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A University So Conceived
A Brief History of Rice (Revised Edition)
     By John B. Boles

John B. Boles
(B.A., Rice, 1965; Ph.D., Virginia, 1969),
is the William Pettus Hobby
Professor of History at Rice and the
Manging Editor of the Journal of Southern History.
He is the author of six other books,
editor or coeditor of five more,
and is writing a biography of Edgar Odell Lovett.
In 1991 he received the Meritorious Service Award
from the Association of Rice Alumni, and in 1994,
the Graduate Student Association Teaching Award.

First Published in 1992; revised and updated
edition published in 1997

Copyright © 1992, 1997 by Rice University
Division of University Advancement
Houston, Texas

All rights reserved

Chapter Titles:
  1. Preface
  2. A Special View
  3. A Precarious Beginning
  4. Creating A Vision
  5. The Grand Opening
  6. Setting the Standard
  7. A Changing World
  8. Postwar Growth
  9. Student Life
  10. A Maturing University
  11. A Generation of Change
  12. The University in Transition
  13. Continuing Lovett’s Vision
  14. Reinforcing Excellence
  15. A University Comes of Age
  16. A University So Conceived
  17. A Second Century Begins
  18. A Selected Bibliography on
    Rice University
  19. Acknowledgements
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