Weekly Video: Girls Move In (Finally)

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Melissa Kean

I get a kick out of this one. It only took 55 years to build a dorm for girls!

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4 Responses to Weekly Video: Girls Move In (Finally)

  1. joni says:
    August 16, 2012 at 4:14 am

    Is that a cigarette in her hand? (One of the photos of a woman at her desk in the dorm)

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  2. Melissa Kean says:
    August 16, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    It sure is. People smoked everywhere in those days, including in the classrooms.

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  3. Deborah Gronke Bennett says:
    August 18, 2012 at 6:58 am

    I matriculated at Rice in 1976, as a member of Hanszen College. At the time, the co-ed colleges were “experimental”, the experiment having been started in 1973 with Baker and Hanszen. After 5 years, the experiment was declared a success and other colleges were permitted to go co-ed.

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  4. joecwhite says:
    July 6, 2015 at 9:59 am

    My mother wanted to come to Rice (mid-50s), but her parents didn’t want their little girl coming to the big city and living off campus, so they bribed her: if she stayed in Beaumont and went to Lamar, they’d get her a car. She took the deal, and graduated with a degree in mathematics in three years.

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