Monthly Archives: June 2016

Every once in a while I get the urge to walk over and pull things off the shelves at random. Even after all these years there is so much in the archives that I haven’t seen. Parts of the collection … Continue reading →

I couldn’t help smiling when I read this note from Dr. Lovett to Lester Ford of the Math Department: I can’t make heads or tails of it, of course.  I suspect the game was a dull one–we beat Sam Houston … Continue reading →

What the heck is this? It’s got a date–1969–but no other identifying information. Where are they? I don’t even know where to start–what could those outfits be made of? And the mustache! Yikes.

My eye was caught a little while ago by this interesting and startlingly modern depiction of William Marsh Rice, Jr. in the 1927 Campanile: Just as interesting was the dedication of the Campanile to him that year: Two things jump … Continue reading →

I had to laugh at myself a little bit today. I came across this photograph and didn’t even notice that there were people in it until I had already scanned it: What I had focused on, of course, were the … Continue reading →

I have no idea when this was taken or what it was all about but it’s certainly interesting: What’s got me puzzled is the mix of people at the table. That’s Alan Chapman with the cigarette dangling from his lips … Continue reading →

We lost my dear mother last week, unexpectedly but peacefully, just a few days shy of her 87th birthday. She wasn’t a Rice person especially, although she did enjoy a nice tale of academic futility and she once, hilariously, knitted … Continue reading →

Anyone who’s ever done a house renovation has got at least a couple of contractor horror stories. That’s just how life is. The first major addition to Cohen House was built in 1958. Most of you don’t know Mr. Cohen … Continue reading →

This remarkable artifact turned up recently, tucked away in George Cohen’s papers. It’s the program for the banquet that honored Rice’s 1937 SWC Championship team. We’d never seen one before and it is a real beauty: What makes it really … Continue reading →

In a bit of a surprise, I recently discovered that President Lovett had a file full of jokes. There are a whole bunch of them and I assume they were meant to be “ice breakers,” used to open speeches. (He … Continue reading →