Monthly Archives: September 2017

Speaking of transportation along Main Street, one of the odder ways students managed to get from one place to another was a quasi-official institution referred to by all as Boulevard Service. This was essentially a loosely organized sort of hitch-hiking … Continue reading →

Speaking of H.A. Wilson, one of the many charming letters that have turned up in the ARA collection describes his means of transportation to and from campus. I’ve come to understand that the dramatic flourish of the long gloves, much … Continue reading →

I’m sorry to say that I never had the chance to know George Trammell ’44, a faculty member in the Physics Department for thirty-six years. Professor Trammell passed away this last summer at the age 94 and I always feel … Continue reading →

We had a patron in the Woodson today who was working with some materials from the Albert Thomas (’19) Papers. In a box filled with Congressman Thomas’s speeches I found this one, which he gave not long after NASA made … Continue reading →

Buns out. Hard to date (lack of clothes), but my wild guess is late ’70s to early ’80s. Maybe I’m too suspicious, but I wonder how much studying was actually going on here.

Confronted earlier this week with wet volumes at a local synagogue, this picture was how I remembered what to do: That’s Philosophy professor Radoslav Tsanoff sliding pieces of dry paper between the wet pages of a book in the aftermath … Continue reading →

Twice in the last week I’ve fallen asleep sitting up. Once was on the sofa at home but the second time was in my car, which was parked in the Lovett lot. I woke up twenty minutes later with my … Continue reading →

With my friend and colleague Josh Furman from Jewish Studies I have been (and continue to be) on a mission to save precious and fragile pieces of the history of Jewish Houston that were damaged in the floods caused by … Continue reading →

Just a quick one today. We were dropping off some supplies this afternoon for Undies for Everyone, the organization that is providing new underwear for people displaced by Hurricane Harvey. (Here’s their website if you feel moved to donate. It … Continue reading →