Monthly Archives: November 2018

I’m going to be lounging like this all weekend. Don’t even try to stop me.

For many years an entity called the Committee on University Welfare served a sort of  intermediary function at Rice, dealing with problems that arose either in between the cracks or crossing boundaries of faculty, staff, student, and administration interests. In … Continue reading →

I ran across this undated photo a little while ago and I was so interested in the area behind the gym and around the old stadium that I failed to notice it had been taken on a game day. Look … Continue reading →

One day in the late summer of 1970 the Sid Richardson Foundation sent a representative down to Rice to have a look at the progress of construction on the new dormitory that they had helped fund. A photographer came along … Continue reading →

I don’t know whether a picture is worth a thousand words but sometimes two are. Here are two examples of Rice Institute letterhead, both from 1909. They seem to me to have emerged from two entirely different mental worlds. This … Continue reading →

Games in the Reference area! What will it be next?! I think it was the Friends of Fondren Casino party in 1982. At least I hope it was.

In one of the boxes of the Cohen House collection is a guest register from the early years of operation. I knew it was there but I hadn’t looked at it closely until recently. What I learned was that while … Continue reading →

This combines three of my favorite things: Rice Fight Never Dies, Tony Martino, and obsolete technology. We lost that game to a highly ranked A&M team but had a decent season, going 6-3-1 in Jess Neely’s second year. Bonus: There … Continue reading →

I’m getting ready to feed a bunch of people over here so this seems as good a time as any to break out this article about the expansion of the dining hall from the November 1939 issue of the Owl … Continue reading →

I picked this 1910 issue of The Railroad Echo magazine out of a folder because I’m always interested in anything about the ship channel, which has been from its creation the beating heart of the Houston economy. I especially enjoyed … Continue reading →