Monthly Archives: March 2014

I found this photo of some Rice engineering students on a group outing several years ago in Carl Knapp’s scrapbook. (That’s him second from left in the middle row.) I liked the image but didn’t really know what it was … Continue reading →

Garden party, that is. Dr. Lovett pours some punch for Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins, at the 1941 commencement garden party. I’m betting it was not spiked.

These turned up a little while ago in some materials from Baker College. You can see that at some point they were in color, but they’ve now faded out to an almost uniform violet. And miracle of miracles, they came … Continue reading →

I noticed this photo in Carl Knapp’s scrapbook (see also here) quite a while ago but it wasn’t until the other day that I understood what I was looking at. It was taken in June, 1916 and what they’re peering at … Continue reading →

I walk past this rock on a pretty regular basis. I noticed it fresh the other morning on my way in to the library and began wondering whether the Ray courtyard was an original part of the RMC. It didn’t … Continue reading →

Last Friday’s picture of the kid sleeping in the RMC came from one of two folders full of contact sheets that turned up in Rice architecture professor Will Cannady’s papers. There were a lot of tiny pictures in these files … Continue reading →

We forget sometimes that college is exhausting. June 1967, I think this architecture student is in the Grand Hall of the RMC, which was full of furniture at this time: March 2014, I know for sure that this medical student … Continue reading →

Away from the archives, I find myself trawling through the images on my laptop this afternoon, looking for something interesting to show you. The biggest drawback to this is that I have so many pictures it’s easy to get distracted. … Continue reading →

I’m spending this week in the Pacific Northwest and the plant life looks very peculiar to a long-time Texan. Some of the odd shapes and colors remind me a bit of the illustrations in the Dr. Seuss books we used … Continue reading →

I ran across this while looking through some slides that I think must have come from the Association of Rice Alumni office: It’s labeled on the back as an Elliott Addressing Machine and it’s not hard to understand why the … Continue reading →