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When people could just fling toilet paper around like it was nothing: I’m guessing late ’80s based on the fact that the player’s shorts are still actually short.

After almost two decades of stagnation–two world wars and the Depression didn’t help– new construction on campus exploded after World War II. Unlike current times when building projects are more or less constant this post-war construction came in several bursts. … Continue reading →

What on earth is going on here? I scanned these images a couple of years ago then, confused, forgot about them: The answer is in the 1924 Campanile, which I am still looking at today. This was an actual fight, … Continue reading →

I was lounging around my office at home this afternoon, sipping some coffee and leafing through the 1924 Campanile just for the fun of it. I’ve spent quite bit of time with this  book but I caught something today that … Continue reading →

It really was an auspicious moment when the Rice Institute hired Coach Jess Neely away from Clemson on January 11, 1940. I can’t help but wonder why Neely took the job, which didn’t obviously look like good one, but here … Continue reading →

This is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time, actually faith restoring. I think they were all back to clean out their dorm rooms and just organized themselves. Many thanks to Grungy for the pictures.     Bonus: … Continue reading →

A bad case of the flu in February, 1931 kept French professor Marcel Moraud in Paris longer than anticipated: But today things got real with the coronavirus at Rice. They announced that the rest of the semester will be done … Continue reading →

One of my  colleagues in the Woodson alerted me to this today. She found a full set of drawings for a 25 foot yawl, a two masted sail boat, for the Rice Institute. I can’t even begin to suggest an … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s the mundane things that prove to be the most mysterious. One of the things that we never stop to think about is the campus mail–you put it in one of those envelopes and someone takes it where you … Continue reading →

It was established in 1971, located out in that old shack by the track stadium that seems to have housed everything from an art studio to the original Black Student Union. We have only a couple of images of it, … Continue reading →