Monthly Archives: October 2011

When I came in to the Woodson the morning after discovering the existence of the unknown (to me) early scrapbook of Rice student George Wheeler, I struggled a little bit to figure out exactly where it was on the shelves. … Continue reading →

Looks like the new dean has arrived!

If you remember back to Monday, I came across all these Davies slides while helping a student with a project on campus biology. I had found a few nice things for her, but there really wasn’t a lot of easily … Continue reading →

I’d like to put up just a few more pictures from Joseph Davies’s slides before I move on tomorrow to the second part of this story. Over the decades, the Rice campus expanded in a series of sort of pulses, … Continue reading →

My first grandchild was born this morning up here in Omaha, a little girl named Ann. Mother and beautiful baby are doing great; I’m a bit shaky.  Still, although I’m less coherent than usual, I can manage to put up some … Continue reading →

I had two surprising and remarkable days in the archives last week, one leading directly to the other. It’s going to take more than one post to explain it all, so I guess I’ll just begin at the beginning. I … Continue reading →

Really, I don’t even know where to start with this. I’d guess it’s about 1960.

About a week or so ago, RUPD Officer David Anderson came to see me in the Woodson. He said he had several old photographs of Rice and asked if I’d be interested in taking a look at them. In classic … Continue reading →

One of my colleagues in the Woodson has been working with some of the many, many newspaper clippings we have from the William Marsh Rice murder trial and for a few days they were out on the back table. While … Continue reading →

Here are a few more examples of activity around the cloisters, all from the 1920s and 30s. I had a hard time finding pictures of people just sitting around talking, but there were lots of images of strange antics. It’s … Continue reading →