Rice University Commencement files
Scope and Contents
The Rice University Commencement files include programs, newsclippings and notes dating from the first commencement in 1916 up to the current day. A majority of the material has been digitized and is available online at http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/61371.
Dates
- Creation: 1916-current
Creator
- Rice University (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research. SStored offsite at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish from this material must be obtrained through the Woodson Research Center.
Biographical / Historical
The Rice University Commencement Programs document Rice’s scholarly activities from the first graduating class in 1916 to the present. The programs and in some cases their accompanying documents detail trends in our history such as numbers and varieties of degrees granted. In more recent decades, names of graduates and dissertation titles are given.
Extent
8 Linear Feet ( (15 boxes))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Rice University Commencement files include programs, newsclippings and notes dating from the first commencement in 1916 up to the current day. A majority of the material has been digitized and is available online at
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Rice University Commencement files, 1916-current
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Mary Tobin
- Date
- 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu