in English.
Adolph Benjamin Swanson, B.A. (Augustana), MA.
(Iowa), formerly Professor of German at Ellsworth College;
Instructor in French at the Rice Institute; later Fellow
in Romance Languages at the University of Chicago;
Instructor in French.
John Clark Tidden, formerly Fellow and Traveling
Scholar of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts;
Instructor in Architectural Drawing and Painting,
Radoslav Andrea Tsanofif, B.A. (Oberlin), Ph.D. (Cor-
nell), formerly Sage Fellow of Cornell University; In-
structor in Philosophy at Clark University; later Assistant
Professor of Philosophy at the Rice Institute; Professor
of Philosophy.
Patrick Henry Underwood, M.A. (Rice), formerly
with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, New
York; Instructor in Engineering.
Howell Hubert Vines, B.A. (Alabama), M.A. (Harvard);
Instructor in English.
Curtis Howe Walker, Ph.D. (Yale), formerly Assistant
Professor of History at the University of Chicago; Lecturer
in European History.
James Stephen Waters, B.S. (Rice); Instructor in Engi-
neering.
William Ward Watkin, B.S. in Arch. (Pennsylvania),
M.A, LA. , formerly Scholar in Architecture in the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; Associate Architect with Messrs.
Cram and Ferguson, the supervising architects of the
Institute; Instructor in Architecture, and later Assistant
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Professor of Architecture, at the Rice Institute; Professor
of Architecture.
Harry Boyer Weiser, M.A. (Ohio State), Ph.D. (Cornell),
formerly Assistant Instructor in Chemistry at Cornell
University; Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Tennessee; Instructor in Chemistry, and
later Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at the Rice Institute ;
Professor of Chemistry.
Harold Albert Wilson, F.R.S., M.A. (Cambridge),
M.Sc. (Victoria), D.Sc. (London), formerly 1851 Exibition
Scholar of Leeds University; Allen Scholar and Clerk
Maxwell Student of Cambridge University; Scholar in
Physics of London University; Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge University; Professor of Physics in King's
College, London; Professor of Physics in McGill University;
Professor of Physics at the Rice Institute; later Professor
of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow;
Professor of Physics.
ASSISTANTS AND FELLOWS
Geoffrey Everett Cunningham, B.S. and M.S. (Tulane),
formerly Instructor in Chemistry in Tulane University;
Fellow in Chemistry.
Alice Crowell Dean, M.A. (Rice) ; Fellow in Mathematics.
Sam S. Emison, B.S. (Rice); Graduate Assistant in
Chemistry.
Julius Lyman Edward Erickson, B.A. (Rice); Graduate
Assistant in Chemistry.
Augusto Eyquem, Bachelor of Humanities (Chile),
formerly Assistant in Spanish at Princeton University;
Assistant in Spanish.
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Joseph Stephen Gallegly, Jr., B.A. (Rice); Assistant in
English.
Joseph Calvin Henderson, B.A. (Rice) ; Fellow in Biology.
Rudolph Stokes Nelson, B.S. and M.S. (Illinois), for-
merly Austin Teaching Fellow at Harvard University;
Professor of Chemistry at Tennessee College; Fellow in
Chemistry.
William Nottingham Powell, B.A. (Rice); Graduate
Assistant in Biology.
Robert Stanley Radcliffe, B. S. (Lafayette), formerly
Assistant in Chemistry at Middlebury College; Acting
Professor of Chemistry at Maryville College; Fellow in
Chemistry.
Charles Frederick Roos, B.A. and M.A. (Rice) ; Fellow
in Mathematics.
Isaac Christopher Sanders, B.A. (Rice), formerly
Assistant Profesor of Physics at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas; Fellow in Physics.
Isador Mitchell Sheffer, B.S. (Harvard), M.A. (Rice);
Fellow in Mathematics.
Allan Henry Stevenson, B.A. (Rice) ; Assistant in English.
James Silas Watt, B.A. and M.A. (Rice); Fellow in
Physics.
George Guion Williams, B.A. and M.A. (Rice) ; Assistant
in English.
SCHOLARSHIPS
While seeking to develop its students in character, in
culture, and in citizenship, the Rice Institute will reserve
for scholarship its highest rewards and in particular for
evidences of creative capacity in productive scholarship.
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To encourage this devotion to learning tliere have been
devised through the donations of friends of the Institute
a number of undergraduate scholarships to be awarded
preferably to those students who have been in residence
at the Institute for at least one year. Moreover, honorary
scholarships without stipend may be granted to students
whose scholastic standing shows marked ability.
The Graham Baker Studentship
The first of these undergraduate scholarships to be es-
tablished at the Institute is the Graham Baker Student-
ship, founded by Captain and Mrs. James A. Baker, of
Houston, in memory of their eldest son, the late Frank
Graham Baker. This studentship is awarded annually to
students of the Rice Institute upon the basis of highest
standing in scholarship, and the holder is known as the
Graham Baker Student for the year. The award is an-
nounced at the commencement convocation in June, and
the annual stipend is $300.
The Hohenthal Scholarships
The Hohenthal Scholarship Fund is a gift to the Rice
Institute made through the good offices of Mr. William
M. Rice, Jr., from the estate of the late Lionel Hohenthal,
of Houston, who in his last will and testament instructed
his executor, Mr. Rice, to devote the residue of his estate
to the founding of a permanent memorial to Mr. Hohen-
thal's mother, father, and brother. The scholarships pro-
vided by this fund are known as the Hohenthal Scholar-
ships, and the holders as the Hohenthal Scholars of the
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Institute. These scholarships are awarded annually to
students who are earning a substantial part of their col-
lege expenses on a basis of high standing in scholarship.
Each of the six now available carries with it an annual
stipend of $200.
Scholarships in Civics and Philanthropy
With the Sharp Lectureship in Civics and Philanthropy
founded by Mrs. Estelle B. Sharp, of Houston, there are
associated four scholarships in civics and philanthropy.
For the last academic year the scholarships were provided
by Messrs. William L. Clayton, Will C. Hogg, Ed Prather,
and Harry C. Wiess, of Houston. These scholarships
bear an annual stipend of $250 and are awarded preferably
to graduates of high standing intending to prepare for
work in social service.
The D.A.R. Scholarship
The John McKnitt Alexander Chapter of the Daughters
of the American Revolution has provided an endowed
undergraduate scholarship at the Rice Institute. Under
the present conditions of this scholarship it is awarded to
a young woman student on admission to the Institute and
carries with it an annual stipend of $250. The first award
was made for the academic year 1919-20.
The Ellen Axson Wilson Scholarship
The Axson Club, an organization of Houston women in
the interests of literary pursuits, recently concluded a
successful campaign for the endowment of a permanent
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scholarship at the Rice Institute in memory of Ellen
Axson Wilson (the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson), the scholar-
ship to be awarded from year to year to a young woman
student of the Institute. The annual stipend of the Ellen
Axson Wilson Scholarship is $600, and the first award
of the scholarship was made for the academic year 1922-23.
The Lady Geddes Prize in Writing
The Right Honorable Sir Auckland Geddes, British
Ambassador to the United States, Godwin Lecturer of
the Rice Institute in 1921, has endowed at Rice a prize
in writing, which is to bear the name of Lady Geddes.
This prize is to be awarded annually from the income of
the endowment of one thousand dollars.
The first award of the Lady Geddes Prize in Writing
was made at the end of the academic year 1922-23,
the competition of this award being open to members of the
freshman and sophomore classes of the Rice Institute,
and the subjects assigned pertaining to the relations be-
tween Great Britain and the United States.
FELLOWSHIPS
The Rice Institute would interpret in a large way its
dedication to the advancement of letters, science, and art.
It would not only look to the employment of these dis-
ciplines in the development of the life of the individual
and in that of the race, but it would also play its part
in the progress and enlargement of human knowledge
by contributions of its own resident professors and scholars.
Accordingly there should always be associated with the
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staff of the Institute a group of advanced students in train-
ing for careers both as teachers and researchers: with
this end in view, graduate fellowships will be awarded
from time to time to degree-bearing students of the Insti-
tute, or other educational foundations of similar standing.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-HELP
In addition to the stipends of fellowships and endowed
scholarships, there are, on the campus and in the city,
opportunities in considerable variety for worthy and de-
serving students to earn a part of their living expenses
while attending the Institute. Information concerning
such openings may be obtained from the Bursar. Thanks
also to the generosity of a number of citizens of Hous-
ton, there are available several student loan funds. In-
quiries concerning the administration of these funds
should be addressed to the Bursar.
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION
All candidates for admission to the Institute are re-
quired to present satisfactory testimonials as to their
character, and either to pass examinations in the entrance
subjects, or, in lieu thereof, to present certificate of gradu-
ation from an approved public or private high school. The
standard requirements for matriculation are determined
by the system of units given below. A unit represents
a course of study pursued five hours a week for an academic
year. Appropriate application forms may be secured
from the Registrar.
Fifteen units are required for entrance in full standing
to the freshman class of the Institute. No candidate for
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admission will be accepted with fewer than fifteen units.
And towards this total of fifteen units, every candidate
will be required to present, from the list of subjects printed
below, at least three units in English, three units in mathe-
matics,^ two in algebra and one in plane geometry, two
units in history, and three units in one foreign language
or two units in each of two foreign languages. Variation
in the distribution of units may be considered in individual
cases.
METHOD OF PROCEDURE FOR ADMISSION
TO THE FRESHMAN CLASS
I. General Policy of Competitive Admission of Students
With the rapid growth in population of Houston and
the Southwest, accompanied by an even more rapid in-
crease in the demand for college training, the Rice In-
stitute is brought face to face with the problem of maintain-
ing high standards of instruction without shutting the
door of opportunity to properly qualified students. It
is therefore proposed, for the immediate future, to meet
this problem by a plan of admission to the Freshman
Class based on the following principles:
1. The maintenance, as in the past, of standards for
entrance on a high plane.
2. The adoption in advance for each academic year or
group of years of a specific number of new students
to be admitted on a competitive basis. This
^ Students expecting to enter the Institute are advised to elect
mathematics during their fourth year. If possible, this course should
include training in algebra and trigonometry.
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.number should be slightly smaller than the demand
but not so far below that demand as to cause
injustice to well qualified students.
3. The division of students into still smaller groups in
the classes in elementary subjects. The adoption
of this principle makes necessary the acceptance
of a smaller total number, but means that a larger
number will receive careful and adequate in-
struction.
II. Specific Plan for the Admission of Four Hundred
Freshmen in the Autumn of 1925
The Rice Institute will accept four hundred Freshmen
direct from high school in September, 1925. The total
student body will thus consist of about eleven hundred
members, which was approximately the enrollment in
September, 1924.
In selecting the members of this Freshman Class the
Committee will be guided by such principles as the fol-
lowing:
1. As at present, no candidate to be accepted with
fewer than fifteen units.
2. Preference to be given to candidates who present
the maximum number of units in English, Mathe-
matics, Foreign. Languages, Science, and History.
3. Preference to be given to candidates who show
special promise and capacity for leadership, es-
pecially those in the upper half of their high school
class.
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4. Of candidates not in one of the above preferential
groups, special preference to be given to those who
prove fitness by taking entrance examinations in
one or more subjects.
5. Preference to be given to candidates whose applica-
tions are received early.
6. Candidates, once chosen, are received without
conditions.
LIST OF SUBJECTS WITH VALUES
IN UNITS
Botany i ; Chemistry i ; Civics {yi or i) ; English (3 or 4) ;
French (Elementary 2, Intermediate i, Advanced i);
German (Elementary 2, Intermediate i); Greek (Grammar
and Elementary Prose Composition i, Xenophon i,
Homer — Iliad, Books I-III i); History (Ancient i. Mediae-
val and Modern i, English i, American i); Latin (Gram-
mar, Elementary Prose Composition and Caesar 2, Cicero
I, Virgil i); Mathematics (Algebra 2, Plane Geometry
I , Solid Geometry j4, Trigonometry yi) ; Spanish (Ele-
mentary 2, Intermediate i. Advanced i); Physics i;
Physical Geography >^; Physiology 'jA', Zoology i. Sub-
stitutes for certain of these subjects may be considered in
individual cases.
Entrance examinations will be held at the Institute be-
ginning September 14, 1925, and again during the week
beginning May 17, 1926. Applications for the privilege
of taking these examinations must be received at the
Registrar's Office three weeks in advance of the begin-
ning of the examinations. Such applications must be
accompanied by statements and records from schools
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attended by candidates. Appropriate forms for such
applications and records may be obtained from the Reg-
istrar's Office of the Rice Institute on request.
The terms of admission to the Institute are based on
the recommendations of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching as expressed in the Documents
of the College Entrance Examination Board. Complete
information with respect to further details of these re-
quirements will be forwarded by the Institute to any
candidate upon receipt of a request addressed to the
Registrar of the Institute.
Advanced credit will be granted to students coming
from other recognized colleges and universities only
when the work presented is equivalent in content and
quality to a full year course at the Institute. Such pro-
spective students should make early application to the
Registrar and submit official statements of their prepara-
tory and college work, together with catalogues of the
institutions attended.
EXPENSES
The opportunities for study and research offered by the
Rice Institute are open without tuition both to young
men and to young women. Students, of course, are
expected to meet all expenses incurred in the purchase of
text books, drafting instruments, note books, registration
and examination papers, certificates and diplomas, and the
materials actually used up in the experimental courses in
pure and applied science. A contingent deposit of ten
dollars, payable at matriculation, must be maintained by
each student. In addition to this general contingent
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deposit, laboratory deposits also payable at matriculation
must be maintained at the Office of the Bursar as follows:
a deposit of twenty-five dollars for each course taken in
biology and chemistry, and a deposit of ten dollars for each
course taken in physics. These deposits, contingent and
laboratory, will ordinarily cover the charges against the
student for materials, et cetera, but in event these charges
against any particular deposit should approach the amount
of that deposit, the student will be required to make such
additional payment as will bring his deposit to the original
amount: this is what is meant by maintaining a deposit.
Any balances on these deposits are returned in July fol-
lowing the academic year. For delayed registration a
penalty is required. See pages 76 and 77 for nominal
expenses in connection with physical training.
No student in arrears in his bills to the Institute will be
admitted to any of the examinations.
At the time of registration a fee of fifteen dollars is
assessed each student by the Students' Association to
meet the expenses of the Students' Association, the Honor
Council, and the student publications. This assessment
is made with the approval of the Faculty and the Board
of Trustees, but the payment of the fee is not compulsory.
However, students who thus become members of the
Students' Association are entitled to admission to all
athletic contests of Rice Institute teams held in Houston,
and they receive the weekly paper and the college annual.
Rooms in the residential halls for men, completely
furnished exclusive of linen, may be had at prices ranging
from eighty to one hundred twenty dollars per year, five-
eighths of the rental being paid when the lease is signed
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and the remainder paid in February. As the charge for
table board will be listed at actual cost, the monthly
price, payable in advance, will probably vary during the
year. Until October first, a blanket charge of one dollar
and five cents per day will be made.
These residential halls are of absolutely fireproof con-
struction, heated by steam, lighted by electricity, cleaned
by vacuum apparatus, and equipped with the most ap-
proved form of sanitary plumbing, providing adequate
bathing facilities on every floor. The rooms will be let
in the order of applications received. Inasmuch as each
year the accommodations now adequate to house some
three hundred and fifty men have all been engaged be-
fore the opening of the session, reservations should
be made early. Diagrams showing the floor plans will be
sent to any one who may be interested on application to
the Office of the Bursar.
Accommodations for the residence of young women on
the university grounds are not available at present. How-
ever, while attending to their duties on the campus the
young women of the university have access to adequate
rest rooms, tennis courts, and other forms of recreation
under the constant supervision of Mrs. Sara Stratford,
Adviser to Women. Information concerning desirable
places of residence for young women students may be
had at the Office of the Bursar.
COURSES OF INSTRUCTION
FOR DEGREES
Although it is the policy of the new institution to de-
velop its university programme rather more seriously
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from the science end, there are also being provided facili-
ties for elementary and advanced courses in the so-called
humanities, thereby enabling the Institute to offer both
the advantages of a liberal general education and those
of special and professional training. Extensive general
courses in the various domains of scientific knowledge
will be available, but in the main the programme consists
of subjects carefully coordinated and calling for consid-
erable concentration of study. These programmes have
been so arranged as to offer a variety of courses in arts,
in science, in letters, and in their applications to the sev-
eral fields of engineering, architecture, and other regions
of applied science, leading after four years of under-
graduate work to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. De-
grees will also be offered in architecture and in chemical,
civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Further-
more, for the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Phi-
losophy, and Doctor of Engineering, every facility will be
afforded properly qualified graduate students to under-
take lines of study and research under the direction of
the Institute's resident and visiting professors.
The academic programmes of study leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Arts after four years of study are
of a common type for the first two years, but for the
third and fourth years are differentiated into two forms:
first, general courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, either with some grade of distinction or without
special mention, and, second, honors courses leading to
the degree with honors in certain subjects. These two
types will be referred to in the sequel as general courses
and honors courses respectively.
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The general course leading to the degree of B.A. has
been arranged to give thorough training to those students
who are seeking university instruction in literary and sci-
entific subjects either as a part of a liberal education or as
preliminary to entering upon a business or professional
career. The general course therefore involves the study
of several subjects up to a high university standard but
does not include a highly detailed specialized study of any
one subject such as is necessary before research work or
university teaching can be profitably undertaken. Stu-
dents wishing to specialize with a view to research work
and university teaching may either complete an honors
B.A. course and then proceed by graduate study to the
degrees of M.A. and Ph.D., or they may first take a
general B.A. course and after completing it proceed by
graduate study to the higher degrees.
The attention of students intending to enter the profes-
sion of engineering or architecture is called to the great
advantages in first taking a general or honors academic
course before beginning special study in engineering or
architecture. At present the Institute is not offering
courses leading to degrees in law and medicine, but stu-
dents looking forward to such careers will find in the
earlier years of the B.A. course all the requirements for
admission to many medical and law schools, provided
suitable subjects are chosen. However, attention is called
to the fact that several professional schools of law and
medicine now require bachelor degrees for admission.
As has already been intimated, the course for the de-
gree of B.A. extends over four years. During the first
two years a considerable part of the work is prescribed,
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while during the last two years each student is allowed,
within certain restrictions, to select the subject he studies.
In the majority of the courses the formal instruction
offered consists of three lectures a week together with
laboratory work in certain subjects. Preliminary examina-
tions for Freshmen and students on probation are held
in December, examinations for all students are given in
February and final examinations for all are held in June.
Other examinations are given from time to time at periods
determined by the instructors.
These examinations are conducted under a student hon-
or system. In determining the standing of a student
in each class both his work during the term and the record
of his examinations are taken into account.
Of subjects included in the B.A. courses the following
are now available:
Group A
Group B
I. English
I.
Pure Mathematics
2. French
2.
Applied Mathematics
3. German
3-
Physics
4. Italian
4-
Chemistry
5. Latin
5-
Biology
6. Spanish
6.
Chemical Engineering
7. Economics
7.
Civil Engineering
8. Education
8.
Electrical Engineering
9. History
9-
Mechanical Engineering
10. Philosophy
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II. Architecture
Candidates for the d
egree
of Bachelor of Arts c
the Rice Institute will be required to select studies from
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the preceding groups according to the yearly programmes
exhibited below.
At the beginning of each year of his residence at the
Institute, each student is assigned to some member of
the faculty who will act as the student's personal adviser
in the selection of his studies and courses and in other
matters pertaining to life at the Institute.
First Year
(i) Pure mathematics
(2) English
(3) A modern language
(4) A science
(5) One other subject
Second Year
(i) Pure mathematics or a science
(2) English
(3) A modern language^
(4-5) Two other subjects