You can almost hear the “Pomp and Circumstance March” as you stroll Rice University’s bucolic, 285-acre campus nestled in the heart of Houston, shielded from the hubbub of the city’s six-lane freeways and endless strip development. With its tangles of live oaks shading quads formed primarily by neo-Byzantine academic buildings of rose-colored brick, with clay-tile roofs and ample arcades, the university campus, designed over the past century, with an original plan by Boston architects Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, exudes “collegiate life.”