Slime Parade outside Rice Hotel, downtown Houston

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Date

ca. late 1930s

Abstract

"Slimes" were freshmen.

Description

"Slimes" (freshmen) march in line during a parade outside Rice Hotel in downtown Houston. Original resource is a black and white photograph.

Citation

"Slime Parade outside Rice Hotel, downtown Houston." (1936 and 1939) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71403.

Keyword

Events; William M. Rice Institute; William M. Rice Institute--Students; College students--Texas--Houston; Rice Hotel; More... Parades--Texas--Houston; Houston (Tex.); William M. Rice Institute--Freshmen; Rice University--History

Publisher

Rice University

Related Work(s)

This image was included in the Rice centennial history book, published with support of the Rice Historical Society. Karen Hess Rogers, Lee Pecht and Alan Harris Bath, "Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures"(College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2012), 42

Citable link to this page

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71403

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