Monthly Archives: January 2016

I’m at a loss. How about a caption contest?  

While I was looking for that football program with Huey Long on the cover I came across this unlabeled, undated image of what must have been an athletics award ceremony, sometime in the mid-70s by the look of those outfits: … Continue reading →

I admit that sometimes I get so caught up in the past that I miss things that are happening in the present. I was thus caught by surprise when I read yesterday that Rice is going to play LSU in … Continue reading →

This is an extremely impressive group: Left to right are Gene Hackerman, Judy Ley Allen, Josephine Abercrombie, and Martha Lovett, all of them committed supporters of Rice, each in her own way. I don’t know the occasion or where they … Continue reading →

I got a lot of input in both the comments and my email about the stairs on the west side of the Physics Building. I went looking for a better view and I was surprised to find this exceptionally clear … Continue reading →

Who doesn’t? No date but it must be sometime in the ’70s, when Sid and Mary Lee Burrus were at Lovett. Charmingly, these two miscreants were awarded the ARA Gold Medal in 2007. Bonus: Inside the Physics Amphitheater this afternoon. … Continue reading →

I am quite taken with this image. I’ve never seen another one like it, which is always interesting, and it has the added pleasure of beautiful ironwork: I wasn’t immediately sure where it was taken, largely because of the ironwork, … Continue reading →

This 1948 Thresher article is the earliest reference I’ve seen to students evaluating faculty at Rice in an organized way: I’m particularly interested in the way the faculty members are talking here. The tolerant tone has the feel of a … Continue reading →

This made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. You can almost hear the bugle, can’t you? I believe it was put up on the message board that hung in the Sallyport. Bonus:

Just before Christmas break we had a patron in the Woodson who was researching in the Julian Huxley papers, one of our most used collections. Since the boxes were already out I could do no other than look in them. … Continue reading →