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Rice University one hundred years in pictures
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"From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world," according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston's cultural heart, Ric...
"From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world," according to current president David Leebron. Nestled near Houston's cultural heart, Rice University is characterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events. Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its inte
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- Karen Hess Rogers, Lee Pecht, and Alan Harris Bath ; with an introduction by John B. Boles
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- English
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- 1st ed
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012
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- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1283584395, 9786613896841, 1603447547, 1603441050
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- ocn817810906
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Cover; Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations, vii; Page 1; Page 2; Page 3; Page 4; Page 5; Acknowledgments, xiii; Introduction by John B. Boles, xv; Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, 1; William Marsh Rice, thirty -four years of age, 3; William Marsh Rice as an old man, 3; Not Your Usual Founding: The Birth of the Institute, 3; Cesar Lombardi, 4; Emanuel Raphael, president of the Houston Electric Light; Frederick Allyn Rice, brother of the founder, 4; James E. McAshan, a banker, 4; Alfred S. Richardson, a director of the Houston and
- James A. Baker Jr., Mr. Rice's attorney, 4Julia Elizabeth Baldwin Brown Rice, 5; Albert Patrick, 6; Charlie Jones, 6; Defense Counsel Robert M. Moore, 7; Assistant District Attorney James W. Osborne, 7; Ralph Adams Cram, 8; Woodrow Wilson, 8; Mary Ellen Hale Lovett, 8; F. Carrington Weems, a Princeton graduate and native; Edgar Odell Lovett, 9; Route the Lovetts took on their nine-month round-the-world; The RMS Homeric, 10; Postcard from Vienna, 10; Postcard from Constantinople, 10; Postcard from St. Petersburg, 10; Postcard from Japan, 10; Postcard from Stanford University, 10
- The site chosen for the institute, 11The master plan, 11; Harris Gully, 12; The academic seal, 13; Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, 13; William Ward Watkin, 14; Construction of the Rice campus seen from Main Street, 14; Construction of the cloisters in the Administration Building, 15; Construction of the Mechanical Engineer Laboratory; Laying the cornerstone, 16; The cornerstone, 16; The first board of trustees and faculty of the Rice Institute; Downtown Houston, 1912, 18; Edmund Dupree, the first male student to matriculate at Rice, 19; School Opens with No Upper Limit, 19
- Original class members, Rice Institute, on registration day, SeptemberFaculty chamber in the Administration Building during; Administration Building. 1992, 21; Library on the second floor of the Administration Building, 22; Interior of the power plant, 22; Meter from the power plant, 22; Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, 1912, 22; Delegates at the formal opening, 23; Dr. Lovett delivering remarks at the formal opening, 24; Professor Rafael Altamira y Crevea of Madrid, 25; Professor Emile Borel of Paris, 25; Professor Hugo de Vries of Amsterdam, 25; Professor Sir Henry Jones of Glasgow, 25
- Privy Councilor Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of Gross-Bothen,Professor Sir William Ramsay of London, 25; Professor Senator Vito Volterra of Rome, 25; The Owl, a humble shack on Main Street, was the first place Rice; Women eating lunch on the lawn, 26; Thomas Lindsey Blayney, a German professor, and Nellie Mills, the; "Little Girl Party" given by freshmen women around 1912, 27; "Votes for Women," a tongue-in-cheek rally of suffragists before; Harold A. Wilson, professor of physics, 28; "Waiting for the Trolley,"" 28; Captured owl at Texas A&M, 29; "Sammy" back at Rice, 29
- Cartoon from the 1916 Campanile, 30