Young, prosperous ($27 million endowment) Rice Institute at Houston has perhaps the top engineering school in the Southwest, and a reputation for choosiness. Rice has never hired a campus pressagent. For years it cheerfully flunked out its most promising football material in the Christmas exams. When alumni howled, Rice reluctantly established a slightly less exacting department of physical education with a B.S. for thick-skulled athletes, but it never liked the idea. Rice has had only one president in its 34 years, derby-hatted, aloof Dr. Edgar Odell Lovett. Four years ago, at 70, Dr....
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