Rice University’s original charter specified that it be tuition free, but for white students only. In the early 1960s, the school’s governing board wanted to remove both restrictions, and needed to fight a legal battle to do so.
No mention of Rice being for white students only appears in the 1960 Life magazine article, probably because racial segregation was common and commonly supported at the time (even as the legal underpinnings were starting to be chipped away).