beating the freshmen like they did when I was a
slime. For some unknown reason, this is the very first reaction of the college
man to the hazing question. The Sophomore Thresher believes that hazing
is a relic of the torture chamber.
It is being swept away like every other outgrown and childish idea today.
It is ridiculous and foolish that college men should have to entertain them
selves by inflicting punishment on their fellow undergraduates. In fact, it
is an insult to their intelligence that they should require such a brutal method
of satisfying their desire for pleasure. Today it seems that our state schools
that are located out on God’s wide open prairies are the only ones that amuse
themselves in such a naive manner. It is with pleasure that The Sophomore
Thresher will see the total abolishment of hazing. There was a small amount
of it in the dormitories this year, but next year should see this antiquated
and blatantly foolish custom confined to the junk heap.
As for the number of traditions which the school rightly cherishes, the
first thing to be considered is that this June the Institute will hold its six
teenth annual commencement. Rice is still a very young college, compar-i
atively, and one can not expect it to be hoary and loaded down with tradition.
For the worthwhile ones that we have, may we cite: The May Fete, a really
beautiful and charming event, which displays each spring the beauty and
chivalry of Rice in the exquisite setting of a perfect day. The tradition that
the school should be run with as little supervision as pocs'ble frdfn the’ offices
of the administration, and if this supervision is required}-that it bfe admin
istered in the manner befitting the young men and women who. are, concerned.
The Sophomore Thresher thinks the notice posted on the bulletin board .this
week requesting that only Rice letters be worn on the campus was written
in a spirit that should appeal to every Rice man and woman. And, what’s
more, every wearer of an outside letter, should, out of respect to ’the geintie-
manly and courteous spirit of the notice, remove his letter without delay.
There are any number of traditions around the campus,’ insignificant in
themselves, but which taken as a whole go to make up the real tradition.
Rice will go on to build its traditions with the passing of years, just like
every other school. The only thing that is required is the time. With a broad
and liberal administration. Rice will go on, quickly now, to build its noble
and inspiring traditions.
—The Thresher. - 1
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