Monthly Archives: February 2013

Here is a young man who is about to start a really big adventure: I mentioned the other day that when I was looking for the location of the physics lab I consulted the 1915 General Announcements. I have a … Continue reading →

Here’s something I’ve never seen before. I was looking at some old aerial photos of campus and at the bottom of the stack were a couple black and white contact sheets, the images not much larger than postage stamps. I … Continue reading →

Last weekend the Friends of Fondren Library honored two Rice graduates, Mayor Annise Parker, ’78 and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, ’71 at their annual gala. I wasn’t there but I heard that the evening was a lot of fun … Continue reading →

A bunch of bassoonists, confirming what I’ve always thought about musicians:

I will never stop marveling at how much I don’t know. I felt like I had a pretty good idea of how the physics building works but as soon as I started looking at it really hard I became aware … Continue reading →

One of my favorite things in the book of Physics Building construction photos that I ran across last week was this nice image of some shiny new lab space. Something about it sent me back looking for the only other … Continue reading →

Yes, it’s come to this: my attention is arrested by nothing more than a strange bench. To be fair, I had a very, very long travel day today and I’m exhausted. I realize that I could avoid this by having … Continue reading →

I’ve been working quite a bit in the 1930s recently and I’m learning a lot. In some respects these weren’t good times at the Institute. We had some pretty serious financial issues and began to lose good faculty, most notably … Continue reading →

It was a simpler time, and a time with much shorter shorts. Bonus: Those skimpy uniforms required really fabulous warm-up suits.