Foundations of Higher Learning
The sight of Rice’s first building standing alone on a muddy Texas prairie in 1912 prompted Rice faculty member Julian Huxley to comment, “The building before us . . . seemed as new and real as a new species of Bird-of-Paradise. . . . Here it stood, brilliant, astounding, enduring.” Huxley had seen the great architecture of Europe, so his opinion of the Administration Building, now known as Lovett Hall, was solidly grounded...

The Road Less Traveled
In Ruth Knafo Setton’s novel The Road to Fez (Perseus Books, 2001), 18-year-old Brit Suleika Lek goes on a journey, both literally and figuratively, to search for herself—her past and her future...

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