Monthly Archives: February 2015

Believe it or not, I hold back quite a lot when writing these posts. Really, you should see what I don’t put up. Often the reason I hold back is that I’m afraid I’ll look crazy (I know, I know–let’s … Continue reading →

That’s where I am this morning. I’m sitting in the waiting room and there are three (3!) people snoring like chainsaws in here. Somehow this image came to mind:

I recently found this 1950 clipping about the new Rice mandatory PE program for girls. (There’s nothing to indicate which newspaper this appeared in but it feels like the Post to me.) It was pasted into one of the literary … Continue reading →

We found this in the box of Really Oversized Stuff. It’s dated circa 2002 and I have no real reason to question that although there is so much detail it might be possible to narrow it down: I can only … Continue reading →

Well, here’s another surprise. See her perched on top of the pile of bricks at left? Zoom in and you can see she’s wearing a cute outfit: I’ve been trying to think whether I’ve ever seen another woman on one … Continue reading →

As I sat in my little corner of the Woodson scanning the pictures of Dr. Nicholas that I posted last Thursday, I began to wonder about him a bit. Arriving in 1921 right after completing a Ph.D. and a Fellowship … Continue reading →

Sign me up. From the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society production of Bloomer Girl, circa 1961.

Sometimes if I’m getting something from the photo files I’ll idly open up a nearby folder just to see what’s in it. I did that today and was most pleased to find these three fantastic pictures of Chemistry Professor Henry … Continue reading →

Here’s an unlikely circumstance for you: for the second year in a row I have a picture for Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of the Trees:   This came to me via Hillel Rabbi Kenny Weiss, who got it … Continue reading →

If you, like me, thought that this (from a 2011 post) was the only picture you’d ever see of a monkey in the quad, well, we were all wrong: I was frankly startled to find these this afternoon in a Sarah … Continue reading →