Legacy
Rice left the bulk of his estate to the founding of a free institute of higher education in Houston, Texas. Opening 1912 as William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Art, and Science, it is known today as Rice University.
The Rice School in Houston is named after William Marsh Rice.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)