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...alumnus, and he's got experience as a president," says Kurt Moeller, an editor of the Rice Thresher, the Rice University daily newspaper. Moeller also cites 48-year old Rupp's relative youth as a plus for the Harvard search committee, which wants a president to serve at least 10 to 20 years...
...disaster, not exploration, spurred development of more versatile undersea vessels like Alvin and J.J. In 1963 the Navy's brand-new nuclear-powered submarine Thresher lost power and sank 220 miles east of Cape Cod with 129 on board. It took 1 1/2 years before a Navy search team, aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste II, finally located the sub resting 8,400 ft. down...
Morrisonville was heavily populated with Bakers, and on soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
Fifty-seven faculty members petitioned the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee to give "serious and speedy consideration" to the introduction of a core curriculum at Rice, The Rice Thresher, the student newspaper, reported last Thursday. The Committee has asked the faculty group to present a specific plan for reform...
...editorial in The Rice Thresher last Thursday opposed overhauling the present system, arguing that "jelly rolls" are not inherently bad, since they give students "a working knowledge of a particular field. If we can assume Rice students are intelligent, we should also be able to assume they are capable of determining what courses are best for their education [and]...see the importance of a broad education," the editorial states...