Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Road Behind the Chemistry Building

Somewhere back in the comments someone asked about a road open to automobile traffic behind the Chemistry Building. I can’t find the comment but if I recall correctly there were some questions about exactly where this road extended at various … Continue reading

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Moving Day

More like Moving Month, really. It took most of June, 1949 to get all of our books into the new Fondren Library, which had it’s official opening that fall. There were books stashed all over campus: on upper floors and … Continue reading

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“The touch of memory and imagination”: Edgar Odell Lovett on Fondren Library

Sometimes what happens when you work in the same archive for a long time is that you just get used to it. It seems so normal when you’re in it every day and it becomes easy to take things for … Continue reading

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