Word: rice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When we read of the 300 Harvard undergraduates rioting after a midnight show at Cambridge recently, we did so with a sense of regret--regret that something such as that has not happened here at Rice. Regardless of the consequences of the flight, it was a great show of enthusiasm...
...care what kind of an affair Rice students would pull, but we profess to believe that something in the nature of the Harvard riot should be pulled here. Something that would serve to awaken the student body from its lethargy...
...once this year has the student body, or a part of it, shown any real spirit, and that was the Tuesday evening preceding the Texas football game when the mess hall went wild. Since then not a bubble has come to the surface to disturb the utter tranquility of Rice undergraduate affairs...
...wake up! --"The Thresher", Rice Institute, Houston, Texas...
...executive order President Coolidge increased the U. S. soldier's daily food ration from 35? to 50?. Some items in the new daily ration: Beef, fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...