Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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there were always lines . . . til hii) h()i)ks . . . There ' s a lot to do in college, so don ' t try and overdo it. This was Dad ' s final ' advice as you were University bound. Your first introduction to Boston University was following the back of someone ' s head. To make out your program, you stood in long, bor- ing lines. To pay your tuition you stood behind someone who was standing behind someone, who was in— another line! Medical checkup, another line. Ate at the Commons, more lines . . . Foot- ball tickets, another line . . . elevator— again ines. . . . But then school life really began. You took iced to Dad ' s ad ' ice and went out only once a night. There was fraternity (or sorority) rush- ing, and dancers, and mixers, and teas, and dorm meetings, and class elections, and intramural sports, and parties, and pep rallies, and stag affairs, and ball games and then there was that one night you studied. And you kept abreast of all the news ... It was Harold Case ' s second year . . . the University ' s

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' fifteen times four times ni ne times four equals 2J60 hours of classes . . It doesn ' t really hit you until you start thumbing through this book. You see plenty of Faces that you recognize, but when you see your own iace with that sheepish grin, smiling right back at you— then it registers. Yoxt are graduaUngl It was earlier in the year at the Senior Breakfast at Marsh Plaza that you started thinking. Remember your roommate sitting next to you: They aren ' t getting me! No sir. This college stuff is great. You gotta be crazy to leave. Me? I ' m going to B.U. Grad school. Which school? What ' s the difference? As long as I don ' t have to go out and work. Or that girl sitting across from you: It was worth spending four years at the University. Where else would I have met a fraternity man like Joe! Ne. t to her was that math major: Let ' s see we averaged fifteen hours of class a week, times four weeks in a month, times nine months in the school year, times four years of school, comes to ... 2,160 hours of classes! Wow! No wonder I ' m tired! Remember the girl you passed the butter to? She said: Can ' t get out of this place too soon. I ' ve had enough of classes for a while! Who, me? Oh, I ' m going to be a school teacher. The guy on your right had it all planned: I ' m going in the Army in Sep- tember, then when I get out in two years I ' m going to get an executive position with some big company, then after a year I ' ll meet a girl arid get married, then we ' ll have three kids, two boys and one girl, then we ' ll move to a nice home in Connecticut, then we ' ll . . . Everybody ' s got it all figured out. Sure they do! But remember when you first started college? You thought you knew all the answers then, too. But that was four years ago. And you were four years younger. High school was a snap, and now to conquer college. . . .

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to meet the factdty and aduiinistration to take exams in Hayden. 114th Academic year . . . J C separated from C G E and became the 1 7th College . . . C G E was the ninth school to move to the Banks oF the Charles . . , The Falk Foundation gave the University a grant of $12,000 for a program of political experience . . . Activities booklets were given out for the first time . . . Robert A. Choate became Dean of the College of Music . . . Rabbi Samuel Perlman was appointed the new Millel Director and was greeted by over 800 students . . . The first Mass at the Univer- sity was celebrated October 3 . . . 667 rushees visited 28 Social Fraternities and Sororities . . . a special spherical camera was developed in our physical researcTi labs . . . The first Parents Day included campus tours, a reception by Dr. and Mrs. Case, Open House at the dorms and the William and Mary Game ... 36 floats competed in the Beat Maryland parade and rally . . . We celebrated the 25th anniversity of the granting of the first Journalism degree and the fifth an- niversity of SPR C, the first Public Relations school in the country . . . The Light Opera Asso- ciation presented The Mikado, a repeat of their first production twenty-five years before . . . An Arnold Air Society unit was formed . . . Kn won first prize in the PAL stunt night . . . Seminary singers went on their 27th annual concert tour . . . 50,000 square feet were added to the main campus when the Llniver- sity bought Jones, McDuff ce and Stratton build- ing . . . The Human Relations Center was estab- lished . . . 400 Greeks danced at their Formal in the Hotel Somerset, Feb. 6 . . . Dr. Speare and Harry Agganis became the first men se- lected for the BU Sports Hall of Fame . . . Igor Stravinsky conducted the Opera Workshop in the first performance of his The Rake ' s Prog- ress clima.xing the 25th anniversary of the Col- lege of Music . . . John McKenzie was appointed Dean of Men . . . The Freshman Senate spon- sored a Beanie Ball April 18 in Hayden Hall . . . Sargent ' s Co-eds were selected as Military Ball Co-ed Colonel, Queen of Hearts, and NEWS Man of the Year . . . these things you wrote home e ' ery ' eek. . . .