Monthly Archives: March 2019

No names, no date, and I have no idea what they’re looking at. But it doesn’t look good: Bonus: My always helpful readers have informed me that I flipped at least two out three of yesterday’s pictures. The Rice History … Continue reading →

We have very few pictures of the early years of Jones College in the Woodson (and even fewer written materials) so I was happy to find these images from December, 1959 in the Houston Post collection today. I can’t properly … Continue reading →

I can no longer remember what I was looking for when I came across this delightful little booklet: It’s nice idea–the library staff getting together for a sort of smorgasbord at the home of Mary Alice Hamilton and then collecting … Continue reading →

If you thought English Zero was deflating wait until you see this, also from 1935: Sent home to your parents too! (That would probably be a FERPA violation today.) As I said yesterday, they were not fooling around. Rice students … Continue reading →

I’m out of town for a meeting and can manage to grab just a moment to post. I offer only this, currently my top candidate for Most Dispiriting Course Title Ever: These people were not kidding around either. Although anyone … Continue reading →

Here’s Florence Stancliff ’27, circa late-’50s, showing them how it was done back in her day. I actually have no idea what’s going on here or even whose leg that is but it doesn’t look relaxing at all. I admit … Continue reading →

We’re all familiar with the pictures of John F. Kennedy delivering his moonshot speech at Rice stadium. They’re iconic images. But today in the Houston Post photo archives at the HMRC I was surprised to find pictures of his brother … Continue reading →

I had a very busy day today, full of fun but exhausting. I’m going to turn in. Catch y’all in the morning. Bonus: From the printmaking studio.

The Woodson recently received a painting by Peter Sartorius ’68. We are very grateful to him. It’s a lovely little work and it’s notable because it depicts an important and almost completely forgotten piece of Rice history: This is the … Continue reading →

Regular readers will surely recall that from time to time I will whine about how people take the same pictures over and over again. Through ten decades there’s been an uninterrupted stream of images of students and their relatives posing … Continue reading →