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Lovett World Tour 1908-1909

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Around the World with Edgar Odell Lovett: The Rice Institute Board of Trustees sent their newly chosen President, Edgar Odell Lovett, on a world tour seeking out the best aspects of the leading colleges and universities. Lovett's task was shape his findings into a recommendation for the academic, administrative, residential and physical shape of the new Rice Institute.

Collector(s)

  • Amanda York Focke (WRC Fondren Library Rice University)

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Egdar Odell Lovett, ca. 1908

Rice Institute faculty organization notes
Edgar Odell Lovett's notes on a possible way to structure the faculty for the newly forming Rice Institute. Lovett was the first president of Rice Institute, which later became Rice University.

Postcard of Japanese landscape Ishizaka Okunoin Toshogu, collected during Lovett World Tour

Breakfast menu on board the S.S. Mongolia
Printed breakfast menu on board the S.S. Mongolia, on which Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Odell Lovett of Rice Institute traveled in April, 1909.

R.M. Munster postcard from Lovett world tour<br /><br />
Color postcard featuring the R.M. Munster, on which Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Odell Lovett of Rice Institute traveled during their world tour, 1908-1909.