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Left to right: Bill Barnett, chairman of the Rice Board of Trustees, President David Leebron, former Rice president Malcolm Gillis, and Trustee James Crownover, chairman of the Rice Presidential Search Committee.
 
1956
Who says Houston doesn’t have Snowy Owls? A sighting right here on the Rice campus sometime in the ’70s proves that stranger things have happened, like enough snow to actually build an owlman. (date is approx.)
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The Cornerstone

Summer 2005
Vol.10, No.2

 
In the year 1917
World War I brings military regulations to campus, including reveille at 5:45 A.M. and taps at 11:00 P.M. All classes previously segregated according to gender are opened to men and women alike.
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