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A student recently turned this up in one of Julian Huxley’s scrapbooks and brought it to attention: I’d seen the image before but had apparently never bothered to turn it over. I did this time and found a note in … Continue reading →

Sorry for the less than perfect image; this is another one off a contact sheet. We do have the negative, though, so when there’s more time I can get a clearer picture. A little blurriness, however, can’t disguise the glory … Continue reading →

Sometimes I come across something on eBay that is simply irresistible, just absolute catnip. Thus I have for you today a spectacular advertisement from the 1939 volume of the Engineering News-Record, a construction industry publication that still exists: That’s a … Continue reading →

Ron Sass was truly a stalwart of Rice. He was hired in 1958, when William Houston was president, and he stayed for his entire career. He was here for the semi-centennial and here for the centennial. Ron’s wisdom, compassion, and … Continue reading →

It’s been one of those rains that just won’t stop. Hard, soft, drizzle, drips, but always something. Three days so far. After a hundred and twenty years of working on campus drainage we don’t get the kind of epic floods … Continue reading →

I got several emails and comments about the new sidewalks in the engineering quad, both pro and con. For my part, I have mixed feelings. That pea gravel came, I believe, out of an effort to maintain as much as … Continue reading →

Sorry to have been absent recently–I was trying hard to finish a project which is just . . . about . . . done. (I hope.) I drove through a lot of stuff coming from northwest on Monday–we saw rain, … Continue reading →

I came back from break today to a drippy, dark, sodden campus. Here’s what the quad looked like this morning from the fifth floor of Fondren: Pretty messy: but not as bad as this: That’s from a big rain in … Continue reading →

We have several scrapbooks in the Woodson that were kept by members of the first couple of graduating classes. If you study them closely you find that they are, among other things, testaments to the close relationships between the young … Continue reading →

On more from On Campus, this one very timely. The holiday lull is one of my favorite times of year. It might have even moved into first place now that we don’t have the pre-commencement bustle in the academic quad … Continue reading →