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Monthly Archives: February 2019
HMRC Thursday: Parsons’ Bricks Attract National Attention, 1957
This didn’t start out to be about bricks but quickly wound its way over that direction. I found this set of pictures in the collection of Houston Post negatives downtown at the HMRC. The first one in the envelope was … Continue reading
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Bricks
Yes, it’s come to this. A post about bricks. And the bad news is that it looks like it won’t be the last one. As I was driving onto campus yesterday I pulled over and got out of the car … Continue reading
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Dead End, 1957
It may or may not surprise you to know that I routinely squirrel away things that I can use for the occasional quick and dirty post. I generally write here when I get home in the evening and there are … Continue reading
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Segregation, Tuition, and Football, 1962
You know how I’m always so surprised by the things I find? Like “Oh my gosh, I never expected to see something like this!” or “what a startling discovery!” That didn’t happen today. What I found today I’ve always known … Continue reading
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“thank you for the pleasing inscription in the fly-leaf,” 1942
As I mentioned the other day I’ve recently spent some time looking for something in the library records.(Didn’t find it.) Anyway, I went all the way back to the old Rice Institute Library collection, which in reality is mostly a … Continue reading
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“Graphic Works and Watercolors from Private Collections,” 1949
I was looking for something yesterday in the Fondren Library Papers, which inevitably hold something of interest even when I don’t find what I’m looking for. What turned up this time was astonishing–I still can hardly believe it. It’s the … Continue reading
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Friday Follies: Just out of Reach, 1991
Would you scratch this spot for me?? Bonus: Through another window.
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HMRC Thursday: Sunset Boulevard, 1958
If you pay attention while driving up Sunset from Main towards Rice Boulevard you’ll notice a spot where the street curves out on both sides to form a pretty good sized oval. I feel almost certain that someone here told … Continue reading
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“We freeze, try love, and graduate,” February 1946
Sometimes people ask me how we can have more commencements than we have years as a going concern. It was the war, pushing through two classes of naval engineers each year: Bonus: Sometimes I wonder if they do this stuff … Continue reading
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Rice Institute Student Loan Fund, 1929
During the years when Rice was still getting established there was often a sort of homemade feel about the way business was done. I mentioned yesterday that the Commerce program was instituted in 1930 by means of the support from … Continue reading
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