Monthly Archives: January 2014

Rice v. Tulane, October 1946. A big Rice contingent made the trip. They would have us believe that they behaved like angels.

I’d only ever known this curtain in the gym to be blue. (Incidentally, the ghastly blue suit that former AD Chris Del Conte had made out of a piece of that blue curtain is in the Woodson. It weighs roughly … Continue reading →

Unexpectedly, I had a bit of a tree day today and it was a lovely day for it. First, I have learned on good authority (from not one, but two reasonably reliable sources) that this is a pistachio tree: Second, … Continue reading →

While digging around for more information about William Ward Watkin and the Naval ROTC building (which I didn’t find) I came across this very informative article in a 1941 edition of the student magazine, The Owl, about the origins of … Continue reading →

I know I’ve mentioned before that to me one of the most puzzling aspects of the archives is what passed at different times for comedy. Without the context it’s often just gobbledygook, but last week I actually understood a  joke … Continue reading →

I’m very happy to report that I don’t know anything about this.

As I was trying to find a picture of Jim Meador yesterday, one of the places I looked was a big thick file called “Old Football.” It’s filled with things that don’t necessarily have a logical home elsewhere–lots of action … Continue reading →

For reasons that are far too boring to go into here, I spent much of the afternoon looking for something in one of the old alumni scrapbooks. (I talk about these behemoths here.) Anyway, these scrapbooks are just crazy and … Continue reading →

As regular readers can probably tell, I’ve been very interested lately in the World War II era at Rice. A little while ago a researcher was working in the papers of Congressman Albert Thomas (’20) and so I too went … Continue reading →

Here’s the picture that led me to drag my bemused family all over campus on New Year’s Day. I know from context that it was taken sometime in the early to mid-1930s. It’s not a very good photograph–it’s a bit … Continue reading →