Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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PRESIDENT EDGAR ODELL LOVETT

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ADMINISTRATION

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•TO RICE NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE • Among the remarkable works of man in architecture and engineering that the planet affords, few are quite so beautiful as certain aspects of the Rice campus familiar to all of us in their variety and recurrence. You have onlv to think of columns and cloisters and loggias, and the near-by towers, immediately to recall the unforgettable charm of them in morning mist, or noonday splendor, under western glow, or, best of all, when illumined only by the lamps in the courts. et that is a recoverv. you will sav, of no more than half the picture, for this altogether lovelv material beauty of form and color with- out is matched by an equally kindly spiritual beautv of character and faith within, which we have seen manifest itself again and again in fair play and square dealing, courage and courtesy, worthy work and stout-hearted devotion to it. That such influences of the place upon you, within and without, moral and material as well, have been growing instead of diminishing with the years, I have not the slightest doubt. For as you collect the experiences we have shared from 1929 to 1933. 1 think you will find, as I find, that both you who go out and we who remain behind do so with an enhanced sense of beautv. with greater respect for human character, with a saner sense of justice, with higher hope of enduring achievement, with a keener sense of humor, with hardier resolution in the quest of truth, and with a consequent sense of progress, for the bringing of better things about. At anv rate, when wishing vou a sense of humor, a sense of justice, and a sense of beautv. for the labor and leisure of life, we are wishing you powers vou alreadv possess. May thev continue to minister to you even as the guardian spirits of letters and science and art minister to your Alma Mater. — Edaar (hU ' U Lovett