Monthly Archives: August 2012

Now things begin to get interesting. The Blue Devils were really good in 1957. They won the ACC and wound up in the Orange Bowl, where they lost pretty badly to Oklahoma. But in early October no one was really … Continue reading →

I freely confess that I don’t know what this is. I’m also completely confident that whatever else it might be, it’s extremely obsolete. I found all these pictures on a contact sheet in a file called “Fondren Library” and couldn’t … Continue reading →

There are some things at Rice that simply endure, some things that bind us together across the decades. Apparently lederhosen would be one of those things. Remember these girls from 1940? An here’s a brave young man at a Sid … Continue reading →

On my way out to the parking lot this afternoon, someone stopped me to let me know that Ted Lewis, long a member of Rice’s Chemistry Department, died this week. Lewis came to Rice just at the end of World … Continue reading →

Ninety-eight years ago the great catastrophe began. It took a while for the war the reach Rice, but not all that long, really. In 1916 Jimmie Waters was captain of the track team: And not long afterwards, Lieutenant Waters arrived … Continue reading →