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by Wayne Derrick
Rice acquires Huxley papers
19th-c. symposium set
Rice's history department will
present a symposium on "Reform
or Control? Nineteenth-Century
Humanitarianism Reappraised,"
Friday, March 7, and Saturday,
March 8.
The two-day session is open to
the public free of charge and will
take place in 301 Sewall Hall.
The symposium opens at 8 pm
Friday with David Rothman
speaking on "The 'Reform' of
Criminality." Rothman, professor
of history at Columbia University,
is winner of the prestigious
Beveridge Prize of the American
Historical Association. His
presentation will be followed by
Andrew Scull with "The 'Reform'
of Madness." Scull is associate
professor of sociology at the
University of California, San
Diego.
At 10 am Saturday the
symposium resumes with David
Roberts, professor of history at
Dartmouth College, discussing
"The 'Reform' of Poverty." This
will be followed by David Brion
Davis on "The 'Reform' of
Slavery." Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-
winning author, is Farnham
Professor of History at Yale
University.
At 2 Saturday the symposium
will conclude with the four visiting
scholars presenting a panel
discussion on "Nineteenth-
Century Reform."
by Amy Grossman
A major collection of the
personal letters, notes, diaries,
sketches, bird-watching ob-
servations and manuscripts of
noted former Rice professor Sir
Julian Huxley have been
purchased for the Woodson
Research Center at Fondren
Library.
The collection — over 70 cubic
feet of manuscript papers —
contains Sir Julian's cor-
respondence with the major
artistic, political and scientific
workers of the first three-quarters
of the 20th century. Nancy Parker,
Woodson Research Center
director, believes that the
collection will have a broad appeal
to "humanists and social
scientists."
"I think that Rice is a
particularly appropriate place for
the papers because of Sir Julian's
long-term attachment to Rice,"
Parker said. The collection was
purchased by private donations,
and funds from the Friends of
Fondren Library Association.
Sir Julian Sorrell Huxley
(brother of Aldous) left Oxford
University for the newly-founded
Rice Institute in 1913. He arrived
several months late; as his father
explained in a letter to Rice
President Edgar Odell Lovett,
Julian suffered a nervous
breakdown after his engagement
with "K" soured.
Between 1913 and 1916 Huxley
taught zoology, studied Texas
fauna in the wilds of River Oaks,
and suffered a series of nervous
depressions. With the onset of
Worle War I, Huxley returned to
Europe. He continued to make
significant contributions to
biology in topics as diverse as
cancer research and ecology.
Sir Julian was also a poet,
philanthropist, and philosopher.
He eventually became the first
director of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Huxley lived in the Tower of
North Hall (now Baker College)
with several other bachelors on the
faculty — among them the future
Nobel Prize-winner H.J. Muller.
There he entertained students at
teas, and wrote a series of notes to
President Lovett politely
complaining about the "un-
palatable food" and the "poor
quality" of the servants.
A Neo-Darwinist whose ideas
eventually developed into a
religious philosophy, Huxley's
public lectures were often
inflammatory. In 1916 he spoke on
"Biology and Sex," declaring:
"Give woman equal rights and she
will asume equal duties — let her
vote, enter government; she should
not live in an artificial pleasure
realm."
At the onset of the Great War
iOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Huxley permanently left the Rice
faculty although he wrote often to
friends here. One letter was sent
from his British Intelligence post in
Italy to an undergraduate friend
asking him to "please send me
bundles of the Rice Threshers so
that 1 could keep in touch."
Sir Julian asked especially for the
Thresher account of "how the Rice
boys got back the owl that A&M
had stolen from them."
Huxley's writings were eclectic
and diverse: he disavowed revealed
religion in Religious Without
Revelation, thereby incurring a
heated protest from the U.S
government over his appointment
to UNESCO. He made an Oscar-
winning nature film, The Private
Life of the Gannets, as well as
composing volumes of poetry
(including The Captive Shrew and
Other Poems) and numerous
papers and books on biology.
The Huxley collection was
offered to Rice through the efforts
of Stephen Spender, a friend
of Huxley's, in 1977 for £31,000
(roughly $75,000), and was
purchased early this year. The
collection will be a substantial
contribution to the Woodson
collection because of its "huge
chronological range and enormous
range of subject matter,"
according to Parker,
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Lovett wants coed; Jones split...
continued from page I
Jones President Paula Desel
said that she believes that Jones
will support any decision
Hackerman makes. Many Jones
women may have voted for single
sex to indicate that they enjoy the
college they way it is now, not
because they would dislike coed,
she believed. "We had a lot of
discussions," said Desel, adding, "I
don't think that it was an irrational
decision."
A breakdown of the vote
showed that 62 percent of the
senior Jones women favored the
change to coed or were neutral,
followed by 49 percent of the
sophomore class, 46 percent of the
junior class, and 42 percent of the
freshman class. Desel suggested to
Dean Brown that the dropoff of
the junior class could have been
caused by fear that they may lose
their senior privileges for a single
room if Jones converts. If Jones
converts next year, the men will
probably all live on the same floor.
Lovett President Tim Case
expressed hope that Hackerman
will approve the conversion. "To
me it looks like he's thinking in
terms of total demand," Case said.
Both college presidents said they
needed to have a decision within
two or three weeks in order to start
room assignments for the next
year. Desel said that she is waiting
for Hackerman's decision to begin
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