The name is absent



EXTRACTS FROM REMARKS MADE ON
VARIOUS PUBLIC OCCASIONS1 DURING
THE RICE INSTITUTE VISIT OF THE

BRITISH EDUCATIONAL MISSION

I

AT THE RECEPTION OF THE MISSION IN THE FACULTY
CHAMBER OF THE RICE INSTITUTE, MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 25, 1918, ɪɪ:oo A.M.

RESIDENT LOVETT: At a patriotic celebration held in the City
auditorium of Houston on the fourth day of July, 1913, a citizen
of this community, reading to the assembly the unanimous declaration
of the thirteen original United States of America, said that he was
reading the document in the spirit of the men who, that very morning,
gathered around a common camp fire on an old battlefield farther north,
under the stars and bars of the Confederacy and the stars and stripes
of the Union, were interlining “Dixie” with “Yankee Doodle” in the
confusion of their tears, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg; reading in the spirit which would that very
evening bring together in the capital of the British Empire Britons and
Americans around a common board under the Union Jack and the Star
Spangled Banner to sing as heartily and lustily “God Save the King” and
“America”; reading in the spirit of that remarkable resolution adopted
by the British House of Commons on the signing of the provisional
articles of the Treaty of Paris in 1782, when, their offspring, their
dearest child, in alliance with their bitterest enemies having successfully
revolted against them, they put on record their “most ardent wish that
religion, language, interests, and affection may yet prove a bond of
permanent union between the two countries.”

A group of distinguished scholars from England, Ireland, Scotland,
and Wales, that same citizen has this morning the rare privilege of

1 See the Rice Institute Pamphlet, Vol. V, No. 4, October, 1918, pp.
339-248, for the programmes of visits to the Rice Institute in November and
December, 1918, respectively from the British Educational Mission, and from
the Official Mission of French Scholars, to the universities of the United
States.

33i



More intriguing information

1. Beyond Networks? A brief response to ‘Which networks matter in education governance?’
2. Analyzing the Agricultural Trade Impacts of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement
3. The name is absent
4. RETAIL SALES: DO THEY MEAN REDUCED EXPENDITURES? GERMAN GROCERY EVIDENCE
5. Financial Development and Sectoral Output Growth in 19th Century Germany
6. Expectation Formation and Endogenous Fluctuations in Aggregate Demand
7. Migration and Technological Change in Rural Households: Complements or Substitutes?
8. Nach der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II: deutlich mehr Verlierer als Gewinner unter den Hilfeempfängern
9. The Variable-Rate Decision for Multiple Inputs with Multiple Management Zones
10. Financial Market Volatility and Primary Placements
11. SME'S SUPPORT AND REGIONAL POLICY IN EU - THE NORTE-LITORAL PORTUGUESE EXPERIENCE
12. Co-ordinating European sectoral policies against the background of European Spatial Development
13. The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories
14. The name is absent
15. Income Taxation when Markets are Incomplete
16. The name is absent
17. Ruptures in the probability scale. Calculation of ruptures’ values
18. The constitution and evolution of the stars
19. The name is absent
20. Word searches: on the use of verbal and non-verbal resources during classroom talk